Bals in the blog world. !

My next wishlist is Apple iPhone. The new buzz among mobile buyers includes this as a top priority. This has got a host of new features. But, it lacks lots of features.

I was planning to buy a Sony Ericsson K81oi. But, this iPhone has made me to think about it.

Anywayz, I will get back with the latest features of iPhone later.

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Following links should be good for reference.

• Sentence Correction
  
• urch
• Scoretop
• beatTheGmat
  
• PagalGuy
• GmatClub

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Following materials were referred for the GMAT prep during the BootCamp - Dec-06.

• Official Guide 10/11(Review of 10th edition is good)
  
• Official Guide - Verbal and Quant workbook - 11th Edition.
  
• Kaplan Verbal workbook
• Kaplan 800(Very good for PS and DS)
• Princeton Review(AWA)
• Manhattan review(SC, CR & RC. CR & RC are nice to have)

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Following materials were referred for the GMAT prep during the BootCamp - Dec-06.

• Official Guide 10/11(Review of 10th edition is good)
  
• Official Guide - Verbal and Quant workbook - 11th Edition.
  
• Kaplan Verbal workbook
• Kaplan 800(Very good for PS and DS)
• Princeton Review(AWA)
• Manhattan review(SC, CR & RC. CR & RC are nice to have)
• 
  

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Today, I missed to become a "half a lakh" pathi.

I am into share trading. Today morning, as usual, I checked the scripts that I regularly follow. One of the script is "Blue Star". This is one script which is always on the positive side. I used to tell myself, "whenever this scripts looses a lot(during bearish period), buy in bulk".

I was astonished when I saw the price&trend of this stock. It had fell down by 40 Rupees(From 600 Rupees). Immediately, I thought of buying some 1000 shares. Because of poor IT policy, I did not have internet access :-( and could not buy the shares.

When I checked it arnd 12 PM, it's price shot back to 610 Rupees. Oh my God. ! I had lost the opportunity to earn 50, 000 Rupees(half a lakh) in just two hours. :-( It would take approximately two months of hard work to earn this as my Salary :-(.

If I had internet access in the morning, I would be partying now. !

Posted by Bals at 12:46 PM | Permalink | Comments

Will you knock all the doors that has been locked from inside? Most probably, you reply would be "it depends on the situation" right? There are umpteen number of scenario's where in we have to think before knocking. For example, knocking at a third person's door in uneven times, conference room, meditation room, bath room, rest room etc.,

What would you call a person who tries to open the locked rest room(birth place of great ideas etc., etc., For the complete list, contact my friend Gans who used to live there :-) ) Atleast it would have been acceptable if the person had knocked the rest room under tremendous "nature call" pressure. Even then shouldn't he think that the other person would also be under the same pressure. :-)

I call them as "complete Nuts".

When I discussed this with a person(I should call him as "crazy person", probably you would also), his reply was "I play mobile games in the rest room. So, to get my attention, he could have knocked the door. What is wrong in that?". But, would anyone do this kind of crazy stuff in the public rest rooms?

BTW, have you ever imagined yourself wearing a complete formals(full sleeve shirt, nicely pressed trousers, tie and well polished shoes) using a indian style rest room? :-). I imagined and I look pathetic. :-)

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This blog is dedicated to all my Infy friends(July03FC(Cbe guys+Shankie). The incidents that I am referring in this blog might not make much sense to a third person. But, for sure this will bring lots of laugh to all my Infy friends.

I could say that we had such a frequency match right from our day one of our meeting. I cherish each and every moment that we shared.

Dudes,

Happy anniversary.. !

I could not imagine it’s been three years since we all met in “Pai Vijay” hotel. It feels like everything has happened over the last week. Lots of sweet memories and I hope we would have plenty in the future as well.

My cursory recollection of some of the memories are:

• First tea break on Day one in Infy when Shankie joined our Cbe group.
• All the fun we had when going to Mayura and coming back.
• Getting down in silkboard instead of Roopena Agrahara.
• Mobin’s Booz time stories :-), Having beer in cone shaped pepsi bottles. :-),
• Shankie’s complaints about power cut when the street lights were glowing like Sun. J
• Richard Lobo calling Pasu for posting “Good Morning” in the BB. :-), some other HR calling Pasu in a months time again :-)
• Gans living in rest room in training days. “What is his name da? – Naim da” episode, Gans asking me to spot his GF in a pick with some(hope Gans could recollect that) remark. ;-), Visiting Gan’s brother house in hosur, Gans having beer in RDB style(one mug of beer in one shot)
• Arun’s kadalai episode with Swaps, :-) Arun’s unforgettable journey with Gans :-)
• SuJ’s emotional outbreak after compre result, Travelling to Chennai in Volvo Bus, Missing Shatabthi express, Biriyani being removed in the Madiwala MAS(heard as -'Mosque' by SuJ) restaurant menu, several lunch time stories.
• My “Make it fast” episode in Mallige, becoming "Oracle Ramasamy" during Oracle training and resisting to go to Dhabha.
• Trying to convince Mobin for not going to Mysore-IVS.
• Not to miss our big chain mails which had reached 100 on a day. :-)
• Group study in "Roopena Agrahara" house.
• Diwali shopping.
• Our AOE adventure. Not to miss Pasu's comment - "what you guys have put a Joint Venture and attacking me ??", after being attacked on either side by Me and SuJ :-)
• Watching "Boys" movie in Innovative multiplex TV and the comments that we made about the movie.

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Some two weeks back, I was so bugged because of the situation that I am facing in my firm, I wanted to pour all those feeling in my first blog(Prior to my First Blog !) - [should I call this as Zeroth blog just like Zeroth law of Thermodynamics?!].

Being in IT, what worse condition I might face in a firm?! It is nothing but the performance appraisal. I was writing about the performance appraisal that happens in my company. But, because of legendary Internet connection policies and Firefox crash, I could not post that blog. (Trying my level the best to be best in BlameStorming ;-) )

Should I explain what is a performance appraisal for the sake of layman? Ofcourse yes. But, anyone who is working in an IT, must start mumbling after hearing the "Performance Appraisal" word(Obviously about his PM [and his family and his generation?!] and the HR Policies only. ;-) ).

"Performance appraisal" is a process through all the resources(SE's and PA's) in a team are evaluated on their performance on a set of tasks that he had been assigned during a particular period of time. This entire process is supposed to be done on an absolute scale. What I meant by "absolute scale" is, there is no comparison between Person A's performance and Person B's performance.

But, in my case, last cycle was done on a relative scale. What do I mean my relative scale? In the performance appraisal discussion, you would often get to hear - "for a person who has three years experience, this is not at all a big task". Where does this number of years come into picture? Whenever a comparison is made, that entire thing becomes "Relative".

People's perspective changes as they grow up. I was kind of demotivated for some reason. So, I would work only during the office hours and leave promptly. After having seen this for two months, in the discussion, it was mentioned that I am "Rebellious". This is the first word that came out when the discussion started. Then, I started explaining them about what and all activities could be construed as "Rebellious".

When I was discussing with my friends, they started singing the song "Be a rebel" from RDB. ;-)

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I had always wondered about two things when it comes to blogging.
#1. Why should I write and
#2. what to write?

After hours of orkuting and reading Bulletin Boards, I got bored of it and started looking at couple of my friends blog. They were interesting and made me to think about developing my writing.

When coming to the second question(What to write), various things came to my mind. Couple of them are as mentioned below.

• Pleasurable ride
• Bals contribution to Murphy :-)
• My forgetfulness :-)
• Educated stupids
  
• etc.,
  

When ever I decide to start writing my blog, I always get disturbed. Either a phone call, or an interesting stuff in Orkut, or friends calling for lunch, etc.,

Today, I am kind of undisturbed so far. Though, I have typed the blog, I could not post because of internet access time restrictions. Hopefully, I will be posting it by tomorrow(Not sure, whether I would forget to do this task. :-) )

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