Day 225: 14th Feb, 2010

I wrote and wrote but little thought

What sense there was to the answer sought

-Words(have_no)worth

Ultimate globe marathon today. Reaped the benefit of doing the MM project (communication mix) on my own as I could reproduce the same thing almost verbatim in today's paper :D . The HRM paper greeted us with this Calvin and Hobbes (my favourite comic btw!) strip.

I also added my own comment in the last box - "So do I. Though I din't find any in this paper :-(" in the copy to be submitted to the prof :-p . Another unique piece of advice in the paper was "Closed book, open mind" examination.

Having exams till 5pm however left us with little time to enjoy Valentine's day (read alternating between the 2 states of cribbing about singledom and then praising it for self-consolation :P). Went to see My Name is Khan. (Much against my wishes.) And so much struggle for the ticket. First went to catch the 7pm show at Wave. They said tickets were available only for the 7.50pm show. We being 'busy VVIPs', went to Fun to find another show. No tickets. Came back to wave and got tickets for the 7.25pm show! (Whatever was the ticket vendor doing previously! :S) Thankfully my expectations were below rock bottom, so I could sit through the movie.. I didn't die.. I didn't die.. eeks!

PS: IIM I's debating society were to have a debate on the thought provoking topic - How should 440 guys and 40 girls celebrate Valentine's Day? :D . Pity it got cancelled! :(

Day 224: 13th Feb, 2010 - Maggu Divas

I read for only 2 hours for the MIS paper (an hour yesterday + an hour in the morning) and regretted wasting even that much time. The exam was full globe. We had one case study on eBay followed by three questions worth 5,5,15 marks resp. I (and most other people) have simply combined ans1 and ans2 to get ans3 :D

It's only the start of globe for the day though. Today the whole of PGP25 is celebrating 'Maggu Divas'. 5 chapters of MM and 12(!!) chapters of HRM to be mugged :-| . Am trying my best to motivate myself to study.. but even 5 min after I read something, I can't seem to recollect it :-(

The weather's beautiful though, just pleasant. Beautiful precursor for Valentine day tomorrow. If only I didn't have these exams.. and while wishes are being made.. if only I had a Valentine :-p

Day 223: 12th Feb, 2010

I thought the QAM paper was pretty lengthy. It took me the full three hours inspite of the fact that I didn't know one question at all :-p . And therefore of course, the lengthy paper only works to my advantage :D ..Muaahahahahahahahaha! (evil laugh!)

My annual fast today :) . Not even the customary two glasses of tea this time!

Day 222: 11th Feb, 2010

Having 2 exams / day is nice. At the end of the day, you are pretty happy to see the exams rushing by quickly. (Of course, if you subjects like FM and HRM on one day, you may not even survive to see the end of the day.)

Another first here - I took a supplement in the SCM paper :D (sshh... won't speak about the blank pages I left).

Mad rush at the photocopy fellow. Why couldn't the other idiots be more responsible and have their notes ready beforehand?! :-p . Consequently, I didn't have the case booklet for the first three questions. Fortunately, ma'am got a few extra copies and I could attempt them later on. The thing did cost me around 10min of idle time, which was quite a bit considering the paper was already lengthy.

Day 221: 10th Feb, 2010

Life here is becoming more and more random! Today somebody played a prank - and what a prank :-| - by creating a very authentic looking marriage invitation card celebrating the bonding of two batchmates and .. you guessed it .. mailed it to the entire batch! And mailed it by somehow getting access to the said person's gmail account! Ridiculous!

Had our FM paper today - 3 questions, 10 marks each. Read this line from the second question - "the sales will increase at the rate of 10% each year for another four years but the sales will erode at the rate of 5% p.a. in year three and four". Whatever are you supposed to make of that?! :-O . And the entire sum depended on this interpretation :-S

Day 220: 9th Feb, 2010 - Are we choosing the right leaders?

The post has nothing to do with what is happening at the macroscopic level. It is about something that is happening here.

I have no intention to wash dirty linen in public, but suffice to say, no person anywhere can get away with abusing a position of authority (and responsibility!) for long. The title of the post is actually the subject line of an email sent by an esteemed professor of our institute to the entire student community, appalled by the behaviour of a certain student representative. The said "Mr. Leader" has slipped way down the popularity ladder ever since he was elected and today's action just added fuel to the fire and started a tirade of insults pelted at him. I hope everybody would always remember the famous spiderman quote - With great power comes great responsibility. The super talented Mr. Vishrani came up with a brilliant caricature summing it all up!

As I write this post, I suddenly recollect on a couple of events that I totally missed out! (Though I may be repeating this :-p). Senior council elections are over. Most seats went uncontested, which is not very cool in a democratic setup, though I must add that some candidates are totally worth the positions (ironically, in stark contrast to the paragraph above!).

We have also re-started Channel Hell - IIM Lucknow's very own radio channel. It typically runs weekends. Tonight of course, there was a special coverage - Leadership awards!

Chalo anyways, exams from tomorrow. Best of luck to you and me!

PS: Got our 2nd term CG. The whole batch has taken a hit - and INDEXians have outdone others!

Day 219: 8th Feb, 2010 - Monkey Management!

Our section is quite (in)famous for asking for deadline extensions. True to the record, a few guys had been asking for postponement of submission of a couple of assignments. The efforts did pay off - the boring HRM journal reading task had been extended. But our FM prof's style of putting through the same point for his subject was awesome :D . His mail -

"The date for the first assignment submission is extended to 16th Feb 2010.

A line of advise for the lobbies. No more extensions on any course related matters will be entertained. You manage your monkey and I will manage mine.

Cheers until then "

Allowed myself to bunk a QAM class in the morning today to enjoy the luxury of some extra sleep :D :D

The next MIS class was the usual - scrambling to copy the assignment in the first 5 min, listening as the prof whiled his time (and ours) rambling on something that has no coherence or relevance to what he should be speaking on. Doesn't seem to be a good course at this juncture in the first place. Would have been much more logical to have a strategy course now and keep this as an elective next year.

INDEX room is now spacious, thanks to kisaan. Poor fellow had to become a mazdoor to unload the boxes at the shop :D . Had the extension of yesterday's meeting today. Things came to a logical conclusion.

Have my exams from day after. Doesn't seem like that at all. I have friends who are worried about tests a few days away.. and here I am to restore nature's balance.

And just as I finish writing this post, it's started to rain. Wonders never cease!