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Exams for the 5th term starting tomorrow…
As I look back at these 6 odd months…I seriously question the intelligence of my ex-employees to have hired me. I mean…I was nothing back then…I knew shit…and I was no better as well. Today when I look at myself…I see myself not only talking intelligently…but also acting so…! I know so much…I have learnt so much…and retained so much…
B-school…somewhere down the line…is worth the hype…
~a
PS: oh…u know what…isb…somewhere down the line…is worth the ‘hype’…as well…
the practical prank…and me…
At times studying is fun…
I spend the entire evening…(if 4am can be called evening…!) working on the ADCF take home test. It was such an awesome experience. The test was individual…and i was scared if i would be able to pull it off. but then i did manage quite well…i guess. its like…you reach a place wherein you think you are right…and then you start thinking. from then on its just a matter of reaffirming…or strongly going against that…!
It worked well for me.
Another interesting thing that happened last evening was my ‘boy-gang’ playing a prank on me. well…technically…the prank was played through me…on other people.
I had gone to the 4th floor of the library to fetch my laptop cable. I come back after some 5 odd minutes…and that very instant I knew that these guys were upto something. I mean…their face said it all. I tried and tried to get it out of them…but to no avail…
And I then I get a mail…and holy sweet mother of jesus…these bastardos had actually sent mails from my account…to random people…
Hi,
I was sitting and thinking about the last six months…. And I have realised that I have become close to u…..more than I have been with any1 else in my life… i hope u understand my problems and compulsions. All I can say is if I did not have commitments in my life…things would have been different between us.
Keep this to yourself.
Love
~ a
And oh my god…some people fell for it. it was nasty…and (I admit) hilarious. Naturally some people were smart enough to realize that it couldn’t have possibly been me…!
To top it all…they didn’t tell me to who all they had sent the mail. And the smart MBAs that they are…they had deleted the mail from both the ‘sent mail’ folder and the deleted items folder…! So from then on…it was more of a wait…for 2 types of mails…
- “yah right…we believe you…”
- “wtf…r u serious…? I love u too…!!” (
But it was great fun. A ‘nice’ intervention…to the routine schedule…
Looking forward to the exams…have been studying all day…and the company is great…so a lot of work is getting done…
All the best everyone for the exams…rock ‘em…!
~a
shattered…is a small word…
Didn’t make it to Masterplan
Life sucks so bad…so so bad…!
~a
Congratulations to the ISB team that made it. Really happy for them. Wish them all the best…go rock the world guys…!
blogging…and statistics…
Statistics is always fascinating…and for various reasons:
1. It is meaningful and factual. It is not like S’s statement in the Management of Organizations exam… “I am 100% sure that this is probably what it is…or atleast close to it…almost…with a definite probability…”
2. It holy shit is the best way to make the opposite person stand up and salute you. Before I came to ISB…statistics was just a subject…people identify me with it now…! Escapes me why…!
3. It is a very smart person’s way of saying… “u know what…I know nothing about you…or your company…and I don’t care as well…but…I can run something called a regression…and amaze u…and tell you that you will be a billion dollar company if the economy grows at 45%…and per capita GDP becomes a million…”…and you WILL believe me…cause I used stats…!
Anyways…so the point is…I was browsing through my blog stats…last evening…at 3.30 in the morning…and I just started playing with numbers…and realized something that I haven’t…ever…
The psychology of blogging…!
Fact 1:
The average daily hit on my blog is close to 62. Most of them spend 0:00 minutes on the blog (and I am serious…!!!) and some of them even 27 minutes…(I am sure they must be numb by the end of it)
Fact 2:
The highest hits I have seen in a single day was last Tuesday…153…! The lowest has been 37…many a times…
Fact 3:
The referrals tell me that most readers come from within ISB itself…and again most of them directed through the gods of blogging B, R and V.
And now the interesting fact (refer to the pic)
Whenever the blog receives more than 75 hits, it is because of a couple of reasons (and 3 for those keeping track!)
I wrote a new entry
Something substantial happened in my life…
Something substantial happened at ISB
Which brings me to the following questions…
1. If on an average I get 62 hits…then how does this number suddenly jump on a new entry? I mean…if person X comes to the blog and realizes that there is a new entry…he simply reads it and goes back. He doesn’t go shouting naked…”eureka eureka”…nor does he send a spam titled “hot wild girls” with www.alienwan.blogspot.com as the content…! So how does the news transmit…?
2. If something happens in my life…which ISB people know about…I get increased hits. What brings them to the blog…? Do they want to know why it happened…or maybe even what happened…? How come suddenly…so many people think that my blog is worth spending time on…(its really not…but then we will stick to one problem at a time…!)
3. Why is it that my hits increase very close to the exams? Why is it that I get maximum hits on the 1st day of the term…?
Interesting questions…I thought about them…but sadly the statistics involved me more…
I guess this is somewhere close to customer understanding or something like that…anyways…am still looking for answers…
~a
orgasms…and their cause…(and there is no way you are not going to read this now…!)
My life is currently spelt…
P – O – S – E – I – D – O – N
And am sure that K, G, A have the same spelling…!
Its crazy…and I admit…a lot of fun. Organizing fests is something I always used to look out for during my college days. I used to sulk over the fact that only the 3rd years get to organize it and act all pricey and powerful…and us juniors are only for the photocopying, calling shady sponsors and basically ass wiping…!
But then…the work is a lot…and at times I don’t envy K for being the MCC VP. It’s shit load of work…and he is doing a great job. Am not sure if I was capable of the same.
G is just like……”warikooooooooooo…what to doooooooooo……”…disappears for 3 days…reemerges…writes some mails…and then her dark circles begin to scare me…before I ask her to go off to sleep. Holy shit…she goes to E and S’s place…to god damn watch ‘desperate housewives’…!
Classes are going on good…options and futures rocks…I really like it…! Fixed income is at times taxing…financial analysis is cool…and advances corp fin is cool too. Am planning to take 3 fin courses next term…and one faf course. Will be in E’s section…so that will be rocking…would be awesome working with her…infact I am curiously waiting to work with her…
This Saturday was the 1st party of the term. Was held at SV1. and it was totally rocking…and the fact that I was there till 3am…explains much of it. I mean…3am…for a party…I wont probably stay beyond that time for even my marriage party…! S had come down to stay with G for the weekend…and all of us had gone out for dinner to Angeethi. Yet again…rocking food…super rock solid meethi lassi…!!
Waiting for the Masterplan results, to be announced tomorrow. Mannn…I cant tell you how badly we want to be there…it’s like a never before feeling. The plan has consumed all of us…we cant help but think about it…talk about it…and what not.
This reminds me…the boys had a gathering at my place this Friday. Had a rocking time…ordered pizza for dinner…watched SNATCH…and laughed our hearts out discussing people on campus…! Mind you…no bitching…!
Life is so desperately looking for happiness right now…that meethi lassis and masterplan dreams are giving me orgasms…!
Funny…!
~a
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48 hours…
3 assignments…
All finance…
8 hours of sleep…
Listening to ‘aashiq banaya aapne’ right now…
Saw the 2005 Playboy calendar on dude’s comp…breathtaking photography…
Prayed that I get through DB…
Imagined myself at DB…
Got the ‘management of organizations’ score…screwed up big time…
Prayed that we get through masterplan
Thought about stuff I shouldn’t have been thinking…
Awake for the last 27 straight hours…
B-school!
~a
PS: www.isb.edu/poseidon (easily the best B-school fest website ever)…awesome job A…!
Breathtaking week
Yet another week into life…! And the same regret…repeating itself…
Sorry for not writing in that often…really apologize…!
The last week was a killer…and I had one of the most awesome time of my life. We (A, P, P and I) were working on our masterplan business plan. And man…was it amazing…or WAS IT AMAZING…? All of us will be extremely disappointed not to be through the next round…but then we do realize that the competition is awesomely tough…
P was the CEO of the company…formulating the strategies…and marketing plan…down to the district level.
P was the CIO…structuring the resources into an optimal plan…and working on the allocating of HR, IT and Financials across all spectrum.
A rocked as the CFO…he made probably the most comprehensive financials ever created…so much so that only 1 number fed into the excel sheet would generate the balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement for 10 years…! And trust me…these are not those loose statements…they are as detailed as probably an Infosys.
I, as the COO…(ahem ahem…cough cough…aaaaaaahhhhhhh…chokeeeeee…aaaaaahhhhhh…. dead…!), was basically working with the numbers (except financials). So there was the marketing numbers, and general operational supervision! :)
All in all…it was humbling…it was learning at its best (I know 19089892 times more about microfin than I ever did…!)…it was team work at its best. Truly awesome…
Have submitted the plan…waiting for the next stage results scheduled for the 15th. Will keep you posted…
Apart from that…today we had DB come down for this batch’s first placement. Yet another awesome experience. There were the financials gods of the world…who handle some Euro 5 billion amoungst the 8 of them…and yet so humble…so awe-inspiring…! My interviews went well…let’s see what happens.
Am a very satisfied person today…! thanks god…
~a
And and and…happy birthday to banno. May she get everything she ever wished for…and much more…
Diwali every day
If life is dark and shady…and the path ahead is not clear
If the direction you choose is governed by the fear of fear
If the grades are brining you down, when you want to rise
And the god damn marketing courses have come across as a big surprise…
Bask in the Tuesday holiday…don’t fear…don’t loose hope…don’t pray…
Let there be Diwali every day…
To everyone seeking light…
Wishing you a very very Happy Diwali and best wishes for the time to come. God Bless!
i want it that way…
Some good news after a long time. We have made it to the top 24 teams (all over the world!!!) in the IIM-A business plan competition. By November 5th, the main B-plan needs to be submitted follwing which the top 6 teams shall be invited to ahmedabad to present their case. Of these 6, the top 3 will then get a week long visit to Mumbai, wherein they shall be meeting with top industrial houses etc etc (basically get a feel of Mumbai from a business point of view) and then spend a day with Mukesh Ambani discussing the plan, after which he shall name the top team.
Sounds pretty exciting…? It’s the same for us too…!
However, to be true to myself…my role in this shortlist is probably running into negative. I didn’t work at all from delhi…and whatever was presented was primarily the work of the remaining trio. I do hope I am able to contribute at a much higher level from now on…saala free rider…!
Thankfully life after Sunday has chilled down a bit. The fixed income class is turning out to be super amazing…really awesome prof and the manner he deals with the subject is quite impressive. Makes us wonder why the hell we even took the options/futures class. That is one hell of a ‘bullet train with missing magnets’ class…if you know what I mean…!
What else…? Oh yah…this Sunday when I was at my ‘stressed out best’…I realized why I was so. Because I hadn’t listened to god damn music for generations…! I remember when the US used to take a toll on me…I used to simply switch off the lights and listen to cheap ass britney spears and backstreet boys (and occasionally yanni and pearl jam..!). I don’t know how it works…but it just does…
I mean for god sake…hear this out…
“you are…my fire…my one…desireeee…believe when I say…I want it that way…”
Who is his right frame of mind would get mentally counseled by such stuff…! I mean who…!! But it works for me…maybe I am ashamed of it…but it works…and I don’t care beyond that…! its funny…!
Anyone seen the new hutch chota recharge ads…I love them…that guy is too cool…!
Anyways…I shall get back to my music and life…see you soon…
~a
life is finance like…!!!
Life has been moving at 100mph lately…and its not even funny at times. With 4 fin courses…the world seems to be one hell of a ride…assignments enough to create 4 PhD reports…and classes enough to put Einstein to sleep…!
And to think that this might be my bread and butter for the next 30 years…woopsieee…!!!!
Saturday was an easy day though…we had a talk by Sanjay Bhattacharya (acclaimed painter) and Shekher kapur (yes…the film maker!). Both of them outstanding personalities in their own right. However I shall have to admit that Sanjay swept me off my feet…with his art…his humility and most of all his straightforwardness towards life.
When asked time and again as to what is his inspiration…he got irritated and went, “arre…kuch nahi hai yaar yeh inspiration vinspiration…!!!”…! to us it might be a flippant remark…for him it might be his truth…who knows.
Shekher kapur was stoned…! I mean literally…! He started with describing his place in the matrix of the universe and went on to explain…or confuse, whichever way…as to how we are mere mediums for decision in this universe to be executed. So when I say that I choose not to drink…is it really a decision that I am making…or is it that the decision has already been made and I am merely re-emphasizing…! And if this reminds you of the matrix trilogy…join the wagon…!
Then we had dandiya night on Saturday. It was awesome fun. Everyone was looking stunning in their traditional outfits. Needless to say the girls too. E was rocking in a saree…or maybe since it was the first time I had really seen her in the outfit. I clicked to my heart’s content…yet…the conversations were funny…
“dude…how many have you clicked…”
“ummm…close to 50 or so…”
“what…50…? I am on my 200th or so…! Dude…what’s up…????”
“dude…I am on a film camera…it will god damn cost me 500 bucks to see my results…!! Now u know what’s up…!!” – that was me…! :)
The organization was pretty amazing…and even though the singers reminded me of Bappi Lahiri singing…”yaaaaaaaddddddd aa raha hai…tera pyaar……”…overall the experience was terrific. Professional quality
Sunday was not expected at all. Here is what happened…
8.00am: got up…daily brushing…shitting…emails…etc…
9.00am: breakfast meeting
10.00am: start with fixed income assignment
11.00am: fixed income assignment
12.00: fixed income assignment
1.00pm: fixed income assignment
2.00pm: fixed income assignment
2.30pm: lunch break
2.45pm: fixed income assignment
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7.30pm: corp fin assignment
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9.30pm: corp fin assignment
9.45pm: dinner
10.00pm: corp fin assignment
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And just so you know…no…I wasn’t paid to do all this…! It was the longest…most tiring…and the most challenging day of my ISB stay here…phew…
The week started ok…classes going on…ELP going good…loads of work regarding Poseidon and Placom…and thankfully I am doing juts good…(though A, K and G will disagree…but what the heck…!)
Life’s good…life’s finance like…! (I have no idea what this means)
:)
~a
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