Weekend Plans
on 1 Dec, 2006 in Seoul | 0 Comments
First in Seoul is coming to an end and there is a host of activities planned for the 2 days.
Visit atleast one toursit spot in the city.
Try the much famed underground metro of Seoul.
Go to the foriegn food mall in ethewan (or something that sounds similar) and pick up some vegetables, Taiwanese rice, normal curd [...]
Howto: Excel Based Mutual Fund Portfolio Tracker
on 13 Nov, 2006 in Excel Tips, personal finance | 2 Comments
Instead of searching for the NAVs of all my funds at MyIRIS or MutualFundsIndia, I have developed a small excel sheet which will fetch the values for me and displays the current portfolio value at the click of a button. Here I am trying to share the “HOWTO” of the same.
Create an excel workbook [...]
Read More >>Why arent IT jobs glorified in B-school Placements?
on 29 Oct, 2006 in b-school, technology, wonder why | 0 Comments
Rewind an year or two and you would have known me as a staunch supporter of all roles that are marketing and vying to become one sometime. Well, I believe that i am marketer even now. Just that i am selling services, technology and consulting instead of a pack of beedis, printers or pills. [...]
Read More >>Relationships & Banks
on 27 Sep, 2006 in advertising, banking, personal finance | 0 Comments
Banks and relationships are as old a pair as slice bread and butter knife. I can imagine my grand father getting shivers allover when he deposited bulk of his first salary in the bank wondering all he was left with was a stupid passbook with illegible numbers on it. The point is days have changed! [...]
Read More >>Porok, Call back Ads and Simple Joys of Life
on 12 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
First up, Porok!
MTV India has tied up with Microsoft XBOX and is welcoming xbox to India in style with “Porok”. [Read news items 1, 2] As they say in the Ad, “Porok might have been inspired from cocks, but inside we are all tigers”. Having seen a couple of XBOX ads, I am sure this [...]
Welcome to PHD!
on 5 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Its been 2 years since I have posted such a message. A recent look at my website statistics revealed that most of the visitors are first timers, and quite a few of them land here searching one of the “iim”, “indore”, “iim indore blog”, “iimi” or “chandoo iim”. So, let me take a moment and [...]
Read More >>Google Grrs at Google
on 29 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Today I was using google reader and suddenly it Grred at me saying that there is a pop-up blocker which is not allowing the reader to open a window.
[Click on it incase you cant read it clearly, anyways it says: "Grrr! A popup blocker may be...."]Hmm! looks like slowly the world will move away from [...]
