Happy Days

It’s a great feeling going back Home, I am almost done with my Final Project. After this I just have to submit a report and make a presentation. I have to join Cholamandelam AMC on 20th April - directly for training in Bombay. So I just got some time to go home for Freaking out and Enjoying.

I am very lucky to get some time to go Home and Enjoy, Most of my friends have already joined their Jobs - they are working too hard, now it self they have learned to Burn their Bums and Stomach in their Jobs. In IT and ITES companies, it’s the worst case scenario where people work at least for 12 hrs. They work too hard and come back to room as Zombies in late night or in the early morning. Marketing companies are little better as the work is not yet fully started. But most of my friends stay late night just for the sake of it; they don’t work all these 12 hrs.



Happy Holidays to all my Friends, BEST OF LUCK for their Jobs. I will be back from Coimbatore on 10th April,I Will leave to Bombay on 17th in Bombay Mail. My computer back home is not working, So no updates or blogging for the next 10 days.

Can we Pass ?

It's not the fault of the student if he fails, because the year ONLY
has 365' days.

Typical academic year for a student:

1. Sundays-52, you know Sundays are for rest. Days left 313.

2. Summer holidays-50 where weather is very hot and difficult to study.Days left 263.

3. 8 hours daily sleep- 130 days GONE. Days left 141.

4. 1 hour for daily playing- (good for health) means 15 days. Days left 126.

5. 2 hours daily for food & other delicacies (chewing
properly & swallowing)-means 30days. Days left 96.

6. 1 hour for talking (man is a social animal)-means
15 days. days left 81.

7. Exam days- per year at least 35 days. Days left 46.

8. Quarterly, Half yearly and festival (holidays)-40 days.Balance 6 days.

9. For sickness- at least 3 days. Remaining days=3.

10. Movies and functions - at least 2 days. 1 day left.

11. That 1 day is your birthday.

How can you study on that day ??????!!!!!!!!!!

Balance = 0


"How can a student pass ??"

Plus one ( + 1 )

Plus one is nothing but your performance or achievement plus one level of performance or achievement. In our life we achieve a lot of things and we are happy about them – Nothing wrong about that, but next time we have to perform little better than last time. This is something like Bench marking – and beating it and setting a new Benchmark.

In Studies, Gym, Work, Games, Faily, Life ... Little extra effort will prove the difference, so we have to work for that bit extra effort. Plus one will mean a lot to our character, we will learn to be a winner in Life. We can feel the difference, but we cannot be plus one in every activity in Life, but we can prioritize the top ones and we can try to achieve a little extra every time. This concept helps companies to perform extra, serve their customer extra, and satisfy stakeholders extra ... So i will slowly start practicing Plus one in my Work .... It will surely help me !!

Cricket cricket

Its great fun out here in Chennai and IBS as Cricket is the hot topic in Our Institution and Groups. It’s a great fun watching this amazing game. Last test was a shocker for India. But the second test turned very thrilling today.

We can expect some result in this match. I hope India wins. Lets all cheer for India ..... GO India GO. I will be eagerly waiting for Tendulkar to get his century to attain another milestone. We all are cheering here for India.

Go India Go. Pak down down !!

Movies

I had time to go and see many Movies, So I decided to write about all of them


Aviator

"The Aviator," directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan, tells the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio), the eccentric billionaire industrialist and Hollywood film mogul, famous for romancing some of the world's most beautiful women. The drama recounts the years of his life from the late 1920s through the 1940s, an epoch when Hughes was directing and producing Hollywood movies and test flying innovative aircrafts he designed and created.

+s:

Story
Acting
Money Spent

-ve:

Less Action
His Behavior
End could have been better

Constantine

John Constantine (Reeves) is a world-travelling, mage-like misfit who investigates supernatural mysteries and the like, walking a thin line between evil and good. Constantine teams up with a female police detective, Angela (Weisz), who seeks Constantine's help while investigating the suicide-like death of her twin sister. Does it have something to do with a mysterious group called "The First of the Fallen"? And what is it about Constantine that puts him in a position where he is making deals with representatives from both Heaven and Hell?

+s:

Thrill
Action
Story Concept: Hell vs. Heaven, Angel vs. Devil
Picturization
Climax

-ve:

Confusing scenes
Story not that Clear
Finally hero Fools Hell: Ha ha ha


National Treasure

All his life, Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) has been searching for a treasure no one believed existed: amassed through the ages, moved across continents, to become the greatest treasure the world has ever known. Hidden by our Founding Fathers, they left clues to the treasure's location right before our eyes... from our nation's birthplace, to the nation's capitol, to clues buried within the symbols on the dollar bill. In a race against time, Gates must elude the FBI, stay one step ahead of his ruthless adversary (Sean Bean), decipher the remaining clues and unlock the 2000 year-old mystery behind our greatest national treasure.

+s:

Story History
Tips for treasure :Adventure
Acting

-ve:

Climax
Always in Dark
Picturization



I watched many other tamil movies, i will post about them when i get time ..... I will see all the movies which are about to come, this is the time to Enjoy ........

Mailing Spree !!

When I hear from my friends that I never mail them, I sit and think what do I do? Am I so Busy? ----- But actually If u see, A MBA student will have work, some Project, Assignment, Group activity, Case study, Presentation or some kind of a work – at least going to movies or having Fun. So I didn’t mail very often, even my online presence went down. On an average a IBS/MBA student will spend About 4-5 hrs in actual class room ie. in Lectures. Rest of time goes in campus or Library or lab or Hostel (Sleeping) or with Friends

Finally when there is no work (Currently for me), I can very well see a difference, I started mailing everyone – Past 2 days I am before a computer at least for 6 hrs. It’s real fun as we get close with all our friends. My mail box is also getting ful Day 'n' Day !!

DID U GET MY MAIL ?

Life is going Cool

As of now, I am doing the final Project for completion of my MBA, Its just a summary of the project I did to Airtel. Placements have finally ended, Very few students want more companies or Second round of placements.

I am starting to collect data in WEB, all other data is ready with me. We have to submit some report and make a presentaion. I have to join Cholamandalam on 20th of April, so I have ample amount of time to go Home and come back. My new bike (Passion plus) and mobile (Sony ericsson j200i) - both are very good. I am currenly enjoying my life !! Hope to do the same are joining my Job !!

Sun shines when i am blind

Airtel (Both Mobile and Telephone & Broadband) have come for placemnt and then want a team of students from all specializations. I did project with them for 6 months including Feb 2004, we tried hard for Management Trainee designation in Air tel Chennai.

ICFAI Chennai is Registered in Bharti : Airtel campus list, so regional centers didn’t have powers to recruit us into Direct Bharti role. We were offered associate roles for some months the promised to pull up. Since the offer was too low and my Boss was not willing to pay us so low, he advice us to get another job and then to decide about Air tel. Now I am place in Chola, when there are only 8 open for placement Airtel has come and asking for a lot of people. Now the Airtel sun is shining when I am Blind at Chola.

I have sent my resume and Job profile to my Inst. Placement co-coordinators, but they rejected my offer telling that Chola is a better job. In Placment, we will always get a Job which is best for us. I will join Chola on 15th March .... Its fun to have 2 offers ---- i just missed it, but some of my friends really made it !!

I am Placed

Finally got some time to announce it officially


I got an offer from Cholamandalam Investments and Financial Services, in Cholamandalam AMC. My Job Profile it to Sell Mutual Funds to Distributors and manage the Channel of Mutual Funds, Designation for First 6 months is Executive Trainee and then Assistant manager - Cholamandalam AMC.

I liked the profile as its is Sales to Channel members: Distributors are the people who Sell the Funds to Investors. So it’s a Professional Profile. Assistant manager Designation I liked it so Much, Pay part of it is not the Best in our Institute, but the Profile, Company, Group, Industry is good. Incentives in Mutual funds Selling will be very high, so I got a good marketing career.



In Mutual Funds we have the following channel:


1. SEBI (Securities Exchange Board of India) who regulates the market

2. AMC (Asset managing Company) who creates and manages the Funds, we have comapnies like Sundaram, Chola, Reliance, TATA, Franklin Templeton, JM Morgan Stanley, ICICI and creator of mutual funds in India UTI

3. Distributors (All companies who sell Mutual funds)

4. Investors (Final Customer, who invest in Funds)


My 5 months and Effort of Project with Airtel, is coming to an end as i am doing my Management Research Project at Airtel Telephone and Broadband Services. I have told them that i will be joining Cholamanadalam on 4th April. So my Boss Senior manager Airtel told me that, by next week airtel will make a offer.

Last few Days

When I completed my B.Com in the year 2003, I had quite a great Farewell. It was touchy. I was sure that I will have same fun in MBA. But in MBA at IBS-C I had fun but it was very different. Finally now after almost 2 yrs of tough life and hard learning, we are coming towards a great climax.

On Saturday, 29 th of Jan 2005 we had our last class – Business Ethics and corporate governance. We took group photos. It’s only one Section of IBS-C general MBA class. We went to conference hall – took photos, Sprayed snow, Danced, Kicked certain guys and played for a while.







Its always fun being with friends, that too college days will be remembered for years. These funny moments are to be remembered throughout our life. After college we will have Days, Weeks, Months and Years of sick corporate pressure, work and Tension. We decided to capture some of that fun. We now have to maintain good contacts with our friends in MBA then we can look up to these photos and say ----- Hey see VP-Marketing, VP-HR, VP-Finance, CEO, COO, MD, President of Big Indian corporate and MNC.

Turn your Head 360 Degree

In companies, there is a fixed component and Variable component. Generally in Marketing, people push their limits to achieve maximum of variable component. I am still continuing that part time Project with Airtel. Our Head Sr. Manager of retention Mr.Manoj has a very good opinion on my Friend Ram and me in the company as we are MBA's and we guys work hard.

But we were generally creating an opinion that job in Airtel is not that tough or pressurizing. Last week on Friday he gave us some work. Generally there will be a Team leader coordinating us and we have incentives for our work. So last month, we did a great job – we got appreciation and Incentives, we performed better than his expectations. But this time, we didn’t even bother, as there is no Incentives or coordinator or sure Deadline.

Suddenly today he asked to close all the cases!! Then we gave our own reasons for not doing the Job. He gave good Doses and asked to complete everything at the latest by 3.00 pm today. And ...................... We did it (From 10.00 am to 3.00 pm 100% concentration)

Mr.Manoj actually wanted us to be disciplined as individuals and work for satisfaction not money!! So it was a great and tough day. He wanted to watch us perform with and without Push + Incentives. So when I join campus job I will be very careful with this aspect. In the first 1 yr. there will be no incentives so I got to break my head to satisfy my Boss. But Mr.Manoj left us with a pat in the shoulder at the end of the day... He praised us for our Dedication, finally he told - guys you did well!!


----- But still its Pain to hear that there are no incentives ……. ha ha ha ha. Joke apart I feel its very important for us to perform very well as companies evaluates us in 360-degree approach.

E-Serve Results

5 students of my Institution (IBS-C) 3 Guys and 2 Girls made it through E-Serve, 6 from IBS-H, 6 from IBS-B, 6 from IBS-Mum, some from IBS-K, other centers, 2 from LIBA and few other B-Schools. All the students are happy about to pay part of it. As I said before they will get 28 on hand every month and upto 90 k at the end of a year, E-Serve took 9 from IBS-C last yr, they have kept up the commitment of the Pay.

My Question to all BPO guys is ..... Will other sectors accept BPO Experience, there are a lot of BOP in India, so these Guys can shift between them, but can they Shift to ; 'old Economy' companies in India ------ time alone can answer my question.

BEST OF LUCK for those guys, no way they can get such a High pay out of IBS-C (CTC 5.8 Lakhs). Hope the Job takes to the right Direction in the Long term !!

E-Serve Campus - What a crowd

E-Serve the BPO of Citi Group, is conducting Recruitment for MBA students for the Batch of 2005 - for the post of Team Leader - 4th level in a 9 level of Growth. The job profile is to manage the Team of 8-15 people who enter level one as fresh Graduates. It’s a BPO so Job will be 12-16 hrs a day. If Ur lucky it will be 10 Hrs. Around 300 students are attending the presentation in Park Sheraton hotel in Alwarpet - Chennai. Institutes as IBS - Hyd, Che, B'lore, Kol, ITM-Ch., LIBA, NITIE, IFMR - Ch. and few other colleges are attending. Out of 300, as much as 280 applied and took up the test, few guys didn’t take up - like me. There is jobs for good managers - it can be HR, IT, Fin or Mkt. Pay will be 4.5 Lakhs, and some Bonus up to 100000 at end of a Yr.

As far as I know many people only applied for Money or Package - Many of IBS - Chennai students made it through the Test, Next process in going on now. I hope they get through and they like the Job.

Songs Songs Songs

Be it Kolly wood, be it bollywood, or Hollywood. May it be Melody or Rock or Jazz or Instrumental its fun to hear songs.

Be it Songs of Enrique Iglesias, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, MJ or J'Lo. May be it Dil se or Dil chata hey. May be it Manmadhan or Alaipayuthey, I just Love them. I spend about 1 hr daily hearing songs. I had good collection of English, Hindi and Tamil songs in my comp: Now it’s in Coimbatore, so now I use walkman on or Radio!! When I am tired or not well or scored less marks or lost a Test I hear some songs to get recharged. Even when we are happy during parties we hear songs, during marriage we hear songs. So I want to dedicate one part of my blog to those amazing people who come up with Great songs movie after movie – alum after album!! Certain movies becomes a Hit just because of Songs, A movie entertains a person once or twice when we see them, but the songs just make us happy every time play everywhere ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' WOW I love songs !!

Kolkatta Experience

From 7th to 11th 6 guys from IBS Chennai was on a tour to Kolkatta, Actually we went to IBS - K campus, Our purpose of visit is to attending Presentation by AC Nielson Company and PWC too (But no one was interested to be in Campus for both the days). IBS booked tickets, gave 3000 Rs and Leave also. So its great fun!!


But then the Profile was not as expected (They wanted we guys to do Research in Retail chains in Bombay and Delhi), they pay was also low 2.4 Lakhs plus incentives and bonus and allowances. 3 guys from Chennai and 5 from Calcutta IBS center went to interview, 4 made it through. Hope those guys are happy. I didn’t attend the interview. Calcutta placement cell was not than happy with we guys attending placements over there (Chennai center is ranked above Calcutta)

The whole purpose of my visit is to enjoy Calcutta; I have never gone beyond Goa and Hyderabad. Once when I was Young we went to Maharastra, but then I wanted to enjoy Calcutta. We went to Victoria memorial Hall (Great historic place, beautiful artifacts and Pictures) then to Church (Didn’t enter inside) then to Durga temple (Very famous in Calcutta - [people go inside with shoes also) finally to Hanging bridge. I went in all possible transport - Tram, Metro, Bus and Taxi.

The Best part of Calcutta is the sweets and Climate. South part of the city is very dirty and fully populated, but North is modern and well developed. I stayed in South Indian club (Good south Indian food). Had good Bengali sweets and Food, people are good, they helped us a lot, People are very Fair and good looking (Girls never the less were cute). I don’t smoke or booze, so some of my friends enjoyed that part too. We 6 guys as a team have good fun all these days. But the train Journey was an adventure (3 trains while going and 2 while coming back : we didn’t get direct trains)

----- Now back again with classes, presentation and case studies!!

Desk Research

Its time to look at the End of my MBA in ICFAI. The final semester is going on, but we have formally started our final Projects. Its called as the MRP (Management Research Projects).

I ma not yet officially placed, so have decided to do a project in Telecom, it will be basically a desk research with few field visits. If I am placed in between then i have to handle 2 projects. So its little complex. My final semester ends on Feb 15. From then ; till end of March we will have to take up Full time Projects. I am currently doing project for Airtel, its easy to collect data from Airtel than any other telephone company. Life is going good. But little pressure due to Job, College and Placements!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

I wish every one A very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005 !!



I am Leaving to Andhra Pradesh (Rajmundry) to attend my friend Ajay's Elder Brothers marriage. Marriage is on 1.1.05 at 10 pm, Yes 10pm. I think I will have great fun. New year is a holiday in ICFAI and Airtel, but I will miss classes on 2.1.05 (Business Ethics and Corporate governance), But I will have great fun as we 13 guys are leaving on 31.12.04. Tickets are already booked and its going to be Great.

My wish for everyone, to see a great year ahead. Full of Success, Full of Fun, Full of Honor, Full of innovation, Fill of change, Full of opportunities, Full of Happiness and Full of excitement. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005. All my online friends I wish u guys a great Year ahead.

Oceans 12 : Manmadhan : late Update

We should have time to watch these movies .... So I managed only 2 out of them

Oceans 12:

STORY

Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) saw Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his gang (Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and others) steal $160 million from one of his casinos, and now he wants the money back, with interest. To avoid Benedict's wrath, Ocean rounds up his crew of thieves and jets to Europe with plans to score loot in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam, including Rembrandt's "De Nachtwacht" painting.


What is this ??? - Could anyone explain this movie to me - this my initial reaction !!

I watch lot of English movies, and in a small hint I get the real story of the movie, but in this movie I spent all the time to understand the Logic behind this movie, the story and the star cast !! Why so many stars and why only one Bad guy.

But the Best thing in the movie, is the way Villan dodges from the radar, But in the climax, should he loose that in such a silly manner !! What 12 people could not do 1 did, but why should he leave it with 3 idiots ? There is no logic behind this movie. Simply go and enjoy the Stars and and and --------- Nothing else !! Its an average success in Chennai.


Manmadhan

First hit for Simbhu, He proudly calls himself as "Little super star", but he never performed even to level of a STAR, In manmadhan he showed his talent.

SOTORY :

In the film Manmadhan Simbhu (Madhan Kumar) is an Auditor. And as a Part time he goes to Drums class. There he meets Jothika (Mythili). But befor this Jokthika sees Simbhu in her dream, who rapes her. They become friends. Jothila falls in Love with Simbhu (Manmadhane nee.. song comes here) . Every day in the evening, Simbu kills one girl who has many boy friends (There is a background story for this which comes afterwards) The Tamilnadu Police will be Searching forn the accquist who kidnaps and kill the girls. One day when he kills a girl and take her in his bike across a petrol bunk, accidentally Jokthika sees him. She gives a complaint to the Police. The Police arrests Him and enquire him.

The Comes the Flash back.

He had a Younger Brother called Madhan Raj (Simbu II) (Double act) in his village, Who lived with thier uncle (Goundamani)(Here comes Vaanmunna Uyaram Kaattum Song) . One day Madhan Raj sees a girl in the town bus and falls in love with her. He joins the college and he will be surprised to see the same girl there. Her name is Vaishnavi. Both of the start to love each other. (Kadhal Valarthen.. Song comes here) In that college Madhan Raj had a Friend called Bobby ("Salagalai Vs Ragalai" Santhanam). One day anothe friend of him says that she has a relationship with another boy called cheenu. He does not believe it. To talk to her, he goes to her house at night. To his surpeise he sees Cheenu with her on th bed. Pretending not seen anything, he rings the bell. Vaishnavi comes down. She says the she was doing combine studies with him. But they come to know that all what they had been doing was seen by him. He kills both of them (Cheenu and Vaishnavi). He comes to Chennai to his brother's (Madhan Kumar) House. He says all the truth to his brother and commits suicide.

But Madhan Kumar (Simbhu I) Says to Police that the Person who has been Kidnapping the girls was no him but his brother Madhan Raj in order to escape from the police.

But the real person who had been Kidnapping the girls was Madhan Kumar. When he Comes out of the Jail, Jothika says her love to him. (Here Comes En Aasai Mythiliye song) But he rejects it because he doen not want to spoil a girls life.


+s:

SONGS
STORY
CLIMAX
MOVIE STYLE

-s:

Too many Girls : in Songs
Negative theme
There are few Girls who cheat Guys, it happens other way round
First half : Boring


Actually I saw these movies 2 weeks before, but didnt find time to share the views !!

All troubles !!

Life Last week was too tough, Everything went over my head!! Week before my exams : I had very tough time with Presentations, Report and Case study for Internals; Job was also very tough full field job!!

My exams were really cool, I did very well! Out of 6 subjects, International marketing was alone bad, full international Trade and funda! After a week today we got our last term grades, I maintained my 7.5 level. I got 4 B and 2 C. Internals were really bad last time in our center. People in Hyderabad easily Get 8.5, But my CGPA is very good in comparison with Chennai standards!!. After a weeks : Yesterday I went to Mayajal, watched Oceans 12 and manmadhan, I did exams well, Got Good grades and Incentives in Airtel (Hum little money and appreciation)

------ Hope to Post often

Exams gong on ....

Little busy with Preparation and exams, Since i am in Marketing preparation is low, IT and Finance guys are under real fire. My online presence is also going down and down !!

placements going slowly, Our Dean resigned, so placements are slow right now!! But still 65/114 are placed.

Yep !! I am still Waiting !!