Archive for October, 2008


My experience with Big Bazaar during Diwali remains unchanged. Three years back I had a horrible experience at Big Bazaar and this year it just worsened.
As I mentioned yesterday, I intended to go shopping to Big Bazaar at Lower Parel today in order to redeem some discount coupons.
Considering the Diwali season, Big Bazaar has tonnes [...]

Finished off my FSA paper on 23rd and awoke early Saturday morning for some last minute preparations for the SAP-BIW paper.
This turned out to be a very comfortable paper to write in 90 minutes. Had a quick breakfast and got down to packing for my journey to Mumbai. I love travelling light and infact that [...]

Yesterday was the start of our much not-awaited third semester exams.
The exams began with the toughest and most dreaded of the Finance subjects, viz. Financial Statement Analysis. I began preparing of the same from 19th itself, which is rather different from what my usual study schedule is like. (Well, it’s not really a schedule when it [...]

Who approves of the riots that the MNS rages in the name of Maharashtrians? Definitely not any of those I know who strictly condemn them. Are even Maharashtrians safe from this? Apparently not.
In Goonda Raj, Marathi manoos and Mumbai Mirror editor Deepak Lokhande has related his experience of Tuesday where he bore the brunt of [...]

Having checked out the high rating of Body of Lies on IMDB, I decided to go watch the movie.
Body of Lies tells the story of Roger Ferris, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Ferris is a covert CIA operative in Jordan and the Middle East working to capture Al Saleem, a terrorist planning to wreck havoc on [...]

Went out on Sunday night to Mezza9. Ate and drank well
After strugging for three days with SAS, we finalized and gave our presentation on Monday.
On Tuesday we had our Financial Statement Analysis re-mid term. I missed the original exam due to the CGN Thought Process Improvement workshop.
Prepared well for it. Can’t afford to risk [...]

With the credit crunch having hit all the economies of the world, we’re all wondering if we will get a job or not.
Then came the financial downturn of last Friday when markets in the USA crashed. We saw a similar onslaught in India on Monday.
So, how has this affected the bigshots? Take a look at [...]

Have spent the last two days working on a SAS presentation that is scheduled for this evening.
Our topic is Business Decision Making in FMCG industry using SAS Enterprise Miner.
Everything would have been fine and hunky dory, except that we do not know anything in SAS! So, the last two days has been a desperate [...]

The last week has be very crazy. Having worked on our Financial Statement Analysis, we finally submitted the same on October 2. Our presentation was rescheduled for 8th due to the upcoming summer placements.
Spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday cooped up in the vipasana hall working at the helpdesk for the summer placements of the juniors.
I’m [...]

Have released a new version of Open Picture Window.
Changelog:

Fixed an error where the javascript file was not included correctly
Picture should not get cut off in the new window being opened

I have plans for a plugin that could display the images a bit better. However, it is still in development phase.
Are you using Open Picture Window [...]