Chennai in Showers

We all know that there is no water in Chennai, but how to bring in Water ... Water lorries ? Veeranam thittam ? Interlinking of rivers ? Or ? Or ?. One of the ways is through heavy rains again and again.

It is happening finally in Chennai, Heavy rains, all parts of city its raining really well. The roads are filled with water and no proper drainage. We say we want more rain and more rain. But if it rains like how it rains today, there will be no place for vehicles to move in street. Water just stagnates in the streets and plain grounds. I don't know what Chennai corporation is going to do about this situation.

But is really different ... Chennai in Rains (Chennai el oru malai kallam) Yesterday morning I left to Bharti office is was drizzling, first time after going to Chennai I tried using my rain coat. For the past one week, almost every day I will be caught up in rains. So now I see people going out with umbrellas and rain coats - sounds like Kerala state. Its great being in chennai at this time, its really cool in the night, warm in the morning, Cool breeze round the clock ... WOW !!


I hope rains will continues - it can be a solution to water scarcity in Chennai ! Rains should continue ... Ground water level should increase ... Hope so ... It will RAIN !!

Presentations at B-Schools

Hum .... The most interesting part of any B-Schools is the type of Case studies and presentations.

After Entering ICFAI I have handled many many presentations. In the first term our faculties asked us to make presentation in power point. Some students started presentations with OHPs .... but Faculties stressed on Power point only. In the beginning we collect all the info, prepared for the presentation and downloaded good templates and gave a professional presentation with our personal touch.

Now its all different, I made a Presentation for a case study in Marketing Communication Strategy, It was about cokes plans entering Rural India. I didn't have time, so in the last one hour I created slides and gave a very good presentation, I kept a lot of facts and Points outside the case and of course a lot of pictures of Advertisements.

Every one taught that I spent days preparing for it, after that great presentation,my faculty challenged other students to take up PepsiCo case. Then it all really started .... Video presentations. We saw seniors use Flash for presentations ... Now in our Batch also it started.

But there is one point in any ones presentation, it not important how prepared you are or what vocabs you use or What you show. But we have the convey the message properly to the audience. I always go by his rule. Presentation ambiance is improved by Powerpoint or Video Clip or Flash. But the real good presentation is the one which is understood and accepted to be the best by the Audience.

I will go with the GLADIATOR Movie dialogue (Before Maximus enters the Coliseum his master tells him) "Win the crowd and you will win your freedom"

The same goes with every one, may be a Cricket player (or) a Gladiator (or) a Faculty .... Or a student giving a presentation ....

"Win the crowd and you will win"

..........I will be B A C K !!!

Till Today

Yesterday by 6 in the evening we inaugurated our Healthclub, I had great fun. We invited Crazy Mohan to inaugurate our Health club. Crazy mohan is well know comedian in Tamil movies, artist in various dramas in TV and a also a script writer for Tamil movies. His latest appearance was in Vasool Raja MBBS movie. He is responsible for all the funny dialogs in that movie.

This is a small initiative from IBS point of view, we didn't prefer going in for academic or corporate or Big stars. He is on his way for a 2 months trip to USA for conducting Tamil drama and plays in various parts of US. He accepted to conduct a comedy show for our institute, He is a very simple funny and a CRAZY man.

I had many works, in MBA all the students are focused on studies, after 7 days juniors have exam so only 2 council members were ready to work, in my batch all went to finance class, me the only Marketing member and 2 juniors did all the work. Finally we had 50 students and 5 staff and 20 non staff member attended the function. Now IBS students can have more fun with Gym, TT, Caroms, TV and Songs .... only 130 students have registered for Gym, which is a very small count, around 50% of the strength, and that too only for 1 hour each, Students council has to rework on schedules and student timings.

Daily I come to college by 10 and will stay till 9, Daily some students council work ... We have a paid placement cell in IBS-C (They work great) some days we compete with them. So far Students Council has conducted Finance club, ET Club, Council meetings, Marketing club, Party ,Health club and many student works. Sometimes I think all these are unnecessary to my MBA ... But MBA is not just studies. Its great being students council member. I love to be an elected honorary member representing students, in UG I was secretary now students council member ... I Hope to attain a lot of respectable positions in life.

Wild Life in India

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ROYAL BENGAL TIGER:

Tigers are rapidly decreasing in the world. In the last millenium, three sub-species of tigers already lost their existence while five other species are endangered. The first lot of the three sub-species comprised of panthera tigris virgata, panthera tigris balica and panthera tigris sondica.

The endangered species are Bengal Tiger(Panthera tigris tigris), Amur Tiger (Panthera tigris attaica), Chinese Tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis), Indonesian Tiger(Panthera tigris sumatrae) and Indo-Chinese Tiger(Panthera tigris corbetti). To save these tigers, a movement called Save Tiger has been working since 1972.

Total number of tigers in India in 1972 was 1800 which has since then increased to 3500-4000. Efforts of the Government, NGOs and the people have brought about this change. The Wildlife Conservation Act was passed in 1972. But incidents of poaching is still heard. We have sixteen project tiger field areas in our country. They are Corbet National Park, Kanha National Park, Indravati National Park, Sarinka National Park, Melghat Sanctuary, Palamou Tiger Reserve, North Simlipal National Park, Buxa Sanctuary, Sunderbans National Park, Manas Sanctuary, Namdapha National Park, Nagarjun Sagar Shvishailam Sanctuary, Bandipur National Park.


PEACOCK:


The male Indian Peafowl, commonly known as the peacock, is one of the most recognizable birds in the world. These large, brightly colored birds have a distinctive crest and an unmistakable ornamental train. The train (1.4-1.6 meters in length) accounts for more than 60% of their total body length (2.3 meters). Combined with a large wingspan (1.4-1.6 meters), this train makes the male peafowl one of the largest flying birds in the world. The train is formed by 100-150 highly specialized uppertail-coverts. Each of these feathers sports an ornamental ocellus, or eye-spot, and has long disintegrated barbs, giving the feathers a loose, fluffy appearance. When displaying to a female, the peacock erects this train into a spectacular fan, displaying the ocelli to their best advantage.

The more subtly colored female Peafowl is mostly brown above with a white belly. Her ornamentation is limited to a prominent crest and green neck feathers. Though females (2.75-4.0 kg) weigh nearly as much as the males (4.0-6.0 kg), they rarely exceed 1.0 meter in total body length.

---- lots to be said about Indian Wild life ..... will continue !

Party - Exam - Marketing Club

Too busy .....

We started from our campus in 3 busses ..... a one hour journey towards mahabalipuram, on the east cost road after VGP there are a lots of beach houses. We finally reached that place. I was forced to go on the first bus to show the way. I had only my dear juniors with me .... It was a formal journey, they are mostly from north, they did not understand the songs, then they dint like the movie. No dance or song in the Bus. I should have come on the last bus with all my friends ... Ho it will be rock and roll.

We entered the place by 4 in the evening, it was Hot (Chennai) then we had some little play in pool, all the students were gathered for an informal meeting between the seniors and juniors, it went on well. Then all of us were busy pushing each other in the pool. Since the pool was not very deep, nothing happened to anyone and i enjoyed a lot.

We went to Beach and had a real great time over there, we were going on and on, infact our juniors enjoyed more than us as we people had exams on that week. But a bunch of seniors including me, we had great fun. Then I spent time with my gang, they came in Bike, then came after going to a restaurant/bar. They drove 5 km on the beach, I missed it. We were all busy making fun of each other. Then songs started ..... 7 to 12.30 I was on and on and on. Had little break when our Dean came and during food. Crazy dance. Juniors were dominating the dance floor.

Exams:

All marketing papers and 2 common papers were all theory, 5 days 6 exam's. Some days in the morning then in the evening ..... I slept for 4 hours and some times less, I felt little stress after that party, full of cramps. Tired and different sleep timing really affected me. Then question paper was the best. All creative and out of portion or micro portion test. We had marketing research questions in Consumer behavior and a different general - Marketing Comm. Strategy paper and easy services marketing paper. Didn't do well in Management control system, rest all were good.

Marketing club:

It was created before 2 years but didn't function that effectively, we relaunched it, it was inaugurated by marketing heads of the south region of ICICI bank and SONY. Two students did Summer projects in the resp. Companies, i was really happy to see presentation from Mr.Ashok of SONY, my friend who did his project in Sony will often tell me about his busy schedule. Now we have decided not just to conduct guest lecture but also to conduct quiz, GD, Ad hoc research and Case studies. I am very happy as a marketing student to be a part of all these activities.

Now classes going on ..... Quite free and Happy !!

Movies

VASOOL RAJA MBBS

'Vasoolraja MBBS', is a remake of the Hindi movie 'Munna Bhai MBBS'. Gemini Film Circuit is producing the film in Tamil and Telugu. The Tamil version, directed by Saran, has Kamal Hassan essaying the role that Sanjay Dutt enacted with such elan in the original version.

Kamal plays the role of a gangster who had initially set out to be a doctor. His parents in the village believe that he is a doctor. So, when they come to the city, the thug and his men create the ambience of a hospital in the slum, the men pretending to be doctors and patients. It's a hilarious comedy, with humour and sentiment, raising some relevant social issues too, particularly related to the medical profession.

According to me Vasool Raja MBBS is a movie worth watching now, There is no other choice in Tamil. If we see the Tamil version first without watching the Hindi version, then the movie will be rated better. Vasool Raja MBBS will get good Vasool in Tamil Nadu.

Had time to see a lot of movies:

- Spiderman 2 (Nothing great)
- Troy (Great story shown quickly)
- Village (Sounds like a thriller)
- Mysic river (Only those 6 stars should see this movie)

Tough Days

Party @ Khannas Laughing water, near VGP on 24th Aug

Being a student council member is a very tough job, Due to class timings, exams, Guest lectures and Party, we have a lot of scheduling ,collecting money and Inviting work to be done.

Like most of B-Schools we don't have parties often, once in a while we have parties. Last year when I was in hostel, seniors will give a lot of parties for Birthday, scholarship, Jobs and many others. For the people from Home and people who stay outside, party is a big thing.

Freshers party is conducted only once by seniors, this year its through Students Council ie through us. We had tough time collecting money, arranging party house and scheduling timing. Many are already working and some are too concerned about Mid term exam in the next week. But most of them accepted to come. There is only 50% attendance from Day scholars.

A nice Beach house with dance floor, good lawn,swimming pool and cute house in the middle. Last year I had an excellent time, I really enjoyed. I was in beach fro 2 hours then snacks then with seniors then Dance then food again dance and it was going on. This year we scheduled the party with some surprises to our Juniors. All expected thing are there in this party.

Party will start by 4 in the evening on Tuesday. We all will leave from our College at 3 pm in 3 buses. Then some time in Beach then we will take over the Beach house ... Then I ill go on till the morning. Real fun will be in the late night, few of us will stay and we will have great fun. People are already ready with drinks and their special menu. Food part is officially only Veg. But they can always get what they want.

Have a lot of work to do, then full day classes till mid term exam. Then all case studies, assignments, and presentations. There was nothing great till now suddenly the MBA feel is there. Hope to enjoy the party then get on with books.

Go go go alley alley ... Cup of Life

Success In Life

"Its the Attitude which determines the Altitude "

This is the reason why ICFAI Business School - Chennai : Won the MMA (Madras Management Association) award for Management excellence. 3rd MMA Award went to IBS -C it will be shocking to LIBA for sure. Its not the campus or the fame that gives the award. The research associates did a real great job, our USP was Research and "We Also teach Concept"

Students in IBS - C are not all that great in Aptitude, but the kind of skills we posses will take us to the Top. But, is it ok to survive just with classes, teaching and what ever case or situation u handle ??

LIFE - it mostly bitter, we have certain skills but what ur Boss needs ? The real problem for super genius people starts when they end with a dumb boss. In the world we should not be strong or intelligent or Huge. We should adapt to situations to win in the world. There was a picture explaining How to reach top in a company ?

The picture showed people kissing the ass of the Boss to a certain level and then kissing the leg then Kissing the hand .....And that's what I say, we should come out of Gold Medal concept we should be capable of facing any situation. It doesn't mean we have to kiss the asses of Bosses, We should get used to real job situations and we should become smart Managers. Take the story of Lee Iacocca, he proved that he is great but still Hendry Ford didn't like him, he was fired. Then he joined Chrysler then saved it from Bankruptcy. All the success models in Chrysler were the models which Hendry Ford rejected in Ford.

If u ask me ..... I love people who respect talent, but this doesn't happen generally. Bosses respect people who respect them. Come out of EGO. No one knows who will get what. Just go on do ur Duty.....ur Destiny will await you. Every Dog has its own Day.

Time and tide waits for None ..... So is Destiny

Student Council

B.Jeyavarthanaraj
ICFAI Business School - Chennai


I stood in the elections and Won it. .... Long waited election started and ended soon. I got 32 votes out of 38 voters in my class. That was a great surprise to me. I have a lot a lots of friends and I never dreamed that they will ask me to stand and make me win. For many people I was first choice and for many I was second choice ..... Guess what ? for someone i was not at all a choice. I all the cases I am Happy. I have some responsibility ... We had the first formal meeting yesterday where we were introduced to the 2005 batch students formally.

Many divisions are there, one complaints, College extracurricular, curricular, Placements ... Many faculties were assigned for each job. We just have to represent out batch and to conduct meetings, parties and quiz. Every thing is fine ... gave a small party to Hostel friends too. They coudnt vote for me. Now even if the election is for the whole college ... i hope i will WIN.

VICTORY ... means a lot than just participation. I will go back to IBS - C Management meet "Coliseum" - Winning is serious business.

Had good time since ... did some photocopy work for the class. every calls for me if there is no light in a place, or no enough chairs or no internet or power. What ever happends we are responsible. As dean mentioned the elected students council will have a lot of complaints. Hope to give reasonable solutions too. I visited local Amway center and meet President of Big Fun. Saw a presentation about MLM from x Reliance GM. Got little inspired about Amway, even Bill gates is a member of Amway. All big people are all in Amway. Why ??? to get Royalty and more money.

Pharmaceutical Meeting

IBS Research wing conducted pharma Meeting on 21st July 2004 in GRT Grand Days for Pharma companies in Chennai. This meeting was organized by IBS C, Cygnus research and TVS.





This meeting was about Problem faced by Pharma companies in their marketing and solutions for those problems with effective usage of information networks, it is quite like CRM. Presentations were made by students on IBS, Cygnus company and TVS.







We SIEMENS Team of 7 students joined the Pharma Team after our Summers with SIEMENS. We had great fun in organizing that meet. We were happy working as a team. We meet many corporates on the day of seminar, many CEO's and marketing Heads visited the meeting. I will call it as an Experience

Life @ IBS - C

B.Jeyavarthanaraj
ICFAI Business School - Chennai


Life - going on fine, Getting little busy with Marketing classes, Got a lots of books as usual. I am happy to see our institute give us good books, but i spent a little on purchasing my own books. Another important happening is Part time in our institute, all students are requested to join Faculty memebers and do research or part time in companies. Many got jobs through their Summers, Me i did in SIEMENS, i dont find any scope.

Placement activities have started in Chennai, members have been selected and targeting companies are going on. I have filled my nomination for students council. I hope i will win the elections. If i loose i will loose to my Friends so its ok, but still winning is GREAT. I registered with Naukri, jobsDB and Monster just to know what happens.

Rest all same - time mostly spent in Institution, class, Internet and with Friends. Having good fun too. All thats well will end well. My MBA will end with good job.