IIM Indore Quiz

Inspired by Mrunal's post on her blog, here goes a lil quiz on how well you know your fellow IIM I mates....thnx Mrunal..for some inside info abt the girls hostel..
and my apologies to my countless non IIM I fans..this post might not seem relevant to you ..but don't despair...siby will be back with a post that will knock your socks off....very soooon

Q1: Who wud be the 1st person you can rely ;) on to join Richa's fan club if it were started yesterday ??

Q2: Who is the person most likely to be caught by PETA for non stop early morning cruelty to animals at IIM Indore and elsewhere ?

Q3: Who is the only girl who would be interested in knocking your socks ;) off??

Q4: Who is the cutest person in whole of IIM Indore and who once said " siby is the the cutest guy in college"??

Q5: Who is credited with the most idiotic mail ever sent in IIM Indore history causing the biggest expose of the year ;) ?

Q6: Who is famous for her andhadhoond slapping and bouncing around once she gets a lil high at IIM Indore?

Q7: Who is the guy most famous in the girls hostel for the fairness of his posterior?

Q8: Who is the person who gave meaning to the term " HOT PINK" and redefined the fashion trends on campus?

Q9: One of the most famous crushes on campus...where a kadhalboy fell for some initials,,,gimme the initials.

Q10: What happens when Ishu gets a lil amorous?

Feel free to post your answers and guesses as comments

Things to do during Monsoon

One of my favourite things to do while in class was to make Things to do lists...interesting to read later...all kinds of wacky things in it...

Well....now that the monsoons have started and i am mostly gonna be stuck at home....here is a list of things all of us can do to while our time during this rainy season

For the lazy ones

- Sit in the balcony with a hot cup of coffee and some garam kanda pakodas( bhajjis)
- Catch up on ur reading
- Listen to music
- Stare at the rain and reflect on your life

For the frustrated ones

- Write blogs
- Watch movies at home
- Ahem Ahem :D

For the adventurous ones

- jump out of your house and dance in the rain
- go for long drives
- travel...lonavla is awesome during rains

and finally...there is nothing better than this last one

- Get a girl/boy friend :D

Solitude

Solitude......I have come to understand the true meaning of this word after spending nearly 2 months in my sleepy lil hometown ..with its river just a few hundred meters away...with its cows grazing here and there...with its people waking up at 5 and sleeping at 9...with its absolute calm...

With no pubs, multiplexes, coffee houses, pizza huts or cool roadside cafe's to hang out in, and with a faulty hard disk cable, there is nothing for me to occupy my time and mind with...such circumstances can be frustrating at first for someone used to a much racier lifestyle of the city..but slowly...i have realised that this has given me an opportunity to connect to a different aspect of myself. My self.

With our whirlwind lifestyles and rushed schedules, we barely have time to think and assimilate what we see happening around us. We let the new channels and their experts or newspaper editorials do the thinking for us and pass on their views as our opinions...we have no time for old friends or family...we forget what wet mud smells like after the first rain...or what it feels like to wake up with no worries and just a bright day ahead to look forward to...we forget what it is like to be alive !

My time here has allowed me to realise some things that i have neglected, like keeping in touch with old friends, reading, keeping in touch with my family...not just my parents ..but my extended family...i have realised the importance that is attached by our elders to religion and culture and heritage and even though i might not share some of their views, at least i have decided to try and study them and maybe discover what it is all about. I have realised that my responsibilities are many, that i have to suddenly grow up and make mature decisions..and i have discovered that i am capable of doing that.

I have also realised one thing...its important to play the game of life, but it is even more important to step off the playing field from time to time and analyse it..

PS: The most interesting thing to happen today was a football match between two teams ( no one knows their names) in the local church ground. One of them won 2-0, but it was more of an excuse for the whole village to gather and gossip.

Cows have horns !!

Cows have horns...and that's an undeniable fact !

Unfortunately, when 6 of your friends, whom you consider to be relatively intelligent, vehemently argue this fact and ridicule you in public, roll around on the floor in derisive laughter at your supposedly stupid misconception that cows could possible have horns, make snide comments about Mallu cows having horns and generally make u a figure for public mirth in a crowded Cafe Coffee Day, one somehow starts doubting his own beliefs.

It all started with some innocuous story i was telling about how "Nandini", my grandfathers cow would roll her eyes and brandish her horns at me when i went near her...and "Zain a.k.a Blinky" started taking my case saying that cow's didn't have horns...and then everyone ganged up on me and thus followed the above mentioned scene.

Well let me tell you something ....you IDIOTS..

COWS HAVE HORNS...and not just in Kerala....

undeniable proof..pls observe the pointy things in BLACK..they are horns

Market Snodsbury Grammar School...or something like it !

When i read "Brinkley Manor" by P.G.Wodehouse, i dismissed the terrorising thoughts that crossed Bertie Wooster's mind when he faced the prospect of addressing the Market Snodsbury Grammar school as an attempt by the author to exaggerate the situation in order to create a comic situation...but trust me when i say this....there can hardly be anything that can scramble your brains more, than the prospect of giving "Gyan" to a bunch of rowdy kids in the range of 2 to 15 years...with parents tagging along...with your own parents looking on....in MALAYALAM...on a topic that has been squeezed drier than Bihar's coffers by Lalu ..EDUCATION AND ITS IMPORTANCE...well i cant...and i went through it today

It all started with an innocuous invitation to a Kutumba Yogam( KY)..a family get together..a family branching from my great( to the power 9) grandfather...so you can imagine ..80% of the people had never even met each other....well...so..we get this invitation...and here i am .....bored to the core like never before in my life...and thereby ...the biggest mistake of my life....deciding to go for the KY...little did i know..i had just accepted the position of the proverbial " Bali ka bakraa" (BKB) at the said Yogam

The Yogam President ( my dad) and various committee members decide that its time to kick my ass...and hence this line in the programme for the day

3:45 pm-3:55 pm: Speech by Siby Mathew on Importance of Education and other related Blah Blah

I tossed and turned throughout the night, cold sweat on my forehead ...had innumerable fights with the President...threatened to impeach him and the other members of the committee....went on a non cooperation movement..but was ultimately carted away to the venue...

3:45 pm

ehhh..namaskaram...ehh....nyaan innu ninkalude mumbil Education..ummm...ee topic'ne importance ne kuricchu ...basically..umm...
....
umm...ahhh...
3:50
...umm...education...umm....blah blah...

3:55:
that's all i had to say..thank you all for your patience...

and i rush down the stage..some parents realise that i am no longer up there and there is a mild smattering of claps but more buzzing around the place regarding my identity and my pathetic Malayalam and how i could possibly qualify to speak about education when i couldn't even string two Malayalam words together coherently..


Hari oooooooooom

Aak Ki Taaza Khabar

Television today is flooded with news channels...and since they are all trying to sell the same thing, there is immense pressure to differentiate themselves from each other, get news as it happens...get it first, get it exclusive and get what the others cant Well, these circumstances would have been ideal for us to get in depth information, faster and with a lot more research and maybe help in exposing some skeletons in the closet...well that's happening, but largely, the competition amongst the news channels has taken the whole reporting culture to another level...where each one tries to get eyeballs by manufacturing news, useless sensationalism and crappy stunts...gimme a break...we are being force fed this crap instead of news that the channels think is good for their rating..and the whole concept of breaking news has been twisted...
Here's what has been passed as news the last few weeks

Breaking News: 3 kilos of cow dung from special cows fed banana's grown in Chinchpokli brought from Timbuktoo for the mehendi ceremony of Abhishek- Ash Wedding
This stupid wedding was the only thing on the TV for more than a week...with the entire country being shown the front gate of the Bacchan residences ...and an occasional car leaving or entering..with these momentous developments being analysed by an expert panel with some more comments regarding kundalis and muhurats by a team of specialist jyotish's...LIVE COVERAGE...24 hrs ..of the front gate...gimme a break...People just don't care if they are getting married...i don't wanna know where they got their sandalwood or how much they paid Veerappan's successor for it...let them marry in peace...

Breaking News: Model claims she is married to Abhishek
Then came the Jhanvi Kapoor with her hysterical rants about being married to Abhishek and her suicide attempt in front of the Live "Bacchan gates"...well this BacchanGate scandal was too juicy for the news channels to miss out on and they made a disgusting spectacle of this lady...i don't know what was going on in her mind..if she was genuinely mentally disturbed or wanted publicity, but she definitely did not deserve the kind of treatment meted out to her..it was a complete drama..with live interview that went on for hours..her mom's call on air, and intercepting her alleged son on the way to school and some "friend" who said that she was a slut and druggie...some friend....and a panel of expert psychologists analysing her frame of mind.... anyway...that's just sensationalism with each reporter trying to tear her claims to shreds on air...is this what news is?..

Then came the mother of all controversies with Shilpa Shetty and Richard Gere getting lip locked in a scandal...with neither of them having a problem with anything, but the media blowing it out of proportion. If the kiss was so against our moral sensibilities..why air it 3000 times a day..and our self appointed champions of morality filing cases here and there...

i know i am raving and ranting like some outraged hippo...i am just slightly pissed at it all...and frustrated that TV doesn't have anything worthwhile to watch...and i did watch all that nonsense :P

IIM Grads and the Money Issue

I was reading the Indian Express today and found this article by some guy…” Show us your worth”…. The essence of the article is that Indian cricket and IIM MBA’s are over hyped in India….with a snide reference to MBA’s as Masters in Barely Anything..
He claims that the IIM grads are being paid way too much without having done anything for the country or for its business and industry. I don’t understand why people have a problem when their fellow country men are successful and earning well…it’s the same with the cricketer’s issue…It’s a simple matter of demand and supply ..if the organization is willing to pay an IIM MBA grad something, that’s because it feels that the person would add value to that organization to a far greater extent than the compensation being provided to them. Its strictly a logical decision to pay that person an amount that’s competitive..i don’t see why anyone should grudge IIM grads for what they are earning. And as far as contribution to the industry and country is concerned, he himself says that no SWOT (sic) analysis has been done to gauge the effectiveness of these MBA grads..then how can he claim that the IIM grads have not contributed to the country. Obviously the private sector, which employs most of the IIM grads, feels that they are a profitable asset, otherwise why would anyone pay a dime to them??

He goes on to say…”Its all about five star culture, large expense accounts, club life and golf” ..” Well its not a bed of roses all the time…The competition to get into an IIM is phenomenal…if you read the description about IIM’s given in www.wikipedia.com you will realize that CAT is the toughest exam to clear in the world…the amount of pressure and preparation u need to put in is tremendous, and then the stress to perform and the competition and rigor once in college is a different matter altogether…its not all party during college..but 5 hrs average sleep time. And once you start working, I don’t think any company can afford to pay you a fat salary to just play golf or go clubbing…you have to meet your targets…and I am absolutely sure that the expectations, responsibilities and targets on a person earning 20 L is going be more than on one earning 4 L……so how does it matter what that person does in his free time….I am not saying that others don’t work hard….but that doesn’t mean that IIM grads don’t work any less and are served anything on a platter either as it seems from these statements of his.

Hari ooooooooom !! Why do we behave like crabs?? When one sees the other climbing up to some sort of success, he tries to pull him down….that’s why crabs can be put in an open basket without any fear of them escaping..