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A nights tale

Published on Apr 27, 2005 in Random

Last night was a perfect mumbaite night. I had a hectic day at office. Me went to meet some doctors in sion. My appetite for travel in locals died for the day after changing trains to reach that place. When i went back to my room all i wanted to do was to lie down […]

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Who has the bigger one? You or me?

Published on Mar 29, 2005 in Random

Welcome to the bad bad world of marketing surveys and questionnaires. We have a marketing project due in the next couple of days and all of us need to do a customer survey as part of the project. The aim is to suggest marketing strategies for MNCs and multi crore Indian companies based on a […]

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Of career and electives…

Published on Mar 25, 2005 in Random

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 […]

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Freebees… No please!

Published on Mar 22, 2005 in Random

I went to a near by villagesque town called Rau today for some retailer survey. The survey is about a major cough/cold relief product and how their distribution network functions. So there I was along with Anoop trying to interview a medical shop owner on the SKUs, commisions etc. etc. I was attracted by a […]

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About Classroom Humor & IT Textbooks

Published on Feb 22, 2005 in Random

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 […]

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Accounting of Exams !

Published on Jan 22, 2005 in Random

Well, you have seen them all. Cost accounting, management accounting, HR accounting, this accounting, that accounting. But Accounting of Exams??? Well, I guess there is no such concept in existence till now. Hmm, so something original, you must be thinking. But even if you are remotely aware of the blog title you will remember that […]

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See the learning

Published on Dec 19, 2004 in Random

Note: This post assumes minimum knowledge of cost accounting terminology. Also anything that has ‘account’ in it written by an engineer would be highly sarcastic. You are warned! Scene 1 (Location: our very own parliament house, Time: just after a loksabha winter session)Speaker: (Sigh!) another round of mindless damage to this house. Last year during […]

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Duh!, even I did it

Published on Dec 11, 2004 in Random

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 […]

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Escape to Reality – Part I

Published on Dec 4, 2004 in Random

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 […]

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Amazing reality of marketing surveys

Published on Nov 14, 2004 in Random

Today we had Marketing Research (MR) as discussion topic in marketing class. After a couple of presentations and Q&A sessions the prof raised the question (in fact he did raise more than one question.) “When is the appropriate time to do MR?”despite the fact that this question was raised at 1:15 pm when half the […]

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Strategic Repositioning of Blog

Published on Nov 11, 2004 in Random

Join me in bidding ‘bye bye’ to modus indoramus. The blog is no more. Welcome to world of hopeless engineers. Welcome to the world full of maniac decision makers. Welcome to Pointy Haired Dilbert. Welcome to the Ultimate Management Reality. Aaah, That sure is a grandoise way of putting things. Well, to make it simple, […]

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The mother of all terms

Published on Oct 1, 2004 in Random

Done with my registration for term 2 today morning. Got the reading material for the term too. Well, the material is simply intimidating. One of the books actually looked like a dictionary. Dont know howmuch I can comprehend. Broadly the out line of the term is, Monday 4th October – classes begin Thursday 20th October […]

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And the proverbial Nail in the coffin…

Published on Sep 15, 2004 in Random

Somedays, life seems highly miserable and hopeless. Well, not for cribbing but for the fun part of the life under thousand tonnes of pressure read on. Start the day at 12:00 by reading some come-dicks accounting case and trying to learn and appreciate their taxation policies and lease mechanisms, not to mention about the amortization […]

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Its all in Game Theory Stupid!!!

Published on Aug 28, 2004 in Random

Next time you meet a crazy b skooler who sleeps at 5 or may be 7 in the morning dont start arguing with him about the rationale behind his deviant act against nature laws. There is lots of thoery and practical application behind his/her insane act. Got curious???, Read on. (Warning: The following text is […]

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