Dawn: when men of honour go to bed...

Dawn: when men of honour go to bed...

Yawn... It was a very tiring day... funny thing is I don’t feel the fatigue... Does this mean I am getting used to this gruesome curriculum of MBS... Err... well no... not really... It means that the night schedule is so hectic that the day feels like a breeze from our centralised ac campus... I cant even remember when was the last time I slept for 4 hours(which by MBS standards is super- luxury)... average sleep(s) is always less than 4hrs... s < 4hrs... observe there is no lower limit...

I am not complaining... My body is... My heart is not... My eyes are... What a conflict...? Who will win...

I have begun to think ...Sleep is like the unicorn – it is rumoured to exist, but I doubt I will see any... The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more...

Well the point here is... We have so many assignments and projects for the next two weeks that sleep has become a lavish luxury... We generally sit in college till around 5am... Do our work... Go home and study some more... other day on the way home a cop stopped me... he asked “Are u high on drugs..?” I said “No, I am high on HDI”... he said “Whats that, is it legal”... i said “It is not... plz arrest me... so i can sleep in the lock up...” he showed me to the nearest coffee cycle...

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation...

The coffee cycle guy is like my best friend... who else will serve u warm idlis anytime between 12am to 5am... Coffee is like a life saver... the coffee machine in the college is a different story...

Well as Sparsh has said in the earlier blog... and I very much agree with him... TSK management is a tough thing to learn... but we did it... we are triumphing... the difference between ‘urgent’ and ‘important’ is realised... We are not waiting for ‘important’ to become ‘urgent’...

But we have to learn more... El’ Dorado is still far far away...

In the immortal words of Robert Frost...

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep."

Amen...

Bhushan Vishwasrao

Trendsetter # 30

a proud MBsite

Good Morning....

Its 7:00 am in the morning, Its drizzling and the view from the terrace garden is beautiful, Nikhil went to sleep an hour earlier & I can say finally 3rd July is over.
After 7 coffees & one full night at MBS, we think we are wiser, not just in strategy & marketing, but something deeper. Dr. Rakesh P Singh, our Dean academics, told us in our senate meeting that MBA is all about Time Management, Stress Management & Knowledge Management; I think we now know what he meant.
It was a long night, full of readings and cases and we believe we fared well.
What is surprising is that just 40 minutes of sleep, last night and I am still fresh, ready for the next day (which promises to be longer), that I believe is the spirit of MBS…………….
All I can say is this feels really great, I can feel the surge of energy while saying that MBS Rocks……. Trendsetters Rock……………….

BTW... We can smell the Sunday :P

Sparsh Jain
PGPM09s#12

One Night at MBS....

It is 1:30 AM.... I am still in college with Sanket, Bhushan and Sparsh... we have an OB Presentation tomorrow at 12 noon... I can find all my fellow batchmates online....I guess this is why I was here... This is what i came here for... This is my school, my course, my year... The trendsetters rock...

Nikhil Neelakantan

Trendsetters # 22

Trendsetters- Teekhi Bhel...

Trendsetters- Teekhi Bhel...

Anyone and everyone knows what Bhel is.. If u don’t know then u should visit the Mumbai chowpati... if u don’t know wat chowpati is then do visit it on ur next Mumbai trip to attend ur distant cousins wedding... anyways its the mumbaiya version of chaat... if u don’t know chaat... then Google it... Almighty knows best... Anyways... so why is it mentioned here...??? U’ll know...

When was the last time u saw an engineer, a hotel mgmt grad, and a BSc Chemistry grad presenting a TEXTILE sector presentation...??? NEVER... Its a funny notion... Sounds Weird does’t it... Funny thing... RIGHT... Well we generally generalise wat we feel is right... Well let me tell u... that was a fantastic report ... So when I compare the trendsetters to a Bhel... its a mixture of languages, cultures, profiles... but the combination is absolutely ‘Chatpata’ ... so WE are an amalgamation of Mtec Metallurgy, MSc MicroBio, Msc Chem, BE, BTec, BBA, BCom, BA hons, BSc. Hospitality, etc... had worked with Infosys, Deutsche bank, Eaton, Satyam, Cognizant, Morgan Stanley, Patni etc(not in that order)... with an experience of 0- 72 months... with an avg age of 24... What can be better than this...??? And we are here... and believe you me... We gonna rock...!!!

We are doing a lot of things at MBS... dissecting 21 major sectors of world economy... Making reports... Giving Presentations... Submitting papers... Attending classes... all’s happening here at maddening pace.... with superb precision... And we got some superb set of people to judge, guide and mentor us...

The oath taken on the first day... we still remember it... its our mantra...

the Trendsetter mantra... ‘WE CAN AND WE WILL’...

We have arrived... We will deliver...

Till then... Watch this space, I say...

Bhushan Vishwasrao
Trendsetter # 30
A proud MBsite...

The Fine Art of Living...!!!

The Fine Art of Living...!!!

When was the last time we thought about ourselves...?? Not as individuals... we do that all the time... We are a set of selfish hyenas... we all are... But have we ever thought of ourselves as an amalgam of Body and Soul... About the energy that flows within... About the life that runs through all the cells, veins, nerves... I’ll tell u when... NEVER... So when a program of Art of Living was introduced on our weekly schedules... a few eyebrows rose... But then we had already faced the three demons as mentioned in my earlier blog(For those who came in late... I’m talking bout Yoga, Aerobics and Dance...)... this was another BCI... so there we were... Atleast I was... in a classroom waiting for the Artist to walkin... On a personal note I don’t like to stretch my body beyond a certain physical limit...( I am a big guy... Apparel size (X)nL size... where n >2... Boy do I love Math... Anyways)
So we were all waiting patiently for some BABA types to walk in and give us gyan bout Spirituality n stuff... Instead walks in a lean guy not more than our age... Along with his co-instructor... These were Virat and Vasudha... He did tell us a few things about the course... about quitting some of our mortal pleasures... don’t wanna specify those... for the time period of this course... Once he was done with that... the real deal began... We were first supposed to meet any and everyone in the class, shake hands and tell them... ‘ I belong to you’... Trust me... this was the most awkward moment of our lives... we felt funny, weird, surprised et all... but we did it... felt good later to own so many ppl and in returned being owned by them... Then came the second game... A simple profit and loss question... Sent the entire class into a tizzy... we were to work out a solution and... Convince each other of our solution in case they have a different opinion... Chaos... At the end we all got different answers... Needless to say... We were all wrong... But we did realise something... We always want to speak... No one wants to listen... Now u know why all the ‘good listeners’ get the hot ones... We need to listen... This was followed by a couple of more listening and sharing exercises... Then a small break... Then came the mega-event... *drum-roll*... MEDITATION... but with a difference...
We sat and did some breathing exercise... Inhale Exhale... But on a certain order... certain pattern... certain rhythm... A record was playin in the background... We were breathing according to it... 5mins passed... 10 passed... 15... 20... but a strange thing was happening... Instead of getting restless... we were calm... The tranquil cannot be expressed in words... It was divine... then we lied down on the floor... Oh BTW we had our eyes closed all this time... So it was just dark... Thats when it happened... I felt Me... We felt US... it was amazing... Too good... Never was such a thing experienced before... We were feeling the energy running through... We actually felt it... The vibrations, the churning, the LIFE within... Entire session took 4hrs... Meditation being for the last 50mins odd... when we walked out of that room... we could feel the stress busted... we could feel our head light... we could feel the tension relieved... we were ready for the assignments to come... we were ready for the studies to come... we were at the next level... period.

Waiting for the next ‘Encounter of Our kind’....

Bhushan Vishwasrao
Trendsetter – 30
A proud MBsite.

Flirting with curves...!!!

Flirting with curves...!!!
Human mind is a funny thing... U never know what games it’ll play with u... One of those things is ‘love of math’... Everyone loved 2 + 2 = 4... but all hated Integration... All homo sapiens love shapes... Martians’ adore Andersons, Basus... The inhabitants of Venus like the bulging biceps of Pitts and Roshans or the Doughles of yore... but when u see the same curves on graph paper ??? Now u get my point... Mortality is a curse... Cause u have to b immortal to completely understand the language of Axes... So there we were... Friday the 5th ... Morning 9am... Trying desperately to meet the deadline of the upcoming MBS event( ZietGeist...Spirit of the Time...)... Wat happened after that was incredible... We were never hit with such pure awesomeness ever... Suddenly all was clear... Deviations and dispersions... ranges and frequencies... Symmetries were no longer a planet in the milky way... All became crystal clear... Thanks to Prof. Nimkar... I’ve never seen any one so subtle, so soft teaching quant... trust me... he was explaining a certain problem for 15mins... till the time all understood it well.. We salute u sir.. Another day at MBS well spent... Another set of rules learned... Another fear dealt with...

Bhushan Vishwasrao
Trendsetter- 30
A proud MBsite.

Gyan of the day!!!

We were sitting through our Business Immersion presentations - when Girish Sir (Regional Director of PRMIA) - he evaluates our presentations - gave us the lesson for the day.
"Shoppers are of 2 types - Fools and Idiots"
Fools: A fool is categorised as someone who goes to a mall and ends up, buying an Ipod from one store at a higher rate without enquiring at the nearby store.
Idiot: Some one buy's 2 axes (not the deoderant) because you get one free with another - in a place like Dubai where there are no trees. :)
Definitely a gyaan for Sales and Marketing aspirants on how to understand and tap shoppers.
Nikhil Neelakantan
Trendsetter # 22