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ISB Admissions…on…
Admissions for the Post Graduate Program (PGP) in Management at ISB, for the year 2006-07, have started.
Prospective applicants can access details of the same at the following link
http://www.isb.edu/pgp/visit/admissions.asp
The brochure for PGP in Management 2005-06 is here.
ISB also holds information sessions for prospective applicants, all across the world. I strongly recommend attending one, to get a direct insight into ISB – the school…the brand.
You will find the schedule for the information sessions here.
and but of course…anyone who needs any help regarding the admissions, please feel free to get in touch with me (warikoo@gmail.com; ankur_warikoo@pgp2006.isb.edu). will be more than willing…
all the best…
~a
amazing night…last night was…
if there was ever a night when ISB could think of shutting down because of the ‘superior’ quality of the students admitted…it was last night
if there was ever a group that could lead ISB to shut down because of its ‘superior’-ity…its ours
if there was ever a group that could write the best-seller ‘how to screw up Markstrat even when its not possible’…its ours…
i mean…holy sweet mother of jesus and jesus’ brother…how scrwed up does one have to be…to be selling a product that costs to produce than its selling price…and thats not it..no no…there’s more intelligence left…we not only sell such a product…we bloody invest a million…that like 1 followed by as many zeroes as there are in my bank balance….yah…one million…on advertising the product.
so technically…we advertise for a product that gives s negative contribution..so that it gives us more negative contribution…!
AMAZING…!!
(kindly stand up at this moment and observe a 2 minute silence for us…!)
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today was good…managed to get a lot of stuff done. the following week will demand a lot of work…so gearing up for that.
A gifted me an amazing lamp today. and that is so so sweet of her. thanks a lot…it really made me feel very special.
P’s gf was in town..so he was busy with her. P also flew down frm his sister’s marriage just about an hour back. so with the 4 of us we managed to get pretty much a lot of work done today. good job dudes…
ummm..what else…
oh yah…i hit the top 10% of the class this term. nothing to be really proud of…have to hit the top 10 next time…lets see how it goes…hope for the best…prepare for Markstrat…as the saying goes…!
looking forward to delhi on the 20th…
looking forward to life….
~a
fun party last night…and a tight week ahead….
M hosted a party last night and it was great fun. well…no..i didnt get drunk…much to the dismay of every drunk guy there…(who for some reason feel more drunk if people around them are drunk…!). but it was one of the rare occasions wherein everyone was happy drunk. no throwing up…no shitting around…no playing stupid…just happy drunk. some real fun one and a half hrs…!
i got back at 1.30…and then around 3…when the ladies comes back…A figures that her keys r with me…(its another case that i told her where i had kept them…she simply didnt recall having talked to me…!)…and then shouts out my name. and just so u know…its 3 am…that the time when the sun is not up and people…(sane people) are sleeping…! but no…that doesnt stop anyone…does it. it doesnt stop M or G atleast…to build on A’s treble…and shout out my name as if there is no tomorrow…(or no other person on this earth…whichever happens earlier…)
and then i make maggi for them…with S’s help…and then at 3.30 or so i receive a senti sms from U…thanking me for some shit…(i think…think…that i had a tear when i read the sms..it was sweet…and it was his bacardi speaking..!)…and then i slept at 4…after having read through Nucor…!
today has been good so far…the coming week wont be so. there is no way i can allow myself to repeat term 1’s performance…and hence will have to slog to make sure i be where i wanna be. have made the schedule…and hopefully will have a good time sticking to it…
…aaahhh…finally…R’s tickets r done…she IS COMINGGG….sep 2…awesome thingy happening inside of me right now thinking about it…! mannn..its going to rock…!
my tickets to delhi r done…dying to be back…
and finally…its been raining like nobody’s business for the past 2 days. normal life is disrupted…there r traffic jams all over…and people dont feel like studying…
all set for the week…
~a
have i lost a part of me…
its been more than 2 years ever since i quit something that i thought would define me one day. its been more than 2 years ever since i left waking up every morning with curiosity leading me through the day. its been more than 2 years ever since i maybe lost a part of me….
never to get it back…
and today something made me miss it.
we had gone for a dinner to our Aikya Family…the Patodia’s…had a wonderful time..awesome food…they were really nice hosts. through the evening Mrs. Patodia requested P to sing for us. and he did…brilliantly…but then we all knew that he could. and then came the…i will call it moment. G had mentioned before that she used to sing and left it cause of her throat problem. but then i didnt know how good she was when she left…and the answer came right after 5 minutes.
its not just the fact that she is a close friend that made me like what she sang….she was actually awesome. it just got me back to the time when i used to feel so passionate about something. and i was good at it..and i left it. and today somepart of me regrets it…maybe trying hard not to accept the same fact.
i just hope that she doesnt have a time when she will regret too…
anyways…
the day was good…didnt get to talk to R today. missing her right now..a lot…
got the grades for marketing. thankfully an A. so that was good. was going through the distribution of the class. A has hit it in the top 5…and U is in the top 17…which is awesome. he deserves it…i can see that he worked really hard for it.
life’s funny right now…and its laughing at me…
~a
of chickens and cocks and hens…!
i think b-school is one coherant feeling…everyone at any point of time is feeling the same…and even if not…one feeling arising from one obscure corner of the world (its SV1 for ISB) spreads like wild fire. for instance…i am sure that at this precise moment…99% of all rooms in ISB will be thinking about cocks…! oh holy shit…what did i say…delete delete delete…i meant…chickens…!
so much so that people are spamming with weird cookooo-doo-cooo wmv files…philosophies on debeaking…and pics of chickens mating with crocodiles because they cant see who they are mating courtesy…the awesome…the transparent…the sexy look…the one…the only…ODIIIIII lenssssssssssss…!!!!!
oh god b-school is funny…!
got my grade in accounting. aparently some CAs have got an A…which is quite a surprise cause they are not supposed to be that good. i for one havent managed one…i am just lucky to have got what i got…especially after my stupendous performance in the finals…!
have been thinking…(beeppp…unprecedented error…!!)…for some days now. the concept of a one-yr mba. as of this moment i can say for sure that my IQ has jumped some 400 points to reach the current level of +20…however…i wonder if this circumstance called ISB is allowing me to appreciate the science behind business education. i read cases…just because i have to…maybe cause i have to score some random CP points…and very rarely do i get time to think beyond whats required.
i would love to read the newspaper everyday…spend an hr or so on it…but then each time i sit down to do so i get a mind call that i have to be somewhere. and the work seems more important at that moment than anything else. and hence passes my 24 hours…!
yah..its not that i dont get to do stuff…i gym…i talk on the phone…i have long dinners…and i listen to music…browse through some 20 odd blogs…and do random stuff…! but then this takes some 20% of my day…while the remaining 80 goes towards just reading stuff…completing submissions…or simply markstrating…
its unfortunate…though i am sure there is a way out. and i shall soon find out one…
and this brings me to markstrat. the first time i heard the word screwed in my life…was an important day. i realize now…that had it not been for that day i wont have got an opportunity to truly define the state we are in currently….SCREWED….!!!! damn sad
going for a dinner tomorrow to the Aikya family’s place. should be fun..though G is not coming along :(
had an awesome talk with R today. and this was after a long time. feeling very happy and relaxed…and refreshed. i would do anything to be with her right now…!
life….
~a
finally…
an A on the grade report…! and its a good feeling…when you know that you are amoungst the best in a batch that boasts of IIT toppers and CAs and people with 7..8..9..23…years of work experience. i mean…what chance does a one-eyed monstor with an IQ of negative 40 have…infront of such tycoons. so yah…it does feel good…
yesterday was pretty chilled out…had classes and then had to get the DMO assignment finished off. went off well…got an absolute kick out of the entire deal. its orgasmic man…numbers jst excite me like anything…R has reasons to be jealous…!
then watched a wonderful movie…’the motocycle diaries’. brilliant stuff…very inspiring…and rather profound. its about these 2 dudes who set out on a road trip across south america on a motorcylce that would sell more as scrap than it would as a motorcycle. and then their experiences…and how inspite of being so different in their attitude towards like…they had something common…their desire for a free human spirit…! very touching…
today has been good so far. have been markstrating for the past 5.5 hrs…jst got done and i have a feeling that this time we have managed to come up with some sensible decisions. lets hope that it does come out to be so…
trip to delhi not sure as yet. tickets are damn expensive and my budget doesnt really allow me to spend more than a rupee a day…(2 rupees if i go out friday night…!)…so trying to work my way through at mandirs on tuesday evenings. lets see what comes up.
rest all good…will write soon…
~a
sweet weekend…
life is awesome…teaching you every inch that you take…how to take the next inch. and making you realize the importance of the same. yesterday was absolute bliss. got up at 11.30…chilled out for 2 hours…went for lunch…slept for 2 hours…watched ‘commanding heights’ (ok ok…slept midway…but what the heck…!) for a bit…worked on some random stuff…went to Touch and blasted 600 bucks…went to have midnight biryani at green plaza…came back at 2…browsed for 2 hours…slept…
the occasion…? there wasnt anything due on sunday…and a small turn in on monday.
the history…? all of us had been wacking our asses everyday…for the past 14 days or so
the lesson…? only when you get your ass wacked everyday do you realize what it is to not have it wacked one fine morning
and finally…? give your ass a break…occasionally…
today was amazing as well…got loads of work done…had a good time generally…met with our Aikya family…(their daughter is married to lakshmi mittal’s son…ahem ahem….cough cough…choke choke…aaaaagggghhhhh….). it was great fun to meet up with Mrs. Patodia…a sweet lady who very evidently has seen a lot in life…and has her fundamentals right…
sardar is leaving tomorrow…and i am kind of feeling odd. it was fun to have him around…though he does tend to get on one’s nerve easily. but then…he is a sweetheart…a lost one though…!
S’s bro is in town…smart chap…kickass nikon d70 he owns…damn…! G is sweet as ever…has been more so lately :)
the DMO assignment this time is rocking…i so get a kick playing with numbers…its such an awesome high. my marijuana…! looking forward to the new set of profs that will hit the scenes from tomorrow on…
damn…another 2 weeks and we complete 2 terms…! time is flying…
but i wont get my ass wacked…
~a
global economics and robin williams…
the mid term went well…i mean…how screwed up does one have to be to not realize that when the economy isnt that well…the interest rates fall…and hence investment rises…which leads to stock prices falling and bond prices rising and wages going up and employment going down…and bush going…’most of our imports come from other countries…!!’…wooooopahhh!!!!!
but krishna…the prof who replaced bansi babu…is rocking. and you can see that on his face. and he made the entire lecture (only one of it so far though) effortless…(which was the case with bansi as well…but on a whole together different level..!)
then went to the gym after 3 decades..! sardar also followed and was clicking in the gym as if he owned the place. G is worried that her ‘back’ was photgraphed much beyond her comfort…! i was actually posing for some snaps…with that thing…i dont know what u call it…the huge elephant belt that WWF guys strap around every part of their body. and i was sweating and all…so i am guessing the snap will be ‘elephants also workout…!’
towards the evening then was time for markstrating. we are royally screwed (did i mention that before…i guess i did..!)…and it was like…i know why people are laid off now…i mean…for god sake…we dont have money to buy the ceo a bloody maybach…how can we afford 128 salespeople…? u insane..?
that got over at 12.30 or so…and…ok i have to admit this in public. P is the stud of our group and i can see him frustrated at time because of us. and i feel he was last evening as well…and i wanna apologize for the same dude. i know i was part of your reason to be frustrated…it wont happen again. love u…muuuuuuuahhhhhhh…!! :)
and after that we have robin williams live at the broadway…1.5 hrs of unadultered adult comedy….that guy rocked like anything man. unfortunately there werent too many guys arnd…but then that didnt quite spoil the fun.
AND AND AND…awesomest news ever. R has decided that she would be coming over on sep 2…! i mean…how awesome is that…? rocking news…i cant contain myself…!
life rocks as of now…hopefully in the right sense of the word…
~a
brilliance…and lost too soon…
i guess we all knew of this before we came to ISB. however…now that it happens we wish it wasnt true. i am talking of the ‘fly-in-fly-out’ professors who come to ISB. its unfortunate that we dont get to spend as much time as we would want to…simply because these guys are like the best…and perpetually in demand. even though they leave behind a positive mark…i for one would want them to stick on for a little bit more and give them the opportunity to…maybe transform my life…!
and yesterday was one of them. Anjani Jain…our DMO (decision models and optimization..or whatever…) prof left after a brief stint of 2 weeks. and boy..did he rock. there was something magical about him…maybe the way he dressed up…or maybe his immaculate articulation…or maybe his unassuming self…(inspite of what all he is in today’s world). and the last few minutes of his class yesterday went towards understanding (and more importantly appreciating) the importance of morals, ethics and humanity in the world of business.
this leads me to the 1.5 hr discussion that i had with S from the CAS office. both of us were of this opinion that as soon as an individual enters b-school…its as if he looses an integral part of himself. its as if the individual submits part of his character to the sole purpose of getting a job…and with this motive behind him…suddenly everyone whom u smile and talk to…is an enemy. which is sad and unfortuate…and something that cannot be escaped as well. and it is in this world of b-school competition that one’s morals, ethics and respect for individuals makes the difference between a leader and a follower…!
phew…dont remember the last time i blahed so much…i deserve the alumni of the year award from my alma mater now..
life is good…and busy…but good…
~a
yah…its been long…
and the best thing is that i was reminded of this by ms. anonymous (wink wink!). which…(and i would want to believe that there are many more similar souls) leads me to the fact that people actually wait for my updates…! wow…! when did the world insanity figure rise up…
life has been awesome lately…and i have to admit to my nerd self that its more to do with the fact that term 2 has been coming down on us in the same manner that people would want to come down on kumar gaurav after watching his movie. submissions have been deadly and the coming week seems to bring more of the same. but its fun…no seriously…something about it is real fun.
markstrat decisions came out…and we are royally screwed. i mean…royal royally…in all dimensions. we dont have the money to even buy clothes for the salesforce…and we are advertising door to door now…with the ceo taking care of 20% of the city. its that worse…
however…slightly deviating from the above…i am so so happy with my group. they are the coolest dudes…and its so much fun to work with them. everyone of them is a gem in themselves and thus the entire dynamics works out effortlessly. touch wood…!
hmmm..what else. oh yah…todays marketing class was one of the most awesome classes till date. and what gave the class this title was the sheer character and personality of raju saab. that dude is some genuis. and its so awesome the way he is still connected to the country…he feels for it…(unlike some professors who work with comp-rable dhatah…!!!!). you know…he goes…we and them..referring to india and US. for all u know he might be a us citizen or something…and yet so indian within. respect…!
saturday was fun…atul kasbekar…india’s hottest fashion and advertising photographer…had come over for a session with the students. and boy…didnt he rock. more than the photography…it was his anecdotes that enthralled the audience…he was funny…! and comical…
and somewhere within me…he just made me realize the pleasure that i derive from photography…how if given a chance i would wanna be him…and how now i wish to earn shot loads of money…quit one fine day…and just click for the rest of my life…!
E would kill me if i dont mention how much of a sweetheart she is…and i would kill the person who says that she isnt a sweetheart. hi Eeeeeeeee….! :)
life’s good…
~a
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