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Howto: Excel Based Mutual Fund Portfolio Tracker

Published on Nov 13, 2006 in Learn Excel, personal finance

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 […]

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Why arent IT jobs glorified in B-school Placements?

Published on Oct 29, 2006 in b-school, technology, wonder why

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. But […]

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Relationships & Banks

Published on Sep 27, 2006 in advertising, banking, personal finance

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! […]

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Porok, Call back Ads and Simple Joys of Life

Published on Sep 12, 2006 in Random

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 […]

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Welcome to PHD!

Published on Sep 5, 2006 in Random

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 […]

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Google Grrs at Google

Published on Aug 29, 2006 in Random

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 […]

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Duct tape found! Three men arrested!!!

Published on Aug 25, 2006 in Random

Well, thats exactly the type of news items I am reading / watching these days. Not that there is nothing else is happening in the world, for some obvious reasons most of the MSM have chosen to adopt the policy of selling the news instead of reporting the news. So, even PHD decides to celebrate […]

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A dream that is three and half years old…

Published on Aug 11, 2006 in Random

January, 2003:It was my engineering final year, campus was abuzz and everybody was hopeful and anxious since its placement time. CSE people have more opportunities naturally and we kept hearing about the companies that might visit the campus this year. Finally the first company was announced. India’s largest software services company it is. We were […]

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Orbit Musings and other things

Published on Aug 3, 2006 in Random

>>> How come chennai doesnt have any English / Hindi FM channels? I think (correct me) all other metros have them. The only FM channel where you can hear something in Hindi is All India Radio’s FM Channel. >>> I am planning to buy a TV. My budget is 10k. The TV must be flat […]

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A date with my plate!

Published on Jul 31, 2006 in Random

I would call it the Chennai’s food backbone, Saravana Bhavan as it is popularly known in this coastal city. As we enter this high-class vegetarian restaurant’s head office branch in Vadapalani, my friend was skeptical about the quality of the food and worried looking at the bustling crowd. We opted for the AC room and […]

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CATvertising

Published on Jul 24, 2006 in Random

This is that of the year when a huge business would thrive. A conservative estimate of the size of that business would be 60 crores or more per year. And its none other than Indian MBA entrance exams and their coaching. The CAT notification is out and so are the notifications for other prominent schools. […]

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Learnings of the week that was

Published on Jul 21, 2006 in Random

Not that you would be interested to know them, but anyways, >>> It does rain in Chennai for more than 12.3 seconds at a time. It happened once yesterday. >>> Using combo-boxes in excel is not that difficult, it is so much more fun and intuitive. Try learning them here if you are a excel […]

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Understanding Customer – Insights from street

Published on Apr 24, 2006 in Random

Part 1 of many more to come Location: DTDC Main office, Hyderabad Customer: Sir, can you courier this to Nellore (its a town in AP)Service Personnel: What is in it? C: a SIM cardSP: We dont deliver SIM cards C: Why?SP: Because, we donot take responsibility to them. (apparently either they are not covered under […]

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Trip to North East India – frist cut

Published on Mar 28, 2006 in Random

A small foto preview to the trip. We covered,– Kolktata, Kaziranga, Tezpur, Bomdila, Sela Pass, Tawaga, PTSO, Shillong and Guwahati– snow, heat, forests, wildlife, monks, army and many more Gopalpur Beach in Orissa, Near Sudhir’s house View from Victoria Memorial, Kolkata Kaziranga National Park A Lake on the way to Kaziranga, Assam Tea Garden venky, […]

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Done with the trip

Published on Mar 25, 2006 in Random

I am done with my trip to NorthEast India. We visited several places including Kaziranga, Shillong, Tawang etc. Will post more dope about the trip once i am back in HYD. Right now in Guwahati and will be leaving to Kolkata tomorrow. 🙂

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