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In chapter 8, conversation among Captain Biggar, Bill and Jeeves, while Captain Biggar is trying to find out the racecourse bookie who ran away with his prize amount:‘Obviously what happened was that friend Biggar got the wrong number.’ Said Bill.‘Yes, m’lord.’ Agreed Jeeves.The red of Captain Biggar’s face deepened to purple. His proud spirit was wounded.‘are you telling me I don’t know the

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Connecting the dots - Given random dots human mind has a tendency to connect them OR Given nodes human mind will create a network out of them.Girl Friend Vs WifeA Girl Friend is like British Invasion of India, who will rob you off everything you have, and leave nothing but a broken thing.whereas, The Biwi (wife) is like all other invaders, who will also rob you off everything, however will

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Product Based:People Process and TechnologyVsService Based:PeopleInformationandability to Process the Information and relationship with People

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One of my senior asked me this question in the beginning of the fourth year (of my five year combined undergrad + postgrad program). To my every answer I was hit back by the one same question, “why”. “Why that particular path and not one of the other paths”. Having advantage of studying at one of the world’s premier engineering colleges (which offered many career paths as options) and himself

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Frustrated with your own or worried about your employees’ low productivity (and hence, lesser output) in the initial stage of a new assignment or a project?! Well, then don’t be! Because that is how it is for most of us. Have a look on the curves in the graph below.What do you notice!?- Phase I: Learning is quite rapid in the early phase of a project that you must be able to sense by now from

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Past two years have been horrible, now that I have got the time to breath I am pouring out my thoughts accumulated over the past two years.Never React, Only Act!"Life doesn't allow re-takes", do it right the first time! If wrong, move to the next! ;)Avoid Being Judgemental, Attempt To Be Factual!Always trust the logic over memory!Hard work will never deceive you. Irrespective of how smart or

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I employ the blog to write whatever little I have been learning from the Life and I am thankful to the Life for giving me such opportunities.No one could understand woman and I would not either risk claiming the most desired knowledge by hu-man. What I describe below are the possible mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive roles a man can expect a woman to play in his life:- No relation-

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People with higher emotional intelligence (emotional quotient) play with/use people (and their emotions) with lower emotional intelligence to work for their (People with higher EQ) advantage.When in doubt, "Sleep over it" - my ex-boss."It is, what it is" - my ex-boss, take it or leave it.When the time is not right, "Give some time to time".

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Every time you are faced with a challenge, the Life gives you an opportunity in the form of difficulties to prove oneself and to become and come out as a stronger and better person after each challenge...The only problem is that the Life just gives too many of such opportunities and continuously ;)Life is a Bitch! Not truthful to anyone."...and you have to be a dog to face it", commented a

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At every point in one’s life time, one is faced with multiple mutually exclusive choices of utilizing one’s time for one activity at the forfeiture of other activities. Just that all of us got the same 24 hours each day, not a split second more or less. That is it!You might want to do hundreds of activities, but you can possibly do only tens of them, because every activity takes some time and

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At every point in one’s life time, one is faced with multiple mutually exclusive choices. One small difference in making a choice (taking a decision) can change the course of many events that would follow or probably change the course of rest of the life. The best way to explain and support this is the Butterfly Effect, in other words, small differences in the initial choice may produce large

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After establishing the importance of a choice made, let me present the case that it is no one’s fault if a rational choice, as is the case more often than not, results into undesirable consequences.At every point in one’s life time, one is faced with multiple mutually exclusive choices and makes the choice which is the optimal based on the forecasts of consequences following each choice as

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When I was a kid, I saw plenty of goldfish in the houses of my friends, and I remember wondering why so many people would want to keep such small, unexciting creatures as pets.Then one day, when I was about ten years old, I went on a school field trip to a botanical garden that had a pond stocked with fish. One especially large, brilliantly colored fish stood out to me."What kind of fish is that

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Summary: Dell thinks that its customers are the most jobless and useless people in the world. Dell thinks that its customers are born only to call up the Dell customer care. Dell also assumes that its customers are as dumb as they can be.Conclusion: I won't say think twice before choosing Dell. Don't ever think of purchasing anything Dell.Harddrive Crash: In less than 8 months of purchasing Dell

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Why do some people have all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve?I set out to examine luck, 10 years ago. Why are some people always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune? I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.Hundreds of extraordinary men and women

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In chapter 6, author, describing Mrs. Spottsworth's contemplation, during her drive to Rowcester Abbey, of the recent unscheduled rendezvous with Captain Biggar, writes:"...it may seem strange that Mrs. Spottsworth should have known anything about the way he felt. But a woman can always tell. When she sees a man choke up and look like an embarrassed beetroot every time he catches her eye over the

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Note: Following is based on an e-mail forward doing rounds during 2009 General Elections in India. Not sure about the autheticity of the following.The section 49-O reads:“49-O. Elector deciding not to vote.-If an elector, after his electoral roll number has been duly entered in the register of voters in Form-17A and has put his signature or thumb impression thereon as required under

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In chapter 1, author, describing how Mrs. Spottsworth "was almost immediately widowed again", writes:"It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A.B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. The result being that when he placed his foot on the animal's neck preparatory to being

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Why: A business plan may have one of the three primary objectives- To make money/ To be independent/ To work for oneself- Two-fold: Social Entrepreneurship- To make money & to contribute to society; e.g. open a school, hospital, set-up a rural BPO etc.- To contribute to societyWhat: Involves the following activities- Get money from a lender- Hire experts and get other assets in place to work for

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Forgot to include a fact:"What I do...as creepy as...dark dungeon...diffuse out...in the vacuum."To ensure my incessant survival, which is endangered due to above parameters in place and additional nonindulgent temperature and pressure conditions prevailing these days, I have been strongly advised by more than many to exhibit a demeanor that can only be practiced with the aid of a persistent

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Life has been, of late, very hectic - read, friends (delusion), write, draw, hobbies, sleep and one also has to work on weekdays - that one hardly get any time for exertion. But, I have decided to stay fit this time by regular stretching for a stretch, for I haven't really stretched for more than an year and half with exception being those days that witnessed stretches of Age of Empires (a

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In Chapter 12, while Bertie Wooster is conversing with his aunt Dahlia Traver about his past relationships with Roberta Wickham:"The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their cooler judgment by the parties of the second part's glamour. Put it like this. The male

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Thank you Bob and thank you Raj. I would also like to thank the jury for selecting me as one of the recipient of the first ever Community Impact Awards 2008. As I understand that Deloitte is a truly meritocratic environment where to excel one has to continuously raise the bar, this would have not been possible without the constant support from the year round Reach Out team, whose persistent

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There are times when movies have had 'Hit the Iron Hot':1. Kal Ho Na Ho2. You've Got Mail -Kathleen: When I'm confronted by someone I get tongue tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend the rest of the night tossing and turning over what i should have said. Joe: ... when you eventually have the pleasure of saying the thing you want to say at the moment you’re wanting to say it, remorse

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What I do for my living is not what I like the most which is as creepy as people finding themselves in a dark dungeon and on the first sight of a ray of hope coming though an orifice they would diffuse out blithely without thinking of what could be on the other side in the vacuum.The people whom I live with I do not enjoy that much!In pursuit of higher studies I am and I am not sure if I am ready

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...this!Sitting in the room below, and it rains for the whole night! :)(Image is clickable for a large view)(You have to wait untill Monday when I get a better picture of the room clearly showing the window view, I just had this picture somewhere already)Spending 6 hours time doing what was procrastinated for more than a month! :D(Spending 6 hours time doing what one wanted to do for more than a

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Combine or omit below steps to suit the material1. Prepare:- Why you reading, what's the purpose?- what you already know?- What you looking from the book to know? What you want from the book?2. Preview:- Read the Front and back cover and inside flaps, TOC, index, scan the bibliography- Flip through the book, determine the structure of the content/ book - heading, subheading, picture, graph etc.-

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Written below are the excerpts from Prof. Randy Pausch's speech at Carnegie Mellon University Commencement 2008 which is then followed by actual speech video"We don't beat the (Grim) Reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully.""It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.""Pretty much any chance I had to do something cool I tried

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Life is a 'Thought'...let's think through it!A thought which can be momentarily long or as long as a saint meditating for whole of his life; a thought which can sustain large disruptions or disturbance as small as minor chemical interactions (miscarriage) can end a Thought before it would even start.I recently escaped a small disruption while going from Pune to Mumbai. My friend whom I visited at

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* Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life. And understanding them-or, often, ferreting them out-is the key to solving just about any riddle, from violent crime to sports cheating to online dating. Alternatively, every problem has a solution, all one is required to provide is the right set of incentives.* “Experts”—from criminologists to real-estate agents—use their informational advantage

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In Chapter 3, while Bertie Wooster is hunting for Bobbie (Roberta) Wickham at his aunt Dahlia Traver's house and is encountered with a sight of Phyllis Mills:"One learns, as one goes through life, to spot goofiness in the other sex with an unerring eye, and this exhibit had a sort of mild, Soul's Awakening kind of expression which made it abundantly clear that, while not a super-goof like some of

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A junior: Mitesh! You don't have that spark in your voice anymore!Myself: Hmmmm...Friend: What do you want in your life? (A week back)Myself: Nothing! (Without a thought)...Myself: Wait a minute! Actually, there is something that I want. I don't want my parents to know what I answered to you just now!Few years back:Mom: Can't you stay at home?Myself: What do I do then?Mom: Do something, read etc

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"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." J.K. Rowling at Harvard Commencement 2008http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html

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!Dedicated to (p)e(o)p(l)e (-ymer) around me!Today morning I was studying Statistics to teach BSc 2nd year students as part of the community service.From statistic got into probability and then into random variables and functions. As I was digging deeper into the functions to develop better understanding, I realized that real functions have real applications in real life. E.g.1. Attitude is a

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"Most of the times it makes more sense to be realistic than sticking to one's principles. Actually, being realistic itself can be a principle"

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Thoughts on Life:"Life is more about Doing and Learning than Winning or Loosing""Life Gives us so much, and it does Expect a Return""Risk and Return should always be Attuned""Opportunity is for Opportunists"Source: My Master's ThesisSome Paradoxical Thoughts"Our Life is Governed by the Choices that We Make We All are Victims of Circumstances"A 5 years old thought - Three universal rules in life:

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Note: Fastest Blog ever written by me: Following is just the first cut, please excuse me for grammer, vocab and typos; might edit it later on!Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008: EveningEkdum se feel hua...mann kiya ki is per kuch likhoon. content nahi samajh aa raha tha..."aisa kyon feel ho raha hai?" per mai sochta raha, chalta raha restaurant ki taraf dinner ke liye. kuch baatein jo mere dimaag mai

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Note: Almost all of my friends have already left Hyderabad. Now, it was my room-mate who just left the town."Would YOUR 'so called' friends cry, while you would be departing?"He responded, "I would not even want my friends to cry, while I would be departing!"Let me reframe it, "Wouldn't you want to have friends who would want to cry, while you would be departing?"Today's departure makes me

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How important is Networking?! I never thought it is important, hence, I never made efforts to create and expand my network. As I involve myself in various team activities a network of people keeps on generating around me.!YESTERDAY NIGHT I LOST MY CELL PHONE!I was running around in panic. Non-stop sweat streams were flowing out of my skin. Suddenly, I felt like asking myself the same question

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Feb 14th, 2008Today morning I woke up at 5:45 am!!!I have absolutely no clue, why? Not sure if it has got to do anything with Saint Valentine's Cupids nor I want to attribute it to it.Something clicked to me and I jumped out of my bed. Knowing it is cold, wore the 'Harvard' fall jacket.45 minutes calm walk included witnessing the dark to well lit morning transition which is a rare (and dare too)

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One stop solution for all the people to get rid of the hatred[Background: After trying to solve a problem for almost 6 months I arrived at this solution]These are not ordinary pills....these are magical pills.They can remove the rust in relationships in a jiffy,no matter how old and hard the rust is.Whereas they don't necessarily ensure any future bonding,the very strong ones do ensure no rusting

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Weekend, Dec 1-2, 2007: There are times when life gives me opportunity to realize that I haven't yet run out of all of my energy. The weekend right before the Bangalore trip was one of those.7:00 pm, Friday, Nov 30, 2007: Left office early to have Age of Empires (AoE) Sessions at a colleague's placeWe played back to back AoE games till 10:00 pm and then played badminton (shuttle) just to stop in

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My Orkut (an online community) Profile description for 4 months (Oct-Jan 2007): the poem helped me survive through those tough times-------------------------------------------------No more: Booze, AOE & RomComs (From Dec, 2007)Believe me it is not impossible...at least worth giving a shot at (both above and below).एक ऐसा गीत गाना चाहता हूँ,खुशी हो या गम, बस मुस्कुराना चाहता हूँ,दोस्तों से दोस्ती

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As the name suggests it is on IIT Brain Drain from India to US. I wrote it 2.5 years back during my internship. It was certainly more relevant at that time.----------------------------------------------------------Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:11:12 -0700 (PDT)From: mitesh agrawal mits_mitesh@yahoo.co.in To: "eurotrip05@yahoogroups.co.in" Subject: Time to ThinkHi all,Here is a little incident

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