Friday, December 15, 2006

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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Welcome to 2007!

You Know You Are Living in 2007 When...

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they
don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone
is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the
screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the
first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you
turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )

12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this
message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this
list

AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.

Monday, October 30, 2006

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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Life Cycle...

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends.

I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time.
What do you get in the end of it?
A death.

What's that, a bonus?

I think the life cycle is all backwards.

(1) You should die first.
You know, start out dead,
Get it out of the way.
You wake up in a an old age home,
Feeling better every day.

(2) You get kicked out for being too healthy,
Go collect your pension,
Then, when you start work,
You get a gold watch on your first day.

(3) You work 40 years until you're young enough
To enjoy your retirement.
You drink alcohol,
You party,
You're generally promiscuous
(hey, you've only got a few years left,
what's the big deal?).
And you get ready for High School.

(4) Then you go to primary school,
You become a kid,
You get toys,
You play,
You have no responsibilities,
And, finally,
You become a baby.

(5) The last step,
You spend your last 9 months
Floating peacefully
With luxuries like
Central heating,
Spa,
Room service on tap,
Larger quarters everyday,
And then...

(6) You finish off as an orgasm.


Joke


A guy woke up at home with a huge hangover. He forced himself to open
his eyes, and the first thing he saw is a couple of aspirins and a
glass
of water on the side table. He sat down and sees his clothing in front
of him, all clean and pressed.

He looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order,
spotless, clean. So is the rest of the house. He takes the aspirins and
notices a note on the table. "Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left
early to go shopping. Love You!"

So he goes to the kitchen and sure enough there is a hot breakfast and
the morning newspaper. His son is also at the table, eating. He
asks, "Son, what happened last night?"

His son says, "Well, you came home around 3 AM, drunk and delirious.
Broke some furniture, puked in the hallway, and gave yourself a black
eye
when
you stumbled into the door". Confused, the man asks, "So, why is
everything in order and so clean, and breakfast is on the table waiting
for
me? I should expect a big quarrel with her!"

His son replies, "Oh, that! Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when
she tried to take your clothes n shoes off, you said , "hey !!!!!!!
leave me alone! I'm married!"



Breakfast -- Rs. 100.00

Self-induced hangover -- Rs. 2000.00

Broken furniture -- Rs. 20,000.00

Saying The Right Thing While Drunk - PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, October 23, 2006

Diwali photography







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Some fancy cracker














Sky rocket












Dont remember which cracker















Latest cracker in the market

Diwali photography















Diwali photography















This is me with a fuljhari...































Happy Diwali to all!

Thursday, October 19, 2006

A Senior Manager working in an MNC, as usual after lunch goes to the
cafeteria for coffee.
He relaxes in canteen. He sees a canteen boy cleaning tables there.
To Kill time he decides to have fun
with him.
He calls him.
Senior Manager - (Asks canteen boy) : How much do you earn?
Canteen boy smiles...
Senior Manager - what are your future plans?
Canteen boy keeps quiet...
Senior Manager - where do you see yourself 10 years down the line?

Canteen boy gives a cold stare.
Senior Manager - Jab mai Bangalore aaya tha tab mere paas bhi kuch
nahi tha.... Aaj mere paas kya nahin hai...
naam hai..........,
shohrat hai.........,
paisa hai............
Izzat Hai.............,

tumhare paas kya hai?
Scroll down to find out his answer

You think that he answered like Shashi Kapoor of Deewar ki "Mere
paas Maa hain" or those stupid Pj - "Mere Paas Raaj Maa Hai Types"
Just Scroll some more..............




Canteen boy - Sa'ab mere paas bahut KAAM hai....
Senior Manager leaves the cafeteria silently.......

A Management Lesson

One fine day, a bus driver went to the bus garage, started his bus,

and drove off along the route. No problems for the first few stops

At the next stop, however, a big hulk of a guy got on. Six feet

height, built like a wrestler, arms hanging down to the ground. He

glared at the driver and said, "Big John doesn't pay!" and sat down

at the back.

Naturally, he didn't argue with Big John, but he wasn't happy about

it. The next day the same thing happened-Big John got on again, made

a show of refusing to pay, and sat down. And

the next day, and the one after that and so forth.

The bus driver, who started losing sleep over the way Big John was

taking

advantage of him. Finally he could stand it no longer. He signed up

for body building courses, karate, judo, and all that good stuff.

By the end of the summer, he had become quite strong; So on the

next Monday, when

Big John once again got on the bus and said, "Big John doesn't

pay!," The driver stood up, glared back at the passenger, and

screamed, "And why not?" With a surprised look on his face, Big John

replied, "Big John has a bus pass."

Management Lesson:

" Be sure there is a problem in the first place

before working hard to solve one."

Sunday, October 15, 2006

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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Indian Business Academy in the news

When IBA, Bangalore found its Maverick Managers through PaGaLGuY
By KVJ Subrahmanyam
Published: October 12, 2006

Source: Pagalguy.com

PaGaLGuY.com visited Indian Business Academy (IBA) – Bangalore in July, 2006 to give out the first ever PaGaLGuY.com scholarships to the class of 2008 students of IBA. The scholarships were given in three different categories – Maverick Manager for Entrepreneurship, Maverick Manager for Innovative Marketing and Maverick Manager for General Management. Scholarships were given after a two-stage elimination process for each category.

For all three categories, students were given caselets (for general management and for innovative marketing) and rules for building their idea (for entrepreneurship) in advance and the students emailed their responses to the PaGaLGuY.com team.

Indeed, it was heartening to see the number of responses that the event generated amongst the enthusiastic students of IBA, in spite of the short notice that the students got. The fact that these students were just a week into the courses spoke volumes of how they have structured their thought processes in tackling business issues.

The day started off with the visiting trio giving a brief overview of PaGaLGuY.com to all the MBAs-in-making and how the community has grown over the years. Due to the paucity of time, next on agenda was round 1 of the process where each student that had submitted an entry was to be interviewed by one of the PG team. The team from PG then divided the entrants into three distinct groups based on the categories that the students participated in. The general management category saw the most participation from the IBA students. More than a few enterprising students also took the opportunity to submit their entries just before the start of the round 1 of elimination.

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The shortlisted candidates

The team from PG was definitely impressed by some of the entries which clearly gave away the depth of thought and innovation in implementing workarounds to what the students saw as common pain points. The round 1 stretched well into the afternoon and by the time, the interviewing of all students was done, it was well past 2pm. The team from PG then went on to have a lunch at the in-house canteen of IBA. During lunch, the interactions with the IBA students clearly showed how some of the students have their reasons for MBA all right and how they were taking advantage of what IBA had to offer, in terms of opportunities.

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Rohit Awasthi and KVJ Subrahmanyam, PaGaLGuY panelists

From round 1, 4-5 students for each category were short listed and were informed prior lunch that they were to get prepared for further questioning on their submission in round 2. To avoid any perceptual bias, it was decided that round 2 will be a group interview of the candidate and his/her submission by all the three members from PG. It was interesting to see how some of the students were clearly meticulous in their planning and preparation in presenting their case to the interviewing panel. At the end of round 2, it was indeed turning out to be the proverbial tough decision in deciding the winners of the scholarship. This was more so the case with the entrepreneurship category where the team from PG felt that two candidates had very good and implementable ideas. After a lot of deliberations, and discussions with PGHQ as well as IBA management, it was finally decided that in the interest of fairness, the award amount be split between the two participants. Finally, at the end of a long day, the four recipients of the PaGaLGuY.com Maverick Manager were decided.

General Management - Prerna Duhan
Innovative Marketing - V Ganesh
Entrepreneurship - Shiv Kumar Pandey and Ganesh Iyer

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Scholarship winner Prerna Duhan with PaGaLGuY panelist Kunal Nagar

Ravin K, one of the students interviewed for the scholarship said, “I came to know about the scholarship through Pagalguy. The three people from Pagalguy who came to interview us for the scholarships gave us a great learning experience by making us think on touch and on-depth questions. My business plan was about opening a tiffin business in Ahmedabad on the lines of Mumbai. Despite having spent five months in the hospitality industry, the panelists’ questions showed me that I had overlooked many things in my plan.”

“The Maverick Manager Scholarship was constituted by IBA to identify and nurture talented students. The new entrants were not aware that they would be participating in such a contest even before they had adjusted to their new environment. Hardly a fortnight at IBA, and they were enthusiastic to participate in a contest that was to identify the latent entrepreneurial and managerial abilities in them,” said Mr Rakesh Bhaskar of IBA on the exercise.

“However, at the final round of presentations and interviews, it was evident that the best candidates in each category had been identified. These students were at their competitive best, fighting with their wits yet in a spirit of camaraderie. It was obviously the place to identify the hidden talents in many of these bright youngsters,” he added.

“The presentations were well done – realistic and well thought out. There were strong elements of strategic thinking coupled with a holistic approach. These could be made into viable business propositions with help and guidance. This was indeed a good start to their 2 year program at IBA where they would learn to further hone these innate skills. We wish these motivated and talented students a very bright future, who will do themselves and IBA proud. I am happy to be with the Pagalguy forum and explore more avenues for the students’ cause.” he mused.

The team from PaGaLGuY thoroughly enjoyed the interaction with the aspiring MBA students and took away memorable thoughts with the promise of returning next year with a Maverick Manager Scholarship that is more encompassing in its scope and more rigorous in its selection.