This Week in Section B !

1. MADM Homework: Precision Worldwide Inc.

This Case threw up some interesting solutions. The best one was :

2. KK and his love frog

This week was marked by the discovery of KK's love frog. That solves the mystery behind the croaking noises in KK's quad at night. By the way he had a change of heart by the end of the week.

3. Return of the Mafia

If only Paul Olsen knew my family's core competencies

4. The new B-plan

To start a Restaurant with a "Differentiation" factor

5. Kiss of Love

"Is not a kiss the very autograph of love?" ~ Rohit Kumar

6. Masterclass Viggy

Practice makes man perfect. Net practice makes a Viggy perfect.

7. The Tardy Meter

The meter kept running well into overtime .....

8. Sujay the commentator

With his vishalkai Bhuja and his chamak challo Jhange Sujay was the commentry star of the Cricket tournament

Smack D's tip of the week: The new spike to Resumes

Start anything fancy just to provide a spike to your resume whether it matches your personality or not. Chor ke daadi mein tinka !

Bottlenecks, I say !

Enlightenment beckons all who attend Operations Management Class. Section B too had this moment. Each one reflected on the bottlenecks he / she faced in ISB:

1. Sombox: CP can be done only once. Repeat CP # Fail

2. Priyom: One can only go as far as 90 minutes to build on somebody's point

3. KK: The power of Operations and Media is far greater than Shaolins and Samurais

4. Aarti G : There are only 1,412,352 ways in which one can get stressed

5. Dushi / Sangoman : One has only 4 hours of Classroom time to sleep

6. The Rohits' : Each Entrepreneurship survey has only one question to which one can answer "NO"

7. Arjun : The survey form asks for only one line answer plus appendix

8. Viggy / Mahendran / Saurabh / Dharmi : We can send a spam mail only from 3 other mailboxes

9. Aastha: Thursday nights are too short to spend quality time with Jack

10. Gaurav Bhatnagar: Marital Constraints are in; Presssures are out

11. Garora: One can score a max of ony 4 out of 4

12. Rajesh: There are not many Mafia dudes who can be my business partner

13. Shweta D: E&Y is constrained by Randomness

14. Smriti: One can only love customized Jewellery or hate Walmart service

15. Sarfaraz / Sonali: He / She are constrained to say only "He"

16. Sujay: Constrained to CP breathlessly (for all the 10 classes at once)

17. Spai: Constrained to Sleep-noting

18. Pachanna: Cant be with more than Pachanni at any given moment

19. Manjari: There are only 23 unique ways of pronouncing a name

20. Hardik: There are not many who can play with Hardik and not be apologetic

21. Soham: There is only one dance that is universally applicable to all songs

22. Ninja: Constrained by Crazy people

23. Mamta: Can spill only one cup of coffee on Tanya per lecture

24. Tanya: Can let only one cup of coffee spill on her per lecture

25. Kaushal: There can be only one Kaushal on the Honor code

Others are still in the process of identifying their bottlenecks ..... so hang on !

Exchange This !

Exchange programmes bid results are out. Most people are going to the usual boring places like Kellogg, Wharton, NYU Stern, Tuck, Duke, London Business School etc but a few of us are going to some awesome places. Here is a mini-list:

1. KK: Going to Sahara Desert to appreciate some more wild life and in return getting exchanged with a Wild Boar.

2. Vivin: Going to Wimbledon so that he can now use his Tennis racket to play tennis rather than chase stray dogs at midnight.

3. Manjari: Going to Germany as Oktoberfest allows to continue her secret life as Beero.

4. Arjun: Going to Argentina as our Ghoda likes the Grass there. Though that means SV4 will be manure-less and ISB would tardiness-free !

5. Priyom / Jay / Prashant / Suyog : Going to Thailand as thats the Mecca of the Pink Daddies !

6. Hardik: Going to Hawaii as only that place exchanges Rangeen aka colourful students.

7. Viggy: Going to Broadway to be a bigger Dramebaaz than he is currently

8. Sai: Going to Switzerland with the woman of his dreams in exchange for some Cows.

9. Kaushal: Got tricked into going to HEC, Paris as he thought H & C in HEC stood for Honor code

10. Somnath: Going to China / Myanmar to propagate democracy through SOMBOX

11. Saurabh Jhawar: Going to Columbus, Georgia to explore the possibility of the next big thing - the Coke shampoo.

12. Tanya: Going to a research tour to Italy on how to make Middle Managers Deliver while zooming around in a Ferrari

13. Soham / Dushyant: Going to on a world tour so that MJ's Moonwalk can be replaced by Soham's Earthjump and Dushant's Sleepwalk !

14. Prabhat / Deepak / Mohit / Rajesh / Kishore : Going to Vatican to be the Chorus for next Christmas !

15. Aarti Kapur: Going to California for an internship under the original "Commando" !

16. Aarti Ganesh: Going to Tibet in exchange for a monk !

17. Mamta: Going to UK in exchange for a coffee-spilling MI5 spy.

18. Gaurav Bhatnagar: Sorry his marital pressures dont let him go anywhere !

19. Vikas Poddar: Wherever being "Game" is legal !

20. Ashwin Uppal: Is going to the American Museum of Natural History in exchange for a similar aged Dinosaur there !

As for me, I am going to Swat Valley in exchange for some PoWs.