Oo lah lah!

Its been 4 days in Singapore and I'm loving this place already! It took us just 3 days to finish our immigration work, get phone and internet connections, open bank accounts and do lots of shopping to setup our apartment, which by the way is beautiful with a gorgeous view from each room, AND we also managed to meet many of our classmates and go out for drinks and movies in this time! Super efficient eh!
Full marks to Singapore as the clean, green and safe city that it claims to be...the public transport and the taxis are very simple and cheap to use and can get you to most places in less than 15 mins...most importantly, people are very friendly with a great attitude considering the development they have achieved in the last 42 years of their existence.
The Singaporean accent is also quite unique and i'm slowly getting a hang of it...the 'lah' added at the end of each sentence makes it quite entertaining :)

Our little apartment is now almost completely set...there is me, there is Mr Venu, the old man of the house who makes the big decisions of where we eat and what we buy etc., and there is Ale along with his wife Isa, both from Brazil...who just got back from a vacation in Thailand!

INSEAD campus, where we have been hanging around for sometime everyday, is a great place to study because of the wonderful bar, the cafeteria which is also now open for dinner, spacious places to hang out and socialize, beautiful ponds with fish, lots of greenery and...and ofcourse the library!
The class, as promised, is full of people from different nationalities and backgrounds...so far i've met people from atleast 10-15 countries with backgrounds in investment banking to medicine! (yes, i've two doctors in my class!).

Food is not at all a problem in Singapore, quite cheap and great variety available. most importantly for me decent vegeterian stuff available everywhere. There are 2 food courts near INSEAD and our apartment which have few indian outlets...where i can get all kinds of pratas (known as parathas in India) and thosai (known as dosa in Hindustan), from egg to chocolate ones...creativity eh!

Yess...as you can see life is going nice and simple, except for one problem...a few of us have not done any reading we were asked to do before joining and hence scrambling through books of finance and economics, last minute, to atleast see what the keywords are before we get our arse kicked starting next week!

Hope to have a great year of kicking some arse and getting my arse kicked...so, stay tuned lah!