Prerana 2009

Prerana Knowledge Transfer or something of that sort!

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Vijay

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Subject: Prerana Knowledge Transfer or something of that sort!

Dear All,

Let me start by stating the obvious, the following is mostly Gyan of the highest order. You may gladly choose to ignore all of it!

Of all things you guys might have learned through your summers, i hope the one thing you did realize is that life can’t any better than what it’s on Campus.

The ability to have full control on what you want to do next!…now that’s heavy crap man!

Not that i am complaining about life becoming less exciting/fun, I just stayed at the TAJ for a month, met some awesome people, did some crazy things, enjoyed south Bombay to the core; just that a lot of dependencies seem to have crept in (This whole JOB/Boss/Escalation/Permission/Sign Off/Work Groups/Process thing is a bit slow for my liking). It’s not the same kind of Freedom that i used to cherish while on campus.

Morale of the Story: Enjoy it to the fullest while you can!

Coming to the subject line, i have neither the enthu nor do i see the need for someone to actually tell you what needs to be done for Prerana 2010. I am sure you guys are already brimming with a similar sense of ownership about the whole Jig. But guys, it’s a lazy Monday morning, i am among the 6 humans on my floor who bothered coming in inspite of the bandh & all my work is dependent on folks who chose to stay home. So i am left mulling about life in general.
The following is actually what i could recollect from a 2 page draft i made about 8 months ago (Thank God i forgot posting that, so here goes the brief),

1. Sponsorship: Please try and go hard at it from D-1, as cash in hand would give a lot of flexibility in terms of what you can do. The contact list has been nicely documented, how to strategise/execute is at your discretion. Please keep your eyes open to what’s happening in other B-Schools and in rival batches! Be ready to move in fast, as and when the oppurtunity arises.

2. Prerana Business Meet: The data i managed to collect/collate (about 100 names) with direct lines to the top guys will really help, try to establish a hierarchy in terms brand image (Company/Personal) and run through it as fast as you can. Whoever is handling it, please remember that the first crack will always be the most difficult one, after that, it is easier to leverage on available names. So please be patient & stay motivated.

3. Blog: The link i registered the blog under has expired. Please do the needful if it hasn’t been done already. What/How to write, totally your call folks. Remember it is a brand utility and not a personal brag tool. I dont recollect using my name ever on the Blog. So, please use appropriate discretion!

4. Pundir: Whatever might be said about the Man, i for one will always vouch for him as the Best ‘goto guy’ on Campus. The kind of general hysteria around his modus operandi is mostly work of fiction. I must say the ‘method’ he inculcates in you would take you places even after you leave campus. No one can move things faster than him, so use him smartly.

5. Juniors: I used to brag about being this super efficient omnipresent guy during P-08, i must say, you guys made me look ordinary! I hope the progression continues, please go prepared while interviewing your juniors. I am sure you guys will get the highest number of applications among all commitees, use it as an apportunity to sell the brand individually to the entire batch. And for the guys you plan on taking, have a plan in place in terms of the skillsets you might require.

6. Innovation: Please keep your minds open to changing stuff & trying out new things. Always keep yourself open to asking “Why?”. And guys, if possible, one event on Advertising please!

7. Teamwork: This one is really the baap of all things folks. The whole concept about having this Dream Team in complete synergy on all matters is Utopian. People will always be less than perfect & that has to be dealt with. As a norm i never bitched about anyone in my team to an outsider, though i must confess everyone within PMG-15 has bitched about everyone else! Well that’s life, that is how it works! Just brush it aside and get on with it. It is imperative that you believe in your own brand (PMG-16) as that would be your biggest motivator.

And yea…congratulations on a job well done on the brochure! The gaint images on the PBM page made me nostalgic.

I am sure, if i sit longer, i can completely reconstruct my 2 pager and go on about how to make a “Spons Pitch”, target list for PBM & likely blog posts which will put me on par with the likes of Sanchit/Sandy in terms of churning out “Random Fart” out of nothing. Well, not exactly my Forte!

Feel free to get in touch with anyone of us, just in case you need an opinion. If not for some hunky-dory strategic advise, you can call us in, if you need an extra hand for putting up the banners!

Guess that will be it from me, Remember it’s your Event, Own it! Everything else will fall in place.

All the Best with your PPO’s & life in general!

Regards,
Vijay Garimella
AVP, Change Delivery, INM HTS
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.

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…of, for & by the Brands that we were!

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Vijay

No part of the following post is intended to make sense!
However in the extreme case of the reader deriving logic, he/she would be best advised to join us in seeing a Mind Fuck specialist!

Chapter-1:

Inside a PeeEmJee Meet
Konduris: “Bhailog!, LavvarSandy meri nahin hai, mai tho shaadi shudha hoon!”
NG: “Are we gonna discuss anything else? i have places to go to!”
Chithh: “Yaar mujhe yeh bata, hum Gurcharan ko paise kyoon de?, itni tho kitaab bechke gaya hai woh”
TanD: “Mere hisaab se tho, dena chahiye!”
Bitch: “Guys, all these things can be taken up at Infinitum, lets dicuss something more relevent”
Esa: “ok, tell me why you made an apologetic call to the US?”
Kit: “Call tho maine bhi kiya tha…!, and there were no apologies at all…we were discussing Investment strategies for expected furture incomes!”
Vas: “If i continue to listen to all this, i will loose my high and die after 4:00am”
DKB: “Fruit tha, ee dala…Frooti ban gaya!”
VJ: “Pond hai, Eeeeh kar dal…Pondy ban jayega!”

Chapter-2:

the useful ‘G’ & the useless ‘G’
If it ain’t the Fire, it ain’t any Fun!
Let me guarantee you, that you are not going to get the actual PUN intended here.

We can proudly claim bragging rights about now knowing NITIE, the best. The eternal axiom about how things moved slowly upstairs actually found its proof. The permission list required prior to our endeavor had points like, “Please get the toilets cleaned everyday”, Please ensure uninterrupted water supply on all 3 days”, “Please cut the grass in the lawns on Day-0 & please don’t water the plants once Prerana begins”, and the fact that this list had to be signed by 13 authorized signatories only puts the icing on this cake.
Everything regarding everything starts with a multiple push from upstairs and ends with a bribe ranging from petty cash to lots of tshirts!

G, Sirji…!

Sometimes people get really possessive about things they do and maybe given the time span of our effort that is justified in our case. The office space we ran, the events we did, the time lines we fix or maybe just the guests we bring along. Some of us just couldn’t stand the non compliance and the bust up’s and uproars probably only add to making the whole jig even more memorable.

Chapter-3:
Gyani Revisited: The ‘How’ of the Change!
“How many movies did you watch Down Town after coming here?”…that is one question you don’t expect to hear from the ONE. But we did…

Three months after my full scale dressing down from the then most irrational being in the world,
my opinion about the man has taken a U-turn.
i can now safely say that he is not the over hyped skeptic he is made out to be. The revered confrontations at his office and other such instances often dwarf the realist in him. Yes all of this makes for good gossip and great memories but things wouldn’t have happened the way they did if not for him. Of all the cynicism expressed in Chapter-2, he stands as the sole exception.
There can be a lot of argument and detailing that can go into justifying his case, but honestly being the privileged few who got to witness it, we would like to keep it all for ourselves!

So here goes, “Thank You, Sir!”

Chapter-4:
hugs, kisses and the Void…
we are done, we are done, we are soo done!,
…but we don’t want to be here!

There are two types of P’s at NITIE, one being the reason why you hit this URL, the other addressed in Chapter-5. Over the past 18 months we have come to fall in love with the former, while the latter awaits us seeking vendetta for not doing anything but the first P through our stay at this place.

Having done everything for our thing, we stare the walls with the void of not being able to anything now.

How we wish there was one more ‘P’ to do…but i guess we had our one shot….hope we delivered!

Chapter-5:
Columned Destiny & the Rise of the New Legion
We are what we are, no matter how hard we try, we remain exactly what we already are!
the free spirited mavericks, the nerdy acads centric morons or somewhere in between…
At this point in time when most of our future fortunes are frozen in our respective Top Right Hand columns, i am just wondering whether this crib about not being the guy with ‘THAT’ thing on the resume would bear fruit at all.

“You being you is the best you could be!”

With the propensity to compare at its all time high these days, i chose to compare not the resume which apparently is the topic in vogue, but the bearers of this edition of Prerana and guys who would told the torch in 2010.

But then, how can a college claim to be moving forward if every junior batch isn’t better than their seniors’. For 15 years on the trot the tradition of making things better has held forte and i have no doubt in my mind that all of the Management Batch of 2011 in general and our beloved PMG16 in particular would keep the Prerana flag flying high in it’s next Edition as well.

Thank you All for your contributions to Prerana 2009, without you, it wouldn’t have been what it was & more importantly it wouldn’t have been as much Fun!

P.S: This would be my last post at this Space, i hope i did succeed in giving you guys a pint of the fun, i had in bringing this to you!

~Adios!

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PBM 2009: Speaker Profiles – Part:2

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Vijay

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Narayan Ramachandran is Country Head of Morgan Stanley in India, leading all of the Group’s businesses. He returned to India in 2006 as Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

Prior to these roles, Narayan was the Head and co-lead portfolio manager of Morgan Stanley’s Global Emerging Markets and Global Asset Allocation teams, managing over $25 billion in assets. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1996 and has 20 years of investment experience. Before joining the firm, he was a managing director at Rogers Casey (now CRA Rogers Casey).

In addition, Narayan was director of research at Rogers Casey and president of its investment advisory subsidiary. Previously, he was a research associate at Goldman Sachs. Narayan has written articles for the academic and trade press, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. He received a B.Tech. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. Narayan holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

He is a director of Impax Corporation and Dyansys Inc.


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Meera H. Sanyal has been a professional banker for the past 25 years. She is currently the Chairperson and Country Executive for ABN AMRO Bank (now RBS) in India, responsible for over 9000 staff in 40 locations across 24 cities.Prior to this, she was the Chief Operations Officer for the Asia Pacific region responsible for 16 countries in the region.

Previously, as an Investment banker in ABN AMRO, she has worked both in India and within the Asian region in Corporate Finance, Structured Finance and Project Finance. In 2001, she set up ACES, ABN AMRO’s Global Shared Services Company.

An area very close to her heart is the banks’ Corporate Social Responsibility activities. The bank finances over 700,000 women who live below the poverty line. Through the activities of the Bank’s Foundation, which she chairs, the foundation has undertaken several projects that aim both, to alleviate poverty and to conserve bio-diversity (especially in endangered tiger habitats), promote watersheds and help marginal farmers in degraded land areas.
Meera was named the Woman Banker of the Year in 2006 by Indian Merchants Chamber and she has also been bestowed with AIESEC Hall of Fame award by AIESEC International Congress, Poland.

In November, 2008, she has awarded the prestigious Karamveer Puraskar award for being the best Corporate Executive Citizen of 2008. In April, 2009, Meera contested the Lok Sabha parliamentary elections as an independent candidate from South Mumbai.Her hobbies include Sailing, Reading & playing Chess. Moreover, she possesses strong linguistic skills. She is fluent in five languages and conversant with three others.
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PBM 2009: Speaker Profiles – Part:1

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Vijay

Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November!


Gurcharan Das is an author, management guru and public intellectual. He is a regular speaker to the managements of the world’s largest corporations. He was CEO, Procter & Gamble India and later Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning). Prior to P&G, he was Chairman and Managing Director of Richardson Hindustan Limited.

Gurcharan Das graduated from Harvard University and later attended Harvard Business School (AMP), where he is featured in three case studies. He is on a number of boards, including Gillette, Citibank, Chrys Capital, Birla Sunlife, and SKS Microfinance. He has been on the juries of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article and the $500,000 Milton Friedman award.

In 1995, after a 30-year career in 6 countries, he took early retirement to become an author. He is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma (Penguin 2009) which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, ‘why be good?’ His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global information age, and has been published in 17 languages and filmed by BBC.
He writes a regular column on Sundays for the Times of India, Dainik Bhaskar, Eenadu, Sakal and periodic guest columns for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek. His other literary works include a novel, A Fine Family, a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm, and an anthology, Three English Plays (Oxford)  

Dr. Hasit Joshipura is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from    VJTI – Bombay University and a Post Graduate from Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad.  He has completed his Doctorate programme at the School of Management at IIT Mumbai. 
After having spent about three years with the Tata Administrative Services, Hasit has spent about 16 years with the Unilever Group of companies in India and held positions of increasing responsibility in commercial, sales, marketing and business management functions. He joined the pharmaceutical business of Johnson & Johnson Ltd., as President & Executive Director in October 2001, a position he held until August 2006.  Hasit was also the Chair person for the Corporate Contributions Programme, as well as the lead for Government Affairs for the Johnson & Johnson group of businesses in India. 
In October 2006, Hasit was appointed Vice President, South Asia and Managing Director India with GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (GSK).  He is also Chairman of the boards of GSK Bangladesh and GSK Sri Lanka. Hasit formally took over on 1st January, 2007.  
He has been recently elected on the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and is also a member of the VJTI Senate.
Event Manager: Vijay Garimella
Mail: pbm@prerana2k9.com
Mobile: +91 97690 21465
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The Last Samurai: Do you have it in You?

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Vijay

Prize Money: Rs 30,000 – The Last Samurai takes it All!
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  • A single A4-Page CV with a formal Photograph (Format .doc Only)
  • A filled copy of the questionnaire within the word limit as indicated against each question (Questions mentioned below) (Format .doc Only)
  • A Video (Time Limit: 60 Seconds, Resolution: 640*480), answering the question, “Why do think you can be The Last Samurai”

Mail: tls@prerana2k9.com

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All three attachments should be mailed before the deadline to tls@prerana2k9.com
  • Format of the CV file name: TLS_CV_{participant name}_{Institute Name}.doc
  • Format of the Answer Sheet: TLS_Ans_{participant name}_{Institute Name}.doc
  • Format of the Video file name: TLS_Vid_{participant name}_{Institute Name}
Format for the Subject of the Mail: TLS_{participant name}_{Institute Name}
Deadline: 22nd October 2009 (23:59:59 Hrs)
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The Last Samurai is not the Nobel Peace Prize; Make us Laugh or Dazzle Us!
1. Why did Rahul Gandhi stand UP to Edward de Bono?
(Limit: 20 words)
2. One-Liner for Indian B-school Grads learning Chinese?
3. When we are done fighting for OIL, what would the next fight be for? (Limit: 100 words)
4. Grassroots reforms in India, 5 things you promise to do in your daily life? (Limit: 5 lines)
5. 10 years down the line, Justify your presence in Djibouti?
(Limit: 100 words)
6. Imagine and pen down a conversation between Socrates, Serena and Shakespeare.
(Limit: 10 Lines, 4 Lines MAX for either of the protagonists)
7. The Vocab grind, “Define the foreign policy with Pakistan”, the number of times we hit the dictionary would be the number of points you score! (Limit: 50 words)
8. Play kleptomaniac, steal 5 things that can change the course of the
world? (Limit: 5 things Only :P)

Note: Please curtail the urge to answer ‘Every Question’ with mediocre answers.


Contact: Vijay – 9769021465
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… and then came September!

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Vijay

Kritika, the most popular IM female among the IE folks, vowed not to talk until her name is mentioned at this space. “You are not getting any of my chocolates until then”, being her last words. So here is your mention…now for the treat…

Divya-The Guy, who is yet to recover from his fashion disaster at his company’s event, was caught chating simultaneously with four different girls. About the former, i cannot resist saying, “Olive green casual with grey stripes and a borrowed black shiny satin tie, dude seriously WTF…” & about the later, “All you single, good looking females…nah…everyone (guys included) with time on hand please stalk Divya!”

Edit by Divya: “My Gtalk id is dkbhadani@gmail.com” 😛

Sandilya, has rushed home on a wife consoling mission after she raised serious objections to his call log which courted 20 different HR females on a phone which she helped him buy on leverage from his new in-laws. Heres to marriage & it’s aftermath!

The Official Prerana Website is now LIVE…!

Visit: www.prerana.nitie.net

Comments & feedback would be appreciated!

i am sure you guys remember the last post, wherein i not so briefly mentioned about the recessionary aftermath that we had to endure.

On behalf of PMG, i am happy to inform you that Prerana 2009 is well on it’s way now…!

The kind of deals we managed to crack (which still remain extremely confidential :P) have frankly surprised us to say the least but more importantly have left most of our sponsors in a state of trans or some form of it’s higher echelon…

“We have never done anything like this before, are you sure we are getting this right?”, asked one of them!

can’t resist saying this either…”September has been the month when the ‘Can Do Guys’ became the Doer’s” m/

i find it apt to mention at this point our beloved Gyani’s excessive concern to what we have been up to. We presume he was expecting a mass exodus given the circumstances. I am sure we are more than ready to dazzle him when he conducts one of his, “Let me check your motivation levels” meeting.

The submission window for the Summer Project Contest would go LIVE at Midnight on 28th September, details would be made available shortly, if you are too eager please pester Esha Chavan.

And finally, heres wishing all of the Management Batch of 2011 in general & PMG-16 in particular, all the very best for their summer placements.

Go get them Boys!—>>>

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Up against the torrid ‘T’ wave…

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Vijay

August has been a defining period as far as direction for this edition of Prerana is concerned. We, the self proclaimed, outspoken outlaws-shrewd dealmakers-invisible bandits, have been firmly grounded by the harsh realities of the turmoil all around!

And what grounding it has been, my favourite subject Divya Kumar Bhadani, has limited his status messages to monosyllables, to vent out his anxiety on sponsorship & pangs of interminent sexual frustration! Sanchit claims to have tested -ve for C2H5OH, Tanay our beloved DesiPondy, has limited his partying spree to ‘Brunches’ & ‘Girls Night Out’ of souls from other committees within NITIE.
Though still quietly confident of executing our endevour, we now know for sure that by the end of it all, for what it’s going to take, we would all be a changed set of individuals. Value addition isn’t the 4 lines we get to write in our resumes but some place more important i guess! 
Anyways here is what i set to write…
1. ‘T’orment-In the line of Fire!
A First Person report by Vasu:
“For the lucky few who get to interact with the ‘Gyani’ on a regular basis, this is no battle. This is just another walk of life. For the benefit of those who don’t get to interact with Gyani that very often, here is a first person account of what it takes to be in the battle field, to receive bullets in the chest, and yet walk out unscathed!

The battle in discussion is not a battle in a strict sense. It is more one sided, like dragon handling. The dragon keeps breathing fire at unpredictable random intervals. All you get to do is navigate tactically not getting burnt and navigate carefully not instigating the dragon further. As our regular dragon handler Mr. ARSK is busy in is native, the gultland, this task was outsourced to two other less fortunate gentlemen – the poster kid and the quiz kid. We did navigate our path with minimum damage, at least we think so. I forgot to mention today’s battle had spectators too – the IMPRESSive guys.

Today it was the second case of a broken arrow which unfortunately reached Gyani. As we were not supposed to elicit the case of broken arrow, me and the quiz kid, in consultation with Mr. PBM, created a hypothetical issue for discussion hoping that the broken arrow would crop up in the conversation by itself. The irony being both the broken arrow and the hypothetical issue got lost in the firing session, read conversation, which ensued! Our corporate communications head had gone ahead with PR activities without Gyani’s approval. And as Gyani is omniscient about NeeTee, he obviously got to know about this. What ensued was, for outsiders – carnage, for insiders – nothing guys, just usual stuff!

We follow a strict code of decorum with our ruler. Whatever happens inside those four walls of his regal bastion remains inside only. As long as he doesn’t discuss that in public, we also won’t! Therefore, my hands are tied from typing what actually transpired inside. But I can say this much, majority of what happened can be classified as ‘classified’. My stamina was not under scrutiny today as the conversion, by the accepted standards, ended soon and I had deserted the quiz kid during the last round. As they say, all is well that ends with minimum damage. So things are fine… at least until the next battle.”
2. ‘T’urbulence – Economy!
“Sorry can’t take your calls now!”

“Our director has sanctioned 3 Lakhs for your event, but the HR who was supposed to be the Jury has been fired as a part of our restructuring, so we are sorry to regret your association!”

“These things take time, you have no understanding of corporate India!”

“We have made a policy decision to cut down!”

“Dont you have a Robotics event at your Festival?, sorry what is NITIE?”
3. ‘T’ravel – Commitments of corporate India!
Dear Vijay
Thank you for your invite for Prerana business meet on 5 Nov 09.
We regret to inform you that Ms. Naina L Kidwai will not be able to accept the invite as she is scheduled to travel at that time and will be out of the country on the date mentioned.
We hope to associate with your institute for future initiatives and wish you success in your current endeavor.
Regards,
Koninika MITRA 

Dear Mr Garimella,
Thank you for inviting Mr Ghosh to be the honorary guest and keynote speaker at the NITIE Annual Business Conclave in Mumbai.  
However, Mr Ghosh has a prior overseas travel commitment that week and has to regret the invite.  He wishes you and the organizers a successful evening!
Best regards,
Zarine

Dear Vijay,
Thank you for your message to our Chairman, Mr. KV Kamath on the above.  We would like to inform you that owing to Mr. Kamath’s overseas travel commitments on Nov.5, he regrets his inability to attend the Prerana Business Meet 2009 on that day. Mr. Kamath however takes this opportunity to wish the event all success.
Best wishes,
Elizabeth Pereira

Dear Vijay,
Mr. Kotak has thanked you for the invitation to be an Honorary Guest and Keynote Speaker at the Prerana Business Meet 2009.  Unfortunately he is scheduled to travel overseas at that time and hence has conveyed his inability to attend.  He would, however, like to wish the function all success.
Thanks and best regards,
Cynthia Menezes

Dear Vijay,
Thanks for your message.
Mr. Murthy is grateful to you for your kind invitation.  Unfortunately, he will be travelling in Europe and Malaysia that period.  Hence, he has requested that he may kindly be excused.
Mr. Murthy sends, herewith, his best wishes on this occasion.
Regards.
Pandu

4. ‘T’ – This is the part where random fart sets in!


Why the heck am i not allowed to a use an Auto-Sniper as ‘T’errorist in Counter Strike!
Clans Respond…?
Why on Earth does every ‘T’ata company bother replying in writing to the Director even if they have to say No!
Why do all the guys in PMG-16, have to be present to get his holyness ‘T’anay into a meeting!
Anyways, moving on, for what it takes, i would like to put on record, our heartfealt appreciation for the organizing teams of Litmus & Envision for their success.
Outlaws & Bandits are a bit too fancy a Title to let go so easy…so is PMG…WHATEVER IT TAKES!
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November!
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The Spirit of Prerana Mascots!

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Vijay

The Rhythm Jockey

The DanceMaster

The Youth Icon

The Heartthrob

The Junkie
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A Return Party that never was…!

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Vijay
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The Diligent Vigilante…

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Vijay

This has been a week of in-principle approvals…sponsors, speakers, jury…though happy on many fronts…there have been certain unavoidable unfortunate incidents…
The most important of which being, Divya Bhadani our eternal romantic, has stopped updating his status message, rumours of him stalking under aged boys on Orkut couldn’t be verified at the time of writing this article.
Hostel-1 has been complaining about air pollution in Mumbai of late, though the VP hasn’t summoned cordcom to call for a batch meet yet, initial investigation pin points the source at Room No-123. On this note i would like to congratulate my friend Sanchit Chandna on his new book, “My tryst with Constipation: A work around with the water problems In Vogue”
Finally Mastishk, our online gaming partner, has shown signs of existence. They have launched their new blog with their old promise, heres wishing them all the glory, pagehits & revenue. The reasons why Mr.Nilekani chose this team to field test his UID project are still unknown. We never asked, “Who all are in Mastishk?”…did we?
At this point i must say, i couldn’t stop myself from posting the pic above, not after the gentlemen responsible said, “Hey guys, round of applause for my wife like!” I always wondered why it is always the lady with the gong make-up who actually speaks most sense. Not that there weren’t others, one of whom actually was candid enough to call this place National Institute for Torturing Innocent Engineers! Among the other things worth remembering from that function… EWYLS (Earn While You Learn Scheme) for assisting profs in consulting assignments & DEWYLS (Double the Earnings While You Learn Scheme) for investing the money earned from consulting into the stock markets.
Now how about this…NICE <->NaEs (Nayani/Esha)…let’s be nice to people…Let’s nice our NPA’s… (PMG ROTFL! m/)
I have never had the privilege of being niced by my revered peers (no guarantees on behind the back activities!) but i guess destiny had planned it upstairs for me. In between the haze and black out that happens regularly in my constant endeavour to absorb the most irrational reasoning of all time, i do have the privilege of hearing phrases like, “You have no manners…don’t you have any Manners?”; “You are a law unto yourself!”; “how do you know him…do you know him?…you would invite the Prime Minister also!”; “Why would he come…?…he is too high profile!”; “so you want to make this a forum for low profile, retired people!”
And in between all this is the unavoidable and much needed fun at the perimeter of my bull ring…
Mr.Anand: “Dude, i really wanna get my PPO man!”
Mr.Konduri: “Ah dude, girlfriend, Marriage…”
Mr.Anand: “Sandy!…is that all you can think of?”
Mr.Konduri: “dude…children also…”
Mr.Anand: “WTF…you must be ready with their names!”
Mr.Konduri: “Yes dude…’Kickass’ Konduri & ‘Fellow’ Konduri!”
And lastly, Vasanth the most sober and prolly the nicest guy in PMG, heres congratulating him and his Dravidian roots…what 4 rounds of Johnny Walker couldn’t, one stale masala dosa at maddu mess could. I seriously envy his growing TRP among the junior batch! (Again PMG only…”Hail Hitler!” :P)
P.S: Can i get that best online Multimedia content award for my tshirt design!
Cheers!~
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… Rand ‘O’ Me …

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Vijay

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22:00 hrs: just came back from dinner, “Inn for Pizza”, enquired Sambit, said no…sat down to write a proposal for Beejal Parekh…thought of including PBM, but decided against it…drafted a separate mail, inviting Mr.Aditya Puri, want to attach the docket but gmail is acting up…

23:00 hrs: digging info on Arun Maira, Vasanth pings with a funny screenshot of how even Google was down, Divya pings asking for info on last year’s Stratagem, his status message read, “tempest…”, heard that before, i thought. Tried my luck with the taps, finally shaved & took a bath (Shave & Bath not to be read in conjunction!), some random crap on IP about the Mess Menu
00:00 hrs: finally got to mail the proposal to Beejal, making a similar draft for Zeenat Burji & Elizabeth Pereira,  though they said no, both BCG & ICICI responded positively last year, think i should call before sending the mail, “Dude, RB might be interested in SPC also”, said Divya whose status message now read, “Tempted…”. Starting to rain…
01:00 hrs: Esha pings asking for a change on the front page of the SPC docket, the crap on IP now shifted to the water problem, “Stop the Spam”, replies some junior. Mr.Deshmukh is interjecting with the path for the shared folder. Pinging a junior to check the status of the contact list. Mr.Yadav turned his woofer On for ‘Jane tu ya jane na’.
02:00 hrs: “Please send the MS Project file for the PM assignment”, said Ms.Vyas on IP. “Multi Karo…TIA”, replied Mr.Vyas. Sanchit pings cribbing about the font size in the Master Slider, Mr.Rehman asked for a 10 slide presentation he said. Checked the status on Barclays & SBI with Sandilya. “Interested in Castrol”, he asked. Divya’s status message now read, “each day i feel closer to you…”. Mr.Yadav is now playing ‘Marshall Mathers’…good time for it, i thought!
03:00 hrs: Tanay replies to an older mail, “I think we should go ahead with Vasu’s idea for the CSR thing”, Nayani pings asking for a transparent Prerana logo. Mr.Nagda floats a proposal on IP for a bulk deal with a third party vendor for Internet. Mr.Makhwana interjects that with, “RCom ka stock karedo!”. Checked for details on Mindtree with Kritika,”Finally got the contacts of PMG-1″, she said. Sam shot a mail about some work with Prueba.
04:00 hrs: Net is finally up to speed, digging up some info on Akhil Gupta & some PlanCom members. Mr.Chaturvedula on IP said, “Koi Zinda hai”. “Tu talli hai, so jaa!”, said Mr.Varshney. Divya changed his status message again, it now read, “Mai aur mera Laptop aksar…”, some fart, i thought. Started raining again….the birds are making a lot of noise. Mr.Yadav finally fell asleep, his last tune being “Hanuman Chalisa”. Hit DC for ‘The Half Blood Prince”
05:00 hrs: Sanchit mails his version of the Master Slider. 5mb download within a minute! Hit the official Dilbert site to find out the copyrights scheme, left a request with the helpdesk. Can’t stop laughing at Sandy’s idea of using it as, “DilbArt”, gultification of International Brands i thought. Divya is at it again, “When in roam, do the Roman…”, “Rome”, i said; “i suck it”, he replied; “At it”, i grinned, didn’t bother replying…
06:00 hrs: “Anyone for Maddu Mess”, said Mr.Krishnan on IP. Visibility increased from the Balcony, starts dristling again…trucks are shipping steel upsatirs. Looking at the contact list from the Juniors…one row Reads, B.N.Kalyani, Bharat Forge, bharatforjamunabhai@vsnl.com! Done with Harry Potter…too dark i thought! Feels good to see Ms.Watson though…!
07:00 hrs: done with the collages of my Matheran exploits…posted on Void Main. “Please extend the PM deadline by Half an Hour”, said Mr.Mishra. Looking dolefully at my phone…alarm was set to 07:45 hrs. The Birds are at their loudest…the paper guy threw the Financial Express at the door…the sweeper was shaking the bin for yesterday’s copy & a Lay’s packet.
12:00 hrs: Woke up to the painter hitting across the wall, “Another Khanapuri Day!”, i thought. Guess i hit turn off, instead of snooze…net was down again, decided to go to the FRM class, penned down a few ideas for the Next post on the Blog, in the class. Collected contacts for HSBC, Axis & Citibank. Need some inputs about the Topic from Mr.Warlu.
18:00 hrs: done with sending mails to Burji & Pereira,…done with typing the post for the Blog, Hit, “Publish Post”.
P.S: Creative Liberties have been used at Will!
P.S to P.S: Agreed, the choice of the Title doesn’t really seem Creative in a colloquial connotation! 😛
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