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Archive for January, 2006

31 Jan

Those darned contact lenses…

This is an old piece. I wrote it a couple of years back. Then I had thought that this is so good it might win a prize in some creative writing competition I might attend. Given that I’m almost done with my student life and it’s unlikely I’ll be taking part in any creative writing [...]

30 Jan

Maajorly shady arbitmax fundaes

“Basically the funda is there were two guys called X and Y. Now, X did this and Y did that and then something happened. And basically, macha, X got hajaar pained ok. And he did something. And then something happened and that led to something and then that something led to something else which led [...]

24 Jan

Advertising extends to love

love can be explained through the AIDA framework. (i first read about this framework in Kotler (marketing management) and figured out a few months ago it can be applied to love also) AIDA, as explained by Kotler, stands for “Awareness Interest Desire Action” Awareness – I come to know about your existence Interest – I [...]

23 Jan

The Fourth Estate

As I had explained earlier, I recently found the back issues of The Fourth Estate, the erstwhile IITM journal. The last two of them had stuff written by me. Both written about “contemporary” events (events which were contemporary at the time of writing). Both really badly written. And both utterly scandalous. At first I couldn’t [...]

22 Jan

Seven and out

just back from a party. was a rockin’ one. and i got drunk. however, i don’t think i did anything “interesting”. just pranced around, put a little senti on people and stuff. thatz all. and i’d prewarned neha that i’m getting drunk. only “interesting” thing that i did was that i started making out with [...]

21 Jan

Airport Infrastructure

Today, we had a manager from a consultancy company talk to us about the airline industry. Apart from usual stuff like low cost vs full carrier, cyclicity of the industry, scope for consolidation, etc., one important thing that was mentioned is that most Indian operators have placed huge orders for aircraft. It is expected that [...]

21 Jan

Bhelpuri Economics

Every evening during my last term break, I used to go on a long walk round South Bangalore, and used to top it off by eating somewhere. Being too impatient to sit at a table and order, I would typically saunter into some fast-food places and make good all those calories burnt in the walk. [...]

21 Jan

Brain Damage and Operations Management

Of late, my processor speed seems to have increased big time. However, lack of sufficient memory means that all this extra speed is going waste. In fact, insufficient memory is causing data overload in the existing memory and has led to heavy loss of data. Classic case of improvement in one component of the system [...]

19 Jan

The unknown errors of my life

For the last 23 odd years I’ve lived a fairly good life. So good that I’ve managed to carry on pretty well despite making a thousand mistakes. And every time I sit down and think of the past, I remember yet another mistake I made somewhere, sometime. And I feel so silly. In fact, most [...]

18 Jan

Nostalgic trip

Earlier today, I happened to locate back issues of the fourth estate. Started reading it and have since gone on a maajor senti trip. And I couldn’t stop laughing when I wrote that article about Elections 03. Can’t believe I could indulge in that level of slander. However, that was my first ever attempt at [...]

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