Yesterday I was occupied most of the day, though I just had one class.  In the afternoon, my ERP course group and me went to meet Prof. Ajoy Ivaturi at 1 PM.  Then after lunch, there was a Strategic HRM class which is worth mentioning in particular.  This is because we (our STHR group) presented a PPT which we had worked on the previous day.  This came out very well, and it was appreciated by the Director as well.

After that there was a lecture by Mr. Sauvik Chakraverti (on "The Errors of Manmohanomics") organised by the Civil Corporations Committee, which went on till about 7:30 PM.  After that, a group of us went to Woodlands for dinner.

Then, I watched The Ninth Gate on CD.  This movie stars Johnny Depp as Corso, an expert on rare books.  Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) is a collector who acquired "The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows" (a book published in 1666, supposedly co-authored by Lucifer himself) from another collector who later committed suicide.  He hires Corso to find the other two copies of the book to see if his own is an authentic one.  And as Corso goes on this investigation of his, strange things start happening, and he soon realises that the book has some mysterious power.  The movie is one of the most unusual ones I've seen — it has very good photography, acting, etc., and is very absorbing.  But the end is very vague.  I went to the net soon after watching the movie and apparently no one else has a clear idea what the ending is either!  It is totally open to interpretation.  The movie is directed by Roman Polanski.

Sony TV is going to start Indian Idol soon.  When I was in Hyderabad during my MIP (Management in Practice a.k.a. Summer Project), I watched the last set of episodes of American Idol on STAR World.  I wonder how the Indian version will be.