class vetsuypens..

Amazing lines by our prof:
Why does a dog lick its balls,, because it can..
"The other day somebody sent me mail asking me what should he do to make sure he gets an A in my subject. I replied back "PRAY""
Valuation is an art


"Why are you sitting in my class.. you should not be here"

good/bad news

Good news:
My brother is getting married..
I am going to india to attend that..
In another two months I would be done with my First year of MBA.
I have an interview tomw.
I am happy

Bad news:
I have an interview tomw..
I am going to india and coming back right before the final exams..(one day into the exams,infact)
My brother is getting married.. and the next in line would be me.. and its scary that i SHOULD be married next year
Two months from now, I would be done with my first year of MBA.. but have I achieved anything that I thought I would.
I am happy, but am not sure how long it lasts..


Ample proof that I am a freaking pessimist

back from another long break

Its quite surprising that I am done with another two and half months of my MBA program (a module as we call it).. contrary to my expectations, I did farely well in the modules exams.. The best part of the module (or rather the whole course thus far) is my grade in Valuation class.. Its an AMazing A... I was quiet amazed, surprised, ecstastic about it. Our professor is pretty notorious to screw up the grades of students in his clas.. People who want to maintain a good GPA would not take his class, but the same class taught by a different prof. Vetsuypens, his name, is an amazing professor.. The way he explains the things would clarify all the doubts you have on anything related to valuation. He makes the subject apprear so simple.. Frankly, I didnt prepare as much as I prepared for my accouting exam- though both the subjects and the professors are equally hard nuts to crack.. Through out the exam, I was under the impression that I am screwing up the exam. At one point of time during the exam, I was considering the post effects of getting a F in the subject. But, alls well that ends well.. I got a good grade and people say that I worth it and I earned it..
The best sight is my answer sheet.. The professor actually did write a GOOD on the answer paper.. This is the second GOOD i got so far in my MBA.. How funny.. I used to count my GOODS, the V's before the GOODS when i was in my high schooll and now again.. It indeed is a good feeling to be back at school.

On the internship front, I havent turned lucky yet.. I screwed up some chances I got.. as my friend says, it is always better to screw up early and learn from the mostakes than to commit the mistakes later and getting screwed. I jus hope that I get an internship as soon as possible.. I wish myself all the best for the interview I have on Friday..

Spring break, we (me, J, Nanga) went to South Padre Island.. We also had been to mexico..

Harish anna moved to Dallas.. It is good to have his company around.. His presence made me a bit responsible and I have been changing myself for good. I know that there is more to be done with ME. I am eagerly waiting to start living in the same apt as his.

Hope this covers up the heitus i had in bloggin.. I should make it a point to blog regularly.

What are you doing in my class??

I feel bad for/about the student who asks stupid doubts in the class and becomes the center of fun/frustration of the professor/classmates. I feel even more bad if the student in context is ME.
This happened to me in my Valuation class.. Our prof is an amazing teacher. He makes the class interesting, thought provoking and challenging. The best part of the class is the case. Every class would be a discussion of one or more cases, and every case has a take away from it. Prof does not hesitate to humiliate you if he senses that you are not prepared with the cases. Well, enough of the prof.. Last week I felt that I almost had cracked the cases, and I was freakingly hyper active in the class. He asks the class a question, I ask him a question in response, which I later realized that the question is the most dumbest question you can ever ask in the Valuation class. His response was what I had as the title for this blog entry! I was embarassed like anything.. I didnt dare to speak in that class agian, though I infact my solution was close to his.
Lesson learnt: Never fart (with your mouth) in a class, and even if you do, make sure it is silent and unsmelly!!!! :)

Apart from that, every thing has been smooth and fine. One of my school friend is coming down from atlanta, So I hope to freak out this weekend. Internship fever is catching on. I should find myself a good internship in any chota mota investment bank or a hedge fund firm..

I wish i really do!

Poker night

One game in cards that i like the most is Poker!! though, I am a novice to the game, i must have spent many hours playing poker than any otehr card games thus far!!! We started poker at around 11:00 pm on friday and were playing till 6:00 in the mornng the next day!!! Hieneken added to the fun!!!
The beauty of the game is that once you get rich, youtend to control the game.. It kind of transaltes to a mind came..
Atlast, I made a good compnay of friends here in Dallas.. Jai and Ranga. Wondul chaps!!!
Jai - A sikh in love with Ibanking.. and PE..
Ranga - a carefree guy, who wants to make a career in marketing.. but I strngly suggest him against it..

Passwords for class materail

The best part of the valuation class is the password revealing. Our prof comes up with some real good passwords for his files.. TYpically, he has his files secured with a password.. and he gives out the password asthe file is requiredin the class.
Some of his passwords for the files:
NEW AMERICA DRILL - SLICK (its the oil compnay.. )
Capital Question - SCHADENFREUDE (Its a phrase in germany whihc translates to - I would be happy for your incompetence or failure .. in short GLOAT)
AIR BUS PPT- WINGARDIUM( this is the part of the sentence that Harry Pottr utters before he waves his magic wand)
And there are more to come..

start of the new module

classes have started.. and its hard to believe that its already been three weeks since..
The best part of thismodule is that one of the subject is damn interesting.. challengin.. the worst part is that, thats the only subject thats better.
Valuation and Analysis: awesome teacher, awesome professor.. Its amazing how he explains the fundamentals. Makes sure every body understands it, but not as his responsibility, but as a demand.
Organizational Behaviour: somehow i feel that this professor is a gay.. No.. he does not wear pink, not has feminine body moments, but I picturized gays as someone, and he turned out to be exatly what I had in my mind as Gay.. thats anotehr story,, and Yes, the subject sucks and the prof sucks. Worst part of the already worse course - the class has a 30% weightage for the class participation.. That kind of unleased all the crappish bullshit from some of my class mates during the class. As such, the subject is too conceptual, qualitative, crappish.. designed for HR's.. Considering the fact that I hate HRs more than any cult in the world, I dont see any interest in this subject.. There goes anoother B grade.
Operations Management: Did you ever expect once-a radio jockey to be a professor.. And trust me, the ITOM class cannot get any interesting that his.. He comes up with prety witty anecdotes in the class..
Finance: The subject is awesome. but the teaching of our professor is bad.. She is from Cyprus,, and one hot professor... The drawback of thissubject is that, the professor, though she is competitive in Finance research, she is simply not good at teaching!! well,, We are to suffer for this, as this is our major..

Apart from this, I also auditing Accounting class.. I didnt like the subject nor the teacher though, yet,, i look forward for the same subject to be taught by one of my fave prof.

In thre weeks from now, it would be exams time again..

Happenings: Didnt get through Mercer and UBS..
Forecast: gloomy
My outlook: optimistic

Hello Stranger!

after a long time i watched a good movie. Closer..

Some quotes I liked the most:

Dan: I want Anna back.
Larry: She's made her choice.
Dan: I owe you an apology. I fell in love with her. My intention was not to make you suffer.
Larry: So where's the apology? Ya cunt.
Dan: I apologize. If you love her you'll let her go so she can be happy.
Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.
Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.
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Dan: I fell in love with her, Alice.
Alice: Oh, as if you had no choice? There's a moment, there's always a moment, "I can do this, I can give into this, or I can resist it", and I don't know when your moment was, but I bet you there was one.

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Anna: I'm sorry you're...
Larry: Don't say it! Don't you fucking say you're too good for me. I am, but don't say it.
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Larry: Alice, tell me something true.
Alice: Lying's the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off - but it's better if you do.
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Alice: Why isn't love enough?
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Anna: Love bores you.
Dan: No, it disappoints me.

drving test glitches

Today i gave the drving test, written test though. I need to prepare just for 2 hours or so, going over the ONLY document and you are verse with the answers and questions. Though not all the actual test questions are from the document, the out-of-the-syllabus questions were pretty commonsensical questions.
Otherwise, the answers of some of teh questions are really funny. Like, one
when would your driving license be suspended the answer to which is when you drive with an invalid (fake) drivers license. Paradigmn is that how would ones fake drivers license be suspended.
Next, though not funny, yet its surprising how rules are bulit around the school buses and pedestrains - the right of the way is always theirs. (A pedestrain is doing something unlawful only if he stands in the middle ofthe road to hitch a ride).

We rented out a car today and road around the city to get a practice of the driving. since its a long time from the last time i drove, i enjoied it.

Christmas gift is not as sweet as expected

Well,, the long between now and my previous post can be attributed to my part timejob. That does not mean that i have been busy with the work..Nope - the work is as leisurely as one can dream of. I am pissed off by the fact that the quality of the work that iam currently doing is nothing more than Bull shit. Seriously, I expected to work on FInance projcts, Gain a knowledge of funademental analysis of companies, get some insights on trading, hedge funds n all.. But I ended up doing some sick documentation, taht too formattign some documents, formatting on Coreldraw.. It being a pro bono offer made me pissed off even more. I had to cancel my trip to Boise coz of this. moreover, almost some 8 hours of my day is just wasted.. I was taken fo a ride, and ended up in a deep deep shit.. Though, i am not bound to work for the job, yet, I could not jus quit it. One reason being, what ever crap I do, i can use Dilbertism to add a line in my resume. other being, my boss has a good rapport with our Carrer Management center guys.. I dont want to spoil my reputation with them, as I was the one who was behind CMC to get me a job for during winter Vacation.. Anyways, its an experience..

hmm.. The other day i CODED, yes.. software programming again. I wrote the same 'If' stmts, same 'for' loop.. and went through a kind of weird feeling.. I guess, the same feeling the veterans get when they play the sport long after they are retired..wel, thats an exagerration though.. But, I did feel as if that (programming) is what i am good at, rather than management. I studied VBA, Macros in no time and finished the assigned task as quick. It was fun though, a sense of accomplishment..

And, next ,, i could not mingle well with my roomie, as I figured out taht he poked around my laptop in my absence.. It made me feel very insecure. The more I try not to think of it, the more i end up cussing him. I jus hope he reads this. I want him to read this, coz, even if i ask him whether he did it or not, his answer would be brazen NO. and I dont think he knows that one can know the recently accessed documents.

I am planning to give a drivers test tomorrow. The good thing is that i jus need to prepare froma documnt with 80 questions.. I got that doc from a friend of mine.. I wonder how the hell can one come up with an almost offcial list of questions, when th actual test is not paper based. Amazing indians Indeed...
For the book lovers out there (well, i am not one, am jus a novice in readin fiction), I saw a book in borders - 501 must reads. The title says it all.. Its nice in the sence taht, it is divided into sections - science fiction, literature, modern fiction, children short stories .. kind of. The good thing isthat its not hat costly.. just 10 dolls.. (Oooh!! i didnt notice from when did i start saying 500 Indian rupees as 'Just 500 rupees')

Hope that makes up my missed entries and covers most of what i want to post...
Goodnight folks..