IIM Calcutta interview
April 17, 2008
IIM Calcutta
Venue: Hotel Luxar Monarch, bangalore
Time: 15th March 2008, 10:00 am
GD:
Ram Singh, starts a BPO branch in a small and conservative city in central India an, so that attrition rate is low. His company has 43 % female employees and he has outsourced cab service for employees who work in the early morning as well as night shift..
One fine morning he receives a phone call saying that a female employee had been molested the previous night at 11:30 by a drunk driver when she was returning home. He is worried since the media will create a hype about this, if they come to know and his company reputation will be spoiled. Also parents might not be willing to send their children, esp girls to his company and this will defy the very purpose of him setting up the company in this town.
What should he do?
The GD went off well.I chipped in with a few very valid points. at the end we were asked to summarize individually. Gave a very good summary and added a new point there.
Was a good GD fr me and would rate it at 8/10
PI
Panel members
P1, P2, P3, Me
Enter the room and wish them.They ask me to take my seat and P2 takes my file.
P1: Arun.. Do you know who Arun Lal is?
Me: Yes sir. he is an Ex cricketer and is now into cricket commentary.
P1: Yes.. lot of people are into commentary nowadays.. ( all laugh). Now you gimme a commentary about yourself.
Me: Told them.. had not prepared much.. Just told them whatever came to mind
P1: How do you think you performed in the GD?
Me: I had a good participation and i gave some valid points.
P1: On a scale of 10 how much would you rate your performance?
Me: 7 – 8
P1: Who else do you think performed well.
Me: Told a fella’s name and also said two others had given good points.
P1: Fine.. What do you think is the problem with opening of new airports.
Me:Started talking about Hyderabad and Bangalore airports..
P1: (interrupts..) What is the difference between these airports and the other airports in the country.
Me: These are built on PPP – Public Private Partenership
P1: So what is the problem with these airports.
Me: Told about B’lore airport having problems with approach roads and distance from city.
P1: But Hyderabad airport was inaugurated yesterday in presence of Sonia Gandhi.
Me: Sir the unions, they are staging a strike.
P1: No.. They have been assured that there’ll be no job cuts..
Me: (Suddenly remembering)Sir, it had not met some safety norms. Thats why its not operational now.
P1: Ok so wats PPP.
Me: Told.
P1: From what you say private is investing in infrastructure and operations. What is the Public or the government’s part in this?
Me: In our country its the Govt. that gives permission to set up such infrastructure. Also they provide the necessary land and power.
P1: What can the government do to make the PPP profitable?
Me: Provide better infrastructure..
P1: No.. Its part of the agreement.
Me: Provide power..
P1: No.. Its part of the agreement.
Me: Then sorry sir, i am not getting your question properly.
P1: In case the PP is not profitable, what can the govt do?
Me: In case if it were not profitable, then the Pvt company would not have entered the deal in the first place. Probably they can give them some tax benefits.
P1: ahhhhh.. This was what I was expecting from you right from the beginning.
Me: Thought the tax structure would also have been a part of the deal.
P2: So you are from Whirlpool.. what do you do there..
Me: told..
P2: Some more questions on company, my work and a few new launches we have planned.
Me: Answered them well
P3: Shoots a situation and asks me how i would handle it?
Me: Tell him.. Could not gauge their response.
P3: Why do you want to do an MBA?
Me: Told…
P3: What will be the growth path for you in your company?
Me: Told..
P1: So you want to get into academics in later part of your career is it? ( Had written something reg. this in my form)
Me: Told them how shitty the education system here is and how incompetent most teaching faculty in private engineering colleges are.
P2: So you plan to bring about a nation wide reform is it?
Me: If not a notion wide reform, I’d at least like to bring about a change in my own small way.
P3: What is it that is very unique about you? I don’t see any such thing in the form.
Me: Told him something about me and my achievements..
P3: But all that is not unique.
Me: Told them….
They look satisfied with the answer.
They look at each other and say i can Leave.
XLRI Interview
April 17, 2008
XLRI
XAT: 99.28
10th: 68.6 % (CBSE)
12th: 86.25 % ( TN – Matriculation)
BE Mech Engineering : 78 % ( affiliated college – Anna University)
Work Ex: 22 months with Whirlpool in manufacturing sector
Calls : IIM ACLIK, XLRI- BM
Venue: LIBA, Chennai
Date and time: 9th March 2008, 04:40 pm
P2 comes out to call me inside…
P1: Pl hand over your file to sir ( pointing at P2) and take your seat.
Me: Wish them and sit down.
P2: Have you already learnt what questions were asked to earlier candidates.
Me: No sir. I did not interact with them.
P1: Why did you not interact?
Me: Actually there was only one person who had finished his interview and was not too keen on knowing what questions were asked.
P2: but there were a lot of people waiting there.
Me: Yes sir, but they had come for the PMIR interview
P1: So wats PMIR?
Me: Told..
P1: So You have got a call for that also right.
Me: No sir, i did not apply.I felt HR was not my cup of tea.
P1: Your cup of tea or your cup of coffee.
Me: (smiling) coffee or tea, i felt that HR did not suit me.
P1: When people ask me, i tell them that i prefer Brewed filter coffee over instant nescafe. So it was a calculated adult decision was it.
Me: yes sir.
P1: You are from Chennai and so ans so college… where is it?
Me: Told them
P1: You work in Whirlpool, what do you manufacture in your factory.. and questions like Turnover of company, turnover of factory, No of employees in Whirlpool, Whirlpool India and Our plant, New projects etc followed.
Me: answered quiet satisfactorily.
P1: so what are the critical components in a washing machine?
Me: Told..
P1: Where do you get them from.
Me: Told some suppliers name from china.
P1: He knew about one supplier and was asking about that supplier.
Me: Answered.
P1: Ok.. Thats it from My side..
P2: So Arun, Your Scores are not very good.. esp in engineering,, Why?
Me: Answered.
P2: What is Special about Whirlpool washing machines… and asked a few more questions on Whirlpool products
Me: Answered them all ( after all I work there.. so i knew what ever he was asking.. )
P3: What Do you know about Mutual Funds?
Me: I don’t know sir.
P3: But you must have heard about it in TV ads.. Do you know about Nifty, sensex….?
Me: I knw a it about Nifty and sensex,,, Told them what little i knew.
P3: What is six sigma ?
Me: Told.
P3: What is its disadvantage?
Me: It takes a lot of time to analyze data..
P1: No..
I think for some time and say i cant think of anything else.
P2: Please sign the sheet.
Me: I sign it and ask them what the difference is..
P1: 6 sigma standardises evereythin and leaves little scope for invention.
Me: Oh.. actually i knew it as the difference between the Japnese and US way of working.. Thank You sirs
Result: Converted
IIM Kozhikode Interview
April 17, 2008
Institute: IIM Kozhikode
Venue: IIM Bangalore
Date and time: 4th March 2008, 02:00 Pm
No of ppl in the Group: 9 + 1 absentee
GD topic: How corporate houses should help persons set up small entrepreneur ventures.
GD was ok sorts.. All of us had a few points to make and it was quiet peaceful. I too made two points. Nothing special otherwise. Feel every one made a decent entry.
Rating: 6/10
PI:
Panel Members:
Enter and wish them all.
P1: How tall are you?
Me: I’m 185 cm tall.
P1: What’s’ your height in foot?
Me: 6foot 1 sir..
P1: Which position do you play in basket ball?
Me : pivot..
P2: What do you do in whirlpool?
Me: Told..
P2: What is the turnover of your company? And he asked some other info about the
company..
Me: Quiet a lot of info about th company which I cannot put down here..
P2: So have you played basket ball professionally?
Me: No sir, I have played for my college and have played for a club in local tournaments.
P1: As a mechanical engineer I expect you to be strong in thermodynamics, but you seem to have an arrear in this paper.
Me: Told them that Our university did not consider the paper as an arrear and showed him the proof,,
P1: Give me the heat diffusion equation
Me: (Think for some time.) there are three different things for single dimension, two dimension and 3 dimensional diffusion. I don remember the exact formula, but I know it is a factor of the following – Temp of body, Surrounding temp, Surface area, conductivity of material, etc…
P1: So tell me what do you think that you studied in engineering, will you be able to use in your MBA?
Me: Operations will definitely be useful. Also some math we studied in our college.
P1: Gives me a 4 x 3 matrix and asks me to find the determinant value.
P1: So tell me what do you think that you studied in engineering, will you be able to use in your MBA?
Me: sir, this is not possible as the determinant value can only be found out for a square matrix.
P1: Tell me an equation that has positive value in first differentiation and negative in the second. Draw it on the paper.
Me: I take 2 min to think and draw a curve in the 4th quadrant.
P1: I want it in the first quadrant.
Me: I take another minute to think before drawing the curve.
They both Look at each other and ask me to Leave
Rating: 7/10
Result: <will update once it comes>
IIM Ahmedabad Interview
April 17, 2008
Institute: IIM Ahmedabad
Venue: Hotel Luxar Monarch, Bangalore
Date and time: 27th February 2008, 10:00 Am
Profile:
Name: Arun S
10th: 68.6 % ( CBSE)
12th: 86.25% ( Tamil Nadu Matric)
B.E. Mechanical Engineering : 78 % (affiliated coll – Anna Univ)
Cat ( Percentile , absolute score)
QA: 99.84 56
DI: 99.37 61.46 ( One question was wrong in DI, so the marks for 96 were converted to 100)
VA: 97.36 32
OA: 99.92
Work ex: 22 months with Whirlpool in manufacturing sector.
Extra curricular: played basket ball for coll, won quiz competitions, can play mridangam very well.
No of ppl in the Group: 9
Write up topic: The Buffoon media caters to the wants of the public who always want sensational news.
Performance: We were given 10 min to write and had to write in the space provided in the application form.
Rating: would rate it at 7/10
PI:
Panel Members:
P1: You work in whirlpool, what do you do there.
Me: I am working as a process engineer, and I take care of…. Blah blah..
P1: Do you work alone?
Me; No sir, I work along with xyz persons and they support me in some abc ways.
P1: From whom do you get your inputs from?
Me: Told them, I get it frm X dept and I plan for something more than what they give.
P1: So why are you planning for something that is not asked?
Me: sir, I plan for infrastructure and I will also have to plan keeping the future demands in consideration. Also we might not get money in a later stage for this expansion in infrastructure.
P1: Who gives you money.. Govt. of India is it? (all including myself start to laugh)
Me: No sir, It is given by some Y dept.
P1: They are a part of your company only na. SO why wont they give money? Anyway Which do you think is right? Phased spending or spending at once.
Me: Phased spending,
P1: Then why don’t you talk to the people in you company.
Me: Told him .. (Could not gauge his reaction for this answer)
P3: You have presented a paper on brakes. What is this about. (had written about this in the form)
Me: Told him what it was about.
P3: What is the difference between a disc and the other type of brake
Me: Explained to him with drawings.
P3: Where is a disc brake used?
Me: Sir it is used in Bikes and cars. In India We can find Discs in front wheels of bikes and in all the wheels of cars.
P3: How does it work?
Me: Told him with some drawings.
P3: What is the difference between a pneumatics and hydraulics?
Me: Told him.
P3: Where is hydraulics used and where is pneumatics used?
Me: Pneumatics is mostly used in places where the distance of transmission is long as in cases with some trucks.
P3: So DO they use Disc brakes in Trucks?
Me: No sir, they use Drum brake, as I think drum brakes suit them as the mass and momentum are very high,
P3: You are caught here. You said they use springs in drum brakes and now you are
talking about pneumatics. J
Me: Told him how the drum brake is actuated either by a Hydraulic/ Pneumatic cylinder and how otherwise it is actuated by a lever as in case of bikes.
P3: What is the advantage of Pneumatics?
Me: Told him it is cam be used over long transmission distances and Pneumatics has an advantage that small leaks don’t matter as air leak can be tolerated for a short while while it is not possible with Oil as Oil is used from a sump and the quantity of Oil in the system is constant and is re-circulated.
P3: SO are you sure the Air is not re-circulated.
Me: Told him I think so sir, But am not sure as I have not had any chance to open up such a mechanism.
P3: How does the drier work in a washing machine.
Me: Told him.
P3: In case I put a load of 10 kg and a load of 2 kg in a drier, which one will come to rest
first?
Me: Sir the One with 2Kg will come to stop first as the other one has a higher Momentum.
P3: What is Momentum?
Me Mass x Velocity
P3: Ok. So lets assume that there is a car 500 Kg and a 10 Ton truck. Which one;ll come to rest first.
Me: The Lighter mass will come to rest first.
P3: Can you explain it with a few simple equations of motion. Like v = u + at
Me: Actually for a body moving straight, Think for some time and tell him that I cannot recollect.
P1: why is it that the Lighter car will come to rest first?
Me: Sir the momentum is lower. If the same stopping force is applied to both the car and truck, the first to stop will be the 500Kg car.
P1: So you mean to say that it is the same reason that two bodies with different weights come down at the same time.
Me: This is the case in vacuum. Two bodies come down with different velocities due to air friction
P2: You play the Mridangam, Do you have any certificates to show us saying that you have learnt it?
Me: No sir, I Don’t have any.
P2: Then how do we know?
Me: Sir, once we attain a certain level of proficiency, we give a public performance, called the ‘arangetram’.
P2: So do you have any invitation card of something?
Me: No sir, I did my arangetram in a small temple near my place and do not have any invitation to show you.
P1: what is the difference between a Mridangam and a Tabla?
Me: The Tabla is very similar to the Mridangam, except that the it s made of two separate drums, and Mridangam is made of a single hollow unit, with two sides covered with leather.
P1: I see a black patch on the side of the Mridangam. What is it for?
Me: This is for holding the side tight so that the vibrations are more clear. This is the function of the patch in the Left, or the Base side.
P1: I do not see any drums with that black patch.
Me: Sir the material of the drum is made of synthetic material, so it can be streached, while in the Mridangam, it is the cow’s skin. So since it cant be streached beyond a certain limit, we use a black patch, which is made of Rice and coal.
P2: What type of instrument is a mridangam?
Me: It is a percussion instrument, where Music is generated by tapping the instrument.
P2: What are the other kinds of instruments
Me: String instruments and wind instrument.
P2: Give me an example for each.
Me: Violin is a string instrument, and a flute is a wind instrument.
P1: SO what kind of instrument is a Harmonium?
Me: Wind instrument,
P2: What kind of instrument is a Piano?
Me: (Think for a second), Think it is also a wind instrument, No sir, I don’t know. (Piano is a string Instrument )
They look at each other and say that’s it.
Once I come out I was chatting with others and P3 comes out with my pencil which I had left inside. I take it, thank him and apologize for the trouble.
Rating: Will rate it at 7/10.
Result: <will update once it comes>
IIM Lucknow Interview
April 17, 2008
GD:
You don’t have to be different to be good but you have to be good to be different.
We had to write a four page essay on the topic for half an hour. After that we had a GD on the same topic.
The GD was more of a Points sharing session than a discussion. All of us were just putting forth the points we had written earlier, and there no much of discussion.One fellow kept talking right through the discussion, but it had little good points and more of time wasting talk.
PI
I was the first person to be called..
P1: Pl take ur seat
P2: Can i have your file pl,,
P1: Who’s you role model in Life?
Me: My dad, He’s a freelance journalist..
P1: ( Interrupts…) so all freelance journalists are your role models..??
Me: (smiling) He was working in a bank before he took up..
P1: ( Interrupts…) so all people who worked in banks are your role models is it..??
Me: (smile again) Sir, i have not yet finished, and went on with the remaining part of the answer.
P1: What do you know about sting operations..
Me: Actually sir my dad is not into this kind of journalism.
P1: Thats ok.. Pl tell me.
Me: Told him.
P1: Don’t you think its unethical to conduct sting operations.. that is to tempt people with money and catch them red handed?
Me: No.. The people who are taking money are committing a crime and there’s nothing wrong in exposing them.
P1: But money is important. If i give you three rupees and if i give you three crore rupees, which will you choose?
Me: I’ll choose Three crore provided it is what i am entitled for doing my work. Anything above that is a strict no.
P2: ( Was looking at my file..) You are a mechanical engineer. Do you remember the basics of it?
Me: Yes sir.
P2: If i want to buy a car, which one’ll u suggest, a petrol or a diesel car.
Me: Gave some Gyaan on initial cost, maintenance, running cost etc….
P2: ( after i finish) But running cost would not be that different…
Me: No sir, petrol is actually 50% costlier than diesel and diesel vehicles tend to give more mileage.
P2: What is Knocking.
Me: Told..
P2: What should i do if i find that my engine has knocking.
Me: The best thing would be to take it to a mechanic. (all of us laugh)
Me: Then the mechanic would probably look at the following aspects.. and gave them some tech info and troubleshooting methods.
P2: Tell me about NBA (Narmada Bachao Aandolan);; you had mentioned it in the GD.
Me: told…
P2: Do you think these people have teh knowhow to decide what is good for them and what is not? ( at this time i wanted to say “if they can choose the people who run this country, think they also have the right to seek what they feel is right or wrong:”, but he continued) Why do you think they are protesting.
Me: Farmers will be displaced and ..more gyaan….
P1: but a survey says that 90% of the farmers will want to move to cities given an opportunity.
Me: Probably the survey was taken in famine or flood regions like AP of Maharashtra..
P1: No its a nation wide survey.
Me: Ok sir, I do not believe much in surveys as surveys are not always true. The decision changes when the actual situation comes.
P2: (smiling) but that’s what you’ll do after finishing your MBA. Take surveys analyze data..You should make the survey more intelligent and it should answer the right questions.
Me: 
P1 and P2 look at each other… You can leave.
P2: (as i get up) what other call do you hav?
Me: Told..
P2: all the best..
IIM Indore Interview
April 17, 2008
Institute: IIM Indore
Venue: IIM Banglore
Date and time: 19th Feb, 02:00 Pm
Profile:
Arun
10th: 68.6 % ( CBSE)
12th: 86.25% ( Tamil Nadu Matric)
B.E. Mechanical Engineering : 78 % (affiliated coll – Anna Univ)
Cat ( Percentile , absolute score)
QA: 99.84 56
DI: 99.37 61.46 ( One question was wrong in DI, so the marks for 96 were converted to 100)
VA: 97.36 32
OA: 99.92
Work ex: 22 months with Whirlpool in manufacturing.
Extra curricular: played basket ball for coll, won quiz competitions, can play mridangam very well.
No of ppl in the Group: 10
GD topic: Five friends meet up in a restaurant to discuss about starting a readymade cloth business a village.
Frnd 1: A social worker in nearby villages. ( only gal in the group)
Frnd 2: Wholesale buyer for farm products in the village.
Frnd 3: Medical shop owner in the village.
Frnd 4: Engineer
Frnd 5: The guy who actually wants to start the business.
When the friends we discussing, points like starting the shop along with the agri business shop or medical shop came up.
This ‘frnd 5’ goes to his father for advice on what to do.
The question was how would his father go about this issue.
Performance: As soon as the Profs asked us to start, a guy (lets call him Mr X) started off giving a line about the case and said we need to do a SWOT analysis of the case, and went about giving a few points himself. Think this should have been the format prescribed by is coaching institute as it appeared well rehearsed. Slowly the discussion carried on and someone else started took over from him and gave a brief of the case. I was the 4th or 5th person to enter and gave a few points. Mr X who was quiet for some time suddenly started discussing about how farmers are pseudo employed and how half their time is not utilized in farming. Very valid point, but where do they fit in this discussion. Then he said that a manufacturing plant for fabrics should definitely be set up her and village resource should be utilized and went about talking about financial and other implications for the village. Since he was loud and monotonous, some people even joined him in this discussion. A few others and I tried in vain to tell to the group that it was about someone who wants to set up a cloth store, and not a cloth factory. Again I felt that this manufacturing thing was prepared by Mr X and he desperately wanted to give his points. I was reminded of the story where a boy mugs up an essay titled ‘ My friend’. But the exam paper asked for ‘My dad’ and thus he wrote, “ I have many dads. Rohan is my best dad and he come to my house daily…….” I din mind this as an alternate suggestion, but to bring this up in the 4th minute of the GD and take it further, well I considered was not the right way.
At around the 10th Min, the prof asked us all to stop and asked a person to speak as he had been very quiet till then.
Overall the GD was ok sorts, except for a few off the track discussions and we were searching for new points at the end when points got repeated.
Would rate my performance at 6/10.
PI:
Panel Members:
P1:
P2:
Was the second to be called in. The first person ( the silent boy) was a fresher and was asked a lot on acads. At the end of the GD they had told that we’d be called in some random order.
I enter the room and
P1: Goes thru mark sheet and asks. What did u you study in Numerical methods?
Me: We studied something about interpolation, extrapolation and how to obtain details from a given data. Actually sir I don’t remember much of it.
P1: He flips through the mark sheet. Sees Fluid dynamics. And asks me if I remember Fluid dynamics.
Me: Yes sir. (what is it man… I was expecting him to ask me something from core mechanical. Had not gone thru much of this)
P1: Define ideal fluid
Me: (Think for a few seconds.. )I cannot recollect it sir.
P1: Define Newtonian fluid
Me: I don’t remember sir.
P1: Then what is non Newtonian Fluid?
Me: ( I start smiling and say as a matter of fact) I don’t know sir.
P1: What is viscosity?
Me: (At last something I know..) Tell him
P1: What is buoyancy?
Me: Tell him.
P1: What is efficiency of carnot cycle? Draw the carnot cycle.
Me: Take a paper and draw that. Actually took some time to draw and get the eqution.
P1: Efficiency of reverse carnot cycle
Me: Tell him.
P1: What is all this T1, T2 etc….??
Me: Tell him it is the temperature of the source and the sink
P1: What are the types of refrigeration.
Me: Sir there are three. One is vapor absorption and other is ammonia something.. ( told him, don’t remember now). Told him don’t remember the third one ( I dint have to commit myself in the first place saying there were three types !!)
P1: What if refrigerator is kept open inside the room.
Me: Told him.
P1: Diff bet Ref and AC
Me: Told him.
P1: Factors you consider for designing an AC.
Me: Told him a few things, but did not appear satisfies.
P1 says that’s it with him. Asks P2 to take over. P2 was silent all this time.
P2: Why was Chennai renamed?
Me: People or the politicians here felt that the name Madras was given by the British and the earlier name was of Chennai city was Chennappatinam.. Before AP and TN were together called as Madras constituency. Then when AP and TN were separated, TN was called so. Later the now Chennai was called Madras. This is a similar reason why Mumbai and Kolkotta got their names.
P2: Which constituency is Tamil Nadu’s CM from?
Me: Chepauk – Chennai
P2: Which constituency is Jayalalitha from?
Me: Andipatti.
P2: Where is it?
Me: I Do not know its exact location sir.
P2: So you play the mridangam, who do you think is the most influential mridangam player today.
Me: Told them..
P1 hands over the file and says I can leave.
Rating: 6/10
Result: <will update once it comes>
YECHA… HIS ICHAA… (Tamil… English & Hindi… plz)
May 8, 2006
3rd April 2006
It was a surprise when Kurian Job (KJ) suggested that v go to Bessie beach.
There we met Ms S. our school friend and were later joined by another Mr. P. KJ hinted that we go and eat somewhere… I started moving towards ‘khana kazna’, which was close to where we camped. But he was moving the other way; heading towards planet yumm (later on I heard that he usually goes only to khana k…). Near the entrance we accidentally (I guess) met Ms PB and her classmates.
And as expected of KJ, he began talking (flirting if I may call it) wit her and brought on the topic of a community, which he had started in orkut. Unfortunately we also met some other juniors(again gals) and in his usual style KJ tried to impress them too, wit his loud voice (rather noise) and broad grin. To talk to them he needed a launch pad, which was readily available in my form.
For those who don’t know KJ, I’ve been studying wit him 4 the past 6 yrs and know him for an even longer period. Let me describe his procedure to approach a gal.
Aim: to get to know gals
Procedure:
Step 1: target a gal
Step 2: catch hold of a guy (preferably very innocent) he knows and cook up a story; like de kind where the guy has a crush on the gal.
Step 3: hype it up and spread the story to as many people as possible till it reaches the gal.
Step 4: approach her wit the pretext of ‘kalasifying’ her.
Step 5: get her mail id and/or cell no
Result: thus contact established 🙂
Now back to beach. He started to talk to them in the pretext of asking them to join the community he started. And unfortunately for him they weren’t too impressed. Their stares at him reminded me of a child looking at a ‘aadu ra rama aadu” type monkey performance; with both fear and amusement.
Later on we moved into planet yumm. We occupied a table in the middle of the hall, with PB & co in an adjacent table. Do u expect KJ to miss the chance?? Never… And on expected lines (ya… u must have guessed it now) he tried to grab attention by often raising his voice (people in coll bus would know better) and by running around the table twice or thrice.
After some time PB got up to leave. She turned to say bye to us when KJ spotted the cold coffee in her hand. His mouth started to water (jollu) on looking @ the delicacy (I leave it to u to decide the reason, but personally I feel cold coffee was not the reason).
KJ: give me that.
PB: wat?
KJ: the cold coffee.
PB: no da. I need it.. Will get u a new one sometime later.
KJ: no probs.. That’s fine… I’ll adjust.
PB: idhu yechi. (Saliva in Tamil)
KJ: paravailla.
PB: illa….
Alas, before she could complete what she wanted to say, the cup was in KJ’s hands. This left her wit no other choice, but to leave.
KJ was on cloud nine and enjoyed the remaining cold coffee and muttered, “semma hot”. Still can’t understand how cold coffee was hot? Probably I’ve been thinking wrong all these years.
So can it be concluded that his favorite flavor is yechi (not yelachi which is cardamom in Tamil)… If so what are the items which taste best wit yechai? And does the source of yechai affect the taste?? Kurian… We are waiting for the answer.
Note: The procedure mentioned above is not copyrighted and can be used by one and all. I state the above procedure with authenticity, as I have been the innocent victim boy many a time. But I don take all this seriously as he’s ma good friend. Also please don't mistake him, as he limits himself with flirting and is a very decent fella otherwise (no dirty thinking on his part).
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Reservation in Indian Institutes
April 10, 2006
May 15th 2002, 2 30pm
I and appa were sitting somewhere in the middle of a large hall, facing a comp. it displayed a list of colleges and branches. This was when I was ‘counseled’ to choose the college where I study now 😦 There were 11 free seats and a equal number of payment seats in mech engg. I opted for the latter. Not because of “panna thimiru” but because the free seats were RESERVED.
The reservation of seats at this time didn’t seem to affect me much, as I had a very modest cutoff, and was never near to missing a good coll. Even some meritorious students who missed Anna univ or govt. colleges had some good coll like SVCE, SSN or CRESENT to choose from(nevertheless, some losers choose Velammal).
Now, after 4 yrs of engg education in TN, I can confidently state that the coll u study doesn’t matter much; Cos u get absorbed by an IT major if u have a good aptitude and communication skill(remember, both r independent of coll education).
April 5 2006
Arjun singh announces a proposal for introducing quota system in IITs and IIMs on the basis of ones community(OBCs and SC/STs get > 50% seats).
Does this mean that those who benefit his are socially and /or economically backward? NO. A metropolitan born and brought up OBC guy who gets the same education and social status as a OC guy, stands a greater chance of getting into IITs and IIMs. Isn’t this shady? Only below average and average city students, who come under the reserved quota get to be benefited, while some other above average OC candidates get a raw deal.
This will in turn reduce the image and quality of these institutions, as it is the students and not the infrastructure or staff, who determine how an institute is. A very good e.g. is the coll I study in. Does being constantly ranked among the top 3 engg coll in TN mean that the staff are great and the infrastructure amazing. ABSOLUTE BULL SHIT.(The staff are blank and facilities suck.)
Let me conclude by giving some probable suggestions. The govt. must make sure that not more than 2 generations of a family use the reservation(if grand dad and dad have used it 4 their education or job, the son is not entitled under the reservation). This paves way for the really needy to be benefited.
Also the time duration for the implementation of this quota system must be specified. This would determine after how many years I’d appear for cat as I have no hopes of even getting a call if the above said proposal is implemented 🙂
staring it from the top
April 4, 2006
A very warm welcome to all. Let me start off with what people and more importantly I feel about my hair(style).
Back home, parents are very much against me growing long hair. I have a feeling that mom likes it, but does not accept it in front of dad; and often joins him in mocking @ my hair. They refuse to give me money to straighten it (my hair starts to curl once the water used for setting it dries up). Brother has been the only one from whom I get constant encouragement.
Friends at college are no better. They are hostile towards accepting my ‘lamba baal’. Some of them( esp. roll no 1, and the notty boy who got his leg broken by E&I maddy) are feeling jealous, as they have already developed bald patches:)
Also disciplinary committee members(i.e. watchdogs outside every building) barring our PD Mr. Milk(Tamil) have been bugging and sometimes threatening me to cut it off.
In spite of all this heavy criticism and mocking, I remain focused on my goal( as any professional should) to grow long hair. I have overcome many obstructions like evading disciplinary committee members when I see them in the college and not getting caught. I’m also ready to face more obstructions of any other sort.
I know my hair looks messed up now. But I want people to remember that this is the intermediate stage in the long process of hair growth. I request you all to be patient till it grows sufficiently long, for me to tie it up.
Final word: if people are getting accustomed to seeing the ever bopped ‘female peacock’(Hindi jante ho?) of our dept, with long hair, Y NOT ME?
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March 19, 2006
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