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Archive for May, 2005

31 May

random….

every extra minute more i spend here in office, the more frustrated i become. as i had mentioned earlier, the IT systems here are pretty poor. hardly world class. and if this indeed is world class, then i’m proud (??!!) to say that many of our PSUs are also world class. the last couple of [...]

27 May

a mail i sent to swami yesterday…

// he had written a mail saying there’s no such thing as a good job and i should concentrate on work and crack a PPO yeah thanx for the fundaes… similar to what a lot of other people have been telling me of late… i for one have taken the best decision a manager can [...]

27 May

dilemma…

work at office gets woreshter and woreshter. however, i’m not allowed to tell this to anyone as all my dear friends have made a decision on my behalf that JPM is THE place for me to work and i’d be committing a grave mistake if i don’t convert PPO and sign out. of course, i [...]

27 May

these guys suck…

today i was asked to do something i had done before again (and three times over) because the software package we use for this sucks. i asked if there are any attempts to repair the software. i was told there are none – because it isn’t used by enuff people. i have a good feeling [...]

26 May

london philharmonic orchestra

went to the last performance of the season of the London Philharmonic Orchestra yesterday… having paid 12 pounds and an opportunity to watch the champion’s league finals live on TV… for someone like me with a grounding in indian classical, the concert was a bit of a letdown… the pieces they chose were way too [...]

26 May

(in an angry mood)

today a couple of my friends here in JPM were told that despite their excellent performance through the course of the internship, they won’t be hired because the desk doesn’t know if it’ll require an extra person in April next year (markets are kinda volatile nowadays – investment banking seems to be at the beginning [...]

25 May

dowry…

a while ago, a few old classmates of mine were playing a guessing game and trying to guess how much dowry i would be getting when i get married. well, being a brahmin, i’m not entitled to any dowry… that aside, i started getting a few thoughts on how dowry might have come about… let [...]

25 May

lazy…

2 weeks in office without much work has made me way too lazy. i’m now even too lazy to write on one of the many oh-so-interesting-to-write-about topics i came up with last week. too lazy to do anything. first couple of days of this joblessness, i hoped that someone would give me some work so [...]

24 May

YAAP – yet another arbit post

yet another jobless day in office… after the mid-term review, they simbly have been refusing to give me work… wonder what they’re upto… if they’re trying to see how proactive i am, i’m afraid i’m not very… who cares anyway… trying to enjoy the rest of my stay here in London… at the end of [...]

23 May

update

weekend was kinda unusual… didn’t go out of london… most people seem to have lost the enthu now… saturday was anusmaran… here in london, we had three times as many alumni as interns… some takeaways… in 1996-97 100 people registered for int-fin. this year the course wasn’t floated due to lack of students… people used [...]

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