Well, 7rrml has graduated with 2 names and there shall be no more of WIMWI for Ram Lal.Yes, Ram Lal is done with WIMWI. Convocation over on the 28th and he leaves for Bombay in about 2 hours. Its easily been the best 2 years of his life, but alas all good things must come to an end. He is gonna miss being on the job, living in Unnees and every other aspect of life here.
But Ram Lal does begin a new life with Nestle in about 2 weeks. Whether or not he will still be able to remain in touch with friends and 'family' at WIMWI, he does not know but he knows that he shall come back at every given opportunity to relive all those cherished moments out here.
Ram Lal is signing out from IIMA.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Saturday, September 06, 2008
All the Names
Let me begin by telling you my real name. Its Riaan Mark Rodrigues. Mark is my middle name and is the name of one of the evangelists( 4 gospel writers). Rodrigues is a Portuguese surname which literally means "Son of Rodrigo" (Patronymic). Riaan is my first name. As for its meaning, well I was told as a boy by my mother that it is named after a Persian King(yes my parents decided to give me a Persian name as my mother also has one....actually my parents had come down to "Riaan" and "Rhys" but my uncle Robin felt that people would keep calling me "Greece" !!), which was really not a satisfactory answer ! So before my IIM interviews I remember trying to find out if there was a meaning. So I scrapped all the active "Riaan"s on orkut to find out if they knew the meaning. Unfortunately just one sort of did. Apparently "Riaan" is also a derivative of "Aryan". Anyway so that's all about MY name !!
Needless to say, Riaan Mark Rodrigues as a combo is very intriguing to most people. A lot of people have a problem pronouncing my name. My first name for instance has been turned into a "Ryan", "Rian", "Rehan" etc and well, lets not get into pronunciations...I had a south Indian professor once who would call me "raiyan" !!A lot of people prefer to call me "Rodrigues"...given the apparent complex pronunciation of my first name....but then there are those that have trouble with all the names....I remember this one occasion during my school days when I had to go to some public school to take an Olympiad exam or something. When the time cam for the supervisor to take attendance, he called everyone's names....but at mine he stopped..." Rai...Ree....errrmmm rodree...rod...rodddd no 23 are you there ?"...yup i was number 23 that day !!
So I spent my life being called all sorts of names...yes without actually being insulted !! as for the derivatives plenty but most came later...in school it was just "Rod Dick" !! yeah....and to make things worse ...my first hotmail id was riaanrod7@hotmail.com, the implications of which didnt hit me at that time till one day someone came up to me and said.."Riaanrod7 huh..really?? 7?"...so the names and their derivatives kept coming till i came to WIMWI. That's when things just exploded !
Now on registration day in the first year, I was asked to fill up my name as it appeared on my certificates. In Bombay university, our names appeared in this format surname-name-middle-father-mother. Why they needed all these names I don't know, but they did, and to make things worse, the PGP office registered me with all 5 names rather than trying to make sense of it. My name tag had all 5 names, so did the attendance sheet and so everytime the prof decided to take the roll call, it was a riot at my turn...some called me by my first name, others by my surname some wanted to read out all 5. I had to shout present really loudly before they reached the second name !!, still do infact ! Furthermore, the computer centre also refused to rationalise my name and I was too lazy to sort it out. At wimwi ur email and dbab(internal chat) ids are year-name-Initial of Surname. So I should have been 7riaanr but Noooooo !! I became 7rrml !!yes 7rrml !! they missed out my mother's name ! So 7rrml became the joke of wimwi...and quite frankly I like the name 7rrml (I mean its different and yes I like to be called 7rrml and not rrml)...but it was a big problem for the previous placecom. The dbab id is in some way a primary key and is used often to sort of people's names. So in my case they had to sort out a Rodrigues Riaan Mark Leonard Rayna with a 7rrml !! definitely was a big pain !! oh and I almost forgot, the office also mispelt my name as Rian !!....so from 7rrml came rrml and sometimes I would even have the PGP office calling me mlrr. The batch even made it mltr (which is incidentally also one of my fav bands). The PGP continues to blunder on this front..sometimes the attendance sheet has the other 4 names with my name Riaan reduced to an initial !, at times there isn't enough space and Rodrigues is made rodrig ! For those of you who read my blog, you would know I have yet another name ...Chuchcha Singh !! yes my dorm name (explained in an earlier post)..and from Chuchcha Singh came another derivative...Chooch !...well that's it for now...those are all my names !!
If some of you haven't noticed, the number 7 keeps repeating ....well, when I decided upon my email ids (hotmail and current yahoo )...it was chosen because as a football fan the number 7 holds a special place. A lot of my fav players wear that number and so I used it in riaanrod7@hotmail.com and futebol_riaan7@yahoo.co.in. As for the IIMA id, the number 7 denotes the year that I joined...uncanny isn't it (I am also born in July)....so I figured that Seven should be the name of one of my kids...yeah seven. For those of you who watch Seinfeld, you would know that George also thinks really highly of this name ! As for a middle name ...was thinking something exotic and cricket related(the whole Indian connection)..so I came up with "White Lightning" !! yes one of my fav fast bowlers and a native American (Indian) name !! So there it is ...my Kids name will be Seven "White Lightning" Rodrigues !! The tradition shall live on !
Needless to say, Riaan Mark Rodrigues as a combo is very intriguing to most people. A lot of people have a problem pronouncing my name. My first name for instance has been turned into a "Ryan", "Rian", "Rehan" etc and well, lets not get into pronunciations...I had a south Indian professor once who would call me "raiyan" !!A lot of people prefer to call me "Rodrigues"...given the apparent complex pronunciation of my first name....but then there are those that have trouble with all the names....I remember this one occasion during my school days when I had to go to some public school to take an Olympiad exam or something. When the time cam for the supervisor to take attendance, he called everyone's names....but at mine he stopped..." Rai...Ree....errrmmm rodree...rod...rodddd no 23 are you there ?"...yup i was number 23 that day !!
So I spent my life being called all sorts of names...yes without actually being insulted !! as for the derivatives plenty but most came later...in school it was just "Rod Dick" !! yeah....and to make things worse ...my first hotmail id was riaanrod7@hotmail.com, the implications of which didnt hit me at that time till one day someone came up to me and said.."Riaanrod7 huh..really?? 7?"...so the names and their derivatives kept coming till i came to WIMWI. That's when things just exploded !
Now on registration day in the first year, I was asked to fill up my name as it appeared on my certificates. In Bombay university, our names appeared in this format surname-name-middle-father-mother. Why they needed all these names I don't know, but they did, and to make things worse, the PGP office registered me with all 5 names rather than trying to make sense of it. My name tag had all 5 names, so did the attendance sheet and so everytime the prof decided to take the roll call, it was a riot at my turn...some called me by my first name, others by my surname some wanted to read out all 5. I had to shout present really loudly before they reached the second name !!, still do infact ! Furthermore, the computer centre also refused to rationalise my name and I was too lazy to sort it out. At wimwi ur email and dbab(internal chat) ids are year-name-Initial of Surname. So I should have been 7riaanr but Noooooo !! I became 7rrml !!yes 7rrml !! they missed out my mother's name ! So 7rrml became the joke of wimwi...and quite frankly I like the name 7rrml (I mean its different and yes I like to be called 7rrml and not rrml)...but it was a big problem for the previous placecom. The dbab id is in some way a primary key and is used often to sort of people's names. So in my case they had to sort out a Rodrigues Riaan Mark Leonard Rayna with a 7rrml !! definitely was a big pain !! oh and I almost forgot, the office also mispelt my name as Rian !!....so from 7rrml came rrml and sometimes I would even have the PGP office calling me mlrr. The batch even made it mltr (which is incidentally also one of my fav bands). The PGP continues to blunder on this front..sometimes the attendance sheet has the other 4 names with my name Riaan reduced to an initial !, at times there isn't enough space and Rodrigues is made rodrig ! For those of you who read my blog, you would know I have yet another name ...Chuchcha Singh !! yes my dorm name (explained in an earlier post)..and from Chuchcha Singh came another derivative...Chooch !...well that's it for now...those are all my names !!
If some of you haven't noticed, the number 7 keeps repeating ....well, when I decided upon my email ids (hotmail and current yahoo )...it was chosen because as a football fan the number 7 holds a special place. A lot of my fav players wear that number and so I used it in riaanrod7@hotmail.com and futebol_riaan7@yahoo.co.in. As for the IIMA id, the number 7 denotes the year that I joined...uncanny isn't it (I am also born in July)....so I figured that Seven should be the name of one of my kids...yeah seven. For those of you who watch Seinfeld, you would know that George also thinks really highly of this name ! As for a middle name ...was thinking something exotic and cricket related(the whole Indian connection)..so I came up with "White Lightning" !! yes one of my fav fast bowlers and a native American (Indian) name !! So there it is ...my Kids name will be Seven "White Lightning" Rodrigues !! The tradition shall live on !
Monday, September 01, 2008
Trip Home
OK..just to summarise all the good stuff that I did when I went home this time...
I ate...
Pork
Tongue
Mutton
Chicken
Bombay Duck
Other Fish
Brain...
...Life is good back home !! :):)
I ate...
Pork
Tongue
Mutton
Chicken
Bombay Duck
Other Fish
Brain...
...Life is good back home !! :):)
Saturday, August 23, 2008
I have shrunk !!
Well, this post aint to brag....but really to clear a lot of confusion....in some cases concern !!...I have lost a lot of weight since joining WIMWI......dunno how much exactly....but considering that I was in the mid 70s earlier, I have lost at least 12-13 kgs in the past year....now obviously you can tell why the concern from some people....but trust me guys....everythins fine and I couldnt feel better.....It feels soooo gr8 to get rid of all that fat (not that all of it is gone yet ).....and it feels great to finally fit into 28 inch jeans just like in school !!
( Just had to do this before - after thingy :D :D lol)
So you can understand the shock people got back home..esp if they met me after 9-10 months !!
The worst thing ofcourse is that I had these wierdos asking me how I did it ....sheesh !!....like I was following some secret diet or sumthin ....
For starters, the intial weight loss was primarily due to change in lifestyle here at wimwi.....but later on it was in a way intentional....like I had mentioned in one of my earlier posts.....I normally skipped breakfast.....didnt make sense to get out of bed 15 mins earlier...also I cut down drastically on the colas since now I couldnt just go the refrigerator and pull out a bottle of coke !!..and finally...its the campus....I'm on the scnd flr in my dorm....plus to cross over to the old campus I have to go down and then up approx 1.5 storeys(underpass).....and I would cross over for various reasons at least 4-5 times a day...compare this with life on the grnd flr at home and an elevator at work back home !!....so I thinned....but max reduction happened from feb-mar onwards.....I stopped all colas, desserts and non-veg for lent and sort of gymd over the summers.....so there you have it......this is definitely something I should have done a long time ago....but then I love food too much !!......and I mean think about it .....the poor chicken has given its life for you...how can you possibly say no !!....oh yeah..and this is wrt what a lot of people ask me....well....except for the lent period...I didnt stop non-veg...infact during my summers I had non-veg 3 times a day !!
The trigger this time was when I would play basky and just feel like I was carrying some huge load on my back each time I ran or jumped...something had to be done abt it..... and so this time after coming back after the summers....one of the first things I did was to go back to the courts...and I felt so much lighter...I mean I still cant run and jump like before...but it feels a whole lot better.....
Comments on the thinning were ofcourse varied...
"Dude...what hpnd??...not well kya? .."
"you look like a college boy now !!"
"oye... you have shrunk!!..."
"wht hpnd man??...girl trouble? "
"working too hard kya?.." (yeah rgt !! )
"Man you look starved.."
But like I said nuttin to be worried about...I am fine and feel fine guys ...just chill !! ;)
( Just had to do this before - after thingy :D :D lol)
So you can understand the shock people got back home..esp if they met me after 9-10 months !!
The worst thing ofcourse is that I had these wierdos asking me how I did it ....sheesh !!....like I was following some secret diet or sumthin ....
For starters, the intial weight loss was primarily due to change in lifestyle here at wimwi.....but later on it was in a way intentional....like I had mentioned in one of my earlier posts.....I normally skipped breakfast.....didnt make sense to get out of bed 15 mins earlier...also I cut down drastically on the colas since now I couldnt just go the refrigerator and pull out a bottle of coke !!..and finally...its the campus....I'm on the scnd flr in my dorm....plus to cross over to the old campus I have to go down and then up approx 1.5 storeys(underpass).....and I would cross over for various reasons at least 4-5 times a day...compare this with life on the grnd flr at home and an elevator at work back home !!....so I thinned....but max reduction happened from feb-mar onwards.....I stopped all colas, desserts and non-veg for lent and sort of gymd over the summers.....so there you have it......this is definitely something I should have done a long time ago....but then I love food too much !!......and I mean think about it .....the poor chicken has given its life for you...how can you possibly say no !!....oh yeah..and this is wrt what a lot of people ask me....well....except for the lent period...I didnt stop non-veg...infact during my summers I had non-veg 3 times a day !!
The trigger this time was when I would play basky and just feel like I was carrying some huge load on my back each time I ran or jumped...something had to be done abt it..... and so this time after coming back after the summers....one of the first things I did was to go back to the courts...and I felt so much lighter...I mean I still cant run and jump like before...but it feels a whole lot better.....
Comments on the thinning were ofcourse varied...
"Dude...what hpnd??...not well kya? .."
"you look like a college boy now !!"
"oye... you have shrunk!!..."
"wht hpnd man??...girl trouble? "
"working too hard kya?.." (yeah rgt !! )
"Man you look starved.."
But like I said nuttin to be worried about...I am fine and feel fine guys ...just chill !! ;)
Monday, April 21, 2008
All for IPL !!
so the IPL finally kicked off on friday....frankly speaking this was a moment I have been waiting for in cricket....for the past ...well dont how many years...but a pretty long time I tell you. The change I speak of is not the 20-20 version catching on, which is also a good thing....but the introduction of club cricket. I have always maintained that cricket should follow the football example and have primarily the club format with nations competing once every 2/4 years. The advantages are immense and more relevant for us in the subcontinent.
The first and most important positive out of this is the improvement of game across the globe. Its now an incentive for clubs to scout for for cheaper and better players from non-test playing nations and from within the country as well, perhaps some who would have been kept out because of our quota system ( Although the current IPL format may not allow for this...im sure eventually the format will mature into one Im talking of..)..and considering that players from non-test playing nations and nations at the bottom of the rankings like zimbabwe and bangladesh could play alongside other top players, it would improve the quality of the game in that country too. Besides 'Legends' do exist in these countries too. Case in point is ofcourse Andy Flower and Heath Streak from Zimbabwe .....2 amazing players whose stats never really reflected theie genius simply because they played alongside a bunch of average players. They never had chance to earn any silverware and never had a chance to take their place in history as legends which ought to have happened. In football too you can see a Giggs and Vidic playing for Manchester United, a Shevshenko for AC Milan or a Larsson for barcelona...players who would have probably never had a chance to show their genius and earn some awards if they had just played for their countries. Quality of the game will improve.
Secondly, for nations like ours where people dont follow Ranji trophy cricket as much, it brings youngsters into the limelight and allows the public to question selections for the national team, simply because India has seen these players perform on a larger stage...there will be more questions asked..
And finally, it brings much more money into game....it is almost like the economic liberalisation of cricket....no longer will just the bcci decide the value of players ...it is now a free market...where players are bid for..the market values the players...not a central authority...and by doing this, it can only bring more investment into cricket here cos cricket is a profitable business in India...
The first and most important positive out of this is the improvement of game across the globe. Its now an incentive for clubs to scout for for cheaper and better players from non-test playing nations and from within the country as well, perhaps some who would have been kept out because of our quota system ( Although the current IPL format may not allow for this...im sure eventually the format will mature into one Im talking of..)..and considering that players from non-test playing nations and nations at the bottom of the rankings like zimbabwe and bangladesh could play alongside other top players, it would improve the quality of the game in that country too. Besides 'Legends' do exist in these countries too. Case in point is ofcourse Andy Flower and Heath Streak from Zimbabwe .....2 amazing players whose stats never really reflected theie genius simply because they played alongside a bunch of average players. They never had chance to earn any silverware and never had a chance to take their place in history as legends which ought to have happened. In football too you can see a Giggs and Vidic playing for Manchester United, a Shevshenko for AC Milan or a Larsson for barcelona...players who would have probably never had a chance to show their genius and earn some awards if they had just played for their countries. Quality of the game will improve.
Secondly, for nations like ours where people dont follow Ranji trophy cricket as much, it brings youngsters into the limelight and allows the public to question selections for the national team, simply because India has seen these players perform on a larger stage...there will be more questions asked..
And finally, it brings much more money into game....it is almost like the economic liberalisation of cricket....no longer will just the bcci decide the value of players ...it is now a free market...where players are bid for..the market values the players...not a central authority...and by doing this, it can only bring more investment into cricket here cos cricket is a profitable business in India...
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