Yesterday i had a surprise test..and the first thing i had in my mind was the Surprise Test Paradox.. Later came the apprehensions..But i set it aside to move towards my
policy of 'dont take life seriously'...
So i made a crap soup out of the question paper and jumped out of the exam room and enjoyed fresh air outside... I went to Juhu beach with my cousin Thomas and spent a relaxing time there...
I had always got surprised over the amount of time devoted by Tomy(thomas) and my room partner vivek. But today i slept 70% of the day sleeping... I dint go to yoga bharti(yoga practising center). I dint go for Placement Process rehearsal session.. I slept through out.. I waked up for lunch , had lunch and came back to sleep till 8.30 pm..
Now i think i am coming closer to the music here.. i am losing myself in this music..
Jo
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
immunity on its happy stroll
I had always thought about it. Also my dad used to tell frequently.
Human beings, having evolved from forest-dwelling monkeys, are able to protect themselves from great ailments.
We ate apples without washing it. We ate rabbits' meat without cooking it. We were perfectly fine. No grave ailments touched us. And we were inherently strong enough to ward off silly diseases like indigestion, cold, head ache, coughs, stomach ache, loose motion, nausea etc...
SPJIMR is a very good institute with the worst infrastructure facilities in this country. This is a popularly known fact, atleast among alumnis, students and faculties.
Infrastructure development so as to have a sprawling campus in a large area is not in question, only because we are in the middle of a city in the largest populous city of the world, mumbai.
Interesting thing is that even little amenitites are in the verge of great peril.
Hygiene is not even a word to be included in the college dictionary. Water is never good for drinking. But they find it ecstatic in proclaiming that samples of water from water coolers were taken and sent to Indian water Sample testing Institute, Central government and found that totally fit for drinking. No body seems to realize the fact that, water smells like rotten egg.
Mess is a very small hall. The basin for washing hands is decorated with last weeks food items. All the employees working in the mess sleep over dining tables and brush their teeth in the basins. I donno whether they take bath in the same basin. I have seen buckets around the place.
Food is not hygienic. People get different kind of ailments from cerebral malaria, chicken pox to viral fever, sore throat, general unwellness etc. I donno whether we have taken patents over diseases which we discovered in SPJIMR. Recently we have appointed a resident doctor which had never been there even after it was ranked one among the top ten collges in business education.
2 things are sure.
1. We are made strong business leaders from inside by improving our power of immunity by constantly contributing challenging situations.
2. The moment we are out of the institute, we wont find ourselvess feeling good without doing something great for the infrastructure development part of the economy for this yet-to-be-superpower nation.
jo
Human beings, having evolved from forest-dwelling monkeys, are able to protect themselves from great ailments.
We ate apples without washing it. We ate rabbits' meat without cooking it. We were perfectly fine. No grave ailments touched us. And we were inherently strong enough to ward off silly diseases like indigestion, cold, head ache, coughs, stomach ache, loose motion, nausea etc...
SPJIMR is a very good institute with the worst infrastructure facilities in this country. This is a popularly known fact, atleast among alumnis, students and faculties.
Infrastructure development so as to have a sprawling campus in a large area is not in question, only because we are in the middle of a city in the largest populous city of the world, mumbai.
Interesting thing is that even little amenitites are in the verge of great peril.
Hygiene is not even a word to be included in the college dictionary. Water is never good for drinking. But they find it ecstatic in proclaiming that samples of water from water coolers were taken and sent to Indian water Sample testing Institute, Central government and found that totally fit for drinking. No body seems to realize the fact that, water smells like rotten egg.
Mess is a very small hall. The basin for washing hands is decorated with last weeks food items. All the employees working in the mess sleep over dining tables and brush their teeth in the basins. I donno whether they take bath in the same basin. I have seen buckets around the place.
Food is not hygienic. People get different kind of ailments from cerebral malaria, chicken pox to viral fever, sore throat, general unwellness etc. I donno whether we have taken patents over diseases which we discovered in SPJIMR. Recently we have appointed a resident doctor which had never been there even after it was ranked one among the top ten collges in business education.
2 things are sure.
1. We are made strong business leaders from inside by improving our power of immunity by constantly contributing challenging situations.
2. The moment we are out of the institute, we wont find ourselvess feeling good without doing something great for the infrastructure development part of the economy for this yet-to-be-superpower nation.
jo
Saturday, August 15, 2009
My QM Professor is very funny
My Quantitative Methods(qm) prof is a funny guy. He used to take exams for us in this subject. For those exams he carefully designs the questions so as to make us laugh in the exam hall with the question sheet in the hand.
Most of his questions will be having an intro-story. The stories are most probably related to real events in the college or its current trends. Or he will be discussing terrorist organisations. These are his favourite areas of research.
I really appreciate his sense of humour and creativity and observation skills.
Some examples of his intro-stories are worth cherishing forever. These examples are from a recent test. One more speciality is that this is the first test in SPjimr in which i got full marks.
Here it goes:
1)
1. An interesting syndrome, called the ESYS (End-session Yawning Syndrome) has been recently discovered in PGP – I. The symptoms emerge only if a session exceeds its time limit by more than 3 minutes. As this is a highly infectious disease, participants who want to be in the good books of faculty are scared. Last week, one such participant invented a test called Apalascopy (named after the inventor) that can detect ESYS at early stage.
2. Requests have been coming to Admin for change of hostel rooms because of snoring roommates. Being sympathetic to the requests, the Admin conducted a survey to find out whether snoring is related to blockage of nostrils or high stress level during the day. Snorers were divided into two categories: (i) irritating snorers and (ii) soothing snorers. The study was limited to the GH only as it was impossible to locate a soothing snorer in BH.
3. Due to acute water shortage, many participants are developing a habit of not taking bath (except on Thursdays and Sundays) before coming to class. However, they do not want to be caught red-handed. Hence, they sprinkle water on their head and apply lot of body spray to create an impression that they take bath everyday, come what may. The SPJIMR Admin and BMC are happy as this saves water, money and time.
4. For most programs at SPJIMR the PG Lab concept is applicable. Apart from serving other academic purposes, participants unanimously agree that it brings the batch closer. Fortunately or unfortunately, every PG lab ends up bringing a few participants (without gender-bias) so close that they start sharing one soul. Hence, quite a few spare souls hang around as unidentified ghostly objects or UGOs without finding a body to enter for quite some time. An empirical data of such UGOs from the current PGP Batch over the next 100 hours of their PG Lab is as given below.
5. Participants are trying to finish their Abhyudaya visits before afternoons to avoid mosquito bites. Others, who do not have any choice, apply Odomos on themselves and their laptops, before the visits. Despite taking precautionary steps, there are cases of mosquito bites, as the mosquito community has developed an antidote for Odomos. The mosquito bites in slums are expected to follow a Poisson distribution with an average of 3.5. The statistics of mosquito bites on last Sunday is as follows.
Orkut's Today's fortune for today: Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Jo
Most of his questions will be having an intro-story. The stories are most probably related to real events in the college or its current trends. Or he will be discussing terrorist organisations. These are his favourite areas of research.
I really appreciate his sense of humour and creativity and observation skills.
Some examples of his intro-stories are worth cherishing forever. These examples are from a recent test. One more speciality is that this is the first test in SPjimr in which i got full marks.
Here it goes:
1)
1. An interesting syndrome, called the ESYS (End-session Yawning Syndrome) has been recently discovered in PGP – I. The symptoms emerge only if a session exceeds its time limit by more than 3 minutes. As this is a highly infectious disease, participants who want to be in the good books of faculty are scared. Last week, one such participant invented a test called Apalascopy (named after the inventor) that can detect ESYS at early stage.
2. Requests have been coming to Admin for change of hostel rooms because of snoring roommates. Being sympathetic to the requests, the Admin conducted a survey to find out whether snoring is related to blockage of nostrils or high stress level during the day. Snorers were divided into two categories: (i) irritating snorers and (ii) soothing snorers. The study was limited to the GH only as it was impossible to locate a soothing snorer in BH.
3. Due to acute water shortage, many participants are developing a habit of not taking bath (except on Thursdays and Sundays) before coming to class. However, they do not want to be caught red-handed. Hence, they sprinkle water on their head and apply lot of body spray to create an impression that they take bath everyday, come what may. The SPJIMR Admin and BMC are happy as this saves water, money and time.
4. For most programs at SPJIMR the PG Lab concept is applicable. Apart from serving other academic purposes, participants unanimously agree that it brings the batch closer. Fortunately or unfortunately, every PG lab ends up bringing a few participants (without gender-bias) so close that they start sharing one soul. Hence, quite a few spare souls hang around as unidentified ghostly objects or UGOs without finding a body to enter for quite some time. An empirical data of such UGOs from the current PGP Batch over the next 100 hours of their PG Lab is as given below.
5. Participants are trying to finish their Abhyudaya visits before afternoons to avoid mosquito bites. Others, who do not have any choice, apply Odomos on themselves and their laptops, before the visits. Despite taking precautionary steps, there are cases of mosquito bites, as the mosquito community has developed an antidote for Odomos. The mosquito bites in slums are expected to follow a Poisson distribution with an average of 3.5. The statistics of mosquito bites on last Sunday is as follows.
Orkut's Today's fortune for today: Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Jo
Friday, August 14, 2009
Luck,destiny,kismat
I saw a movie named Luck starring imran khan, Sruti haasan and sanjay dutt.
It was about a game betting on luck of people.
Imran khan used to win all the bets in the film. He was too lucky.
Nowadays lot of films has come with the luck or related themes like..
Jannat: Betting on cricket where imran hashmi wins always. He also was lucky.
99: Betting on cricket again. Boman Irani is very lucky.
Kismat Konnection: Shahid kapoor is a firm believer in Destiny. He believed his object of luck is his girlfriend. he bacame very lucky then.
I also understood the funda of luck. New gen indian youth are believing in luck and numerous ways to attract luck. Destiny is playing a role in the mainstream of the hindu religion as far as i know it.
Later i had this gmail status : Time is an illusion. everything going to happen has already been happened. In a way everything is destined to happen. So enjoy the destiny unravelling..
Too philosophical..?
jo
It was about a game betting on luck of people.
Imran khan used to win all the bets in the film. He was too lucky.
Nowadays lot of films has come with the luck or related themes like..
Jannat: Betting on cricket where imran hashmi wins always. He also was lucky.
99: Betting on cricket again. Boman Irani is very lucky.
Kismat Konnection: Shahid kapoor is a firm believer in Destiny. He believed his object of luck is his girlfriend. he bacame very lucky then.
I also understood the funda of luck. New gen indian youth are believing in luck and numerous ways to attract luck. Destiny is playing a role in the mainstream of the hindu religion as far as i know it.
Later i had this gmail status : Time is an illusion. everything going to happen has already been happened. In a way everything is destined to happen. So enjoy the destiny unravelling..
Too philosophical..?
jo
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
enjoy panicking..its fun
I didn't mind the Swine flu pandemic at first.
I didn't know what it was and how its spreading.
Then I had a seminar on Swine Flu. Then I started panicking.
Schools and Colleges became the amusement park for the H1N1 Virus.
Yesterday I saw a School girl walking behind me. She had no masks.
She was within 6 feet to me.(A sneeze will spread the virus 6 feet).
She had no hanky(Sneeze and cough in hanky to avoid spreading).
I had to take charge of the situation. I walked fast and got escaped from the clutches of swine flu virus. I got really relieved. I resolved not to skip food and take bath and proper sleep.
Later I set my Status message in Gmail and SPJIMR mail :
"Fight Swine Flu: Eat something better than what pigs do.."
The message was highly appreciated.
Jo
I didn't know what it was and how its spreading.
Then I had a seminar on Swine Flu. Then I started panicking.
Schools and Colleges became the amusement park for the H1N1 Virus.
Yesterday I saw a School girl walking behind me. She had no masks.
She was within 6 feet to me.(A sneeze will spread the virus 6 feet).
She had no hanky(Sneeze and cough in hanky to avoid spreading).
I had to take charge of the situation. I walked fast and got escaped from the clutches of swine flu virus. I got really relieved. I resolved not to skip food and take bath and proper sleep.
Later I set my Status message in Gmail and SPJIMR mail :
"Fight Swine Flu: Eat something better than what pigs do.."
The message was highly appreciated.
Jo
I became Jo
I was never Jo. I was called Freejo.. Freejo Jose.
When I joined NITC for my Engineering, north indians called me Freezo...
When I joined Infosys as software engineer, she told she would like to call me Jo...
When I joined SPJIMR for my MBA, i was called many names - 'Hosae', Mr. Jose, Freezo, FreeShow etc.
Two weeks ago, I adopted a girl-child(Sonal) of 8th standard for mentoring which is part of my MBA program(called Abhyudaya). To the marathi-speaking girl, I introduced myself as Jo. She called me Jo dada.
Last Sunday, I went to Kondana Buddhist Caves with TISS College Students for Waterfall Rappelling and other adventure sports. I asked them to call me Jo.
Call it fate, I became Jo.
Jo
When I joined NITC for my Engineering, north indians called me Freezo...
When I joined Infosys as software engineer, she told she would like to call me Jo...
When I joined SPJIMR for my MBA, i was called many names - 'Hosae', Mr. Jose, Freezo, FreeShow etc.
Two weeks ago, I adopted a girl-child(Sonal) of 8th standard for mentoring which is part of my MBA program(called Abhyudaya). To the marathi-speaking girl, I introduced myself as Jo. She called me Jo dada.
Last Sunday, I went to Kondana Buddhist Caves with TISS College Students for Waterfall Rappelling and other adventure sports. I asked them to call me Jo.
Call it fate, I became Jo.
Jo
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