(Image borrowed from www.elearning.fr.)
I’ve just enrolled for Yoga classes. The first class began today morning at sharp 6 AM. The number of students who turned up: three. The number of students who had promised to turn up: many. The classes are held inside our campus, in a hall behind the temple, amidst greenery and overlooking […]
Archive for August, 2006
Gilbert Hill, Mumbai - A fading monolith
Published by August 28th, 2006 in The Mumbai Blog, The SP Jain Blog and Travel. 4 CommentsGilbert Hill is a 200 foot (90 m) monolith column of black basalt rock in Andheri (West), Mumbai. The rock has a sheer vertical face and was created when molten lava was squeezed out of the earth’s clefts during the Mesozoic Era about 65 million years ago. During that era, molten lava had spread around […]
Army Ants on The National Geographic
Published by August 25th, 2006 in General Stuff and Public Service Ads. 1 Comment
Insects. I love them.
Catch a preview on National Geographic.
It’s time to forget what they taught you in school about the solar system–it no longer has 9 planets. After years of controversy, Pluto has officially been stripped of it’s planetary status. It’s now officially a Dwarf Planet. The confusion arose because all these years the international astronomical community had no formal definition of what […]
Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna
Published by August 23rd, 2006 in Public Service Ads, The Mumbai Blog and The SP Jain Blog. 3 CommentsHaving heard a fair amount of negative reviews about Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, I decided to check it out for myself today evening. A mid-term Cost Accounting exam in the afternoon made the movie all the more desirable. Off we went, Vinayak, Darshan, and myself. We were just in time (or perhaps, as a management […]
If you are new to Mumbai and regularly travel by taxi or by autorickshaw, it’s a good idea to print a copy of the tariff card from the Mumbai Traffic Police website and carry it with you. Mumbai is an honest city. But there’s always that remote possibility.
Download the Mumbai Taxi and Autorickshaw Tariff Card.
Read a few management journals and you would be forgiven for thinking that any problem on Earth can be solved by a set of four boxes. Yep. Four boxes is all it takes for name and fame in the world of management. Google around and you will find tons of four-box solutions all claiming to […]
Caught these beauties spreading the perpetual message of Nature. I am too emotional to write further.
[Blogged from Dome2]
The G Cam
Beauty and the Beast
Published by August 18th, 2006
in The Bangalore Blog, The Mumbai Blog and Travel.
0 Comments
The Beauty
and The Beast
Things to put in your garden
Published by August 18th, 2006 in The Bangalore Blog and The Mumbai Blog. 0 CommentsShot in “The Garden” at Vinayak’s house during my recent dash to Bangalore.
[Blogged from Dome2]
Sudhir sent me this hilarious take on the prime time Kannada TV serial “Crime Diary.” Listen to the story of software engineer “Java Jagga” and the mystery behind his death. The interviews with his company’s CEO, his project manager, and his wife are fanatically comical.
Download Vasuki’s Crime Diary. ROTFLMAO guaranteed!
Vasuki’s Crime Dia…
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[Blogged from […]
“The market is being opened from a great country.”
Nasdaq CEO Bob Greifield after Infosys remotely rang the opening bell for Nasdaq on July 31, 2006. (Source: India Brand Equity Foundation.)
A loophole in Mathematics
Published by August 10th, 2006 in The Mumbai Blog and The SP Jain Blog. 5 CommentsIn one of the assignments that I was solving at 06:00 IST, I ended up with the equation:
3.65 - x + 0.5 = 1.5
Therefore, x = 2.65.
I turned to my roommate, who was also solving the same assignment at 06:00 IST, and asked him what his answer was. He merrily answered, “x = 3.65.” Crash!!!!! […]
Economics Tutorial #2
The Balance of Payments
Published by August 7th, 2006
in The SP Jain Blog.
4 Comments
The Balance of Payments (BoP) is the financial statement of account for the whole country. It records economic transactions (i.e. financial relations) between the economy as a whole and the rest of the world.
The BoP is the sum of two accounts:
The Current Account and
The Capital Account
The Current Account involves the import and export of goods […]
To drink or not to drink?
Published by August 5th, 2006 in General Stuff, Public Service Ads and The Mumbai Blog. 2 CommentsThe pesticide-in-your-soft-drink war continues with The Centre for Science & Environment’s latest study (covering 12 states), which has found dangerous levels of pesticides in all samples of soft drinks tested.
Read the complete story - CSE releases new study on pesticides in soft drinks.
Read the press release - Soft Drinks Still Unsafe…
Download the latest lab report […]
[Preferably for MBA students or if you are adventurous]
Since my classmates have had the pleasure of preparing a report on Chris Argyris’s theories and their implications at the workplace, I wanted to spare other (existing/potential) MBA students from experiencing that pleasure. You can save a whole lot of time by downloading the report from the […]
Economics Tutorial #1
Capital Account Convertibility
Published by August 4th, 2006
in The SP Jain Blog.
5 Comments
Through my brief tutorials I hope to spread knowledge about concepts in economics that we read and hear, but which we never stop to learn and understand. The first tutorial addresses the issue of Capital Account Convertibility. I would love to hear your feedback on this initiative.
Capital Account Convertibility (CAC) is a measure of the […]
Training - Basics of Commodities
Published by August 4th, 2006 in General Stuff, Public Service Ads and The Bangalore Blog. 0 Comments[Flash news]
ICICIDirect invites you for a session on Basics of Commodities on Friday, August 04, 2006 from 6.00 PM to 8.00 PM or on Saturday, August 05, 2006 from 11.00 AM to 1.00 PM.
Venue for session on August 04, 2006:
AP Hall, 267,
35th Main Road, 100 ft Ring Road,
BTM Layout II Stage,
Bangalore
Venue for session […]
The G Cam - From Kodaikanal With Love
Published by August 3rd, 2006 in The Bangalore Blog and Travel. 5 CommentsThe G Cam is back, from Kodaikanal, to put a smile on your face.
[Blogged from Room 205]
[For MBA students only]
Since I have had the pleasure of preparing a report on Erik Erikson’s theories and their implications at the workplace, I wanted to spare other (existing/potential) MBA students from experiencing that pleasure. You can save a whole lot of time by downloading the report from the link below.
Erik Erikson - Theories, Principles, […]
