MM31 .. after a long time :-)

Its been a while since I last spent so much time in MM31 in a single day - today, I came in early in the morning and booked a room, to read the final case, do my thinking and create an outline of possibilities in my mind. In the evening, it was time for the group meeting - and we discussed our views, findings, and future plan with each other. We also distributed the individual work.

Strangely, there wasn't much excitement today about the whole deal - and the feeling of doing it for the sake of it prevailed :-)
Good thing is now that we have worked on so many cases, it is not going to be a difficult task to crack this one :-)

It's time to bring it all together

Today, we got our final case in an info session by the IMBA team. It's a case that we are supposed to analyze using everything that we have learned in this program, using the MBA toolkit and then submit our executive summary of it, and give. Presentation.

It was good to see so many people from my intake together after a long time and good to meet many familiar faces.

Today, we just browsed through the case and the real work will begin tomorrow. 

Photos, Movies, etc

Today was spent in editing photos, a lot of them - taken last week in Retiro for Besabijou, taken in San Sebastian, and taken yesterday in Retiro, and to go along with the work, some entertainment in form of youtube movies and videos :-)

Busy day, spent in doing stuff I like :-)

Waiting for the info session tomorrow - never had i thought that I would actually wait for getting a case from the IMBA team to work on it so eagerly, or may be the eagerness is to work on it and be done with the final exam of this course :-)

Retiro Saves the day :-)

Well, ever since the classes are done and school is over for most of us, every day in the afternoon someone sends a message in the group 'Anyone up for some Tapas and drinks' :-)

We are missing the school and its routine already. Well, after an eventful last few days, it was hard for me to stay back in the home for the whole day - so, when it came to choosing between going to MM31 and sitting in LP browsing things on the internet, and going out somewhere, I chose the later.

Went to Retiro Park and spent the day relaxing :-)

Hala Madrid !

Well, after spending last three days here in San Sebastian, it is time. Time to go back to the base camp - in Madrid :-)

And soon I will be getting that final case for exam and will have to present it. So, it is also time to get back to the real world :-)

Sunny days are here again :-)

Third day in San Sebastian, and while all the regular touristic places and a couple of Paella and Italian places are already covered by us, today the Sun is out. So, time to enjoy the beach and its breeze for the day. Life is good :-)

Praying the weather gods ..

Well, arrived in San Sebastian yesterday, only to face rains and cloudy weather from Burgos onwards. While there is no rain since morning today, the sky is still cloudy and I am not sure how the day will turn out. Well, fingers crossed and praying the weather gods to be nice to the tourists from today onwards. Lets see how it goes :-)

North Calling ..

Well, I am in Spain and in Europe right now, it is sunny weather and there are no classes for me anymore. Yes, of course there is the final exam coming up, but its still far away. So, time to hear the call for travel and this time, it is the north calling.

Going on for a trip to north of Spain until San Sebastian for next three days. All set to enjoy the sunny beaches, the delicious Paella and the picturesque scenery of the north :-)

Packing, Printing, Preparing :-)

Well, tomorrow I have a trip planned, so today, most of the day was spent in printing out the tickets, doing the necessary shopping, preparing the travel bag, packing the things I need including my Camera of course and yes eating and sleeping :-)

Sometimes I think, whether I should really be writing these 2-3 liners everyday anymore, considering that all my classes are done and I will go back to school only in about a weeks time for final exam related work, but then, I think every day spent in Madrid, is in itself bringing new things for me, so why not :-)

A walk down the memory lane

While I did some minor job browsing and a couple of cases, spent most of the day reading past blog posts I have written here and getting nostalgic.

Past one year went by so fast, and now, this last month in which I chose no classes, has been so very slow in its pace.
Also went to the Circulo de Bellas Artes rooftop and spent a couple of evening hours, watching the skyline of this beautiful city Madrid, trying to figure out different places from the buildings seen, and trying to run down the memory lane about those areas.
While my classes were done on 9th April itself, as many people are finishing theirs today and tomorrow, there is a race on facebook among those who want to update their status of MBA last class done, and that race is making me drive through these memories even more !!

Hope to get back in action with some activity or other real soon :)

Chores

It has been a while that I had cleaned around my house, and so today was the day spent for doing all the chores from cleaning to shopping to laundry.

And also, now that I have caught up with the most recent episode of the Game of a Thrones, I finally had no reason to NOT do some cases :)

Today passed by really quick as there was some or other thing coming up one after other and I was busy doing many different things and yes, I did wish happy birthday to one of my childhood friends, and welcomed a couple of tourists to Madrid today :-)

Shooting Guapas :)

Today, I had booked my time for outdoor photoshoot of models, yes models showcasing the besabijou jewellery. So, from 11 AM in the morning until 4:30 PM, I was busy taking pictures of three beautiful girls or Guapas as they say in Madrid. And then spent the remaining day with my IE family, enjoying a pizza, some sangria, the amazing Spider-Man and some chitchat.

A good Sunday :)

Case Solving Prep

Spent the day browsing the case study prep material and watching season three of the game of thrones. Yepp, by the end of tonight, I will be catching up with the latest episode that was aired :)

I mean if all that there is to do is case prep and job applications, there is plenty of time for things like television series. I like the pace of this all :)

Another round of the job hunt

All those job hunting sites, they take a couple of days to have a fresh lot of jobs published. So, last couple of days, I had to just sit back, as most of the jobs available were already seen by me.

Today, I found a couple of new ones though, and did the necessary applications. Also practiced some cases and created profiles in a couple of places.

All in all, a day well spent. Now planning to watch the game of thrones in the night :)

The Game of Thrones

I have to say that in these past few years, moving around from one place to another, with different local languages, my habit of watching TV series has been long lost. Add to it, there is enough entertainment and engagement online these days from social networks to the movie streamings.

But then, there are a few series that I am hearing about so many times, that I finally gave in and decided to watch at least one of them - the Game of Thrones. One of my friends had DVDs of season one and two, so borrowed them from her, and starting watching the series at around 11am. I must say the series is addictive, as by the time, I went out for a Korean dinner at 8:30 pm, I hardly moved away from my PC and till then had already watched all of season one and first two episodes of season two.

After returning from a good Korean dinner at restaurant Maru, I am already too exhausted to continue with the series, so time to publish the post of the day and sleep :)