Me and My Solitude...

Sunday, February 27, 2005

Rechristened!!!

I have found a new name in MDI - Prayas Bloggarwal - which rhymes so well with my original name (Prateek Agarwal) !!! The reason for this name being - my two main passtimes in MDI - Prayas (the students' cooperative store) & my blog ....

I was first rechristened as Prayas Agarwal - due to my passion for Prayas... and then gradually it was changed to Prayas Bloggarwal by one of my neighbours (in class)!!!

Now my friends keep writing my new name on all the pre-readings i carry to the class - sample this --> (this is the writing of Poonam - on a Strategy case!!!)

However, I like the name :)

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Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Chalk Fights...

My batch - rather my section revisited the childhood in the classes today... many of them indulged in the funniest fight ever - the chalk fight!!! I know it seems to be kiddish to be doing post graduation & doing this kinda stuff - but then being in post graduation does not mean that we cannot let the child within us to wake up at times (specially during the 15 mins. break)... so as it happened - some of my peeps started targetting some of the sleeping junta (obviously during the break) using the most advance weapon available their - the chalks!!! Add to it - we generally have two boxes of chalks - one having only white ones & one having colours ones... i quickly took out my camera to capture some moments (was carrying it to class also!!!).... but then was caught guarding myself from those dangerous missiles!!!

Neways clicked some of the pics in class today --

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The repercussions of this chalk fight were cleary evident in the mail we received from the administartion office - asking us to refrain from such activities!!! But then - even by not being part of the whole game - enjoyed just watching & saving myself!!

In the evening we had a guest lecture by Professor Philip Nemo, from ESCP-EAP (France)... dunno what all i learnt from it coz most of it was over head transmission... but yes a good experience - specially one incidence which shook our Pg-Rep (cant discuss that here - will need his permission)!!!

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Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Seriously Joking!!!

Recently one of our very learned prof. was probably very pissed off from our class - so pissed off that he just wanted to cut short the way he took attendance - so his next sentence was "Those who are absent - please raise your hands"!!! And believe me the whole class was thumping their desks...

This incident took me 6 years back - when i was in school!! We had our beloved P.T. instructor - who had a great english & i guess equally great sense of humour... here are two of his favourite dialogues...

I have two daughters & both are girls!!!
Both of you three come here!!!

And believe me - he always said these very seriously!! dunno it was deliberate or...........

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Monday, February 21, 2005

Lucknow bleeding again.....

Was surprised to hear about shia-sunni clashes in Lucknow once again... (Rediff News Link) I have seen so many of them when I was there... and believe me it leaves you with such bad taste...

Lucknow has been center of riots for three main reasons -

Being very close to Ayodhya - Hindu-Muslim clashes were very high there.
Shia - Sunni clashes were very common every year during Moharram processions
Being hub of political activities of U.P. - various other modes of clases like violent dharnas, MLAs fighting inside Vidhan Sabha etc. etc.

Although i no more live in Lucknow - but my roots are still there. I still love the city as much as I did before. All my well wishers (read my parents & grand ma) are there only...

How really i wish that Lucknow rests in peace for sometime...

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Friday, February 18, 2005

Mid Term Exams - Term III

Our Mid Term exams for 3rd Term starts tomorrow... really feeling bad as i am not at all prepared for even a single subject.... God knows what will happen this time!!!

Here is the tight schedule we have :-

19th Feb. - Corporate Finance (10:!5 am) & Research Methods in Business (2 pm)
20th Feb. - Organisation Design & Change (10:15 am) & Economics - II(2 pm)
21st Feb. - Operations - II (10:15 am) & Management Information Systems (2pm)
22nd Feb. - Strategic Management (8 am)

I need loads of luck this time....

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Thursday, February 17, 2005

Spam Archive...

I dunno how - i guess accidently came across a blog on blogspot... maintained by our very own Praful (incidenly he sits right next to me in class - his roll no. being one less than mine)....

We have a golden history of spams in our college. Every batch has its own set of spammers who keeps on sending arbit mails to the batch - and adding to our woes, the capacity of our internal mailbox is only 13 MB per person (after this outgoing mails are barred)....

Have a look at this blog - really enjoyable....

http://spamarchive.blogspot.com/

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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

MDI Final Placements 2005

MDI Gurgaon saw its final placements today.... they went really good

A detailed post about the placements will follow soon - as soon as official figures are tabulated & released.....

Here are some of today's snaps

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We are gonna have a blast tonight with the placement party !!!!!

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Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Addicted to Internet

Took an online quiz today (got link from another blog)... see what it says -->

Are you Addicted to the Internet?

66%

Hardcore Junkie (61% - 80%)
While you do get a bit of sleep every night and sometimes leave the house, you spend as much time as you can online. You usually have a browser, chat clients, server consoles, and your email on auto check open at all times. Phone? What's that? You plan your social events by contacting your friends online. Just be careful you don't get a repetitive wrist injury...

The Are you Addicted to the Internet? Quiz at Quiz Me!

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Monday, February 14, 2005

Digi-cam

Got a new digi-cam today... was kinda very excited... probably grabbed a good deal with HP...

Here are some of the snaps -->

My New Digi-cam

My Laptop

P.S. - The show on CNBC (Budget Vector) was broadcasted today itself :( ... We received a mail at around 6 pm that the program has been rescheduled... wasn't able to inform neone - I myself was very busy at 10 pm - so didnt watch it!!!! Neways Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!!!

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Saturday, February 12, 2005

CNBC - Budget Vector

Went to Maurya Shereton today - had shooting of a program on CNBC - TV18 - called Budget Vector.... was a discussion on expectations from budget 2005... Congress spokesperson Mr. Singhvi was also there.... was a decent experience :) Mohit, Nikhil & yours truly represented MDI...

After the shooting was over, three of us were asked to stay back for another shoot... it was some small clippings for a program called Storyboard... I foind it very funny... I was sitting & having a cup of tea over the newspaper & they were shooting me.... then i speak for about a minute what i would have done in this budget....

The first program (Budget Vector) will be broadcasted on Thursday (17th Feb.) @ 10:00 pm (obviously on CNBC TV18)... dunno about the second one (which receive an email about it soon...)

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