lesson of excellence by harsha bhogle .

Just came across this video on net.  Harsha bhogle delivering @ IIM-A .  
I am not able to find the right words to capture the extent of knowledge delivered in this speech . Only one adjective that comes to my mind is
" thought provoking " .  (It will certainly enlighten your thought process)
Check out the video below:

Harsha Bhogle - Achievers of Excellence - IIM Ahmedabad - Part 1 of 2 from Brijesh Chauhan on Vimeo.

Harsha Bhogle - Achievers of Excellence - IIM Ahmedabad - Part 2 of 2 from Brijesh Chauhan on Vimeo.

bikini girl and cement : creativity at all time low.

huh!!  sounds weird . How can these two words go together or how can a person establish a link between these two . I was able to solve this puzzle during the IPL season -3 .
A new campaign launched by one of the renowned cement industry of India (J.K.cement ) . A semi-bare woman  ,fully drenched in water , walks out of the sea wearing a bright red colored swimsuit and suddenly from no where you hear a male voice  " Vishawaas hai ,  isme kuch khas hai , J.K. cement " . Now just think , how can on earth a wet woman can sell a cement like this .
What is the concept behind this ad , sexuality ( may be ) or just to grab the eyeballs of the viewers any how and then convey your message . Horrible and one of the most irritating ad i have seen recently .
I also feel bad for poor girl , first you make her wear swimwear then let herself soak in water and when finally she thinks that she has done something significant then you scream  "........ isme kuch khas hai , jk cement ."
anyway at least this ad has caught attention  because of poor logic .(they need to check there sales figure after the launch of this ad).
I think a time will come when you ll see bikini girl selling cough syrup or may be zandu chyawanprash .
Another campaign which is  recently aired is of an undergarment ( i hardly remember the name of the brand  , also i don't want to) . A blind man  (akshay kumar )  saves the bank robbery by wearing a particular type of undergarment. Also while walking out of the bank he remarks  "Button khula " (staring at the girl) . This made me think , whether this company sells the inner wear for both men and women  or only for men.
Now if they have endorsed  highly paid  Mr. Khiladi cant they be more creative. 
I am not an ad-guru but I seriously doubt the credentials of these ad makers.
Lets see what's more in the store in coming season.

aka "calendar" from Mr.India

    

recently at my friends wedding met with the  calendar from Mr. India . (satish kaushik ) . He was mansi's  (bride) uncle .Seems to be a nice person and was surrounded by crowd all the time .
One of my friend murmured in his ears wittingly  " Sir ! i am very much fond of your movies although i know right now you are going through  bad phase , best of luck for your future "  (courtesy boozing and more boozing...)
Mr .kaushik looked perturbed after that comment and replied  " Thanks a lot for being so kind to me, i ll try to work harder from now onwards "     
he did not entertained us after that . We carried on for more fun .
later on he invited us to Bombay with aditya ( groom). and commented on us " Naughty boys , enjoy your life ,this is the best time of your life " (hope we can take his words seriously and start enjoying)

photo is not appropriate again courtesy boozing ... .. . also it was difficult to capture such a large land scape (Mr. kaushik) with 3 mega pixel camera.  His wife also seems to be a good lady.

sunday coffee and nostalgia

Feeling nostalgic  with Sunday  morning coffee . Woke up , was having head ache because of last night boozing (accompanied with ipl and cheerleaders  ) . Decided to make a coffee and then some thoughts are recurring in my head again and again .
i was thinking about the first match when i scored a goal . Eight years back i used to play for my school football team . This was the 2nd year in a row i made to playing 11 of my school team  for the cluster's (tournament organized by cbse). This year was important in many aspect, was awarded with the No 10 jersey this season ( last year it was owned by my elder brother ) , have to strike balance with my books as i was in 12th . have to appear for IIT and board exams.
But at that point of time my only aim was to perform well for my team .
coming to the point , venue St. Xavier school , jaipur. (this time we were playing in the home ground of our arch rival Xavier's  , we have beaten them last year  in final and 2 years back we lost to them in finals ) .
We were expected to reach finals this year also and had a high esteem in our football fraternity.

First game of the season , Modern public school , i was playing at midfield . (tough position to play as  one has to toggle between defense and attack ) . 10 mins have passed since the match started  and suddenly from no where the rolling ball was heading towards me and i was at the half line , i heard a scream from somewhere  " Datta shoot at the goal " . I looked around and found it was my coach , hoping and shouting from the side line . for an instance i thought is he insane or what ? ,  there is no point in shooting a ball from a half line to goal ,its better to pass  ahead .   Adding to my dilemma he shouted again for the second time " datta ab kya kal marega , shoot at the goal ".  He has gone wild and now if don't  shoot now  he ll make me wild later on  .  BANG !!!   I thumped  the rolling ball ,goalkeeper was 10 steps ahead of goal line as he was not expecting anyone to shoot from the half line . what can u expect , just think , it landed in goal post flying over the goal keeper's head .  i saw the team in blue and white , started running towards me , jubilation all around . we have scored first goal of the season and that too came from the boots of the person who wore 10 number jersey .  
Later on we pinned that team 9-0 , 2 more goals from me and 3 from other lead striker.
good memories to keep , we had wonderful days .
We could not make to the finals that year , our whole team cried in the ground .
i was not able to clear IIT's and nor was able to score good in Boards and football was made scapegoat,  in spite of  all that ll i was satisfied as i have given my best atleast in one thing .

miCAT- good one.....

last Sunday appeared for the end of season exam MICAT (mudra institute of communication and advertising ) .  Center was at rohini , mount abu school. reporting time 8:15 in the morning . reached on time and was stunned to see the number of candidates at the test center . more than  500 students were there to write the exam . Later on came to know that there is only one center in Delhi so turn out is large .
As i was on time ,  test takers seem to be in no hurry .We were made to wait for 30 mins outside school premises . Made use of the time, looked  around for some bombs and some left over shells. I was astonished to see my old friend there. What more can you expect ,  a college  friend whom you discovered after 3 years on the bright Sunday morning and  you are surrounded by some bombs . i was happy and did not knew that it was  my day . looking at the board for the room no.  , what ! , me and my friend were assigned in same room . F**k man ! how this can happen to anyone . ( i think we were destined to meet )
My friend quipped " are we supposed to give paper now, they have made a big time goof up " .
Room no 201  , 2nd row first seat and my friend was 4 seat behind me same row.

test duration 2.5 hours . 3 separate section . All i can say for this paper is  , i salute to mica faculties for designing this type of paper . this is the true management paper and the best competitive exam i have ever written. ( all i am talking about the nature of paper irrespective of my performance ) .
test included what not : maths , logical reasoning , aptitude , English usage , general knowledge , story writing , essay writing , creativity  and more over psychometric test .
it tested the every aspect one needs to have to become a good manager , unlike cat and other exam which only focuses on  IIT tag .
huh ! i was totally bugged down after test .
2.5 hours sitting in school desk with my leg almost fighting with front wall. and many a times invigilator failing to stumble over my leg . 
i am very much sure that i have done the charity to mica people this time as they wont be taking me in and there are only 120 seats in all . total number of students appeared across the country is 10,000(approx).  
one should appear for this test , its a good one and at least you come to  know where you stand in crowd .
make sure when u r screwed it should be clockwise so that u can remain stick else u ll fall apart .

Market(@)Value

I Was just thinking of writing something and galvanizing my thoughts .

I came up with this weird title MArket(@)value. (note MA is intentionally kept in caps so as to keep its market value above  @)
Many a time in life each one of us sometime or other goes with the reality check and then try to personifies himself with term market value.( most of the time labeled  by peers ) 
earlier this term is used with the commodity (any commodity )  but as the time is changing  and we the human's becoming  paranoid  about  everything around us so  we decided to calculate our market value (treating human being as the commodity) .
Lets first take real commodity whose market value can actually be determined . For example take a laptop . Now when deciding the commodity price of a laptop there comes two very important factors namely a) real part b ) cosmetic part .
real part accounts for the configuration , robustness , durability , (and other n number of things which you can think of)
Cosmetic part accounts for color , looks , x-fctr, sleek, eye -catching factor and brand name . 

so the laptop having the best market value must have both the qualities embodied in it.

is this  true for human beings also ? I wonder and am quiet skeptical about it or rather you can say indifferent about this.( you must be thinking if this person is indifferent about this then why the hell is he writing this shit )
Moving ahead ( as i cannot control my thoughts) in my opinion  humans do have market value but the formula for calculation involves more than 2 facors(real and cosmetic) . we do lay our emphasis on these factors and over and above more to the cosmetic part but on the foundation of real one. The third and most important thing in the empirical formula for calculating the market value of humans is REFRIENECTION , may be you must not have heard of this term before ( i have just cooked  it,Friends+Connections with the spice of REAL) Hope now you have understood the meaning of this . Elaborating further on this variable , REFRIENECTION is having connection with the real friends . Higher  the value of this variable,  more will be your market value . Important to note is that the REAL plays an important part in this  . Real means real ( other words are too mean to define real ). This value is subjective . For most of the lucky people  on earth this value can land between 2-4( this means you can have at the most 2-4 real friends and if you suppose that your number is higher ,then you are in illusion and you need to go for reality check ) . Even for the Hush puppies creator Mr. Gladwell ( One of the greatest socialist of his time in Italy's fashion world)  his value for this variable was 3 i.e. at the time of crisis he was able to get himself connected with only 3 of his real friends.There are many more instances in history whom you can look up to for this . 

I am in no mood to discourage the number of followers one has on social networking sites but all i can make out that its very difficult to find and to be connected with your real friends during the crest and trough of life .

i dedicate this term (REFRIENECTION ) to all those who took time to read this post . Hoping some day this word may find its  place in oxford dictionary below refrigeration .

"dont try to be a tangent to the surrounding be the secant "

I have just coined this phrase, for this blogg's description .
i would like to give a little bit insight about this .
being a tangential to a surrounding means although one is an intrinsic part of the society but one  still tries to keep himself/herself aloof from it . One may just touches the society at some point (that can be vital or insignificant it is totally subjective ) but does not let others to intervene ,or to be precise the society, into oneself .
Where as the person exhibiting the characteristic of secant may be knowing the society inside out . deeply involved in others and being the vital part of the society (social animal ).
Whereas one with the tangential point of view can be of rational ideology (this too is subjective )  and at time (most of the time ) being considered as weed (unwanted ) .
Society should try and understand that rather this weed (tangential or rational person ) is indeed not required in the society but should not forget that it can change lot of properties of the society . I am not advocating one to be tangential but rather i am trying to be secant to the society (which also changes the properties ) .
To be an ideal in the society one needs to be a diameter , who is responsible for the condition of the society as a whole.  
hope i am able to make my point clear .

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