Got the maximum score in the first round of the quiz and the minimum in the mains and the fact that it happened for two consecutive times cannot be a coincidence. There could be two possibilities. Either I’m not habituated to stage-performance (I become tooo excited) or I don’t think before I answer the questions. Whatever the problem is, I've to get rid of it.
People from Aviva came for the project-training and final placements. They expressly said whatever topic of project you choose, the work which you are going to get is sales. No comments on that. Then they again asked the same set of arid questions. What's the objective of your life? What do you want to do in your life? How much money do you want to see as your bank-balance? At one point of time, their representative even questioned our pursuing of this PGPM course (kind-of who-had-asked-you-to-pursue-MBA?). I didn’t have the guts to counter his statement because I wasn’t sure of my goals and several other questions he asked. The same set of questions was asked by Dr. Mathai Fenn in an earlier session.
At a post-graduate level, if one asks me my life-objective (or let’s say career-objective) and am unable to answer it, it’s a very embarrassing situation. I used to think that I’ll go for research and the topic of research will be decided in due course of time (I still wonder, if that time is not now then when that time is going to come). I think that I may consider a project in an NGO. Let’s see how they work and then make the decision of final placement (as if everything is in my hand). But, still I need to make a career objective. Let’s hope that I’ll be more clear in my next blog.
I don’t understand why my dear classmates are unable to understand my problem of not-understanding-the-regional-languages. But, their going this way will at least help me exploring some nuances of Malayalam (can’t help being optimist). I recall an incident when I was discussing some accounts problem with Dhannya in the presence of Amitabh. I and Dhannya were talking in Hindi and Amitabh was unable to understand anything. The moment I felt Amitabh’s presence, after saying sorry to him I explained the whole thing to him in English.
So, when I went to my home this vacation, I started eating fish. I left eating non-veg for moral reasons but then I thought if I have to explore the food-world, (to be frank, the taste-factor was also there) I’d start eating the sea-food. Lets see how well it goes…
I was thinking of the crisis-situation which India Inc. is facing and therefore resorting to all the cost-cutting measures to the maximum extent (this extent differs from company to company). For sure, this is the best time to advertise on the products on which the company has the most belief. Its also the time to focus just on the core competency. The common reason is that competition is low and all the competitors would be cutting costs. So the thought which came to my mind was how good it would be, if these companies continue these cost-cutting measures even in the normal-times. Won't it cut costs to a great extent in the short as well as long-run? The only negative points am able to find are that the companies won't dare to expand in other businesses and this current sacking of employees in the pursuit of cost-cutting.
