Lehman Brothers Internships - the chaos

Posted by Arvind as Lehman Brothers, internship

A week ago at this time, the day of onam, a holiday, 300-400 third years at NIT Trichy were in formals with their CV ready to go to the Lehman Brothers Pre Placement Talk (PPT as they call it here), hoping to get an internship by the end of the day.But the hope was […]

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September 18, 2008 | Filed Under Lehman Brothers, internship | Comments Off 

public nuisances

Posted by Arvind as drinking, public nuisances

Every so often when you’re in a public place, you’ll see someone lying down flat in front of you in a bed of puke, someone trying to walk straight, or someone irritating passengers in a bus. Yes, Its those drunk ones out in the public I’m talking about. Its a very disturbing sight to […]

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September 1, 2008 | Filed Under drinking, public nuisances | Comments Off 

NCC @ NITT 2008-09: A Third Year’s perspective

Posted by Arvind as NCC

Many people asked me why I continued NCC in my second year (as I already had a year of it). At that time my reasons were: it was good daily exercise, we got to attend quality camps (especially the Kerala Trek I went to, a once-in-a-lifetime experience!). Coordination, Teamwork, obedience, discipline, and time management […]

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August 19, 2008 | Filed Under NCC | Comments Off 

The Rain, and the rest of the Yuck!

Posted by Arvind as india, indian railways, suburban railways, unclean india

I’ve always been thinking infrastructure in India isn’t good as it doesn’t allow people to commute smoothly during rainy times - roads get flooded or waterlogged, leakages occur everywhere, and since its so sandy everywhere the sand starts to get wet and sticks on to footwear.My thoughts have come out to be true as I […]

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August 6, 2008 | Filed Under india, indian railways, suburban railways, unclean india | Comments Off 

The “Mess” at NITT

Posted by Arvind as Business, NITT, ethics, mess

The College NIT Trichy is a mess as I see it, but theres much to write about on that. I’m talking about the mess at the messes (might sound weird to some, but this is our dining hall) inside the college.Since this is a central government funded college, the messes were handled by government […]

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July 28, 2008 | Filed Under Business, NITT, ethics, mess | Comments Off 

Onboard flight CZ 359/360

Posted by Arvind as China southern, aviation, bad times, china

Usually I fly Singapore Airlines to get to Guangzhou from India but this time I decided to take the newly introduced China Southern flight from Delhi to Guangzhou. Taking some flights in and around China, China southern seemed to be good (especially on the Beijing routes with the new Boeing 777s and the A330s) […]

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July 23, 2008 | Filed Under China southern, aviation, bad times, china | Comments Off 

A look at Youth Curry

Posted by Arvind as Blogs, Youth Curry, blogging, blogging interest, rashmi bansal

Somehow I ended up at Ms. Rashmi’s blog yesterday (I only added the link to her blog on my blogroll yesterday). I now feel as though I’m starting my blog once again. I first started my blog after her guest lecture down at NIT Trichy during Currents, the Electrical Engineering department symposium. (More […]

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July 12, 2008 | Filed Under Blogs, Youth Curry, blogging, blogging interest, rashmi bansal | Comments Off 

Useful web design links

Posted by Arvind as web design

As i said in the post “My Internship”, I was doing some web design during my internship. I’m going to share some of the sites that helped me a lot.1) CSS Play UK : This site has a lot of stylesheets for boxes, drop down menus, layouts. Just go to the page of the […]

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July 12, 2008 | Filed Under web design | Comments Off 

My internship

Posted by Arvind as Ranbaxy, internship, mobile marketing, web design

Finally one month of interning at Ranbaxy comes to an end. I’m going to start with saying all the stuff I did that wasn’t work related because who wants to hear about work all the time? So here we go:1) MSN - The first thing I would do everyday along with opening Microsoft Outlook […]

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July 11, 2008 | Filed Under Ranbaxy, internship, mobile marketing, web design | Comments Off 

NCC at NITT - A cadet’s perspective

Posted by Arvind as NCC, NCC development, NITT, india

Ok, so NCC isn’t some threatening thing that puts you off if you’ve read up to here. Well being a cadet at NCC at NITT (thats where i study college right now) I thought of some ideas to expand the scope of our program at our college. I wrote up a paper (not […]

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July 5, 2008 | Filed Under NCC, NCC development, NITT, india | Comments Off 

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