Freak!

Started taking french lessons this week. The lady is very nice and she seems to be very good at what she does.

To supplement my french lessons, I decided to listen to those french lesson tapes when I walk to and from work. To get the most out of the tape, you should always try to "repeat after me." So there I was, walking with ear buds, mumbling to myself. I started to notice strange stares: what the hell is that freak doing, talking to himself, walking?

strategy time

Got a board meeting to prepare for. I need to come up with a strategy, a staffing plan, and a budget. :) I guess this is the kinda stuff b school is supposed to prepare you for, and all MBA students hope to do when they graduate. Yet, I just feel nervous. I know, I have done this many times in school, but yet, I still find myself flipping through the ICP ("International Consulting Project" for those of you who are not familiar with IMD speak) manual trying to find a strategy "cookbook".

Nah, it's not a cookbook, only if it were that easy. The ICP manual does show you the steps to follow though. Cool. I also need to dig up Boschek's notes on industry analysis to make sure I am doing stuff right.

Huh, I guess B school does teach you something. I just wish I have all this stuff in my head so I don't have to keep referring to my notes. Guess I just wasn't built that way, but I know Maria is (good reason to why she is a Bainny).

Anyway, enough bullshit, I better starting digging through Bolschek's notes.

deal time

I have something GOOD to announce!

Cidway just signed a signature deal with the largest bank in a country straddling Europe and Asia. Even though it's just a pilot, when a bank has millions of Internet banking users does a pilot, they do it for x00,000 customers! (Sorry, I can't really tell you what "x" is)

Not only that, we beat out the European market leader! It's pretty exciting!

I hope this is only the beginning of many more deals to come. Stay tuned!

long distance

It's hard. My last relationship endured through two years of long distance. The current one has pretty much been long distance from the get go. We are really happy together, but the distance requires a different kind of romance, and a different kind of passion. Lots of Skype (although I didn't feel it as much last year since I had less say over my schedule, and at least 50 others also kept their relationship going that way), lots of emails. Personally, it's just that much harder to conjure up the kind of passion when someone is right next to you.

Sigh..........

wow, she can write

Banjot, a friend of mine married a writer. I had never read her stuff until recently, and wow, she can write. Meeta was recently published. Here is Banjot's entry about it on his blog.