The CAT season is over now, a long time back too infact, but my thoughts never cease to go back to D-Day. I remember the way Munnu ditched coming with us for his "reasons", i remember a frantic BJ leaving at 8 o clock for a 1030 exam, i remember the cursing Muski being made to go with BJ, i remember the exact time i woke up, i remember the call taxi driver, i remember the call taxi number and last, i remember the classroom in which i wrote the exam.
It was a very very shady place indeed. First, the door was behind us and we were NOT facing the blackboard. The blackboard was on my right side and we were staring at the wall in front of us! Dont know why they would arrange benches like that, as it didnt seem to give any significant space advantage. Next, the room was about 20 ft by 15 ft and had ONLY 1 tube light and 4 fans! It was a rainy day sortof and that didnt help the 2 windows meant for enlightening us to do their job well. It was really really dark in there. The way it is at about 6 o clock in IITM! Still, that apart that could be the room which i will remember for all my life! :-)
I remember every single CAT stud from the insti, i remember their ranks and their percentiles in several tests at IMS and TIME. I remember the fake id card on which i wrote 1 AIMCAT, i remember my exact marks in almost every exam i gave. I remember the scores of Varun, Kaushik, CB, Cycle, Suhail, Dhruv etc psyching me no end, i remember cursing several junta from wing for not preparing in spite of filling up the 1100 bucks form! I remember every single book i took from Arpit, i remember every single paper begged and borrowed from friends just so that i should not be the one who has not done something. I remember the day before D-Day, i remember Sangram, i remember Sushant, i remember my parents and every single person who wished me luck the day before. I remember telling some of them, how tense i am, i remember hiding from some of them how tense i am.
Its a pity that i dont remember the JEE day the way i remember CAT day. Im sad that i didnt write down that time whatever happened in those 1-2 days. Whatever be the result of CAT now, this post will remind me of everything that happened on that day, and i will remember it all my life!
All the best to all the CAT crackers and all the best to me too..
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
Arbitmax!
Have caught a crazy habit these days of watching Gult videos when i get bored! All i know about Gult is that there are two actresses named Shriya and Charmee (Dont even know if im spelling the names right!). Dont understand a word and still the sheer energy in the dance numbers is a nice experience! Especially liked some songs of Prabhas, Venkatesh (also can be found in some Hindi movies), Shriya (she has 2 songs with Aftab but i dont know from which movie) and Charmee...
Asin (supposedly a tam actress) also was there in some Gult movie and i think most of the Gult actors / actresses do act in Tam movies too. Siddharth (from RDB) is one such example which i can easily think of...
Asin (supposedly a tam actress) also was there in some Gult movie and i think most of the Gult actors / actresses do act in Tam movies too. Siddharth (from RDB) is one such example which i can easily think of...
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
They all are going! :-(
Akram gone, Lara gone, Fleming gone, Inzi gone...
Have been wondering what cricket will be 3 years down the road. Sachin, Ganguly, Dravid no more going to be there. Its made worse when some cricketers whose performances i have loved and simply loved talk about retirement. Gilchrist has hinted at retirement after this season, and i think atleast 2-3 more Ausies wont play in another year or two, Ponting and Hayden maybe :-( Muralidharan, Jayasuriya are two more who stand out due to their performances who would soon be due to retire.
All this makes me go back to the day when Lance retired. The day when Schumi retired.
Difference here is its cricket and all i can feel is its a feeling much worse than anytime before.
Have been wondering what cricket will be 3 years down the road. Sachin, Ganguly, Dravid no more going to be there. Its made worse when some cricketers whose performances i have loved and simply loved talk about retirement. Gilchrist has hinted at retirement after this season, and i think atleast 2-3 more Ausies wont play in another year or two, Ponting and Hayden maybe :-( Muralidharan, Jayasuriya are two more who stand out due to their performances who would soon be due to retire.
All this makes me go back to the day when Lance retired. The day when Schumi retired.
Difference here is its cricket and all i can feel is its a feeling much worse than anytime before.
Monday, October 22, 2007
F1 all the way!
This year's Formula 1 season was one of the most exciting seasons i have seen since the time i have been following F1. The battle of the 3 contenders was an amazing treat to watch all through out the season. Here are the cumulative points of each of the three drivers, Hamilton, Alonso and Kimi as the season progressed. Some interesting things come out from the points positions too!
The leader of the championship after each round has been highlighted.
The leader of the championship after each round has been highlighted.
Round GP Kimi Alonso
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15 Japan 90 95 107
16
17
I found the following observations quite interesting:
1. Number of Podiums of Kimi are 12, Alonso are 12 and
2. Number of Wins for Kimi are 6, Alonso are 4,
3. Minimum number of retirements, ONLY 1 for Alonso, are interestingly for the one who came 3rd among the 3 drivers! :O Never knew reliability was bad! :P
4. In the races that a driver didn’t retire, he always scored a point.
5. If the equal points at the end of
6. Kimi was seen to be behind the leader of the Championship (
Friday, October 19, 2007
Something Sensible!
Writing something sensible after a long time. Have been attending this course called "Economics of Social Issues" and i cant stop falling in love with economics. Before this course, i had minimal amount of knowledge about economics (some fart they put in 9th and 10th if one remembers!). But i have been attending classes quite regularly and have been really interested in some of the things if not all, that are said and done in class. It is exciting how a theory based subject like economics can be made to look very practical once it is applied to some issues surrounding us. Here is a brief review of the course till date.
1.Started with description of types of economies. Went on to discuss the problems with transition. Case study of Estonia was done which was quite interesting although not generally applicable to all countries undergoing transition.
2. Then the standard demand, supply, PPF curves were discussed, effects of different situations on the movement of the curves etc was taken up.
3. With the basic background in place the course proceeded to its main objectives, discussing social issues related to economics. First issue was poverty. Growth, development etc were defined and discussions were held about the applicability of these to the issue of poverty. I think that the issue was not given sufficient coverage though.
4. Next issue taken up was Crime. Although the decisions about absolutely anything related to crime can be based on morality / immorality, it was quite surprising to see how economics can provide insight into some controversial topics like legalisation of drugs. The government machinery to be involved, its distribution etc can be quite well understood applying simple concepts of demand, supply, marginal social cost, marginal social benefit etc.
This issue was over discussed in the class according to me (or maybe the Shaastra break made it feel so!)
5. Pollution was the next choice of all of us unanimously to be taken up for discussion. Here a few more concepts like marginal private cost, marginal private benefits, externality etc were defined. Their relations with the corresponding parameters related to society seem to fall into place quite naturally! The problem of pollution was again discussed in detail without "sentiments". I found the applications of the MSB, MSC, MPB, MPC to the problem really really insightful.
2 mechanisms for controlling pollution were also taken up, taxes and pollution rights. Again, they seem so simple when supported with graphs of our usual familiar parameters.
A very good discussion on Carbon Credits Trading followed (which i slept through) and might have ended up screwing in the exam! :P
Overall, a very very interesting course, thanks to the group of students im learning with, as also Prof. Debashis Acharya. Hope the next issues going to be discussed are equally interesting and help me in my love affair! :-)
1.Started with description of types of economies. Went on to discuss the problems with transition. Case study of Estonia was done which was quite interesting although not generally applicable to all countries undergoing transition.
2. Then the standard demand, supply, PPF curves were discussed, effects of different situations on the movement of the curves etc was taken up.
3. With the basic background in place the course proceeded to its main objectives, discussing social issues related to economics. First issue was poverty. Growth, development etc were defined and discussions were held about the applicability of these to the issue of poverty. I think that the issue was not given sufficient coverage though.
4. Next issue taken up was Crime. Although the decisions about absolutely anything related to crime can be based on morality / immorality, it was quite surprising to see how economics can provide insight into some controversial topics like legalisation of drugs. The government machinery to be involved, its distribution etc can be quite well understood applying simple concepts of demand, supply, marginal social cost, marginal social benefit etc.
This issue was over discussed in the class according to me (or maybe the Shaastra break made it feel so!)
5. Pollution was the next choice of all of us unanimously to be taken up for discussion. Here a few more concepts like marginal private cost, marginal private benefits, externality etc were defined. Their relations with the corresponding parameters related to society seem to fall into place quite naturally! The problem of pollution was again discussed in detail without "sentiments". I found the applications of the MSB, MSC, MPB, MPC to the problem really really insightful.
2 mechanisms for controlling pollution were also taken up, taxes and pollution rights. Again, they seem so simple when supported with graphs of our usual familiar parameters.
A very good discussion on Carbon Credits Trading followed (which i slept through) and might have ended up screwing in the exam! :P
Overall, a very very interesting course, thanks to the group of students im learning with, as also Prof. Debashis Acharya. Hope the next issues going to be discussed are equally interesting and help me in my love affair! :-)
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Update - DAMN!
Damn! The markets have crashed (Well, quite expected too! Still... ) And trading has been halted for an hour according to latest rediff update. 19K was something to remember though! :-)
Sleep is GOOD!
For the first time in, i dont know how many years, I slept for 13 hours at a stretch! No worries of the exams going on, no worries of missing grub, no worries of the phone ringing, and most importantly no worries of being woken up by my own guilt! :P
On a more serious note, I am still feeling sleepy and i dont know what is wrong with me! It has just been about 3 hours since i woke up after 13 hours, and out of those 3 hours i have slept again for 1!! Still feeling sleepy and i have no idea how to stop it! No classes in the morning and it feels like the whole world is so in favour of me sleeping again for a "while"! :D :D :D
On a more serious note, I am still feeling sleepy and i dont know what is wrong with me! It has just been about 3 hours since i woke up after 13 hours, and out of those 3 hours i have slept again for 1!! Still feeling sleepy and i have no idea how to stop it! No classes in the morning and it feels like the whole world is so in favour of me sleeping again for a "while"! :D :D :D
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