So here goes your chance to peek into the life of a non-drinking non-smoking workless bachelor’s life over the weekend. What would he do? Where will he go? and finally how will he identify himself in a hilltop sanctuary????
The Saturday:
did i ever i told you that we have no concept of weekend here. Well, if i didn’t then, let me tell now. “we don’t have weekends here”. Now that we have completely eliminated assumptions from our minds, lets proceed to the so called Saturday.
From 9:30-3:40 – Six hours of total torture. Some of the megastars might call them as classes too. Well, its not that we have six hours of senseless staring at the screens. but we have what we call, the refilling exercise in between the classes, where most of the hungry souls try to feed themselves with the food in the mess…..
4:00-5:30 – one and half an hour, and the next Bhaichung Bathia is in making. It is just that, i might take another 4-5 years ( in thousands that is, as goes with all things in management accounting ) to become what he is now.
5:30-6:00 – After the bout of ping pong its time to fill the mouth with some tea and snacks.
6:00-8:30 – Now that i am an official member of EquitI the FinClub of IIMI, the onus of winning the logo designing competition is on me too. Why cant i design one??? Lots of installations/google searchings and one theme in mind. Finally some strokes have disturbed the otherwise white canvas just before the dinner time.
8:30-9:00 – Eat like a pig.
9:00-9:30 – Fine tuning the smashing skills on the board. Another round of ping pong.
9:30-1:00 – ‘Gyaan’ the business quiz. The BizzyBees won the third prize this time. Although the monetary gains are not huge, the Gyaan dished out made me feel very small. Thanks largely to UddU and Ash.
1:00-1:30 – Treating the friends in the night canteen. Bout of tea and some maggi.
1:30-2:30 – Chit chat
2:30-3:00 – Tried to watch KillBill2, which my mind negated to accept. Finally gave in and indulged in bodily pleasures (what the hell are you thinking, i am talking about sleep)
Before I can say Sunday, I am already in that.
Well, so…
8:45 – The body responds to the unused pressure on it to take rest for long.
9:30-10:00 – Fotosession for the partners in crime. All the prisoners are assembled before the MOAT( open air theatre) to get shot.
10:00-10:30 – Breaking the fast in a rather slow fashion.
10:30-11:30 – MANAC Debited, Time Credited.
11:30-12:30 – zzzzz…. Some of this impulse could be attributed to the transaction described above.
12:45-1:30 – Lunch
1:45-3:45 – Some Reading, Some Logo Designing.
3:45-4:45 – sleep. Nap or whatever you call it.
4:45-5:30 – snacks time.
5:30-7:00 – preparing for the group meeting.
7:00-9:30 – Group meeting fart 1
9:30-10:00 – dinner.
10:00-11:00 – meeting with acadCom
11:00-11:30 – contribution to country’s loss in cricket.
11:30-1:00 – meeting fart 2
1:00-1:15 – Tea break.
1:20-3:40 – mad and meaningless reading for the day’s sessions.
3:40-… – calling it a day, rather ironically.
8:40-… – And the vicious circle never ends.
Mandatory Trainings: Are we doing them? [Data Analysis Challenge – 002]
This week, let’s try something new. I have a spreadsheet challenge for you. Solve it, post your answers by leaving a comment. No cheating or
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Ciao Hui,
Collecting Excel tricks under the title “Notable Excel Websites (Non-MVP) Edition” is a brilliant idea…
Thank you in the name of all The FrankensTeam.
On our site there is a box with a picture and text highlighting:
This is a no-MVP site
we think ourselves “bad boys” a bit 🙂
For those who would like to know why our site is a no-MVP site, enough to click on the link:
http://goo.gl/lxDszY
Thank you again!
Thanks a lot
I really enjoyed this (newsletter). I must admit that I rarely read an Excel newsletter (and I subscribe to quite a few) all the way though, but this grabbed my attention and before I realized it, I was engrossed in it. I must also admit that most of this I don’t understand, yet. But, it excites me when I do learn something new in Excel. I can’t wait to see how much of this I can implement into my (constantly-evolving) ‘House Budget’ & ‘Family Medical’ worksheets that I have developed over the past few years! I sure hope to see more of these type of newsletters in the future! Thanks!
Thanks for doing this Hui! I appreciate being included.
I like Tom’s tip a lot. I posted about a tool I wrote to automate this at http://yoursumbuddy.com/tables-edit-query-dialog/
EXCELLENT !
Hui, This post is Superb! More over I have always been a fan of Roberto’s work and have learnt a lot from him.
Here are some of my recent contributions
1. Customising markers in a chart – http://www.goodly.co.in/customize-markers-in-a-chart/
2. Charting Hacks to work faster – http://www.goodly.co.in/5-charting-hacks-to-help-you-work-faster/
3. 7 Date formulas to make life easy – http://www.goodly.co.in/date-formulas-in-excel/
4. Customised scrollbar using VBA – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
5. Adding Direct Legends – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
Hope everyone enjoys!
I like the Excel Ninja Menus.
1. Select a cell or range then move till the 4-way cross appears. Right-Click and drag the selection to another place in the worksheet then, like a ninja, a menu full of skills and throwing stars pops up allowing me to do all kinds of awesomeness.
2. When you click the fill box on a Date and right click and drag it down, a lot of amazing Date options pop up.
I also brand my Excel to remind myself that I’m awesome. In my personal macro workbook I place the following code.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Caption = “SuperKrishna’s Awesomeness”
End Sub
My favorite tip goes along with #17. If you try to copy subtotaled data (and in earlier Excel versions filtered data),when you paste it all the data displays instead of just the summarized data.
To get around this, select your summarized data, click on Find and Select tab and then select Go to Special. Click Visible cells Only and click OK. Now paste and you will see that only the summarized data has been copied.
You can also go CTRL+G and then click the Special icon at the bottom of the dialog box.
What a great idea, Chandoo! I’d love to be included in your next edition:) Perhaps a VBA exclusive version?
@Ryan
I will review this concept about 6 months out from the original post and be sure to keep your site in mind
Hui…
That sounds great, Hui:) I just realized I gave credit to Chandoo for the idea and I should have attributed it to you.
Sorry about that!