Freakonomics

Well, lets start with an MBA session. This is how studies should be done, start with a slow example and then all the gibberishness. Enough blabber, now my example is:
Yesterday, i listened to a video lecture and here it goes-

In a city, there happened a murder. Police came and started investigating. After a while two guys were caught with  a knife. Since they were the only clue in the murder mystery, police locked them up.

They were kept in two separate cells. Now, the questioning starts. In a game of confession and rejection, they were given two choices, two difficult choices that could change the way of their life.

   So they were given the above choices, if both confess, as the first column says, they will be given 5 years sentence for their crime. If one of them confess and other deny then the one denying will get 20 years sentence and one who confessed will walk out free for his goodwill. And the last, if both deny, then they will get 1 year sentence just for carrying knife.

Now the problem is that they were not allowed to see each other, what will you choose at this condition-

Of course, my answer will be to confess, 5 years may not look good in comparison to 1 but definitely worth than 20 years. So, now the theory part starts about the 3 strategies in economics-

one is dominant strategy,
second one i forgot,
third one was Nash equilibrium and then blah blah blah...

We can easily understand now, that studying MBA is not a piece of cake, with all the good examples in the video lecture, there were also 90 % theory that bounced just right from my head and after 3 and a half minutes, i had to juggle hard not to close my eyes. So never judge a book by its cover, when you go deep inside it, you will know its value.
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And now for that "I forgot part" and to justify it somebody told me that a man's mind can continuously listen and understand to maximum to 7 minutes and then it is prone to wander.. So, my point is just to say that i listen to what, i want to listen..
While a woman's mind can only understand to 4 minutes.[:)]

So the session ends, and it hereby changes the prospective that  i look of MBA. Will have to do more of r & d before coming upon something that i regret later.

So long bloggers and bloggees, take care..
till then xoxo...

P.S. i have still not read freakonomics, bought it just looking for a quite weekend, schedule just not allowing..

Twilight- Breaking Dawn

One awesome experience. All those people who criticized it way before i went to watch it can kiss my ***.
Seriously, it was way beyond my expectations (although i had lowered them..).
Kristin was as pretty as ever, the one scene in which she pictures her wedding just mesmerizes the mind.
The dialogues were ok, but the cinematography must really be awarded. Every cine scene looked like it  has been taken from a photographers sketch book, just ready to copy and make it as desktop wallpaper.

The girls as usual prefer the Pattison or Edward on Bella, and as he entered, two teenage girls sitting next to me gone ballistic. Chanting his name, praying their soul mate be like him and even picturing their own wedding just be like the one in the movie at the altar,(although our wedding is much more pompous with reception, khana, pooja, rona dhona rather than just "I DO" )It is always nice to see such adulation. Maybe the main reason behind bollywood and cricket industry runs the india. Just give a hit and youngsters will make you Devi/Devta, give another hit and you will be God Himself, give one more hit, and your next 5 years are secured.


Another news, this week Dhanish's kolavari di.. Almost 80% of the population has uttered these famous words "Kolaveri Di" without knowing their history, their meaning. This is what we're good at, criticizing others, adulating, but when others do the same to you, its like hammer's impact on the head. We never listen, we never want to listen. We never want to go to core, surface is more than enough to us. Even after writing these heavy heavy statements, i wont tell the meaning, pretty rude of me, but that's how i am. Google it yourselves.[:)]
 Anyways, i love the song. As it was released on my b'day, gives a little more meaning to me. i have been tracking its viewers on youtube since then, and amazingly exponentially increment it is recording.
The words itself are catchy and even though its a Tamil-English song, words interconnect themselves to make it understand with no efforts. Dhanush and ashwarya's masterpiece. Even after being Rajnikant's son in law (and mind it, thats quite a  big thing.), most of people will remember him with this song.

And finally the weekend ends with a high note, watched back to back two movies.. the other one not mentionable, "Desi Boys", for God's sake, don't go.. Don't watch it at home, Don't listen to its songs, don't even please watch its trailers, just flush it down the drain. Rather donate the money than to watch it.
Office tomorrow, So sleep tight till next time sayonara. (Japanese way of saying goodbye  さようなら )

Comeback...

Long time and no words, maybe i needed to realize things before the dawn throws its morning rays.
Kind of introspection i was doing, realized several aspects about me and finally came to blogging.

Its been the longest month since college finish. Finally i joined the corporate IT sector, visualizing my dreams and going after the short term happiness and the glamor world is all it is. It is sorta funny the way you look at things now. same old classroom training and computer labs but the way people look at  you is different maybe they finally understood that we are worth something,..:)
The older generation has still no respect since we're still not making enough money as their standards,
the younger generation betting upon us as how much time before we bend and go to our natural course.
the kids more depressing than ever referring us as uncle and aunty.

It is overall a difficult age to live, as someone truly points out at facebook, twitter  to keep you busy as much as possible as it takes before this nasty world snatches you up, pinch you up with a little salt and then crushes you under its vast teeth then makes a rubble out of it and devours you hungrily, never trying even to throw out the bones.

Now about my day, it all started with a jogging spree to flat roads, yeah i jog now, big deal :) then a spiceless, tasteless meal of pohe and back to office.. after slogging to 9 and a half hours, 1 of the sessions were of corporate social responsibility, (yawn:) 2 of  them were diagnostic tests (completed it in 15 minutes and mailed it to half the class to copy) (respect for individual remember), then after dinner when the day was going to end perfectly fine, i decided to read the revolution 2020, chetan bhagat's latest.. and then the depression started. i wanted to put my head in the pot and flush myself into it. That depressing the book was!!! He is the most superficial writer i have ever come upon and the tragedy is that he thinks he knows about the stuff  he writes (full review coming soon).
then and there i decided to pen my thoughts.

although i have no readers but still will like to stay in touch and post regularly.
till then xoxo ..(learnt today that x means hugs and 0 means kisses).

Exploring new aspects of Facebook

Okay so i was visiting some stuff on google or you might say googling (i like the former as the latter has a striking appearance to googly). Anyways so i came upon a link en-gb.facebook.com As an avid facebook fan or you might say facebooker, i found it intriguing. As i dug deep i discovered i could show my facebook page by the same name. Earlier it was facebook.com/kunalbansal17. Adding the en-gb prefix it changed to en-gb.facebook.com/kunalbansal17. Though the content matter was exactly same, what i noticed was some changes in the css layout. En-gb facebook was well covering my whole mozilla screen while simple facebook had some space to share on both left and right side. I decided against in opening the css of both and checking the layouts. Instead i googled further more for information. What I found was that the en-gb is the short code for English language, that was fine but then why not more of these special facebooks to the other languages like hin-facebook for hindi. I didn't get the answers but i didn't stop here. i had to know the secrets and i stumbled onto something never seen before.
facebook.com/peering some pretty advanced stuff there, look for yourselves.

The first column was simple about origin of facebook and blah blah and again blah.
The second column had an autonomous system number AS32934
I googled this number and found out this autonomous system number is been used in routing on the internet. A quick whois of this number solved some of the doubts. whois

But then again peering itself was a new term. A wiki catch of peering showed
"By definition, peering is the voluntary and free exchange of traffic between two networks, for mutual benefit." Thus facebook works on the public peering method, in addition to this I realized that how less we all know even after graduating from computer science. The peering page showed 16 locations of internet exchange point, that is huge.

Another link on the peering page took me to the Merit RaDb website, This website is just a registered database of peer users which use routing. Its facebook page there was as normal as any Db page Facebook RaDB but what was intriguing was that it showed its previous website address Thefacebook.com, yup with a "The". The social network and Sean Parker was back in mind. It also had zuck@thefacebook.com.
It also featured one more celebrity company level3.com, a telecommunication and ISP that uses fibre optics. How this is related to fb, my guess is it was the first Internet service provider for thefacebook then Mark Zuckerberg started his own routing and peering stuff then eventually changed the name to facebook and in its final listing just fb.

My next research took me to PeeringDb website. This project is all about peering stuff, it represents all the interlinked connection peering the internet packets and maintaining such synchronism, it is absolute marvellous. The facebook peeringdb link is Facebook peeringdb.

And at last one more unconventional way to open facecbook, use V6 (used for the ipv6 users). v6.facebook.com.

Book Review: The Steve Jobs Way

Rating:-2.5 Stars

My first review, lets see whether i can give justice to that. And then there's lot more to come.

The rating system i started is for the sheer pleasure, in which a naive human mind like me tries to judge things. And from the visitor's point of view, it is essential to give them their value of money. However, the concept of judging is solely a personal point of view, and if speaking blatantly, i don't even acknowledge this because the platform is always different, we cannot play this on a single scale. For example, a book related to the concept of farming will be a zero rating from me, as i neither understand the concept nor do i intend to, but for some guy in farming, it could be a rating 4 or 5. So, basically it all depends on the point of view of blogger, and in this case that's me. And presumably I'm going to be honest.

So, bear with me, here it goes...

The biography is about the iconic leader Mr. Steve Jobs who as an entrepreneur started an organization with the more technically gifted neighbor kid Mr. Steve Woznaik to give shape to a billion dollar empire (as of today its net worth is around US $222 bn.) The story has long been told and retold in today's generation about how he is sometimes difficult to work with, how he was shown the boot from his own company and his comeback. Jay Elliot has written quite an appealing piece to the general audience, it has already been declared bestseller. Written in simple talking English, it instantly catches the accent of people.

Jay Elliot himself was Jobs key associate in his various decisions as the senior vice president of the company and according to him, one of his most trusting fellows. Even though, the age difference and the varied experience, Jay considers him his mentor ahead of Intel founders and IBM heads whose bureaucratic methods were the reason for him to leave those companies.

Even, the book is written in a business point of view, it really does not leave any mark. The thoughts are somewhat banal, those we already know without having an mba degree like who doesn't know about the team spirit, recognizing talent etc etc. What the authors (Jay Elliot with William L. Simon) didn't understand that people will buy their book to read the juicy details of Steve Jobs, those unknown to the public eye rather than read business ethics from a 15th in line to the business empire. And they are hard to find. Unlike "The Jack Welch Way" which is almost an epic read in business literature. Strangely, stories about his personal life and his cancer days are missing.

In some cases, the adulation of Steve is so much that it literary shows the effect he had on some persons. Overall, the volume is a 254 pages with some significant stories like how it was always considered that the board of directors cut him out after the appointment of John Sculley as CEO, but it was his decision to leave the company because those people didn't want his involvement in products and how he was finally on the verge of breaking down after the 2 companies he started NeXT and Pixar did not do well, One particular story I liked was the way India influenced him to a level, Jobs before starting Apple, traveled to India to visit the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a  College friend in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing.

The way he converts an idea to a billion dollar empire, his persuasiveness quality, how he started a product based company and ended up in a bureaucratic environment and then again after his second comeback changed it back to a product based company. As an entrepreneur point of view, just enthralling. So, go on read the book if you are an avid apple fan. And the book finishes with a reference to the Steve Jobs commencement speech in 2009.

You have to trust in something-
your gut,destiny,life,karma,whatever.
This approach has never let me down,
and it has made all the difference in my life.
-Steve Jobs,
commencement speech.
Stanford University, 2009.

And then it all began...

Its been 3 years since i joined Blogspot. Since then the prospect of serious blogging was always on my mind. I published my first blog on September, 2008. It was very quirky of me because the purpose of the blog was to create a replica of my friend's blog. Though it served its purpose, it is not needed now. The second blog i published was in Feb, 2010. Strangely enough, again it was created just to felicitate one of my friend's birthday. Both blogs are now mercilessly deleted. So, today after almost being 18 months on this website and not having  produced a single worthwhile thing, I wish to start with shades of GREY. That's what I'm calling it now. The reason, it will be a catalog of my routine boring life which is becoming Greyer at each passing day. The difference from traditional networking, I could very well use more than 140 letters. Now, the final word, If you want to criticize my arguments or to give your SPECIAL suggestions as to how to lead my life, how to write certain stuff, don't bother, I've got enough people on my back. So long, till next post, Sayonara..