Well... It was an experience in itself ! As PGDM students i guess we are lucky to have a lot of exposure. Something like OJTs in call centres... Like before we hit the floor, we get this intense On the job training... which is like hell actually... and if the process is Dell , you dont have much to say but to bear !
Yeah so talking about DC Bookfair... first of all.. im happy to have lived in between a billion books for 12 days continuously !! Got to learn a lot of names.... of publishing houses... and of the lot i liked springer the most, for the sound of it and the price!! Phew!
Another amazing thing was a chance to give a gift from the side of DC to Mr.Om puri... what an amazing feeling... ! And Mammootty ! Oh... being a die hard fan of his... i couldnt stop smiling ... him sitting next to Om puri...
Lunch was bad for the first few days.. stay at YMCA cochin was good... the team Udaips ( Ancy, Iti, Rakhi, Soumya, Surya , myself and teseena) stayed in one room... 6 beds ! The food at Golden fork restaurant downstairs was heavenly... loved it !! And the prices were also heavenly .. lol :)
The main constraint standing at the stalls was this horrible pain in our legs... everybody went through it... we could sit for sometime if it became unbearable...
My stall was the DC Academics along with Lijo, Mammen and Shijin...
It was good... I stood for a day and half at Harper Collins too because Ancy took an off.. H and C was good too... I met Ed and Lynne kirwin because of that .. Friendship for life! :)
I liked most of the DC staff .. they were very professional and very supportive.. I loved wishing everyone in the morning ! I would walk around the whole floor and wish everyone.. and teseena would comment.. are you the floor manager ??!
On the last day, when everybody was saying goodbye and all they said that we were an amazing bunch.. and that our seniors who came last year for the Book fair a horrible lot ! Whether it was true or not we were happy to hear this !
All of us bought books... many of my classmates bought Chetan Bhagat! Chetan Bhagat for christs sake ??!! I just read one book of his and that was the end of it ! I became a hardcore Chetan Bhagat hater from then!
I bought three books - Polanski ( Autobiography of Roman Polanski.. the rascal genius !) The Catcher in the Rye ( Which i always wanted to buy and finally did ! ) and Madhavikutty's Diarykurippukal... :) I was happy that i bought all these books but if i had more money i could have bought some more... out of the last 800 rs of salary remaining .. i got just 200.. the rest went for the books.... ! Poor me !
The worst part about the DC Book fair was writing a case on it ... we had to include everything of what happened during these 12 days, incorporate it with what we have learned in the classrooms and submit it... Everyone's case rather looked like a report..! Well.. atleast im sure, mine did!
Anyways thats all about the 10th International DC book fair !
