Wet Weather Skills... and other things

The regular readers (both of them) of this blog may be aware that a little while ago a cycle was purchased to enable me to get to campus on time at least once in a while.
And until I get myself a car, this bicycle will have to get me to campus through rain and shine and in weather fair and foul.

In a way its a good thing. It gets me exercise that I wouldn't normally get and for that I shall remain grateful.

However when its 2am and when its pouring down and when you have to escort women home and when you have an 8:30am class the next day for which you really need the bike, even when its the last thing you want to do, you HAVE to cycle home.

Cycling home this one past night involved hoisting my backpack over my shoulders, shielding my ears using the windcheater hood and using my right hand to hold onto an umbrella while I bravely endeavoured to control the bicycle with the left hand, in the driving rain.

Its true... its all true.
B-school is truly an experience and yes, it does teach one new skills.

Life for the next few weeks will be an endless blur of late-night job applications, campus presentations, schmoozing to company representatives, CV selling and ordering Bangladeshi take-out.

This past weekend, pick-up cricket games were organised, after which some resolved to get more ppl involved and play a more formal, traditional version of the game (i.e. runs on both sides of the wicket, taped ball, runs behind square) the coming weekend.
Just for a much needed distraction, I hope that happens.

Speaking of distractions, managed to watch 'One Flew Over...' for the first time. Another movie gets knocked off my imdb Top 250 list.
As it happens, another 140 remain un-viewed. They include a significant number of Kurosawa and old Westerns and even some modern classics, such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Monty Python (Holy Grail, Life of Brian), Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting and some by the Japanese animator (whose name I can't immediately recall) who did Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. A visit to the Virgin megastore may be imminent.