mba-crusader's path

OCA completed ....

2006-07-16T04:42:00.000-07:00

I completed by OCA (Oracle certified associate) PL/SQL developer certificate with 95 % . Hurrrrrrrrrrray .... job hunt begins bigtime now.

All set for changes

2006-07-02T04:26:00.000-07:00

Lots of changes are going to come on my life very soon and I am preparing for it. I am all set to give pl/sql paper this week .... hopefully a great score will cheer me up. Job hunting is going well and I am studying COBOL,unix and Oracle in full form. Will be back next week some good news.

Feeling much better

2006-05-27T23:14:00.000-07:00

Finally I went to my favorite doc last night . He gave an injection and few medicines. I am feeling much better now . Great work doc.

Sick as a DOG

2006-05-26T21:22:00.000-07:00

I am sick as a dog. I have got a frozen right shoulder for the last 3 days so I can't move my neck and right hand :-(

They say that necessity is the mother of all inventions. I have to go to office for code review but since I can;t go , my guys are mailing me codes for review . So I am now doing remote review. Now thats a global delivery model.

All hail the internet.

My gd/pi

2006-05-22T07:42:00.000-07:00

I had my gd/pi at Sydenham today.

I walked in late and was take to a room . gd/pi call later was checked and I was given a questionarie and a cardboard with my roll no. on it.

1) They never asked for the undertaking
2) I got no marks for work-ex. I have 1 year and 10 mths experience with TCS but those guys didn;t give me any marks. They are given some circular which says that trainee or probation period is not work-ex. I even met director of Sydenham regarding this . Damnnnn

GD:

12 ppl is a very small room and two topics were given :
1) Nuclear war : is it preventable ??
2) for companies, is degrees or performance more imp ??

They did a poll and majority ( including me) supported the 2nd. The most relaxed and uninteresting GD ever . The panel wanted evryone to speak so they kept on interupting ppl who were talking continuously so that other get chance to speak... very irritating . Ppl who havn't spoken much were told to summarize. Overall the girls destroyed the boys bigtime.

Time : 12 mins

PI :

I was told to complete my questionarie and wait . Panel was a old man and a middle age lady ... both very sweet and helpful.
Questions:
1) Why MBA , which course ,which college
2) Few questions abt TCS and software industry
3) Favourite company , some questions about my resume
4) Strength , weakness and normal stuff.

Time : 20 mins.

Totally chillax atmosphere , no need to panic.

CET gd/pi

2006-05-21T21:43:00.000-07:00

I got my CET gd/pi today at Sydenham college in the afternoon. I spent my last night preparing my resume and ironing my clothes. No expectation , no pressure , lets kick some ass ......

Some books I have read

2006-05-19T22:06:00.000-07:00

Books that I have recently finished :

1) The argumentative Indian : Amartya Sen

Excellent books , great arguments,difficult language . 4/5

2) Freakonomics : Steven Lewitt

Easy language , interesting content,nothing special compared to tipping point 3/5

3) The tipping point : Malcolm Gladwell

Well researched,much better compared to Freakonomics. 4/5

4) The Kite Runner : Khaled Hosseini

Great novel, very well written . A must read 5/5

5) Blink : Malcolm Gladwell

A disappointment after the tipping point, its abt the capacity of human mind to take decisions in a blink . 2/5

6) The Google Story: David Vise

Story behind creation of google.com, right from Stanford uni. till now. 4/5

7)The World Is Flat : Thomas L. Friedman

View of the new globalised world and the forces in action.A must read 5/5

Three Men in a Boat : Jerome K. Jerome

A comedy written in 1800s. very funny 3/5

9) The dilbert principle : Scott Adam

Lowdown on meetings,offices and bosses . Great book 4/5

10) The Godfather : Mario Puzo

A classic novel , excellent story and great characters . 5/5

Share market meltdown

2006-05-19T22:01:00.000-07:00

Events of the last two days have left more with suprise than shock. The sensex has fallen by abt 9% in 2 days. Total market loss is about 2.33 lakh crores. Moi has lost 20% in equity. Thanks to my mutual fund portfolio that I am in no profit - no loss situation . I'll hit back with vengeance ... carnage is guaranteed.

Share market bug

2006-05-13T04:16:00.000-07:00

I am completely bitten by the share market bug ..... I am thinking,eating and drinking shares. Not to mention that I have pumped almost all my saving into it ( which is not much :))) ). Here's my current profile :

1) Reliance energy
2) Reliance petroleum
3) NDTV
4) Varun shipping
5) Jyoti construction
6) Ashok leyland .

Not to mention NSC's and PPF.

SQL oracle paper done ...

2006-05-12T20:39:00.000-07:00

Yesterday morning I gave my oracle sql paper ( 1z0-007) at NIIT vashi and Got a megre 85% . I am very disappointed cos I was expecting 100%. One lesson that I got is not to rely on testking dumps. Now OCP has become a personal war . Wait PL/SQL , here I come ......

Perfect figure

2006-05-07T09:02:00.000-07:00

Check these out

http://www.catalyst4cat.com/2005.htm

http://www.catalyst4cat.com/2004.htm

These belong to Munira Lokhandwala , the famous cat serial hunter . Watch and drool

My first post

2006-05-06T21:40:00.000-07:00

Finally I got a blog .... well actually I got inspired by my ex-collegue and hero Sanket ( Sanket blog). So here is how the story went so far :

I gave cat 2005 and got screwed bigtime . My VA (english) section went very well but got bombed in quants ..... thats how life is , sometimes you screw it and sometimes it screws you. Anyways current , I am busy studying for my oracle certification 1z0-007 . Let the games for CAT 2006 begin .....