Another day of Markops. Our team had a good start, we were 2nd in terms of stock price index(SPI) after yesterday's round of decision making. But then things went downhill from there. SPI is calculated on a base of 1000. Anything below that figure is to be considered as a loss. After round 1 the SPI was at a respectable 1115 , it went to 1132 in round 2 but then we faced a Lehmann brothers type scenario in round 3. A few of our decisions backfired and our SPI crashed to 356!! It was a stunning drop which was totally unexpected. Nonetheless our team will hopefully regroup tomorrow bring our company back on track. This experience made me realise the kind of stress the kind of stress the stock brokers at Dalal Street or Wall Street must be undergoing, though this was just a simulation it definitely wasn't a very good feeling, going through something like this in real life, requires some guts!
Till today a very conscious effort has been made not to mention any names,of friends or faculty, on this blog. That trend shall be broken, starting today I will introduce one friend of mine per day on this blog, in chronological order of meeting them since the course started. Today's friend is -
Vineet Singh aka Bulla
He was one of the first few people I met on campus,met him at Chota. I initially thought he was senior because he was roaming around the place as if he'd been here for a year :-D The biggest mistake one can commit is asking him "Where are you from?", because he has lived in literally all states of India. So he first finds out where the other person is from and then goes on to say that even he has lived there! For this very reason he is also called national integration.
A big time movie freak, he can give imdb a run for its money, he might even be better since Bhojpuri movies are also his areas of expertise. It's pretty amazing as to how person can remember so much! Apart from movies his favourite pastime is sleeping. He is one of the guys who sleeps the most in class but is yet to be caught by any of the profs, which is an amazing talent.
Bulla - in case you read this, no offence meant buddy :-) "Mera naam hai pote jo apne baap ke bhi nahi hote" :-P
nice one...like d part abt vineet !!!
ReplyDeleteGood one Sid!
ReplyDeletePote "Jaljala Jag Utha Hai" still rem how we explicitly described the sound of drops ;)
ReplyDeletethe sleeping talent is due to my four years of hard work due credit to it plzz
I do sincerely believe the HP nomenclature deserves a neat mention..Still, a good post to read! :)
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