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its that time of the day…
you havent blogged for 2 days…you gymed today for 45 minutes…lifting weights…playing squash and badminton…its 1am in the morning…the day starts at 7.30 tomorrow and you dont know when it will end…
and you are medically dead…!
nevertheless, i will write…
life has been good these days. somehow the term isnt hitting me as yet…there is quite some bit to do…and i am doing it..but the pressure isnt even half of last term..just as section A’s tee shirt isnt half as sec-c as ours…!! (prof venkat)
isb is hosting a microfinance conclave this friday/saturday and the who’s who of the economics and finance world is coming over. i am required to host mr. ravi narain, managing director and ceo – nse. will be going to receive him at the airport tomorrow…and then show him around the place. should be good fun..though i will be missing some bit of the ldp class…(sigh..!)
had gone out for chinese today…decent food..good company. even R went out for chinese today…after she had a ‘tennis date’ with S. he seems to be taking ‘good’ care of her…chalo…as long as he gets to…! :)
section c had its t-shirt day yesterday. was awesome fun clicking snaps in the section tees…they have come out decently well. here..have a look..!
and till you adore the tee…lemme come back from my sleep…
~a
12 friggin hours…!!
is what i slept last night…12 friggin hours. and it was awesome…!
saturday night we had a party…which slowly turned into ‘their’ party…wherein their stands for everyone who hasnt paid 15 lacs to be in ISB and simply lives in hyderabad..! apparently there were some 20 cars of ‘others’ who had crashed the party…and went to the bar with 200 bucks for a vodka. little did they realize that booze at ISB parties is at selling price…(30 bucks for a vodka..!!). little did we realize that we will see them again at the next party..cause of this…!!
anyhow…the party was a blast. we had inter-section games…tug-o-war for instance wherein the section members not pulling were supposed to throw buckets of water at the opposite team. this was basically to increase solidarity amongst the sections and avoid any further water fights…(yah right…!)
A and her bartending team rocked that day. they were on it for some 7 hours…and did a remarkable job with the fruit punch. its another case that they have shared some tactics they used to increase sales…ahem ahem…(“yeh fruit punch pehle waale se zyaada acha nahi hai..?”…”yah dud…cause it has more alcohol content..”..)
the party eventually came to an end just in time……for the sunrise…!!! and since i was incharge of te music, leaving midway would be a little less than committing suicide. however…no regrets…! overall…kudos to A for organizing the entire thing. bahut sahi…!
however…when one has to get up at 9.30 when one has slept at 6.30…and both the times are a.m….its not the best thing under the sun. ISB was organizing its 1st info session for the prospective students. and by jove…645 of them turned up…! so handling them was quite an achievement. it was good fun though…marketing for the brand. there were some really interesting prospective students…would want them here next year.
after the info session..the group met for exactly 15 mins to discuss the OM case. we took a strong glance at each other…before i broke down and went…”ok ok..i will do it…!”…(kiddin…!)
then went for a long photography session…after which there was a soccer match to be played between ISB and BITS Alumni. at first it seemed they would tear us apart…they were in jerseys and all..practising…warming up…while on the other side…our team was like…”aur suna…case ho gaya..? eco ka kya grade aaya…?”…
however…little did we realize that the warming up was the only good thing they could manage. we bulldozed them 3-0…!!!
overall…the day ended at some 11pm…and i decided to go off to sleep. the next thing i see is the afternoon sun…! :)
today went well…had an info session on the finance electives. seem to be awesomein nature…hope i have a good time doing them as well…
rest all good…
~a
long day…
i didnt touch any book in the entire day…and dont plan to either. yet it was a long day. started with getting up late…then attended a rather nice talk about careers in corporate and investment banking by Mr. Sanjiv Bhasin, CEO Rabo India Finance (Ex-CEO HSBC India). good stuff…
then started work on preparing the questions for the dumb-c and pictionary rounds. had already got the books from A and S (thanks!)..so movies, event, personalities remained.
then went to participate in the inter section frisbee competition. was awesome fun. we won…and have got through the semi finals. i guess they will be held tomorrow..or maybe day after.
then got back to questions…meet up with S to discuss the proceedings…and then finally the event started at 7. it went decently well. except for one round wherein i goofed up with the questions.in hindsight the round shouldnt have been there in the first place.
anyways…just came from S and E’s place. watched some tv after a gigillion years. had a terrible headache which has actually gone away. they are really very sweet sweethearts…! :)
however…at the end of the day..i am feelin bad. i almost shouted at R today…just cause i was tired and she apparently wasnt listening to me. feeling really bad right now. sorry dear…i really am.
looking forward to a longer day tom..packed with studies. E will be giving me company…
~a
the sweetest days ever…
the last days were awesome. i think the last time i was so happy was when i was born…but then Rajeshwar (LDP) actually turned that into one of the most painful events in a human’s history. so i guess i shall call the last 2 days one of the best ever…
got my GE grade. now thats not like HUGE news…its just fine. but then something was amazing about it. i kept feeling good and good…till the point that it got transmitted to other people…so much so that people who met me started congratulating me…(weird…cmon its just a grade..!!). anyways…i wont deny that the feeling was good…
however…the awesome thing was yesterday. my sis has come 3rd in the university in her annual examinations. wait..there is more…she is only 2 marks behind the topper. which essentially means that the top 3 ranks are separated by a mark each. holy shit…this is awesome news…!!
u see…if i get a good grade…big deal. i am into my books even when i am shattin..! so its like…yah fine. but in her case…its different. she studies..yah…but then she chills like nobody’s business. she goes out with her friends quite often…she sleeps like kumbhkaran and kumbhkaran’s son combined…she watches tv…and doesnt study at all as well. so her managing this deal..is quite a deal…!
i am rockingly happy…! :)
anyways…so the first week ended for term 3. went quite well…the classes were really awesome. however this term the courses are so interlinked that you actually have to rely on other factors to differentiate them. “oh..this is the moustache class…oh this is the ‘pants-high-up’ class…and yah..this is the ‘i just cant stop talking..but no i love that..so keep listening’ class…”
so much so that each day when i sit down to prepare for the next day i wonder if i am reading something i should be reading for the day after. its confusing…but again..the courses are great.
i must admit though…(and i guess this will maybe…draw a lot of surprised looks)…i am kinda impressed with the rajeshwar dude. ok..accepted he loves his voice…but then his content isnt bad…so even i love it at some level. he does bring in a lot of ‘asthetic relevance’ to the entire mba program. u know its like…get over simulations…and balance sheets and demands and supply…concentrate on why humans behave the way they do. afterall…in some years most of us will not be running simulations as much as we will be ‘running’ people.
good change from the usual…
am conducting a dumb-c and pictionary competition this evening. really lookin forward to it…should be great fun…
life’s good…
~a
long time huh…
i didnt write a word in the last week of the term…and there are a couple of reasons:
1. i was studying this time
2. i told u i wont be writing…!
i didnt write a word after coming back from delhi after the break..its been 3 days now…and there are a couple of reasons:
1. none
2. none
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The beginning:
The delhi break was awesome…had loads and loads of fun. went with R in the metro all the way to DU (at 9.30 in the night!)…went to the Hindu Lawn and the Miranda back gate…wow…nostalgia…! went for dinners and movies…basically total blast. i dont think a trip will be possible for the remaining session..so desperately waitin for R to come down in the 1st week of Sep
Term 3:
Has started off well…the courses are fun…finance comes in finally. looks interesting…(even more so with the sensex going beyond 7500…am shit scared tht something fishy is happening..!).
managerial accounting is linear programming and monte carlo sims combined…so always fun..!
entrepreneurship is too good…the 1st class yesterday was a blast.
Incidence 1 –
1. prof picks up the marker
2. too bad..the market doesnt work
3. keep down the market and lift a new one…?? r u crazy…thts juvenile..
4. WHOOOOSSSHHHHH….the marker is thrown at jet speed…to strategically land under the whiteboard empty space
5. prof: “that was a good shot..wasnt it…?”
6. students: “what the…….?”
besides this…the class was actually a whole lot of fun. after a long timei realized that i have stopped thinking out of the box. numbers…crunching…yah easy stuff…thinking beyond that…?…oopsss…not coming in as well…! have to work on this…
Operations was really good…including the moustache…! the prof made a lot of sense…whatever he said might have registered as ‘oh we know this..big shit..’. however only someone who knows the importance of processes and the entire trauma of ‘improving’ them…will appreciate and realize the gravity of his statements. pretty impressive.
best of all…LDP (leadership dev. program)…inspite of what people might think…i guess the lecture was pretty well executed (except for the last half n hour…wherein he realized…”oops..i am finished…lemme start with some blabber now…”). he talked about world history and how we all are embedded with an agrarian, risk-averse chip inide us…and how we will eventually…(god knows when though) compliment that with an industrial chip. the difference lies in the attitude. from ‘no matter how much i work..everything is pre-decided..’…to ‘i can control much of what i want to do in life..’
good stuff…!
apart from all this…everyone back here seems refreshed after the break. i finally put up the lamp A had gifted and its looking pretty..right above my bed. gives a homely feel to the room. want to buy a beanbag now..however that will surely require atleast 7 sitting infront of the mandir…way too expensive.
looking forward to the term…and to the end of this one year…! :)
~a
you’ve come a long way baby…
i am entitled to 25% of that 12 lac package from mckinsey today…!!!
well…thts if everything goes as per plans…!!
so…the exams got over today. went well…yesterday was good too. the dmo exam today rocked like crazy. it was such a sweet shit paper…got people to think beyond what they usually do…and some of the questions were like..wow…this is awesome stuff. hats off…!
econ yesterday was also a pleasure. very relevant stuff…it even had articles from July 1st week…i mean..how recent can u get…! good stuff again…
MDM today was “bacho…yeh hai tumhare daaton ki banaawat…now draw a graph and explain it…”. it was shocking at some level..to be coming from Prof. Raju. but then…all’s good.
however…the cake goes to…CS…! so here is the deal…take 3/4 oz. of CISCO…bring to a boil…pour 1.4 qtz. of Nucor..(stirring continuously u dud..!)…let it cool. garnish with the knowledhe management article…some mckinsey to taste…and serve with hot FAF…! what you get are 11 points in the CS final exam…way to go…!!!
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ok eat this…the exam ends 4.30 today. our group meets at 5 for the CS project (due thursday…but then with 5 of us leaving to meet our gfs/bfs/whatnots..we arent left with much choice). and we work…i mean WORK…till 1.30am…nonstop (dinner stop..only)…and boy…did it rock…! we actually managed to pull off a near impossible stunt…and its such an amazing feeling right now…i dont even wanna start describing it. lovely…C4 rocks…
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alright guys…its time again to leave for delhi…will see you soon after the 24th. looking forward to an awesome time with R…dying to be with her. the isb gang is meeting up on friday..mocha…u r invited…! :)
life is too sweet…
~a
krishna 2005 @ ISB
why do parents name their kids…the names they do…? what possible insight did my parents get into my personality to name me ankur. why the hell is delhi called delhi…? any relevance…any connection…?
i read a research sometime back..which…and much to my surprise…came up with the result that kids named after personalities tend to converge…(or atleast aspire to..) to them…in terms of persona…achievements…attitude.
now…looking around…i doubt that. for god sake…check out the number of rajnikants…or for that matter rams and mohammads in the world. but then…if i were to defend the research…this would be my defense….
Krishna BC @ Mahabharta: not god for me…but someone who inspired. who didnt fight the war..but presented the reasons to do so…showed how to do so. not god for me…but someone so clear in thought and action…that he could easily be one…
Krishna 2005 @ ISB: not god for me…but someone who inspired. who didnt feed us with spoons…rather presented the reasons to fulfill our appetite…and showed how to do so. not god for me…but someone so clear in though and action…that he could easily be one…
i thought his last class was brilliant. till this came along:
From: Krishna B. Kumar
To: Students06
Subject: Thanks
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economics, like real life, has its share of ambiguities, fuzziness, and dead-ends. but as john steinbeck wrote in his
beautiful novel, “sweet thursday,”
“…the clarifying leap springs from the rich soil of confusion, and the leaper is not unfamiliar with pain.”
what i or anyone else can hope do in a short time is only rake this soil. the leap is yours to make.
be bold. be irreverent. shift those graphs. good luck.
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brilliance defined…..
i rest my case…
~a
the week sucking me in…or is it…?
i have a feeling that i am allowing it to suck me in. but then..i am fine with it. the preparation for the finals is coming along smooth…and hopefully will reap the benefits in precisely 4 days.
loads of stuff to handle…will get back to you soon with some interesting stuff thats been happening lately..!
muuuuahhhhhhh….!
~a
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
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