long day...

i didnt touch any book in the entire day...and dont plan to either. yet it was a long day. started with getting up late...then attended a rather nice talk about careers in corporate and investment banking by Mr. Sanjiv Bhasin, CEO Rabo India Finance (Ex-CEO HSBC India). good stuff...

then started work on preparing the questions for the dumb-c and pictionary rounds. had already got the books from A and S (thanks!)..so movies, event, personalities remained.

then went to participate in the inter section frisbee competition. was awesome fun. we won...and have got through the semi finals. i guess they will be held tomorrow..or maybe day after.

then got back to questions...meet up with S to discuss the proceedings...and then finally the event started at 7. it went decently well. except for one round wherein i goofed up with the questions.in hindsight the round shouldnt have been there in the first place.

anyways...just came from S and E's place. watched some tv after a gigillion years. had a terrible headache which has actually gone away. they are really very sweet sweethearts...! :)

however...at the end of the day..i am feelin bad. i almost shouted at R today...just cause i was tired and she apparently wasnt listening to me. feeling really bad right now. sorry dear...i really am.

looking forward to a longer day tom..packed with studies. E will be giving me company...

~a

the sweetest days ever...

the last days were awesome. i think the last time i was so happy was when i was born...but then Rajeshwar (LDP) actually turned that into one of the most painful events in a human's history. so i guess i shall call the last 2 days one of the best ever...

got my GE grade. now thats not like HUGE news...its just fine. but then something was amazing about it. i kept feeling good and good...till the point that it got transmitted to other people...so much so that people who met me started congratulating me...(weird...cmon its just a grade..!!). anyways...i wont deny that the feeling was good...

however...the awesome thing was yesterday. my sis has come 3rd in the university in her annual examinations. wait..there is more...she is only 2 marks behind the topper. which essentially means that the top 3 ranks are separated by a mark each. holy shit...this is awesome news...!!

u see...if i get a good grade...big deal. i am into my books even when i am shattin..! so its like...yah fine. but in her case...its different. she studies..yah...but then she chills like nobody's business. she goes out with her friends quite often...she sleeps like kumbhkaran and kumbhkaran's son combined...she watches tv...and doesnt study at all as well. so her managing this deal..is quite a deal...!

i am rockingly happy...! :)

anyways...so the first week ended for term 3. went quite well...the classes were really awesome. however this term the courses are so interlinked that you actually have to rely on other factors to differentiate them. "oh..this is the moustache class...oh this is the 'pants-high-up' class...and yah..this is the 'i just cant stop talking..but no i love that..so keep listening' class..."

so much so that each day when i sit down to prepare for the next day i wonder if i am reading something i should be reading for the day after. its confusing...but again..the courses are great.

i must admit though...(and i guess this will maybe...draw a lot of surprised looks)...i am kinda impressed with the rajeshwar dude. ok..accepted he loves his voice...but then his content isnt bad...so even i love it at some level. he does bring in a lot of 'asthetic relevance' to the entire mba program. u know its like...get over simulations...and balance sheets and demands and supply...concentrate on why humans behave the way they do. afterall...in some years most of us will not be running simulations as much as we will be 'running' people.

good change from the usual...

am conducting a dumb-c and pictionary competition this evening. really lookin forward to it...should be great fun...

life's good...

~a

long time huh...

i didnt write a word in the last week of the term...and there are a couple of reasons:

1. i was studying this time
2. i told u i wont be writing...!

i didnt write a word after coming back from delhi after the break..its been 3 days now...and there are a couple of reasons:

1. none
2. none

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The beginning:
The delhi break was awesome...had loads and loads of fun. went with R in the metro all the way to DU (at 9.30 in the night!)...went to the Hindu Lawn and the Miranda back gate...wow...nostalgia...! went for dinners and movies...basically total blast. i dont think a trip will be possible for the remaining session..so desperately waitin for R to come down in the 1st week of Sep

Term 3:
Has started off well...the courses are fun...finance comes in finally. looks interesting...(even more so with the sensex going beyond 7500...am shit scared tht something fishy is happening..!).

managerial accounting is linear programming and monte carlo sims combined...so always fun..!

entrepreneurship is too good...the 1st class yesterday was a blast.
Incidence 1 -
1. prof picks up the marker
2. too bad..the market doesnt work
3. keep down the market and lift a new one...?? r u crazy...thts juvenile..
4. WHOOOOSSSHHHHH....the marker is thrown at jet speed...to strategically land under the whiteboard empty space
5. prof: "that was a good shot..wasnt it...?"
6. students: "what the.......?"

besides this...the class was actually a whole lot of fun. after a long timei realized that i have stopped thinking out of the box. numbers...crunching...yah easy stuff...thinking beyond that...?...oopsss...not coming in as well...! have to work on this...

Operations was really good...including the moustache...! the prof made a lot of sense...whatever he said might have registered as 'oh we know this..big shit..'. however only someone who knows the importance of processes and the entire trauma of 'improving' them...will appreciate and realize the gravity of his statements. pretty impressive.

best of all...LDP (leadership dev. program)...inspite of what people might think...i guess the lecture was pretty well executed (except for the last half n hour...wherein he realized..."oops..i am finished...lemme start with some blabber now..."). he talked about world history and how we all are embedded with an agrarian, risk-averse chip inide us...and how we will eventually...(god knows when though) compliment that with an industrial chip. the difference lies in the attitude. from 'no matter how much i work..everything is pre-decided..'...to 'i can control much of what i want to do in life..'

good stuff...!

apart from all this...everyone back here seems refreshed after the break. i finally put up the lamp A had gifted and its looking pretty..right above my bed. gives a homely feel to the room. want to buy a beanbag now..however that will surely require atleast 7 sitting infront of the mandir...way too expensive.

looking forward to the term...and to the end of this one year...! :)

~a

you've come a long way baby...

i am entitled to 25% of that 12 lac package from mckinsey today...!!!

well...thts if everything goes as per plans...!!

so...the exams got over today. went well...yesterday was good too. the dmo exam today rocked like crazy. it was such a sweet shit paper...got people to think beyond what they usually do...and some of the questions were like..wow...this is awesome stuff. hats off...!

econ yesterday was also a pleasure. very relevant stuff...it even had articles from July 1st week...i mean..how recent can u get...! good stuff again...

MDM today was "bacho...yeh hai tumhare daaton ki banaawat...now draw a graph and explain it...". it was shocking at some level..to be coming from Prof. Raju. but then...all's good.

however...the cake goes to...CS...! so here is the deal...take 3/4 oz. of CISCO...bring to a boil...pour 1.4 qtz. of Nucor..(stirring continuously u dud..!)...let it cool. garnish with the knowledhe management article...some mckinsey to taste...and serve with hot FAF...! what you get are 11 points in the CS final exam...way to go...!!!

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ok eat this...the exam ends 4.30 today. our group meets at 5 for the CS project (due thursday...but then with 5 of us leaving to meet our gfs/bfs/whatnots..we arent left with much choice). and we work...i mean WORK...till 1.30am...nonstop (dinner stop..only)...and boy...did it rock...! we actually managed to pull off a near impossible stunt...and its such an amazing feeling right now...i dont even wanna start describing it. lovely...C4 rocks...

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alright guys...its time again to leave for delhi...will see you soon after the 24th. looking forward to an awesome time with R...dying to be with her. the isb gang is meeting up on friday..mocha...u r invited...! :)

life is too sweet...

~a

krishna 2005 @ ISB

why do parents name their kids...the names they do...? what possible insight did my parents get into my personality to name me ankur. why the hell is delhi called delhi...? any relevance...any connection...?

i read a research sometime back..which...and much to my surprise...came up with the result that kids named after personalities tend to converge...(or atleast aspire to..) to them...in terms of persona...achievements...attitude.

now...looking around...i doubt that. for god sake...check out the number of rajnikants...or for that matter rams and mohammads in the world. but then...if i were to defend the research...this would be my defense....

Krishna BC @ Mahabharta: not god for me...but someone who inspired. who didnt fight the war..but presented the reasons to do so...showed how to do so. not god for me...but someone so clear in thought and action...that he could easily be one...

Krishna 2005 @ ISB: not god for me...but someone who inspired. who didnt feed us with spoons...rather presented the reasons to fulfill our appetite...and showed how to do so. not god for me...but someone so clear in though and action...that he could easily be one...

i thought his last class was brilliant. till this came along:

From: Krishna B. Kumar
To: Students06
Subject: Thanks

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economics, like real life, has its share of ambiguities, fuzziness, and dead-ends. but as john steinbeck wrote in his
beautiful novel, "sweet thursday,"
"...the clarifying leap springs from the rich soil of confusion, and the leaper is not unfamiliar with pain."

what i or anyone else can hope do in a short time is only rake this soil. the leap is yours to make.

be bold. be irreverent. shift those graphs. good luck.

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brilliance defined.....

i rest my case...

~a

the week sucking me in...or is it...?

i have a feeling that i am allowing it to suck me in. but then..i am fine with it. the preparation for the finals is coming along smooth...and hopefully will reap the benefits in precisely 4 days.

loads of stuff to handle...will get back to you soon with some interesting stuff thats been happening lately..!

muuuuahhhhhhh....!

~a

ISB Admissions...on...

Admissions for the Post Graduate Program (PGP) in Management at ISB, for the year 2006-07, have started.

Prospective applicants can access details of the same at the following link

http://www.isb.edu/pgp/visit/admissions.asp

The brochure for PGP in Management 2005-06 is here.

ISB also holds information sessions for prospective applicants, all across the world. I strongly recommend attending one, to get a direct insight into ISB - the school...the brand.

You will find the schedule for the information sessions here.

and but of course...anyone who needs any help regarding the admissions, please feel free to get in touch with me (warikoo@gmail.com; ankur_warikoo@pgp2006.isb.edu). will be more than willing...

all the best...

~a

amazing night...last night was...

if there was ever a night when ISB could think of shutting down because of the 'superior' quality of the students admitted...it was last night
if there was ever a group that could lead ISB to shut down because of its 'superior'-ity...its ours
if there was ever a group that could write the best-seller 'how to screw up Markstrat even when its not possible'...its ours...

i mean...holy sweet mother of jesus and jesus' brother...how scrwed up does one have to be...to be selling a product that costs to produce than its selling price...and thats not it..no no...there's more intelligence left...we not only sell such a product...we bloody invest a million...that like 1 followed by as many zeroes as there are in my bank balance....yah...one million...on advertising the product.

so technically...we advertise for a product that gives s negative contribution..so that it gives us more negative contribution...!

AMAZING...!!

(kindly stand up at this moment and observe a 2 minute silence for us...!)

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today was good...managed to get a lot of stuff done. the following week will demand a lot of work...so gearing up for that.

A gifted me an amazing lamp today. and that is so so sweet of her. thanks a lot...it really made me feel very special.

P's gf was in town..so he was busy with her. P also flew down frm his sister's marriage just about an hour back. so with the 4 of us we managed to get pretty much a lot of work done today. good job dudes...

ummm..what else...

oh yah...i hit the top 10% of the class this term. nothing to be really proud of...have to hit the top 10 next time...lets see how it goes...hope for the best...prepare for Markstrat...as the saying goes...!

looking forward to delhi on the 20th...

looking forward to life....

~a

fun party last night...and a tight week ahead....

M hosted a party last night and it was great fun. well...no..i didnt get drunk...much to the dismay of every drunk guy there...(who for some reason feel more drunk if people around them are drunk...!). but it was one of the rare occasions wherein everyone was happy drunk. no throwing up...no shitting around...no playing stupid...just happy drunk. some real fun one and a half hrs...!

i got back at 1.30...and then around 3...when the ladies comes back...A figures that her keys r with me...(its another case that i told her where i had kept them...she simply didnt recall having talked to me...!)...and then shouts out my name. and just so u know...its 3 am...that the time when the sun is not up and people...(sane people) are sleeping...! but no...that doesnt stop anyone...does it. it doesnt stop M or G atleast...to build on A's treble...and shout out my name as if there is no tomorrow...(or no other person on this earth...whichever happens earlier...)

and then i make maggi for them...with S's help...and then at 3.30 or so i receive a senti sms from U...thanking me for some shit...(i think...think...that i had a tear when i read the sms..it was sweet...and it was his bacardi speaking..!)...and then i slept at 4...after having read through Nucor...!

today has been good so far...the coming week wont be so. there is no way i can allow myself to repeat term 1's performance...and hence will have to slog to make sure i be where i wanna be. have made the schedule...and hopefully will have a good time sticking to it...

...aaahhh...finally...R's tickets r done...she IS COMINGGG....sep 2...awesome thingy happening inside of me right now thinking about it...! mannn..its going to rock...!

my tickets to delhi r done...dying to be back...

and finally...its been raining like nobody's business for the past 2 days. normal life is disrupted...there r traffic jams all over...and people dont feel like studying...

all set for the week...

~a

have i lost a part of me...

its been more than 2 years ever since i quit something that i thought would define me one day. its been more than 2 years ever since i left waking up every morning with curiosity leading me through the day. its been more than 2 years ever since i maybe lost a part of me....

never to get it back...

and today something made me miss it.

we had gone for a dinner to our Aikya Family...the Patodia's...had a wonderful time..awesome food...they were really nice hosts. through the evening Mrs. Patodia requested P to sing for us. and he did...brilliantly...but then we all knew that he could. and then came the...i will call it moment. G had mentioned before that she used to sing and left it cause of her throat problem. but then i didnt know how good she was when she left...and the answer came right after 5 minutes.

its not just the fact that she is a close friend that made me like what she sang....she was actually awesome. it just got me back to the time when i used to feel so passionate about something. and i was good at it..and i left it. and today somepart of me regrets it...maybe trying hard not to accept the same fact.

i just hope that she doesnt have a time when she will regret too...

anyways...

the day was good...didnt get to talk to R today. missing her right now..a lot...

got the grades for marketing. thankfully an A. so that was good. was going through the distribution of the class. A has hit it in the top 5...and U is in the top 17...which is awesome. he deserves it...i can see that he worked really hard for it.

life's funny right now...and its laughing at me...

~a

of chickens and cocks and hens...!

i think b-school is one coherant feeling...everyone at any point of time is feeling the same...and even if not...one feeling arising from one obscure corner of the world (its SV1 for ISB) spreads like wild fire. for instance...i am sure that at this precise moment...99% of all rooms in ISB will be thinking about cocks...! oh holy shit...what did i say...delete delete delete...i meant...chickens...!

so much so that people are spamming with weird cookooo-doo-cooo wmv files...philosophies on debeaking...and pics of chickens mating with crocodiles because they cant see who they are mating courtesy...the awesome...the transparent...the sexy look...the one...the only...ODIIIIII lenssssssssssss...!!!!!

oh god b-school is funny...!

got my grade in accounting. aparently some CAs have got an A...which is quite a surprise cause they are not supposed to be that good. i for one havent managed one...i am just lucky to have got what i got...especially after my stupendous performance in the finals...!

have been thinking...(beeppp...unprecedented error...!!)...for some days now. the concept of a one-yr mba. as of this moment i can say for sure that my IQ has jumped some 400 points to reach the current level of +20...however...i wonder if this circumstance called ISB is allowing me to appreciate the science behind business education. i read cases...just because i have to...maybe cause i have to score some random CP points...and very rarely do i get time to think beyond whats required.

i would love to read the newspaper everyday...spend an hr or so on it...but then each time i sit down to do so i get a mind call that i have to be somewhere. and the work seems more important at that moment than anything else. and hence passes my 24 hours...!

yah..its not that i dont get to do stuff...i gym...i talk on the phone...i have long dinners...and i listen to music...browse through some 20 odd blogs...and do random stuff...! but then this takes some 20% of my day...while the remaining 80 goes towards just reading stuff...completing submissions...or simply markstrating...

its unfortunate...though i am sure there is a way out. and i shall soon find out one...

and this brings me to markstrat. the first time i heard the word screwed in my life...was an important day. i realize now...that had it not been for that day i wont have got an opportunity to truly define the state we are in currently....SCREWED....!!!! damn sad

going for a dinner tomorrow to the Aikya family's place. should be fun..though G is not coming along :(

had an awesome talk with R today. and this was after a long time. feeling very happy and relaxed...and refreshed. i would do anything to be with her right now...!

life....

~a

finally...

an A on the grade report...! and its a good feeling...when you know that you are amoungst the best in a batch that boasts of IIT toppers and CAs and people with 7..8..9..23...years of work experience. i mean...what chance does a one-eyed monstor with an IQ of negative 40 have...infront of such tycoons. so yah...it does feel good...

yesterday was pretty chilled out...had classes and then had to get the DMO assignment finished off. went off well...got an absolute kick out of the entire deal. its orgasmic man...numbers jst excite me like anything...R has reasons to be jealous...!

then watched a wonderful movie...'the motocycle diaries'. brilliant stuff...very inspiring...and rather profound. its about these 2 dudes who set out on a road trip across south america on a motorcylce that would sell more as scrap than it would as a motorcycle. and then their experiences...and how inspite of being so different in their attitude towards like...they had something common...their desire for a free human spirit...! very touching...

today has been good so far. have been markstrating for the past 5.5 hrs...jst got done and i have a feeling that this time we have managed to come up with some sensible decisions. lets hope that it does come out to be so...

trip to delhi not sure as yet. tickets are damn expensive and my budget doesnt really allow me to spend more than a rupee a day...(2 rupees if i go out friday night...!)...so trying to work my way through at mandirs on tuesday evenings. lets see what comes up.

rest all good...will write soon...

~a

sweet weekend...

life is awesome...teaching you every inch that you take...how to take the next inch. and making you realize the importance of the same. yesterday was absolute bliss. got up at 11.30...chilled out for 2 hours...went for lunch...slept for 2 hours...watched 'commanding heights' (ok ok...slept midway...but what the heck...!) for a bit...worked on some random stuff...went to Touch and blasted 600 bucks...went to have midnight biryani at green plaza...came back at 2...browsed for 2 hours...slept...

the occasion...? there wasnt anything due on sunday...and a small turn in on monday.
the history...? all of us had been wacking our asses everyday...for the past 14 days or so
the lesson...? only when you get your ass wacked everyday do you realize what it is to not have it wacked one fine morning
and finally...? give your ass a break...occasionally...

today was amazing as well...got loads of work done...had a good time generally...met with our Aikya family...(their daughter is married to lakshmi mittal's son...ahem ahem....cough cough...choke choke...aaaaagggghhhhh....). it was great fun to meet up with Mrs. Patodia...a sweet lady who very evidently has seen a lot in life...and has her fundamentals right...

sardar is leaving tomorrow...and i am kind of feeling odd. it was fun to have him around...though he does tend to get on one's nerve easily. but then...he is a sweetheart...a lost one though...!

S's bro is in town...smart chap...kickass nikon d70 he owns...damn...! G is sweet as ever...has been more so lately :)

the DMO assignment this time is rocking...i so get a kick playing with numbers...its such an awesome high. my marijuana...! looking forward to the new set of profs that will hit the scenes from tomorrow on...

damn...another 2 weeks and we complete 2 terms...! time is flying...

but i wont get my ass wacked...

~a

global economics and robin williams...

the mid term went well...i mean...how screwed up does one have to be to not realize that when the economy isnt that well...the interest rates fall...and hence investment rises...which leads to stock prices falling and bond prices rising and wages going up and employment going down...and bush going...'most of our imports come from other countries...!!'...wooooopahhh!!!!!

but krishna...the prof who replaced bansi babu...is rocking. and you can see that on his face. and he made the entire lecture (only one of it so far though) effortless...(which was the case with bansi as well...but on a whole together different level..!)

then went to the gym after 3 decades..! sardar also followed and was clicking in the gym as if he owned the place. G is worried that her 'back' was photgraphed much beyond her comfort...! i was actually posing for some snaps...with that thing...i dont know what u call it...the huge elephant belt that WWF guys strap around every part of their body. and i was sweating and all...so i am guessing the snap will be 'elephants also workout...!'

towards the evening then was time for markstrating. we are royally screwed (did i mention that before...i guess i did..!)...and it was like...i know why people are laid off now...i mean...for god sake...we dont have money to buy the ceo a bloody maybach...how can we afford 128 salespeople...? u insane..?

that got over at 12.30 or so...and...ok i have to admit this in public. P is the stud of our group and i can see him frustrated at time because of us. and i feel he was last evening as well...and i wanna apologize for the same dude. i know i was part of your reason to be frustrated...it wont happen again. love u...muuuuuuuahhhhhhh...!! :)

and after that we have robin williams live at the broadway...1.5 hrs of unadultered adult comedy....that guy rocked like anything man. unfortunately there werent too many guys arnd...but then that didnt quite spoil the fun.

AND AND AND...awesomest news ever. R has decided that she would be coming over on sep 2...! i mean...how awesome is that...? rocking news...i cant contain myself...!

life rocks as of now...hopefully in the right sense of the word...

~a