How motivational crap can help .....

How motivational crap can help .....

January 26th, 2009 was a day when 72,000 jobs were cut in US and Europe(alone). Yes, on a single day... I personally think it has been the worst till date in the last 11 months I have been following the recession.

Everyone I know here is really frustrated and once in a while the plug they have to hold their frustration within gets ruptured. What follows is a series of medical conditions best termed "Trauma". The Jan 26th news ruptured mine.

Being completely clueless on how I should handle it, I came up with a decent line to repeat to myself over and again: "Tell yourself you are lucky....."
I started hunting for what could make me feel good.
30L INR loan ? No..
The great GPA ? No..
Then ?
And then it struck me.....

I am studyin something now called "Implied Volatility Smile" as a subject and it was developed by Dr. Emanuel Derman and Dr. Iraj Kani. (google on them sometime)..They actually developed a mathematical model for this observed phenomenon in Stock Options with their own hands :-) It is one of the most popular and almost indispensable models ever developed in modern finance and now everyone uses it or atleast a variant of it..

And guess what, I m learning this concept from the exact same people.. Dr Derman and Dr. Kani(for a different subject though..).
:-) I really think God has been unbelievably lavish in giving me this chance .. :-) Seriously...

Every lecture is like Newton telling : " So the apple fell on my head. I started thinking what could be the reason. I decided it must be because the earth was pulling the apple towards it. I decided there must be a law governing this and so I came up with the Law of Gravitation" ....

Notice the bolded text : "I" s and "Me" s... :-) .. Yes, first person account ! awesome right ?
They do not use these pronouns as much as I have used them above. Infact, they never do. May be that modesty is what made them so successful. But at times, casually such usage does spurt out and the feeling you get is way too complicated to explain. :-)

Wanna end with a quote from Matrix: "Hope.. The quintessential human delusion. Simultaneously the source of their greatest weakness and strength.."

Damn the 2007-08 crisis.

Why ?

Why ?

Suddenly, as I was cleaning up all the crap in my room, I realized that I had more mint (that was given free through career fairs) than anything else !

Why do Financial firms do this ? 'Halitosis' prevention so that people can sit close by without any problem and crib over the billions of $ lost and the thousands they are gonna bid farewell to ?

Pisses me off.. Seriously.!

Cooking Tip !

Cooking Tip !

When you are making Rotis, make sure you do not start eating till you are done preparing. If you start multitasking (i.e., eating and cooking simultaneously), then, you ll lose count and eat more than what you generally consume. :-D

(Kick start)-ing 2009

(Kick start)-ing 2009

First blog in 2009.. It was in my mind that it should be not about something I have blogged till date. For the last 18 days I have searched everywhere for blog topics - in the activities I do, places I visited, frustrations I handled, problems I discussed, sites I visited etc. Nothing seemed really different. And as I almost decided I am gonna blog on 'thinking about blogging on multifarious topics', I hit on something interesting. Here it goes....

There is some buzz now amongst FE students here about this tv show - 'House MD'. At some level I have only liked Friends, Seinfeld and (more recently) Big Bang Theory amongst the popular shows here. However, I wanted to give this a try just because of all the talk & I started watching it.

I should say I really love it :-). It is really tough to bring out a character as complex as House (yeah, thats a character) in a tv show. I am all admiration for this now and that brings me to this blog. True to the above rambling the dialogue is about something I havent blogged till date.
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(two doctors who are kinda in a relationship discuss this.....)

Cameron: I was just being glib.

Chase: You haven’t said anything.

Cameron: No, before when I was talking about Brandon’s girlfriend thinking sex could kill you. I was just making a joke because I was uncomfortable.

Chase: Oh, I don’t even remember what you said.

Cameron: I’m uncomfortable about sex. [Chase turns quickly.]

Chase: Well, we don’t have to talk about this…

AND:
Cameron: "Sex… could kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you’re lifting three times your body weight. It’s violent, it’s ugly, and it’s messy, and if God hadn’t made it unbelievably fun… the human race would have died out eons ago. "

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Interesting ? Worth all the intro I gave ? Atleast I think it is. :-)

Oh yeah, Happy New year ~!