me....busy?

tinka tinka, zarra zarra,
hai roshni se, jaise bhara.
har dil mein armaan hote to hain,
bas koi, samjhe zara.......


Ok. As is evident i have been busy over the past week. My interview at O&M wasnt exactly an interview. And we had our Symposia this weekend. And i guess it was a good show. The usual restive audience was there but overall it was also a better behaved one than usual. May be the quality of speakers had something to do with this new found tehzeeb. I think Mr. Abheek Singhi from BCG was the unanimous choice as the best speaker. He spoke on branding. And i think a couple of more speakers chose to speak on the same topic and by the end of the 2 day event we were quite overdone with Branding and could have passed off as brand gurus ourselves. Then there was Mr. Atano Ganguly from Wrigley's who talked about Sales and Distribution and what a lecture that was. I guess most of us when we pass out in '06 won't be handling more than S&D if we're in an FMCG, and notes from this lecture would come in handy that time. 4th in line was Mr. Munir Suri frm KSA - Technopak, was good too. The only not so interesting speaker ( to put it mildly) was a guy from an insurance company (i dont even remember the company's name, it was THAT boring). And a fitting finale to the 2 day event was a lecture by Mr. Arunabh Das Sharma, Marketing Director, Whirlpool.

All in all it was 2 days of good learning.

I met with Mr. Athley, VP Maharishi Ayurveda, regarding my project in international marketing of Ayurvedic products. It was fun acting like one of the interviewers in BBC grilling experts on their own ground. But in any case i got all the info i needed and later was quite amazed with the ease with which i pulled all of it off, alone. The gals came in a full hour late, by which time i was over with the meeting.

I realise there are a number of internal tests coming up, beginning this friday and i better open a book, for the first time. ;-)

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I am listening to : Tinka Tinka Zarra Zarra - Karam, Alisha chinoi at it again.