We got our results finally. What a relief. I’m quite happy with mine, actually, not too bad after all.
So now we can apply for Fresh Talent. I’ll do it as soon as I get letters from my parents concerning the financial support of their poor (or shall I say lazy and impudent?) daughter.
On the job front, nothing too promising. I’m expecting a reply from JP Morgan in Edinburgh, where I went on Wednesday for an interview. The job is that of a financial analyst, but in fact it mostly involves dealing with the data and ensuring there is sufficient and proper data for analysis, to put it in a nutshell. I said to them I’d rather commute, but now I realise that if I have to be in the office by 7.30 it might be not realistic, so I’ll ask them if they can find a place for me to stay. Anyway, no point in counting the chicken before they’ve hatched (God… is this correct grammar??). There is also my trip to India pending; as soon as I know their decision, I must buy the ticket; and yet, I have to have all the documents ready for the FT as soon as possible, because without it I won’t be let back into the country, and I want to get an FT before I get an Indian visa… And everything costs such ridiculous amounts of money, oh my God. Sounds like a mess. And it indeed is. But I have faith it’ll all be right.
Our graduation is on the 27th, and I think it’ll be the day I’ll miss my parents more than I ever have in my life.
We had a visit from the president of Rwanda Paul Kagame, which was a brief talk and a Q+A session in the magnificent Bute Hall, and ended up being quite interesting. A self contradicting Wikipedia article about him is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kagame; there are a lot of things I can’t understand, and on reading this article I understand even less. But right now I don’t feel particularly keen on history excursions; maybe sometime later… After the lecture we had a small get-together in Left Bank which turned out to have delicious food, and conversed about matters ranging from the role of the economic profession in the evolution of humanity to… well, it was a wide range of topics.
We’ve seen a few excellent films recently. On the mainstream side, I Do and Elizabeth were not too bad. We saw both of them one day when Rishab was free from work, so we played tennis in the morning, then ran for a Play, a Pie and a Pint in Oran Mor (Crazy Love), and then went to the GFT and Cineworld and watched the films non-stop. On the alternative side, we saw HEIMA, which is an absolute masterpiece. It’s a film showing Sigur Ros’s tour of Iceland in 2005 after they released Takk. This film deserves a separate review, so I won’t do it now. I will only tell you that the hall was packed, the landscapes and the music were heart-stopping, and the message was poignantly compelling; for me, it was a message regarding the necessity to RECONNECT with the nature, the beauty and simplicity of life, and ultimately myself. And the fact that two days later I went to a futuristic business park to have an interview with JP Morgan… somehow it does not actually contradict anything, but anyway, I’m waffling. I don’t know what I’m trying to say, actually.
Yesterday we had a Diwali celebration, very beautiful with a lot of candles. I made a small walk of candles in the corridor, which looked splendid. We had a few friends and a Russian/Indian Halal/vegetarian fusion. Have you ever heard of Halal borsch? See what I mean.
What else? Ah, music. We went to some experimental free concert of Scottish Symphony Orchestra; they played contemporary things, some were quite good. There is plenty of chamber music happening at the University, and we’ve been to two: once I listened to Haydn and Beethoven, and the other time we heard Debussy, Strauss and some contemporary piece which, in turn, consisted of six little pieces featuring some elements of Roma music, wind and transistor. Haydn was great, Beethoven is beyond my understanding and Debussy surprised me (ignorant in terms of classical music and many other terms) by being so avantguard.
I feel as if I’m writing for the sake of ticking ’blog Eng.’ off my list. So I think I shall do that for now, and write some more exciting and detailed descriptions of our lives once I get some inspiration.
