Nainital...Here we come..

First time I am going out for a trip with my friends after joining IIM.

Will update soon...

Maybe I was wrong...

This post is about the class room updates.

In previous posts, I made a bigger announcements stating that "The most Leisure Term". I think I was totally wrong.

This is the term wherein the submission started as early as at the start of second week. Its something very rare. Normally profs give some time for students to start working. Also, in today's lecture one of the profs insisted for weekly submissions. That is something terrible to hear !!!

I mentioned about a prof in my previous posts stating that he got irritated since we laughed in the class. In the same class he mentioned that he knew about our profile. I dint take those words seriously. But he mailed to one of my group-mate quoting that "he should personally take care of involving me and two others in this project and should contribute to the project. Also, he mentioned our names in the mail with internship details". I was shocked when my friend, to whom prof has mailed the details about us, has forwarded the same mail to us. Its sad that prof has taken the things too personally. I am worried on how to rebuild the trust.

This time, in team building class, we had an exercise on "introduction to teams". It was a scenario case. The scenario was that a set of people with certain background were stuck in a cave and who has to be rescued first and in what order need to be sorted out by our team. It was a funny exercise wherein we were all arguing with each other with a variety of inputs on giving priorities. Ofcourse, I have seen a guy in our group is arguing just for the sake of arguing. Also, we had one girl in our group who is from Italy(Dont know exactly the place). The total team was in dilemma when we were to choose between a lady with two children and a guy who is potential enough to develop a cheap drug for cancer patients. It was like whether to go with present scenario or need to think about future. One thing is that there is no correct answer. It depends on individuals. Whom do you chose?

Apart from these, I have seen few ads about Gujarat Tourism. It was awesome given the fact that the videos contain Amitabh and also shot in multiple languages. Its a good strategy to attract both Indians and Foreigners. Good Learning. Here are the links -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQXNiFC3YE8 - in Hindi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU6c7j73e1s&feature=related - in English

Have a look at it. The video clarity is good and also the theme.

Welcome home Anvesh and Happy Journey Lokesh

Finally, Anvesh is back. He came back last weekend. I am so happy to see him back but at the same time, Lokesh is going to US. Its like a tie.

Actually, I wanted to meet anvesh at Delhi. Also, I booked the return journey ticket. But finally he said "no" to my visit to Delhi.

Now Lokesh is going to US and it is going to be a long stay. He waited so long for this offer. I wish him all the best and happy journey.

Also, I have seen Sandesh buying a new car. Thats really a great news. He is the first guy in our batch to have a car.

Party Time !!!

This week I went out to city twice just for the sake of food. That doesnt mean that I am not being served food here. Its just that we are bored of eating the same food daily.

First, it was index party. This year again I am part of index team. Everything, except the fact that I am in second year, is same. I mean to say the work I did and the work I am doing hasn't changed much. Its the same photoshop work that I hate. At times, I feel that I am cursed and at times, its a differentiating factor. Anyways, I cant change anything at present.

Coming back to party, it was a good one. Though the food was not good, I enjoyed the time, that our team, spent there. It was fun. Ofcourse, it was first time I was interacting with the whole team given the fact that the team was formed long ago. I dont know the names of any of the first years. So, initially it took sometime to break the ice and as of now it is partially broken. :). One thing I understood was that they are very curious to know about the placements. All I could tell them is not to worry. But it is very difficult to control our nerves during placements, including me. But everyone knows that he/she is gonna place in some company but what is that "some" is a question mark.

Here are few pics..

The team 5Ps

Scream 5 ???

Juniors

Second time, it was sai,gopi and me who went to city. This time it was Dastarkhwan. After a gap of almost 6 months, I went to the city by bus. Nothing new and its the same old roads with lot of dust. Wherever the bus stops, I can see a kg of dust falling back in to the bus and slowly getting distributed onto the passengers. You would be lucky if you were sleeping with your mouth open. Before people get any kind of doubts, let me clarify one thing - I dint sleep during that journey.

Thanks to Gopi for paying the bill and thanks to Sai for paying the bill at sports shop for my wrist band. I bough a wrist band to play TT with out any interruption caused by excessive sweating (Assumed to be). But after purchasing the wrist band, I havent played TT.

Again, tomorrow we are going to City.

Classes.. Term 5

Finally I can feel some seriousness in attending the classes. The classes are a bit interesting.

In team building class, there was an activity. It was about understanding ourselves. There were certain attributes given and we are suppose to rank them. After ranking them, we will come to know about the scores for different personality types - tiger, eagle, turtle, solmon, Chameleon.

Each animal is defined with certain aspects. For tiger - brave, leadership but doesnt listen to anyone. For Chameleon - works on situation but doesnt posses leadership. For eagle - long vision - but doesnt care about notifying the team. For Turtle - slow and steady - analyzes the situation. For Solmon - rebel. Based on the graph, mam used to explain how a person's character will be and how he responds to a situation. One thing I understood was that people should be very high on eagle but should be low on Solmon. Interestingly, my graph was quite opposite to that of normal. I am rebel as per that activity. I think I should start thinking that way!!!!

In marketing class, I have heard something very contradictory. In early days were soaps were aired, one serial was blockbuster. The main element of the serial was extramarital affair. That concept cannot be used for marketing a product but a company used it in a different way. I dont want to write much about that. But it is something different and unheard of.

Also, when washing machines were first introduced in India it was a big success in Punjab. When company went to see and understand why that product was successful. They were shocked. The washing machine was used in Dhabas for preparing lassi. It was funny. The way people think about certain things that the manufacturing company never heard of.

In today's class, prof was giving an example of "wheel" advertisement. The husband throws the shirt on his wife's face and then wife uses wheel to clean it. Finally the husband gets the promotion. While explaining that ad, professor, in a funny note said this "throwing a shirt on wife's face never happens in India. It is just exaggerated. A typical husband knows what happens when he throws a shirt on his wife's face". "Generally these kind of ads start with a message like - "Attention viewers. This ad is performed by experienced people under a protected environment and viewers should not imitate at home". The whole class started clapping. I think thats true.

For first time, I was caught in the hands of Prof for laughing in the class. Prof was so irritated and was angry. I was lucky to answer the question that he has asked me else it would be have been a disaster. The class was damn boring and so we started cracking jokes. I dint realize that he was observing me and all of sudden he asked me a question. After the class, our project group was asking prof some kind of doubts. We were suppose to implement some crazy ideas and I was laughing listening to those crazy ideas. Prof saw me for the second time and then....

Tremors ???

Recently I have heard news that in USA there was an incident on Earth quake in New York. Then, I heard a similar news in reference to Delhi.

Yesterday, I saw a status message in FB on one of my friend's wall - "I felt the chairs were shaking. Was it an Earth Quake?" I was shocked looking at it. Then I started searching for the news in google and shockingly it was true.

What am I doing at that time? The answer is that I was sleeping, indeed it was a deep sleep. It happened around 5PM. After knowing about that, my brain started thinking something very extreme.

Though nothing happened in my college, later on I found out that so many people were dead near sikkim. That was very bad.

I believe that of all the natural calamities, earth quake is dangerous. Because for the rest of the calamities, atleast we can get some information prior but incase of Earth quake it will be known only after the damage is done.

Interestingly one of my friend has updated his FB status message as "Tremors in Lucknow. My friends, instead of running out of the building, were updating the same message on Facebook." I am wondering how powerful an FB is - more than that of an Earth quake.

Term 5.. The most leisure term....

If someone asks me whats the best thing that you always want to see in this term, my answer is "Time Table". Even If I see 10000 times, I still feel like seeing it again. I can feel like I am set free from all kind of rigor that we were going through, though its not correct. On Monday and Tuesday, I need not get up till 1PM. On friday and Saturday I have just one class. I cant ask anything better than this.

This term I have 3 marketing, 2 system and 1 HR related courses. Even the courses are not too hectic. But one problem is that, the courses I have taken are highly sought after courses and hence I can see the top 10% students of the college are in some classes. Now the problem would be to get good grades by getting marks better than them. That would be a dream. People might be thinking why am I crying for grades because its ultimately grades that get us to the destination. Dont ask me what destination I am looking for because I am no different from others.

I am so leisure that I have completed the Prison break (4 seasons in 2 weeks time). The first season was awesome and later on I felt bored. The twists and turns that were there in first season were repeated very frequently in the consecutive seasons and so I could guess the plot very easily. One more thing is that - digging a tunnel / passing through a tunnel. I never thought it would be so easy to do such a thing. Where ever the lead actors go, they dig a tunnel there as if it is patented to them. The last season was more like a typical sentimental movie - to choose one between wife and his brother. It is too far from reality. But I should accept that it was entertaining. Now, I understood why parents are so addicted to serials.