Archive for February, 2005

Travails of being a southie doesn’t start with a long name or end with an engineering degree. Till I came here my only worry is my long and historical sounding name. Ok, Lets talk about the name first. My name is (provided you dont disclose this valuable information to others), Duggirala Raja Raja Surya Chandra […]

The Great India Blog Mela is up, do check it out. I’m hosting the next one, so send in your entries to me. You can nominate a post by either commenting to this entry or sending me an email The guidelines:1. All posts between February 25 and March 4 are eligible, including those two days.2. […]

Madhu!, Ever since you entered my life I am a changed person. I have neglected friends, family and studies for you. You have always been the central part of my existence. Following me through thick and thin of life. You were the first person to know when i wrote my firt infinite loop. You were […]

Almost. Except for Operations Management II all other mids are over. Due to a small accident the OM mid is rescheduled. To make life more exciting post midterm i am planning to, – Complete Barbarians at the Gate The Fall of RJR Nabisco, Absolut Biography of a Bottle and ofcourse Life of Pi– Listen to […]

On a dark night, I am sitting in my room with QT textwondering whether to learn T-Test or go out for a Tea Taste Tomorrow (or rather today) is the last day of mids. Got QT and OM exams. Sofar finished majority of QT. will go through OM once I comeback from T break. Actually […]

For the last one hour or so i am thinking. I am thinking about my future and my current state. After coming here life has become really hectic. This place never gave me a chance to stop and think where all this will take me. Under the disguise of handling stress and managing hazaar things […]

I sit behind Ashwin (our quiz club secy) in the classroom. Both of us have a general hatred towards classroom learning and on any given day atleast one of will be sleeping in the class even though Ass wouldnt agree to the fact that he is sleeping. So to fight the attack of sleep and […]

Yuppieee… my blog crossed 10k visitors. I thought it would take 250 days to achieve this. almost spot on. Now whoever is reading this, please help in me reaching the next target. 25k by 400 days. Just kidding. Enjoy PHD.

When i was a kid, i was fascinated by numbers. So much so that I used to top all the maths courses. Later during the engineering first year when I failed to add 2 matrices in the final exam I felt like suiciding. It was such a shame for me. All the penchant for numbers […]

we have midterms from tomorrow. everyones busy mugging corp fin and mhr. on the to be comprehended list i have,– 11 chapters of greek and latin from brealey myers– truck load of hr crap– one MHR Case on which the analytical and conceptual questions will be asked in the exam tomorrow– why on the earth […]

Dunno what to say. most of the seniors will be leaving in another 24 hours time. it feels like someone is snatching away your brother. but yeah this place belongs to no one. it just makes you a member of cult and then you move on showing the world what it is to be like […]

i have been busy for the last 2-3 days. How can i sit in my room and blog when the best time of the year is here. yeah, you guessed it right. PGP2 had their final placements. This year the placements have been superb with ppl recieving multiple offers with crazy compensations. will post more […]

Yesterday, I was making a ppt for some operations related issues and came across a couple of articles on the web related to how manufacturing outsourcing is happening. While reading one of the articles I have realized a strange thing. It is, companies obcession with acronyms. So much so that they have acronyms like MOST […]

Just when we thought nothing can beat power lunches and dinners I came across this new consumable called Power Salad. The otherday I ordered for a fruit salad after coming from gym. The fruit stall guy seems to be taking little longer than I expected, so I asked him to deliver it in my room. […]

bulging & purging:An interesting thing is happening on the hilltop resort now a days. A bunch of 30 pgp1s has started a dietary circus called body purging program. we call it bpp. with in 2 days the bpp doers number plummetted by 90% and now we have 3 lone survivers. Last heard some geeks have […]