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Not much today except the fact that it was super duper HOT!! almost 92 I think. I am excited that it is Wednesday.. Mid week... 2 more days and then the weekend!
Work was fine...I enjoy listening to Mr. Jim Cramer these days.... I have kind of started listening to his stock picks. Today, I was listening a conference call for a Investing Fund called Davis Fund in NY, the investors had quite an analogy with volatile market and opportunities. The interesting example was that of a SUV and a subcompact car.

They were saying, if you are driving a SUV, because of the large size you are so confident that nothing can go wrong, you drive more aggressively and as a result get more exposed to the accident. However, on the other hand, people who drive sub compact car are very conscious about how they drive as they are a small car, they are more conservative drivers and because of that they get into less accident. I believe the whole point here was about "Risk" Vs " Perceived Risk." -- The same thing implies to the volatility and uncertainties in the market. Interesting notion I think....

I guess this much for a today. A little bit of the market world :)

P joined me on the bus ride today-- 't was nice.

Usual rambling..

I am trying to keep up with my writing...Enough of Procrastination..

So I call the Best Buy people on Friday. The guy whom I spoke to made me even more confused. I had called to ask about the update, but had to hangup the call as the conversation was getting no where. The guys was really nice, no doubt about that but, he just did not understand what I wanted to get out from him. I simply wanted to get the update, and he was basically empathizing with me for the loss of my hard disk..... One thing that I really hate about calling the so called - Geek Squad at Best Buy is that everytime I call, I have to repeat the whole scenario... even consistently asking them to update my information on their little box, they conveniently decide not to I suppose.... I do not know when I will get the computer at this point.

Weekend was nice. The weather was nice.. It felt like summer again.

I am yet not done with Anita's book..Everyone morning these days, somehow, I mange to take a quick nap in the train.... I get tired more easily these days... do not know why.. I get up.. reluctantly every morning wishing the fact that I had more time to Sleep and impatiently waiting for the weekend.

Work was fine.. doing more research on the Morning Star review. So Microsoft might potentially invest on Face book.. yup!! that so-called networking site has managed to drag inside their loop.. I am addicted ... :) I was listening to Ben Bernanke's speech on Education today.. for some reason, with his beard, I had different opinion about him, however, upon hearing his speech, I am totally impressed. His voice has a power... Despite all the criticism he has been facing regarding the discount rate and the sub prime loan, he has portrayed himself as a calm and good leader. Anyways, I was happy to listen to him on the Bloomberg TV today!

Gotta go.. sorry for the abrupt ending.. and typos :)

regular snippets!

September 20, nothing has significantly changed in the past few days. Still without a computer. However, I did manage to call the people at Best Buy only to get informed that the computer was not yet sent to the service center. Hopefully, it finally has at this point. I would need to make a phone call to get the status. The sad part is my harddisk is completely corruputed and as a result, all of my data is completely gone. All my MBA stuff and everything.... They were suppose to backup the data for 9 gig which was going to cost about 90$, but since the harddrive is corrupted, they said, to retrieve the data it would cost anywhere between $250-$1500....... no point in paying that much I think...

Somehow, I feel that laptop and I, we do not get along. This is a second laptop in 2 years that has been wrecked by my use. Well, this was was already dead and we managed to retrieve it after being in a coma for almost a year, but still, it died. My other computer's harddrive went off as well.That was barely a year old.. Such is life.. At least I am grateful for the fact that it nothing major happened ( lots did happen)when I was at school..

Nothing much is going on..Work is fine.. I am learning a lot. Today, I was doing an asset allocation for an International fund. It was an interesting analysis. Fed cuts down the discount rate again... news all over the place. This move is supposedly going to help the economy everyone says. Funny thing is I have not had chance to hear Bernanke speak. Just the other day I watched Alan Greenspan's interview. I am very eager to see Ben Bernanke's speech. Hopefully, in next couple of days.

I have got this ugly thingie inside my mout...mouth ulcer it is called and it hurts like hell.. I cannot eat properly and I cannot talk properly, it hurts so very much...

Reading wise, still reading Anita's Book!! half way done... That women was Amazing. My uncle had written me a mail the other day. He told me that Anita had visited our factory 8 times. I was small when she came to our house in Nepal and I had already left for Japan when she came the other times. I talk about Anita a lot with P. Anita Roddick and Carlos Ghosn are two people that I talk quite frequently.... Ireally wish I had chance to meet and talk with Anita... Her stories are truely inspiring and I am thorougly enjoying it!

S0 I am still without a Computer but making a good effort to keep up the blogs...which is bit hard to keep up to once, you have procrastinated for so long.

What happened to Mr. Abe... Why is he resigning...... ? Sometimes, in the morning you are bombarded with the news that you never expected to happen...

Happy Teej to everyone :)

My head is not thinking right, therefore, I do not even know what to write. All I can think of is good food :) and cashews for no particular reasons.

I went to the library and checked out Anita Roddick's book about her experience of opening the Body Shop.... The old book that I had read about 11 years ago. In the book, she talks about my uncle and her first experience travelling Nepal and our factory... it really took me back to my memory lane.

Book wise---I was suppose to read the book... "Random walk down the Wall Street".. which I have not even touch. Then my boss has given me 3 extra ones which I need to finish soon.. however, now that I have gotten Anita's book.. that is going to take all my time for next couple of days.

I am waiting for P to leave his work so that I could take the bus with him. He is busy at his work. I am tierd. I guess I will take a Nap or discreetly stare at certain people from across the room.

Back again

I actually managed to take some time off from my busy schedule to write my Blogs. My computer died.. AGAIN!! second one this time.. and I have literary been computer less. Actually, I am in the library and going through my emails and replying a long overdue ones. At work, everything is blocked so I cannot check anything. The only thing that I am really geared towards is the CNBC and the BLoomberg news. Now, that I have been doing my intern for month and a half, I have started to live a usual life without getting obsessed to Facebook and hi5. ( I know it is crazyy....)!!!!

It has been a while since I have updated my well being. Not much is going on except the fact that I do not have to go to the school anymore.. My studying part is done.. no more weekend cramming and late night studying and stressful life. So far, life has been a breeze.. well kind of. Not having to study every night indeed is a big relief.

Working at ML has been a good experience. Watching cnbc news almost 8 hours a day has been a good exposure to the money world. I have also developed some real interest in the stock market world and I actually enjoy watching the tickers going up and down and have managed to learn a good amount of symbols... and yes, amongst all, I was heavily following the Ben Bernanke's act on cutting the Discount rate... All these(bonds, t-bills, yield, tax, allocation....) words that I once used to hate has now become my best friend.. (ALMOST)

Dame Anita Roddick, the great entrepenuer and a great leader passed away yesterday. I was shocked. It really was an unexpected news. She has been a true role model for many... including me. My parents used to tell us her story about how her family had migrated from Italy and had really worked hard to lead a good life in England. Anita and her husband Gordan, prior to starting their well renowned "Body Shop International" actually used to sell their product on the streets of England. Following her dream passionately, she came this far. Since my uncles back home are involved with the Body Shop, Anita herself had visited our factory in Nepal 7 times and had also come to our house in Nepal. I also remember my mum making me read one of her books which was truely inspirational. And now, knowing she is gone is hard to believe..... She will truly be remembered for her effort and her passion! Passion for helping the people with AIDS, supporting charity events, getting involved in domestic violence causes and so on.....

Though too short, and though we miss her, her’s was a life well lived. The world really needs people like Anita to encourage all the women around the world!!

The church bell is ringing.. I think it is time to say Adieu. I guess this one is going to be an abrupt ending!!!

last minute

One more day to go, then I am done with my School. However, rather than jumping up and down with joy... I am sad. I don't know why, but I am sad......... Life has taken some good turns, yet, I do not some how seem to be appreciating the fact. AND I have been reminded more than few times about this nature of mine.... Not a nice feeling when things do not get appreciated right.. :)

Anyways, I am in the library at the moment. Trying so very hard to study for the exam tomorrow... Regression Analysis, Chi square.. what not... and also writing a paper and studying for Marketing exam ..... and doing lot more other things as well..

I am tired. DEAD tired... I have already fallen asleep numerous times. However hard I try to keep myself awake, it does not work....I can only see nine lights from where I'm sitting. the computer in the next room is reflecting all over the ceiling and the door frame. the new call light is flashing red on the phone. it's amazing to me.

Now that the school is over, hopefully, I will be able to write more on this blog.

night..

almost done..

Do you know how high I'm feeling right now? in fact, I don't think my body can take it. I can feel the heat creeping up my spinal column into the medulla. i can feel my medulla… and I do not even know what it means!!!!.

Is that strange?

No drugs.Just the amount of coffee I have consumed in past couple of hours is innumerable. It seems non-stop… I need to revitalize by body which unfortunately, is so lethargic and energy less.

I am in the library and doing a research for the International Marketing Project which is due next week. I have two exams and on top of that, this 15 page paper. It is hard to foocus. It has been a long day. Tomorrow, we have a presentation in International Marketing class. Then, the Marketing Research assignment on Regression… which seems so difficult. Since, it is one of the important classes to have in future, I really wish , this class was offered during the fall or spring semester. I have learned a lot about SPSS, however, I wish I still had more itme to digest the information. The information keeps on accumulating in the brain and unfortunately, some of 'em don't even get time to get digested. Summer is simply too brutal.. It is non stop marathon and poor little brain can only take so much..Correct…

I was just thinking.. as I wanted to take a break from studies.. that :

The easiest people to love are the ones you've never met. They are without flaws, the embodiment of all that you find wonderful. Usually movie stars or musicians. at least in my experiences, anyway. the musicians are the best because you don't fall in love with the image of them. You fall for what they sing, how they do it, the idea of them. This sounds quite crazy does not it?!

That being said.. I am almost done with my school part of the MBA. Next week is the last week of school. Thursday, I have 2 finals, then I am doneeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Internship is going well. I am learning a lot.. Lots of S & P index and hedge funds. I even borrowed the book, “ A random walk down wall street…” let’s see where it will take me….

Better get back to studying!

Can't believe that it is already August now... I am been lagging behind a lottttt

long time

It was, conceivably, a perfect day..... Class ended at 8:00 and I got to come home straight after that.

Should I start to countdown till the end of my school (which is very very close) I wonder..... have a mixture of both YES and NO feeling… 'Yes' cause I only I have 4 weeks of school left .. 'NO', cause this means innumerable Workload!!!!!

Huffing and puffing, I have made this far.. And 90% of the credit goes to dear husband for all the encouragement and patience. Had it not been for his encouragement, I would not have reached here.

Internship is going on fine. I am learning more and more about Bloomberg and S & P Index and all of a sudden, I am hooked to CNBC news….isn’t it ironic !!

Harry Potter’s final book is out. I talked with my sister yesterday, who still does not have the newest book and all her friends back in Liverpool has it. I have only read the first two. At the moment, I am still reading Anita Desai’s Fasting and Feasting, which surprisingly has taken me longer to finish than I had expected.At this pace, it might take me another month to finish it.

The new book for Khaled Hosseni is out.. I want to read that one and I am pretty confident, that I will finish that book in couple of weeks!!....not months.. like the past few ones…

Lately, I have been dreaming of traveling.. I want to travel.. I want to go to Manchu Pichu.. for no particular reason. Since the time I have watched the movie “Motorcycle Diaries,” I wanted to go there..

I believe in Traveling..

I believe in the power of travel to change — to change individuals, communities and the collective global consciousness. I believe that it is only through personal understanding of different peoples and cultures that we can progress as a society.

It is 11:00 at night. It is bed time for me. I wanted to catch up my blogging... The day was kind of misty today. Looking outside the window, I see the moon...And the moon, the moon with its inconstant face, slipping through the turbulent sky like a fish through the rapid danger of the shoals, smooth and perfect and utterly unknowable.

Adieu!

regualar snippets

I am sitting at home, doing my Gillette Case write up, (which is almost done) and watching the program called “High Net worth Individuals” at CNBC channel. I have been trying to follow the news at CNBC for last hour and half. Since at work, they have the CNBC news on all day, I thought it was going to be useful for me to brush up my financial knowledge. AND! I actually enjoyed the news…

High Net Worth Individuals (HNWI) was interesting program. They had an interview with Laxmi Mittal and Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice. Since the "Beckhams" have just moved to the US, the whole financial world has their eyes on them.. They indeed are the High Net worth individuals.

Then suddenly, another interesting thing caught my eye. It was about “Jet Airways.” For some reason, I always thought, Jet Airways was from back home, however, to my dismay it is not. Anyways, back to the interesting stuff, the news was that, the CEO of Jet Airways, Mr. Naresh Goyal, revealed the world's most revolutionary interiors and most luxurious airline seats including their First Class Bedroom Suites. “The passenger will have their private butler,” Mt Goyal emphasized.

The total cost of this airline ticket from Mumbai to NY is approximately, 14,0000 $$ and the GREAT Mr. Goyal is worth $1.5 billion. Very very interesting!!!

It is hot!!! For some reason, I want it to rain and storm like it never has before. I wonder what it is about storms... or just snow... that makes the sky burn late at night.

Reading wise, I have started reading, Anita Desai's "Fasting and Feasting".. So far, nothing exciting has happened yet, but I am pretty sure, in next couple of chapters, it will be all exciting.. :)

When I came closer I saw that the fire dancers were out, twirling at the center of blazing trails of heat, their skin glistening gold and orange in the light... This was my dream.. I think I was in a jungle.. alone... no body on my side. I have been getting this feeling a lot lately.. don't know why....those...Lonely dreams.. :)

However, being alone did not make me unhappy. I was not SAD in my dream. Infact, quite content. Because in the end, what will it matter? What comfort can it possibly bring me? How will it justify my life to be first in the eyes of another? Only I can validate my existence. Surely it isn't right to put my hope in a fallible being. BLAH !! Blah... I am not making a single sense am I? It has been a rough week/days for me :)

Because of the hectic schedule, I wish I was living in a dorm. Sleep, get up in the morning go to school/work and then back to the dormm.. For instance, today, I have class until 10:30....... I will be dead tierd by then..

Work was interesting. Made graphs using Excel today and it was neat. It was really hot outside and I beleive it is. I feel like taking a nap.. a long nap..

I wonder, sometimes, how we keep ourselves above the despair that looms yawningly below us as we tread the fragile bridge of everyday life. I do not do anything but simply WONDER!!!

I'm full of wishes but even more full of fear.

Days has been tedious. Workload is gradually piling up. Presentation, mid-term and paper-- all lined up for next year.

Intership wise-- it is going Great. Everyday has been a learning expereince. I learned to make a Equity chart in the Excel sheet. I have always been an avid user of p.point but I guess, excel is more popular in the financial world.

I just got done with one meeting. Another meeting will start soon...

gray

Summer 1 has finally finished. It is summer 2 now. I have 5 more weeks to go, and then I am done with the 'studying' part of the MBA.

In addition to that, I have started an internship. I work until 2 in the afternoon and then head back to my class. The experience has been good so far. So far, I have learned about Client's Portfolio Review, comparing ROR with S& P index and today, I learned about filing a litigation claim for a client.Tomorrow, I am planning to take a Bloomberg prep course once again.

Even though, I am not finance major, working at ML has been fun. I have learned a lot!!
Summer has been nice and pleasant. Yesterday we went to the fort near the airport and enjoyed watching the “Take off " and "landing," until the rain ruined the peaceful evening.

Saturday, we went to Motu dai's Picnic and then latter half of the day was mostly shoppingg ugghhh!

Today is intermediate. Suspended in time, in space. It's got that gray feeling of not being a peak or a valley but somewhere lost on the slope. In between. I should be doing something but I don't know what it is. Class starts soon.

Presentation Mania

Four down.. two more to go..... The brutal week is not getting better.. Physically or Mentally!!

Summer I will end on Friday, and Summer two will start from Monday, July 2nd.

Strangest dream the other night. Surprisingly, all about Negative reinforcement.

Maybe communication would be that much easier, not having to use words.

Presenation Fiasco

Had one of the hardest Presentation yesterday on the " Random House".... the core topic was about Integrated Vs Potfolio organization and about a synergy of a company. Is it really good to have synergy???

Sadly, even putting extra effort for so many days, the presentation did not turn out to be good. In fact, we were grilled until the very end... The presentation which was suppose to last one hour and 15 min lasted for brutal 2 hours.

I want to write more.. However, I'm not going to write about what I probably originally wanted to because the night is shot. It's gone. the happiness i had kind of disintegrated.... at least the music is good.. the beautiful Jazz.. and of course, I am tierd... 2 more weeks to go..

Confusion

I'm wondering if and how i could reinvent myself.
I think that would be a worthwhile thing to do.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Happy Happy Birthday to the GORGEOUS husband!!!

MANY MANY MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY!!!

I wish you all the happines, laughter and luck for the year ahead.

May all your dreams come true and you reach a new height of sucess each day!!!

With your Persistence and Determination, you will soar to unreachable Horizons!!!!!

Loving thoughts for the nicest, smartest, handsomest husband a girl could ever wish for!

Happy Happy Birthday!!!

Snippets!!!

Relaxing isn’t it when the day is past and you are spent all you had on surviving its trials and wonders and awakeness and the only thing to do this time of night is lazily turn an apathetic ear to a boring or rubbish tv show or simply lying down doing absolutely nothing. The air isn’t heavy its just your head and lips weight more than all that but its nonsensical and unimportant all at once.

Anyways, Summer school is going by way faster than any of us had ever imagined. The work load is unfathomable!!!

I am so much behind the blog thingie. So much has happened. I still have to update my German visit along with the UVA graduation and the Maine visit. It is just that I have been bit busy with the school work. The case study simply does not stop coming.

This morning in the train I was reading a case for my Brand management class about “Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy”. Yup! I had no idea about the full name of the empire. Henessey and Moet et Chandon are both a leading champagne and cognac manufacturer. Moet et Chandon, at first merget with Henessy and later, they then merged with Louis Vuitton. So far, this has been one of the interesting cases I have read. Another one that I read yesterday was about the Chinese brand Lenovo!!

With that being said, it is time for me to get back to my case study. I will try to assure the fact that all the exciting blogs along with the pictures will be updated soon!!

Ciao

My Diary in Germany

The first day

The trip from Boston to Germany was really a short one. The travel was good however, I know for a fact that given a choice, I will not fly in Lufthansa again. In Boston, Lufthansa has done so much marketing promotion and it has really succeeded in gaining attention and placing the image of Lufthansa as a superior airlines. I am going to say bluntly that I did not like it at all. The leg room was really small, the portion of the food was small as well and on top of that, they had no LCD’s on the back of the seat.

The only thing that I liked about this airline was that we did not have to pay for the wine. Unlike other airlines in which you have to pay $5 for a glass of wine, we had the liberty to enjoy free wine in Lufthansa.

So far my best flight experience has no doubt been in Northwest Airlines. For Asian Airlines it is Cathay Pacific, Thai, and Singapore Airlines.

Along with Amit and Diviya, Matt, Huani and Professor Mclean were also in the same flight. We had a direct flight from Boston to Frankfurt that was good. The only caveat was that we landed in Frankfurt at 5:00 in the morning and our hotel rooms were not available till 12:00 in the afternoon. Bummer!!

Luckily Matt got a room. After placing our luggage, we decided to go for a quick stroll in Frankfurt. The place looked very quiet. Some of the places very much reminded me of Zurich. The building, the small paved streets……. the train.

We took a quick tour around the river and everything was closed. The place was very quiet. For some reason I was hoping to see small bread and baguette shops like the ones in Paris. However, the streets of Frankfurt were completely deserted. Soon it was 9:00 clock; we had wandered around the city for 3 hours…. .Yet, nothing seemed to open. We walked around the city for another hour. There was a huge flee market near the banks of the river. Since we were trying to kill time, we walked slowly around the market. I was half asleep.

Finally upon arriving at the hotel at 12:30 pm, we got a room and took a nap. I was bit tired of taking too many pictures…

We had a group meeting in a small room where we got to meet with everyone. Everyone was excited, excited for the “chic and elegant” dinner that night. The meeting was a short one, basically summarizing our trip agenda. We also had a quick introduction with Dr. Gilbert and Ingo.

Dinner that night was fabulous. I had ordered salmon which was equally good. After the dinner, we went for a night walk… Night life in Frankfurt was completely different. It somehow reminded me of “July 4^th” fireworks night. The night looked young to everyone… however, I was tired. The rest of the group decided to go. After a exciting 45 minutes walk, I was ready to go to bed. And yes, we did manage to see the tallest building in Europe and yes, we were 100% convinced that it was definitely the tallest building.

busy

I promise I will write something here as soon as the world stops and lets me off. Been Busy with school, homework and family.

Lots of exciting news on the way...

We went to Maine over the memorial day weekend. Bar Harbour to be exact. It was a breath taking experience. I promise to post it soon.

Currently, I am in the library. Studying a case for " Value Chain."

Gotta get going. Summer school is exausting.... I really am tierd!!