Come to think of it. I have been in this place for the last 7 months. Gone through hazaar quizzes, made umpteen presentations, wrote unimaginably lengthy reports and snored like anything in the class. But alas!, I have never put up a night out (out and out nightout means you get not even a wink of sleep). The latest time I crashed was 7:00 AM on a couple of occasions. But even on those days I had a decent 2 hour sleep.

Such a shame. Everyone talks about tortures in Bschool and here one outlier who never put up a night out. So I thought last night, just for the heck of it that I am gonna put up a night out. To be very frank whatever may be the work we have for any given day, all of it can be completed before 5am and you still get a decent 3.5 hours of nonstop winks. Due to bounded rationality and some weird JIT algorithms we try to work till the last minute to get best out of everything. Anyways we are talking about my first night I guess.

So there I was at 1am in the night canteen savouring an alu-paratha. After the gastric luxury one of the co-eaters suggested that we play a game of badminton. You have to be here to know how cold it was last night. Since the basic premise under which most bschoolers operate is irrationality, there 4 of us with one hand in pockets and other holding the racquet in the baddy court trying to chase the shuttle. After 3 games of exhaustion I came back to my room. the clock is showing 2:50.

After some vigorous page turnings and window maximizations finally it was 4:20. I thought I would crash as I am adding no value to myself by wasting time on Brealey Myers (that is Corp Fin for the uninitiated). Here we need to discuss about the 2 species of human beings. Those who complete their work and sleep and those who sleep and work after waking up. I for one never believed in my abilities to leave the sack early in the morning for some intellectual pursuits. So I religiously complete whatever I want before hitting the bed. But some reason GOVAR has chosen to join the opposition. So, at 4:20 am in the morning he came online in Y!. Just for the heck of it I buzzed him and asked if he is awake.

I proposed him a morning walk at 7:00. We finally decided to pull in setup (Nirmal) also. So there we are, 3 crazy assholes early in the morning trying to waste time till 7. I did some more corp fin, some case reading, lots of browsing.

Finally it was 7. Setup is totally lost in the world of reasoning and corporate finance. He said he cant walk. The worst thing is we couldn’t get his camera either. Then we had to wake up masala (venky baba) to get a camera.

Thus we started walking downhill. It was a beautiful morning. See some of the pix we clicked.

After the walk I took breakfast at 8:30. First time since I joined here I took breakfast 1 full hour before classes begin.

That is all about my first night (out) :D.

PS: CP of the day
Prof: What is the Diff. b/w risk, certainity and uncertainity?
CP GOD: Sir Risk is when you almost certainly know that there is going to be uncertainity !!!
Entire Class: Applauses the verbal abuse

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What could be a better time to start “spam spam” than the day before Corp-Fin 10% quiz???
Since the mailserver will crack if we spam with mails, we decided to use Y! messenger. Take a look at screenshots.

Tada!

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Sometimes I wonder how much lazy one can be. Then again the wonder vanishes in to one of those hazaar nightouts. Anyways, take a look at what i have done(actually these things require no efforts). Long live holidays.

- I have tried watching 3 movies. two of them are PITAs. The other I didnt watch completely. They are,
······- “Lemony Snickets and a series of unfortunate events“,
······- “LOTR - ROTK” in open air theatre
······- “Bridget Jones and Edge of Reasoning“

Well, 2 of them have clues in their names as to what they can offer. But damn me, i neglected them and suffered.

- I have slept for 12 hours. 8 hours in the night. 4 hours in the afternoon.

Duh!

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Tomorrow is a global day. We have 3 classes starting with Strategic Planning and ending with a double whammy in the form of 2 HR classes. That means you can something like “That will have longterm strategic impact on the firm and place it in a competitively disadvantageous position vis-a-vis competitors and demotivate employees from reading ePapers and surfing banned websites during office hours” in all the classes without a shred of shame or guilt.

Anyway, that is not the point of this blog. Rather, lets talk about Lecter. Dr. Lecter Hannibal.

I love anything on the screen as long as it doesnt have blood and violence. May be somewhere deep inside myself, I believe in more softer forms of drama. Even now, most of the times when I see a movie, I close my eyes when violence becomes too much for me. May be this shows that I am not ready to face it. May be it shows what I am. So when I copied “silence of lambs” from the LAN and searched the same on IMDB and read the reviews, little did I know about the crude nature of the film. Govar said, watch the movie on a comp with good speakers. My 5 year old box has 2 little paper weights with little LEDs and I still convince myself that they are speakers. Well, they were THE speakers at the time of purchase. But now they pale before all the woofers in the hostel.

Anyway, that is not the point of this blog. So I started watching the movie after a dose of maggi and a bout of tea at about 12:50.

Even though my speakers are small, the print of the movie is really good and produced a real quality sound. As the movie progressed every minute I was saying myself to stop the movie. But I prevailed in the end. I wanted to see how much of this I can tolerate. I think this is what happens when you sit through long sessions of manifesto presentations, slideshows, guest lectures and un-fullstopped-CPs.

Anyway, that is not the point of this blog. So I completed watching the movie.

what do I feel about it? well, nothing to be frank. Atleast now I know that I am not as sensitive as what I would like to believe. But I also knew that I wont be craving for more of this cult. May be sometime later. But not in the immediate future

That is all about the Lecter. Oh!, yes, The movie is real class. Watch it, I bet you would love Lecter.

Tada!

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Staying on the hill with beautiful surroundings has its own advantages. We get to see most wonderful sunsets/rise here despite the fact that most often you see sunrises before you sleep.

some snaps.

The ghat road in the evening.

Isnt it sexy?

Golden Skies

As the darkness surrounds…

Tada!

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sometimes when i meet people trying to protect themselves and hide their insecurities by not allowing others to mingle with them i remember this quote I read in a telugu book longback.

He has drawn a small circle around him and thrown me out.
I have drawn a bigger circle around me and invited him.

Well, why am i talking about it now? coz, i am disturbed by an incident happened today.

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Yesterday during our habitual night walks govar, srickant (only non-ghissu academic committee member) and myself started arguing about this article. Srickant was for the issues raised in the article. Me and Govar are against the issues.

For those who have not read the article here is the crux of it.

IIMs or other Indian B Schools are far from providing realistic training for would be managers. They lack in areas like peer evaluation. Also the case studies are disconnected with reality. There is not much emphasis on improvement of self.

Some of the interesting points that came up in our discussion are,

Srickant: The B Schools should fine tune their processes. They should have more emphasis on experiential learning, peer evaluation and diversity of batch. The current system present in IIMs (atleast IIMI) is giving lot of freedom which is resulting pitfalls. We dont have an avenue to integrate all concepts gathered in various courses and apply them in real life examples.

Govar: Things like peer evaluation is not the solution to the problem. Outside world is ridden with bureaucracy. You need to learn it here itself. Case studies are not waste of time. Rather they just enable you to sensitize with issues and develop a solution to tackle them. One cannot say “how is a GM case helpful in Indian context”. Also, the problem of integration is addressed with the help of various opportunities like bplan contests.

Me: It is up the individual to take what he want from the system. At this level one cannot blame the system. You have the freedom to explore yourself and findout what you want. Why would I be caring about some course if I am not interested in it. I would rather spend time understanding something else. You should use your mind for integration and application of concepts. The System cannot force you to do it.

As you can see 3 people and 3 different povs. But again the question remains more or less unanswered. That is because there is no answer to it. No matter whatever we suggest today becomes obsolete tomorrow. Think!

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