Eyes With Fire Will See Light Everywhere

In the movie Rocky VI,  Sylvester Stallone, who was in retirement after a successful boxing career, lacks something in life and he still thinks he had some bit of boxing left in him. So he goes for a final fight when he was challenged by his junior. I was in similar situation after five years into my consulting career. I felt I lacked something and I needed more. Finally I end up at Thunderbird School of Global Management to pursue MBA. I am glad to be back as a student. Being student has its own advantages.The vigor and valor are back, full time for 'fun-time', personality guards are off, flirting and making mischief are on cards, creativity and competition take the front seat, your perceptions change as you listen from professors, international students and yourself. You become much more receptive as a student. Your brain starts functioning full time. You cherish the time that would become good memories and form friends for your life time. Becoming international student ...

Things have taken a about-turn once I reached the US of America.Like in a movie where the ill-fated gal kisses a boy and her fate takes a drastic turn leading to all good things. Similar drastic turn had happened in my life after reaching US. First thing: I got a dorm at the starting of the block. Which means I do not have to walk much.So what ? It is a very very very good thing happened to me. In the last twelve years wherever I stayed at a rented house/ hostel or wherever I worked, I used to walk a lot of distance. My house would be corner one in the lane and my office would be the last building in the tech-park or in the office campus. I used to walk walk walk and walk(sometimes two kilometers at a single stretch). Now I just don't have to do walk more. KEWL. Just imagine a thing which was bothering you for so long and suddenly it gets disappeared. How do you feel? Another best part, library is just beside my dorm and gym is just behind my dorm so more less walk. Second thi...

As my every travel includes a surprise, traveling to the US of America has set of surprises. Surprise 1:As soon as I reached the Hyderabad international airport, famous music director "Devi Sri Prasad" passed by me. Nice !!! Surprise 2: As I went to check-in my baggage it turn out that I was carrying  seven kgs more than the allowed limit. I end up paying  18K rupees just because the weighing machine at my house showed me wrong measurement. Damn!!!! Suprise 3 : Teju came to meet me at the airport in her car ( she just started driving so its a big thing ). Wow !!!  Floored. Suprise 4: Film actress Kangana Ranaut and ME got into the same flight from Mumbai to Germany and she was just standing in front of me while boarding the flight. She was pretty and beautiful in complete contrast to how she appeared in the movies. Cool!!!. Suprise 5 : As soon as I landed at Pheonix international airport a old american couple came to receive me. I just love someone receiving me. The cou...