Monday, November 21, 2005

Flip Cup Championships, Bollywood Bash & Reaching Out Conference (11/05)

The past few weeks have been pretty intense - loads of school work, tons of club commitments and lots of time spent reflecting on summer internships and future career prospects. After hearing that load of nonsense, you should understand why I need to get away from the b-school bubble and act like a fool more often.

Diversion #1 ::: Section Flip Cup Championships - Despite some serious shit talking and intimidation tactics, we came up a bit short. And by a bit, I mean a lot. We lost in the third round after getting a buy in the first! However, in true Big Dog fashion, we proceeded to play another six sets of matches just for good measure. Let's just say by the end of the night I had cups on my ears and had to pull a "look over there" to the ladies pictured above, as I ran out the door for my bed.

Diversion #2 ::: Bollywood Bash - In honor of all my South Asian peeps back in NYC, I decided to step up and put my skills to work in the India Business Club's Annual Bollywood Bash. For two weeks leading up to the event, I practiced night and day (well, not really) honing my Garba / Raas moves and providing comic relief for the other members of the dance squad. When the big night finally came, I gave a Kirk Gibson-esque performance by overcoming a serious injury I sustained in the flag football playoffs the week before (read: i'm old and bruise easily). Immediately following the show, I was wisked off stage and asked to co-star alongside Shahrukh Khan in the next Bollywood blockbuster. Actually, after the show, I stuffed my face full of samosas and naan and proceded to sweat off 5 lbs dancing to bhangra the rest of the night.

Diversion #3 ::: Reaching Out Conference - After making it through an interview, a case competition and a career expo, I was ready to have some fun. Yeah, there were some panel discussions and a few minutes spent networking... but mostly, this was about hanging with my peeps including Jizza, who was in town from LA. Just our luck - DJ Abel of Alegria fame was in town for one night only! Unfortunately most of the pictures from the hours spent on the dancefloor are not fit for print so I decided to include the one of my ghost jumping around the hotel somewhere around 4:30-5am. All this, while the entire room was being rearranged by my new buddy, Beau... and here I just wanted to "break bread!" BAG.

That's about it for now... I really need to pack since I'm off to NYC tomorrow. I'm so excited to see everyone and roam the streets all weekend! After that, its back for finals and then a trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado for a week of skiing!

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

College Football & Halloween (10/29/05)

Ahhhh, what a great time of year... college football and Halloween! Nothing like a full day of tailgating at the Michigan- Northwestern game, enjoying brats, beers and the prospect of defending our higher ranking in the college football polls. Well, so much for winning the game... at least we had the brats and beers! And, it's always entertaining watching the 30-yr old, future business leaders of America do keg stands in the parking lot. After hitting the tailgate for a few hours I went back home, watched five minutes of the game, took a nap and prepared for Hoot for the Homeless, our Halloween charity event.

Unfortunately having midterms last week cramped my costume efforts a bit, but luckily some good buddies had ready-made Daphne and Fred get-ups for me and B.LEE to jump into. Most people recognized us despite the racial disparities and, all in all I think China Fred is preferable to the real thing! We even found a drunk Skooby at the party to chase after! The night ended with us singing our hearts out to Thriller and Living on a Prayer (what else?!?!) at world famous, Evanston hotspot, THE KEG. Round about 2:30am, I realized I was already hungover and that it was time to go home. Let's just say flag football at 10am was not pretty, but we got the win anyway! Happy Halloween everyone! ***And, a special shout out to the glowborine posse in NYC who made sure I got a ton of laughs that night but no sleep. xoxox