It's been two months

Yes it has been two months. We are nearing our first term. The finals (6 left) are just around the corener. Two a day , it'll be an experince for me to give two exams a day, each of which is 3 hours long. :-)

Not many things to write. On acadmics front please see pattus log on JIT. I wanted to write about it, but could not have written any better than that.

The other learning that i'm inventing india in terms of busiess and management. When i had left about 9 years ago, i was a programmer and my perspective was narrow in terms of position and industry (software).

The cases from india like Adanis, M&M etc and the folks from indisutry as my batch mate are breaking my sterotypes on how legit business is being done besides the red-tape (my sterotype).

One of the friend mentioned about FMCG that how the company has saftey standards for employees(almost same as world), how ethics are followed and persued (specially for a FMCG -- who has to deal with govt on day to day basis). Just by the sheer weight the company carries. For me this is whole new world, shattering my sterotypes.

Anyway we have an emimenet quiz tomorrow on FRA so get back to studying on ratios, lease, tearing apart balance sheets and P&LS (i have a long way to go though).

Very very interesting case

We had Microsoft case for our group discussion today (FRA). Our focus was on accounting policy details of MS during 1999-2000. The time they were being investigated for it's revenue recognition policy as well as expense/cost recognition policy.

Some of the interstice points that were raised
1. Is google doing something similar
2. Microsoft was caught by SEC in 1999-2000 while Enron was cooking/starting to cook the book --- no one caught them. A mice was trapped but the cat got out
3. How to see thro' the earnings, P&L and Cashflows (using accounting practices) to find a lemon (My FAM class)

A class to remember for a long long time :-)

It's getting better

The stock market is down, providing me a fresh opportunity to invest.
the FAM exam was good, the temperature has been better (though a bit muggy).

What more ? .. I have been to few more restaurants and some of them were so good I should revise my ratings system to get them better ranking.

went to a place called Zodiac on Wednesday (in midst of finals fever). Food was good, service was good, we were too early about 7 p.m. that we were only customers. This mad me think about the hotels no of waiters per table. Anyway I would recommend this returned for a casual dinner.

The other one we went to was -- Vishala - yesterday eve we went to Vishala and I was just spell bound .. The restaurant is a small village in itself. No doubt a bit on expensive side for only food (225/pp for a thali), the experience was worth. All star for certain special occasion trips.

Next stop was Mocha for a cup of coffee, another surprise, it was deceiving from out side. But this is a hukka bar/coffee shop. A fun place to be, except I thought it was too much of smoke around.

Enough of restaurants hoping (last time I used this word was 4/5 years ago.. When we were bar hoping in Village (NYC)).

I have another finals this Saturday . This time it's marketing. The prof got almost a standing ovation when the course completed last week, so one can imagine how the quality learning was.

On the lighter side

I have written a lot about my busy schedules, 18 hours studies, quizzes (tornados), lets write something about some fun stuff in A'bad.

Drinks are banned here in the state (Gandhiji's State) officially. Thus it's a hazard to beat the heat but A'badis (Natives of A'bad ) are fun loving people. They have found various ways to have fun.

The Disco scene is big here. I just hear about it. One of the major attractions here is Hukka's (The old big cigarette of Kings). I'm not sure if these hukka's are toxic (not yet tried) but every where I hear it's hukka's in the restaurants.

Speaking of restaurants, we have been exploring restaurants avg a week (All I get is sunday/Friday -- no more cribbing). So we have explored about a restaurant a week.

The places we have tried are

Pakwaan - Gujarati thali restaurant -- good food - okay ambiance - on the cheaper side 80 rs a thali ( an unlimited meal ) -- *** out of *****
Gowardhan - another Gujarati Thali restaurant -- good food again -- very nice ambiance - a bit expensive than pakwaan (100+ rs a day) -- **** out of *****
Sankalp - a south indian restaurant - very good south indian food -- alright ambiance -- expensive --- **** out of *****
Dhuaan (some kind of fog) -- a bit expensive roof top vergiterian restaurant -- middle Eastern influenced mughali/punjabi food -- a bit expensive -- ****.5 out of *****

I'm collecting more names to go this week after FAM-Economics Finals.

Alright get back to counout, NASH and prisoner's dilemma-- theories of economics:-)

The heat continues

The mercury has reached 46 degree cent. I believe about 115 F. A friend told me today it's few more weeks and the temperature will go down. I hope so.

I wish the case was same at Studies front. We had our first final. The next one is this Saturday and than next and so on .. 10 courses in 9 weeks .. It's beeen a one heated ride.

As I mentioned earlier, have leant a lot and unlearnt a lot ..

Oh yeas some of the notable news today

Mumbai market down 400+ points
Gold down about $30
Crude below 70
Us markets below 11500
US $ down
Indian rupee down


What is going on? Is it that the whole world is feeling the heat?

the heat is on ..

The heat is on.. The comparison for today's temprature

Iselin , San Diego and A'bad. Need i say anything more :-)

Three days with out Quiz.

Is that not a good feeling? It seems we may not have quiz this week. Finals for few subjects have been announced.

Gosh… when will I get time to breathe?
I guess August, may be or may be not. Let’s not be too optimist.

Writing with tablet is fun. It’s got high character recognition capability. Though, I’m still evolving in to a tablet pc user.

I see US market behaving nicely into a slow and steady upstream and Indian market like a kid who wants to fly. Just a few days ago I was thinking that markets have same number (around 11K) and today BSE sensex is at 12K+. How do I interpret this? I’m not familiar with Indian markets that much but one thing I know the one that goes up should come down. Question Is when?

# 13

No thirteen is not my luck no. or something. Though I used to believe that. Growing up during my school times, I used to get Roll call 13. I got so used to it; I started saying my lucky # was 13.

Anyway 13 is the blog no I’m writing today. So what brings me here...
Gold at 660, oil at 75... May be. More importantly Bhairavi and Drishti have gone to Bombay; I feel a part of me is missing. I had mentally prepared myself that I will not miss them, I guess some place preparation hurts.

Oh yeas finally I broke the jinx. I got good grades in DOMD. I would like to think I’m natural at the subject, but I guess the case was easy and SM has been good. One thing is for sure; here I’m not learning major formulae or anything. This was more of something I like to do analyze and put things into perspective.

I still remember the day I gave the quiz, it was kind a fun writing after all those quizzes.

Enough of being happy, it does not last for ever. I’m sure there will be few more tornados coming our way soon. Looking at historical data, probability is high. It could be tomorrow or day after tomorrow. Let’s prepare well...