Here @ XL : An account of spirited LIFE!

Yes!  We have completed first month of our 15-month life at XL. We have savored every bit of sights and sounds of it. And in the process, we all have been spiritualized with the campus called XLRI. As for most of us, this is a school life after a long so called professional life, I had an image of stern serious folks eating, drinking and washing faces with business jargons and career plans. But on the contrary,the timeless banters, heartfelt laughers, delicate humors , fuming cuppas,  and all engaging camaderie have become the order of the day here @ XL.

A bunch of 120 professionals, by some god’s grace, landed up here in this GMP hostel at XLRI on 10^th June 2012 , with an aim of doing MBA. As time passed, as the ball was set rolling, all we have is a LIFE full of fun and frolic. MBA found a new meaning MMA – Master of Mad Activities. Madness started with the party in between C and D block and now has percolated in almost every nook and corner of XLRI.

Yes, so far it’s been an exciting journey with an underpinning of insanity. Out here it is an immaculate celebration of freedom and spirit. Adding color to it is a colorful bunch of homo-sapience hovering here and there , giving a new meaning to their new found abode after a tiring span of professional life. The rejuvenating vigor defines life here @ GMP , XLRI.

The professors seems to be quite upbeat about the all-embracing madness and are doing every bit they can to spice it up with their quizzes , assignments and mouse traps. A typical day starts with bread and butter , hot tea and talks of Le Oreal  on the corner of the canteen. Topics are abound and they change but what does not change is the verbal dissection   of marketing  case studies – be it coke or gilette – poor souls get a ruthless treatment as do the alu paratha. And finally, the speculation comes to a full circle in the ‘taxing’ class with an acid test of all futile breakfast-brainstorming. The day progresses and the madness in its due course.  In the communication class, our brave soldiers have become Sales Guru or the President or Soft skill expert with their equally intriguing harangue. Some souls preferred HongKong whatsoever and some the dreamland! Demand and Supply demanded a great deal of effort but finally was supplied with oblivion. After a period of one month , atleast I got it clear that hardly anyone in this band of brothers want to make this prized life a liability. And hence naturally, balance sheet of life is unequally heavy towards fun account rather than worries. Asset is the place and time and these 120 characters. Budding managers manage to peep into their future cabin in their dreams when the professors organize all his efforts to behave us. The impending quizzes and assignments must have taken a toll.

All said and done , the passion of this herd is unyielding. They face the quizzes as flamboyantly as they rappelled down the rock in the adventure trip. And, of course, many of them came out with flying colors – as colorful as the trouser of Fraud Shah! Some exhales a long breath  but soon sinks into a game of TT or lawn tennis or badminton.

The spirit is high and it reaches the highest when a dreaded quiz gets over or a weekend is around the corner. At night, after dinner, groups of comrades engage themselves into talks – topics know no bounds – from psychology to philosophy to business to arts to movies. Some takes a stroll thru the lush green park. ‘Aste Aste’ darkness engulfs the compound and the buildings flare up with lights – oh the crazy souls surely have some quiz tomorrow!

We really had ‘Time of our Life’ so far in this one month. This only tells that more exciting time is afoot along the way. With a gloomy economic scenario looming large , the spirits here did its bit to wipe it out from the moods of the gang! None knows what is in store for future. So our mantra is to take the life as it comes and make the most out of this – things will fall in face if we have kidney !!

It was just a glimpse of the mad state of affair that rules the roost here. However, the madness reached its pinnacle in the village and adventure trip. A peep in that trip will follow soon!