woof… finally i get some free time to spend with myself..
my last few weeks had been hectic like hell. lots of work n night outs. not that i hate them, i like working a lot and… ok fine i hate them i am a lazy spoilt brat enjoy sleeping late and getting up even later. NO CLASSES… an added bonus !!!but now some free time, not that i m expected to be free now but you know i love working things not expected from me or i deviate from idealistic behavior… thats fun… ppl call it stupid, i call it out of the box free thinking n working… sorry guys u cant keep my thoughts hooked up to some useless stuff… ( "some birds are not meant to be caged…" remember ??? )
ok let me say something beforehand. i m a firm believer of scientific work n solid science… but sometimes u got to accept the fact that there r things which r much tougher than science however simple they might seem to be… well maybe because there is no specific formula for their working and thats what makes it difficult… try managing a crying baby or convince a prof who caught u cheating… i would rather solve a hundred physics problems than involve in those activities…
one such activity i feel is the ability to see the most abstract of the phenomenas of life in the day to day regular activities… well i suppose u need to have a third eye n an extra brain to see n process those hidden things...
n as i have been taught management for a semester now (remember has been taught i never said i studied it :) ) i have started loving the case study method… well tomorrow i have a case study for which i m expected to study the case given to me by my prof… as usual i m doing something i m not expected to do… i m writing a case here… ( by the way M2M = Mark to Market accounting… )
THE CASE :
i was deep asleep in my room (awesome!!!)… "bang bang bang " suddenly three very hard bangs on my room door… i got up not to open but to kill the person who did that but there is a universal truth to kill that person i needed to OPEN THE DOOR (ok… not a good one) !!!
"tell me why does an induction motor not vibrate however a normal DC motor does… ??" it was my sidie and one of my closest friends apurav i couldn't believe him asking such a question because all anyone had heard him ever asking any questions were like "the gross income of AVATAR or highest paid cricketer or maybe the latest scandal on PAGE3 " ( thank god it was him because if it was not him i was gonna get a sem-back… hmmm how ?? keep thinking…!! ) !!!! was that question worth three hard bangs on my room… "what the hell is an induction motor and r u all right ??"
"forget it lets go to the lunch" he had just come from electrical class (the only one he had ever slept in, rest he slept at room…) n had learnt something interesting… no no no not interesting at that time.. i mean who gives a damn about the vibrations of some motor… yeh they do have a particular naughty side but thats all together a different subject… ;) every thing has its importance at right time… " we will watch a movie after lunch"… agreed like if he asked about studying i would do it !! n if he didn't want to give the answer why he asked and more importantly dude u can always knock the door… never mind...
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few weeks later we had an exam of electrical… well not a soul outside its room n everybody was damn busy mugging up for this exam i don't know what's the deal, some start taking it as a matter of life n death… bang bang bang.. it feels so nice to take revenge… my dear friend apurav on the other hand was watching "HEROES"… that was actually not amazing because it was his usual stuff… for every exam he had a plan a solid plan… its like this (btw this is not just his plan its a universal strategy followed by majority of students lazy enough to develop one (ME INCLUDED) :
if there is an exam on monday 0800hrs (one hr exam) preparation starts on saturday
1. watch lots of movies n stuff the whole night and sleep on sunday 5000 hrs (so that one doesn't regret that he's only studying all the time)
2. get up at 1230 hrs sunday have lunch n come back to room
3. find out which exam is there on next day then watch a movie
4. open the book at like 1800 hrs and analyze the course
5. go to dinner at 1900 hrs ( it took 1.5 hrs analyzing… but it pays off later !!! n if asked at dinner "kitnaa kiya ?? " replies " abhi to dekha hi hai yaar" )
6. come back and start the preparation after watching a 20min TV serial
7. prepares religiously n properly solving examples n reading the theory also plan to solve the additional questions at the end of chapters
8. 2300 hrs - realizes the shortage of time so decides to skip the additional questions, still reads the theory and solves the examples
9. 0030 hrs - a short trip to All Night Canteen discussing the ways one can get screwed in the exam
10. 0130 hrs - reading theory and only reading examples properly ( realizes that he should have gone to lectures n decides will go from now on… which btw never happens)
11. 0200 hrs - takes a power nap for 15min
12. 0300 hrs - wakes up from the power nap, watches the time n grieves for like 5mins for taking a power nap n 5mins yelling at sidie for not waking him up the
13. 0310 hrs - considering the lack of time reads only the theory
14. 0335 hrs - turns the pages to find out no. of chapters left to study n the ones safe to leave( prior analysis in step 4 helps here ) n start studying them
15. 0400 hrs - starts skimming through the selected text in step 14 paying attention only to the formulae and their symbols (n continuously being surprised about how much can be taught in few lectures )
16. 0430 hrs - sleeps realizing whatever be the case he is screwed in the exam tomorrow and will study harder for the next one
17. 0750 hrs - wakes up n sees all the doors locked realizing that everybody left for the exam and he is alone in the wing
18. 0752 hrs - opens intrabits website to see the classroom for examination but doesn't find a thing there
19. 0754 hrs - starts a full sprint from room to the classrooms or rather the notice board to find the sitting arrangement
20. 0805 hrs - reaches the classroom, takes the question paper and spends some time finding a seat behind someone ghot( but these are the seats of maximum demand and are filled first, sometimes fixed a day before!!)
21. 0806 hrs - forced to sit behind a duffer who even without knowing anything thinks that knows a lot n intentionally hides his paper as if the he were the biggest cheater of the world
22. 0810 hrs - reads the 1st question writes the given data n leaves 2 pages , repeats the same for all questions
23. 0837 hrs - demands for an extra sheet(as previous was filled by leaving pages) and withstand the hundreds of "i-cant-believe-anybody-writing-so-much" or "must-have-studied-a-lot" or "this-is-the-asshole-who-will-increase-the average-this-time" looks filled with haterate
24. 0845 hrs - the invigilator(usually named the 'exam devil') shouts to write the individual's instructor(the prof. teaching the course in his section) name n wrap up the paper when he realizes that he doesn't even have a clue who his instructor is
25. 0852 hrs - the invigilator snatches the paper from his hand n the nightmare finally gets over…
this is usually followed by a walk back to room with the friends, with a mutual understanding of not discussing the paper or not even bringing the topic n behave as if nothing happen just before… but finally it ends by an estimate of the average and how much is he below average and a minus 2 for not writing the instructors name… n finish it with the valedictory statement 'fuck it, any ways i will get a C in this course'… but finally ends up getting a D… ( this explains a height of optimism )
however sometimes this strategy takes its various dangerous forms like jumping from step 11 to directly step 17 or maybe from step 10 to directly step 18( and wonders the blanked out !! ) but whatever be the case in my general observation step 9 is never skipped neither step 1… yes guys(and also gals i m equally considerate or majority of the times more to the other part of homo sapiens!!) it has happened with me and let me tell you it is really one of the worst feelings in the world… don't believe me ?? try it…
but this time apurav had a different strategy a complete plan…!!!! believe me he did have one.. he was at an informative advantage, he knew why induction motors do not vibrate… why doesn't it ??? his face lit up… u brief me about the whole course and i tell u the answer to this question…
MY OBSERVATION :
now even apurav might have never heard of this Mark to Market technique he had applied it pretty well in his case changed his strategy from simple to m2m… well done apurav !!!
apurav had been at an informative advantage when he asked the question… he made an investment and knew the future profits of it before hand. he booked those profits(which he had not received till now) and rewarded himself bonuses of not studying n watching movies n stuff… still those profits were not in his hands but he did have them written down on his balance sheets… no he doesn't maintain any balance sheets n stuff of course he won't. i m just being just too technical :) but the felling and motive remains the same…
later when required to receive the profits he tried an exchange of his information… but i m sorry bro you failed to realize one important thing… though we are living in a world where information gives a competitive advantage its still not that easy… a knowledge of proper application of this strategy (the information competitive advantage) is a must…
this remind me of the phenomena Value Chain : the value a company creates is measured by the amount that buyers are willing to pay for a product or service. in your case your information… and i believe a business is profitable if the value it creates exceeds the cost of performing the value activities… well bro the value of your information was worth like 3 marks which you tried to exchange for an information worth like 60 marks… may it could have worked but you picked the wrong person, i know how business is done buddy !!!
well its not the first time m2m has screwed somebody. it keeps doing this now and then whenever people keep on applying it intentionally or unintentionally after all this was the same technique that lead to the downfall of the giant ENRON Corp. when those giants couldn't see it we are just at the start !!! i wonder when this strategy has ever helped in good… whatever be the case people still keep applying this technique all the time maybe because you get rewarded faster in this way and thats what people work for and get motivated by ( ADAM SMITH dude…!!! )…
i don't know how long i m going to live before apurav reads this comes and kills me but before that i must specify the points that are proved…
1. no matter whatever you do m2m will screw you (i want to find a case where it doesn't)
2. estimate the market value of your product before building any future prospects on them
3. if you do not have proper knowledge of business do not do it with the one who has
4. if you manage to get good results with any of the above strategy you are genius and if you get good results even if the strategy takes its one of the dangerous forms please meet me personally you are GOD…
5. whatever happens you can always take apurav as a subject for your next blog !!!
cheers
iShanx
