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After lot of thought and reconsiderations I have made my decisions for electives. On the outset the list or electives may look like I am doing general management, but I have ended up taking all courses related to marketing. I know this is a tough choice to make as i will have to spend rest […]

A collage of thoughts going in my mind: – Indore is getting fucking hot. Its just march and my room is unbearably hot at 1:30 in the night.– Seniors do rock a lot. They came here for convocation fuction which is on 21st. Since they came early they are having a party on mess terrace, […]

Welcome to the first one of the “in retrospect” series. I will write about my past experiences, the places and the people in this series of posts. The posts wont come one after another so dont rush to your time machine. Instead they will come as and when i am free and there is no […]

I am feeling better. Thanks to the medication suggested by our doctor. Other than a rare sickness nothing new is happening as far as 2004pgp078 is concerned. The rare sickness brings me to the topic of last sickness i had. It was sometime during 2003 september. I had a terrific fever. Bunked office for 5 […]

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 […]

You must be thinking “oh!, no not another how did I spend my day post”. Rest assured. This is not going to be one of them unless you closely look for the clues. But that way everything falls in the same line just like Keynes saying “In the long run, we all are dead” For […]

[PG Link] Before joining IIM Indore in July 2004 I have attended 9 real GD/PIs. I am able to convert 3 of them. There were lots of key takeaways from all these experiences. This post aims to throw some light in what works best in a GD/PI and what can make one a failure in […]

Last 2 days of have been slightly hectic with one presentation and the impending endterms. Yeah, i know that i am talking too much about these end terms. But that is what you feel at times. anyways i am not complaining 😀 there are some chaos about PG.com leaking the CAT results (height of illogical […]

(1)If you compare a full photograph of me in graduation and now you will see a stark difference. It is the growing retained earnings near the body parts surrounding my belly. Thanks largely to my SE job. I never felt the need to stand and walk from my swivel chair. Many of my friends told […]

Before you can think of the various possible and pleasurable meanings for the dangling ‘it’ in the title let me clarify the noun it is pointing to. It is ‘Marketing Research’. 🙂 Well, there is nothing to be pissed off about it. Infact the story of my stint with marketing research dates back to day […]

Well, upon looking at the three words Marcovian Queues, Arranged Marriage and Forefathers any sane person (Aah!, that excluded all the managers in the world :D) would say that they are totally unconnected. Today, i am here to prove that indeed they have a strong relationship among themselves. So much so that, the relationship is […]

It was never meant to be this great. Actually, even in my dreams i never expected today to be this good.Sometime yesterday night, Venky (we call him BABA, an amicable lad from CTS and a genuine product of TN) came to my room and woke me up from a deep slumber only to ask me […]

MOC Shocks Whoever said managers do nothing but presentations can move ahead and prove that i am going to become a worst manager. well, atlease my grades in managerial oral communication says so. i got a measly 2.2 out of 4.33 and recieved a ‘C’ grade. Baaah !!! MOC was one of few soft courses […]

Knock, Knock …. Smirnoff Vodka (SV): Is it Chandoo? Chandoo (C): Yep. SV: Hi!!!, this is SV. I stay in a bottle. just like the software engineers who stay in cubes. For that matter cubes are my best friends. 😀 C: Hic!!!, So … SV: hmm.. So, wassup??? C: What is not??? SV: care to […]