Rainnnn

Apologies for the long silence. It’s good to be back.

Rain Rain.. go away....

It has been raining like anything for a past couple of days. Hot water in our apartment has been shut so that we do not take shower..All we have is COLDDD WATERRR

The landlord just came in and told us to flush the bathroom only for a minimal amount… well only if we really have to. Our neighbours downstairs are moving out of the apartment cause their apartment is totally flooded. At this point, I am glad we did not get the room in the basement.

The whole of Mass and New Hampshire is under the “ Flood Warning.” More of rain is yet to come. Weather channels shows rain for another couple of days. uugghhh..

Saw the movie “Sideways” and “Constant Gardener” over the weekend.Nice movie.. Both of them.. Sideways was fun.. all about wine drinking.. Swirl, smell and taste.

We did little bit of shopping over the weekend with mausi.. Saturday night, we had a dinner at Muna aunty's place and it was really nice. The food was excellent.. I can still taste the "Khashi ko kebab."

Today is Monday..Apprenctice day!! looking forward to watching it :)

WALK FOR HUNGER

Musing on summer can be a bit dangerous, especially when we're about ten degrees short of actually being there. Yup! It has been raining like anything..and I have learnt my lesson quite well.

What a day yesterday! Rain Rain… and more rain that was sucessful in drenching me from head to toe..

I am in the midst of writing papers and all… so been in a hybernation mode for a while. Days are rolling by and soon.. it will be Summer.

Let’s see what has been happening in my life.

Weekend was fun. Prasanna had his friend was at our place. They will be moving from Delaware. Another additional friend to join in the Budhanilkhanta group I suppose. Chalphal was very interesting. The title was: Republic vs. Monarch. Both the gentlemen, Pradeep dai and Nishcal did an excellent job. Kudos also goes to Atul for a superb presentation on Constituent Assembly. And last but not the least.. to Prasanna and Shailesh dai, for organizing the event.

Sunday, we decided to go for the Walkathon. THE WALK for HUNGER. We walked for about 7 miles. Started from Harvard Business School and ended at The Boston Commons. It was a great experience. For both Prasanna and I, it was a first time. We had a sticker on our jackets saying it was "1st time." There must have been around 20,00 people. Everyone looked happy.. Volunteer would applaud and cheer on every mile which was truly encouraging.The event was like 20 mile walk, however, we decided to join later on only walked for 7 miles. It was fun, marching and gulping lemonades and and to top it all off, the weather was just superb! At the end, we were all treated with an ice-cream.

Mausi, is here in Boston and we are having fun.

On the side note, I got accepted into the MBA program at Suffolk. :) It is called Global MBA with a focus in global aspects of Business. I am very excited.

Lord John Browne

Lord John Browne. I still cannot beleive the fact that I actually saw his speech. I had watched the interview of this great gentleman in the BBC, CNN, and Charlie Rose and today, I was watching him giving speech right in front my eye.

This afternoon, I decided to attend the MIT Sloan school of Management “Innovative Leader” series. The purpose of this series is to bring the most visible and successful global leaders to share their business experiences.

Lord John Browne of Madingley is the group CEO of the BP, British Petroleum. He is also a director of Intel and Goldman Sachs. He holds a degree from Cambridge, Oxford and Stanford and was voted “ Most Admired CEO” by Management Today.

The lecture was about the “ The Purpose of Business.”

What I really liked is when he said, “Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run business solely for profit, then also the business must die for it no longer has a reason to exist.”

He also outlined the great oil-digging plan in :

-Turkey
-Azerbaijan
-Georgia

This plan had been going on for past 16 years and will so take place in the next two years. This also reminded me of the movie “ SYRIANA.”

Listening to his speech, I realized how one has to be patient in-terms of growing the business. You have to make a long term plan of not only immediate future but future of "next 10 –20" years.

Yup! Lot can happen, but we need to go one if you want to strive the best.

Business above all is about optimism. That’s the basis for investment. A belief that the future can be better than the past

I am sure he must be in his mid 70's but he still had that power and suavness is his voice that sucessfully conquered the attention of the entire audience, I being one of them.

In conclusion, despite the rainy weather, I am so glad that I went to attend this lecture series of such a great Leader!