Author: SK

Went to watch this new Kannada movie called “Rama Shama Bhama” with family the other day. Was my uncle’s birthday so he treated. It was a maajorly hyped movie. Ramesh’s directorial debut. Also starring Kamalahaasan. ToI gave it a **** rating. Majorly hyped on Udaya TV and ETV Kannada.

Turned out to be a direct rip-off of Biwi No. 1 (which I heard is itself a ripoff of some tam movie). Down to the last PJ! Anyways, here’s a mapping of the starcast. I don’t think i need to tell the story.

Ramesh = Salman Khan
Urvashi = Karisma Kapoor (the fat urvashi looked more believable as the sati-savitri wife than Karisma did. only thing is there wasn’t room for “jungle hai aadhi raat hai”)
Kamal = Anil Kapoor
Sob Queen Shruti = Tabu
Daisy Bopanna = Sushmita Sen

Performances are good all round. Daisy Bopanna is HOT. Looks much hotter than she does in Bangalore Times pics. And of course, Kamal and Ramesh were superb as expected.

And it’s really awkward seeing a movie sandwiched between parents. Especially when there are some non-veg jokes in the script. And the last 3 movies i’ve watched with parents are Kannada “comedies” with loads of non-veg jokes!!

Dear Santa… Dear Santa, This year I’ve been busy! In June I put money in ‘s expired parking meter (14 points). Last Thursday and I donated clothes to the needy (11 points). In August I stole ‘s purse (-30 points). Last Friday I caught a purse-snatcher who stole ‘s purse (30 points). In April I helped across the street (6 points). Overall, I’ve been nice (31 points). For Christmas I deserve a red Radio-Flyer wagon! Sincerely, skthewimp

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started making my resume yesterday… after making a couple of pages of rough bullet-points i decided to have a “projects” section in my resume. made a rough listing of all projects and course term-papers i’d done. here it goes…

?Projects
o Btech project ? online algorithms ? total fraud.
o Online advertising project at IBM ? interesting stuff but total fraud work
?Course projects
o MO, ME, finac ? not worth mentioning
o Marketing ? bad job
o MPPO ? bad job
o Strat ? cant? talk too much about the project
o RMD ? fraudmax
o M&A/MBFI ? study of the Indian banking industry/valuation of HDFC Bank
o CCS ? fraud
o Econometrics ? minimum needs of poor ? one of the better projects
o Soc Ent ? didn?t put enuff enthu
o Data structures ? did decent work. Not relevant here
o Programming Languages ? fraud
o Networks ? interesting project; but too little work
o Compilers ? good project, freerode big time
o AI ? too simple
o DBMS ? freerode
o Software Engg ? didn?t do good job
o Memory based AI ? fraud
o CSD ? good stuff. Not relevant

Finally decided to eliminate the entire section!!

started making my resume yesterday… after making a couple of pages of rough bullet-points i decided to have a “projects” section in my resume. made a rough listing of all projects and course term-papers i’d done. here it goes…

?Projects
o Btech project ? online algorithms ? total fraud.
o Online advertising project at IBM ? interesting stuff but total fraud work
?Course projects
o MO, ME, finac ? not worth mentioning
o Marketing ? bad job
o MPPO ? bad job
o Strat ? cant? talk too much about the project
o RMD ? fraudmax
o M&A/MBFI ? study of the Indian banking industry/valuation of HDFC Bank
o CCS ? fraud
o Econometrics ? minimum needs of poor ? one of the better projects
o Soc Ent ? didn?t put enuff enthu
o Data structures ? did decent work. Not relevant here
o Programming Languages ? fraud
o Networks ? interesting project; but too little work
o Compilers ? good project, freerode big time
o AI ? too simple
o DBMS ? freerode
o Software Engg ? didn?t do good job
o Memory based AI ? fraud
o CSD ? good stuff. Not relevant

Finally decided to eliminate the entire section!!

Unlike what all of you might think, all is not well with me. Having some major ?domestic? problems, essentially differences in opinion with parents. After a minor (IMHO) faux pas earlier this morning, mom hasn?t stopped ranting about how I?ve brought shame to the whole family and stuff. And how there can be no one in the world worse than me, etc.

My parents seem to have this amazing knack of never letting my confidence run high. Whenever I seem to gain in confidence, they seem to come up with something and pick flaws (yeah, for a long time now they?ve been good at that) and stuff. Sometimes can be totally pissing off.

Currently, as things stand, I might just end up doing something untoward to myself. In such a case, I just want to say that I hold no one responsible.

for the second time in less than a month, i’ve gone into terrible depression. started from a seemingly innocuous statement from my parents. now feeling so damn low i might just about do anything…

wonder why things have become so woresht…

to update, i’ve kinda enjoyed my hols. first day went with a couple of congresspeople on some campaign trail. threw up some interesting insights. those people simply couldn’t fathom how sonia is a foreigner! and lots of similar stuff..

then i’ve been going on long walks around south bangalore every evening. and just observed. and enjoyed life around. only thing i missed has been a good camera. which reminds me, i want to buy a digicam. budget 10k. recommendations please.

not doing much else actually. oh yeah, i’ve started doign Su-do-ku. quite engrossing i must say. and a lot of these “celebrities” have said in the ToI that “i was so bad at numbers. but sudoku is so wonderful i’m quite good at it”. sudoku is a logic game. numbers are just incidental. you might as well replace 1 to 9 with a to i or alpha to whatever…

started making my finals resume… realized that it has a huge hole – projects. most projects i’ve done have been total fraud. have no papers of note either. but for that i seem to have a pretty “good” resume.

nothing much else. as i was tossing and turning in bed, i kinda made a mental note as to what all i should write in this. stuff like why i’m depressed and stuff. no i feel it’s not worth it so chuck it.

and yeah, i’m still bloody depressed.

your company had a wonderful opportunity and you goofed up. then after putting maaajor fight, you’ve managed to turn it around. Now, do you

1. Feel happy that you’ve managed to turn around your firm?

2. Feel sad that you couldn’t exploit this opportunity for the last year or something (now that you’ve shown that it was possible to have done well) ?

my fifth term at IIMB ended today. have holidays till 19th of december. a well-deserved vacation according to me – haven’t had a decent vacation for 11 months now… left for London the day 3rd term ended… came back from London and was back in college two days later for re-orientation and 4th term. had 1 day gap between 4th and 5th terms…

on the other hand, i’m feeling sad that i have only 1 more term of campus life left. the same kind of feeling I had back in SAMS… somehow didn’t feel this way either at NPS or at IITM. juniors envy me. say that they would kill to be in my position. I envy them – they have 4 more terms of campus life left!

no clue what I want to do in hols. want to travel. so decided to go to the TAPMI fest starting tomorrow. now a bout of laziness and sleeplessness means i’ve cancelled my tickets. will stay home i guess. sleep a lot. will probably go around bangalore. and i’m not going to use my car. just for the heck of it.

will probably attend some shows at bangalore habba. only problem is the company. none of my classmates would be in b’lore over the next 2 weeks… and parents don’t exactly have the same tastes as me… let’s see anyways… and yeah, thanx to spons from pantaloons this time, the habba is also happening at Big Bazaar Banashankari – across the road from my house. good stuff only.

mixed feelings currently… euphoria… nostalgia… a bit of boredom… relief…

Fifth term at IIMB is over, with classes finishing today. End-term exams begin tomorrow, starting with International Finance. People started studying for it almost four days ago. I’m yet to begin though. Simply don’t have the enthu to study. However, all this while I’ve been feeling guilty for not studying!

The mid-term of this exam was “optional”. People could opt not to write the mid-term, and the end-term would carry 100% weightage. I too felt too lazy and had decided not to write the mid-term. However, when a friend asked me to teach her, I found the stuff quite easy and wrote the mid-term. And by some quirk of fate, maxed it.

Now that leaves me in a comfortable position. I know I can’t flunk (that’s the only concern of most people here in 5th term, given that the grades don’t count for placement). So i’m a little complacent. However, on the other hand, I’ve had a good round of mid-terms so don’t unnecessarily want to screw up my CGPA.

Ok, I guess I’ll stop here and start studying. The prof has a reputation for repeating questions from previous years’ papers (yeah, he’s the director of one of India’s best B-schools). And I have with me the last two years’ papers. Will do them and go. Should be enough.

PS: For a change, I don’t seem to be suffering from “exam fever”!!

Update

Most of the questions were repeated from the exams of the last four years. The most hilarious thing was that one question was lifted straight out of our own midterm!! Can’t believe this is the state of what is supposed to be among the best B schools in India.

I guess my previous post provided a lot of entertainment to all of you. So much so that desipundit and indiauncut (apart from Aadisht of course) linked to it.

Now looking back at it, I realise the futility of it all. I mean even if someone replied to that saying it was the person i saw (i got one such comment), there is no way I can make sure that person is genuine. Sometimes I may get bowled by a fast one and sometimes the genuine respondent might be missed out!!

Anyways, there’s another side to my story now. Remember I had posted here that I’ve started receiving anonymous fan mail. Well, I received 2 more of them this week. One on an “inland letter card” (long time since I saw one) and another in a normal envelope, along with a used bookmark.

Interesting, on one side I write a blogpost professing my love for someone whom i’ve seen but know little about. And on another, I get these letters from someone who’s only read one of my articles in the papers and knows nothing else about me!

Aadisht wants the book and movie rights to what has been happening to me over the past month. I have granted him the entire book rights and and movie rights for all languages except Gult. Gult movie rights have been granted to Chiru thanks to his domain expertise.