tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213104492024-03-05T17:40:06.052+05:30Enter the dragonSensible Non-sensePraveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1790396340219224302013-08-22T15:40:00.002+05:302013-08-22T15:42:53.844+05:30Over-Rated Success<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have recently started investing (my time) in value investing. The journey so-far has been amazing, not because i am going to make tons of money but being acquainted to some of the greatest minds and amazing knowledge one gets acquainted with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This post is about one of the key lessons in value investing <b>"Importance of avoiding failures"</b>. As i believe this learning has far reaching applications beyond investing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most of us believe it is success which is important and is the only path to change one's destiny. I believe that it is more critical to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">avoid failure / making mistakes to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">achieve your destiny. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=21310449" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Tell me where I’m going to die, that is, so I don’t go there." - Charlie Munger</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">The above quote says it all, know where are you going to make a mistake and avoid it. Such a simple thought but amazingly effective.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">One of the key things my firm's Partner advised me during a personal interaction after my promotion was avoid making failure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">How should one use this in investing, it is not always important to emphasize on "return on capital" more critical is return of capital. Make sure your capital/principal is secure only then one should look at returns. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">If this simple rule is clear one will avoid investing in enticing real estate deals, dubious financing schemes which promise phenomenal returns in short period. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">In life know what irritates/dangerous for you and try avoiding it. If peak traffic irritates you trying starting a bit early, if you are used to a sedentary lifestyle try getting out (to be frank i need to start doing this myself). If i look back at my life only thing i have been consistently doing to not achieving success but avoided failures. May be i played it safe but i am happy with my present state.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">A little digress from the topic: [There is an interesting mental model called "contrasting affect" or boiling frog affect. If changes are minimal across time then your mind will not be able to detect it and will get adjusted to the change without a revolt. A frog if put into a boiling water will jump right out of it, but if it is put in a water at room temperature and if the water is heated gradually with very minimal increase frog never notices the gradual change leading to its death in the boiling water. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">I will try to use this to get up early and start exercising let's see how this works. The target is to get up early by 10 minutes for first week and then by 20 minutes for next week and so on. Will keep you updated if this works, hopefully it should work.]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">I will end this post with this : When someone interviewed </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Bitstream Charter, serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Michelangelo on how did he make such a beautiful creation "David". He replied " I simply removed what is not david". It is not always the right way to strive for success it is extremely important to avoid mistakes.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">P:S : I will try to keep up to my earlier promise of regular updates. </span></div>
Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-32831931034239124622012-03-31T17:05:00.004+05:302012-04-04T17:39:27.708+05:30Chasing through Changi<span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">I was off to Indonesia for work.</span></span><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>It was interesting work and clients were happy with our work.</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>Anyways that is not the point of discussions for the post. It is about an interesting incident that happened at Changi airport. </span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>8:05 pm : I had a flight back to Hyderabad from Singapore which got<span style="font-size: 100%; "> delayed to 9:05. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">8:20 pm: I was at business </span>lounge (yes!! i had business class booking) and was reading Stieg Larsson's book "The girl with the golden tattoo" (Awesome book) and completely lost track of time and realized I had a flight to catch. </span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>I started walking towards my departure gate. </span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>8:30 pm: Half way to the departure gate, there was a feeling as if i forgot something. I checked through my bag (This stupid dell bag, can hold nothing in it and makes my shoulder sore due to side on design) and realized i forgot my camera. Then i started literally running through the airport almost crashing onto a trolley and reached the lounge.</span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 100%;">8:40 pm: Thankfully they had my camera, which they gave back to me after </span>inquiring<span style="font-size: 100%;"> about the model. As i was packing it back into my bag i had a shock! i could not find my passport. I went back to the lost and found section they almost gave me a glance as if i was a kid who keeps loosing his pencils.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 100%;">8:45 pm: I was rushing all through the lounge to all the places i have been to check if i have left my passport. But i could not find my passport anywhere. Then i almost thought i had to spend a night at the airport. </span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Then i explored my options, without passport they might even deport me in Singapore for lack of passport and also i will have to go through the trouble to get the renewed passport. </span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 100%;">I wanted to give it one last try, to check my trail from the departure gate to the lounge. </span></span></div><div><span>8:55 pm: I was again running across also checking if i have dropped my passport anywhere. I was certain that if there was any one who saw me running twice could feel that i am either a mad guy or a con who is escaping the police. And to my surprise i found my passport on the chair where i checked my bag. I thanked my fortunes for my luck. </span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>9:10 pm: I am in my seat panting but made it. I realised that i need to exercise to improve my stamina.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>P:S : I have decided to post something on a regular basis, but might not be a full post but with few lines on what i think is important. Inspired from sumanth. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-64167295445711031382009-05-26T16:59:00.003+05:302009-05-26T17:30:36.077+05:30Charge from the Deccans<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjycQxrK9TOVpC9cq9c4nyBFRTWw0UqqoBxYge2fFgzyOfCnNSdlpLK4_dxFS3r8OydWZ9KlCSGCl58wbfp8DMDikB3nYf-ftEHyj-7pChM6Si7YtcqfjFJ-1eovTbRLx-sxObb/s1600-h/gilli.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjycQxrK9TOVpC9cq9c4nyBFRTWw0UqqoBxYge2fFgzyOfCnNSdlpLK4_dxFS3r8OydWZ9KlCSGCl58wbfp8DMDikB3nYf-ftEHyj-7pChM6Si7YtcqfjFJ-1eovTbRLx-sxObb/s320/gilli.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340101028467958514" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="Georgia","serif"; font-family:";color:black;">It started with a simple step of winning the initial two matches. It was considered to be a blip or a fluke. Team's captain was content saying that they did better than the previous performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="Georgia","serif"; font-family:";color:black;">Fans like me were happy with the performance and were hoping that there was something big in store.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="Georgia","serif"; font-family:";color:black;">Then for the unimaginative we won, can you believe it we won shattering the hopes of delhiites and many other such cities. Not even Nostradamus would have predicted this. Best part was every department did well, expect few drop chances. More importantly bowling was a revelation, with only 4 full time bowlers we did a commendable job. The quality can be assessed by the fact that we won despite keeping Vas on bench for most part of the tournament. I think it’s a complete team effort which made this happen. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="Georgia","serif"; font-family:";color:black;">Though repeating myself, key aspect of this win, it did not happen because of one individual or because of one brilliant performance. Some of the key moments were Ohja’s bowling against Mumbai (This guy is going to spearhead the spin department for India in future), Rohit sharma’s all-round performance (earth shattering knocks against Punjab and Rajasthan, hattrick figures), Christ like innings by Gilchrist against Delhi, consistent performance by Symonds, economical bowling by R.P<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>and many more. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="Georgia","serif"; font-family:";color:black;">I don’t remember experiencing such drastic change in fortunes of any team/individual in any form of sports. Kudos to the team it brings hope to one and all that they can succeed despite their failure. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-897173769267345762009-05-16T15:51:00.003+05:302009-05-16T16:06:50.899+05:30Madness for Fitness<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhHh7OpC_0MOWe5GFd4yEIKwKdE0oKdELrmvJl6-smcAPvSGzJb7KAzPoj6YUEF08dZDviDWo66tp-TrYP6SSCJUWHPTfabqtZXku3TfpEmJfgqoFgtQRUAvYb5CjQqH5tEE5L/s1600-h/cartoon.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhHh7OpC_0MOWe5GFd4yEIKwKdE0oKdELrmvJl6-smcAPvSGzJb7KAzPoj6YUEF08dZDviDWo66tp-TrYP6SSCJUWHPTfabqtZXku3TfpEmJfgqoFgtQRUAvYb5CjQqH5tEE5L/s320/cartoon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336368626095051122" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Recently i have been observing that my conversations either end or start with discussions about a healthy life style, maintaining a good physique. I am not sure if i am following the general trend or <br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">this is something inherent.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Its all load shedding around (cant take 'work' out of my mind), everyone wants to bring down weight and become fit, may be that has influenced to think about it. Unfortunately my interactions have been restricted to my colleagues. During these interactions we end up talking about reducing weight building muscles. I never ever in my life counted the calories before or after the meal, but now i am being careful. May be its just temporary, but i started jogging and exercising daily. I don't see slightest of difference in my appearance but certainly it feels good. I hope i can sustain this in future. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-77081787000668225402009-03-22T00:37:00.002+05:302009-03-22T01:00:25.300+05:30Gulal - Add color to lifeIndian political system, has been considered the reason for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">india</span> continuing to be a developing country.<div>This movie provides some insights into the reasons for such a state. Very few educated join politics and those who join politics are guys worse than the uneducated.</div><div>Apart from the message, every actor in the movie just lived the character, none of them acted they were living the characters. I would like to believe its the director who bought this remarkable work out of the actors. I strongly feel that movies are getting bolder and practical by the day.</div><div>Who would expect movies to freely show abuses, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">infidelity</span>. Music is another aspect of this movie which is remarkable change from the rest of the movies. Though there are shades of communist idealogies in most of the songs, they are quite refreshing from the existing lot. </div><div>Do watch it to feel the magic, its different in every aspect. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-20106344823637431712008-12-14T18:27:00.003+05:302008-12-14T18:47:03.614+05:30Randomness has no logic<div style="text-align: justify;">It has been long that i updated my blog. So some random thoughts to fill space.<br />Lately i have been reading "Foundation" by Issac Asimov. I can rave about the book for days, we will reserve this for some other day.<br /><br />One clear strategy used by foundation to keep its hegemony over other kingdoms is to help them in developing atomic power and make them completely dependent on foundation for daily survival.<br /><br />If you try to find analogy with the present logic that World bank, ADB functions you feel skeptical. For the unaware junta, these funding agencies help economies to develop regulations, promote private participation, set up regulators through their funds. So the CPI guys have some element of truth in their blabber about world bank funding. <br />Though the logic is very trivial and lacks enough analysis, i have my reservations about the motives of world bank funding.<br /><br />I have started reading about the book "the great crash" on 1929 great depression, which tries to bring into perspective the events that lead to the crisis. One major factor was unabated speculation in the stock market, real estate and other trading arenas. I havent completed the book, but i could see that the present events treading the same path with the latest being $50 bn fraud by Nasdaq official.<br /><br />Lets close the randomness with a joke i saw in the latest episode of "oye its friday". Abdominal guard in cricket was invented in 1874, where as helmet was invented in 1974, women say men took 100 years to understand the most import part of their body.<br /></div>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-12343523910530465822008-08-24T15:51:00.004+05:302008-08-24T16:35:50.609+05:30Trip to the Valley<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidCDMgdOnTHUQFunB_d2OsA3TKmqMhx_DldJkupJLCgHYZ5KmSxhirSxZNPC82bV0kXMqWVZPxwHJISWYOzM7hky_oUwzU-1Pwu3hblD1uCRqKr5NU_6EIGop5-7DPQJL2CAhl/s1600-h/Trekking+131.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238034750215981986" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidCDMgdOnTHUQFunB_d2OsA3TKmqMhx_DldJkupJLCgHYZ5KmSxhirSxZNPC82bV0kXMqWVZPxwHJISWYOzM7hky_oUwzU-1Pwu3hblD1uCRqKr5NU_6EIGop5-7DPQJL2CAhl/s320/Trekking+131.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="justify">Once in a while my company comes up with surprises and shocks. This time it was surprise a pleasant one to cherish. We had an offsite meet for all the employees of my SBU at "Aamby Valley" -- the same place where the indian team members of 2003 finals were gifted houses.</div><br /><div align="justify">The same was planned some 2 months ago, leading to an excitement till the day i saw the agenda of the program. It could not stop cursing myself to believe something exhilarating can be expected from our guys. But the 4 day meet was amazing to say the least.</div><br /><div align="justify">It was place to cool off, vent our common frustrations about work and all other such stuff. It was nice catching up with friends from other offices, making new acquaintances (its tough to make friends in 4 days). </div><br /><div align="justify">Few things that i can recall right away was the 2 dj nights, the partying was amazing, It was a long time that i got a chance to shake a leg, which i love doing. some of the side effects of not having a girl friend is no entry into dance venues ;(. </div><br /><div align="justify">some adventure activities were also part of the package, rafting (its ok i can call it rafting) was great fun which tested our inhibitions. Water has always been a scary place for me, may be i should do something about it, learn swimming may be.</div><br /><div align="justify">I will share an interesting incident which happened during this trip. I met a girl couple of times before we met during the buffet lunch organized. i cant even call her an acquaintance because i dont know her name as well. I was at the dessert section trying to serve myself some rasmalai, the dish was almost empty but i managed to get a small piece of it, this girl was beside me during this. She makes a statement saying that she could not get any rasmalai, me trying to be a bond said that i managed to get something referring to the piece on my plate. The next thing she did was she bought the plate close to my plate and peacefully transferred the piece into her plate, despite me trying to oppose this. I was shocked for a minute as to how can someone be so desperate. Or is this natural and i am being over reactive. </div><br /><div align="justify">All in all a nice trip i would say. Every year i manage to take off for a week n visit some interesting locations in India, this time we were planning pucket kind of place but unable to get consensus on timings, lets see if i can manage some foreign travel (at least to Kathmandu ;)).</div>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-27185848700961118902008-08-12T16:40:00.002+05:302008-08-12T16:42:03.412+05:30Blasts from HistoryThis is one of the earliest blog entries i wrote during my placements.<br />Relying on my consultancy skills (copy and paste), i am writing it here again.<br /><br />learnings during my placements<br />Its all about time, a global statement but a very practical quote.<br />Things I learnt<br />1. Its the process you undergo matters and makes you stronger, more learned than the end result.<br />2.Made me aware of the different adverse situations one will face in the real world.<br />3.I came to know about my true friends, people whom i can trust my life on.<br />4. People can facilitate or guide you to take a decision but its you who will and have to take the final decision as you know about your capabilities better than others.<br />5.Resist to get into emotional trap.<br />6.I realised that i can talk logically under pressure.Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-7610685607561875362007-12-26T16:00:00.000+05:302007-12-26T16:01:57.809+05:30Dravid --- Indefatigable personaI came across an article on Dravid, i agree to most part of it.<br />here is the link <a href="http://www.haftamag.com/2007/10/12/rahul-dravid-a-journey-par-excellence/">http://www.haftamag.com/2007/10/12/rahul-dravid-a-journey-par-excellence/</a>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-77903344962347942502007-10-04T17:16:00.000+05:302007-10-04T17:22:31.170+05:30Cricket 2020 way or the 5050 way<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It is surprising and strange that this is my first post on cricket. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This post is in response to the adulation that our 2020 cricket team is receiving. And what was rather shocking was the speculation about the future of the big three with the present success of present young team.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It’s hilarious and unintelligent that present young team can win us matches and tournaments in one day international with the same panache of winning 2020 format. The basic difference between 50-50 and 20-20 format is you need batsmen who can stand at the crease for longer time rather than hit out and get out types. This difference is bought out in practice the way <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Bangladesh</st1:country-region></st1:place> played against the big wigs, they have batsmen who are apt for the 20-20 format, and they are not well equipped to stay for a longer time.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This is no way ridicule to the victory that our team has received. It’s a great win that Indian team has achieved. But what was a shock was the way they were treated as they were the best in the history of Indian cricket. There is every chance that these young lads (average age of 24) will take this hero worship into their head, and no one knows whether they will be able to accommodate losses and the criticism which is mostly likely to accompany.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It is in the best interest of Indian cricket that the big three stay in the team and groom these talented young lads for the vagaries that cricket will have in bag for the future.</p>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-38511876437786968072007-08-20T10:32:00.001+05:302008-09-07T18:55:53.308+05:30Chak De – Not one more review!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgILFc4irC_y_MlZY1YTG_2O51N1v8ZfF0Sj_-rrzU0Rwm126ezgp5GvUVthyphenhyphenEfOr6vu9ux_fBjwKYt7PrXIstd_EECAQCWyoXx4mwdk6unnaxzloGa91AIACJO0zXuSPk4qvqd/s1600-h/ChakDe12.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgILFc4irC_y_MlZY1YTG_2O51N1v8ZfF0Sj_-rrzU0Rwm126ezgp5GvUVthyphenhyphenEfOr6vu9ux_fBjwKYt7PrXIstd_EECAQCWyoXx4mwdk6unnaxzloGa91AIACJO0zXuSPk4qvqd/s320/ChakDe12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100645357616539106" border="0" /></a> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Just looking back at my blog entries I realize there is not much happening in life apart from watching movies, or there are too many things happening around that I don’t have time to reflect back (hope the latter was true).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p>Coming back to the topic, I watched Chak De this Friday. It was with Shashank and Raj. I had my share of watching bad movies (too many of them) most of them being telugu, shashank being the reason to blame. Returning from <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>, he insists watching telugu movies, he still thinks they are as good as the ones that were around when he left (3 years ago). The deterioration of telugu movies is unprecedented, I did not watch a decent telugu movie after Bomarillu that was approx one year ago. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I had this feeling of watching a very decent movie right into 10 minutes of the Chak De. The screenplay is very gripping, direction very natural with great support from cinematography making you feel the smell of dust (I meant quite natural).</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p><br />I always cherished watching movies related to sports, more so in English as they have many of such movies. Even though you know what is going to be the climax, you still are gripped to the narration of Chak De. One cannot but appreciate the versatility of Shah Rukh Khan for his acting prowess in this movie. I started appreciating him is a good actor from the movie Swades. This would be one of his best movies in his career. I think it’s quite a risk to act in such movies at the top of one's career and I hope to see that it pays off for Shah Rukh. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p>One of the most touching points presented in the movie are, importance of team over individual (I always believed in this all through my life) and how girls/women are looked down by the other sex. I should bring out something about feminism; I read a <a href="http://nyxview.blogspot.com/2007/08/life-on-streets.html">blog</a> entry of my colleague which talks about the problems faced due to eve teasing. The blog influenced me so much that I started rating places based on the safety of girls. I just can’t stop thinking about eve teasing, which I thought was not too rampant in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Hyderabad</st1:place></st1:city> (rather I hoped it never existed). Man, this is getting into my head, after watching Chak De which even more emphasized the point that women are always a suppressed lot. Hope I am not turning into feminist. There is this very thin line between being sensitive to others feelings and believing that every man is a maniac. That blog entry started all this, but hope that does not turn into hatred for guys. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p><br />I should thank my friends (Phani and Shashank) for making me move my lazy ass to come up with some updates on my blog, which by the way felt like ages ago. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-38038194398246524862007-04-15T12:15:00.002+05:302008-08-24T15:51:15.990+05:30'Bheja Fry' -- The crisp comedy<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><?xml:namespace prefix = v /><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"><v:path connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" extrusionok="f"><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:lock aspectratio="t" ext="edit"><v:imagedata title="" src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.png"><span style="color:black;">Yesterday 6 of us ventured out to watch a movie called '<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">bheja</span></span> fry'.<br />Everyone was skeptical about watching this movie, though I insisted that it would<br />be a great movie to watch.<br /></span></p></v:imagedata></o:lock></v:path></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:stroke><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:black;">Even i was skeptical after my hopes were shattered by their earlier venture "honeymoon travels". I took my friend to this movie against his choice of "ghost rider" which i thought would be a trivial kids movie, turned out to be in the top 10 earners of the month (year probably).<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:black;">It was </span><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:time hour="13" minute="30"><span style="color:black;">1:30</span></st1:time><span style="color:black;"> in the afternoon, we started from our place (i call it suburb -euphemism) to sangeeth (around 20km) from our place. </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="color:black;">Hyderabad</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color:black;"> sucks in these matters of hindi movies. At max there would be 4-5 movie halls which screen such movies two of them being pvr and prasads.<br />And the chances of getting a ticket in pvr and prasads is around 10% during weekends, so we are left with 2-3 cinema halls with couple of them in some suburbs exactly 40-60 km from my place.<br />so we are left with very few options. Any ways we reached the hall at around </span><st1:time hour="14" minute="15"><span style="color:black;">2:15</span></st1:time><span style="color:black;">. There were some 10 people near the hall. My friends were very sure that we are the only stupid who dared to come to such a movie. But i still insisted that it will be a good movie.<br />Movie started at </span><st1:time hour="15" minute="30"><span style="color:black;">3:30</span></st1:time><span style="color:black;"> it was a roller coaster ride, amazing movie. Though the movie was copied every scene from a french movie, the dialogues were intelligent and witty. It was an awesome movie after all. Vinay pathak as bhusan was exemplary, his timing was apt and expressions very genuine. Kudos to the team i should say and the dialogue writer in particular. There isn't much story to talk about but the dialogues were too good.<br />I think these movies might not be money guzzlers like stupid movies (kank, dhoom-2). But they give you a good laugh and a refreshing experience. More production houses should make such movies, they cost less ( i did not find a scene or location where they needed to spend in such movies) and are more importantly appreciated. It makes business sense as well as the return on equity will be far more than those 40-50 crore ventures as the investment need is very less ( at max i guess it should have cost them 1 crore). As the investment is less the risk involved is equally less when compared to high investment projects. Return should be equally good with new age multiplex audience increasing daily. Not just from the movie goers, i guess every one would love to have a dvd / cd of such movie, they can earn equally well with dvd rights. other revenue avenues would be rights from tv channels.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">So i think it makes perfect business sense to produce such movies (khosla ka ghosla, bheja fry etc). It will save us from the disgusting movies that are released atleast 2 in a week.</p>Chalo have a great time by watching bheja fry.<br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:black;"></span><span style="font-family:'Arial Narrow';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><br /></span></span><br /><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"><v:path connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" extrusionok="f"><o:lock aspectratio="t" ext="edit"><v:imagedata title="" src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.png"></v:imagedata></o:lock></v:path></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:stroke>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1175661064291265032007-04-04T09:38:00.000+05:302007-04-04T10:01:04.300+05:30<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Where are we heading?</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Bandh was declared in Hyderabad today (4th april) against supreme court's stay on OBC reservation.<br />Reason for stay : Using 1931 data for arriving at the present percentage of quota. which any rational mind would think a good enough reason for stay.<br />Now how do the ministry and parties reply to this, they call for bandh against the stay, as they lack balls (can't help it but use that word) to look into the matter and stand by their quota percentages. If they think what ever they are suggesting would help and it the right thing to do, i dont understand why dont they do a market assessment on the numbers and update the 1931 figures.<br />Now the underlining aspect is that they are not sure (or damn sure to falter) that the present calculation will be correct.<br />How do they retaliate call for bandh , this solves two points<br /> show their allegiance for serving the backward castes<br /> Show supreme court that the people are backing their decision.<br />Seriously where are we heading, with a boastful 10% growth rate, about to be become as one of the economic superpower on one hand. And caste based politics, decisions to gain vote bank, on the other.<br />Is there any way one can stop this, i dont think we can change these politicians to work for the greater good (never going to happen). What is the solution?<br />We need systemic changes, where the politicians have to follows the rules, they can't make judgments (rules) but only follow standard rules and implement them. who will set these rules, people from academic background, bureaucrats with good track record, and should have representation from different walks of life (i am not talking of a caste based reservation here) like farmers, villagers etc.<br />This will for sure have a greater impact for the cause of development of india. One of the many problems with the above suggestion is that, we might neglect the welfare of the lower rug. Possible solution for that, any firm which reaps benefits from our land should pay back some percentage by setting up welfare societies.<br />I know most of these sound radical, but only such radical decisions can save us from these politicians.<br /></div>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1156401196275776872006-08-24T11:49:00.000+05:302006-08-24T12:03:16.300+05:30<strong><span style="color:#6633ff;">Goa in pics</span></strong> <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3885/2154/1600/DSCN1057.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 322px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 256px" height="220" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3885/2154/320/DSCN1057.jpg" width="320" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3885/2154/1600/DSCN1056.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3885/2154/320/DSCN1056.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3885/2154/1600/DSCN1024.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 307px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 198px" height="182" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3885/2154/320/DSCN1024.jpg" width="285" border="0" /></a><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3885/2154/1600/DSCN1040.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 295px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 191px" height="206" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3885/2154/320/DSCN1040.jpg" width="224" border="0" /></a>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1156181059421840052006-08-21T22:46:00.000+05:302006-08-21T22:54:19.450+05:30<div align="justify"><em><strong><span style="color:#000099;">Go Goa ----- A perfect holiday destination</span></strong><br /></em><br />It was fun while it lasted, before it happened, and even after it was done. I am talking about my trip to Goa. It was much needed relief from the work life which tried its best to turn me into a lifeless robot.<br />It started on a promising note, planned as a trip with 7 people ended up with a group of 4 adventurous guys (Me, Srinu, Ravi and Malli). <br />It started with some witty comments about my physical appearance (i look good though ;)) that continued for quite sometime. None of us expected what was in the package ahead in our journey. I had a memorable 3 hours of my life, which will be cherished all through my life.<br />It was journey through the western ghats of our country from castle rock to madgaon. One should see it to believe it, there were valleys, water falls greenery all through, enough tunnels to make us realize the importance of light once we experience the darkness. It was a great moment in my life. It sounds like an exaggeration but should experience it to believe it. It reminded me of a scene from the lord of the rings. <br />We reached Madgaon at 6:30pm, we were helped by an old man, he came down to receive his son in law (he was our co-passenger), he lent his car to drop us at the local bus station. It took us almost an hour to reach Goa. Once should experience the worst to appreciate the mediocre. That was the feeling i had after I saw the Goan administration managing its transport services when compared to hyderabad’s RTC.<br />Me and malli were very adamant at going to a pub, disco in particular that night. It was a Saturday day, I was expecting good crowd, little did we guess what was going to happen. We landed at tito’s one of the famous pub around. We were stopped at the entrance as the stag’s were not allowed that night. Goa has a weird rule of not allowing vehicles between 12am to 5am. So we were stuck at the place. The pub was close to the baga beach. Srinu and ravi went to the beach, me and malli went to a near by bar to get couple of beer and breezer. The scene at beach was as expected couples all around the place, deeply immersed in the romantic bliss. Being from a Bschool this was not new for me (I did not experience it but I have at least seen it ;( ), Ravi a Casanova himself did not find it anything new, Srinu with his character did not even notice that there were couples around, and the guy left was malli. Our malli was frustrated looking at guys around enjoying with their partners and pitying about his state, cursing the people around. This made him drink 2 vodka’s large. Things were out of control for malli, barged into every girl in his sight, and enquired if she is ok to give him company to enter into the pub. Tried his guts out to convince couple of girls, but then he realized that he was not alone; he was with 3 other hopeless guys and gave up the effort of convincing girls. Our first day at goa ended in that fashion, returning to our place at 6 slept enough and woke up at 1 pm.<br />Next day we went to calangute beach, as we stepped into the beach to our horror saw 5 people drowning. The fisherman around went into the sea to bring back the people who were drowning, they managed getting back 3 people, the other two were missing. We carried a guy from shore to the ambulance which was some 300mt away. We left the beach in pensive mood, thinking about the incident, thoughts about life and death, elders advices and others filling our empty mind. That was our second day at goa. The trip till now had extreme highs and lows; it was complete black and white emotions that we faced.<br />Next day we again went to calangute and near by beaches, went to fort aguada, the dil chata hai location, it was an amazing location. The same day we left to pune, reached the place at 7am.<br />Reached Lonvla from pune at 2pm, it was drizzling when we reached there, it was 3 -4km walk from the station to the waterfalls. Once we reached there the weather turned overcast it started raining heavily. Stayed back at a place for almost an hour. Then started trekking to reach the top of the waterfall, it was very slippery. The locals out there were running with slippers and sandals while 4 of us with sneakers of adidas, nike, lee cooper. were finding it hard even to walk. Finally it took us almost an hour to reach a decent height (if one can call it so).<br />That is how it ended, it was certainly fun while it lasted, it was a much needed relief from work. I enjoyed it. i hope my next trip would be better. should choose between karnataka and kerala for my second trip. lets wait and watch.</div>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1154337405331142412006-07-31T14:45:00.000+05:302006-09-19T13:55:32.066+05:30<div align="justify"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Can we do something?</span></strong><br />These days my allegiance is shifting from melodious and soothing music to rock music. I wasn’t quite a rock fan earlier, but I used to like some of their tracks like metallica’s nothing else matters, linkin park: In the end. These days I started liking most of the pink floyd’s work. Few days back I was watching Vh1 channel, they were broadcasting some show for helping poor in Africa. In one of their breaks they showed this touching documentary which gave the following facts:<br />We spend $50 billon per year for sneakers.<br />We spend $75 billion on purchase of fashion accessories<br />We spend $300 billion on liquor<br />We spend $600 billion on tours and travels<br />We spend $50 billion on branded clothes<br /><br />And the most touching statistics:<br />$50 billion can save 50,000 lives per day. So can we do something?<br /><br />This started me thinking, can I do something about it, I came up with all these weird ideas like not spending much on branded apparel, substituting them with the local ones and save the difference for charity. For someone like me who just got his job and looking for avenues to spend money (clothes being one of the major arena to spend) this comes rather as a serious task. Lets see how do I stand on this.<br /></div>Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1151394596289868172006-06-27T13:18:00.000+05:302006-06-27T13:19:56.300+05:30<strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ffcc66;">Rendezvous with a typical Hyderabadi:</span><br /></span></strong><br />Strange things happen to you when you travel in Hyderabad’s busses.<br />It was 7:30 at night, had a pretty boring day at office, there was a drizzle for few minutes, so it was damn humid when I got into the bus. Sweat dripping all over my face, and a feel of the Hyderabad crowd. Was pretty disgusted and was off for a long time. Then some guy asks me if he could hold my bag, I said its quite heavy, still he insisted. While taking my bag he asked me whether he looks like someone who is drunk. I was taken aback by this statement and was wondering as to why he asked me that.<br />May be he thought I was ridiculing his generous offering, or do I look like a bar tender who can find out who is drunk and who is not. I did not reply anything, he started narrating his story. He bunked his office and went for a party, had a couple of beers according to him its not at all considered boozing. He was apprehensive as to his parents might find out that he is drunk. He continued telling me about his daily itinerary.<br />Now I know who are in his family, where does he work, when will he be at a particular hour in the day.<br />I was amazed at the openness with which he was sharing his information. I thought may be I could reach that stage where I do not have any inhibitions sharing my information with others and just talk to others without any pride.<br />This conversation made me think as to why does he need to tell me all this, how am I related to him, will I be of any help to solve his woes, any answers??Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1147336829436040492006-05-11T13:20:00.000+05:302006-05-11T14:10:29.506+05:30hmm back again after a long time<br />Now its some arbit discussion<br /><br />Reasons why I dont booze:<br />As a child i used to hate people who are drunk and behave shabbily, n i did not want to be one of them ( too trivial to be a reason right )<br />Now the real one , i dont like the taste of any of them , i have tried vodka, rum, beer, whisky, takila. But none of them were good.<br />I am not loosing out on the kick thing because there are other venues where i get that kick .<br />I get that kick in dancing, watching a close cricket match, reading a good book, watching a close encounter in any sport.<br /><br />Do you people realize the advantages of travelling in a bus , I get to think about all this arbit things on earth.<br />Chal thats it for today will come up with something next timePraveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1140043738495440132006-02-16T04:18:00.000+05:302006-02-16T04:18:58.496+05:30<strong>TERM 1</strong><br />This was the day where i felt really bad about my fate for the complete day, Reason i was put in section A where as all the good looking girls were in section B (dont judge me on this :)), added to this my mentor was G.K.Nayak (look out for him in the future story) seniors adviced me its better if i leave the college for this, but the saving grace was sriram in the same section.Then started the b-school education, it was fun on the first day. Everything seemed fun and interesting, Govindarajan looked like sachin tendulkar at his best (when he score 183 against new zealand at hyd). I started appericiating myself for my decision of selecting MBA against MS or a Job. Then came the first assignment of forecasting methods by G.K.Nayak to be submitted by 12:00 am the same day. I thought there should be some mistake in the notice, assuming that its impossible to submit an assignment at night at 12. Then came to know that we were supposed to upload the assignment onto AIS(accademic information system). I thought this was fundoo. My group mates were jacob, kamal, gunjan, himanshu. Again was unlucky not to have roll no 26 in my group ( my fate keeps on cheating me on this aspect). Already knew quite a bit about kamal as he was always participative in the class discussions(in fact major part of the 90 mins consists of his involvement), but was not very much familiar with other three people. Jacob is a very nice guy from kerala, somehow felt he came too early to a b-school on the first time i saw him. Gunjan a graduate from Shriram college, feared talking to her much relying on the vast experience i have talking to girls ( now u can pity my condition).himanshu was a guy of his own world. It was fun to work in the project, i could contribute atleast something to the group. Days passed with classes taking most part of the day, with Geeku flooding us with his assignments. Then suddenly one day marketing quiz was announced, one should see the seriousness with which people were preparing for the quiz. It was a quiz for 20 mins, there was a word limit, extra word will be penalised with a negative mark. it was fun preparing for the quiz.Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1140043683260867512006-02-16T04:17:00.000+05:302006-02-16T04:18:03.260+05:30Orientation programme:<br />Had a first time chance to look at all pgp-1 girls together. Had some gyaan session in the start then suddenly were asked to put all the chairs aside, i was waiting some one to pick them up for me, but had to pick it myself to follow the suit. Then there were some really cool games, i never expected such games to be played in any educational institute. But was a good start up to know each other, and nice way to start talking to girls. Made lot of friends in these few days. Could not stop myself from writing this, me and sriram were talking in telugu about good looking girls( i guess you people know what talking about girls mean) who were performing on stage as a part of a HR game. Suddenly we here a telugu voice from behind, it was aparna. I really hoped that she did not hear whatever we were talking about. Now we became a good friends. Already during this session had a taste of faff-masters on rampage, while they were explaining their experience in these 3 daysPraveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1140043657188281832006-02-16T04:15:00.000+05:302006-02-16T04:17:37.196+05:30My room no: B-147:This was my room in the first year strategically located with 4 seniors and 4 juniors. First guy to meet in the block was Kishore lanky south indian from coimbatore. There were lot of similarities between both of us, both from south , both were freshers, both were engineers, both had job offer from syntel. Then there was Shakti, a hulk from Bhubaneshwar was very docile in the first few months then donno why he turned out so violent after that. He is a very nice guy, who is always there to help you, he helped me out and familiarised me to bhubaneshwar. Sudeep, a short guy with 2 yrs of work exs, though he does not seem so. these were the juniors in our well. Seniors Pabs, maximus, adonis, attila. I had real fun with all these people though i was the element of fun most of the time. I have experienced the hardships of life literally, where people used to thrash me up for the sake of fun. I miss those people.Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1140040512092965022006-02-16T03:23:00.000+05:302006-02-16T03:29:22.710+05:30My two yrs at a b-school:<br />This is part of the series which talks about my experiences at XIMB.<br /><br />Reason why i came to a b-school : got bored of engineering and related stuff. This was one place and phase in my lifetime i have learnt a lot, which i can treasure for lifetime. I feel fortunate enough to be here along with all the great people around.The best part of XIMB was there was no competitive pressure, which would have detered my relationships with my peers. Everyone is cheerful and do not mind to share their knowledge and experience with others (as is not the case with other b-schools esp:IIMs).<br />My first day at XIMB:I was accompained by my dad (he thought i was too chicken to take care of myself), here i am now where i can claim to take care of my self at any foriegn land, gyaan apart. First guy whom i met on campus was sriram (naturally being a telugu guy). He is a stud from IIT, kgp, very modest soul, talks very less about IIT unless asked. Then met a dude from delhi , Arpan was a flambouyant guy with a fluent english speaking ability, looking at these two i thought i am at a wrong place felt inferior when compared with these two. Three of us went for a walk, both of them started talking about novels ( still an unexplored area for me), sports played at their college, only thing i played till then was cricket n cricket. In a chat of 20 minutes i was able to speak twice or thrice. Then met Samiran (called as jamadar dont know why?) then i thought there were some people like me as well, We were talking about GRE, MS other b-school calls and about other stuff regarding engineering. I was feeling comfortable talking to him, then sudenly he started talking about his girl friend and other stuff . Enquired about if I had a girl friend , then my xpression was there to be seen ( i can count the number of girls i had talked to in mylife time till then). But the best thing was everyone was down to earth. Then we all gathered to play cards. It was fun!!!.I reached my room at 12 where my dad was waiting to talk to me. Then i guess he realised that i got myself (too) comfortable with the place.<br />uff i did not knew i can be verbose as well......<br />continued.......Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1139693117740530432006-02-12T02:43:00.000+05:302006-02-16T03:27:49.996+05:30Trip to Satpada:<br /><br />Yesterday i visited satpada and puri.<br />It was an awesome experience, there were some really cool things that happened.<br />I got a chance to see the puri jaganath from a close proximity(pious side of me :))<br />Had a great time at the puri beach, one of the safest beach in the country. If i did not get drowned then no one can get drowned in this beach. Went to satpada from puri, were a bit late, by the time we reached there. Was able to see ( fins) of 2 dolfins. they were barely visible . Again it was ambitious to expect to see them in full flow as seen in TV shows.<br />Boat journey was great had some good prawns at the sea mouth,<br />At the end of the day i could not stop myself from appreciating the beauty of nature.<br />Most important thing was the company i had all along was really cool.<br />I was along with my friends Ram, Venky ,Richa, Seema ( they were in different car)<br />Me, Satyen, Manu, Sudeshna (we were in one car).<br /><br />Did not inform parents about the trip. Planning what to do in march whether to go for some trip.<br />I feel that i have spent enough of dad's money and should think about extravagant spending once i start earning, but donno whether i will get this oppurtunity in future, can i meet these friends in future.<br /><br />so chill ppl bye for nowPraveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1139298812839245382006-02-07T13:10:00.000+05:302006-02-07T13:23:32.846+05:30Its individual brilliance :<br /><br />I had a small chat with my GnG prof yesterday. It was after the class for some doubts :)<br />One cannot stop admiring at the depth and the breadth of the knowledge this man has.<br />It ranges from global economics, war economics, governance issues , yoga and firms in particular. There are some people who talk about different issues in the world and complain about them, there are very few who try to understand the reasons behind the policies , try to find the alternative designs. And our prof falls under the second category.<br />If one could achieve atleast 10% of what he has achieved , then that can be considered quite an achievement.Praveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21310449.post-1138114603107749052006-01-24T20:15:00.000+05:302006-01-24T20:26:43.113+05:30<em>Hmm Nature all the way</em><br /><em></em><br />Few days back i went to satkosia, a wild life santuary<br />It was an awesome trip, it made me realise the true beauty of nature, and how trivial man is when compared to it.<br />Two back to back trips of araku and satkosia, bought me close to nature's beauty.<br />The places were too great to be believed. It made me think whether man can make atleast 1% of what the nature can create.<br />How important is nature in ones life, I guess we are loosing something by living in these concrete jungles.<br />I felt we got ourselves so used to civilization its very difficult for us to keep away from them, dont know whether thats for good or bad, ( We had to travel 60 kms all the way to make a call)<br />On the other hand there are some good things this civilization has bought us, for eg a digicam which makes me capture the nature's beauty , and cherish it for a longer time.<br />Now can one make a judgement on whether civilazation is good or bad, hmm not very sure.<br />bye for now thenPraveen Kandanalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725362623279798729noreply@blogger.com0