tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65895522011-04-21T13:13:55.362-07:00Musings of an MBA accident!This blog shall act as a diary of my experiences through the day to day nonsense I call life. This blog is dedicated to life as I know it- it shall contain dumb tricks, poor jokes and well, more poor jokes... OK, there'll be times I'll get philosophical. Ignore those posts -call for medical help in case you manage to read past the first 3 lines of such a post! Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1107076726665681132005-01-30T01:31:00.000-08:002005-01-30T01:18:46.666-08:00Turns out I'm getting free publicity. On a blog that is much much more widely read than this excuse for a blog that appears to be in its death-throes as it seeks to suck in those last gulpfuls of air, passing on its legacy (or the lack of it) to the Wharton diaries. Let's see how long this phase lasts, when I continue to come to this page once in a while, for old time's sake, or maybe to post Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1103098215322205692004-12-15T01:08:00.000-08:002004-12-15T00:10:15.323-08:00Hope you folks know that I have got some posts on the Wharton diaries page... So have given this forum a break. Wait till the holidays. All the nonsensical stuff will be posted here... Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1091594910760377802004-08-03T21:40:00.000-07:002004-08-03T22:27:07.053-07:00Nothing can be a stronger argument that I am definitely a Wharton admissions mistake than the following facts, taken in totality: 1. The session starts tomorrow at 8 2. I am writing this at quarter past 1 at night 3. I moved into my apartment about 3 hours ago... I have no furniture, no toiletries, no groceries, no ANYTHING.... simply because I did not bother to buy any of this 4. All the folks Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1090432429927559952004-07-21T10:51:00.000-07:002004-07-21T10:53:49.926-07:00After literally ages, I’ve decided to reappear on these pages again. To say what, you may ask? Well, lots actually. It’s been a topsy turvy world for the past couple of months. Let’s divide the events chronologically, shall we… First, the Wharton Self Assessment tests… Based on my deep insights into ancient religions of the world, I can vouch for the fact that Self Assessment tests were devisedRajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1088796492027504822004-07-02T12:26:00.000-07:002004-07-02T12:28:12.026-07:00Just wanted to tell the world I'm still around. Have been somewhat in a daze for the past 2 months, but I'll keep posting some nonsense or the other, just to make sure I still know how to spell things! __________ The TrooperRajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1082112556689839782004-04-16T03:46:00.000-07:002004-04-16T10:42:10.200-07:00Have been absent from my blogs for a long period (anything more than a week qualifies as a long period – this has been nearly 2 weeks). There were (and continue to remain) multiple reasons for the lack of activity on this board. Some urgent stuff on the work front was of course, the primary cause that forced me to adopt a low profile…but there were other reasons as well. One of them was that IRajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1081076572373529322004-04-04T04:00:00.000-07:002004-04-04T04:06:35.060-07:00It’s been a long absence from my journals, but things have been relatively hectic at the workplace, coupled with the fact that I have decided to courageously face up to the mountains of paperwork that an MBA student needs to complete in order to enter the hallowed halls of Jon M. Huntsman…. And ‘mountains’ is by no means an exaggeration… It’s funny how Snapshots from Hell has absolutely no Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1080495850051493882004-03-28T09:38:00.000-08:002004-03-28T09:47:42.920-08:00Wanted to let everyone know that I made friends with a great bunch of people on the Wharton Jollies thread. Some of us may be physically separated in the years to come, but I'm sure the bonding will continue! Incidentally, I really don't know whether we should have put a thread like that on the W website... To me, it was a reflection of school culture as it should be. At the same time, I Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1080418619239634042004-03-27T12:16:00.000-08:002004-03-27T12:20:31.310-08:00Apologize for not being able to write for some time. Received some wonderful wonderful comments from Leader on my ramble thoughts on ‘success’. Thanks! It appears that we are echoing the same thing- except that my problem lay in defining success, not so much in measuring it. I needed to be able to figure out the first issue before moving on to the second. And for all I was worth, I just Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1079890213936958732004-03-21T09:27:00.000-08:002004-03-21T09:33:37.373-08:00Yessirreeee ... India won the match!!! Miracles do happen, do they not??? Now all the best for the final match... PS: OK, I admit I wasn't watching the match, but what the hell, victory tastes sweet!Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-107986707427807942004-03-21T03:03:00.000-08:002004-03-21T03:07:57.700-08:00At times, one cannot but wonder about this thing that is called ‘success’. When I was a kid, had someone asked me what creates success or failure, I would probably have said ‘luck’. A few years later, I would probably have answered ‘hard work’. Today, I really don’t know. I have tried my level best to figure things out, but I’ve not figured things out. I hate this. It leaves one with this Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1079791726328986832004-03-20T06:04:00.000-08:002004-03-20T06:13:29.310-08:00Pele, if he were to read this post, would not like it. Neither would Garry Kasparov or for that matter, Michael Schumaker. They would shake their head and walk away disdainfully, and I would have lost three readers of this blog. The reason is very simple. Like the ancient Roman Gods who got a bit itchy when this newly crowned Emperor decided that he would devote his limited praying time in Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1079622781792906632004-03-18T07:06:00.000-08:002004-03-18T07:16:21.263-08:00Consultants are dumb! We'd like to think we know all there is to know, but we know that we do not. Today, I just can't seem to write. But I do want to post here that this blog was and is meant for posting my thoughts on a lot of issues- there'll be times when I'll try and post the anecdotes as I've been doing. There'll be other times when I'll be expressing my view on issues that may affect Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1079530569982662812004-03-17T05:34:00.000-08:002004-03-17T05:39:27.623-08:00I LOVE Technology… it’s that that wonderful wonderful thing that helps a lot of us continue to make ourselves more busy while thinking we are being helped out by it. What started me thinking (on mention of the word ‘thinking’ you should, if you are sensible, squirm uncomfortably in your seat and if you are saner than most other people, try browsing CNN.com rather than waste your time here, butRajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1079509472751975672004-03-16T23:43:00.000-08:002004-03-16T23:47:49.950-08:00lemme see if the comments and trackback thing works. am trying to install it, but %@$##@$#@!!!Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1079422586722397022004-03-15T23:28:00.000-08:002004-03-15T23:40:13.013-08:00If brevity is the soul of wit, I'm a witty blogger :-)Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1079364837754652652004-03-15T07:29:00.000-08:002004-09-25T15:24:38.403-07:00I have been travelling. Am out of town, and sitting in an internet café waiting for a train to take me back to Delhi (that’s where I live)… The reason I’m in an internet café at 7:30 pm in the evening is that I have no clue what to do to while away time here, and my train leaves at 11:20 at night! Am too tired to be out shopping, but sitting in an air conditioned internet café is a different cup Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1079200942446375432004-03-13T09:57:00.000-08:002004-03-13T10:06:13.983-08:00I could hear and see all of those- sighs of relief, leaps of joy, congratulatory messages doing the rounds- “He is off… He‘s decided to spare us the agony!” Funny how one day of absence can elicit such extreme responses, and that too from people I considered to be friends. Anyway, I’m back. It's Saturday night, and I spent the day in office. It’s been a tiring week, and the way things are Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1079025259644745172004-03-11T09:11:00.000-08:002004-03-11T09:21:34.796-08:00the first day when I don't have either the time or the energy to write. These kind of days will increase in frequency as time passes! And most of the times, I won't even leave this courtesy message. Shoot me if you want. Now, stop staring incredulously at the screen. You're wasting valuable internet time ! And you can't catch me!Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1078928078857481102004-03-10T06:11:00.000-08:002004-03-10T06:17:47.310-08:00I have received feedback that there are a bunch of people out there who actually READ all this junk I post. Some of them even find it informative (though I personally don’t see how ‘How to Kill Your Conscience for Dummies’ could be useful for anyone. Oh, unless he was planning to … never mind.) Time for me to take a bow! Maybe the comments option may not be such a bad idea after all!! Hmmnn… Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1078840931369411332004-03-09T05:39:00.000-08:002004-03-09T06:38:42.810-08:00You know, I was a bit hesitant to start blogging- there was this bit of conscience in me that kept shouting in my ears- “You can’t do this.. you just CAN’T… you can’t subject innocent souls across the world to your ravings and rantings.” This is where being an accountant helped (yup, I’m an accountant, but more about this later). As I was saying, being an accountant can be a wonderful Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1078755098102982372004-03-08T05:49:00.000-08:002004-03-08T06:20:03.373-08:00Yup... it works. I must admit, it gives me sadistical pleasure to see that all the nonsense that I write is being forced upon the whole wide world through this blog- and I don't have to pay for it! It's like something I learnt in Economics some years ago- about how one industry pollutes and the entire society pays the cost for it. Well, at the end of the day, innocent consumers across the Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589552.post-1078737473510241212004-03-08T01:16:00.000-08:002004-03-08T02:14:38.640-08:00Just to check- does this thing actually work??? Am sorry if it sounds an inane question- but am new to this world, and wasn't very techno savvy to start with anyway (not that i was a good blogger to start with, but that's a different story)!Rajathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418637936829100879noreply@blogger.com