Prep'ing the Placements

It has been quite some time since I wrote a blog post, then I had been busy searching for the purpose I joined the B-School - Placements, thus please pardon me if my thought flow is a bit confused as I am myself.

To any person who joins the B-School, ask their reasons and the answers may vary from anywhere between career growth and to gather knowledge?!! , there might be a few people who answer with "Package" though that is primarily the reason the B-School business is the faster growing one in the nation next to real estate. Real estate is facing a slump now ( One of the important intels I gathered from MBA), making the "business of an Educationist" the most profitable one here. And throughout my childhood I believed that "Business of an Educationist" an oxymoron and now people think of me as a mere moron to have thought like that.

Stop- Beating around the bush , Begin- Topic why I started to write today. Any person joining a B-School , at least in India, will have the prospect of a fatter package at the back of his mind above all the knowledge, girlfriends and job profiles offered in a B-School.To further elaborate on that statement, knowledge you mostly gather in your first year is the companies and profiles offered to your seniors and in second year it is about what companies and profiles your friends are offered. Compared to that the knowledge you gather in the class rooms are minuscule. Coming to the point of Girlfriends, in a B-School the meaning of that word can lie anywhere inside the dictionary, zeroing down the sole purpose of an MBA degree to profiles and packages. When it comes to profiles, most people dont look at it if the package is good. Proving the fact that package is all the more important.  (Phew I wrote this one big para to prove that point.)

From the above statements it is obviously making the placement season one of the biggest in the campuses, beginning from Placom and ending in a dharu party, whatever the outcome maybe. Got placed?? Enjoy with a beer. Not yet placed?? - Console with a beer. For us it is just another reason to drink. The placement seasons bring out the real grit and make of any person, it has the ability to break a person into tiny little pieces and if he is not able to hold himself up - it will wash him away. It can prove to be the best of times or the cruelest of times.

A placement day can bring up varied emotions and show the various people to us. Far too many people keep the greetings to the face and the bitching to the back. The fun in getting placed gets lost altogether after day 1 making the others just the unplaced ones. And that is the first sign of breaking a person in two. The ones that keep themselves up seeing the silver linings are the ones that escape the pressures.

Before coming into a B-School or even whilst doing the MBA degree people keep reading books like "The biggest innovators", or "Stay hungry Stay foolish" or a few autobiographies of the founders and CEO's of many companies. But when it comes to their lives people definitely stay foolish but not hungry. The hunger in them to take achieve big gets subdued to the bigger packages and brand names, and who is left over to take the risks?? The so called "un-placed group". And the primary lesson in finance put roughly means Risk is directly proportional to the returns. The people who never read most of these books are the ones that are left to write one of those in the future.

That makes us come to a conclusion that the B-School environment makes one to feel safer, that is not being the case. The one with the fire within will always have it but he was never aware of, given a situation to fight his war on his own, he became the Giant-slayer.

Just being a guy to not get placed in campus will not yield you the grit to take your risks, even if you are placed on day-1 you shall come forth if you have the mindset and attitude to believe in destiny. I believe in destiny, if thy believe in destiny come what may, stay put and thy shall write thy history.

It is the matter of whether one writes just his story or history, all that lies between is that small gap that is called courage and dare to take a leap of faith. As far as the pic that's here, it just matters which side of the table you wanna be sitting on. :)

Finally,
To those friends who got placed - Congrats,
To those who are yet to - Picture Abhi baaki hai mere dost!! :)

-Yours blogger . 

Next time when you see "The man"

Hi, I am "The man",
When I get into a bus, I don't have hairy ugly looking women trying to rub against me,
I don't have older women's eyes ogling on me at public places. 
I don't have the pressure to quit my job after marriage.
I don't have a penis that bleeds once a month.

But what do I do when I see a girl??
When I see a girl at school, I go after her and when she denies me I call her names.
When a girl trusts me and befriends me, I propose to her and embarrass her.
I can be not provocative if I roam around in my boxers, but I can find women wearing any dress to be provocative
I don't have to struggle to go stay away from my home for my Education, 
I know all the struggles every girl has to face to get to her higher education and still I try to get her,
When I get her I forget the value of her, treat her like crap, destroy the good girl in her and leave her broken,
It is okay if I leave the girl for a hotter one and am being male, but when she leaves me for the guy I am I call her B**ch.
After all these hurdles I have given her during her education and she crosses all these and make it to a job,
I call her dominant and bossy when she tries to lead the team,
When she doesn't have an option and take public commutation, I sit or stand next to her and make her uncomfortable,
When she gets into the office and starts working I stop by her workplace once in a while asking "Any problem?" Only to cause problems to her,
After all these hurdles, she makes it into a higher position than me I make opinions about how she got that job and spread rumors about her and make her to at least go to another workplace.
I tell to my wife about my Ex-Girlfriend and expect love from her and when she does the same I make opinions about her.
When me and my like minded friends find a lone girl we try to rape and kill her,
And when I don't do any of the above but keep my cool when these occur to someone saying " She is not my wife or sister" I am most dangerous.

I do all the above and still cry that women get undue advantage at all places and equal rights must be given to men. 
Why??!!! Because I am a man and I am chauvinistic, egotistic, disgusting and crooked.
Where do you see me?? You see me everywhere.
What do I need?? I need a hard slap.
Next time when you see me anywhere , give me a hard slap. Remember "All Indians are my brothers and sister"? A sibling has the right to slap one to protect another.
So join your hands and protect your sisters from me.

-Your blogger 
P.S- Just used the word I to increase the intensity, don't slap me(blogger) when you see me next time :)

Take three mistakes & Put it in a loop

Right from our childhood we have had people- by that I mean people who think themselves to be worthy of giving advice to others and never once listen to what others say- or in other words Adults as they are only by age telling us repeatedly that one learns from his mistakes. When I started to see cricket, they told me "Sachin learns from his mistakes, if he is outsmarted by a ball once it will never happen again" and recently there has been this story going on in the web about Sachin and Brad Hogg, how Hogg is struggling to take a wicket of Sachin once again. Then when I wanted to learn Chess, they again said this "Anand learns from his mistakes too". Then I wondered whether they wanted me to learn these sports or that phrase " Learn from your mistakes" and for the record I have not learnt anything from my mistakes in these two sports "I duck in cricket and suck in Chess" :P. But the biggest wonder is that I play football and no one ever told me that I would learn from my mistakes there and I keep committing the mistakes that I did the very first time, the reason why I am good at Football is that I commit mistakes and have improved so that others don't see it.

The real reason I talked about all these learn from one's mistake is that I have never learnt from my mistakes. When thinking about the past, I know I have done three big blunders and I realize that they are the biggest mistakes I always make and yet I forget about not to commit them again. Starting from my childhood. These three mistakes come in an orderly manner and namely are
1. Lying about something to someone. 
2. Not keeping up to that lie so that the other person finds it out. 
3. Even if the other person does not find it I tell the truth and confess.
One might argue with me that these are a persons choice to remain truthful and how these can be classified as mistakes, but I do because the fruits that I reaped from any of these three steps were never tasty. Though I might console myself stating that the longer the duration between Step 1 and Step 2/3 the longer my happiness, but the hard part is that even when you are in between Step 1 and 2, you live with the fear that all three come in a package and the day is nearing. Also in the regard, the sooner the truth is found/confessed the lesser the number of broomsticks that are broken.

I realized that these three always come in a package during my school days, to be precise during the Quarterly, half yearly, Annual exams. Lets see how this cycle even started in my life:

 I came to know the fact that they conduct exams to estimate your performance with regards to the class thrice a year and only if you pass the third exam(Annual exam) you'll be able to proceed to the next class during my 2nd grade only. But back then they never questioned me in my home on how I did my exams. But they started to, when I came near to my 5th grade and was ready to go to high school. During my 5th standard Quartely exam they asked me how I did my exams and I said I did not do them well. The result I was made to read all the quarterly portions again and again during the 10 days holidays. I felt very bad when my friends were playing and I was made to read the books again and again.
Next came the Half-Yearly exams, this time I was determined to enjoy my holidays. The question was repeated " How did you do you exams " the grades I knew were going to be worse than quarterly exams, but I had 10 days of enjoyment ahead of me so I said " Superb, awesomatically I will get 90+ in all subjects ". My parents wondered about the sudden change and were happy their kid has learnt from his mistake. but they dint realize that not studying was not the mistake I made :P. There, that's the first instance this loop started and it continues till date.

Eventually the results shall be announced one day and I would get crackers on my back then a 10% bonus for lying and I would say " I did well, the teacher did not correct properly" or " A sheet must have fallen down from the answer paper" and all these did not save me. This does not end only with the exams but also for my homeworks. If I had an important wrestling match to watch on TV I would say that I completed my homework and come to watch TV and then next day my homework diary would read "Incomplete" and a routine 10% bonus crackers on my back. This did not stop with my parents, when I found out the root cause for these were the teacher, so I started to lie to her too about how the power went off when I started my homework and that my parents did not allow me to do the homework sitting outside afraid of the fact that I might get bitten by mosquitoes and get dengue/malaria. I then thought that the three mistakes need not come in a loop if I found an effective way to lie. But that dint happen too, in the next PT meet the teacher advised my parents to buy a pack of candles and while I was laughing at why she was talking useless stuff like that , she said that malaria story and then all my laughter stopped and I knew it was time for a 200% bonus. Till date I keep trying different combinations of lies to find out only how imaginative I am and that these don't work well in reality. But the one thing I got out of these is a creative mind and a happy one. To laugh at my own mistakes, not many get those chances. The lies don't stop with parents or teachers it is almost to anyone I meet, I have given them a certain amount of BS.

This has always been an enjoyable ride for me, stating a lie and getting caught for that. But why have I even mentioned these as mistakes is that these have made me to look as a not so credible person. And the suspicion has not ended with what I say but also what I write or it arises a question who writes :P.. recently there have been quiet a good deal of suspicion that I am outsourcing this blog. And how can I even counter argue that??!! I don't know. But what I can come to believe is that " A person must learn from his mistakes or else he is most likely to suffer from consistency to committing mistakes" .Thus we can  conclude
" Keep telling lies but never get caught or dont even dream of confessing"

- Happy lying :) your blogger 

Evergreen Fandom

Are you a fan of me??!! If yes then this one's about you, else this one's is typically about those very few fans of mine. By the time you finish reading this I hope you will also realize about the fandom you are having.

In the recent past I have been counting the number of people who will be in my fan-base when someone (You don't know who) recently told me that she is my first ever fan. Since then I have been thinking hardly to identify the people who have been my fans in the past 22 years and the situations that have made them be my fan. To be frank these people have also been fluctuating between the extremes of hating me and being my fan once in a while. It is those situations and those few people that we will further explore now.

The first situation that I can remember is the scene at a hospital 22 years ago when everyone was curious to find what baby the woman delivered. Then there was me, sent to the earth, I believe they sent me down because the people above can't bear me anymore (So now you know I am a theist). Obviously my parents were happy, but they were a bit disappointed too, as I heard it 18 years later that they were expecting me to be a girl. Then I realized that I gave the first shocker to my parents few moments after I was born. Since then my journey continues till date. The first fans of me are obviously my parents. Do you wonder how one can make his parents fluctuate from being a fan?!! Be my guest.

Being the youngest in the house must give you lot of privileges, to be lazy, to get more sweets/chocolates.. But I didn't get to enjoy many of those privileges. There is a homegrown villain to all the food supplies - Big Bro!!! :-o .. You only get the biscuits in the cream biscuits while your bro licks clean all the cream, you have to eat only the chocolate stuck to the wrapper, that is if at all I get the wrapper from him. Finally you get to be the one who always has to bowl first while playing cricket and has to go fetch the ball if it goes out of play..!! Needless to say that the biggest rivalry for anyone is the one with his bro in the home.

Leaving aside the food shortage I suffered from I also had to go the shop to purchase groceries because only then my bro will allow me to watch Cartoon network, else I have to end up seeing ESPN all day, obviously I didn't have enough manpower to get the remote from him. Sometimes I used to tag team with my mom and get the remote from him, but I would have to reap the consequences for that when my parents leave me with him while they have to attend any function. So I agree and go purchase the groceries. Every time I go to the shop and purchase groceries I used to take two to three chocolates or sweets that were kept in the front and I would add up that 2-3 Rs in the price of tomatoes or onions. Also the shop was at about 100 meters from my home, so I had to walk slowly or wait and eat them up fully without a trace in my mouth, so that my mother doesn't find out. Every dog has it's day (in this case judgement day) and so did I. One day I added the three rupees to the price of eggs, without knowing the fact that my mom had purchased a few eggs earlier that day. She was astounded by how the price of eggs fluctuated that much in within 6 hours..!!! And that astonishment was of course shown on my cheeks also..!!! However from that day I got to be the guy staying happily at home while my brother gets to go and purchase from the grocery shops.

 I got used to it and now when there are rare occasions that she asks me to go to the shops, I ask her for a bribe of 20-30 Rupees to purchase the biggest chocolate available at the shop and she gives it to me and also says that she is waiting to see how I react when a situation arises where I am being asked by my wife to purchase home supplies. ( I heard from my friends that this is easily one of the standard dialogues from any mother). Needless to say now, when it comes to purchasing department my mother is not a big fan of me.

Now having seen about the "she", it is now time to see about the "he"!! There is a saying about how the dad is every guys first hero..!!  I also reiterate that here for the record ( Just in case my father comes across this blog post ). The biggest horror day for any boy during the school days is the PT Meeting, where the people whom you have given the most miserable times meet and complain about you to the people who can give you the most miserable times. However I have always wondered how girls can look so happy when it comes to PT Meetings "Sigh". The most hardest times in school days is the time after 4.30 PM when  the classes get over and the PT meeting is at 5 but you still don't know whether your parents will be coming or not. At the end of the day the guy whose parents have missed the show is the happiest to leave the school. My school followed a strange principle of sending letters to the home whenever there was a PT meet scheduled and it was harder to escape. But being students we must find ways to evade any such hurdles in our paths. Mostly my dad comes home by 5.30 and my school gets over by 4.30, so if I reach the home before him I will be the one taking the posts from the post box as my mom doesn't usually check the post boxes. But all this had to be done right from the first PT meet, so that your parents don't know the point that the school sends letters to home regarding the PT meets else there are possibilities for suspicions.

This is what I do when I smell that the school has sent out letters to the home, I reach there faster than my dad before 5.30 and take the letter and keep it in my bag. Go to school next day and dispose it there. Else if I tear it and dispose it in my home there are possibilities that my parents can find out. I kept doing this for the first few months. Then as usual every dog has it's day, remember??!! having disposed the letter for PTM after the quarterly exams I came home happily on the day of PTM to no one. Right then I had a mild suspicion but I thought that the letter being the only source, it was improbable for them to have found out. Then one of my friends called me and said "Sorry machi!!" . I asked, for what he was apologizing. Then he narrated me the ultimate horror movie of my life. This is what has happened. My mom has met his mom in some friend's place of hers that morning and they got introduced to each other and found out that their sons were studying in the same class. Later my friend's mom has asked my mom " So when are you coming to the school today??!!" and the rest I leave it to your imagination. You can understand the reaction of your mom when she comes to know about your PTM from someone else's mother and not you. Also I heard from my other friends at school that both my parents were there. So I hope you know the fact that you are screwed when both your parents attend the PTM. And the feeling when your dad gets half a day leave from the office just to attend your PTM??!! Priceless. I don't need to say about my thought process the next 1 hour when I was eagerly!! awaiting their arrival..

Later that day a palm reader came to me and asked me to show my back, when I asked why he said my Dad was too busy to show the palm reader his palms and sent the guy to me!!! And that was the day I thanked god for saving me the embarrassment by not having someone called a foot reader on Earth, else he would have come and asked me to show my chest!!! When it comes to PT Meets or results day, my fan-base gets reduced by two..!!  

There is one biggest fan of me who doesn't care of what marks I score, what money I take from here she just never leaves my fan-base- My grand-mom. But still I remember times when I had got a few slaps on my back from her- One being the situation of pouring water into the retro-style green telephone to find whether it reaches the person at the other end. That day I realized that the job of a researcher is one that I must not take up.!! Then my fandom has a few kids from my relatives, who have grown up hearing good stories about me??!! and it increases occasionally when a few guys join the Gym...!!! Gym has been my place to gain fans. So I never miss hitting the gym.


That's mostly about all the fans I've had from my birth and I believe you'll be there one day too :). So whats your fandom count??!! Start counting.

-Until next time- Your blogger

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M-Mind's Zenith

Starting off with Zenith, meaning the highest point, as the choice of my maiden web post.

I always think that when I am writing something in my blog I am using my mind at it's highest point. But the case in reality is that, when I don't have any other work to do, I write.. in most cases my mind will be bored, but I have to drag my lazy brain and compel it to chuck out something so that I can write and make my fellow students read it..!! So pretty much it has always been on a low state while writing. When I mean low I don't mean shallow, but real low. If you want me to explain it in the words of Brad Pitt, "Well, there's my mind in good state, then there's my mind in bad mood , then there's 50 feet of cr*p and then there's my mind when writing blog posts."  What do you write when you are below 50 feet of cr*p??!! I leave that to you to imagine about my blog posts.

Thinking about these things that my brain does to me, I have always made it think really very hard to find out about even what I am going to write next. The probability that it turns out with a kick-ass topic is very very low. Now you might have come to a fair idea about my brain, in personification he looks like that one little ugly, not-confident, weird looking, aged guy with a really long beard??!!. There you are where I wanted, now I will explain to you when that ugly little old man turns out into a hot looking young guy that most AXE ads show to us with girls falling from heaven as if the odor of AXE crossed a 100 light years in a fraction of second overcoming all the "awesomatic" smells of food they have in heaven. In most instances I get bored with the old man all day, he never gives me an idea about anything. But when I try to go to bed, somehow this AXE guy gets activated , "I mean ONLY in the brain". He starts giving me all sorts of great ideas that Einstein seems to have missed while researching and my finance staffs seem to have forgotten while teaching. It's already 2 in the morning and I have this AXE guy Axing my brain, not allowing me to sleep. But whenever he comes, he comes with a disclaimer "The ideas I say to you are just to make you more brisk and prevent you from sleeping. If you try to get up and pen down any ideas I give, then you shall forget all the things that I said and will end up looking like a fool with a pen and paper at 2 AM" 

Right from the moment that I identified that this kind of an AXE guy exists in my brain, I have tried many a times to activate him and make the ugly old guy go away during class hours.With the desire that if as per the ads his odor can cross a 100 light years, the it can sure leak out from my brain and reach at least the girls in my next benches. After all they knew that I am stuck with an ugly old guy in my brain and there must be something as dramatic as the AXE effect to make them fall for me. With a Multiple personality Disordered (At-least a Dual Personality Disordered mind until now), I have always wondered if there's
anyway that I could activate which brain I would want at a particular time. I also thought that we could have a three person meeting with the old guy, AXE guy and then there's me about how I could give both of them equal time as Brains and make them sign a contract. But then I thought, what if they breached the contract??!! How would I punish them?? By putting a gun to my head and shooting the brain that disobeyed me??!! After all even after I am dead I couldn't be sure that I shot the guy that breached the contract, then i would roaming around as a unsatisfied soul in the campus haunting my friends.(That would be one kind of fun though).

Then I closed down this treaty idea and switched to power of the mind philosophy, where I would myself try harder and activate the other personality. But the harder I tried the more harder it became, I have often been flabbergasted by the way the ugly old guy fights, I always thought I could at-least win over the old man. After a long while of thinking, I found that I not only had two guys but a third one, that is the original me.!! Then I tried being the original me, it is when I found out that the chances where the same as that of  the person in Final Destination staying alive. Still I have tried a few methods like trying to fool them , but often I forget the fact that they are my brain guys and they know what I am thinking. I have also compalined  to GOD that he has given an undue advantage to those two guys over me.

The saddest part being that, they their other two friends Jim Carrey and Kristen Stewart once in a while. While they have a chat with Jim Carrey when I am at a funeral or at a salon, they bring Kristen Stewart in my exam halls and ask her to enact my answers and they also claim that it's the only means for me to find out the answers. later that day they also have a chat whether I couldn't answer the questions because of Kristen Stewart's acting skills or that I didn't prepare well for the exams..!!



So while I still struggle with these two guys in my mind, I hope you enjoyed reading a piece of my mind. Hope you had a real good look of what's going on in my mind.

-Until next time - Your Blogger

The PORT between two Ss' , Surrender and Success

SPORTS - It doesn't teach you to win or lose, but what it does is the courage to continue and complete the game even when you have lost the game for sure. 

- One of my most favorite quote about the word that itself inspires a trillion lives everyday, I dont know who said it or it may even be myself who framed it somewhere & somehow, yet it carries one the biggest learning everyone must have. sPORTs is the port I was referring to which helps us move from one S to the other. How often have we seen a team or a player comeback from almost losing to winning ??!! Even if the team loses it is the comeback that teaches us a life long lesson - Never Back Down. I am just going to give a few of the best quotes, the greatest have ever said about the word that has taught me my greatest lessons of life - Sport.

Be a sport dude!!! Thats the spirit of sportsmanship... He is a sport..!! Well these words are fairly easy to say, but to gain even one of these, then there is a need to have a lot of patience, passion to the sport, perseverance and determination. These words are easy to teach but to practice this is the toughest.

One man practicing sportsmantship is far better than 50 preaching it 

-Knute Rockne

That's the difficulty I am speaking about, there are a lot of things that are easy to teach but the better way to make someone learn is by showing how to do it. If you are a person who is a sportsman, when I mean sportsman I speak for the never give up, be passionate kid of guy, then you can take a minute everyday(even a little extra time) and praise yourself that you have taught at least a few people. 

Right from the moment as a kid when you start practicing a sport, you learn the lessons for a lifetime - The hardwork, the taste of success and numerous failures, the effect of continuous practice and above all team work. 

 The five S's of Sports training are Stamina, speed, strength, skill and spirit. But the greatest of them is the Spirit. - Ken Doherty

Winning- may be the word that many people have in mind when they start to play or watch a sport. But a true sports guy sees the spirit of the game rather than the result itself. As I say what comes easy is what that's not deserved.Well if you don't believe me then here's the words of the Football legend of Brazil for you:

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning - Pele

Since I've come to football, there are a few more of it that I remember:

The team is larger than any player, but the sport is greater than any team itslef. - Unknown

That one's for the few people who think that the sport exists only because of a few players, who they believe to be greater than the sport itself. The recent happenings in the football world has already taught a good lesson for many people that Love,hardwork and passion for a sport can defeat the strength and skill. the greatest enemy for any team or a person is what that lies between their two ears. When you take success to the heart - You become a legend but when you take the success to your brains and nerves - You are a forgotten hero. Any victorious team or player when asked will definitely tell you that treating your opponent equally and understanding their potential will only lead to victory, while getting complacent and having a egoistic approach will lead to upsets. The other major lesson that sports teaches you is that - Every opponent is harder and tougher in his own ways.

Now it's been a fairly long post, and there is one great saying about Football that deserves a mention:

Playing football with your foot is one thing , but playing football with your heart is a completely different thing.

And that my friends is not only for football but for any sport, any situation of life - Its a word that must be inscribed in your hearts. take up anything and do it with your heart towards it, success or failure learn the lessons that the game teaches you..!! After all no one won their game always.!!

I's missed more than 9000 shots in my life. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and I've missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that's why I've succeeded.

 - Michael Jordan

Until next time - Your blogger :)

One little Gesture.!!

Tying the Shoelace knot.

The thing I never knew to do until my 5th grade. In home I was helped by my Mom, in the school bus by my brother and in the school by my friends, in case it got untied. Every time I tried it on my own it resulted in a loss of a shoelace which had to be cut in two, because I tied it the way it could not be untied. My first successful shoelace experience was on my 6th grade, I became a high-school boy and wanted to do it on my own. When I succeeded in the attempt I went around to each and everyone I knew to show what I had learnt and got applauded!!! by a few. The point that needs to be noted here is not the shoelace "Ian Knot", but why I went showing to everybody what I had learnt. That little part that I am talking about is what many of us have long forgotten, "Appreciation".

That one moment you spend for appreciating some one means you Applaud him,he feels that you realize his efforts or that you have at least seen what he has done. The things that we taught to people elder than us when we were kids are the same ones that we as grown ups learn from kids. These are the people from whom we can learn the effect on this one little gesture - Applause. Being a management student I certainly want to flaunt what I have learnt in my classes, the 2 concepts that we have learnt in Org. Behavior 1)Applauded/Appreciated behavior shall be repeated. 2)Punished/Criticized behavior shall be reduced. This concept is showcased by the kids almost every time, they repeat the same Gimmick!! that earned them an applause in front of strangers to increase their star value!!. Not only for the kids, everybody who owns a Dog will know this, the first lesson in training a pet is giving him a command and when he performs it you appreciate it by giving him a bone. After all they are also similar to kids.

In my life there is an other incident that I could connect with the concept. I started to learn football when I joined my college, I fell in love with this sport right from the moment my brother plucked the TV remote out of my hand and changed the channel to ESPN,not allowing  me to go back to Cartoon Network thereafter. But I never got a chance to play for my school as it already had a good playing XI and a beginner like me had no hope there. The first thought that came to my mind when I saw my college's big ground was "FOOTBALL" . I went to the football practice on Day-1 of my college life with my all new shining Jersey and Football Boots. But when every others' kick went over the post to the road outside, mine was struggling hard to get a few feet of elevation, I felt bad and the angry kid inside me said "enough of this crap,go home and play football in FIFA you *****!!!" But the cost of the newly bought football boot motivated me to at-least put it on and run around the ground everyday. The consistent efforts made me a player who can at-least run with the football. After a few months of practice I became a regular center defender in the losing team(So called Team-B). Then one fine day I made a tackle to take the ball away from an opponent after which I heard those words, "Good one" the first time some one appreciated my football skills!??!! After that I never missed a days' practice session and everyday my game improved and after that I made lots of "Good ones" but nothing as memorable as the first one. Eventually I went on to play as the Center Back for the college team. Here you can see three types of appreciation 1) They recognized me as a player and I made it to Team B.(Motivation) 2) I became a regular in Team B (Continuous motivation) 3) Appreciating my defensive skills verbally. Instead if they had criticized me and made me stand outside, I would have never played football - The lovely & most beautiful sport. 

Now my friends in the Corporate sector bring to my knowledge a new kind of appreciation known as "flattering" , which today is compared to give a competitive edge over the fellow competitors which even technical knowledge is not believed to give. I am here in no way talking about that kind of appreciation. That kind of appreciation gives you your own benefits, but the appreciation I am talking about motivates and helps others to improve and benefit out of it.

Finally before I end this, I want to reiterate my Management brain's learning
1) Appreciated behavior shall be repeated.
2 ) Punished behavior shall be reduced.
If you are a person who criticizes the wrong deeds and appreciates the good work then you keep going on doing both. But if you are a person who never appreciates the good deeds but keeps criticizing the bad work, then it's better that you never speak about the work, because the person will eventually reduce the
criticized behavior and soon will not have any behavior to showcase.!! And my footnote to everybody : If we have never known the labor that a person goes through in doing a particular work - Art, Architecture etc., we don't have the right to criticize the work :)

P.S:  Now having read this big write up, I hope you will start showcasing that one little gesture right from here..!!!

-Signing off - Your blogger !!

Knowledge "BLACK HOLE"..!!!

Welcome!!! This is my new avatar as a Scientist, you can call it my Secret Identity...!!! Presenting you a brand new theory in Student Physics AKA Stup(id)hysics!!!!

According to Scientists or Physicists Black hole is any region that does not allow anything including light to escape . It can take in infinite amounts of particles, waves etc. but never allow them to escape. When I heard this I never believed such a concept exists in reality. But once I faced these MBA exams I started to do my own research and have identified the new, latest and most mysterious concept that has remained in the minds of many students for ages, it is the concept of "KNOWLEDGE BLACK-HOLE". But the solution to this problem is yet to be found out. This is a conditional black-hole*, whilst all other black holes present are unconditional black-holes** . Again two brand new concepts created by me.

*Conditional Black-hole: This is a type of black-hole, with the concept similar to Electro-magnets, for example: the presence of a text book in the visibility of an human eye turns the brain into a black-hole. The more closer the text-book the more higher the effect of the black-hole.
**Unconditional Black-hole: This is a type of Black-hole which remains a black-hole forever, with or without the presence of external stimulants. Ex: Space Black-holes.

There are two theories I put forth about the Knowledge Black-hole, the theories shall be verified and patented after experimenting on various specimen available at the Institute.

Theory 1: Whenever any matter relating to MBA enters into your mind, the grey matter, white matter or any of the VIBGYOR matters , it turns into a knowledge black-hole absorbing infinite amount of words and never letting anything go out.

Theory 2: This is an extension of theory 1.The combination of Exam hall along with the brain creates a unique mixture that results in a unconditional black-hole where let alone concepts of MBA but also concepts of basic grammar, Spellings etc get vanished from your brain and what remains is the greatest cinema songs that you heard recently.

These two concepts of Stuphysics been proved to be right time and again from various personal as well as shared experiences. Now we will see these two concepts in detail.

Theory 1: Adding to the proposed theory there are a few environmental criteria which makes the effect of the black hole stronger or weaker..

1: The time of the day when the knowledge enters into the probable black-hole. 
1a) The time of the day being post-lunch or post 10PM the effect shall be double along with a mild side effect known as sleep.
1b) The time of the day being any other specified than in 1a, shall lead to conditional black-hole effect which can be controlled due to various black-hole battlers.

2:Black hole battlers:
2a) The environmental condition that enables the fighting of the existence of a Knowledge Black-hole is a Black-hole battler. A few examples are : 1)The presence of an attractive opposite gender, which at times can act as a Black-hole stimulant too.
2b) The effect of the black hole battlers is directly proportionate to the arrears in the bag.

3.Black hole stimulants:
3a) A few example for the environmental factors that stimulate the Knowledge Black hole may be: i) A sports tournament going on. ii)The presence of an attractive girl/boy outside the window or inside the Windows(Laptop). iii) Girlfriend/Boyfriend on the phone(commitments that cannot be avoided)
3b) These can be nullified by the presence of Mom's broomstick.

Theory 2: The Theory 2 is an extended version of Theory 1, which can be applied in the presence of an external stimulant called as a Question paper and in an environment created to make students forget their basic concepts such as date/Signature - The Exam hall!!  The presence of this new stimulant affects the brain and sparks the creative side of the brain, thus leading students to create their own theories put forth by various scientists starting from Newton to Heizberg.

Disclaimer: This theory was created during one session of Ethics exam!!! 

With various parts of these theories still under research , the presence of a few specimen can stimulate the progress of the research. Until then this is your Stuphysics researcher signing off!!! :)

After all, it's a small World!!

I think it's perhaps the perfect time for me bid Adieu to my seniors. As year one comes to an end at the B-School, now when I turn my mind to the past to think about my Seniors all I can see are some of the greatest moments in my life these seniors have offered me.

Entering into the hostel atmosphere for the first time in my life, the experience of Seniors started way back when I got selected here. Interacting with them on Social media, about the life that we are going to have and especially about the food. When I stepped into the college also I had a few seniors who were here to complete some of their unfinished business from first year (If you know what I mean!! :P) with whom I spent the entire night speaking and gaining valuable information about few staffs and more importantly about a few seniors itself.. :)

July pirakkum, July pirakkum,                                                       
Juniorukum Seniorukum,                                           
Kalloori vaasal engum ragging nadakkum,                     
Students manam oar nandhavanamey,                          
Roja irukum mullum irukum,
Natpukku ragging kooda vazhi vagukkum.

And this was how I met three of my seniors who were among the few that I spent my entire first year with. However it was not much of a ragging because they could hardly remember even 10% of what happened the previous night. The next big task for us involving the seniors was the selection of buddies(similar to any buddy system). I mention it as a big task because I liked it and it became hard for anyone to accept me as their buddy because of the Great name and the awesome criminal rating that I had among most of the seniors. But then I realized that if you have to have a buddy, then he must be the person with who at least 90% of your characters and ideas must match and if you are lucky you might even like the same brand of liquor&Cigarettes and I became lucky :P, I can tell you we had one hell of a run the entire year.

One thing that I learnt from the one great year I had spent with the seniors is that, they are just not for guidance of studies and for helping you get good jobs. The most important lessons that you learn from your seniors are their own experiences and the legacy that you are entitled to follow when they leave the institution, in remembrance of them which in turn will be done by your juniors once you leave. And here I have, a rich legacy that I must carry forward which I hope I will.

Finally the last phrase :- It's time to bid adieu to all my seniors, the ones that- liked me, made me like them, hated me, made me hate them,the ones who made me respect them, the ones who taught me how to stand up when tough situations arise, how to make people believe when they have given up all hope, and finally the ones with whom I've spent my entire first year with. You've been at all the occasions to make me remember them. I realized how much you guys made my days here when you were gone for four days, the entire institute looked as if it was dead. Finally the time has come, which I've always hated, to bid Adieu.

Hoping to meet you all real soon, After all it's a small world!!!!

JUST HANG-IN(G) There...

Just hang in there a little more... a little more is what I kept saying to myself most in the past 12 hours ...



1 year is about to get done in my B-school life and I can give you an hell-yeah if you ask me whether it's one heck of a life.. Standing past all the squeezing of the classes with whatever minimum knowledge I gained here(hardly if any!!) mostly about keeping my eyes wide open from soporific lectures and getting to the 8:30 class on time even while I woke up by 8:20. These have been good experiences and learnings to lead life.. :P.. But the recent irony being the Institution testing the knowledge I gained from the past 1 year of academic courses I've been through, is the reason for me to come back here again and write my latest and most enjoyable experience(at-least for you while reading) I had in the recent past.

Leading a typical life at a B-School where you hear from your seniors what are the various ways and means Staffs and profs can carry to make sure you are lost in the sea of confusion and distress, the method that we heard more predominantly was the concept of Viva, where the staffs test your intellectual knowledge and application skills of the conceptual information that you have gained from "the conventional method of making a group of unique goal oriented individuals gather at a common place and give an oral presentation intended to present information about a particular topic mostly used to convey critical information,history,background and equations"- In short classroom lectures. The above three lines where just to give you an overview about the way in which you have to speak in a Viva so that no one understands what S**T you intend to say.

The much awaited Viva was scheduled to happen over two days in a grand manner when individuals shall be invited into a room filled with four legends(certified masters of querying AKA staffs), where even before you realize how happy you are to be in the presence of these learned people, they start tightening the screws into your  brains. In the meanwhile your brain gets tightened and goes into a switch off mode a few minutes after the procedure has begun. I was one of the unfortunate souls(the decision which I changed later) who ended having the morning session of the opening day. The hard work and turmoil began then&there after seeing the mail of the scheduling.

Finally the time came when I had to choose the panel which will conduct the viva for me, for me my luck was with me when I chose the panel - The easiest and not much strict staffs panel is what I got, the panel which was believed to be the soul saver for all of the students who entered in there. But the saddest part was that the lucky charm that was with me until I entered the viva hall took along with it my brain's power to think.. Believing that the panel would be my soul saver I missed what lied in the middle of the word Believe..!!! It all  went well with a brief intro and some chat, then, I realized the fact that I had forgotten my brain just outside the door only when they asked the first question from Marketing..!! And all along the Viva I started saying to myself - Just hang in there.. Just hang in there dude... You will get one question that will turn your day on and finally that question turned out to be "Will that be all??" . If you still won't believe my statements, I can reiterate the last question they asked me "Please, just frame your own question and answer it then leave" When I left the viva hall I again started saying to the dude in myself "Hang in there buddy there is always Viva V2.0" .

And if you in case want to know the reason why I don't believe myself to be the unfortunate soul, just imagine this "You see two movies and writing your new blog post, while your roommates and neighbors are banging their heads hard so that they don't want what happened to you to happen to them 24 hours later, believing BELIEVE in hardwork without knowing the irony in the word Believe".. Kickass isn't it???

For all those who had and are going to have this same experience "Just hang in there buddies, the same way I am hanging here" :D

Management- Some thousand years ago

In the recent past, after starting to write this blog I have touched upon a few national issues and my life here at the B-School but this post  has always been my dream post. I have talked about this to a few of my friends too. This is about the best book that I have come across in my life probably most of you must have, but did not realize the potential of the book. This book was written somewhere around 2000 - 2500 years ago. I think by now you must have found it, it is Thirukkural.

For those who do not know what it is, here is a brief intro- Thirukkural (or) Tirukkural is a set of 1330 rhyming couplets written by Thiruvalluvar who is believed to have lived somewhere around 2nd century B.C. to 5th Century A.D,.It contains 1330 kurals in 133 chapters, each chapter talks about a specific topic. It mostly says about how a man must lead his life. It has been translated in 37 languages across the globe. 

Now lets come to the reason I am writing this post. As mentioned already I have argued with a few of my friends saying that of all the books I have read, Thirukural contains all the concepts, which was ridiculed down by many of my friends. It was then that I wanted to explore Thirukural and how it related to various subjects (Believe me it contains concepts of even the Science books we've learnt-You just have to interpret it), and the topic that I decided was of-course Management.!! I started to search how  Thirukural has explained the numerous concepts of Management education we are receiving at present and here are the condensed form of results that I received. 

Investment:

அழிவதூஉம் ஆவதூஉம் ஆகி வழிபயக்கும் 

ஊதியமும் சூழ்ந்து செயல் (461)

“Expenditure, return and profit of the deed
  In time to come, weigh these, then to the act proceed”

This might well be the first lesson anybody must learn while being a management student, whether to proceed or drop a project. Here Thiruvalluvar explains this basic concept in his own style. Thus the 1st lesson in management.

Risk:

எண்ணித் துணிக கருமம் துணிந்தபின் 

எண்ணுவம் என்பது இழுக்கு (467)

“Think, and then dare the deed. Who cry,
  ’Deed dared, we’ll think’, disgraced shall be”.

After your graduation when you have entered into an organization you will soon be in a position to decide the most important decisions of the organization which might have a fair bit of  risk  involved. At that point of time being a a young blooded manager you might well want to take proceed with the decision, hoping to handle the risk on the proceedings, but you must always assess the risk based upon whether you can handle it or not at any circumstances and if yes, it is only then you must proceed taking up the project.

தெளிவி லதனைத் தொடங்கார் இளிவென்னும் 

ஏதப்பாடு அஞ்சு பவர் (464)

“A work of which the issue is not clear,
  Begin not they who reproachful scorn fear”.

This Thirukkural can be a debatable one, considering the current management practices. But this is upto you to decide to follow or not follow this one.

Project Planning:

பொருள்கருவி காலம் வினையிடனொ டைந்தும் 

இருள்தீர எண்ணிச் செயல் (675)

“Budget and resources and schedule and place of act -
  these five, till every doubt remove, think o’er with care exact”

This one reflects the current definition for Project management 99% level. Without knowing the availability of these five (location being the Outsourcing location or Place of production) taking up a project is suicide. 

Strategic Staffing:

Staffing is often an important part of a manager while delegation of work, here is what Thiruvalluvar says about Staffing.

இதனை இதனால் இவன்முடிக்கும் என்றாய்ந்து 

அதனை அவன்கண் விடல் (466)

“‘This man this work shall thus work out’, let thoughtful king command.
 Then leave the matter wholly in his servant’s hand.”

A staffing procedure must take place purely on basis of ones ability to complete the work provided with the present facilities. Otherwise the work shall not be done the fullest.

Presentation skills:

As we have learnt time and again that the difference between the person who moves up the ladder fast and the one struggling to push up, is the difference in their ability to communicate their ideas with clarity. Here is what Kural says about it.

கற்றாருள் கற்றார் எனப்படுவர் கற்றார்முன் 

கற்ற செலச்சொல்லு வார் (722)

“Who what they’ve learned, in penetrating words, have learned to say
  before the learned, among the learned most learned are they”.

This brings about the importance of the communication skills that we must sharpen in order to fulfill the idea of the management education itself.

Finally:

This is just one part of what Kural says about management, soon I'll come back with more kural interpretations, but before I sign off there is one Kural that I must make sure all of you read.

கற்க கசடற கற்றவை கற்றபின்

 நிற்க அதற்கு தக 

“So learn that you may full and faultless learning gain.
  Then, in obedience meet to lessons learnt, remain”

Having read the post till now, it is of no use if you have a volatile memory to erase all these things the very next moment. After reading this you must keep these things in mind from now on forever being a management grad. Also the same stands for your concepts of management most importantly the Ethics that you have been thought about must remain in your hearts as if it is a nail driven into you.

Thanks for spending your time reading this. Will soon come back with more interpretations. Till then Thanks & Regards.