Strategic Infl… Wat? Gimme a BrEaK!!!

As I was crossing the Sharma Dhaba to take the elective-Marketing Research Final Test, a thought struck my mind. The MR Final Test was supposed to be held in soft form (so the answers were supposed to be typed on a computer and then the file was supposed to be transferred to a pen drive; nothing on paper). Hitherto, except some one-day competitive tests, all the tests I’ve taken were on paper and not on computer. During my stay at Delhi in the years 2005-06, I happened to go through the book ‘Only the Paranoids Survive’ by Andrew S. Grove. He coined a term ‘Strategic Inflection Point’ which he explained as a time

in the life of a business when its fundamentals are about to change. I was wondering if this Final MR test is actually such a point (in the examination system) when the mode of taking test slowly transubstantiates from pen to keyboard. The last time I wrote a personal letter and sent it through good old India Post was in 2005. The telecommunication system had slowly superseded the personal letter. And similarly the computer is slowly creeping into the examination system (from just putting the schedules on computer to this point when the answers are typed and not written).

Pen-power cannot be substituted by key-tapping,

De feeling simply comes that something is lacking;

Aha, here comes de i-Pad with virtual keyboard,

But I doubt if even that can undermine de pen-sword.

My last blog was about the Public Systems Project. The 4^th semester followed. In the third semester I opted for eight electives (in a nutshell I went for each and every elective except the two HR electives). That semester was kind-of exhausting one. Now, I haven’t ever taken a New Year resolution. I actually wonder at the logic behind waiting for Jan 1 to venture a good habit or to leave a bad one. So, having experienced the hectic schedule in semester 3, I took a semester-resolution to take bare-minimum electives and I did that. But on the first day itself, the Marketing Research elective was there and I having no other work thought to explore the session.

I took the permission from Mr. Harish to attend the sessions. Now he was a bit different (I’m not sure how to explain in what sense) while explaining concepts, giving live examples, citing his experiences (directly imported from Canada & places around there), making us do group-tasks etc. Impressed and having the minimum credits for the semester 4 I thought to audit the elective. Overall, the 24 sessions (some of my elective-mates said that technically it was a one day course) of MR Elective were like a cool breeze acting as a warm-up activity for the 4^th semester.

It’d been 8 years since I attended any marriage in my relations. And during the break between semester 3 & semester 4 (in Dec), I wasn’t able to visit my home. My parents were coming to attend a marriage at Jamshedpur, so I thought it’d be a good break to attend a marriage and to meet my family at the same time. So, I took the train to Jamshedpur (the train journey from Trivandrum to Jamshedpur takes around 55 hours). When the train reached Rourkela at 0500 hrs. on Monday Morning (I left Trivandrum on Friday at 2330 hrs), it was continually being announced at the platform “No train will proceed to Jamshedpur before 0900 hrs”.

Some of my co-passengers expressed their doubts that Maoists had declared ‘bandh’ for 3 days starting from Monday and this halt of train is somehow related to that. Tired and a bit frustrated (3^rd day of my journey and the destination still seemed to be far off), I talked to the people at the platform when I got to know that Maoists had blown off a part of the only rail-track between Rourkela and

Jamshedpur. After the rail-tracks had been restored, the train restarted and on the way a vendor showed us the actual place where the rail-tracks were blown off. 5-6 RPF Commandos were there in my coach to tackle any untoward situation and butterflies were there in my stomach… The forest around the area was very dense (which would have acted as a haven for Maoists) of which I took the picture on the left.

I don’t know if I’ve observed it correctly but with the dominance of networking websites, I wonder if people have started criticizing more about things like ‘Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara’, ‘iPad’ or ‘Buzz’. I don’t know which one is new? My observation of people criticizing more or people have actually started criticizing more! I learnt ‘Consumer’s Sovereignty’ concept in B.Com, but it seems that this case pertains to somewhat a ‘Networker’s Sovereignty of Criticizm With a Narrow-Mindset’. Google’s Buzz has been criticized by many people on the ground that Google is trying to compete with Twitter. But how do people forget that when they think of Google Account, they’ve to just worry about one username and one password. Everything else (be it contacts, online documents, selective news etc.) is integrated!

So if you manage to read till this point, I hope you won’t mind going through some rhyming lines J

Dis world, its each element is an illusion,

i better be not trapped in dis confusion;

yes! I mean what i just wrote,

it's not simply taken by some quote.

Y m i so cheerful today,

Is dere a bad news on its way?

Ah! Here aligns de rhythm,

after a hiatus, comes de poem.

Poetry doesnt seem 2 b a cup of my tea,

Whatever i write turns out to be silly;

But this hasnt deterred me enuf to stop dis 'silsila',

For i remember a line in malyalam 'njan niruthilla'.

Silsila (Hindi) means series, and Njan niruthilla (Malyalam) means I won’t stop.

On PSP Report submission-

Submitted de PSP report,

Felt like conquered a fort;

Not sure it'll make any sense,

but m ready 4 de CII project coming hence.

The night before the MR End-term-

Difficult 2 believe dat tomoro is de end-term,

Lets c wat marks m goin 2 earn;

I introduced myself 2 de book saying hi,

But 11th hour mein kuch bhi samajh mein na aaye :(

The night before the International Finance Mid-term-

In a least mood to study i'national finance,

But it being a mid-term... Cant take a chance;

It’s a bit boring to study by ppt,

But have got no other option, u c.

On the train to Jamshedpur…

Nature’s beauty is being adored by me,

Wondering if any other job is better than dis;

So many colorful aspects to see,

Esp. when the dawn & the dark kiss.

Poetry has to be natural, it can’t come by force,

Some event, some reaction & it automatically soars;

Wow! I wrote it as I had no other subject in mind

Was wondering if by not writing can I be a bit kind (to de readers) :D

On the Crisis (still in the train!)-

Investors across de world had perfect confidence in the US sphere,

Despite the int rates being less than 1, they invested in govt. securities dere;

Investment Bankers thot dis is de correct time to sell wat dey may not later refund,

Very innocently, dey named it High Grade Structured Credit Enhanced Leverage Fund.

A Journey from +8.1 crore to -13 lakh and it has not ended… :)

Probably one reason why the third semester ended quickly was that we had a Public Systems Project next. So, the old Product Management team got a bit split, in the sense that Rubini and Madhuvanthy were in one team and I was teamed with Hareesh. Aravind, Sreehari and Anish were also in our team from Batch 5. One good attribute which I found common across nearly all the teams was the rapport between the team-members. Obviously the credit goes to the people involved in team-formation.

After a meeting with Mr. Sivasankar, Director, Tourism Ministry, Kerala; our

project came up to develop a business plan for an Arts & Crafts village at Iringal in the district Kozhikode. This village is under construction and is slated to be completed by April 2010. We met the Planning Officer Mr. Unnikrishnan and got an outline about the project (including a hand book named Kerala Tourism Statistics – 2007 which proved to be a bible for us).

I happened to have a glance of daily-logs of Madhu and Ruby’s team and was

astonished at the length of it. I didn’t feel jealous and all but didn’t know why later that night I dreamt that somehow I destroyed their daily-logs in google-doc. Next day while chatting I disclosed my dream to Madhu and she said, “Nikunj! How mean!!!” Ruby even threatened me that she’d share this incident with her project guide Hari Sir.

Our next task was to visit the site-in-construction. We reached Vatakara and

stayed at the Municipality Guest House. The charge for non-air-conditioned room was Rs. 100 per day and for air-conditioned room it was just Rs. 200 per day. Vatakara is a small town with majority of the business happening in textiles and jewels. Mr. Joshi (the contractor of this project) picked us from the guest house and took us to the site which was around 12 kms far from Vatakara.

The site was a rocky terrain on some abandoned mines. I snapped some pictures

with my new phone. The Tata DoCoMo connectivity was sound through out the journey which helped me sending my updates on Twitter. The brick which they used for the construction seemed to be a bit bright and therefore appeared extraordinary in the sun. The site also had a boat jetty on the rear (with backwaters). We’d discussions with the contractor and the site-engineer and we also went through different maps of the site. This site is hardly 0.5 km from the National Highway 17.

Having made our observations, we caught the bus to Uralungal Labor Contract

Cooperative Society. I’ve availed local bus-services of at least 10 diverse cities of India but nowhere have I seen so rash a driving. Accelerator and brake seemed to be changing places in no time. Somehow we reached safely to ULCCS office and had a long discussion on its inception & functioning with various officials over there. In the evening we roamed in the street and had continental dinner at Hotel North Park. Nice food there!

Later our team-mate Sree Hari visited the Iringal site. We also visited Dakshin

Chitra, another centre for arts & crafts at Chennai. We met the Manager of Madras Crafts Foundation and sought several pieces of information from her. Those 3 days at Chennai were one of the hectic days of this PGPM programme and I got a feeling of professional life. I visited Greenix which also is an Arts Centre at Fort Kochi. My senior (at ASB) Manu helped me in a great extent in getting accommodation, roaming around the city etc.

After returning to Trivandrum, we started working on the Revenue model. The Yearbook already had the influx-population of domestic as well as foreign tourists from 2003 to 2008. We calculated the growth-rates of different years and selected the least amongst them to extrapolate the influx for 2010 to 2014. This was a pessimistic approach to extrapolation.

We divided all the districts into three regions and accorded the weights to the

tourist-influx depending upon the distance of the regions from the site. Initially we gave a weightage of 75 percent to the nearest region and after considering all the expenses, the annual profit came to a whopping amount of Rs. 8,10,00,000. Hareesh patting on his forehead said, “This project was supposed to make loss in the initial years, so that it can be funded by the government until it breaks even. And it is showing a profit of eight crores in the first year itself!” I grabbed the juniors from our team, showed them the status quo and we started decreasing the percentage. We also decreased other sources of revenue. Finally we settled the percentage of tourist-influx to an average of 2 percent. Still it was making a profit of approximately 7 lakh.

We proposed the Business Plan in the form of a Power Point Presentation to the

faculty members and both the batches. Still the revenue from the Parking Charges was very high compared to the other sources of revenue and was questioned by the faculty-members. Later we found out that we’d multiplied the parking-charges twice (instead of once) with the number of vehicles. The moment we rectified it, the 7 lakh profit overturned into a loss of 13 lakh. We shared a satisfactory smile. Now the tourism ministry had some financial viability gap to fill!

[Sorry for the interruption but as I was writing this, a message flashed on my phone which said that now one can directly recharge one’s phone by logging into the WAP browser (in the phone itself) and providing the Credit Card details to mChek. Re-charge on the go with your credit-card!]

Recently I discovered a new person inside me who can write a couple of lines which somehow manage to rhyme. Calling him a poet would be too much. So, for the past 6 nights I have been writing some lines and posting it on various social networking websites. I’d put my best to make the lines sound reasonable, however some outliers seemed to manage their existence. Here goes the first one…

Itne zakhm mujhko mile hain,

Shikve na koi gile hain;

Registan mein har baar hi fool khile hain,

Aur isi ke silsile hain.

[If you don’t understand the above lines in the first go, please don’t give it a second try. There are many interesting lines ahead]

Somebody suggested me that writing the lines in English would be easy-reading. Fine! As it pleases you…

It’s a new kind of emotion,

I want 4^th sem to pass in slow motion;

Dese days r not gonna be back,

N I’ll never 4get de girls’ cab.

When I was trying to recite this, someone asked me to shut up. So the next one went like this…

Because I was asked to SHUT UP,

De budding poet seems to have died a natural death;

Hey! De lines r rhyming again,

N it seems 2 b a case of no-loss-no-gain.

The next day I was busy on this blog…

Nothing constructive m I able to think,

Oh! By de way a blog is on its brink;

Very soon it’ll say hi to u all,

Till then plz don’t let your patience fall.

Once again the ephemeral emotional part of the mind became active and…

3 months for 2 years’ fun to end,

Then only jotdown’ll b dere 2 njoy de dividend;

Let’s study hard play harder n well!

Don’t forget Wal-Mart n Dell.

[Jotdown is the name of the Batch 4 group and the logic behind putting the name of Wal-Mart and Dell is understood by each Batch 4ian.]

just like that!

The third semester passed too swiftly to be noticed. Officially this semester lasted for less than hundred days. This being the only semester in which I hardly saw 5-6 movies (that is my way to measure semesters, you see...). I've sooo many things to talk about…

First things first! Why this blog is coming after this big a delay... why not? Now I'm an active user of Twitter which has given me the freedom to let my thoughts be known to others by pressing few buttons on my phone. So is Twitter a blog-killer? Well, actually it doesn't make much sense to wait for a computer to type and publish my thoughts (on a blog) when I can directly do it from my phone/computer (on Twitter).

Now some lines about the electives... PM alias Product Management better known as Presentations Management as it had one presentation by a group in each of its sessions (excluding the first session). The number of students-opted-for-this-course was 7, a prime number and therefore the constituents of different teams kept changing. At times some people had two different presentations in two consecutive sessions by being a part of two different teams. I had the wonderful opportunity of working with nearly all the 6 people (except Lekshmy, I guess). The team with which I enjoyed working most was Madhuvanthy's & Rubini's team. We discussed two cases- Kevlar Aramid and Innovation at 3M in the class. The peculiar thing in this group was that more conversations happened in Hindi than in Malyalam/Tamil. Obviously English was the dominating language. I left a message on Twitter during the discussion- PM Case Discussion: Ruby de dictator, Madhu de typewriter, me de spectator. Product Management had glimpses of different subjects ranging from Marketing to Finance. Sooo many presentations by me (and consequently poor marks) made me realize that something is wrong with my presentation skills and I worked on to improve that.

I recall the 22^nd session of Integrated Marketing Communications (totally there were 30 sessions so around 70% of the course was complete) when Hari Sir asked about the role of Accounts Executive in an Advertising Agency. Despite having passed the time in 70% of the sessions I was not comfortable with this term. But the creative initiator inside me extracted some sense of words 'accounts' (as in Accountancy) and made me raise my hands. I said Accounts Executive is the link between the Management and the Accounts Department. Hari Sir, a bit stunned silenced everybody and asked me to elaborate. I having got the cue, elaborated blah blah blah... Other students screamed no, no... Accounts Executive deals and manages different clients of an agency (something like that). Hari Sir put his hand on his chest and asked me, "Did I do something wrong?" I hid my face with my hands.

Energy and Bills of Material are what come to my mind when I think of SCM sessions. Citing another incident, once Bhaskaran Sir asked a mobile phone from us to illustrate some Strategic Sourcing concept. I was the first to hand over my 3¹/₂ years old (it's not that old phone, you see!) Black & White LG phone. I've rigorously used that phone and all the metallic shine, alpha-numeric symbols etc. had faded. The screen had sustained a crack and though it was not, it seemed to

be in a dilapidated condition. So Bhaskaran Sir took the phone from me and posed the question to the class, "Where do you think you can get the back-cover of the phone?" "Not even in the museum" replied somebody. A laughter broke out in the class. Bhaskaran Sir had a thorough look on the phone and asked me, "Nikunj! Which museum did you steal this phone from?" The left picture is of that phone only. =)

I had never thought that brands would be playing such a dominant role in making a purchase-decision. Moreover, in the sessions it was fun to see one particular team repeatedly making presentations and criticising other teams' presentation (they didn't criticise by their own; obviously they were asked to criticize by Balki Sir).

One phrase and one word namely 'single version of truth' and 'integrated' were the two take-aways from ERP sessions. I started writing this blog on 29.12.09, the day when the Trivandrum city came to a halt. So you see, strike is not that bad.

I bought Nokia 6303 Classic a couple of months ago. Here goes the review of the same- first the +ve factors- 3.2MP Camera with Auto focus and LED Flash; 2.2 inch QVGA screen with 16 million colors; metallic cover and superb battery life. Where will you get this stuff in 6.8k? Though the drawbacks are that the volume of the speaker is a bit low, you may miss your calls in a noisy environment (I’ve missed a couple of calls), the lens is not a Carl Zeiss one, so if you compare the pictures with the ones taken by N73, you may be a bit disappointed. It got launched in the second quarter of 2009 and therefore has got some of the latest features (for eg. You can synchronize your contacts OTA [Over the Air] with Nokia Ovi Suite on a GPRS Connection and it’s very easy).

With ‘3 Idiots’ I finished my hattrick of watching movies at Athulya theatre. Though people said that it was an air-conditioned theatre, I don’t know why I didn’t feel the chill. The rates of Balcony are 1/3^rd compared to what I used to pay at malls in Lucknow (but that’s okay in the sense that I was earning those days). People hoot too much here and in the case of last movie (3 Idiots) the row behind me was fully occupied by girls and surprisingly they were also hooting.

I also got a chance to volunteer in the inauguration of CII office at Trivandrum and the summit titled ‘Changing Role of India in Global IT Business’. The entry fee for delegates was a substantial amount which we got to attend free of cost. I remember those two days when the CII-cab came at 0530 hours at the hostel and left us back to hostel by 2030 hours. I happened to listen various captains of different industry and ultimately the Finance Minister TM Thomas Isaac and Minister of State for External Affairs Dr. Shashi Tharoor made it to the summit. Last but not the least, the food was also good.

An Illuminating Visit to IISE!

The idea of writing on this subject had crept into my mind before Ramki Sir and Hari Sir (sitting on the back-seat of the car) discussed as to how difficult (and dark) was that an incident to describe. So here, I put my efforts to describe the same…

International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs (IISE), Vellayani was the place we [I, Ramki Sir, Shyamla Ma’m (Ramki Sir’s wife) and Hari Sir] visited on the evening of October 15, 2009. The institute is situated right-next to the largest fresh-water lake in Kerala. We were welcomed by the young fleet there. Several activities were going on there. One camp was dedicated to ‘Blind Massage’ where one visually-challenged women and a sighted man were providing the service of neck and leg massaging.

One camp was totally dedicated to the awareness of Braille script, completely handled by visually-challenged people. A young lady skillfully showed us how she handled the laptop. That was a ‘Dell’ J (Batch-4 students know the secret behind this smiley) laptop and several ‘Braille’ stickers were stuck on the keys like ‘Tab’, ‘Enter’ etc. There were special buttons/lights on the right top corner of the laptop. The Operating System was ‘Ubuntu’ and an additional plug-in was downloaded to help with the voice explanations & description.

Another person was sitting with a Braille Typewriter. The Typewriter had 3 keys on each side with a spacebar in between. One Tab key (most probably) was on the left. I was wondering how everything of the English language is covered just by 6 keys! Another person was demonstrating the way to write in Braille script. He had a stylus, a net (one needed to force the stylus into the paper to make bloated dots), and a thick paper. I followed his instructions to write my name and ended up writing ‘JNUKIN’. Finally, I was able to write my complete name correctly.

Another interesting thing was the ‘Obstacles Course’. Actually this was the event which I liked most. Initially I was a bit afraid but then I thought to ‘explore’ it. So, I was blind-folded, was handed a white cane and had to slowly stumble a zigzagged way which included an artificial wooden bridge. Thanks to my reasoning abilities, I didn’t find it much difficult. In the middle of stage I was smelled clove and some other spices and was asked to name them. Now, in the second stage I was handed a bowl of water and I was supposed to go to and fro on an obstacles-loaded path with 3-4 ropes. Blindfolded, I had to decide just by touching the rope and obstacles by the white-cane, whether I had to climb over the rope or just bend and pass through the rope. 20 minutes, complete darkness and bingo, I attained the task.

Then followed a stage-show comprising of songs, experiences and play. The spirit of the visually-challenged people was awe-inspiring. Next came the much-awaited ‘Café in the dark’. Here we were supposed to have snacks in complete darkness. I had the feeling in my mind that there would be at least, at least again (its not a type-error) some light. Coupons were of different shapes so as to be touched and felt as to what they stand for. So, we four people were taken inside and to describe the darkness inside, I’d say it was something more than darkness. And I mean it; Its very low a probability that the reader of this blog had faced a situation of complete (more than complete; how do I express myself!) darkness for around 30 minutes. Generally eyes adjust to the darkness and one slowly starts seeing things whatsoever darkness one faces, but that was an exceptional situation.

We were welcomed by a visually-challenged lady. She made a train of us, of which Hari Sir was the engine and I was the guard’s coach; and there the train left chuk chuk chuk… We were made to listen various sounds in the dark and then taken to a table on which several fruits were kept. Sheer darkness, and we’re asked to touch and smell fruits and recognize them. Another table and there were spices instead of fruits. Then we were handed our ‘samosas’ in a plate and were guided to a table. We sat and the visually challenged lady who, in those circumstances was ‘more efficient’ than us, brought tea for us. After some time Ramki Sir asked, “Nikunj! Are you done with your tea?” I replied, “Sir, I don’t know how much I’m finished with my tea”. The Samosa and tea were indeed delicious by themselves; needless to say the unique atmosphere added its own flavor.

One serious take-away was the thought of comparing my live with theirs’. They can’t see what they eat. They have to stumble slowly. And, here I ‘m afraid of trivial issues.

Collection of some Scribbles!

Isn’t it so different an experience, when all of a sudden people around you start speaking a language familiar to you. That actually is happening when I’m coming back to North India. Till this point of time, I didn’t care much what other people around me spoke (even in Hindi). But when I happened to stay at Kerala & Tamil Nadu and people around me spoke an unfamiliar language, I having no other work, tried to extract the sense by some English words and their gesticulation. Obviously this didn’t work much but, now when I’m sitting in a train destined to North India and people are talking in Hindi, I’m much alert of their conversation, just for one reason that there could be an unfamiliar-lingo situation.

In the course of exploring my fellow-passengers, I had to reveal that I’m a Commerce Graduate. My fellow-passenger was working in a bank and had some “Commercial Law” book in his hands (most probably he was preparing for some exam, though he didn’t reveal this). So he asked me, “Did you study the Negotiable Instruments Act 1881?” I replied in positive. ‘Okay, then explain me the difference between “Holder” and “Holder-in-due-course”’. I said that I would try and took his book. The book was in Hindi. The words for “Holder” and “Holder-in-due-course” in Hindi are “Dharak” and “Yathavidhidhari” respectively. So I went through the book for 15 minutes and tried to explain him. Irrespective of the fact that he understood the difference, it was a nice time pass.

July 26, Sunday, 0845 hours; Tring-Tring. I woke up. My friend Sandeep from Lucknow told me that he was going to take the first SIM-Cat and he also got my name registered for the test held at Gorakhpur (First SIM-Cat at IMS is free). I was left surprised, but as usual I having no other work, thought to explore the test. Hopefully, my old pencil and eraser were there in my old pencil-box which I used to carry in one-day examinations. The test was scheduled to begin at 1000 hours and I left the preparation exactly one year ago.

Thanks to my reading habits, I found the English section much easy. DI was so-so, thanks to some Operations sessions & the novel “The Goal”. So I scored 30 in English, 10 in DI and just 2 marks in Quants. I guess this is where overconfidence came into play. But those two and a half hours were pure fun; I mean I didn’t have any stress/tension as I took the test aimlessly and I think that this is one of the most optimum ways to take a test, but yes, preparation should also be there.

I watched the movie “Luck” with old friends and was lucky enough to not to get bored. One should leave the critical-thinking mind home while watching a bollywood flick. Yet, there were some logical inconsistencies which I can’t help but mention. In the scene where our “lucky” Imran Khan, in the course of igniting the cigarette-lighter for five consecutive times, tries to turn on the lighter for the fifth and last time, the lighter doesn’t turn on for the first some three seconds. Imran Khan just keeps it holding and it turns on all of a sudden. Now, how does a lighter work? The happening of ignition and the supply of gas should start simultaneously. How come the ignition took place three seconds after the cock was pushed.

Second scene pertained to the release of our Bhojpuri star Ravikishan who was awarded capital punishment. Just because the rope slipped and the court cannot make a person hung “twice”, he was “ba-izzat” released. But where was he hung in the first place? Did not the slipping of the rope obstruct the hanging procedure? Probably I should have left my mind at home.

Sandeep evaluates me "frankly"

Nikunj Barnwal , The name of a person whom I really respect and follows the most of the things which he does. Knowing him more than 3.5 yrs I try to judge him .He is not only my true friend but also my mentor.
At the age of 27 he has the same positive attitude n enthusiasm, which I think had in his child hood, to learn and grow. He doesn’t care about present but he want to make his future safe and prosperous. Having done the work for 2 yrs in government t org I have doubt that he has saved some money. The monthly salary is 7K he is having 10k per month expenses ,Luxurious mobile and P/c this shows that he doesn’t care about the money but want to use the technology to learn and grow .He uses the technology at optimum level.
He thinks information is a source of inspiration to learn, to search and to absorb that info.

I think he is fortunate enough to get such a generous and a humble parent who has fulfilled his all the genuine desire to grow .He has a strong and loyal friend circle. I think this the most important saving he made throughout life. I have no doubt that there is any city in this country where his loyal friends are not there. The best thing is that he maintains that relationship .it is hard to maintain but he believes in friendship so he has to make that.
If u tell him yr problem (Personal/academic) he ll try his best to solve that or ll tell the path to go through .where ever he goes he leaves his memories in the heart of colleges/friends think he loves 3 things most in his life those are technology, books and food. He has done proper investment on these things .mobile he uses, books he reads, food/snacks he eats. he is so generous and munificent that he gives the money to other friend by taking that money from other friends, Where we ll find a such friend. Some times it disturbs him but what can be done when those thing are in his gene and habit.
I m sorry to say but in this regard he has not learned any thing from his previous mistakes
. When ever u ll try to do new thing u'll be asked many times why this, why here etc.
He likes to find the faults and correct that at same moment without caring abt the feedback forms others. he seeks the opportunity to eat , to travel and to read .this is the reason which motivates him to grow .He appreciates the efforts of others without caring of result. of others.
Although he is a good planner but he fails sometimes. he fills the form but doesn’t go ot take the test. he thinks that any investment is fruitful but this doesn’t true always.
I lived with him for 2 months I found that I was criticizing him at that time but I think that he was right .I learnt a lot of things from him of which I ll always be grateful.
He knows how to use the people (I think this thing help him working as a manager.)
How he can get his work done. but the best thing is that he doesn’t leave that person after that who helped him any how..
Although he is nothing today but he tries that the people can get a lot of thing s from him whatever little good things he has. I have doubt that he has patience but at the age of this I would follow the same path what he has followed 
Being an average student, he is continue with his study, never lost the hope for better, this is the reason he is going to become some valuable for his friends, for his family and for himself.

I think his motto of his life is never ,never ,never give up .always think positive have the good attitude The success will be yours


I am also fortunate to have the friend like u.


All the best!!!!!!!!!!

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With warm regards
Sandeep Gupta
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