Ah, we meet again.  And again it is my fault for waiting so long to update.  Anyway, this time I am not going to write a million page long update with all the news from the past months.  Rather, I will just focus on the important stuff.  So here we go.

I spent a wonderful two and a half-plus months at Hyderabad and had a good experience at the Phase 1 of my Management in Practice Programme at TCS Hyderabad.  After that, myself and eight others worked on a two-week project (June 1-15) for HelpAge India.  After that, until June 23rd, I basically watched movies, played Doom and did the usual stuff until it was time to go back to Manipal for my second year at TAPMI.

I left Hyderabad on 23rd along with my parents and Varun, and we reached Manipal the next evening.  On 25th, we went to a few scenic places in Manipal and Udupi.  On 26th, my parents and brother came along with me to the institute and we met most of the faculty.  They left back to Hyderabad that night.

On 28th June, the new term started, and it's been good for me so far.  In this term, there are a few compulsory courses that everyone has to take... the others are determined by the choice of elective subjects that one takes.  I've taken two HR subjects (Organisational Psychology and Strategic HRM), two Systems subjects (System Analysis and Design, Enterprise Resource Planning) and a Marketing Subject, Consumer Behaviour, this term.  I guess my schedule is less hectic as compared to those who have taken Marketing and/or Finance.

At Hyderabad I read Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats, and just yesterday I finished reading the same author's The Mechanism of Mind.  I guess I've developed an interest in this kind of psychological stuff!  I am also currently on Chapter Seven of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, which I find to be an absolutely amazing, fantastic and fascinating book.  And after getting this far into the book, I think that it was a work of genius on the part of screenwriter Jim Uhls and director David Fincher, who adapted the book into the equally amazing movie.

That's more or less all the important stuff that I can remember now.  More about Doom and other things in a later post!