Back from Chicago.

Me back from Chicago. This time around, I was there for my cousin's graduation from business school. The weekend was quite enjoyable. The graduation ceremony was very impressive. There were close to 800 graduates in the 2007 class. Quite a large number of desi's, too. The school has a very beautiful campus right on the shores of Lake Michigan. It is a lovely, very green place. The arrangements were quite well thought out, all the way down to the little paper fans handed out to every visitor with the school's logo written on it. Functionality mixed with advertising. Very neat! The food was quite scrumptious.. and the crowd was pretty much like Ashtami at Gariahat. The one jarring note was the invited commencement speaker, some bigwig.. I believe he is the CEO of Wrigley. This bloke was not just singularly uninspiring, he just stood there mouthing platitudes and expecting people to applaud. One of his more ridiculous exhortations was to tell the graduating class that they were a force for promoting good in the world, because 'the only true path to fighting poverty is by transferring technology to the Third World.' I wonder if he really believes that? I wonder if people listening to him really believed that. I would be very surprised. However, this was a day to celebrate and celebrate we did. More later.