I wonder how best I could phrase signing off yet another
school year, yet another school, oh wait all my student life for that matter!
But I was only just about starting to settle in at HEC! For some reason, I keep
relating to a book I read last year by V. S. Naipaul – A House for Mr. Biswas,
in a very literal sense; the protagonist Mr. Biswas continues to move from one
room to the next whilst nourishing a single consuming desire to own a place he
could call home. I move next into a 6 months internship in Paris. That’s how
much I have sorted out for now but all of the multidimensional probability vector
space opens up for what can happen to me after that.
Well so, I thought maybe I should share with you Mr. Reader
some 10 lines I spoke or heard at HEC which shall probably stay with me the
longest. Oh you know for otherwise 10 blogs could fall short if I start to open
up about all of my thoughts at the moment!
#1. If I had voting
rights, I would have booked a special flight to Hong Kong just for that.
[Heard from a Chinese friend as I was laughing at the idea
of travelling back all the way to India just to vote]
#2. 'Where is the Aquaguard
in this hostel?'
'Oh you just drink out of the tap!'
#3. 200 £/Hour
[ Ain’t not elaborating
on that! ;) ]
#4. Paris is not
really too different from London. I think they are quite like a couple- a
perfect love hate relationship they have, having fought a hundred wars with and
against each other for ages. They feel quite alike too, may be Paris is like
the Lady, more delicate and fancier whilst London is the Man- looks just a bit
sturdier.
#5. You are not in
India. Deal with it.
#6. No matter what- Smile. Dress up. Network.
That’s how you are going to make it alive out of here.
#7. Do it for your mother.
[From a taxi
driver I had booked to take me to my internship interview.]
#8. Buy low, sell
high.
#9. Trading is a bit
like Physics really. Physics is looking at the Universe through the prism of
mathematics, for trading you put a price tag on every event and product in the
world. There is only one resounding message: be it a war or a tsunami we finance
people can put a number on them all.
#10. It’s okay, just
deal with it like you are a trader already but have just suffered a huge loss.
[A friend consoling after being rejected in a trading
interview]
