A nice picture depicting the state of the management schools in our country.
BTW folks I have decided to devote the next 2 years of my life pursuing MBA.
It has not been a simple decision for me but I think it is the right one. Wish me luck and pray that I am not ragged too much.
i saw this article on my fav blog. and i could not stop laughing.
I RECENTLY overheard an interesting conversation between two co-workers. After a female economist returned from a sun-filled holiday a male colleague (also an economist) remarked, “You look much hotter tan.”
She thanked him, but noted the decision to tan may suffer from time inconsistency. “A tan marginally increases your attractiveness now, but you will regret it in twenty years when your skin looks like leather. One day I will look back and think: why did I bother? I looked fine tan or pale in my youth. You fool yourself tanning by now and thinking you won’t care about the consequences in the future.”
He argued the value of looking your best when young is greater than the value of looking better when old. Beautiful women attract more suitors. Thus, looking great now improves a woman’s marriage prospects. The dividends of which will pay off for the rest of her life (securing the necessary botox). He suspected her discount rate is too low.
She countered as you get older the marriage market become more competitive for women, all the more reason to maintain a smooth complexion. Also vanity does not diminish as you age.
No complement between two economists goes unpunished.
Bangalore is proud to present a new airport. After 10 years of delay and colossal cost overruns, this airport would be finally open. The best part of the airport is that a drive to the airport would take more time than the actual flight. Hence for most of the destinations in the South India, it would be faster to take a train than to take a flight. And did i forget that it is so expensive that for the past 1 decade govt was collecting extra tax on the petrol sold in Bangalore for it, and now on top of that you will have to shell out a hefty User development fees.
Anyways for those of you who would be unfortunate enough to use it, here are a few useful maps.
For the past 3-4 months, I have been working almost 16 hours a day. Since today I did not even have the time to walk to the restaurant for a dinner, I thought of ordering Pizza.
Here is my experience:
1) I went to the website to try to locate the phone number of the nearest outlet. But after the home page, any other access results in the following output:
2) So I thought I would call up their Hungry Kya Helpline 1800-111-123.
3) It was promptly picked up and the order was taken.
4) After 5 minutes, when I provided the address, immediate reply came: “Sorry our branch does not cover your area. I will give you the number of the nearest outlet, you can place your order there.”
5) I told them this is my order, why don’t they call up the other store/do an online transfer of order. But they don’t have this provision.
6) I finally called up the second store, they said there is an outlet in the basement of my building and this is its address. Hence wasting another 5 minutes of my time.
7) When I called up their 3rd store, they said: “Thank you for calling Dominoes…. blah blah blah…. sorry due to too much order volume we won’t be able to service your order for the next 50 minutes” (BTW it was a normal weekday, no special occasion or weekend rush)
How can a store whose marketing is centered around home delivery and Hungry Kya concept except that their customer would starve itself for 50 + 15 = 1hour 5 minutes?
Why do they so proudly advertise their phone number when it does not work?
Do they really think a customer would be patient enough to repeat the order 3 times?
What is the use of advertising the 30 minutes guarantee when every time they have some excuse or the other to not commit to it?
Why don’t they fix their website?
Why can’t they put a simple call center. You order there and the order would be routed to the nearest store?
Am I asking too much… It took me less time to go all the way to the restaurant, have a nice meal and come back.
A nice image forwarded by Augustin. which highlights that short sighted theatrics and shady deals might give you short term gains but bite you in the ass in the long run.
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1 minute painting
Airplane landing on the world’s shortest runway
amazing thai dance
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When was the last time you read/wrote something in your own handwriting, which was not on a Post-IT slip or Address on an envelope?
It would be so nice if somebody would send me a handwritten letter 
PS: Please feel free to ask for my postal address.
Over yesterday’s discussion, my friend Sachin raised a very genuine point:
Never apply for credit card from the bank in which you hold your savings account.
It looked odd to me at first glance, but he explained.
Suppose your accounts are with the same bank. Then, in case of a dispute/hidden charges/wrong billing, the bank in spite of all your protests and oppositions would first automatically debit the credit card dues and then offer you a chance to put your case and claim the refund of the balance.
However if the 2 banks are different, then its the onus of the bank to convince you the genuineness of the charges and if nothing works out, you could always threaten to close the account and sever all relationships.
This is a crappy loud thinking post.
5-10 Years ago, before the Banking revolution, nobody would have believed that anyone could prefer cheque/card/Electronic Fund Transfer over Hard Cash. But here we are in the 21st Century.
Here are some real life situations that I can recall where people preferred banks over cash. If you remember any other unique situation, then let me know.
eg:
1) My credit card company does not accept cash. If one has to make a payment, we better pay via Demand Draft or Cheque.
2) A friend of mine was roaming around the office with a 100k in cash. His concern was that he was due for an EMI cheque payment on a housing loan and although 3 of his friends were ready to give a short term cash advance to him, but nobody wanted him to hand over this bundle of cash in lieu of the EFT (to ensure that his housing cheque did not bounce)
3) Citibank issues/accepts Demand Draft for free from its account holders. But when my father went to their branch to do a cash deposit. It slapped me with a 150/- teller charge.
4) I went to a travel agency to book my thailand trip tickets. Due to some weired reason, one of my group mate offered to pay for his expenses through cash (instead of cheque like everybody else) Initially the travel agent resisted accepting cash. But later on, to my surprise, he took cash… then went to a bank and issued a DD for the same amount and then entered the DD number into his database.
I wonder if the cashless payments are so much in vogue (esp for large legal transactions), why people resisted it earlier.
