Papa don't preach!

As an essential part of my PG, guest faculty has been delivering 'gyan' to us on practial aspects of business (pun intended).
Now, many of these have been marketing honchos, big wigs of advertising agencies, esteemed corporate houses. Most of them by self admission have great interest and abilities in areas of people behaviour, segmentation of markets, studying cultural patterns and psychographics. Not to mention that they are good orators as well.
And one of the lessons I invariably tend to receive is, "do not take things for granted, do not be presumptive. Opening up the mind, opens door to opportunity."
However, they also invariably address us as a class of 21-22 year olds, fresh out of grad schools, some of us having wrokex. Oh, and the fatal one is the assumption that we all are Mumbaikars, localites!
In reality, the average age of my batch would be 24+, 72% has workex and at max 15% would be localites. Now, is it so ki "hamari twacha se hamari umar ka pata hi nahin chalta"...or is it ki 'haathi ke daant khane ke aur, dikhane ke aur' .

Candy is dandy...

A few days back, had a sip of port wine a friend got from France . My second sip of liquour in the lifetime!!! Supposedly, wine is tastiest of all...and it was the most bitter liquid i have ever tasted, with a rotten smell!!

My narration of that experience to a close friend was met with roaring laughter. 'Sweetheart, that's the way people start, that's the way i started....' was the underlying message I heard.

I think i am happy, taking Ogden Nash's 'Candy is dandy but liquour is quicker' on face value!