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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.