Term Vacations - Looking back and forward

I have been really late in posting and updating here. 

I ended my term a little earlier from the official ending. I visited London for a career fair that was a farce if not anything else and then headed home to India. London's visit was a pleasant one as that was my first visit and hence I had a lot to visit as a tourist.

15 days in India were quite memorable ones as getting reunited with the family during the year was never on the cards when I started on this course. It was really a busy schedule with kids, relatives, visits to different places etc., all taking place at the same time. The only pain point was travel back and forth with AirFrance being an airliner to blame for most of it (I will write my travel experience after this post).

Back home, my kids have really grown well, esp. the younger one. He is now 3.5 month old and looks really smart and handsome. As you may believe, most of my time was spent in changing his diapers and helping my wife. I had couple of assignments to lookover but there was hardly anytime and also the undersea Internet cable cut kept me away from my laptop for a very long time. Towards the end, the decision was to open the books only at Lancaster.

I reached here on 2nd of Jan and since then it has been a little relief before the storm. The storm is going to hit on Jan 9 when I have my integrated case study exam covering the entire Term 1. I was given a case book to write notes, but unfortunately that lies in my home in India.

MBA and War on Mumbai

The world changed over the past few days. 

The Mumbai attacks have had a great impact on me and I am forced to think why it happened. While the answers may be straight forward, I am in no position to offer my views on it presently. My current workload requires me to concentrate fully on the task at hand, but following the attacks took lot of time. Presently I have my Organizational Behavior presentation scheduled for in the morning, I had my Operations Management exam on Monday.

I have observed that since the blasts, my energies are devoted in search of the above answers looking/searching for a solution. For all my course cases and exams, I have no energies to concentrate. Globally, terrorism has risen as a multi-headed hydra and I am looking for ways to counter the same in my personal capacity. It is a quest that I wish to take. The answers/success reasons may be apparent to some, but I strongly believe that terrorism can be quelled. 

I want to make my country very strong, economically, and that to certain extent will help in achieving strength. It is a very long ardous route, but history is a testimony that we received freedom from the colonial rule after more than 200 years. So, to put it subtly, winning the war should be like a one day cricket match, but if it is supposed to be a test match, then come on Mr. Terrorist, we will defeat you in that version of the game also.

On a second note, I am looking forward to my first London visit next weekend. If you are there in London over the next weekend and would like to meet me for a cup of coffee or so, send me an email. From London I am looking forward to my trip back home where I tend to spend a great time with family (I have lot of assignments to take care of then also)  before embarking on another journey of completing my MBA.