MHROD analysis

Well its been about a week at MHROD, DSE now and ive realised a few things here. What to do and what not to do and how things work here etc! Im hoping to get into a hostel soon...just hoping ill get in!!

The course is entirely run by students, seniors and juniors and if we leave it to the university it wud degenerate into the rut that college was for me! Im sure every other b School has its cribbing points but here i need to focus on the job at hand and keep the eyes on the prize and keep chipping away, regardless of other distractions.But this cannot be a one man show and i need to take the prime movers in my batch along with me. And thru them the entire batch..this is gonna be the toughest test.

I do have a few ideas which now have to be sold to the class. So now its back to the same old selling of ideas, planning, and again selling!!...will i love it the way i used to?? :D ?? let see!!

B School/ D School

Hmmm ive spent two full days at MHROD at DSE now and have lots to say about it.

Firstly about the institute
there is always a question if MHROD and Dept of Commerce is part of D School or not...well for all practical purposes yes! Delhi School of Economics was started along with the dept of commerce and later geography and sociology but now the other 3 depts are under one diff admin and that of the dept of commerce is separate. But that however doesnt mean that we are not part of Dschool which at the end of the day is nothing more than a campus address! We do share all the infrastructre they have access to, the libraries, the hostels etc. Anyways this shud give u an idea of DU politics and its resultant bureaucracy and all the tides we and the guys from FMS have to swim against!!

First day at college

the first thing that struck me was that out of the 13 ppl in my GD group, 5 of them had made it to the batch which i thought was pretty decent!! We had to wait for about an hour and a half till the HOD and the other senior profs turned up for the lecture...DU culture!! At least one of them had the decency to apologise. you know one of the most important advantages of being a HOD at DU is that u can say very staid poems and go on and try explaining them and there will be whole room of helpless ppl listening to it. And there will also be a couple of chamchas praising ur poetry skills. But to save my own sanity, i assumed the praise was entirely tongue in cheek!!

After that we had the rest of the day with seniors who gave us a run of the entire scene at MHROD and here came strike two! The entire show is run by the students....everything from the college website [new one comin up shortly www.mhrod.du.org] to the alumni committee and the placement committee is run by the students. Also including the convention committee, the student development cell and the magazine. Oh yeah they claim even the disciplinary committee!! :) So a whole load of things to do apart from the studies and a lot of this in my opinion goes towards character building and making tougher ppl out of us!

Some things about the seniors, well couple of them were trying to act a bit too smart on day one and ended up showing themselves to be immature but i guess i shud give em a break coz most of these guys are first rate chaps who im proud to have as my seniors....cant say much about most of the gals as yet....is it that they act aloof or thats part of the "induction" atmospherics....je ne sais pas mais ce n'est pas mon embetement non plus!!

As for my own batchmates, things are pretty neat so far not too much to complain about though i wish there were some guys who showed a lil more interest in the course, there was this one guy who brought in a friend along on the induction day who pretended to be part of the course. I found that a real piss off. If i were my seniors, i wudve really mauled this guy for this. Then there is this really bunch of chickens who keep addressing the seniors as sir!!! i mean they didnt even ask to be called that but these chickens wud address anyone who talks sternly to them as sir i guess!!.....damn....whats next....plz mr. doggy sir dont bark at me plz!!! Get some spine dudes!!

As for the profs, well ive come across only two so far [we have 2 hr lectures btw!!] and these two guys showed us why D School has such a high reputation. Man there was this guy who teaches us Management Concepts and Practises and he was kool man....more than a Bschool prof, i was really impressed by his intellect, decency and professionalism. The guy cud also quote GB Shaw quite freely and not repeat the same thing again!! as some folks wud say...cool shit!!

We have been hit by an avalanche of presentations to make...part of the induction process and part of the seniors effort to evaluate our entries to diff committees. Ive been saddled with a presentation on Training and Development which explains what im doin online at this time of the night at a friends house 25 kms from college!! But.... a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do...adios ppl ... i hope to put up some pics of college soon.

Eureka!

I found it!! errr...yeah the reason for the awful lump in my throat is coz i have an ulcer on a gland in my throat that has swollen up as a result...so once i take care of the ulcer the swelling will go too.

Boy it was raining cats and dogs in delhi today...more cats and dogs than ive ever seen before and i can assure you i've never walked the roads in this much of rain in my life before. All this for a meeting that never happened and i almost got my nikes spoilt for it. To top it all i got back home, forgetting my purse and keys at my uncles house and had to borrow money from the society guard to pay the auto and wait out for an hour till my friend came in with the keys!

Now i wanna talk about the 2 guys im living with right now. The hairy bear-like creature is Rohan. He likes to call himself amar chandi [my ass] as a tongue in cheek tribute to his employers. i just call him Ro! He has let me stay in his apt and has allowed me to use his car when he was away!! Thanks Da!!

The other dude is Gaurav, who is a law school junior of Ro's. He has just recently started working as the law officer for an NGO. Compared to Ro he has quite a lesser paying and demanding job but he is very adept at getting his friends to take care of him and envy his ability to do that!! The bugger doesnt even ask, they just pay up for him all the time!!



I think ive lost some weight since ive come to delhi but i have no clue how much as im yet to get around to a weighing machine. I've brought along a couple of pants that do not fit me, maybe ill try them on and see if they fit me now...then i know im getting into better shape!!

Delhi reloaded

Well im sitting in my friends place with at last a net connection good enough to put in a few pix on my blog. i've not been upto much the last few days...just meeting up a few friends here and there apart from generally getting oriented to life in delhi and getting used to travelling by public transportation...tell you what....cars spoil you!!

And in fact that has happened to me in delhi too. When my friend was away to mumbai for a couple of days i did get to drive his car for a few days and man i was taken in. you see, the fiat palio is a damn good car, with great pep for city drive and when you get away from a red light you can really leave the other cars behind and beat the next red light before they catch up with you!! The problem though is the shoddy mileage! But considering i was driving a friends car with fuel paid for by him, i couldnt care less!!!
But all said and done, things like this question my philiosophy of life. Should i be contended with a basic car like a maruti 800 or should i always aspire for a better car and hence more material comforts of life? Am i not polluting more? Am i not spending money on something which can be better spent otherwise? I guess its all relative....someone wud give me the same questions for choosing a maruti 800 over public transport!!





Talking about public transport, i was getting back to my friends place the day before by bus at about 10 pm and i noticed there were only 2 women on the bus and they too were accompanied by about 3-4 men. Delhi is very unsafe for women and that fact hit home last evening when i saw these two 30 yr old men stop their bike and peer at some bushes. It struck me as strange but when i followed their line of sight i hwas immediately repulsed as they were staring at a girl playing in the lawns of her apt building and she couldnt have been more than 14 years old. That was gross and to think that this is normal in delhi!!

Oh in case u guys are revulsed by the above pic, its my throat!! i have got this swelling on the left hand side of the pic which i dont think is mumps because ive already got that but its getting painful to swallow things now though i have no fever. Any ideas what it might be people?

oh on my previous blog i had mentioned some bad things about jats, i apologise because that thing happened again to me but this time with airtel! them not accepting my id card! man these choms just wanna piss me off or god made them this dumb??

Earning Karma Points!

Well last two days i've been doing nothing more than helping out friends who have no time for themselves! So got guys a CD-RW, a mattress and pillow, a mobile and SIM card and reading glasses.

Yup im not that much of the helping types but this does win some good karma points which i can encash later! Also gives me a good education of how business works in delhi, but with other people's money!!

I have been introduced to videos of the Monty Python Flying circus and South Park of late and have been having more than my share of fun on account of relentless spoofing of stereotypes and people! Man this is good...i recommend it to all! you shud be able to download them!

I Have Arrived.

I wish i were stayin here and this were my ride in Delhi. But it isnt! im staying at a lawyer buddys house with only human luxuries being a comp with no internet and some books to read. And plenty of time to myself if thats human amenity!!

I would like to relate this strange incident which gives me a hint of things to come here! I tried to get a BSNL prepaid mobile connection here and walked into this shop and flashed the guy my ID card [my Chennai issued driving license]. He looks at it as though its some self detonating Martian bomb and then at me as though im the Martian. And he tells me Sirji yeh tho TameelNaaadu ka license hai...I replied woh Pakistan mein thodi hai!! And he gives me this "Oh im not so sure look" and says nahin sir par yeh nahin chalega...On a whim i tell him i have Gurgaon license and he tells me haan woh tho chalega!!

I dunno if its plain stupdity or insensitivity speaking but i decided to settle this issue the free market way and decided not to get the connection there even using my friends ID. I finally did get my card, Believe it or not from a Sardaar's shop!! I strongly feel all those Sardaarji jokes shud be made for Jats...anyways...time will tell!!