Thursday, October 22, 2009

Diwali Vacation..

Happy Diwali..!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for the delay in wishing you all.. You know diwali vacation mein apart from using your brain you will do all type of things.. So blogging was last option to me.. Now you must be saying what about studies.. isn't that a last option.. Well not for me, this diwali it was time to study for CFA.. Hardly 45 days left (as I am writing this post)..

So how was my diwali??.. Apart from the studies and the trek (read the previous posts) I practically din't do anything.. The next best things was watching TV, eating sweets and surfing..

Hope you guys enjoyed you week long diwali vacation and ready to kick arse again in the campus.. ;) ;)

Paragana.. Flagship event of NMIMS..

Paragana is the flagship festival of the School of Business Management, NMiMS. 2009 would mark the 7th version of Paragana. And thus, the theme Zeta. Zeta is the greek letter with a value of 7. This year along, Paragana looks to discover that bit of 7 which is a part of each of our lives.

The event promises to be one of the biggest among the premier MBA colleges.. Do check out the site given below for more updates and participate in the events enthusiastically.. :)

I wont boast without sufficient proof.. check out the site and go to events section.. You will come to know what I'm telling about.. Of course the main page will catch your eye.. :)

Paragana

Rajmachi Trek..

This was a fun fille, tiring trek that we 6 guys enjoyed some 8 kms from Karjat.
Place: Rajmachi
Date: 14-15 Oct 2009

Let me tell you something about the place.. Rajmachi is a small mountain with two hill forts "Shrivardhan and Manaranjan" with magnificent scenic views. There are two routes that lead to Rajmachi, one is from Lonavala(roughly 20km flat walk) and the other is from Karjat(Gradual climb of around 4km). We choose the gradual climb. Along the route you will find rich variety of plants and herbs..

We started our journey by catching the last Karjat local from dadar.. There were 4 to climb from dadar.. Me, ashish (CA), karthik and juna (oops sorry his name is anuj).. Sachin climbed from Kurla and finally tejas (the lucky one, because he got ample time to sleep at home) from dombivali..

The journey was long and we were expecting to catch up some sleep in the train, but the reverse did happen. We played UNO and did a lot of chit chat.. U now know why ashish has started becoming a champ in UNO.. Later on once we reached karjat (at 3.30 am) we decided to have a 2 hr nap at the nearby ST stand because the first bus was at 5.45 am.. Somehow we reached the ST stand only to find some 50 odd people already sleeping in the ST stand.. Somehow dejected we found a lamp post and sat on the stairs of the shop nearby the lamp post..

Now guess what did we do out there??.. Of course we did not sleep.. We spoke about ghost stories.. bhoooooootttttttt.. Guess what each of them had an interesting story to tell, always better then the previous one.. Wonder who of us is going to be the new script writer for RGV.. Under the company of the all the future script writers we spent our 2 houras and then caught the first bus the Rajmachi..

Reached the spot at around 6.45, the time we started out ascent.. It was a long and steep ascent of about 3000 feet from sea level (the point where we started).. So we started slowly and steadly towards our goal enjoying the awesome dew on the grass along the route.. You can notice all this description in the pictures on my facebook profile (will give u the link at the end of the post).. The mountai is awesome with all the bushes and the trees.. There was a small temple just before the fort at the height of approximately 2500 feet.. The fort is huge and considered to be a startegic fort by Shivaji maharaj.. More info can be found here -> http://deepabhi.tripod.com/rajmachi.html

I cannot describe the entire journey. you ahve to experinece on your own to get a sense of it.. Might plan another event in the future.. For now enjoy the pics of our trek out
here.. Of course you will have to become my friend (if you r not) to watch the photos.. A necessary ans sufficient condition. :)

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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Typical cycle of Summer placements for Engineer's

I am sure all the engineer's would have guessed what the cycle contains.. I will try to make it as interesting as possible..

Life of an engineer is like a joke in the MBA college, specially during summer placements (i don't know whether it is the same for finals also) and specifically if u have work-ex.. Below I have described a set of events in a particular day (also just before and after the process) that an engg faces while he is preparing for a summer process.. There are 2 cases, when he/she is kept in dark whether that person is shortlisted or not.. and the other extremely rare case is when he/she is shortlisted..

Scenario 1: No idea whether shortlisted or not
Day before
1] Go all out and bang your head to try and find out the history and recent news about the company coming on campus the next day, even if u don't know whether u r going to shortlisted or not.
2] Googling is a common thing. also open up gmail and chat around the world asking others,
"tera kidhar aur hua kya"?
3] Another response from all of them to you: "all d best" "dont worry tera shortlist ho jayega".. :) :)
The day
4] Go all dressed up, catch the earliest train so that u r not strangled later on.
5] Collect ur blazer from the locker and wait in the waiting room. The feeling at this moment is "Suit boot mein aaya kanahaiya band bajane ko"
6] 2 ghante wait karne ke baad, the person comes and announces that u r not selected.. koi different cheez to bola kar.
The feeling at that moment: "Suit boot mein aaya tha kanahaiya band bajane ko, lekin saala khud ka band baj gaya"
After the day
7] Saala ham engg's ki galti kya hai.. They don't even give a chance to prove our worth.. Saala apna kuch nahi hoga..

Scenario 2: You know that you are one among the few engg's shortlisted for the company
Day before
1] Go all out and bang your head to try and find out the history and recent news about the company coming on campus the next day.
2] Googling is a common thing. also open up gmail and chat around the world asking others,
"tera kya hua"?
3] Another response from all of them to you: "all d best, phod ke aa ja" "Kal tera din hai yaar, ho jayega dont worry".. :) :)
The day
4] Go all dressed up, catch the earliest train so that u r not strangled later on.
5] Collect ur blazer from the locker and wait in the waiting room. The feeling at this moment is "Suit boot mein aaya kanahaiya band bajane ko"

6] U go all out to prepare, ask other about the firm, some sample GD topics, read economic times and get to know the news of the day.. Also ask the prev batch (if any) about the GD topic and their inputs.
7] Go throuhg the Gd and say about 2-3 points, many a times its like fish market..
8] Wait for the result just to announce that u r not selected for interview.. Damn.. On doing further research u find out that the selected person's are all from finance backgroup (of course for finance profile) or have less then 2 yrs work-ex.. U again think WTH, hamne kya gunha kiya hai.. :(
After the Day
9] Reach home and think
Saala ham engg's ki galti kya hai.. They don't even give a chance to prove our worth.. Saala apna kuch nahi hoga..
Chance dete hai to sirf GD mein, uske baad saala work-ex hai bolke bhaga dete hai..

P.S: The above examples are only based on person who is an engg and has 2 or more yrs of work-ex
P.P.S: Most of the incidents are experienced by the writer.

Sunday, October 04, 2009

Tip tip barsa paani.. But aag lagaya..

Finally after a long wait during the monsoon season, mumbai experienced rain just at the winter was about to set in.. Well it was a kinda relief with temperatures reaching 34 Celsius and it was never looking as the pleasant weather just before the winter.

But today's showers provided some relief and I hope most of the lakes in Mumbai are filled to the required level.. It was not a brief shower but continuously rained since yesterday.. so the climate is chilled out right now..

Now the part reason behind the unexpected showers is the typhoon Ketsana. Read
here
This storm has hit the states of Andra pradesh and karnataka severely.. Take a look at some of the links from timesofindia.com..
Here and here

I hope this mayhem is short lived. and Pray for those are affected.. God be with them..

Friday, October 02, 2009

I don't know what I will be doing this SUMMER

I know what you must be thinking, is there a spelling mistake?? I am not talking about the movie "I know what you did last summer". For those movie crazy guys/gurlz, here is the link for the review of that movie. IMDB

For some of the poor souls like me, they would have guessed what I am trying to say. I am talking about my summer placements, which is far from over.

Looking back for the last 3 days (since the summer placement started) I wonder why did I take an admission in an engg school.. Even if one mistake was committed, then why the hell did I join an IT company.. Even if that was not sufficient, why did I opt Finance as my specialization.. Have I committed a crime by doing all this..

Now is the time to decide whether specialization is better or generalization (general MBA).. Woh kehte hai na, ki ek jagah muhh maare ya sab jagah muhh marte fire..

One wise man has said:
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

According to me Henry ford was not a specialist. Sure, he knew a lot about automobile, but what his greatness is that he gathered people (specialists) and made a modern assembly line style manufacturing company. He is well known for what he said in the trial (!) '‘I don’t know the answer for that, but I can get someone who does.’

Some words to consider, isn't it. So do you still think specialization is better than generalization?? your comments are welcome..