A bit tensed :(((

Its been 3 days... I dint meet any of my friends. I went out twice to meet doctor. Tomorrow I am gonna have a small surgery. Two of my teeth are going to be removed.

Nothing much to write....

Just Six more days left :(((

Almost one day is over... I am just left with six more days to stay at Hyderabad....

The journey was not boring.. Sai and I watched the movie... orange.. then the town... and then winded-up with comedy scenes of Dubai seenu... The others were busy in sleeping...

Yesterday I just had 2hrs of sleep. I prepared very hard for the Marketing exam. But sir surprised us giving a very different paper. Question paper had just 4 questions and one big question about practical application of "service marketing by IIM L". When I was answering that question, I laughed so many times as I was boosting so much about my college.

Back to life at hyd :::

at 7.09 PM... the flight landed at rajiv gandhi international stadium.... Till 7.40, I was waiting for my luggage...

The distance between air port and my home is around 20kms.. it could be the shortest when compared to the others... on the way to home.... I dint notice anything new on those roads... ofcourse in 3 months course nothing could have happened drastically rite ?.... but still ... I wished for a change.....

I reached home around 8.20... The first thing my parents noticed about me was that I was in a bad position interms of health condition. During exams time, I had all sort of health problems. I had cough, cold and toothache too. But I dint take medicine, on a continuous basis, to get rid of them. The painkillers leave a drowsy effect and I cannot afford to sleep so long during exam times. The cough got worsened by the time I reached home. The first thing I did after coming home was to go to a hospital. Now I feel I am okay.

So many plans ahead...

With all smiles on my face.. going to Hyderabad

Exams are done.. Today is a shocker. Paper was not tough.

Flight is at 2.45.....

Will update after reaching Hyd....

Horror......................

I have just come to my room after finishing QAM exam. When I was going through the question paper, I felt as if I was watching an horror movie. Out of five questions... I know only 2. I need to get good marks to keep myself in a good position interms of grades. But, its turning out to be a distant dream. I couldn't understand two questions and how to go ahead. The question paper was set by other prof and that could be "just" an another reason. Adding to it, my preparation was not that great. QAM is my favorite subject and I am almost standing last in terms of grades.

Tomorrow we are gonna face an another tough paper - Economics.

Not in a mood to write.. Thats it for today

Still my hands are paining :((((

Today there were nine questions in the paper and I filled two pages for each answer on an average. That means I have written around 18 pages. The time limit was two hours. It was such a pain for a lazy guy like me and still I can feel that pain :(((. Idiots write comments and make me happy there by relieving my pain :)). I know u guys might not like this logic but accept it.

The paper was relatively easy but lengthy just like OM paper. There was a question on application of few concepts that were taught in the class. I was wondering how to answer that question as I hardly listen her classes.

Tomorrow we have QAM(mathematics) exam. I just completed reading the slides and time for us to solve the problem sets. We are solving it for the first time and there are so many problems to solve and more importantly so many formulae to by-heart.

Thats it for now...

Proud of Isaac !!!!!!

Exams are going on. Every one is busy with his/her preparation. At this moment who will spend time on his/her own belief/religion ??.. Isaac did it. He organized Christmas party in our college. (Some carols and guest lecture ). I really liked this aspect. He gives max preference for these kind of things. During last term, just a day before FRA (accounting) exam he went to church. He never misses going to church. For today's function, around 50 people attended. Though the number is less, but at this moment I believe its a good turn out. Professor too attended the function.

Its been exactly 11 months since I have been church and it was during the times when I prayed each and every God.

The funniest part is the photos captured by Raghu. All the photos he captured had an extra effect - "blur".

I uploaded few photos (myself,raghu and Isaac) in flicker (the blurred and other non-blurred pics too).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51104379@N06/sets/72157625638836344/

I bet you will laugh seeing these photos.. (hardly one can recognize anything)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51104379@N06/sets/72157625638874382/

Coming back to exams.....

Today we had a lengthy question paper for operations management. I dont know how I wrote. I dint do theory questions well but did numerical pretty well. The way Raghu and I prepared for the exam was amazing. We completed the whole text book in less than 2 hours. The exam was at 2 pm. Raghu came to my room at 12. We started practicing numericals. That was the first time I was practicing numericals. With in 2 hours we completed the whole text book and appeared for the exam. All the answers related to numerical problems were correct (Except one). But the theory part was not that good. I dont know what to write for few basic questions because I dint read the text book at all.

During exam prof came to our room and told - "There is one mistake in the question paper". I was wondering what could be the mistake and I set myself ready with all my concentration on listening to whats the mistake prof is gonna announce. Professor told - "There is a spelling mistake. Refer to question 4 b. There it should be "EXPLAIN" not "EXPALIN". I couldnt stop laughing hearing that change. The paper was relatively simple but lengthy.

Tomorrow we have DWO (Designing Work Organization). The exam will be full of case studies. I dont know whether I will read the complete question paper. I hate to read the case studies.

Thats it for now...

Thanks to Prof !!!

The subject MANAC... what to say about it.... Most of the people are afraid of the subject. I am not an exclusion from that list. How many questions we solve, the confidence levels never grow up.

Isaac was not feeling well and he dint prepare well for this exam. I hope he would recover as soon as possible.

Raghu and I solved previous exams papers and understood that our understanding on this topic is not that great. Especially Raghu was not at all confident.

The tension increased as the exam time approached. The exam was at 2. At 10 am, Raghu was talking about the option of mediation for an hour to get the tension out of him. But if I do mediation for an hour, I will sleep and get up after exam.

At 1.50 we are all at the exam hall. I dont know why there were some smiles in my face. I dont know what I was thinking at that moment. I can remember few expressions from others who were trying to keep themselves calm and few were looking deep in to the clock. Its 2. The question papers were distributed. After reading the first question - "Time God.. I know this and its for 15 marks. I will definitely pass this exam :)." I read the last question. It was the one I already solved when I was practicing previous exam papers. The confidence levels grew up. Finally, I wrote well.

To be frank, we all should thank Professor for giving us such an easy paper else it would have been a disaster.

Thats it for now.. Its 9.35 PM. I dint start the preparation for the next exam.

To Mom and Dad, with love

Its time for me to get wishes from mom and dad.

Its been 28 years.....

I have an opportunity to celebrate their marriage anniversary in my blog.

I will do that once my exams are done :))

Will update this post definitely before 31st dec....

Hostel life at PEC

This video is one of my biggest assets....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRitGiv_RAs

I updated the same on "Got Bored Try This" Section...

Busy bee is really busy...

Today I worked for more than 12 hours. By evening, I was damn tired. I skipped my lunch also.

Luckily I got the back up of the application, which is a must need at this moment, in sathe's PC. I worked on that application and delivered it to our acads sec. He was being stressed by the big boss of the college and so he wanted me to complete the application and give it back to him as quick as possible. I finished it. But then I was called by atul to work on a windcheater. These days I am hating photoshop as it is eating away all my time.

We are designing a website for our college events. I was testing with the name of the website as "Ruffian". Saha was asking me "You never leave the word ruffian kya ?"

The answer is "???". I may change my name in near future. May be praveen becomes alias of Ruffian. :))))). Ruffian is so good rite ??? I cannot forget ruffian at any cost. I will update on how I got the name Ruffian in tom's post.

I am feeling tensed about the end term exams. I am not confident and to get away with it I am blogging too much. I am opening blog so many times to update on the current events.On the other hand my laziness takes me to the pleasure of sleeping.

Now its 11.10 PM. Chcken curry and paratha are waiting for ruffian. But ruffian is waiting for raghu. Raghu asked me to wait, else I might have not left the bones by this time. I am damn hungry.

Hey Idiot thanks a lot for your comments. But is that logo really good ???

Thats it for now....

Sweet and Sour December

Personal Trivia.. Personal Trivia....

If a plot a curve with the range of happiness and sadness I experienced in December(previous years), I would get a sine wave. The trend is such that either "Happiness followed by sadness" or "Sadness followed by happiness".

December 2007:

I will write about this on 18th December describing a very important day in my life (December 19th)

December 2008:

The oscillations were too high during this month.

A big fight was going on with my best friend at the start of the month. I flunked in an exam conducted by HSBC Glt. Two days later, My project was nominated for the best automation project. I was suppose to give a presentation and based on that presentation the best project would be decided. I prepared a ppt in a different style. After my presentation, everyone appreciated my presentation style and thought that I was sure shot for the best automation project. But my project was not selected for the final place. I was damn upset about it. After hearing the final results about the automation project, my anger levels went to peak. I immediately thought of leaving the place and so I went to ground floor where I parked my bike. On that day I was given a gift voucher of Rs. 1000 for some other performance. I teared that gift voucher infront of vijay garu. I still feel bad about that part. I should not have done that. But past is past.

When ever I think about that situation, I can feel my cheeks widening. Next day deepti, keerti and vijay garu gave a lecture about the way I behaved. Even that was funny. I was so upset with those performances and never thought I could get out of it for a month atleast. But I dont know, some how I got my momentum back with an incident. It was my best friend. I made my best friend get out of an hurdle.(Facts cannot be disclosed) Ofcourse I was just a part of my best friend's success and I should not take the whole credit. Small 'innocent' kids and some people whom I think are lucky flooded wishes on my best friend to get her out of the battle. Ofcourse now I can take the credit for those wishes. Luckily my best friend won the battle. I felt as if I conquered the battle. This happiness is followed by an another fight :(. This time its not a serious one. Then the month ended with a happy note (Again I cannot disclose).

Dec 2009

The biggest upset was the GMAT exam. I did a silly mistake when I was registering for the exam. I gave my initials as per the license. When I went to the exam center on the D day, I was not allowed to write the exam as initials did not match with that of passport's. I dont know what to say to my dad and to my friends out there. Before giving exam I called every one and told them about my GMAT exam. When I was thrown out of center for the initials mis match, I dont know what to tell my friends. I need to mention a point here. Except to my best friend, I told every one about GMAT exam. But my best friend guessed so correctly and first wished me all the best :). So accurate !!! I came out of depression and registered, perfectly, for the next time in a week span. But a perfect registration not alone can fetch good marks rite ?. I dint do the exam well. I attempted the exam with over confidence and paid for it. I dint get a good score. Again I was upset. This time I was even more upset because I resigned my job and prepared for GMAT. I was not confident about CAT at that moment and thought GMAT alone was my savior. My dad, my best friend and my relatives tried to get me out of that mood. Thanks to them. I came out of that depression. But then..........

Finally ruffian displayed his pic .....

Finally, I uploaded my profile picture. Somehow I like that pic. I was wearing a new sweater in that pic.

I am writing this blog just to forget few things. "Things" that are filled in my thoughts. I dont know what to say. :(((

Recently I won a competition. It was about a logo design and brand penetration strategy for a dubai based company. The company is going to launch new products in that country and so they want a name for their brand. I dint spend much time for designing the logo. But It fetched the prize for our group The total prize money was Rs.7500. But it has to be divided among 4 people. This is the first competition to win on the campus. The other competition where my group went to final round was for the RED River project. The results are yet to come. By the way in that logo design competition, logo carries 75% weightage :). I felt very happy seeing my name in the mail that was sent to everyone on campus. But for others it could be just an other competition as they see these kind of mails on daily basis.

Apart from that, today we had some funny moments in the class. As I mentioned in my earlier post, we had a presentation on HSBC Glt (my previous company). We had it in the afternoon session (4 PM). I was preparing ppt till 4 pm :). There were so many changes in the last minute. Raghu and I were not satisfied with the report and hence were doing so many changes in the PPT. Every team got less than 8 minutes to present and we were also given same amount of time. By the time I got the chance, only 2 minutes were left. I quickly winded up my slides and when raghu started talking about the organization structure, the time was up. Priyanka still dint start her part in the presentation. Atlast mam asked our group - 'what is the most important learning from this project ?' We dont know what to say. Since priyanka did not speak till then, we all pushed her front. But she didnot prepare for this presentation. She was so happy till then but things changed all of sudden. She started answered the question this way - 'Actually.. Actually.. We studied the whole organization structure'. Mam replied - "No.. No.. NO.. I am asking.. what are your learnings from the project ?". Then prasad raised his tone and said some answer. Then I raised my tone and told mam about the dual authority problem. Then prasad ended the whole conversation with a funny example. Mean while the students in the class started shouting - 'Globe.. Globe...'. The word "Globe" means answering the question by telling all the stories around the world and missing the real part. The frequency of the word "Globe" is increasing day by day in my class. :))).

Raghu has come to my room to read and I am writing this blog for the past half an hour.

He will kill me If i continue writing the post for another 5 mins.

Today is Imran's birthday. I wish him happy birthday. He is one of my close friends and a very good person. His everlasting smile is his biggest asset. He was the one who often wishes me first on some important occasions. I remember him calling on dec 31st 2008(I dont remember exactly), 15 mins before 12 midnight, to be the first to wish him "Happy new year".

Now, I need to call him by 12 to be the last to wish him "Happy birthday" :).

Thats it for today... Keep Smiling....

12.18 pm... 16th dec...

I forgot to wish imran at 11.59 :(.... I just called him and wished him. Thats tooooo bad rite ?? :((...

9 more days....

Just 9 more days... just 9 more days..... I will be there at hyderabad.

I am in desperate need of a break. My mind is thinking beyond and always want to be at extreme end. I think a break at this time will fill my enthu levels to max. For the past two days I am facing a horrible situation and I am not able to come out of it. Its about some synapse work. I just dont want to think about that. I am still searching for a solution.

Yesterday morning, the whole campus was filled with fog. We can barely see who is coming opposite to us. But its too good. I am facing this type of climate for the first time.

We had a quiz for 5 marks. It could be the easiest of all quizzes I had attempted till now :). But I will not get full marks as I did a silly mistake. I may get 4.

Today we have to give a presentation on organization design of HSBC Glt and this would be the last presentation for this term and for this year also :).

December is a month which I can never forget. This month has left me with so many memories to carry. Will update soon on this.

Time to go to classes.....

11 more days to go

Just 11 more days to go.. I will be there at hyderabad by this time. My mom might be ready with Sambhar :). Normally people think of non veg as the main dish when u go back to home after a long gap. But my mom knows exactly about me and so she cooks sambhar. I like sambhar. Its just not "like" but "love". ;)

Yesterday I watched a movie - "Flipped". I really liked that movie. It was good for some reasons. The ego feelings displayed by hero and heroine were amazing. Though the movie was based on kids, it suits for all kind of audience. I remember one of the dialogues - "At times, Silence conveys a better communication than words". The situation at which the dialogue being uttered by heroine was good.

Here is the link to that movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0817177/

Final week of the term is going on and we are a little busy with project submissions. Tomorrow we have Macro economics project presentation. Professor may call any one in the group to give the presentation. So we should hone our skills in Macro and especially in "Exchange rates" (our project deals with it). When I was in HSBC, I used to hear a lot about exchange rates and never liked them. I used to tell myself that I am in a software company and I am never gonna touch that topic. Now I am finding it very interesting. But prof is "king" in that topic and will definitely grill us in that topic.

In DWO class mam asked us to do a group task. Everyone was busy with the task. And mam was busy in checking how groups are performing. Raghu took it as a chance and got in to the class shunning mam. He finally got attendance too. He might had a "luck" pill before coming to the pgp block.

Regarding DWO project, I am working on the organization design of HSBC Glt. I am finding it very funny. I am analyzing the whole structure of HSBC Glt. May be I will post the report to my TL during term holidays. I dont know whether he will read the report with such a busy schedule on hand.

Today I cleaned my room and its looking a bit better :).

Today is ashish bday. Happy birthday ashish...

Now its time to eat biryani... Thats it for now...

Busy bee (atleast pretend to be) :))))

The 2nd term will say good bye in a week. So its time for us to "date" with the books.

Now I am in raghu's room.

Today is a normal day with no essence of surprise. In QAM class mr.x always sleep. Today as it is he is busy with his normal duty(sleep). Prof suddenly called him. He did not wake up. Again prof called him and still he dint get up. Finally everyone started laughing and that made him get up. Prof asked him a question. He couldnt answer it. Prof dint take it seriously. After some time, again mr.x started his business(sleep). In the other class, prof stopped asking us the routine question - "did you guys come prepared for the class?". He understood that we are never gonna change. Thats the spirit of our section. Initial days, prof used to tell us that he is gonna change us and now :(((. In the last class, I was playing some game(kind of hangman) with raghu. Prof, after observing some time, directly asked me - "are you playing some game?". I was shocked and answered "no". Prof is in good mood and took it light. He thought of conducting a surprise quiz but noticing the class strength (around 20 ppl were absent), he decided not to conduct the quiz. I felt happy else it could have been an another disaster (This time a definite zero - out of five).

Here is the pic containing the comments from my mam about our project presentation that we did in the pre mid term. We did a project on how reynolds would go ahead if it enters the notebook industry.

Few teams got 7.5 too. But I liked the third point in this pic. It was the idea given by ruffian :))). We got 11 out 12 for the final report. :))).

Comments:

Idiot mentioned about remembering the things in my last post.

"Yes idiot... These days I do remember things a lot and few never go out of my mind... "

"Can a monkey forget how to eat a banana?"... I hope you understand who is monkey... dont say its me..

oyee.. chamath.. are you showing regional feelings or what ???.. you r giving respect for your country mate udhara and not for sathappan (indian) ???... Thats too bad..

The burden is off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

This post is about the MM project and about small updates that happened in the class.

As of now ruffian is taking rest...

Will update soon

11.45 am..

I thought of getting up at 1 am and read for the QAM quiz. But a blanket of laziness covered me and so I slept till 5 am, making the total number of hours I slept to almost 9. Our class is damn busy and I am so leisure. :(. I dint do the quiz well. I did very silly mistakes - read the number 4 as 5 and solved the whole question -and finally paid for it. Prof gave two questions and both went wrong. I felt very bad about it as stress for the final exams slowly creeps up.

Marketing professor asked us to come prepared for the case and not even a single person came to the class with an analysis. Prof left the class after taking attendance. He is very angry. I dont know whether our class,in this term, is gonna impress him atleast for once.

Yesterday we(our group) submitted the project for marketing. It was a very tough job for us to prepare the report. Prof doesnt want us to copy paste from internet. We prepared a report of 40 pages out of which half was copy paste (literature review etc etc) and the rest was written by us. Our group had 5 members and only 3 of us worked for this project. It turned out to be a very tough job for three of us to finish off everything on our own. Yesterday the way one of my close friends spoke with me made me sick. I have put so much efforts on this project. I bunked for a day to finish this project but the way he commented about our project (though he is a member of my group) made me feel very bad. I could not concentrate in the next two classes. Those dialogues were stick in my mind and still its there. I am sure one day he will realize what is what. I dont know what to say

Thats it for now.. I have a class to attend...

Professor says "get out and read".. We say "Thank you sir"

Profs normally ask us to come prepared for the next classes. Hardly 10% of the class comes with a basic pre-reading. Hardly 10% just goes through the content but not indepth. Rest of the class just comes as it is. I definitely fall in the last category. I "hardly" prepare for any class. Some professors do not mind and some others take it very serious. Last week one of our professors asked us to come prepared with a case study. Only 7 to 8 people went with analysis and rest of the class dint prepare. Professor asked for those who dint come prepared with analysis ? Almost all the class got up and so he sent those people out(including me :) ).

When I came out, I noticed that few people have come prepared with analysis and yet they came out. There was a big smile on almost every one's face when they were coming out. Every one started writing analysis and to be frank we were just filling the papers and not doing any analysis about the case. All of sudden the students who were left in the class were also sent out to come prepared with an indepth analysis. :))). So no one was left in the class. Professor was sitting all alone in the class. Few of our friends went to have a cup of tea :). Professor wanted to to take two back to back classes and hence everyone decided to get in to the class for the second hour only with full preparation.

You can see - Raghu (gray and brown) and I(white shirt) reading the case. Ofcourse it was just a pose :). Kidding.

In the next class, the prof sent out those who dint have polycopy to bring it and again I came out. This time prof gave exactly 10 mins time to go to the hostel and come back. Isaac's polycopy was missing and so he took my polycopy to get a Xerox copy. We both went to class after 20 mins. Luckily professor dint say anything and welcomed us by cracking a small joke. Somehow the day went fine even though there were some tough times.

Thats it for the day...

Comments for Comments !!

For the past few days.... Idiot and another idiot are filling my comments section and its time for me to take revenge.

Japan's idiot comments on Miracle Post :

how come most of the time you are always the lukcy one to be called and how come you never prepare anything correctly ?? Well that anyway is so much like you, since you are used to ahmmmm you know back in college, now leave that habit idiot

I am not lucky and to be frank I dont think so. I used to come prepare for almost all the classes and u forgot kya ? ;). I remember how u used to talk in the class disturbing divya and srilu. Its just because of you they lost marks else they would have been the toppers. I always wanted to take revenge for one thing u did to me. You remember when I was giving a presentation during english class in 5th or 6th sem(I dont remember), U made me laugh in between with your expressions and u gave missed calls also.. rite? I also gave a pause during the presentation. I just wanted to kill you for that !!! :))))).

Srilanka's idiot comments again for the same Miracle post:

this is a normal behaviour of him..! when ever he stood up from last bench we had to whisper some answears...:

Now what to write ? There were so many incidents for which we used to fight a lot especially for the places. "Who sits at the corner ??? " We were so afraid of our HOD as he checks our note book during the class and so no one wants to take the corner seat. Now tell me atleast one occasion where u whispered answer ? is it you or me who used to whisper ?? ;).

a misc comment :

good creations. I've been following u secretly for many days. Keep it up. All the Best. I want a date wid u. Gimme ur no', I'll call u.

This comment was written by boppa and he just wanted to make fun of. So I dont want to reply for such a comment

Comments from Anvesh:

tanq verry much praveen... :)

So sweet Anvesh. Thanks a lot for writing in my blog. Once again many many happy returns (Very very belated) of the day.

Comments from Idiot again on wishing for her bday:

Thank you idiot..!!

So sweet Idiot.

Comments from Ankita(my class mate at IIM) on the title "Understanding midterm questions are tougher than understanding a gal's heart"

I love the title Praveen!!! Its hilarious.

Thanks a lot Ankita

Finally, just wanted to end with a note about the new member under my fans club - mr.swaroop. Thanks a lot swaroop. I never thought u would be reading my blogs. Once again thank youuu..

Thats it

The Day that turned my life !!!

I cannot forget December 5th. Its the day I had given CAT exam.

It was a very interesting day from my prospective. The exam was scheduled at 3.30 PM. I was sleeping till 10.30 and it was my best friend's phone call that made me wake up. With a very happy tone, my best friend wished me all the best. At that moment, I never knew that those wishes were gonna work, but they are.

I started for the exam from my home at 12. In between, there was a huge traffic jam and I thought of going back home at one point. My cell phone gave me a buzz and showed an SMS from my best friend saying - " praveen keka rayali " (write very very well). Luckily, the traffic got cleared. I reached the college by 1.30. there was a boring 2 hrs gap before the exam begins and so I started calling all my frnds. Its 2.45 and I was standing in the queue to get in the exam hall. I dint have a hair cut for more than 3 months and I was looking like ******. The security persons took a long time to accept me as praveen (They thought there was mismatch with the photo in my PAN cards). Finally at 3.30 I started my exam. I felt few questions were wrong (hehehehe). It so happens when we start thinking the question from different angles instead of the way we solved it during the mock tests. I dint panic at any point even though I dint know few questions. It was not a great attempt and i was not confident of getting an IIM call. As soon as I came out, I first called my best friend and told I dint do well :)). Then I came to know about the riots (telangana issues) that were going on in the city. Hearing all these, I again started thinking I shouldnt have given CAT. Actually, I was preparing very hard for GMAT and so I was thinking that way. I dint concentrate much on CAT and hence I showed least interest for CAT. What if, I had taken a wrong decision on Dec 5th ? I am afraid to think about it.

Now back to life at IIM Lucknow,

Our section conducted an intra day ckt tournament and it was a great feeling to be a part of it. I enjoyed a lot and indeed I did some branding for this tournament. We named this tournament as Section D's Premier league (DPL). Here is the teaser for DPL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecvGWIb8RlY

And this is the first time my class could have felt the existence of "praveen".

I will talk more about this in my latter posts.

Today is idiot's birthday and I wished her :).

Once again Happy birthday Arina...

Thats it for today... Loads of work :((

O-tanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu (Japanese)

Happy Birthday Arina aka Idiot...

I am very busy these days.. no time to fill this space...

Its almost 4.30 in the morning... that may not sound odd.. but its saturday night .. and no one opts for a night-out on saturday when sunday is ahead...

Will update soon

:(

The title says everything.

When 5 becomes 3....

As an MBA student, I should always believe in team work. But is it true that team work gives a better result than individual work ?

This post talks about the flip side of the team work. You might be thinking I am crazy because i am saying something that people never accept but it is a hidden fact that everyone knows.

Will update soon

Photos Photos.... Ruffian the ghajini... Ruffian the scientist

I am uploading the pics related to Index 2010.. disguised marketing fair...

Ruffian became ghajini and scientist...

I Will write more about it later on...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51104379@N06/sets/72157625344130671/

Thats it for now..

Surprise(2008)... No surprise (2009).. No Surprise (2010)... 2011??????

Again this post is no way related to the life at IIM L....

Way back in 2008... On November 19th.... Rajesh and I were sitting in my room and thinking about how to give Anvesh a surprise for his birthday. Anvesh was in the team which gave my best friend an unforgettable surprise. When I was planning a surprise for my best friend, I thought of giving a surprise, may not be of the surprise level that I gave to my best friend.

We had so many ideas and dont know which one to select and how to implement them. The biggest twist in the story was that anvesh was going to his village and it is a very difficult place to make our surprise reach there. Anvesh works at bangalore and hence we thought it would be easy to give a surprise through our common friends but his plans to go to his village left us with very few options.

What ever we are gonna do, we need Anvesh's address. So, first I asked anvesh gf to get the postal address. She tried her level best and she could not get it. We felt we cannot go ahead. Then came our hero Sandesh to rescue us. The greatest thing about sandesh is - he always takes responsibility and equally gets screwed for taking up the same :)))). We cannot stop sandesh's over action when ever he takes up the leadership. But he gives 100 percent effort and I like that. Now its Sandesh turn to get the address. But whom to call and what to ask ? Sandesh, with his heart in his mouth, called anvesh's uncle to get the address. But anvesh's uncle is so reluctant to give the address as he was skeptic about the total plot(some history has influenced him to think that way). Finally Sandesh got the address.

Now its our turn to decide what to give him. We had so many in mind but we wanted some thing that anvesh can preserve. So we wanted to buy trousers. May be it looks simple but I took hell lot of time to find a good one. Now we brought the trousers and its time to think about delivering it on the right day at right time :(.

We finally went with the option of speed post. We were biting our nails till the D day. We are not confident. On 24th November afternoon, My phone started ringing.. "Hi praveen.. I just got the gift.. Its gooood.. " and finally with a low voice he said "thanks praveen". Normally "thanks" doesnt exist between the friends rite ? but at times of happy moments it comes out unknowingly. That voice of thanks lacks something that "whether do I need to tell ?". Actually there was a greeting card made by me. It had a print out - photos of all other close friends and signature from them. The moment when I came to know about the arrival of speed post, I immediately called Sandesh and Rajesh and informed the same and we had some great moments to remember.

It was all about anvesh bday in 2008.

Back to 24th November 2009.... I was preparing very hard for GMAT/CAT. That was the month I was damn busy helping my best friend to finish off a task. This time I asked my best friend to wish anvesh and my best friend, busy with few tasks, forgot to wish. There was a big mess up on that day and ultimately it ended up with a fight. It was all because of me. I wanted to apologize my best friend for 10000000 times and I could not do that :(((((. On the flip side, I was the last one to wish anvesh. I like to be the last one to wish my friends and I stick to the timing of 11.57 - 11.59 to make the last wish on the birth day. I would be the first one to say advance bday wishes for the next bday :)))))). Copy rights with Ruffian :)).

Back to yesterday :)).. this time I dint even call him. Anvesh gave me his UK phone number and its not reachable :(.

Next Year.. Can I repeat 2008 or atleast 2009 ???

I will upload the Pic I have sent anvesh with the gift...

Will update soon...

Happy Birthday Anvesh.....

Its 10:55 PM...

Happy birthday Anvesh as per Yangon, myanmar Standard Time...

11.29 PM..

Happy birthday Anvesh as per Chittagong, Bangadesh Standard Time.... :))

11:57 PM...

Happy Birthday Anvesh as per IST...

12.25 AM..

Happy Birthday Anvesh as per PST...(Lahore)...

12.57 AM...

Happy Birthday Anvesh as per Kabul, Afghanisthan...

1:32 am...

Happy Birthday Anvesh as per Abu dhabi, UAE...

1:59 AM...

Happy Birthday Anvesh as per Tehran,Iran...

02:31 AM...

Happy Birthday Anvesh as per Kuwait City, Kuwait...

03:14...

Could not find any country :( ....

3.36 am...

Happy Birthday Anvesh as per Cape town (SA)...

7.34 AM...

Happy Birthday Anvesh as per Rio De Janerio,Brazil...

8.11 AM..

Could not find any country :( ...

2.35 PM...

Happy birthday Anvesh as per Anchorage, Alaska (US)

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Why am I wishing these many times ??? ..

I just wanted to tell him that... where ever he is or where ever I am.. I will never forget to wish him ..... :)))..

To be frank, I always feel that I am gifted to have a friend like Anvesh. He never says no to what ever I ask him.

Srilu, me and the ever lasting fight !!!!

This post is no way related to life at IIM Lucknow and its just my thoughts about one of my close friends.

Under construction...

its 5.50 am .. and I am about to sleep now..

So its still under construction...

23rd Nov

Finally the time has come... If I dont write now.. Srilu may kill me..

I was damn busy for the past few days... I will write on that in my next post... for now.. this post is for srilu...

I have started this post long ago and dont know what to write.. but I have something to tell about her.. and I dont know whats the limit to which I can write about her..

When I first saw Srilu at PEC, I Felt pity about her. She is so lean and looks so tired. I used to feel pity when ever I saw her at college. Once we became good friends, I used to feel pity about my self. She used to make fun of me 24*7 especially using Sam's and appu's name. I used to feel happy when ever she comments me using Sam's name and not the same in the other case, and she knows this point.

I remember the day when I fooled her telling that Anvesh was in love with some gal. I told her the story in such a way that she believed it to full extent, felt pity about anvesh's situation and suggested some thing that I dont remember. Though I made fool of her and dint even say a "sorry", but still we are good friends. Thats Srilu. There are "n" number of incidents where I should not have done "that" way, especially related to Srilu. I hurt her so many times and I know that.

After joining in HSBC, I dint talk to any of my friends because I used to sit before the system at HSBC for 24*7. I dint talk with srilu for 4 to 5 months after leaving college and it was she who remembered me and called me back. I still remember the way she spoke on that day - "I dont feel like talking with you praveen.. you dont think about others and you dont care about others". May be she was right at that time, but there was a big transition in my life after few months from then. The start of a change in my life and I dont want to talk about it as this post is dedicated to srilu :).

I remember the days where I used to feel emotional about my best friend when talking with Srilu. She never wants me to get in to deep troubles and I never listen to her. But the best thing is that she listens to me very patiently and never feels bored. She was the first one to congratulate my best friend (on phone) when she cleared an exam. Of course it was me who conveyed it and so I am the first not Srilu :).

Apart from these, the worst thing is that I never remember her birthday. I made her call my best friend's friend to wish him on his birthday (wishes from 20 different friends of mine and srilu was one of them). But I never wished Srilu on her birthday.

She calls me and asks me only one thing - "Praveen you remember my birthday ?". I dont know what to answer for that question. When ever I talk about friendship, she says only one thing "You dont remember my birth day and you dont even have right to talk about our friendship".

The only thing that makes me feel happy and that remains between us as friendship is "a watch presented to her by me!".

I cannot forget two things about her - patience and caring.

Funny part, though she doesnt eat non veg, she eats our brain with her non stop counters.

Now her marriage is fixed and I wish her all the best. She is a good gal and I definitely believe she would be having a very happy married life. I know I cant get back those funny moments because I know how a gal behaves once her marriage is fixed.

When my child asks me who are your close friends... I would definitely include Srilu's name.

All the Best Srilu....

The winning proposal's cover page !!!

Few designs from the hands of Ruffian

The cover page of our winning proposal.. Its so girlish right ???

Few other cover page designs...

The Miracle !!!

Its the first day after midterm exams..

Its 7.30 AM in the morning and three alarms - one from system, one from mobile and one from time piece - started at once and made ruffian to get up. Ruffian had a big smile on his face because he was thinking that he got up too early in the morning. After a disastrous accounting exam in the midterm, ruffian was a little worried about getting an "F" in that subject and so he decided to go to the class with some pre-reading. Three days before, Professor sent a mail to all the students to come prepared with a case given in the book. Ruffian opened the book and did not start reading the case instead he started counting the number of pages. There were around 8 pages to read and Ruffian thought for a while about completing the case with in one hour. He thought that the class might not come prepared with the case and so it would be fine if he reads the whole case for once.

Assuming the same, Ruffian started reading the case as if he was reading a newspaper. He understood the basic point of the case and felt very happy when he was about finish the last page. He thought that he would be able to answer all the questions that prof is gonna ask him, if at all.

Ruffian, carrying all the confidence, went to the class. First class was about Organisation behavior and Ruffian tried his level best to pay attention, but he could hardly listen as his brain was thinking about some other thing. Before the first class was about to start, All the classmates were solving the case related to accounting. Ruffian was shocked seeing that as he just read the case and dint think about solving the case. It was the first blow. This was the basic reason why Ruffian was not able to concentrate in the first class. During the break between first class and second, Ruffian copied the solved problem from Priyanka and again felt happy as he felt it was enough to tackle the professor's question. And here starts the second class, the accounting.

Prof took the attendance and started telling us about the instructions to be followed in his class. One of the instruction says - " I will pick a person randomly from the class and he/she is suppose to answer the questions related to case.You must come prepared for the case with solution and if not , you will be thrown out of the class." Hearing that, Ruffian started worrying a bit as he dint come prepared with the solution and so he started calculating the probability of picking him up - "there are 70 people in the class and the probability of picking me is around 0.01 and converting it in to 1 is highly impossible." He was trying to correlate this incident with the probability of getting an answer correct in the macro economics paper. In macro economics paper only one choice is correct from four choices and the probability of picking up the correct answer is 0.25. Ruffian never got more than 50% marks in macro paper and his conversion rate to pick the correct answer is not even 50%. Making all the calculations in the mind, Ruffian thought that he is on the safer side. After attendance, Prof saw the attendance sheet for twice to pick a person. Ruffian's name is in second page and when the professor is scanning through the first page we can see a smile on Ruffian's face and the reverse when the professor is going through the second. page. After scanning twice, finally prof called "Ruffian". Hearing his name, Ruffian's mind was blank. He doesnt know how to solve it though he has the solution. Prof was asking about the data figures and Ruffian hardly remembers any. At times, Ruffian was searching here and there to find out the topic name for answering the Prof's question. It was priyanka who was murmuring the answers and Ruffian with his rat ears used to listen it and update the same to prof. But there used to be a delay in answering the question. Finally prof told "you read the case and dint solve the case". Instead of feeling sad, Ruffian felt a bit happy. Ruffian thinks "Time God, Prof did not say that I dint even read the case". Prof dint say anything after that, as the whole class came with a solution for the case and were shouting to say the answers for the questions he was asking and in that way Prof forgot about him.

Picking up the Ruffian from the class and leaving him for not answering the questions happened in an hour and it was like a GREAT ESCAPE for Ruffian.

One of the friends told Ruffian "Arey yaar.. You should be happy now as your turn is over and you will not be called anymore in the next classes. I am a little worried about my turn."

Really ?????

The next day, Ruffian read the case and solved it till 5 am. Finally Ruffian slept off and did not attend the classes. Pity !!!!!

M3 rocks !!!!

Finally our team M3 won a proposal. Its wipro yardley project. To be frank, the credit should go to Kiran shah and Amartya. Last but not least the credit page should include ruffian's name :).

But our team is left with a small duration to deal with this project. But we can trust Kiran.

The requirements for new application has come and I have just started my work for the same.

Today a miracle has happened.

Will update soon...

Fun and Work

Today for the first time I played cricket at the ground after leaving HSBC. It was very funny. The rules were similar to that what we used to have at HSBC - A gal in the team. Of course the synapse lost by a huge margin (38 runs). I scored 1 run and gave around 22 runs in 2 overs :(. 3 huge sixes in my 2 over spell. I dont know where to hide my face. :)))). Sarin was the only one who got few runs under his belt.

This reminds me so much about the days at HSBC. I enjoyed a lot especially playing TIP n TUP (some competition related to cricket at HSBC). I was the captain for my team in Tip N Tup 2009. My project team crossed the hurdle of round 1 for the very first time under my captaincy. It was a close match. The toughest part was getting a gal into the team. I remember how I requested some of our team members to join the team and every one turned down the offer. It was a team lead who joined our team. I remember how we celebrated when we won the first round. It was a great moment in my life.

This time its jeevitha who pitched in to our team and she has no idea about cricket. When she was about to bat, nandh asked her - "Are you right hand or left hand batswoman?" and she replied - "I dont know :) :))." and we started laughing hearing that dialogue. Today team synapse had some funny moments to remember.

Now I am back in to index team and need to design some front page.

Will update soon

3.25 am..

I have just finished my index work - designing the front page for the proposals. I think I am gonna have a tough time ahead. I need to design an application and I am suppose to learn some new code. I must get up at least by 7.30 else it would a tough time facing accounting prof tomorrow. Professor asked us to come prepared for the class.

Anyways thats it for now

Back to synapse

Its 5.03 in the morning and I just got up. Till mid term I dint work much for synapse and if I dont do anything now, I am sure they will say "good bye" to me. I decided to work for synapse at least for the coming two weeks.

Yesterday's paper was so general and it was a descent attempt by me. There was a question on findings and recommendations in yesterday's paper. A bar chart about the responses from different age groups for different types of games was given to us and we were suppose to write findings and recommendations on how to place the stock (these games) in the retail shop. Actually madam asked this question to test us on "how good are we at differentiating the recommendations and the conclusions", but I attempted that question as if I it was a marketing paper. I wrote so much about marketing funda and I dont know how mam is gonna look at it. One noticeable thing about this paper is that during exam at least 10 people went out for wash room/to drink water. It doesnt happen during other exams. I have observed the same trend for the last term's CFM (Communication for managers) paper. People are so relaxed writing this exam (There was nothing much to prepare The exam was at 10 AM in the morning. I started my preparation at 9 AM and completed it by 9.30 AM. :) ). We get ample time to write the answers and do not in the other papers.

From the time table of post midterm, I understood that we are going to have a tough time. We are going to have classes till 1.45 PM. Its very difficult to sit till that time because of hunger and sleep factor.

In one of my previous posts Idiot(arina) gave a comment on my preparation for exams - "All the best idiot..!! Do well..!! once in ur lifetime yu can start reading no harm in that". Its so funny. By the way second idiot refers to ruffian. Yesterday I saw the status message of her in which she was mentioning about the hectic work she was facing at Japan. Now I am gonna say "Idiot.. Do well ..!! Once in your life time you can start working and no harm in that". Here idiot refers to Arina :))). Tit for Tat.

I forgot to mention about balaji, my friend at PEC. About a month back he told that he was following my blog and he got inspiration looking at my blog. I was so delighted looking those lines.

Thanks Balaji.

We have holidays starting from Dec 25th till Jan 2nd. I still dint book the ticket and the ticket fare is now almost doubled. Most of my friends booked the ticket and I am left alone with Boppa.

I am checking all the combinations of flight/train to reduce the total amount. I just want to be there at hyd on 24th night itself.

I went to KFC yesterday. It was damn good. I had only one mojito. But it was tasty :))).

I thought of doing synapse work, instead I am writing the blog for past half an hour.

Thats it for today.

Back to back blows !!!

Today's performance is the worst performance I could have ever given in any midterm till now.

I am not in a mood to write.

Right is Wrong and Wrong is Right !!!

I have just finished my OM exam. I am again in a state of confusion.

There were three questions. Two questions were from the topics that I read and the rest I forgot to read. But I answered the question perfectly from the topic that I dint read and I could not do well in the other two questions. I just attempted the unknown question thinking that it was wrong and finally it was correct and dont know about the status of the rest. :(

Whats the learning : For next exam, dont read any thing.

We were given a problem which was easy but I took 45 mins and dint solve it. The exam duration was 1.5 hour. I some how answered the rest and I really dont understand how much time professor takes to understand what I have scribbled there. My hand writing was worst. (It doesnt mean that in other situations my hand writing is very good!!).

Tomorrow's exam is the toughest of all. Its about accounting. I dont know most of the concepts. I must and should attend for remedials class. Amogh, our class topper, is good at accounting and he is gonna take remedials for us. I hope the remedials class gets filled up just like economics remedials.

Time to watch South park.. Will update soon

What the f***

I feel like hitting my head with a big hammer. I was damn clear about each and every concept. But the way I solved the questions sucks. I could have done 100% better than what I did there. I just dont want to see that text book again.

I am hating this damn feeling.

6.22 PM.

I just got up after sleeping for 4 hours and still dint come out of that damn feeling. I have never opened the operations book and even for quizzes, and the book looks as if it has been just bought.

a comments from my friend about today's paper :

Show: Macro Economics, Theatre: Exam Hall, Director: DTR, Scene1: Natha from Peepli live getting a "Lal Bahadur", Scene2 :"Natha Card being issued" & the whole Peepli live continues during the show.....Definitely struck out but happy to be killed by a worthy enemy....Hats off DTR....First time in 2 terms felt solving a brand IIM paper...!!!

In a state of confusion !!!

Ultimately its QAM that won against me. I screwed up the exam. I dont know what I did there.

I dont know the difficulty level of the paper. I have seen few new model questions in the paper. Time God, there formula was given at the bottom which was very helpful in solving a question other wise it would have been even worst.

The basic problem was that the question paper was set by some other prof and hence we were unable to trace out the logic behind few questions.

Tomorrow we have marketing exam and till now I have never opened the book even though prof asked us to come prepared for the classes :(.

12.05 AM.

I am feeling jealous about the other section people. They have open book exam :(. I am not able to by heart the chapters. I just completed 2 chapters and six more are left.

I had two cups of tea to keep myself awake :(. After opening the book, the words in the book nullified the tea effect and i am feeling damn sleepy now.

Thats it for the day

Ssssshhhh... Midterms are about to start !!!

Tomorrow onwards midterms are gonna tear us apart. With confidence levels at bottom, I am gonna face them.

Today I received the grade sheet of term-1. As expected, I dint even cross 6. :)). But i am lucky enough to touch the margins of 5. I am a little upset with my grades but worried a lot about the ongoing term.

I am in the middle of preparation for QAM and hence not in a mood to write much here.

Thats it for today

Now its 12.10 AM...

I just had a cup of tea and two biscuits. I am feeling a little tired after a two hours fight against QAM problems.

I just completed three chapters and two more to go.

Deepavali Subhaakankshalu !!!!

"Happy Diwali" - thats what I meant in the title of the post.

Its damn boring here. I have become even more lazy. I am skipping breakfast to sleep.

Yesterday we had two classes and today is diwali :).

QAM class ended up in half an hour. Operations class was too boring. During that class, I downloaded gtalk and was chatting with my sis. I was sitting in shilpa's place and got a good chance to take revenge. Shilpa sits exactly behind me and often kicks my chair when ever she feels sleepy. Sometimes sidhartha accompanies her. I always think about taking revenge but I never got a chance to do that till yesterday. She was desperate to sit in my place yesterday. I dint think about the revenge when I was offering her my place but when I was damn bored about the class, then some how this "kick" plot came in to my mind. I kicked the chair for thrice. She turned back with a "little shock" and I gave a killer smile. I kicked Anurag's chair too :))). Other than that I played hangman with maurya, browsed the net and had a chat with Boppa. Except listening, I did everything.
Meanwhile a rumor is going on in the college about grades. People are expecting grades to come out by tomorrow. I am least bothered because I can ever never cross "6".
This term I am sure about repeating the trend as I am not at all motivated to read. I dont know why.
This year I dint want to celebrate diwali for some reasons.
I wished my relatives. I felt happy after talking with my relatives especially after a gloomy afternoon.
I had a long chat with lokesh. He is worried a lot about his promotion/onsite offer. I like to see him get out of that sh*t.

The funniest part of the day is that I was trying to learn Macro economics through youtube videos.

Thats it for the day.

KFCccccccccccccccccccccccccc !!!!

Its 1.41 PM.

Now I am going to KFC... i feel like drinking a drum of virgin mojitto.. what a taste it has... I will update you soon on that..

By the way today We had just one class and it was QAM. He gave us home work. No comments on that.

Its getting late.

Will update soon

5.46 PM

The trip was good. I had two mojitos... It was damn good..

Here is the link about our summer placements..

http://www.prlog.org/11043870-iim-lucknows-summer-placements-2010-11-417-offers-151-firms-123-slot-zero-offers.html

Will update soon

Its boring again :(((

Its been just two days since I heard my name in the final shortlist of a company and now I already started feeling bored about it.

I am sleeping more than 12 hours a day. But I know the real hel'L' is a head. Midterms are approaching at rocket speed. I am not at all prepared for that.

The biggest problem as of now is that tomorrow on wards the classes are about to start. The placement week is over. The statistics are good.

Now I need motivation to start concentrating on studies.

By the way, my frnds, ex-colleagues congratulated me. Thanks a lot.

But my best friend still dint wish me. I know its foolish to expect a reply. :(.

Apart from that, I am spending most of the time chatting with my friends. I am not even moving an inch away from my bed - "laziest of all".

I am worried about QAM class. Prof has the list of ppl who got less than 4 and these days he is asking questions to those who are in that list. "yes, you are correct" and I am in that list. I dont even know the basics.

thats it for the day.

Will come up with more updates and will write on how people are behaving in the class after placement.

Its Party Time !!!!!! :)))))

Now I cant believe what has happened.. I am into a big company for summers.
I am flying high.

Today the 31st October, is an unforgettable day. The day started with a flop GD. Followed by an another utter flop GD. Finally, the GD conducted by (my) company that I cannot forget.
The Topic was about "ethics and business". Initially I couldnt get any differentiating point in my mind. But all of sudden some very good differentiating points hit my brain so strong that they come out of my mouth unknowingly. :).

The interview went on for 20 mins. I cant believe whether it was me who spoke all that. I dont know where from the confidence has come. They were so impressed and gave a shake hand at the end.

Anvesh has just called me from UK. I told him the news and he congratulated me. So sweet na.. when you people are going to congratulate me ??

I would like to thank so many people who were by the side of me.

Chamath thanks a lot for your moral support. Its the best of luck from my child hoood friend that gave me the boost and made me shout in the GD.

I told my dad about this news and he is so happy.

I am not able to convey this to my best friend :(.

By the way, Raghu got into another big company. Congratulations to him. He was even more stressed with this process and deserves a big round of applause for his calm and composure in reaching the goal.

On the flip side, After hearing the sweet news, I was coming back to my room with Ramu. When Ramu was talking about statistics and the hectic process he needs to face tomorrow, I felt pity. But I could not speak out a single word. I dont know what to talk at that moment and I dont know how he receives it. All I want is Ramu should come out flying colours tom. Not only Ramu but also Sai, chandu, sandeeps, sais, boppa, isaac .. every one .. every one out there should be smiling by the end of the day. I wish them all the best.

I am feeling damn sleepy.......

Thats it for the day..

The trend cant be stopped !!!

I am irritated, frustrated.....

I thought I almost touched the glory on two occasions... But I proved to be (I dont have words to write here)...

I crossed the hurdle of GDs with ease.. but dont know... some where something is missing..

Even some "best of lucks" are not working...


thats it for the day

Trend Continues !!! :((((

Its getting worse day by day.

I missed two more companies indeed two giant companies.

Somewhere I started to feel the heat of this placements.

Thats it for the day..


Signing off with a big sad expression on my face...

Can I get at least one short list ???

10:21 AM.

This could be the most important week in my MBA life.

Short lists are coming out and couldn't find my name in any of them.

My confidence levels are going down.

8.45 PM

Scenario is little better

Wish me all the best (not in comments section.. just in heart is enough !!)

I am not at all confident

01:25 am

I dint do GD well. I am damn sure that I will not go to next round.

Not in a good mood to write much.

Finally 3000 visitors and Congrats Arina for being 3001st Visitor

Finally my blog touched 3000 visitors mark. I am happy. But to be frank I am a bit sad too. Last 1000 visits came at a very slow pace. I know the reason. Its just ruffian. He has become lazy bones else the total posts count itself could have touched 100 mark.
After a long gap of one and half years, I had a voice chat with arina. Its good to speak with old friends right ? She is in Tokyo. Today she is so happy because she got a laptop (around 3 PM). She was online then onwards. She invited me for a voice chat. I thought it was friendship but it was just for testing her laptop. From her words, I understood that she was sooooooooo happy because of laptop. When she was talking with me, I realized that I needed 4 more visits on my blog to touch 3000 mark. I requested her to refresh the page for four times and by doing so, she made my day. :) :). By the way, Congrats Arina.

Life at L : I got up at 7 A.M. and started working for the assignment. Its been a tough day. The deadline was 11 am and I started my work at 7 a.m. I could not finish even 10 percent by 8.30. I was late by 5 minutes for WEC class, when I started at my room. I was running to be in the class at right time, but surprisingly I saw boppa and gokul having a sip of tea before the pgp block. I was shocked and thought that I was there at right time. When I entered the class, it was 9.22(delayed by 7 minutes) and I soon realized that they are least bothered about timings and all they wanted is not miss sip of the tea. :(. Today 7 groups were suppose to give presentation. Boppa's and mine were among them. When Boppa's group was giving presentation, I gave him a missed call. Time god, he did not keep his mobile in silent mode :) :). The mobile started ringing, and there was a sudden change in his face reaction because he was on dais and was operating the system for the slide show. He picked up the phone and had a look at me. I gave him a killer smile. But madam did not notice the ring of boppa's mobile else it could have been a fun. My group's turn is awaiting. I am damn sure that boppa would give me a ring when I stand on the dais. So, I left my mobile in the bag and went to the dais. Our presentation went on fine and there were no issues. Mam had few doubts and we cleared only few in that "few" :). It was not a great presentation.
When I came back to my place, as expected there was a missed call from boppa. But he doesnt know that the mobile was not with me. He couldnt take revenge. I pity him.

In the final class, I was watching the match between pakistan and south africa that was played yesterday and was won by south africa.

Right from afternoon onwards, I was doing macro assignment. An half an hour ago, I submitted the assignment. We delayed the submission by just 9 hours :). We have a batch meet at 11 pm. I am gonna doze off.

Will update soooooooon after batch meet, its not over...

Check this out : Comments section on Lokesh's upcoming book...

http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=160492787317094&id=623418963¬if_t=feed_comment_reply

Half Shaved ... Half Screwed.. But still trying to escape !!!

What to say .. what to say... Every minute is as precious as a gram of platinum. I am writing this post in my class. I am not free. But I have so much to write. Hence decided to write this post in parts.

First and foremost today we had two quizzes, two assignments and project to submit. As of now I am done with two quizzes. Thats it. The project report was suppose to be submitted at 2PM and now its 4.41, we are still finalizing the report.

There was so much fun in these two days. I was almost screwed in the hands of Neha. Its because of sai. I Will write in detail after 12.

I heard that my TL got promotion. Congos to him.

By the way, sir has come.

Will update soon.

Time : 6.29 PM

I Just came to my room. I saw my ITC answer sheets. I got 27.5 out of 50. SO my total score is (39+27.5) = 66.5 . I am in the average range of the class. Now I am damn confident that I am not gonna fail in any of the subjects related to first term.

I need to give a psychometric test for a company.

Now I am going back to library to give finishing touch for the WEC final report which was suppose to be submitted by 2p.m.

Thats it for now.. Its getting late.. Ravi is waiting for me...Will update soon..

Time 3.22 A.M.

Finally we have sent WEC project report to madam. At 2 PM we have sent an unfinished document. At 8 PM we have sent a finished document and quoted in the mail that " Sorry mam, we have sent a wrong version in the afternoon. Please kindly accept this version". I know she will not believe that but yet we dont want our legs to be pulled on the dais. Our group are suppose to give a presentation on this report tomorrow. I have just finished the Power point doc too.So our group is all set for fun.

I screwed up in the psychometric test. All of sudden there appeared quant problems on screen. I was not in a mood to solve them. All I can say is I missed a big MNC.

Okies... Its getting late... I need to start an assignment at 5.30 A.M. and the deadline is 11 A.M. We cannot repeat WEC story here as this prof is a serious kind in terms of submissions.

Thats it for now.. Need to getup at 5.30... Will update soon !!!

Happy Birthday Chaitanyas (Varma and Krishna Chaitanya) !!!!

Oct 17th was chaitu's birthday. I forgot to wish him this year. Last before year the same thing happened and I blamed it on my best friend. This year no one is here to blame. Anyways I wished him today. Sorry for the belated wishes chaitu. Chaitu told me that he was expecting a last call from me. Normally I like to be different in case of wishing friends. I prefer to wish last. But on that day, I forgot to wish him for a couple of reasons.

The other Chaitanya is an acquaintance. I talk to him only once an year and that too on his birthday. Actually I lost his number. My old mobile is not functioning properly and some how with the help of Soumik I switched on the mobile and got his number. Thanks to Soumik. Chaitanya couldnt recognize me as its been exactly an year. He almost took five minutes to guess who I am. Finally I wished him. Once again, Happy birthday chaitanya and I wish you all the best.

Next year I wish both of them in a creative way.

Coming back to life at hel'L'. I got up at 7 in the morning. I worked on photoshop for a while. I promised a committee to deliver a poster by saturday night and I delayed. After finishing the poster, I had breakfast and thought of working on WEC(writing skills) assignment. But I slept :). I got up in the afternoon and started working on assignment. But I couldnt concentrate. Boppa went out to play cricket and that was distracting me. I love cricket but on the other hand I had an assignment to submit. So I dint play cricket. You people might be thinking that I should have completed the assignment. But I slept. :). I got up at 4.30. Nothing much to say the life at hel'L'. I heard that this is the last mid term exam for the seniors. By the way our mid term starts in the second week of november. I am little worried about the mid term. I dont know the syllabus for few subjects. :(

I tried a application to find out my wedding date. The application says my wedding is some where in 2016. I think by that time I may not be fit for marriage. Interestingly it says my cousin, who is married and has a kid, is also going to get married on the same day. I think I should tell this to my cousin and her husband to resolve any issues they have as soon as possible. :)

I had a voice chat with chaitanya varma. Chaitu told me that Lokesh is planning to write a book.
Title of the book : "How to keep your girl happy !!"
by Lokesh Kumar Punepalli Jayachandra Reddy
(Title of the book is smaller than the name of the author. I bet you cannot find it anywhere in the universe).
I was excited hearing that and asked him to tell some more about the book. But I could manage to get very little information. Its about the name of the first chapter.
- " How it has happened ? "
I promised Lokesh that I would be buying the book. I am planning to get a brand ambassador(Nikhila Rosy) for that book and also planning to publish the book in my blog.

Friends, Pour in your comments.

Thats it for the day

Happy Journey.. Anvesh (UK) and Arina (Tokyo) !!!

Two days back, I thought Anvesh left for UK and felt bad that I couldnt say happy journey to him. But thanks to Sandesh, he told me Anvesh is still in India and leaving tom(Sunday). Ofcourse Anvesh himself called me two days back and told me the same. Now I have a chance to say Happy Journey to him. "HAPPY JOURNEYYYYYYYY Anvesh".

Now its Arina's Turn. Idiot is going to Tokyo. She mentioned same in face book. I replied to her status message and this is the conversation.
Praveen Ch: May god save tokyo people !!!
Thursday at 2:14pm · Like
Arina Ch: this is not at all fun seriously, i would gladly take back the decision.
Yesterday at 6:36am · Like
Anyways, all the best Idiot and enjoy.

Coming back to life at hel'L'. I got up at 5.30 in the morning and prepared for the quiz. I prepared superficially not to get zero. But the question paper was damn easy. I will get atleast 5 (out of 10). I screwed up in the first quiz. This is the only chance I am left with. After quiz almost every one rushed for breakfast. People standing in a big queue for "dosa". I ate cornflakes and aloo curry. I couldnt manage to eat dosa. But I managed to eat atleast the curry meant for dosa (a kind of satisfaction). Classes started at 9.15. Today priyanka and anurag decided to bunk marketing class which starts at 10.30. I felt a bit tension. Normally every prof shoots questions at priyanka only. I and Anurag escapes. If she and anurag misses the class, I am the next eligible candidate. Thanks to Vinayak and Alok who sat by the sdie of me filling those seats.
I need to mention a funny incident. One day Anurag and I were making fun of Priyanka.
"Anurag dont prepare any thing. Dont worry. Prof will ask only priyanka. We can escape. hahahaha"
Anurag also smiled at her.
On that day prof asked both Anurag and me but dint shoot any question at priyanka. Ofcourse I never answer any question :). That day was priyanka's and there after I tried to control my "mouth".
Marketing class was full of fun. So many jokes and very less concepts pierced my brain. To be frank prof was too cool. There were some jokes about economy class in the plane and strategy in cinema theaters. One guy from other sectioned mentioned about the strategy of "allocation of company" in theaters. Company refers to allocation of a seat to girl sitting by the side of guy. Its a good strategy right ??.
Afternoon I attended a PPT, came back and slept.

Few short lists are coming out. I am not in any of those. I am feeling bad about that. I could have made my CV more interesting. But its my laziness and now I am paying for that. I am not at all satisfied with what I have written in my CV.

Personal Trivia:

I have added a video on the top right corner. Its really cool. I want to start something like that.

Today again something is haunting me. I dont know where I am going.
I dont want to talk much on this.

Tomorrow is my best friend's friend birthday. I wish him happy birthday.

Thats it for the day.

Ruffian aka Lazybones

Yes, Ruffian is the best example of lazybones. In the last term Ruffian hardly slept 4 hrs a day. Now he is hardly awake 8 - 9 hours a day. Yesterday Ruffian slept for almost 14 hours.

Today is not a great day. I got almost least marks in QAM II (Mathematics). I was in hyderabad last week so couldnt prepare for the quiz and it truly reflected in my marks. I just got 3.5 out of 10. Only 3 fellows excluding me were below 4 marks. I dont know what to say now. I felt very bad about my position. I was in 11th position in QAM during first term. I bunked QAM classes so frequently that I am not able to get a grip on what prof is teaching at present. Today's marketing class was like hell. We were asked to talk about book fair. In my group Raghu and I prepared the PPT. But both of us were not willing to go and present and none of the others in my batch were also ready. I got irritated. Anyways our group dint get a chance to give Presentation.

Yesterday a funny incident took place during QAM class. When the class was going on Sneha opened a water bottle. But soon she realized that it was not a water bottle instead it was a cool drink. Prof noticed that the Carbon dioxide in the bottle made a sound (hizzzzzz) when she uncapped and told her "you are not suppose to bring the food items to the class". Then she replied "Sir, even I dont know about this until I opened. Sorry for this". Thats why I dont even take a bottle to the class :) (Not that I am lazy). In marketing class, Prof flooded in too many concepts. At a point of time I felt marketing is not my area of interest any more. Operations class is like a relaxation session for the whole class. Hardly 10 people listen what Professor is teaching. Please do not include me in that 10. Priyanka and Anurag were playing TIC TAC TOE. Something flashed in my mind seeing that. I like TIC TAC TOE for some reasons that cannot be disclosed. Then priyanka and anurag shifted to fill in the letters game, where priyanka thinks about a movie name and asks us to guess. It was so hard. Priyanka gave "JUNGLEE". We took so much time. I am not that great at hindi hence took some time. Then she asked us to guess a hollywood movie. This time it is "JUMANJI". I guessed it correctly but took so many options. By the time I guessed the movie name, the time was 1.15. And its the time where class ends and we go for lunch :).

In operations class, I went through FORBES magazine. I read about a billionaire who is just 36 years old. I felt - its really great. But I am not dreaming nor aiming for that. I have a different goal to achieve

Yesterday we had a project submission. It was about book fair. We did a survey in book fair. The survey was very funny for obvious reasons. We had few snaps out there. The highlight was Boppa. He went to interview a person. I was standing 10 meters away from them. When Boppa was interviewing, I could see some grin in his face at times. The survey went on for 45 minutes. I thought boppa was getting so many insights. But later on I found that Boppa was being tortured by him. He was a lawyer. Boppa was in casuals wearing chappals and t-shirt. The lawyer questioned him about all that. "HOw can an IIM graduate be like that ?" He asked boppa many questions for which he had no clue. When we all came to know about that we couldnt stop laughing. Time God I was near by and dint go and join that survey. :).

Yesterday WEC (written communication skills) madam gave us answer sheets. I got 2 out of 4. Two days back, I told priyanka and Anurag about my quiz marks that I couldnt even cross 50% in any of the quizzes conducted till then. Priyanka remembered that and told me when I had WEC answer sheet in my hand "Praveen you got 50% na. You must be happy rite ?". I dont know whether to laugh or cry for that question :( :).

I have a presentation to attend at 5.45. Before that I need to play TT.

Tomorrow I have a quiz. Its do or die situation. Wish me all the best.

By the way I uploaded a snake's pic under " wild life at hel'L' " in Got Bored section at the top right corner. It was found near Hostel 15. I am in hostel 11 :)

Thats it

Thanks to them !!!!

I forgot to thank my friends who wished me on OCT 12th..

Thanks to lokesh (First wish), chaitu, srikar.

Thanks to bharath(aka buddy).

Few wishes on face book
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Srikar Chowdary Elaprolu many more happy returns of the day...hv a rockin day

PavanKumar Tirumalasetty Janmadhina subhakankshalu....
October 12 at 7:52pm · Comment · Like · See Wall-to-Wall

Chamath Somathilaka rey..wish u a very happy birthday..belated wishes!!!
October 12 at 7:13pm · Comment · Like · See Wall-to-Wall

Arina Ch Oyeee happy birthday..!!
October 12 at 10:46am · Comment · Like · See Wall-to-Wall

Akshaya Vaddadi Happy Birthday....
October 12 at 9:07am · Comment · Like · See Wall-to-Wall
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Thanks to Suma for presenting me a beautiful e card.

Thanks to Imran (for calling me twice)

Thanks to sis (I myself called her and asked her to wish me)

Thanks to Rajendra bhava (he came to know about my bday through orkut)

Few wishes on Orkut

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nethaji mylavari fascinating life lessons...!-13 Oct-Public
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Many many happy returns of the day praveen!!! H R U? and all the best
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rey..many many happy returns of the day maccha............
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Very happy birth day dude
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இனிய பிறந்தநாள் வாழ்த்துக்கள்

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Happy Birth Day ra Bevarse........
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Hi Happy Birthday!!!!
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Happy birth day ra..
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happy Birth Day!
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hey dude Happy B'Day
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Wish u a very Happy Bday...have lots of fun...
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Happy B'day darling!!!
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many many happy returns of the day ra!!!
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happy bday
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Happy Birthday...
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hey Happpy birthday
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Thanks to shilpa for calling back :) and remembering my bday...

Thanks to Anvesh despite his busy schedule

Thanks to Sandesh for trying to wish me atlast (but it is not so)

Thanks to Isaac (The only person who knows about my bday)

Finally Thanks to my best friend for the belated wishes

Apart from these...


Thanks to my mom and dad