tatav 2010 the cultural and management fest of lal bahadur institute of management sciences is one of the better institute for the study of managent in the city and tatav was a fest we the students who participated enjoyed a lot a better organised fest which presents a mixture of casual events to highly competetive management events and games we enjoyed both
we participated and competed against the best management colleges in ncr region count the top ones, they were there and guys we were equal to the challenge
faiz stood out at the top he won 1st prize at the stand up comedy competetion his stint was a winner as it was perfect combo of performance and content hats of to you faiz
we as like a routine with various fest were at top of the ad-mad event, ya you are right we again were first in a two round ad mad event we rocked yar it's great fun to go out to such events and take part we learn there more then a typical day at the class
you should have been there for the quiz(30,000 at stake) well around 50 teams participated for the business quiz (FMS , IIT , IMT , ET.AL THEN THERE WERE CORPORATE PEOPLE WHO WERE THE BEST IN PRILIMS way above college participants level) the level of it both general and business quiz were way above what we knew or imagined truely covered topics from the whole history and every news which has come or will be the news in times to come was there
it put a mirror in our front and set up parameters of performance and competetion well wishing all cms students success in future events everywhere we participate, it's only good for cms and those who go and participate
Monday, February 22, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
TRIP TRIPPIN
Hey guys how u all doin? We have an official trip coming up in 2-3 weeks…Where would you like to go? The Dharamshala-Dalhoisie trip is over…I don’t think anyone is gonna go for that…We have 2 options as of now:
1. The Rajasthan route, consisting of Jaipur, Udaipur and Jaaselmer….
2. Sikkim- Darjeeling -Gangtok Route
If you have any more opinions, please inform me before it’s too late…Remember, we have only 5 days total for the trip, sat, sun , mon, tue, wed….Director is NOT giving permission for more days..otherwise if we want to go for a really LONG trip, consisting of 9 Days (5 working days and 4 weekends), we have to be REALLY STRONG and UNITED..We have to be sure where we want to go and we have to speak to the director as a whole unit..there shudnt be any confusion or hesitation among us…Options in this case would be Kerela, Pondicherry, Mysore or Goa..But we wud have to convince our seniors as well…
Think about it…if the class can reach a consensus, then we can talk to the Director and request him for what we want..
Au revoir,
Varun Valsalan Nair.
1. The Rajasthan route, consisting of Jaipur, Udaipur and Jaaselmer….
2. Sikkim- Darjeeling -Gangtok Route
If you have any more opinions, please inform me before it’s too late…Remember, we have only 5 days total for the trip, sat, sun , mon, tue, wed….Director is NOT giving permission for more days..otherwise if we want to go for a really LONG trip, consisting of 9 Days (5 working days and 4 weekends), we have to be REALLY STRONG and UNITED..We have to be sure where we want to go and we have to speak to the director as a whole unit..there shudnt be any confusion or hesitation among us…Options in this case would be Kerela, Pondicherry, Mysore or Goa..But we wud have to convince our seniors as well…
Think about it…if the class can reach a consensus, then we can talk to the Director and request him for what we want..
Au revoir,
Varun Valsalan Nair.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
AUTO Expo 2010
Hey Guys!!!
Well some of us made it to the auto expo...Too bad many of you didnt show up...We had a hell lot of fun...Me, Farhan, Nadeem, Naiyer, Rehan Baba, Sunderlal, Varun2, and some more of our friends...we got entry pretty easily...the tickets were priced at Rs 200 each, but me, farhan naiyer and sunderlal got business passes bcoz at first we were the only ones present.. We got free food coupons along with it as well, and went around in the little electric golf carts..The cars were great, all the displays were amazing...Marketing students should hve beem there to check out how the different companies were trying to outdo each other with their displays...My most fav car company display was of that of Mercedes Benz, and bike was YAMAHA...both were excellent...Plus there was an appearance, by saif ali khan as well...but he had to cut his performance short bcoz of crowd trouble...
I hope all of you guys will join us next time...
Adios,
Varun Nair
Well some of us made it to the auto expo...Too bad many of you didnt show up...We had a hell lot of fun...Me, Farhan, Nadeem, Naiyer, Rehan Baba, Sunderlal, Varun2, and some more of our friends...we got entry pretty easily...the tickets were priced at Rs 200 each, but me, farhan naiyer and sunderlal got business passes bcoz at first we were the only ones present.. We got free food coupons along with it as well, and went around in the little electric golf carts..The cars were great, all the displays were amazing...Marketing students should hve beem there to check out how the different companies were trying to outdo each other with their displays...My most fav car company display was of that of Mercedes Benz, and bike was YAMAHA...both were excellent...Plus there was an appearance, by saif ali khan as well...but he had to cut his performance short bcoz of crowd trouble...
I hope all of you guys will join us next time...
Adios,
Varun Nair
Friday, January 8, 2010
Podar Moneta Challenge
Chapter 1
13.12.09
06:30 a.m
Fazal calling Nisha: Yaar Nisha, Patla Varun and Naiyer are not picking up their phones…I have been trying to wake them up since 5 o clock….
Nisha: Don’t worry, our train is at 8:30…there is still 2 hours left…
Fazal: Ya, but I'm in tension..I'm awake because I didn’t sleep at all…Those guys slept at 3:00 a.m.. We were having masti in Varun’s room till then…I shall keep calling them..
07:15 a.m
Fazal calling Nisha (for 10th time): NISHAAAAAAA……..Im losing my mind!!!!! Those guys are going to miss the train, we can’t go without them!!!! They are in charge of everything!!!!!
Nisha: Calm down Fazal, I will try calling Varun, you run to Naiyer’s house and wake him up and get him ready…..
07:30 a.m
Nisha calling Varun: Varun???? Finally! You picked up!
Varun: Uhhhhhhh……..HHHHHHuh? whoooooo????
Nisha: WAKE UP VARUN!!!!! Its ME NISHA!!!!
Varun: HHHHHHHuhhhh??? What’s a mean isha?
NISHA: AAARGHHHHHH….Wake up you **$$%##, you’re going to miss the train…..
Varun: ughhhhhhhhhhhh………Train shmain….call me after half an hour….
Nisha: Varun, the train leaves within an hour…and you need half an hour to reach the station… And you never leave your room without taking a bath or praying…sooooo…….
Varun….HUH!!!! whatimeisit??wha?wha? NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Thus started our journey to Mumbai… Surprisingly, we all reached the Hazrat Nizammuddin Station on time. But as I expected, the train left half hour late. There was never any need to take so much of tensiom, I tried (rather unsuccessfully) to tell Fazal and Nisha..There were six of us-Varun Nair, Naiyer Alam, Nisha Singh, Anam Khan, Fazlur Rehman and Varun Narain. We left early on a cold (actually freezing) December morning on the 13th to go to Mumbai. Our aim was to take part in the Podar College of Commerce and Economics mega fest “MONETA“. It consisted of 3 days of intense financial games and seminars-an extravaganza to stimulate the passion for finance in today’s youth. The second we heard about it, Naiyer, Fazal and I signed up. We knew that this was an opportunity that we simply couldn’t miss. And luckiliy, we were joined by the three others later on. It took a lot of effort and time to resolve all the nagging details, especially of our travel, our accommodation and our events registration. But in the end, it was worth it…we gained a treasure load of experience and knowledge.
The journey was very VERY enjoyable, full of MASTI (as Fazal put it). Since we were going in sleeper class, we were worried that we may have to share our berths with strange people..But nothing of that sort happened. We spent the entire morning eating snacks and playing cards. We must have played around 5 different card games. Naiyer, Varun2 and myself also tried our hand at a couple of ‘magic tricks’..After lunch (a mixture of home cooked food, snacks and food from the train) we started exploring the train and clicking various pictures of the scenery outside (and 4 times that of pictures of ourselves). . In evening time, we watched a horror movie (THE EYE) in Fazal’s lappy..After that it was antakshari time, then chess time, and then……finally sleeping time! I decided not to sleep, as no one would be there to look after our belongings..But mercifully, Nisha relieved me after 4 hours and took over…I quickly got some shut eye before our station arrived…
We got off at Bombay Central Station on 14th morning at 5:00 a.m. The welcoming committee of Podar College sent a couple of students with 2 cars to pick us up. I still remember the first thing that they asked, the second they laid their eyes on us, “WOW!!! Is it really that cold in Delhi?”
TO BE CONTINUED...
Thursday, October 29, 2009
PLS READ THIS...
Hello everyone...I want to clear some things out....It is true that im the Joint Secretary, and while it is my duty to SERVE you all, im not anybody's SERVANT..im aiming this dialogue at some very specific ppl whom i do not want to name, but i hope all of you heed the difference..
Now to address the HUGE hungama surrounding our business suits...thats right, A SUIT !!!!! A whole class of future CEOs and managers, and we cannot take a simple decision regarding 3 metres of cloth...truly i pity the companies tht are going to hire us..how much are we going to fight and play politics before we realise that at the end, only we are going to suffer, and not others? Neither the college nor the teachers will be affected, only us...
As Gupta Sir told a select few today, none of us is bigger than the organisation. We are all identified with our dept. so all of us HAS to take decisions tht will be for the best for the DEPT..it becomes obvious then, what we should all do...complain less, become united, and take decisions rationally...as all our teachers are saying again and again, MBA is not about studying from books..it is all about developing personality and getting into the right mindset..A manager's biggest role is to be a problem solver...but instead of finding a solution to every problem, we are finding problems in every solution..
ok...i went a bit of track... Back to the suits...may i describe wht i hve been going thru for the suits, and pls try to visualize the situation from my shoes..i have been running behind the whole class ever since our mid term tests got over..I requested Gauri to bring 3 suit samples...everyone rejected it on the spot bcoz "the quality wasnt good"....ok fine...i told everyone who dint like them to bring their own samples that was good quality..but no one bothered..Then i took 3 girls and went along with our GS mehul, all the way to the Bombay Dyeing showroom, to get samples..Then after that we went to Lajpat Nagar to get shirt samples...this whole process took 5 hours...Then i showed the 12 suit samples and 10 shirt samples to the entire class....obviously, fighting ensured...so i democratically took a vote...It narrowingly went in favor of suit no 6..but did the rest of the class accept the decision? NO !!!! ofcourse not...tht would hve been too simple...
Deluged with so many complaints, i had no choice but to drop the suit samples...i was earlier collecting rs. 3000 . . .2500 for the suit and 500 for the alumni meet, RUBAROO...so i just instructed sarwar to collect rs 500 for rubaroo...barely 30 ppl from the entire class gave him the money..then after the event was cancelled, he had to give the entire money back..luckily he handled the headaches superbly..i dont think most of u realised how tough it is to walk around with huge sums of other people's money in your pocket..its a huge responsibility..
now fast forwarding the story...i WANTED to arrange suits for the class fast..so i requested the other varun to help me..he said he had an uncle who was in the entire clothing business...so one day, we both went to his office..then he took us to the main wholesaler in Chandni Chowk..there using his contacts and A LOT of negotiations, we got 5 huge suit rolls itself...at 40% discount..then varun and i came back and the next day, we brought the rolls to class...and we kept displaying the cloths to all students like a couple of sales ladies, for TWO days...did the whole class like a particular design..again no, but this time, there was a proper majority atleast..more than 70% of the class said they prefferred the black suit with red stripes..WHEW!!!! our job was finally done!!!! right??? wrong....
I announced to everyone tht it would cost rs 2000 for the suit, pant, shirt tie AND stitching...everyone was ok with it, though some felt it was tad bit expensive...i kept asking around for opinions to everyone in class, blogged all abt it, sent everyone messages...mostly everyone was satisfied..so i told Varun to confirm with his uncle that we will be taking the suits...and i also requested everyone to bring the money...
Then overnight, a HUGE bunch of problems cropped up..some of them were:
1. The quality of material was not "upto standard"
2. it would become destroyed after one washing!!
3. it will disintegrate completely after wearing it 5 times !!!
4. its a bit expensive..
5. Its too cheap...
6. this is a HUGE investment..once we buy a suit, it should last us our entire LIFETIME...(this complaint is my personal favorite)...so it should be of the highest quality, but still be cheap..
7, we dont like the design
8. we dont like the color
9. we need lifetime guarantee on the suit..
10.why cant we all buy different suits?
10. why do we need to buy suits?
the list of complaints kept goin on and on and on...it is impossible to reach a consensus of 66 people, all of us have different tastes and preferences...we should all go with the majority..but our class is sooooooo sellfish, that even a few students who are in the minority raise a huge hue and cry...and fight unnecessarily and play politcs and divide the class...who are the ultimate losers?it is only us..rest of the world are either not bothered or are pointing and laughing at us...
one thing we are good at, that is complaining..and not taking any responsibility..do anyone of you realise how tough it was to get the suits?me and varun wasted DAYS running after the samples..now my time may be worthless to you all, but its very precious for me..i can do so many things, like sleeping or studying or watching a movie, rather than standing under the hot blazing sun and begging retailers to reduce prices...this is exactly what the other VARUn did, wasting his time, petrol, phone credit, etc etc etc...it is so easy to dismiss the samples as saying tht they are worthless...but do you know how much hard work we put behind it to get them to you?Y dont anyone of you go get samples?if you think that you can do better than me, y dont u go get atleast 5 suit samples of high quality, negotiate the prices for best bargain, get them to college, get one selected by a clear majority, decide on the prices, THEN COLLECT THE MONEY, give the advance, get the suit material, then arrange a tailor, get the measurements, get them stitched, then delivered, and still be responsible for any defects?
I dont know from where so many complaints came from....i never knew we had such great quality control agents and fashion experts in our class !!! who are so sure tht the suits we brought were of such low grade...even though Varun's uncle, who has been in this business for over 20 years, is GUARANTEEING the quality of the suits...truly, u guys are great indeed...
Anyways, to cap things off...I had spoken the student advisor..we HAVE to get the suits by November 9th...tht is the last date..And FINALLY by class consensus, we all agreed tht it should be black, with red stripes, a white shirt and a red tie...PLEASE NO MORE ARGUMENTS ON THIS MATTER !!!! I BEG ALL OF YOU !!!!!
Now you have two choices:
1. Go buy your own suit matching the color combination and get it stitched by yourself..you can make it as expensive or cheap as you want...minor variations are no problem at all..
2. Give rs 2000 to me, and i will get the suit to you as agreed before..last date to pay to me is this comig TUESDay..After that, i wont accept any more people, and you have to get your suits from outside..
The other Varun, being the good and naive guy he is, has agreed once AGAIN to go search for new QUALITY of suits..basically he is going to get a black suit with red stripes of Reid n Taylor...this we can offer you at a slightly higher price, which you may not or may not pay....only one thing is certain....<<<>>
-Thanks all of you...my apologies for sounding so rude, but i thot it wud be better to share my feelings and opinions, rather than bottling them up..HAVE A NICE DAY !!
-VARUN NAIR
Now to address the HUGE hungama surrounding our business suits...thats right, A SUIT !!!!! A whole class of future CEOs and managers, and we cannot take a simple decision regarding 3 metres of cloth...truly i pity the companies tht are going to hire us..how much are we going to fight and play politics before we realise that at the end, only we are going to suffer, and not others? Neither the college nor the teachers will be affected, only us...
As Gupta Sir told a select few today, none of us is bigger than the organisation. We are all identified with our dept. so all of us HAS to take decisions tht will be for the best for the DEPT..it becomes obvious then, what we should all do...complain less, become united, and take decisions rationally...as all our teachers are saying again and again, MBA is not about studying from books..it is all about developing personality and getting into the right mindset..A manager's biggest role is to be a problem solver...but instead of finding a solution to every problem, we are finding problems in every solution..
ok...i went a bit of track... Back to the suits...may i describe wht i hve been going thru for the suits, and pls try to visualize the situation from my shoes..i have been running behind the whole class ever since our mid term tests got over..I requested Gauri to bring 3 suit samples...everyone rejected it on the spot bcoz "the quality wasnt good"....ok fine...i told everyone who dint like them to bring their own samples that was good quality..but no one bothered..Then i took 3 girls and went along with our GS mehul, all the way to the Bombay Dyeing showroom, to get samples..Then after that we went to Lajpat Nagar to get shirt samples...this whole process took 5 hours...Then i showed the 12 suit samples and 10 shirt samples to the entire class....obviously, fighting ensured...so i democratically took a vote...It narrowingly went in favor of suit no 6..but did the rest of the class accept the decision? NO !!!! ofcourse not...tht would hve been too simple...
Deluged with so many complaints, i had no choice but to drop the suit samples...i was earlier collecting rs. 3000 . . .2500 for the suit and 500 for the alumni meet, RUBAROO...so i just instructed sarwar to collect rs 500 for rubaroo...barely 30 ppl from the entire class gave him the money..then after the event was cancelled, he had to give the entire money back..luckily he handled the headaches superbly..i dont think most of u realised how tough it is to walk around with huge sums of other people's money in your pocket..its a huge responsibility..
now fast forwarding the story...i WANTED to arrange suits for the class fast..so i requested the other varun to help me..he said he had an uncle who was in the entire clothing business...so one day, we both went to his office..then he took us to the main wholesaler in Chandni Chowk..there using his contacts and A LOT of negotiations, we got 5 huge suit rolls itself...at 40% discount..then varun and i came back and the next day, we brought the rolls to class...and we kept displaying the cloths to all students like a couple of sales ladies, for TWO days...did the whole class like a particular design..again no, but this time, there was a proper majority atleast..more than 70% of the class said they prefferred the black suit with red stripes..WHEW!!!! our job was finally done!!!! right??? wrong....
I announced to everyone tht it would cost rs 2000 for the suit, pant, shirt tie AND stitching...everyone was ok with it, though some felt it was tad bit expensive...i kept asking around for opinions to everyone in class, blogged all abt it, sent everyone messages...mostly everyone was satisfied..so i told Varun to confirm with his uncle that we will be taking the suits...and i also requested everyone to bring the money...
Then overnight, a HUGE bunch of problems cropped up..some of them were:
1. The quality of material was not "upto standard"
2. it would become destroyed after one washing!!
3. it will disintegrate completely after wearing it 5 times !!!
4. its a bit expensive..
5. Its too cheap...
6. this is a HUGE investment..once we buy a suit, it should last us our entire LIFETIME...(this complaint is my personal favorite)...so it should be of the highest quality, but still be cheap..
7, we dont like the design
8. we dont like the color
9. we need lifetime guarantee on the suit..
10.why cant we all buy different suits?
10. why do we need to buy suits?
the list of complaints kept goin on and on and on...it is impossible to reach a consensus of 66 people, all of us have different tastes and preferences...we should all go with the majority..but our class is sooooooo sellfish, that even a few students who are in the minority raise a huge hue and cry...and fight unnecessarily and play politcs and divide the class...who are the ultimate losers?it is only us..rest of the world are either not bothered or are pointing and laughing at us...
one thing we are good at, that is complaining..and not taking any responsibility..do anyone of you realise how tough it was to get the suits?me and varun wasted DAYS running after the samples..now my time may be worthless to you all, but its very precious for me..i can do so many things, like sleeping or studying or watching a movie, rather than standing under the hot blazing sun and begging retailers to reduce prices...this is exactly what the other VARUn did, wasting his time, petrol, phone credit, etc etc etc...it is so easy to dismiss the samples as saying tht they are worthless...but do you know how much hard work we put behind it to get them to you?Y dont anyone of you go get samples?if you think that you can do better than me, y dont u go get atleast 5 suit samples of high quality, negotiate the prices for best bargain, get them to college, get one selected by a clear majority, decide on the prices, THEN COLLECT THE MONEY, give the advance, get the suit material, then arrange a tailor, get the measurements, get them stitched, then delivered, and still be responsible for any defects?
I dont know from where so many complaints came from....i never knew we had such great quality control agents and fashion experts in our class !!! who are so sure tht the suits we brought were of such low grade...even though Varun's uncle, who has been in this business for over 20 years, is GUARANTEEING the quality of the suits...truly, u guys are great indeed...
Anyways, to cap things off...I had spoken the student advisor..we HAVE to get the suits by November 9th...tht is the last date..And FINALLY by class consensus, we all agreed tht it should be black, with red stripes, a white shirt and a red tie...PLEASE NO MORE ARGUMENTS ON THIS MATTER !!!! I BEG ALL OF YOU !!!!!
Now you have two choices:
1. Go buy your own suit matching the color combination and get it stitched by yourself..you can make it as expensive or cheap as you want...minor variations are no problem at all..
2. Give rs 2000 to me, and i will get the suit to you as agreed before..last date to pay to me is this comig TUESDay..After that, i wont accept any more people, and you have to get your suits from outside..
The other Varun, being the good and naive guy he is, has agreed once AGAIN to go search for new QUALITY of suits..basically he is going to get a black suit with red stripes of Reid n Taylor...this we can offer you at a slightly higher price, which you may not or may not pay....only one thing is certain....<<<
-Thanks all of you...my apologies for sounding so rude, but i thot it wud be better to share my feelings and opinions, rather than bottling them up..HAVE A NICE DAY !!
-VARUN NAIR
Monday, October 26, 2009
SUIT
Hi ppl !!!! As u may (or may not) know, the class AS A WHOLE decided on a suit today ...so we have to get it as quickly as possible..Please bring rs 2000 tomorrow!!!! this includes the suit material, shirt material, tie AND stitching...im sure u will all agree that it cant get any cheaper than this. ...(actually u can, if u want a polyester suit)...I know some of u dont like the design, but please remember that the whole class chose this one as a CONSENSUS....this is our official dress, our uniform, which we have to wear in our dept during photo sessions, departmental events and other stuff..you are always willing to buy an expensive suit, with a design of your choice, that you can wear for ur individual interviews..so im looking forward to all ur cooperation in this regard...thanks!!!!
-Varun Nair
Friday, October 23, 2009
IMP NOTICE!!!
Hi Friends!
Just a few things i wanted to share with all of you..
1. All of you were looking very good in formals yesterday. Even though our VC didnt finally turn up, the class as a whole was finally looking like MBA students..i think we should all come in formals more often.
2. Our Alumni meet has been postponed till January second week. Due to unavoidable security reasons, our booking was cancelled. Lots of thanks to Pallavi, Nisha and Anam who called all the 300+ alumni to invite them, and then to Uma and Manju, for calling them up again and cancelling the invitations! Thanks girls...i will need ur help in Jan again..
3. We have to get our business suits ASAP!!! i will be bringing a few more suit samples today or 2morro..Pls bring rs 2500 on MONDAY without fail and submit it to Sarwar..we have to get the suits stitched before next week.
4. If anyone wants to collect their 500 bucks paid for the alumni meet, they can collect it from sarwar. or they can just let him keep it like i hve done, since we have to pay for the suits anyway.
5. VERY VERY IMP: It has been brought to my notice that students of our class consistently approach teachers for change of schedules, assignment dates, assignment topics, etc without consulting other students..I kindly request all of you NOT to do this. the teachers themselves are complaining that our class has no unity, and the blame ultimately falls on me and sarwar. for instance, one student approaches a teacher for preponing a class, then another one goes to the teacher and wants to postpone it, and yet another one wants to cancel the class all together!! please understand that this gives a very bad impression to the teachers, and you are compromising Sarwar's and my position. Sarwar is class REPRESENTATIVE. so for any problems you might face, please go and consult him. if hes not available, please come to me. We both will then take a decison that is in the best interest of the ENTIRE class, not just any particular individual or group. WE will then approach the concerned faculty and solve the problem.I think that most of you will agree to the logic behind this proposition.
Thanks to all of you, and my apologies if i have offended anyone. I have been in a cranky mood all of last week, and my temper has been very short. I would like to say sorry to people that i shouted at unnecessarily, like Pallavi, Devika and Anam. i kno there is no excuse for me for losing my temper, but u guys please understand that ur actions also reflect on me in font of other people eyes..
THANKS !!!! ROCK ON !!!!
-Varun Nair.
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