Getting used to the life in AIM

The classes resumed from the 29 th july, 2003 and it was back to normal.
So we had one typical experience of staying in Philippines. The Indian students were not accustomed to this as I have written earlier.
On august 12 at the Management Communication classes , we students had to deliver the extempore of five minutes in the Management communication class in the topic which will be provided half an hour before. I was given the topic of an Indian business man who has just came from a visit from the Chinese cities and I was supposed to tell my experience of my visit in china about the new things I found etc etc.As true to my confidence I spoke well and my speech was dotted with a lot of quotations, facts and statistics and it was satisfying experience for me.However I did not get a high grade of my desire.
On august18, 2003 we were taken to a tannery factory in Valenzuela which was owned by Chinese Filipinos. The tour was part of the operations managament course.We had a good view of how leather tannery works.

Well to tell you about my batchmates !the MBA class was filled with Filipino students who were 53 % of the class followed by Indian students who were 29 in number, followed by Vietnamese (4), Myanmar, indonesian, Nepalese and Singaporean.In short almost 90% of the batch were made up of Filipino and the Indian students.
The class consisted of few sexy beauties (mostly Filipinos) who were providing us the glamour quotient not withstanding they had the brains The names of these students are- jariaza yulo, Asset tinio , Lizel Milan , April lim , Tin tin Abu ,Conchi Clemente and Sakshi chopra etc.
I still do track some of them via the internet. In this Class there were a lot of scholarship holders –most of them were Indians.Trung duc trun and Thuy Nguyen
Were ADB (fully funded from Asian Development Bank ) scholars from Vietnam. Sophieap Chea was Cambodian who was also an ADB scholar.The AIM scholars were
Sudipto Basak (myself), Himanshu kher ( From IIT KGP background), Alpesh Ashar,
Sriram krisnamachari and Sanjib Sahu. All of these students were either on fully
100% or 50% AIM tuition fee refunded scholarships. I was told that my scholarship will be retained by me in the second year if my academic standing in the class is amongst the top 40%( which I later found out that it was tough for me to do so )

Now, The Filipinos were very extra careful of cleaniness and personal hygiene. At some point I was teased by some batchmates whether I do take bath or not.
Initially the classes were less boring and more interesting but as the time passed the MBA study took its toll in the first semester and second semester.
Slowly and slowly I was trying to adjust in the AIM system.
I was getting used to the life in AIM with a lot of partying at the night along the poolside after going through the hard case studies about various companies.