My Shopping and Me

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I am currently reading a book called “Shopaholic takes Manhattan”. Man this book is soooooooooo awesome n hilarious!.....Sumps up any woman’s shopping experiences and more. Then I went into flash back about my shopping experiences. Will try to sum up most of my experiences including the most recent ones :D…..btw the series of books by Sophie Kinsella on the shopaholic experiences are just awesome....a must read for most of the women out there :)

While writing this post, I have already started thinking like the protagonist of the book I am readin(Miss. Becky Bloomwood). I shall name many brands that I bought in my shopping and ask those people to pay me up since I am doing some great PR work for them through my blog :D….Its is however a different story that there might be many who would want to pay me for not quoting their brand in my blog because of the talent I have in mishandling them :P…….

My most recent shopping experience has been nothing short of a disaster……..Gift for two of my friend’s was what was on my mind when I went shopping (btw forgot to give a general disclaimer….I might spice up the content of this post just to make it readable n hilarious….dont believe that every word of what I said to be true)……..yeah so where was I?....Gift for two of my friends….Went to Abids with one of my friends (to a place called Methodist complex, Girl friend is the shop name, I actually stopped at the complex name but then who would I demand a cheque from, for doing PR work then!....hence the name of the shop too :P….smart thinking haaan!)…..The guy told me last week that their new stock would arrive on Monday and hence I barged right into the shop and asked him to start showing the new ones……well there was a power cut in the shop and somehow I felt its bad sign for shopping there :P......

Me and my friend sorted out few of the nice ones and I went to try them on since the frend I was buying it for is like me(thin n short :D)…..I didn’t stop at any top in particular but there was this gorgeous Red Top with pleats which I wore n stared at myself for a min atleast!....Man! I was in love with that top…..I come out n I say I didn’t like any of them except the red one….With very pure n loyal intentions, I buy the red top for my frend….but then I cant forget how gud it looked on me and I also rem how I have been struggling over months to get a simple red top for myself since I didn’t have that one color and so also it stopped me from making VIBGYOR(the rainbow colors) with my tshirts :P………..

I went home n tried it on once again and my mom n sis loved it……and then I decided to retain it for myself n buy another one for my friend…..after all it’s a gift and I don’t think my frend likes red as much as I do :P……..well reminds me of a beautiful song that fits perfectly here…….

Hum ne vo kya dekha jo kaha deevana
Hum ko nahin kuchh samajh zara samajhana
Shopping hamein kis mod pe le aaya
Ke dil kare haye, koi to bataye, kya hoga

Aakhir kya thi aisi bhi majaboori
Mil gaye so many things ab bhi kyon hai ye majboori
Are, dam(to be read as daam) hai to unase chheen ke le aayenge
Di na ghar vaalon ne agar manzoori
Shopping hamein kis mod pe le aaya
Ke dil kare haye, koi to bataye, kya hoga.....

I rem this shopping experience that I had the last time I came home…….I had to shop for a trousers for one of my frend…..I went around all of central and lifestyle buildings stopping at every shelf looking at the piles of clothes which never seemed to end….I bought myself a nice brown top from D&G and a cream caudroy trousers from SRC…..and happily walked out to the Tibbs Frankie counter outside lifestyle building……….My frend who I went shopping for called up and I started all excitedly about my great shopping n how I loved the kurthi in white and how I couldn’t dare to buy it since I already have enough of them and don’t need any more in my current wardrobe…..and in the end my sweet frend asked me about the trousers…..”Oh yeah! Now I remember why I was here!....Well I did go back but I couldn’t find what I came looking for….No wonder I am one of those types who my marketing prof would classify as………No reason to Try….Some reason to Buy…..and then money ko bolo Gud Bye :P……

Honestly, I never thought I spend so much on clothes but when I look at my wardrobe, I do realize I waste so much on clothes and some of them are even not worth it!.....few of my clothes in Chennai have been eaten my termites( I think its termites but I am not exactly sure what they are)….and I don’t feel so sorry about it…..I feel rather happy to wear them off a few more times n say tata tata bye bye to them than keep them with me forever and not wear them…….I am not a shopaholic toh…..I am very sharp and controlled when it comes to spending…..and that is one reason why I owe 700 bucks to my frend for I took money from him to shop for him but then spent them off on myself :P……somehow I have this feeling that “Everything in India runs on credit so why not my shopping!”…..however one of the wisest decisions in my life is to not a take a credit card…..I know how lazy I am and how I have stopped myself from buying so many things because I don’t have ready cash then n there and ATM in not anywhere around….Yes! Convenience is not my cup of tea when it comes to shopping………

Many of my friends wud say I don’t splurge or extravagantly indulge in anything but I always get off the track when I am shopping….I sometimes achieve what I wanted to and some more and sometimes I achieve anything but what I planned……..Sometimes I seriously doubt if my interest in marketing is out of this stupid instinct of shopping that I have in me……marketing reminds me of a TOMA(top fo the mind brand...the brand which first strikes ur mind when I say the following products) exercise me and my MBA frends did in class since I was feeling drowsy(btw this is an illegal exercise carried out by me to shooo away my sleep for a while....to be tried under strict supervision and under drowsy conditions by sleepy heads like me :P)…..TOMA brands for various categories……for me of course!

Colgate- toothpaste
Cadburys- Chocolate
Levis – Jeans
Bru- Coffee
Natraj- Pencil
Reynolds- Pen
Adidas- Shoes
LG- ACs
LG- TV
Fast Track- Watches
Clinic Plus- Shampoo
Pears- Soap
Maggi- Noodles
Bournvita- mixed with milk
Saffola- Oil
Nokia- Mobile

There are many more that can be quoted but time and space constraint….some how this blog didn’t turn up the way I planned it…..never mind….Its something I wanted to do right now n now its done…...May all the shops rest in peace!.....since I am done Shopping and Talking for this season :P.....

Organisational Behaviour (OB) ki Diwani!

I would like to start and also end this post with songs!

Ishq junoon jab hadh se badh jaaye (when the intensity of love for something crosses boundaries)
Haste haste aashiq suli chadh jaaye( the lover smiles and heads for the gallows)
Ishq ka jaadu sara chadha kara bole (the magic of Love gets into head and says)
Khoob laga lo pehre raste rab khole( take many rounds around, and then god opens ways)
Yahi ishq di marzi hain( this is love’s will and wish)
Yahi rab di marzi hain( this is god’s will and wish)

He he petty much sums up my love for OB!....now comes the other side of it.

IITM First Quarter First Grades given out!.... and yeah I get a “B” there. To my non MBA friends, a “B” grade comes after “S” and “A” (in the same order)….. Now I know OB is one subject I have put my heart and soul into when I studied it. I felt Bad. I felt Miserable. However I started thinking. Why did this happen. I could come up so many faltoo reasons on my part like my first two quizzes which were miserable due to my misunderstanding of the course and which actually helped me get the right orientation and interest in the subject later on. I can push it off on my group tasks and say someone else ruined it for me[:P] which wont change anything for me :D…..

But on a deeper note, I always believed in two things…..

1. When something good or bad has to happen, nothing can stop it from happening independent of whether you want it or not.

2. God doesn’t give everything to everyone. When he gives something somewhere to u, he is bound to cut something else somewhere. There is always a balance between your Have(s) and Have not(s). This is what they teach you in Financial Accouting too [:P]

Now when I started thinking why did I just lose out on my grade by one point( I lost an A by one mark, yeah yeah it’s the same one mark funda that you all guys must have seen in your lives too :D)

I still remember me getting the school first by just one mark in 10th and winning some cash prize for it. The guy who scored just one mark below me is my close friend and he felt miserable!! Well, I didn’t complain then [:P]…..

I got thru the Summers process quite easily (which I believe is partly my preparation but mostly just got lucky since they asked stuff that I exactly knew)…. Well, I never complained then!

All nice things happening in my life right now and I am actually loving every moment in this college and just living my life. And no, I didn’t complain!

When God has given me so many nice things at one go, he is bound to cut some wires!...Well OB is the first wire[:P]…. Did he actually do this to hurt me!....Naaah!.... he is showing about how he has given me so many gud things and its time for him to do some cost cutting[:P]….

However the good part is, not just to me but to all those who just got there to the border and could not make it, Look Out!.... The other grades might just take you to places where u never thought you could be (I meant the positive way duds!!)….

You might say this girl is too optimistic and I don’t care. I am frustrated and angry is what you might say. Just sit and think. Did something really gud or nice happen to you in the recent past that you know is something that others didn’t get!....if you don’t have something like that yet, don’t complain re![:D]……Picture Abhi Baaki Hai Mere Dost!....In short, the future isint here yet!....Just wait and watch…. You wil gain an edge over people at instants in your life which will be ever cherished. Exams and grades like this wil be brooded over but will be forgotten….

Your mind is like an array with fixed memory. Once a fresh good memory comes in, a bad memory has to move out to accommodate the gud one. Which one you choose to move out depends on the priority you attach to it. And finally a day wil be come when you have too many gud memories that the bad memories don’t have much place to occupy!....this is true and you will see it happen to you sometime [:D]…at least it happened with me….and then when you actually don’t see it, God has his ways of showing it to you thru disasters like OB Grades[:D]….now you
know you have so many gud memories that you don’t think of quite often but once a bad memory pops in, you see it all[:P]….

Anyway no more bhaashan on this, all I can say is. Grades do Matter but not as much as YOU matter!.... I love myself and hope the same with you too!.... never give up is the key[:D](yeah an old dialogue but yaha pe koi aur line ja nahi raha tha :))…..

Would like to conclude this weird post of mine which has actually made me feel so nice about myself now with another song from telugu….its been translated for the benefit of my non-telugu friends[:D]

Right o Left o Right o Left o
Mundukko( Forward) Venakkako( Backward)
Paipaikko( Up and up) Kindakko( Down)
Asalu endukko( Why is it so?) Ekkadiko( Where is it to?)
Just Go… Go… Go… Go… Go…

Last but not the least, Nike says “Just Do It” and I say “I Just Did It”….thru this post….. I did a great deal of good to myself and hopefully to some other who are still patiently reading this piece of crap with great concentration!...

There might be people who are still taking their time to come out of the disaster….its fine to brood actually….but rem tht something gud is on its way already!

Cheers!

Musings of Monkey!

With so many monkeys visiting our rooms on a daily basis, i cant ignore them anymore.
yesterday there was a monkey at my window. It started making simple random chatter noises n goin up n down the window to scare me...i camly sat on my bed and browsed on my lappy....

The post wil be in Hyderabadi Hindi to give it an added flavour!

Monkey's Mind: " Arre kya yaaron!....yeh potti ko daar nai hora....ab mein kya karoon re!.... woh table pe pada hua biscuit packet dede na!.... agar mein aisae-ich karta gaya toh woh bilkul ignore kaerlegi re!....kuch soch re yaroon....kya karooooon!"

It makes some more wierd noise n settles down on the window sill n sleeeeeps!!!!!!

Me in my Mind: "Arre this monkey also no....why is it not going...mereko sab maloom hai...woh mereko darane ke liye-ich aise karri hai....mein kaiko darooon....mereko strong hona padega re....

the monkey leaves the window n i shut the window....

Scene behind the curtains:
the monkey's name is chimpu.... chimpu is give "E" grade in basic food grabbing fundae subject by his sir.....chimpu is dissapointed.....toi toi toi...flash back now.....

scene just 5 mins before this: chimpu's mom puts tilak on chimpu's forehead n says "jaa beta apni khandan ki naam roshan karde".....
chimpu's classmates in the school: arre chimpu, yeh dekh....food grabbing fundae mein best is to work out and become a strong monkey n attack open rooms...ur sure of gettign hold of soemthing thru this.....
chimpu: arre nahi yaar...i thot out of box n decided to give this a try...i will play on window sill n scare the girl...she might throw some food or out of pity gimme some...this is my strategy....this shall work....im high on innovation...the regular theory solutions dont work for me!

just before the exam: (his frends): chimpu!! chimpu!!....cmon chimpu....ur setting a new fundae in food grabbing through this.....hope u get thru....

and the rest is history....chimpu laments over the failure of his strategy....he didnt know ehere he went wrong....he tried analysing his strategy once again...it was simple one...the girl shud gte scared or pity me n give food...why didnt it work!....

it didnt work coz it coundnt see some hidden n missing varibles like the girl's strength n boldness[:P].....there was too much dependency on external factors and too little reliance on internal factors and hence failed....also the data sample of the girl taken out of the fearful girls population was an outlier....also chimpu didnt realise that the girl is not liable to give a biscuit packet unless chimpu gave one earlier[:P] and also the packet wasnt her asset as she took it from her friends room.....So also the demand for the biscuit packet was high as all her frends wanted one and the current supply was not at the equlibrium point n hence there was already a shortage of biscuits......last but not the least....the monkey coudnt create an impression in the girl's mind about its purpose and hence the result is a failure..... toh monkeys are branded as a fear factor among girls hostel, the target penetration this time wasnt upto the mark!......

having realised the various reasons for its failures....its decided to work on

1. problem identification and description and various entities involved..... try to draw a fish bone if necessary!

2. look at its hierarchy of needs and chuck maslow and see if ERG theory can help it since phychological needs are anyway not fulfilled..... also frustration-aggression working on....the frustration on not being able to satisfy lower needs leads to agressively trying to satisfy higher needs!

3. realise that the world is full of interconnectivity and its supply of biscuits depends on the demand for it among girls and her frends and so also on the personality attributes of the girl.....

4. it realised that their major strength of creating fear among the girls is lost and they became an ineffective brand now....it has decided to go for relauching or repositioning itself as a friendly monkey from next time[:p]

5. It also decided to take a better sample next time and visit some other room who is a better representative of the feaful girls sample.....

6. last but not the least.... it decided to calculate its position of its assets of biscuits received so far and see whether any immediate need for food grabbing arises and also note down the expenses incurred in reaching the girls window so far....the expenses like kicking off its costly reebok shoes into the gutter while climbing is taken as unexpected loss and it also pulled down another monkey coming to the same window....tht monkey might take revenge in future which it put up as a "Bad Will" on the liability side since its prone to attack from tht other monkey sometime!....

That is it folks.....Im done for today...wil edit once i find some comments!...feel free to post any comments :D.....

Rock On Review!

This is one of the group mails i sent regarding the movie review for Rock On......

sabhaku namaskaaaaram.....with mamakaaram :P

nenu ma lan nunchi download cheksuni chusa...cinema hall ki eldam ante janalu eppudu chadukuntu time dorakatam ledu ani deekincharu....inka labham ledu ani second day na room lo kurchuni chusa.....details loki elthunna...kasko na vasco di gama.....

1.opening with song unique n i love tht song....lyrics avi variety ga unnayi annadi pakkana pedithey,....i loved the tune....idi kakunda mere laundry ka ek bill is too gud!...we will rock u type anukunta mari.....

2. farhan gadi voice patallo kummesindi kani...dubbing lo koncham teelipoyindi....jalubu gonthu laga...konni dialouges lo punch padakunda ayyindi!....kakapothey vadi acting skills toh dubbing ni laaginchesadu....naku maathram dubbing inka improve cheskovalemo ani anipinchindi......

3. heroine ga aa serial pilla bane undi...but ss music vj aiena goswami arjun ramphal wife kinda kummesindi...chepala kampu nijam ga undemo annanta realistic ga acted anukondi!

4. madhyalo odilesina unfufilled desires n dreams ni fullfill cheskondi....janalandariki jeevitam rendo avakaasam ivvadu anna msg bagaaaaaaaaaaa strong ga cheptunnadu....meeku teliyandi kadu le :P

5. farhan gadu songs kummesadu.....shankar ehsaan n loy are gods!...for once they overtook arr in my ratings!....javed akhtar ilanti lyrics ela rasado naku inka artham kavatam ledu...koduku koosam rasanu antunnadu kani...inta youthful n realted terms toh lyrics vadu raasi undadu ani na strong feeling...

6. konni senti scenes lo farhan gadu kummesadu....vadiki ee male bonding sentimental scenes ante oka rakamaina sentiment anukunta :P....aa purab kohli gadu jeevinchesadu anukondi!....nen nammaledu....eedenti inta baga cheyyatam emiti ani!....

7. aa gf toh break up scene enta arbit ga undo...naaku nachhaledu :P...arre piriki panda laga paaaripotademi...adi oka tokkalo a4 sheet meeda ball point pen toh hindi lo 4 words raasesi!....wat crap i say!....

8. biggest msg thru this movie..... u can work n earn money...but the most rewarding n happiest moments of ur life are from ur deep rooted passions n always have time for them!....

inka appti nunchi nenu na full time passion aiena singing ni appudappudu practise cheskuntunna....cinema paatale padukuntunna le :P....

Seriously, one hell of a movie to be watched for some of the deep insights it tries to send across.....Sindbad the sailor song captures the essence of the movie really well :)

Chennai Chamak Chipak!

Warning: the title is chamaka chipak on purpose.....read further to follow.....
after two weeks in chennai, the two words stuck on my mind are chamak and chipak.....chamak for the place is all vibrant n shining.....chipak for the climate lets anything but our lectures to stick on to us!.....
IIT Madras is a beautiful place.....lovely campus they have.....now i know anyone who would have to study here for the next two years would say the same thing but i say it coz i loved the monkeys here :P....these monkeys here are like Himesh Reshamiyya.....u can hate them but u cannot ignore them!.....they run in the corridors....they sleep on ther stairs....they practically pull anything they can get hold of.....there is one monkey which keeps visiting our corridor often and i named it giggly....coz it makes wierd noises when ever it runs in the corridor....
apart from this....the food is nice for south indians n hence i dont complain....my hostel room is very small but i dont complain....i got infected and have a swollen neck n throat but i dont complain....some how i dont complain anymore!....im in love with this campus....
a small city visit has also been made....will discuss it much later...i know most of the ppl i know complain tht i say tht i wud take up somethings later on but never blog on them...well thts my way of avaoiding the unnecessary :P.....
classes in full swing....morning baths.....quick breakfasts.....seated at last.....lectures are past....
biggest challenge in class.....watching others sleep thru the class n trying to stay awake thru it :P......
Mourning Mornings, Hungry Afternoons, Eager Evenings and Noisy Nights.....sums up my life at IITM....feels like its been months i have been here.....miss my home n hyd very badly....but lots of telugu ppl arnd here....so not really missing the language....
I know this is one of my best most boring posts till date....well random thoughts can be boring too!!.....will have to watch a movie tonite....gud night........

IIT Bombay Interview

This interview is hated for all the right reasons. It fell exactly on the day my close cousin got married and as a result, I had to skip it!!.....Me, pavan and pavan’s friend rakesh came along with me. I took the train this time. It was evening 4pm train and me and pavan got the berths at the same place. rakesh joined us from begumpet. Now started the fun part. The blabber mouth tht I was, went on n on about anything n everything in the world n also discussed many current affairs in the process since I had two brainy heads with me. Oh, by the way….pavan had IIM B,I,L calls while rakesh had all calls!!....so it was obvious tht I was the one benefited the most from those conversations!!....we discussed everything from crises around the world to flop movies to mba prep to future plans…..time just flew by and we slept sooner than we expected…..

Morning 3.30am it was and pavan woke me up!....we reached some place near dadar and got down at some station by 4am. We waited for a sub urban train tht came at 4.40am and landed up at the nearest station to IIT Bombay. Took and auto and having reached the girls hostel, I bade gud bye n waited for some girl to allot me the room. The room was big n already 5 people were fast asleep in tht room. I joined them too in a very short while. My interview was scheduled in the afternoon slot and hence woke up at around 9.30, got ready and had breakfast. Revised some crap and borrowed the news ppr from a girl who just landed into the room. I know this blog is getting boring now. Lemme directly jump into the interview part.

We were again divided into slots and we were the first to go for a GD. Our topic was again some case study. Its abt how a junior officer gets promoted on account of his work efficiency and the seniors hate tht and argue tht seniority should be given preference n go to the court. Is it legal to do so? Its some public firm where private partnership is involved. What is the due course of such cases in Indian Law? What should the company do now or what should it have done?.....fairly bad GD with occasionally becoming uncontrollable fish market…… we were 12 people and it was a bad GD!!.....

Highlights of the GD:

There was some guy sitting on No-7 in the slot and he started the gd by saying lemme take u thru the key points of the case study and started reading the lines of the case study!!!!!.....we let him make two points n I decided to interrupt but the guy beside me took over n did the same. Then there were too many differences of opinion about what should they have done and wat is the due course now…..according to me….the guy beside me scored the best as he also stopped many messy situations. He did say “lets allow the lady to speak” twice n I cud make my points. tht did give him some brownie points since I had soar throat and wasn’t able to shout my way thru the gd. Many of the good points were given by the guy beside me and one more guy. I made just 3 entries n made 2 good points. Many ppl were iterating their points and I thot it all got messed up many times since 4 people were talking simultaneously!!.....finally we did manage to sum up properly what we all thot and hence a happy ending to the fish-centered fairy tale…..

My interview was slotted last. Last but one rather. So I waited and waited and waited. I took feedback from every person who came out from my panel. We had a german on the panel and many of them were having trouble getting his accent. There was another lady stats prof on our panel. When I went, the panel was almost exhausted yet happy since the interviews almost came to an end on their panel and hence all general discussion happened. The biggest burning issue then was the budget. We got it just 1 day back. Hence the whole world was discussing it. I was asked to elaborate on points of my interest in the budget and also few other things on budget. Then they asked me abt why I left my job and what I am doin now n I elaborated the same. the german was keen on knowing more abt how I spent my time after I quit my job and also few things abt my prep.

The stats prof didn’t seem interested in me since, since at some point, she made a comment like. U left ur wonderful job just for preparing. Now wats the gurantee tht u will do justice to this course when u find a gud job. U might loose interest in it then. Oh, cmon mam!!....dont act like my 6 year old cousin who has great logical questions all the time but never do they come anywhere close to reality!!.....i realized tht the lady prof was very unimpressed with me for whatever reasons. I think there are gen I dont like u vibes from lady profs anywhere in the world when it comes to girls!!...something similar but much better than this happened to me in delhi too!!....there were few questions on who is shiv khera and some other crappy guy who I never even heard of!!....so I answered abt shiv khera n bluntly didn’t acknowledge the second person’s name!!.....

Having completed the interview, I know I wudnt make it. My deep sub conscious mind tht woke up just now told me so…..so its petty strong n clear tht I wudnt make it[:P]….. how ever after narrating my interview, ppl had something nice to say……some even went to the extent of saying…..hey tht second guy….may be it was just a fictious character….they wanted to check out the way u handle unknown things!!......very sweet of them but I knew I didn’t do well….some how I felt so….rakesh was on the afternoon batch too n he was on different slot. I kept waiting for him and many of the seniors came up to me and asked how the interview went n what they thot abt it…..i did get many contradictory reviews on my interview but I knew what was in store for me. rakesh was also last on his panel n came out very late. He said his interview went well and the panel ppl were happy with his answers!!....well atleast someone I know shall make it thru IIT Bombay!!!....a special mention here shud go to the seniors who organized the whole things for us…..they are all amazing n they coordinated well….lucky are the ones who would be goin there to study with those seniors!!....

pavan had his interview the next day afternoon and I was already bored!!....i spent the evening lazing around in the hostel and slept off after an early dinner. By the way, we had to buy food coupons in the mess but I never did. Only on day1 breakfast, I bout one coupon!!...rest all muft mein khaliya!!....arre yaar room ke liye already 200 paid off….why again for food is my point!!....anyway the next day, my mom’s first cousin called up n asked if I wud want to visit their house and I said yes. I went n met them n in the evening aunty, me and my cousin went shopping on the roads of Bombay…..it was amazing. Bombay has the cheapest n the best stuff anyone could ever get!!....i did some small scale shopping since the budget wasn’t permitting me….i took a sub urban train again n landed in the Bombay station….i had pavan waiting thr already and we had dinner on the train, spoke for a while abt the interviews and then slept off since it was an eventful yet tiring day…..

First impressions on the city:

the city is over crowded with people. In the 4.40am sub urban train….there was no place to sit!!....i couldn’t believe what my eyes saw….so many ppl on their way to work n tht too so early in the morning!!....i can’t believe it!!....the streets are too narrow…..the bus service is gud n also ppl seemed courteous too!!....one special feature among the buses there was to enter thru the back door n come out from the front door….i took tht bus from the campus to my relatives place….the long journey to tht place was good….too much of work was happening on the roads…..not too many tall buildings around the area tht I saw…..the main roads were real wide n smooth….people are hardworking n nice….auto people took one rupee less than the meter there!!....now how impossible is tht!!....

this trip was memorable in its own way since its my first trip to bombay. I did miss my cousin’s wedding in the process but I dont regret it anymore….get my cousin to hear it n she might want to kill me for saying this!!

A Place-O-Analysis

With all my interviews now completed and making it to IIT Madras MBA batch of 2008-2010….I am happy to present the analysis of the places I visited so far!......In the process I shall compare…..contradict…..curse…..criticize…. comment…. on all the cities I have visited…..

Statutory Warning: If the content of this blog hurts anyone…..I would not be sorry about it and would recommend them to consult a psychiatrist for being such a sissy!!

In the order of interviews, I have been to IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IISc Bangalore (for IISc and IIT Kharagpur as well), IIT Chennai and finally IIT Delhi. In the process, I have noticed something great abt every place n something not so very great as well…..in the due course of this blog, u shall be reading abt my musings and experiences in the diff places……

IIT Kanpur:

Me and my friend shruthi took the flight to Delhi from Hyderabad and then rajdhani express to kanpur……In the flight, even after having our heavy breakfast, we bout the not-so-good chicken sandwiches jus coz we were bored n wanted something to eat…..the 200 bucks went into the gutter since the sandwich was like the upma tht I cook for myself when no one is home…..after landing, our dear friend Smitha was there to receive us and show us around for a while since we had 3 hours gap between the flight n train…..we went to palika bazaar and bout lots of stuff for 500 bucks only…..it was my mom’s strict condition tht I don’t spend too much on clothes during my trips to different places!....n then we took the wonderful metro rail to the railway station from palika bazaar station…..metro rail is one thing tht makes us believe tht we aren’t in India…..at least for a while….n then u look around and find our very own software engineers and business men, all dressed up and standing around in the train…..we then bade gud bye to smita n hopped on to the train….it was 2pm and we were hungry…..meals were included in the ticket and with my never-eat-veg attitude, I ordered non-veg meals for myself and veg for shruthi….actually our whole idea was to play safe…..if the non veg dish isn’t gud, we wud still have veg dishes and vice-versa…..thankfully the food was decent n he even gave us ice creams!!....slept for a while n then woke up around 4pm to see tht tea and snacks were being served!!.....n then me n shru opened our great manorama tht we made for ourselves to get us thru the interviews and started revising [:D]….at around 6.45pm, we landed in kanpur. My close friend bhaskar was there to receive us and we left for the IIT Kanpur campus in an auto…..

My first impression on the city:

The station was too smelly….the autos are decent…..the place is horrible….the roads are waiting-to-be-repaired…..the weather was cool….

We finally arrived into the campus and then my whole view changed…..Awesome campus they have….amazing I must say…..we were allotted hostel rooms by some senior girls and then we went to have dinner at some canteen…..the walk from the hostel to canteen was long n nice….kanpur ppl have the best campus, I must say….spotted neel gaay on the way and returned to hostel after dinner….next day was our interview….

My Interview Experience:

We were divided into slots and I was on the fourth slot n moved to some SIDBI (small industries development board of India) building for GD/PI….My group has 13 people in all…..our topic was a case study…..some lady….Nancy for the time being….Nacy takes up job as ceo of a company and she was earlier working with HP and did a great job there…..she believes in making decisions herself and never involved too many in deciding….she gives her 100% in the job but at the end of 6 months, sales drop and board of directors issue her a one month notice to resign….a special committee is formed n they report all of nancy’s inconsistencies….even meager issues like she talks too much on phone or she eats for too long types will be quoted…..now we had to analyze what went wrong and why….is there gender bias in tht company….suggest any remedial measures…..we were all given 5mins to read n note….one min each to read out our points to the rest….n in the end 6 mins to discuss…..fairly gud GD with occasional spikes of fish market….I did perform well enuf and I was happy.

My Interview:

Me: may I come in sir?

Panel of 5 professor: yes, please take ur seat…

Prof1: so sahiti, ur from ece background….tell me how comfortable are u with ur subjects?

Me: quite comfortable sir(I hope u wont ask me subjects tht I have done one day batting for)

Prof1: okay can u draw us a full wave rectifier with phased lock loops?

Me: (@#$%&* the what!!) Sir I rem the basic full wave rectifier, cant recollect abt phased lock loops.

Prof1: fine draw it first.

Me: (drew the picture n I know its correct….i was really happy about it….)

Prof1: now can u draw the waveform for it

Me: (confidently drew the wrong waveform….i was so dumb tht u don’t even ask me…..i was in some world of my own and drew the wrong wave form)

Prof1: are u sure abt the waveform…

Me: I think so. I didn’t even bother to verify it!!....

Prof1: okay which is ur fav subject in engg….

Me: communication Systems.

Prof2 takes over: okay tell me what happens when u switch on ur mobile phone.

Me: explained in detail abt the base station, antenna, HLR, MST and all tht crap.

Prof2: okay now I am making a call from land line…how does it connect to the mobile….tel the flow…

Me: at the telephone exchange, its routed to the corresponding station.

Prof2: no, I am saying how does the connection get established?

Me: thru telephone cables ( I was so elated to give this answer[:P]….like this is the ultimate answer tht can ever be given!!)

Prof2: yeah, tht is fine. I am saying what is the exact process tht happens there.

Me: I am not sure about it sir. This is all I know.

Prof1, getting back to me: have u heard of WLL (wire locked loops) in telephone networks.

Me: yes sir, I have. Frankly, I don’t remember any of it. We don’t have a course in it.

Prof1: so what do u know miss Sahithi??

Me: (@#$%&*....fine I know nothing…but ece is not my cup of tea coffee milk n cool drink!!) Sir, I have answered to the best of my abilities.

Prof3: okay can we do some maths?

Me: sure sir. He asked me about the integral of something, which I cant recollect ryt now n I answered it.

Prof4: so u have resigned from ur job in july 2007. What have u been doin since then?

Me: I have been involved in various activities and also prepared for MBA entrance exams.

Prof4: what made u leave ur job? Didn’t u like it?

Me: No sir, I really liked my job. But I had decided to give Cat and other exams a proper shot. I was having too much work and wasn’t able to do it. I spoke to my PM and we arrived at the consensus to resign. If I wouldn’t have resigned in july,07. My next chance was in feb,08 which is too late to even study. I made the decision n came out sir.

Prof4: you could have worked it out with ur PM.

Me: sir, thr was a lot of dependency on me in the project. I had to act responsible and not leave the project at the wrong time. Since our module was completed in june and new module was just allocated, my pm said july,07 is okay. But once I got absorbed into the new module, I had to wait until its delivery which was tentatively feb,08. So I decided to resign.

Prof4: oh okay. So u have been preparing well then. What happened to ur cat? What is ur percentile?

Me: its ** % sir.

Prof4: can u split it?

Me: (split it up n told)

Prof1 to prof5: sir, do u have anything to ask?

Prof5: no nothing. U may leave.

Me: (finally im done)

So I guess the interview went just about okay with prof1 charging towards me with unexpected questions!!....since this was my first interview, I learnt a lot from it.

In fact, me n my friends who were preparing for CAT were so very much into the prep tht our conversations were as follows…..

Pavan: hey today I had pizzas at pizza hut.

Me: okay tel me who owns tht grp and what else do they own? Also their competitors?

Pavan: Amma talli!!.... any normal human would have asked me what pizza I had or who did I go with….we ppl are all cracked up with our MBA prep!....we aren’t thinking normally n humanly[:D]….

Me: I know. The other day, I was watching tv which was playing a big bazaar commercial. I immediately started thinking abt future group and its various other ventures. A normal person would have switched to another channel or watched the ad peacefully…..

During a recent conversation with one other frend of mine who got thru IIM Indore.

Yashu: I also got thru Carnegie Mellon with aid for MS in Management information systems. I dunno which one to choose?....

Me: I rem he was a great business fella. Tell me, what was his business? Why did he start this school? When did he start it?

Yashu: I dunno!!![:P]

Me: ever since ur mba interviews are done with, u hardly read n since this is not in India n doesn’t have an interview, u became complacent[:P]….very bad[:P]….

Yashu: edisavu le[:P]….i stopped reading news paper the day my last interview was over!....i don’t even watch news channels anymore.

Me: Neither do we!!![:D]

Some how, I know I deviated from the main topic n ended up some where else. But who cares man!....Deviating is my birth right!![:P]

I shall blog about my other interviews shortly. Do keep reading and commenting.