Monday, October 22, 2007

Miracle are there....

Been waking up at 6 am and actually having breakfast for the past 3 days. Nothing short of a miracle, given that I have been averaging 10 am for the past 2 terms. Still not been able to figure out what I have been doing different over the past 3 days, but it sure does feel good. Lets see how far this lasts.

p.s. - Bangalore at 6 am looks beautiful.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Facebook...

Got on to this new web networking thingie called Facebook. Resembles a vastly improved version of Orkut with hajaar bells and whistles added on to it. Was lost in it for about an hour trying to familiarise myself. Apart from the usual privacy issues, it seems to be a pretty fun thing.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Campus Speak ....

Decided to list down words that form the lingua franca on campus. Definitely not exhaustive...

Arbit - Something of a institution, nay religion in B. Defies definition. Furthermore, it is known to be the primal source of campus lingo - yayo, TIN__OTM, ATF, WOWCTB and the infamous "K" are examples that spring to mind.

Are - Death "are there"... Treat "are there"... got the meaning?

BRacket it - To send some file over BRacket... the life blood that sustains the students (apart from DC, of course)

Bullet Point - What fills up your resume. For some, the two years in IIMB is a never ending quest for bullet points. For many others, it is a swear word.

CG - Cumulative Grade Point Average. Technically speaking it is the index of one's academic performance reflecting the student's performance throughout his studies in B. In other words, it is the stuff really bad nightmares are made up of.

CP - Babbling away incessantly in the class in the blind, fervent hope of getting that extra grade. Stands for Class Participation and has variants like - DCP (Desperate CP), ACP (Afterclass CP). CP putters as a rule go on to become the most hated specimens on campus.

Da - a sentence sufffix that owes its origin to the sizeable tam population (aka Sambar Mafia) on campus. Tam equivalent of "yaar". Sounds rather funny when bongs and biharis use it.

Faccha/Facchi - First year students

Fighter - Refers to anyone who slogs for anything and everything. Usually used with reference to acads. Started off initially as a derogatory term but has now become more a term of respect.

Footage - Unadulterated compulsive attention seeking reaching ridiculous proportions.

Globe - Spouting long, never ending bullshit with no purpose or end in mind. Some profs are known to be particularly nasty when faced with globe CP while some others actually encourage it

Hagga - You know what it means in Hindi. Just that we use it as a term of endearment.

K - Suffice to say that K with it variants of K level and K Max represent the verbal equivalent of flipping the bird. Just that it is a lot more classy

L^2 - The fornightly party that starts at 12 am and goes on till 6 am making campus life a bit more bearable. Why the name L^2? Come to B, you will figure it out.

Machan - a term of endearment that again is the contribution of the Sambar Mafia. Tam equivalent of "Saale".

Pappu - Stands for PPO (Pre-placement Offer). There are others who insist it refers to male genetalia

Placu - Member of the Placement Comittee. There are some who insist it is a swear word :)

Puts - essentially means to do something - "Lets put food da", "Lets put tsepak da"

RG - Everything academic in B revolves around the normal curve and relative grading. It means your performance is not determined by your absolute score but how well or bad you have performed with regards to the rest of the batch. When a person is accused of RGing someone else, it usually means he/she has done something sneaky to get an edge over the other person academically. Welcome to IIM-B.

Senti - Go all emotional and sentimental usually over the opposite sex... often happens when one has had one too many in L^2

SIGMA - Embodiment of pure evil aka the guys who take care of the computing requirements of the students

Tsepak - Another religion in B. This time it is a sport.

WOWCTB - When Others Were Carrying Their Books - refers to any presumptious and pompous statement made by junta. The story behind this is something of a legend within campus.

11 - To laugh on Bracket. Adopted from its shortcut in Age of Empires

Friday, October 12, 2007

Vista is on...

Vista started today. Junta from all over the country have started pouring into campus. Not much of eye candy, though. I was looking forward to participate in this PE game, but had to put fight to complete this submission. Was sorta consoled when pabbo and sk unanimously called the event and it's organisers unprintable names. Think I might participate in this strat event being organised tomorrow and then there is Bizarre (the quiz). Ciao.

Monday, October 08, 2007

zzzzz....

Yester all of my wingies had to put a night out on assorted assignments/submissions while yours truly snoozed away to God’s glory. What is life without such small pleasures? Term 5 truly rocks.

Sunday, October 07, 2007

1447 and going strong...

It never ceases to amaze me that there exist people on this planet who actually read my blog. The rare combination of poor writing skills and pedestrian creativity that is me, was supposed to ensure that no one dared to trespass this part of cyberspace. But guess what? 1447 unsuspecting innocents actually have gone through my blog as of date. That translates to approximately 1.1 readers per day. Phew! ... JK Rowling, here I come.
What intrigued me was why did they visit my blog in the first place? I mean sometimes, even I cannot bear to read some of my ramblings. So, what was it that drove that these poor moths to beacon light that is my blog...
Findings are as follows -
  1. Arbit junta who happen to visit my Orkut page
  2. People pursuing their yem bee yay dreams and browsing PG. My blog address is part of my signature. Me however thinks, the hits are more a result of me having Asin as my avatar pic than any genuine academic interest
  3. People who happen to visit kviv's blog. The kid living couple of rooms down actually maintains a blog and had put up my link on his page. People visiting his blog usually end up visiting mine for no good reason
  4. Now comes the interesting bit. People who googled for the following landed up on my blog -

"proud to be a beancounter" - Australia

"bangalore flat kata blog" - India

"BT Acumen questions" - India

"people visiting chennai once never return" - India

"definition of sambar sadam" - United States

"beanstalk,chennai" - australia

"crowded bus chennai" - India

"opiate pagalguy" - USA

Pretty interesting mix, I must say. The "bangalore flat kata blog" bit beats me though. Ciao, for now

What you should never do in a hostel...

Play a shitty piece of music on infinite loop in full blast and skip town. Unless of course, you have this uncontrollable urge to create blood enemies by the dozen. Why the post, you ask me? Well, some &*%$ing b!@#$%d has been doing precisely that in my block. Why else would i awake in this ungodly hour....

Saturday, October 06, 2007

The circus, that we call "summers" ....

The annual circus that we in B-Schools call "summers" is well and truly in progress. Companies have started visiting campus for pre-placement talks. In the great Yem Bee Yay tradition of reducing everything to an abbreviation, we call them "ppt"s. "Why summers?"you ask?... the reasons are given below in no particular order ....
  1. Decide what the student wants to do for a career. The two months in the organisation helps one to get a idea of whether one wants to pursue a career in the given line/ given company.
  2. Gives the fresher fachhas a taste of what it is to work in an organisation. The internship experience is their first taste of corporate life. People (both recruiters and students) often desire that the internship period be extended to 3 months. In my opinion, it is about time we extended the internship period to 3 months, at least for the fresher fachhas. The more experience they have of working, the better it is for them.
  3. Summers often result in the making of a preplacement offer (PPO) if the recruiter has a PPO policy. There have been cases where companies with no PPO policy have gone ahead and made offers due to the quality of work seen.

So, why did I call the process a "circus"? .... Keep watching this space ....