Day One - Cricket

Before I begin extolling myself, I would like to congratulate constant critic and friend Harish and 'madly in love' Rampal for making it to two of India's finest B-schools. Knowledge, gyaan and higher understanding will continue to elude you there but make no mistake, you guys will have a ball. Specially you Rampal as I hear IIFT's quizzing culture is decent.
Okay back to me now. The day started on a positive note with an enjoyable but slightly soporific FMCG class. Prof Ramesh exudes amazing calm while teaching a class of 70+ highly distractable students and provides plenty of stats related to the FMCG arena. I had never imagined that the purchasing behavior of urban and rural populace in India vary so remarkably. Good stuff! He also stressed on the importance of repeat purchase for FMCG companies. He went on to list down the various stakeholders in the FMCG domain and the importance of each of these people. There is going to be a group activity tomorrow which hopefully should be fun. Overall, a great lecture.
The same cannot be said about the Strategy lecture which was at 2pm. I could not read the case today since I decided to spend my time doing something more useful - playing cricket in the awesome dull gloomy weather. I shone with both bat and ball which caused some of the other players to wish they were more like me. Good friend Ram too was in good nick and tried to emulate some of my glorious cover drives and square cuts. The extent of his success in this venture was, however, questionable.  Anyway, the 2pm time meant that half the class was fast asleep whom sir tried to revive by cracking a couple of tasteless non-veg jokes. On noticing the absence of laughter, sir decided to punish us by imposing a 'get a write-up of the case reading during subsequent lectures' rule on us. Right, like that is goin to get us to read the case and come to class. Sheesh! The class dragged on with sir barely making point about 'Resource allocation within an organization' which was the topic for the day. Sir further cemented his arbit position by giving totally disconnected examples and asking questions like 'You must have heard of a company called SBI right?" which were met with our looks of derision and self-importance. However one unpleasant IITian squeezed in a massive 2-minute long CP which made us hate him even more.
The evening was spent playing 'one tuppa one hand' cricket in my hostel corridor. That I was outstanding yet again goes without saying.
Tomorrow I have yet another rendezvous with Prof Ramesh followed by my first Finance class of the year - Corporate Banking. More on this tomorrow. As the retarded Spanish who lost to Switzerland today would say, buenas noches.