August

Guys, Wake up!!! As juniors and seniors settled down to the tempo of SIBM (or rather, the comforting lack of it!!), we decided to rock the boat a bit. A tempest we did not see, but the response was for sure overwhelming. We thank everyone who turned up for the show. We hope we’ve done a good job at profiling ‘The Most Popular Person’ on campus. By popularity, we meant visibility. Of course, humorous gyaning capabilities also help. :D In short-it was meant for fun and we hope it was welcomed in that sense.

Despite the incessant rains, this month has been very happening. Nothing could dampen the spirit of Fun at SIBM- from Alibagh n Goa to Singad n Lohgad!! About juniors going green at the mention of treks and hikes - you would be seniors soon enough :) :)

Our football team’s outstanding performance at BMCC…….. They didn’t ‘just do it’, they rocked it!!! Congratulations, Sunil and team. For the ignorant, Bhavani was the ‘Man of the Match’ and Rahul kicked the ball that made all the difference. We hope to see an encore at SIMS this Tuesday. Good Luck guys.

Phi has not failed to amuse us with the News from the Fourth Dimension. MBA makes three dimensions an understatement of our perceptual capabilities. And our in-house R.K Lakshman has done it all over again.

Many more happy returns of the day to all September stars.

Hail fun!!!

~The MAD Team

The Most Popular Person on Campus

Daniel Picardo...

Smart ass from KPMG, father-figure of the batch, most gay and happy person on campus, sports a french beard for the love of Uday.............here’s more dope on the guy!

By birth : half Goan, half Mangalorean.

Otherwise : a mumbaiyya dood.......claims to have spent all his life there!!!

Qualifications : B.A Eco, St.Xaviers’, Mumbai.

Dabbles in : Photography............owns a Nikon F55!!!!!!!

Plays : The piano. Has cleared all eight grades of practicals and the goddamn theory, mind you!!

Worked for : KPMG, for two and a half years, as an HR executive. ( makes me wonder....what the hell are you doing here at SIBM, dude????? )

The unofficial spokesperson for HR, in the First year........enthu Class Rep........member of the CIT......here’s to your going places, Daniel!!!!! Congratulations.

P.S : So you thot we’d tell you the women he has a crush on, his loves and hates, his take on Pune rains and what he dreams of, when he’s snoring away at night????? :p Grow up!!!!!!!!!!!!

Majhi Toonz

Majhi Toonz

Musings of a Tam-Bram

I never believed in destiny,
but only that explains how I got here.
To cut a long story short,
I am here because of my father dear.

To be in a big city at last
came as a big surprise.
My life seemed to start anew,
The beginning of a reprise.

A glutton that I was,
the meaning I found in food - lost.
Bread form this and masala form that,
Curd rice – a thing as unknown as deep frost.

The roommate that I found,
has everything in multiples of seven.
From toothbrushes to socks
and the god damned shoes even.

The one thing I one thing that I actually like
is that I have got an eyesore.
Making up for 6 years of babe famine
always looking at the beauties galore.

Coming on to the concept of fresher’s,
I find it funny now that it’s over.
The newly defined concept of clothing
reveal more than they cover.

Music made on trash cans and tables,
create no calm, but only stress.
Gone is the soothing classical,
and the dancing is worse than the dress.

The rains are the final nail
on my coffin, laying me to rest.
More omnipresent than god,
it’s presence, worse than the guy I detest.

But that was the flip side,
the people have been a dear, see
They take me for what I actually am,
I am finally what I should be – me.

Aditya Rajaraman

News from the Fourth Dimension

Time Travel

How many times have you wondered about going to the past and changing events that have had an adverse impact on your life, things like not saying stuff that made that special someone go away, or studying just that wee bit extra for that important examination?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could do that, Einstein and his Theory of Relativity be damned (though purists might say that the string theory may soon replace the much acclaimed and exalted brainwave of Einstein and his twin)?

But is it possible? Is traveling to the past and doing (or undoing) something that has had an effect on the future a likelihood?

Let’s, in an insane moment of imagination, assume that a dude (or dudette, one cannot be sure when the banner wavers may catch hold of you) gives you a time machine and you decide to go to the past and make sure that your worst enemy was never born (you neuter his/her father). So, the person in question hasn’t been conceived, and you get rid of that person.

But, if he never existed, how did you know that you are to eliminate him? Insane? Logical!!! That’s what is known as the grandfather’s paradox.

So, what’s happened, cannot be changed, however much one may try. Forget. Whatever’s worthwhile is right here, right now.

Phi says: There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?' When you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.

B'day Wishes

Thanks to my roomie on her b’day:

1.For the running tap

2.For the ‘boiled’ drinking water

3.For bed-coffee, economic times and the alarm

4.The assured breakfast

5.To the non-judgmental attitude

6.For all that perpetual torture J

7.Tones of ‘irritating’ concern…

8.N Millions of unnoticed things

Happy Birthday Vaish!!!