Me, Myself and .... Marketing

Well..thats what I'm goin to specialise in.Finally i got some things clear in life... professionally!Dad n Mom would'v wanted me to get into finance.. though I'm sure that they are also not clear abt the work that goes on!!Fin craze I guess...
I was asked to give my rankings for the companies..and i guess I was the only one on campus to have companies like J.P.Morgan, Lehman Bros etc. ranked right at the bottom of my list!
Marketing is fun.. marketing is what i want to do. It is the only thing i ever wanted to do after 21 years of education.It consists of all the things I love doing- interacting with people, pitchin your proposal to people, tryin to understand what they want, how to develop promotion campaigns to increase the sales of your product.... I guess I can go on and on..
INDEX has been very instrumental in making me figure out what i want to do. The kind of work i did in INDEX- interacting with clients, pitching for INDEX proposals, selling INDEX to local sponsors-working out deals to get maximum benefit..these things, however small they may sound have been a great influence for me to figure out my career.
I never really understood the funda-but I did have people telling me that I'm a marketing person and that I shouldnt even think about anythin else.Always smiled but couldn figure out which was that attribute because of which people think I'm good in marketing. The side reasons of not taking fin-I've never liked maths and i definately hate MANAC(accounting subject). Summers start from next week, I will be asked time and again to justify 'why marketing'. But atleast this time I'm more confident..a lot more confident than i was to my 'why mba' question during CAT. :)

Run up to placements..

The gtalk status message of one of my friend's said:
"char din ki zindagani..slot O.. slot 1..slot 2..slot 3 "
This is what has been going on campus.. this will continue till Novemeber 6th. Summer placements.. the 'compulsary' ppt's we need to attend.. the painful forms.. 10pm deadline.. skipping dinners/lunches/breakfasts-a common phenomenon.Well this is how my life moves on after a term here at IIM-L
No matter how early we know of the deadline.. inevitably we are submitting our form just 1-2 minutes before deadline.Take today for example.. yesterday being diwali we were spared of the submissions..but still today at 9:58 pm i ran to the placement office.. at 9:59 managed to drop it in the box.. I didnt want another fine..
So much for time management!that gets me to all the 'globish' questions that i have to fill.. As i'm applying to only Marketing companies- I have lots more of- "describe a significant achievement where you overcame all the obstacles..blah blah.. " long bloody forms!tiring and painful. Some of the presentations are even more painful.
To add to that life is just getting tougher.. INDEX is comin up..(INDEX-The BIGGEST Marketing fest across ALL B-Schools.I"m the committee memeber of INDEX)lots of work in that front.. and then midterms!!first term has been so peaceful.This term i'm getting screwed in classes.. 2 prof's are asking me questions!!(thts really bad..esp wen they even have marks allocated for CP (class participation).Somebody just mentioned today that they can see me getting screwed day by day.. just 4 days after placements are our midterms and then one week later is INDEX!!All i know is that i'l feel like a 'gladiator' after this term!!
I dont know what placements have in store for me.. just hope its not too depressing..

First Month at hel(L)

Well its almost been a month since I've come here to Lucknow.. patha hi nahi chala.. the life is pretty fast paced, very very different from what we had at Osmania University,Hyderabad. Most of us hardly have a lot of free time for ourselves-either we are studying or we are out partying.. though our academic rigour is increasing at a scary pace day by day, we are also having more and more fun in what little time we get.. We are truly stretching ourselves..
Stretching ourselves- well this is what I've heard a lot before I came here, now I truly understand the meaning of it. I'm very happy with IIML.. atleast till now I dont feel that I've lost something as I didnt make it through A,B or C. The entire experience is unique, stressful, crazy at times, and fun. I'm sure that thought sometimes I may really wonder why I'm straining myself so much-down the line I wont regret this experience at all.
The mode of teaching for some subjects is different- today in a subject 8 of us had to deliver a lecture instead of the prof..relating to our own experience( WE NEED TO PREPARE AND GO TO THE CLASS..SOB..SOB..).It was pretty unexpected-but yes a different experience. In one subject 40%of our marks are allocated to a BLOG BOOK, in which we have to write a story and relate the concepts of the subject to our story-creative yes..though-YES.We started writing something yesterday- it ended up being a terribly filmi love story so we have to redo it again:(
Our statistics prof expects us to relate something like Krrish and Corporate to statistics.. I really dont know what will happen in that assignment:(
IIML has a number of committes like the placement committee,the marketing committee etc. To get into any committee you need to clear 5 rounds- that means additional work apart from the already piling acad work.
As every day passes we have more and more assignments to submit..more and more presentations to give.. and more is the rigour-more is the enthu to go and chill out in the city once a week..Its been a month and we'v already had soooooooooo many parties!!(who ever said that there are no parties in hel(L)!!
The hostels are good enough (THOUGH BOYS HAVE THE NEW HOSTELS WHICH ARE NICE..GIRLS STAY IN SLUMS:(( )food is really good (we even get pani puri/ pav bhaji and burger etc for evening snacks and there is a night mess which ensures that we can have a nice break at around 2-3 in the night.)But the only worry of mine is whether I'll be able to pass MANAC( Management Accounting)-this is one subject which is giving me nightmares..
I guess I'll write more in the coming days probably..right now its around 4 30 early morning and I better catch some sleep..and be on time for the class (people are sent out if they come even 1 minute late!!!!!)

Landed in hel(L)

Landed two weeks back actually.. and now I'm back to blogging.One of these days I'll post a more detailed version of my experiences here.. but for now I'm posting 2 important pictures.. our academic block and our library-two places where I better go regularly and study to get atleast a decent CGPA:)

Wonder PJ!!

Offlate I'm readin a lot of P.J.'s but this one has literally made me shake my head.. so sharin it with all of you'll ..found it on orkut..

Question : You are in a boat in the middle of a river. You have 2 Cigarettesand have to light any one cigarette. You don't have anything else with youin the boat? How will you do it?
Answer: Take one cigarette and throw it in the water. So the boat willbecome LIGHTER........using this LIGHTER you can light the other Cigarette
Another deadly answer?
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Another solution: You throw a cigarette up and catch it. Catches winMatches. Using the matches that you win, you can light the cigaretteIf that was not enough, one more deadly answer....











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Take water in your hand and drop it drop by drop...(TIP - TIP)"TIP TIP barsa Pani..Pani ne aag lagayee."us aag se hamne cigarette jalayee"
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Start praising one cigarette, The other will get jealous & "jalney lagega"

so do let me know how u felt after readin this..:)

The day when nothing went right…

Everyone will experience a day .. one special day.. where everything magically, miraculously goes wrong..At the end of such a pathetic day I thought I’ll write a post on it on my blog which has been dormant due to my exam preperation(exams got over yesterday)
I was maha tired yesterday…but somehow ended up chatting with people till late at night and slept really late.. thought I’d get up late.. My father started waking me up from 7:(
Fought with him, screamed a bit and finally got up one hr after that.. started getting a call from my friend that I’m already late.. couldn’t have breakfast also.. My final year project(mine and Deepak’s) was adjudged the best project.. so Deepak was really curious about the cash award we were to get.. there began our horrible quest… from one building to another..one sir to another.. spent so much time just walkin and asking so many people..With the world going crazy about the football world cup..I felt like one-being kicked from one room to another.
I was so furious and irritated that Deepak thought the only way to make me cool down was to take me to a movie..went to ‘chup chup ke’ and the last one hr of the movie was so dragging so boring that I was pissed off again.. didn’t stay to have lunch with friends and came back home.
Had to go shopping ,a bad trip-didn’t find anything what I wanted.. cursed my foot for being so big that I couldn’t find good sandals for my size.
Went out for dinner… bad food.
Came back to find out that my tailor ruined my costly kurta.He once ruined a dress too some months back and when he gave me some dumb excuse I acted even more dumb by letting him get away with it because of a fit of humanity and ‘understanding the other person’ attitude. Tomorrow I wont let it happen again. I’m so furious.. To add to that my mother later in the night is giving me gyaan on stuff like “its not good to catch off something and brood over it,past is past” Now how am I supposed to react?
Thought I’ll have a good phone conversation with my best friends so that my mood becomes normal.. suddenly for everything I say, they were asking the silliest and the most obvious questions.
I gave up on the events that happened in the day.. I would’ve had worse days.. but offlate life was smooth enough. Hope good days come back from tomorrow.

Hyderabad anti-reservation rally update

"Our aim is a developed nation, not a divided nation.TALENT KNOWS NO CASTE.Join the anti-reservation movement at indira park sunday 4 june 9am.Please pass this message"