A group , One Mallu, and rest all studs

(Disclaimer:Whatever I reveal about mallu, its my personal opinion, and the conclusion is drawn after stratified random sampling of mallus,and ESV(Expected stupidity value) is optimum)

After getting screwed royally by Rocky(U better understand who was tht),we decided to have fun.Let me introduce some of my frens here. First comes the super stud mallu,after coming to college, I have heard only 2 sentences from him, one "mujhe beer peena hain" and doosra "main yaha kyu aya hoon".He will strictly practice , a cribbing session for 1 hour daily about the second sentence.Well , thats why I call him mallu, indeed he is a mallu.Name :Rejesh.
Few more bulla(the stock broker and brother of lakshman), kartik ganesan(the cool guy and LORD of Rings),hari(the silent man),ajay(future vijay mallya),noor(water freak, and the kodak man),roshik (next management guru),ashwin(confused, signs of genius) ,jagan(new guy, yet to know his strengths),hardeep(intelligent sardar, no its not an oxymoron)
The decision by all: Lets party at BIKES & BARRELS. Its a famous pub in chennai.
The medium 1 car, and remaining bikes.(No barrel though)
Mallu said he knows the place and thus would help us find the place. And I didnt know how i agreed to believe him. But sometimes you never know. We decided to follow mallu and rest as you know is "mystery".Mallu takes us through almost all parts of chennai, and suddenly stops in front of the pub and calls the other group to find out where the place is.
We entered the place, and to our shock, we were ostracized and were thrown to upstairs since we didnt have so called girl friends. How can they expect us to have some , when all the partying girls in the class are a part of PAGE 3 gang?
We had to stand and have some beer, it was not tht much fun, except for the beer. But however mallu was again shocked by the prices.We decided unanimously that we would leave the place and go somewhere else.If in chennai, that other place is always "beach".
This time, I was dead sure not to follow mallu. So me and bulla decided to follow jagan and Ajays car. But somehow we lost the route, and again were roaming the city.
After around half an hour and 20 calls, everyone traced us.From there reaching beach was in some minutes.
Thats the first time I have seen "SEA" from very near distance and also first time I entered into sea water.
The fun started on beach. We were dancing, removed all our shirts and started getting into water. Running on the beach, playing with water, and pulling each others legs. It was like a welcome break for all.But there was something missing, Ajay was not there.To our happiness, ajay was back and also with some beer.If someone wants to know what is so lovable about beer , u shud have it in chennai and u wud know its kick.We had lots of foto sessions and u wud be seeing the fotos.
After an hour of aqua-time pass, already our hunger was on fire.The next decision, Biryani at STAY WEL.What a way to end the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We really had fun. hey I forgot to mention one more thing from mallu. While returning from beach, mallu was driving his bike without his shirt, and the entire crowd on the roads were berserk with the monster on pulsar.I saw some folks running away.!!!!!!!!
(Im sorry Mallu)
Again at the end of everything, mallu started cribbing about "again there is a class tomorrow :)))))))))"



smiles
sachin

Macro(economic) Jolt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Macro(economic) Jolt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You must be thinking whats this JOLT all about. Even I am yet to find answers about that. Thats the talent of a prof like 'Dr.RAKESH SINGH'(former NMIMS prof,again a highly acclaimed teacher and scholar too.I have heard that he is god in economics,and he says that he knows only 40%. I respect his modesty).
We (all students) thought that the going was little tough with both philosophy and statistics, then came the actual shock, and we all are yet to recover from the jolt.
I would like to add something worth reading here from a slide shown by Dr Singh

"
A student of business with tact
Absorbed many answers he lacked
but acquiring a job,
he said with a sob,
HOW DOES ONE FIT TO ANSWERS TO THE FACT?
"
I assume that I dont need to explain it. Brains which are little smart can comprehend its meaning.
Macroeconomics was the class about, and it was the first class. We were asked a lot of questions including our expectations from course, fundamental unit of analysis and lots. We were even given a case to ponder on. It was indeed an interesting one.I have heard of incipient screwing , but experienced for the first time. I discovered this word during my REC days, this term means that getting screwed but you get to know only after you are out of the situation.
We were exactly in the same situation.We thought we had a good time but over a cup of coffee after the class, we were sure that we are screwed.
Dr.Singh is one of the smartest prof I have seen. He was threatening us, as the sametime was theoretically polite. I especially liked his "Deadlines are sacrosanct" statement.
He gave us a whole assignment on National Income, we have to analyse the National incomes from 1990 to 2006, and need to submit on wednesday.
He also wants us to do a project, on any given 3 topics. I am not interested in telling you all the topics but, the topic our group chose is "India in Electronic media in 2025".
Now you can understand why I was cribbing. We have no other option but working on it. If you say whats so "GOOD" about, when I am cribbing about it, I think that its going to be good learning for me. Since coming from IT background, I have rarely tried to understand various economic theories. Now I dont have any option but understand them:))
Each course in a term is going to have 20 contact hours with profs, but we were to told to do 80 hours of preparation for those 20 hours. So you all understand the situation.

Guys tomorrow is another hectic day. We have to start working on the KARMA YOGA project, where we need to find some powerless people and work with them for their empowerment. We need to take care of that for next 3 months.This is part of philosophy.

I think its hightime to shed the serious academic 'goodies'


Entertainment ka TADKA


"Na jaane koi , kaisi hain yeh zindagani
Hamaari adhuri kahani
"
If you are wondering that this is my sher(not tiger),you are totally wrong. This is a song from movie Gangster.We friends have watched this movie out of our busy schedule, and it was like an awesome break. Movie was good, with some wonderful acting by shiny ahuja and the leading lady. I must say for all those guys interested in watching pretty babes, this heroine is awesome.Songs were awesome, especially the above mentioned one.I really love the 'rock'ification of hindi songs, and the bangladeshi singer James rocks here.For all those , who wants to get entertained, do watch this movie. But for all who expect happy endings, avoid this.
Well, I will stop for now. Need to work on probability so that I avoid any incipient ----- Well you all got it :)))))))))


wishing you good times

sachin

Work hard , rest is "Jujupi"

Well, if you want to know what Jujupi means, then you should ask its meaning to any Rajanikanth Fan or Prof.Dr.P.K.Viswanathan(Currently teaching us Business Statistics, a very renowned prof, and an awesome teacher.His "tam-glish" keeps everyone sleepless in class, I mean its very humorous).
It means, simply , "simple". First of all, I sincerely apologise for being late in updating my log.I am having a tough time, getting into class after a gap of almost 3 years,
and concentrating in the class. And I must say I am succeeding in maintaining my concentration levels in place.
Jokes apart, I have a serious thing to say, and probably the first discussion of a bad thing happened. I am offering my sincere condolences to Pramod mahajan(I believe it was because of his KARMA, oh god im getting 'philosophical').A great leader and person indeed, and I was his fan too.
Back to class, last couple of days was a miniscule manifestation of more profound things to come.I had philosophy and business statistic lectures.Where philosophy was into, educating us about the spirituality, importance of religion , duties, karma which are described efficiently by vivekananda, and are mentioned clearly in updanishads
Business statistics was into the back-to-square of mead,median, standard deviation stuff.
Whatever it may be, one good thing about philosophy is that , it makes us the Indians feel proud about our culture,how different we are from others,and how well can we use Indian philosophy to be efficient leaders. However I do not believe in the concept of testing someone in philosophy, but as our prof Dr.Venkat krishnan says, we are a part of a model and we need to follow. So we are here not only understanding the philosophy but also reading and studying to get good grades.The best part during the lecture was students trying to contradict vivekananda and prof defending and convincing us by his counter arguments.




Statistically interesting


Now comes the other one, business statistics. This lecture is full of number crunching and data analysis.The best part is the assignment which asks us to analyse any one particular Indian stock , and its performance in last 800-1000 transactions.Well, as many might have guessed, our work group decided to work on Infosys stock.
Hey I forgot to mention that, our college believes in "Test individually, rate groupwise" theorem.So it is up to us to make sure that, before any class we guys in a group need to be prepared for any questions.Coming back to assignments we need to finish it up by 20 May. It looks like a lot of time, but its not the only assignment which we have, there are some other which are following............... :-((

Chronology of Good Times

Thankfully, through out my life I didnt had many bad times. So, since I promised to tell you only the good things, first let me start with something good happening to me.After working in corporate world for two and half years, I have joined Great Lakes institute of management. To know more about my college please go to
www.glakes.org

Let me tell you the events we had after joining this institution.First of all I am very happy to reiterate that I am studying in this awesome place which boasts of some stupendous names associated with it.

First day

"You have come here for educating yourself not to be taught by us"
This was the first clarification given to we all new MBA grads joining at Great Lakes institute of management,chennai.
However at first glance I thought there is not much difference in both the terms but now gradually I am picking the different nuances.
First day started with some verification of the certificates, then we had some fun with seniors. And to our surprise the very next day (20 April) we had guest lectures by 2 CEO's (one CEO of Grundfos, a multi billion dollar company manufacturing centrifugal pumps and systems for water applications , and other CEO from DEXTERITY an IT company).These great people discussed on organizational behaviour and corporate jungle.They were more than happy to answer our questions.


OUTBOUND

The next 3 days we had been taken on an outbound to a beach resort. This was a well needed ICE BREAKING Session. We had loads of fun and games. It was both mentally and physically draining. at the same time fun.During the second day, we had an interaction with CEO of Orchid chemicals, and Mr Lakshminarayanan , CEO of CTS. Everyone was awestruck with the way the Mr Lakshminarayanan discussed some of the key aspects like market evaluation of company. It was a great learning, since even after having worked in corporate world, market evaluation was something which not many were sure of.

Outbound went well and we were back to chennai.On Monday (24 April) we had a session on how to approach the Case studies by Prof Sriram. He explained the differences in approach to case studies by different B Schools, and made us tense when he told that we would be following the Harvardian way of approach. The same day evening we went to IIT madras where we had an interaction with CEO of Sanmar group(This initiative is called "MEET THE CEO").



25 April, Tuesday

Formal inauguration day of our batch. Dr Bala, the founder of great lakes was present. He was at his usual best.

We also had Mr Ravi Venkatesan , MD Microsoft India. He is a Harvard alumni and he while appreciating us also discussed about the importance of IT in indian development. The best part was the way he stressed the use of IT in rural development (geographically as well as demographically).


26 April,Wednesday

we had Uncle bala(thats the way he likes us to call him), discussing the objectives of the course and how he is going to lead us.

He also emphasized how the institute is run by students. Then came the seniors, who exemplified the above thing when they discussed about various committees like admissions, library, events, gravity (great lakes magazine), great lakes consulting, food, sports, Finance study groups, Operations study group,Branding and PR commitee etc. Each student has to be a part of atleast one commitee.

I am planning to be in 2, Great lakes consulting and Events.



27 April ,Thursday

The graduation day of the seniors. Adi godrej was the chief guest. The venue was Taj Ball room. Seniors were looking royal in their black gowns.Uncle bala was excited to see his nieces and nephews entering or re-entering the corporate world, with mush passion and knwoledge.



28 April,Friday

I think the most special day so far, we had an interaction with none other than RATAN TATA. I was impressed by his humility, his passion and his commitment towards excellence in various fields.Some great people say that, you can learn a lot from people, and there are lots of learnings one can have after meeting RATAN TATA.
Humble yet smart, shy yet straight forward, great listener at the sametime a great orator.



Meanwhile we had couple of philosphy lectures, where we had to understand Upanishads, Vivekananda's life. The professoe here was Mr Dr Venkat Krishnan (earlier he was with XLRi for 9 years). He told us , inorder to understand the culture of any country, it is very much necessary to understand the underlying philosophy, tradition.He believes that reading the books on asian management style do not really help to understand the underlying culture. He is very great admirer of Prof Robert J Bies from stanford who also states that understanding philoshphy is the best way to understand the culture of any society . The course objective is to educate us on Leadership and power. This can be achieved by doing a field work, where we have to work with powerless people and need to show positive results, since we are powerful than those set of people. This entire coursework has to be done in 45 days.



Also we have some interesting things lined up.Philip Kotler, father of marketing is going to visit us on July 18. Mr Jimi Carter, nobel laureate for peace, is going to take our help in a noble cause, where he is going to build 10000 houses for tsunami affected people. We have to lend our help to him for 2 days in October. But anyways would update my log very often.

I think by now you must be totally sure of my weblog name :))))

Let me know your comments


SACHIN

The nomenclature

Well, for many of them the nomenclature of the blog needs some kind of explanation. I promise that I would make my blog 100% readable , with no flashy words borrowed from barrons nor with mind twisting (rather mind -aching) topcis. It will contain only the good things happened at the end(of day/week/month depending upon my time), be it in my own vicinity, politics, entertainment , sports and anything under the sun.

Guys please wait up for my first post. Pessimistic minds will be thinking that this guy didnt have much good happening in recent times, but for all those pondering in this fashion, its the problem of quantity I have. So let me make it concise and post it, so that my oath remains satisfied.


Good times for you always

Sachin