So true

Readers may find this post silly and crackpotish. If this post doesn't make sense, I think I have achieved the purpose.

Mercurials are the fastest thinkers on the planet. Their mental acuity makes them extremely perceptive and very observant. They tend to be hyperactive, nervous, and irritable and have rapid mood shifts. The high metabolic rates of the mercurials make them prone to insomnia and sleep disturbances, and this makes them wake very easily. They suffer from real or imagined aches and strange maladies that have no symptoms. In the inner world of the mercurial she has a complicated labyrinth of doubt and insecurity. She has a constant feeling that you are always looking for an advantage you can take over her. The mercurial moves from person to person and has brief periods of intense friendships but has trouble believing that people really like her. Every scowl or raised eyebrow is taken personally and makes her wonder if her friend is really a friend.

Saturns on the other hand are very paternal and responsible in nature. Their chief feature is dominance. Saturns feel qualified not only to determine the best course of action for themselves but also for those around them. This makes them behave like a psychological weight. They are better off keeping this feature of dominance from becoming oppressive. Generally saturns have difficulties with martial, mercurial or solar types when their dominance evokes power. Saturns are prone to thoroughness of thought process and have a tendency to sit back, analyze and deliberate about thoughts and actions. Whether important or unimportant they invest the same solemn deliberation for every undertaking. The nailing was this one, “Saturns like to study psychology and become therapists or psychoanalysts”.

LOL. I think I’m doomed. One day all my human type analysis efforts are gonna make me mad!!!

Human Types - IV - Classic Venusian

After a really really long break I'm trying to revive this series. Hope some of you had some success spotting personality types. The next type I'm going to discuss here is the Venusian type, obviously influenced by the planet Venus. Venusians are passive and positive and the earthiest of types(Venus is close to the earth). As usual, I'll broadly split the description into two parts, characteristics(the mindset/behavioral aspect) and physiology(the body).


Characteristics
Venusians are born followers. It is not that they cannot think, it is just that they always think what the people around them think. If you wanna watch a movie, the venusian wants go watch the movie. If you wanna go trekking, the venusian wants to go too. Basically the venusian blends in and doesn't create a ripple. The venusian loves to live through others and are excellent listeners, always willing to listen to other's problems. Consequently they make good therapists, nurses and paramedics. Venusian mothers are a family's delight. They pack excellent lunches, sew the kids clothes and bake excellent cakes/cookies. Venusians are natural foodies and most often the left overs in the refrigerator will do fine. Many a time they appear careless of their appearance and attract gravy spots on their shirts and blouses.

Venusians are the most dependable characters on earth. If you have a venusian in your life you are really really blessed. You have the warmest friend and the most die-hard supporter you will ever find.

Physiology
Venusians are earthy and usually fleshy and carry their weight in their hips and thighs usually beneath a relatively high waistline. Their faces are pleasingly proportional and many of the women, and some men too, are sensuous and have seductive curves and soft pillowy flesh. Most venusians have bad teeth, due to over indulgence in sweets and due to hyperactive parathyroid. Sometimes venusians have a gap between their upper front teeth.

Happy analyzing and as I have mentioned before, a careful analysis of the physical traits is a good starting point always.

ISB Term 1 Video

I need to preserve this nice video to my blogosphere memorablia :)

Why?

Recently, I came through a news article that said that private hospitals all over India have started doing a basic test to check for HIV virus in every patient's blood and immediately several groups have started protesting against this saying that the hospitals are violating the fundamental right 'to consent' to be a subject of the test. What crap? I mean, in my opinion, these hospitals have taken an incredible step. When the HIV demon is proliferating at such a rate in India and can stand as one of the country's biggest challenges in the years to come, this kind of screening of blood is of paramount importance. When social groups should start appreciating this move and make the government make this mandatory everywhere, they are actually protesting against this !! I donno what kind of bloody motivation is there behind these protests.

On the other hand, the Ram setu controversy is reaching its crescendo. Haven't we already done enough damage to our country by playing with the religion card. I'm sure we can use scientific evidence to prove all mythology wrong. But here we are talking about emotions and sentiments. When we can be sentimental about a pen or a piece of jewellery, why not appreciate the fact that some people are sentimental about the Adam's bridge. I really can't understand "Why?" !!!

Helicopter Man comes to ISB

On Saturday, the Entrepreneurship club at ISB played host to the 'no-frills' hero, Capt.G.R.Gopinath, the pioneer of the low cost airline concept in India. It was the most stylish entry by anyone who has come to ISB so far. Capt. flew in his own chopper from Bangalore and spoke to us about his village upbringing in Karnataka, his stint with the army, his return back to his village farming, his sericulture business, his helicoptering ventures and finally the saga called 'Air Deccan'. It was truly inspiring to hear his story because he attributes all his success till date to just one thing 'perseverance'. He was truly a 'no-frills' man and we were privileged to listen to Chevalier de la legion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour from the French Government)

I don't know

I don't know why we still know each other only by name, although you strangely knew mine before I got yours. I don't know why I never try to barge in, although you hang around with guys I know very well. I don't know why I can't try and find out if you are already committed. I don't know why I didn't get into the habit of saying "hi" to you. I don't know why my heart skips one beat every time I see you. I don't know why my tongue almost went into a double knot, the one or two times I talked to you. I don't know why I hesitate to add you on to my Orkut friend's list. I don't know why I haven't gotten over some of my bitter past. I don't know why I still get nervous. I don't know why I like you, although you are quite short for me. I don't know how I will feel when you leave for your exchange program. I don't know if I will come up and tell "you look brighter" after your next facial. I don't know if it is really sensible to pursue you. I don't know why I'm blogging about you. I don't know if you will ever read this and post a comment. I don't know if I will ever get any further.
-Prequel to the formation of the Flippant hearts club@ISB

Onam@ISB

Last week we had Onam celebrations (albeit a bit late) on campus. Me, SP and SR organized the tug-of-war, Pookalam competition(floral rangoli) and had Sarovar serve an Onam sadhya. The ISB students and spouses unleashed their creative best and came out with incredible patterns.

See the winning entry from Section B



And here is Section D's creation(Our section got the second place)

An Intellectual Orgasm

Term 3 introduced many of us here to the world of Corporate Finance. Although I had heard of some of this jargon before, I was never aware of a discipline called Corporate Finance. A major aspect of teaching is the way a subject matter is delivered. Although many of my batchmates with a financial background will disagree with me, Prof.Bhagwan Chowdhry, UCLA, exposed us to CFIN in a truly unparalleled style. While he had to skim over a few really deep topics, I got to understand that the subject was really profound. While I'm not going to delve into all topics that he taught, I want to record some of the wittiest moments in my blog. Some call his jokes playboy stuff but everyone surely enjoyed his wit in class.

On the adverse selection problem...To a girl in my class(TL), Do you agree that guys at ISB range from sleazeballs to nice guys. She said yes. So on an average guys at ISB are jerks. She said yes again. So 'coz you consider the average guy to be a jerk, you don't get the guys above the average jerk(the nice ones) and you are stuck with the sleazeballs. She couldn't do anything but nod in approval.

On Arbitrage opportunity, Situation in a party. You are a guy, like many around, who has never had any luck with women. And all of a sudden, a beautiful young lady walks up to you and says, "Mein tumhare bachey ki ma banna chahti hoon - I wanna become the mother of your child". Can you believe it?...The catch is there is no free lunch.

On private valuation, I'm reading a book and my wife calls me to do the dishes. I ask her if she knows my billing rate. But she says that I'm just reading a book and not consulting right now. But the reason I'm reading the book is because I value the book more than consulting. But I still ended up doing the dishes 'coz she threatened no sex tonight.

Talking about benefits of going public he says, Human beings fornicate and read newspapers.

And talking about the costs of going public, Good or bad somebody will sue you

On signaling, he said something to this effect, I have my head tonsured to signal that I'm macho :-)

On underpricing in an IPO, The common investor gets too many lemons and too few peaches. Underpricing is the sweetener

On VCs, Venture capitalists are like your father-in-law

Finally his advice to us, Even though I look very young, I'm actually old enough to give advice :-). Use the GEO principle to decide who to work for or who to recruit. GEO is Generous, enthusiastic and optimistic.

This guy is truly a gem. Given a chance I would do CFIN again from the start and I think most of my classmates will agree too.