First Day

First day is the very first day except when you are at AIM . Arriving here last Friday for the classes which started this monday, I thought I would just finish registration , collect the pre-mba material and chill out in the weekend .But it was not to be . The grill of the so called AIM MBA started even before entering a class room . Two chapters in accounting , 3 chapters in economics and some quantitative analysis were needed to be read before the first class. Down went my chill out plans for the weekend and I was studying the subjects that I would rate in my not so favourite subjects. Its not that I hate numbers but I don’t like them either especially when it appears as balance debits ,credits and accruals , too confusing and in my opinion things that have been unnecessary made complex . MBA is exciting before it starts and after it is done but certainly not while you are doing it :)))).

Anyways apart from sulking about my studies which I guess I will be doing a lot during the course , I have kind of settled . Manila looks great and you get a feeling of living in an advanced nation .The problem with this though is that the even the costs are likewise , exorbitant by asian standards . The interesting thing here is that the peso is a weaker currency than the rupee and so in absolute terms the amount you pay for each item is more than in rupees . You don’t like paying 50 pesos for a sandwich and feel it is very costly(it infact is) though you would happily spend 3 pounds for the same in UK even though it is actually 4 times more costlier .

And in other things , my roommates are a great bunch of guys and we celebrated the first birthday with the usual birthday bums(see picture below) and a nice chicken treat at the nearby mall . The Chinese fellow in my room is all excited about China’s performance in the Olympics and jumps and screams for every gold they win (these Chinese are very patriotic, aren’t they).

Filipino food is not as bad as we expected it to be. I tried it yesterday with my room mates who luckily are food lovers like me and also like trying out different food . The Filipino lady serving Indian food was staring at us though :)))).

I also got to meet the AIM blogger in a review class . A very nice chap and probably the only regular bschool blogger from AIM. Check his blog for the post on the QA review class that he took for us .