Self-motivation

Things will get better. Think positive!

The Happening

One fine day Aditi messages me saying "Are you interested in the happening"... well that's the exact sentence... and i'm like wtf's happening? rather "what happening" was my reply.... it eventually turned out to be Night Shyamalan's movie - "The Happening".


And we eventually went to watch it at Satyam last Sunday!... If you want a one word review of it - "Sadistic Parody"!

The dialogue in the movie which I found to be the most grave:

"Plants have the ability to communicate with other species of plants. Trees can communicate with bushes, and bushes with grass, and everything in between. "

Somehow I feel that Shyamalan's works have started losing their charm and becoming more and more predictable. While Sixth Sense & Unbreakable have been good..., The Village, Lady in the Water and now The Happening have lacked the essential ingredients.

And of course - Mark Whalberg better stick to acting in movies like The Shooter

More realizations!

Dunno whether these are positives or a negatives ... but these are stuff that's part of me

• I'm brutally frank. When I hate something, i don't sugar-coat it.
• I'm terrible at lying & I hate liars.
• I'm don't bargain. I buy a thing if I see value in it and its worth the price. Otherwise I don't.
• I'm bad at beating around the bush. Lets get to the point and not waste time :)

Improvements

Inspite of being from B, i'm a big fan of ISB. Purely because of the batch composition and work-ex. But seeing the profiles of the PGP2010 batch, I'm astounded. Its an amazing mix... I have this strange feeling that the weightage given to quality of work-ex must have gone up. I see ppl from a variety of industries... consults, i-bankers, technology, software, family biz, startups, automobile, refinery, fmcg.... with and avg exp of 2.5yrs. Gone are the days when campus used to be flooded primarily with ppl from the TCS/Wipro/Infy/CTS league.

I'm seeing a radical rise in the opportunities for engineers passing out today... which is enabling them to get into these new sectors. India shining? or the rise of the global Indian B-schools?

P.S: To heck with setting up IIMs in Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Bihar... in the name of rural development. I wish there be more B-Schools.... the ISB types not the fraud ones. Quality IIMs will stop at ABC & LKI.

Somehow these tiny viruluent ones don't prefer to leave me in peace!

The latest crazy attack made me scamper from the first hospital (well a tiny clinic ... they wanted me admitted for a day)... to another huge one...(well, in this case after a 2 hr wait, they decided to send me home with a paracetamol tablet!!)

And what did it make me miss?
My debut CY cricket practice nets at 6.00AM on Sunday...which i was all enthu for! and the Sunday outing with Aditi & her Caterpillar friends.

1 month into the strategy dungeon

Its been slightly over a month since I joined CY. And the learning curve's been huge... I'm like making sense out of things that I never bothered about to make sense about in undergrad - That world of electrons .... electronics... and yeah... silicon.. semiconductors... I'm beginning to understand the practical uses of DAC's, DSP's, ADC's, MUX's, MCU's, Clocks... and its started to catch my fancy.

Role wise... good... but the profile fails on work life balance... I'm practically at home only for sleep... Parents must be wondering what I do at work going in the morning in some arbit clothes, coming back and then just dropping off to sleep.

I'v learned quite a lot in the last one month...and I personally feel this is an amazing role to develop on the fundas that you learn in a b-school... full marks to iimb on that aspect... it provided the right training to enable me to blend in seamlessly into this role.

Coming back to learnings -

• People management has a lot to do with psychology
• I'm bad at parallel processing... My forte lies in taking up one thing and optimizing it (An avg person in this group works on 4 different activities a day)
• I'm bad at digesting ambiguity - Contradictory to the fact that MBA trains you to be able to come to terms with handling ambiguity.... well, this could be mostly because i'v been always brought up in a quantitative environment and my interest is also more attuned to that line