Updates from here and there

Well, so this Monday I'll start my last week at Vendio. A few of us from office had a small party Fri night at Bill's place and it was awesome fun. Over the past 5 years, such outings have become a pretty important aspect of my Vendio experience. And they always end with biryani. For some reason, it tastes better after booze! It was raining damn hard when I got back, I was in an auto but still got completely drenched. Not to mention that I had to pay Rs 150 from Forum to my place. Crazy!

I'm also having Visa issues. I find the UK Visa process a little frustrating because there's no transparency. The processing can take an infinite amount of time, there's no upper limit, and all you can do is wait. Meeting the Visa officer (as in the case of US) is harrowing in its own way but at least, you know the outcome then and there. The wait is killing here. Right now, as far as I'm concerned, a mad scramble is on to get more supporting documents ready. The first batch didn't seem to work as I had expected it to. Hopefully, it will work out but things are starting to get tight. Fingers crossed.

Yesterday night, I got my first academic-related correspondence from Oxford. A Financial Reporting exercise has been forwarded, something about balance-sheets and income-statements. Since the class will have grads from more than 40 countries, the prof says one of the objectives of the exercise is also to standardize terminologies as different people use different terms to refer to the same thing. Very ominously, the last line of the text states that there will be a test in the first class. And so it begins!