BRIDES & GROOMS WANTED @ XIME (its back!! )

Just a week into XIME and I have understood their ulterior motives... Nah! Its not to make us managers (MBAs) but "Married But Available" types and the institute's name does'nt mean Xaviers Institute of Manegement and Entrepreneurship but "Xavier Institute for Marriages and Engagements". I feel they are preparing us to get married in two years time, and manage our households and husbands rather than managing MNCs. For example, here we have to get up early morning, do all the things on our own like washing, cleaning, et all, have to wear sarees on every monday and salwar-kameez on other days as part of our uniforms, stick to gruesome schedules and never complain . Also we are taught to "act like a lady", how to behave on formal occasions like meetings and dates, how to dress up properly, how to speak and what to speak, how to behave, how to order food and what to order, how to manage budgets, to keep a pleasant countenance, and the list continues (just like the rules of our handbook, which were read out to us on the very first day... so much for our orientation).

The after effect is all evident from our seniors' behaviour who turned up yesterday itself (ya each one is a couple, the girl- boy ratio being 1:1 here, pretty intelligent our president; the rules gone for a toss, anyways its only for the junior batch; and the strong alumni association standing to the testimony that batch mates make better life partners.) We gave a welcome party to our seniors yesterday, and they ragged (very boring affair) us in return... I dont think they know the concept of 'Freshers Party' but introduced a new 'Ice breaking Session' called "Parichay" where we have to find out about one of our seniors from their friends and girl friends (guys enquiring about gals, and vice versa) and they arn't supposed to know till the end because its a guessing game as well (well every body knows everything here, the batches also dont know the meaning of secrets.)

As for what I did in my first week... well tried to adjust to my other three roomies, made good friends with them and also to few other girls, again tried to adjust to the new environment(common bathrooms, pathetic food in the mess, very strict and disciplinarian profs... ya I would have better adjusted to my in-laws than to these weirdos, atleast they would have loved me more and taken better care of me plus the empathy factor's always there.) Anyways its been raining here almost every evening making it very sexy and romantic and I am missing delhi all the more.... so much for "Welcome to XIME", will keep updating more stuff as and when things happen!