Sunday, October 30, 2005

back to marketing...and a lot of fun!!!

Finally...Iam back in my comfort zone.Pure unadulterated marketing which gives you all the room to faff off and wiggle out some strange numbers.All you need to is state the assumptions.

But seriously, if i was ever in doubt as to where my MBA competencies lie...today is the best example.I worked on Consumer behaviour and Marketing implementation and I just feel great now. Contrast this with how i used to feel during any finance case discussions...the verdict is clear.

On an aside...i was just reading one of my frinds blogs and it was absolutely hilarious.....SM you rock dude. You have to know this guy to appreciate his wry sense of humor.

http://ihavewaytoomuchtime.blogspot.com/

Well thats it for now.....when will i ever feel sleepy????

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Yeh toh "Arbitrage" ka zamaana hai!!!

For once..let me start on a funny note....some one told me this joke recently.

'pehla Ram- raj & Ravan-Raj chalta tha...uske baad Liscence Raj bhi hua tha...par aajkal tho sirf "Arbtrage" Chal raha hai :)..... Iam quite sure only a B-school student would find that funny!!!

Anyways, as usual back to cribbing about what is wrong with my life. I seem to be in dazed and defocussed state nowadays. all my organizational abilities seemto have but evaporated.Cant make up my mind on almost anything and have started procrastinating almost everything.

These are not good signs and i need a good strong kick in butt to get me out of this reverie.

Moving onto global weather patterns over the last year...I dont know if any of y'all have noticed, but there have been a mutitude of freak weather related incidences across the global just in the last year or too. It almost seems too concentrated.

  • Tsunami in south asia
  • Mumbai and new orleans floods
  • floods in bangalore and chennai

add to that, over the last five years, there have been quite a high level of terrorist activities and these guys are running amuck.And on top of all this, consider that i have just finished watching "The core" (Yet another world is coming to an end-- story) you can surely make out by now that Iam either going mad or reeeeeally sleep deprived.

Ill get to bed now...more later.

Sunday, October 23, 2005

Term 5....all's well that ends well :)

This is our first elective term and I intend to major in marketing and operations if possible.the first few days were a little depressing as i had not been alotted marketing implementation by Prof. Nirmal Gupta....finally he raised the number of seats and i got in....no more gripes.Iam ONLY doing 4 courses Vs almost the entire college taking up 5!!!!

Started some serious work on my resume and it is shaping up pretty decntly as of now.Trying to review core term courses and hopefully i will be able to complete all of them by february! It almost seems that the entire college is just focussed on the placements right now and the electives just happen to be there:).

My other three course's are Supply chain management, Consumer behaviour and Negotiation analysis. The last class is a wonderfully interactive and educational, but it has only reinforced my belief that Iam a sub-standard negotiator:)

later