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Creative (read: random) idea: Using facebook as a personal diary

Posted by maneel | Posted in Personal, Tech | Posted on 04-04-2011

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I just thought about this and this seems to fit in perfectly.

Way back in school we were told how writing a diary daily would help our language skills. We don’t need to improve our skills anymore but think about this, an effortless strictly-personal diary would be awesome. But to keep a hard paper diary is too cumbersome and the online apps are too crappy. Why not use facebook, yes, facebook!

All you have to do is make a new account on facebook, tell facebook not to show you in search and change privacy settings for all your content to be private to you. It’d be so awesome. Videos, photographs, status messages, notes, links (even the :p links). Everything in one place, in an interface you know by the heart.

I am getting on this once I am done with the exams, you guys give it a try.

Beginning of the end

Posted by maneel | Posted in Personal | Posted on 01-03-2011

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So the last month of college is here (which is not a very happy thing). Time’s is flying away. But I am leaving with a lot of happy memories and a happy realization that I went to one of the best institutions in India. Read this interesting post about Symbiosis and stardom on Dr. Vidya’s Blog.

Got HR Presentation at 9 today. NM’s GD-PI went *censored*.

Second innings

Posted by maneel | Posted in Personal | Posted on 13-02-2011

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I’ve finally decided to come back to my blog after a very busy 1 year when I was caught with studies, MBA admission exams, Unify amongst other things.

2011 so far has been a bag of mixed fortunes. After being a ‘victim’ of a weird ‘normalisation’ process of IIMs in CAT where my strongest section (suspiciously) came down to a (suspicious) 32.5 percentile, scored a whopping 92 percentile in XAT, missed a sectional for XLRI and was advised against applying to other good colleges that I might have got into.

Cleared the NMAT at the cut off score with lots of luck, right on the last day of Unify 2011. Gearing up for the GD – PI now, which people say is tough to clear at the cut off score (70% weightage is given to the NMAT score in this stage). Sir said clarity, honesty and commitment is the key for the PI, expects me to manage the GD well.

Coming to Unify, even Unify had sort of a comeback this time. After a really bad low last year, we did manage to get back the participation. It was nice to hear the crowd cheer “Unify, Unify” on the last day… an awesome experience I can’t put down here, though I will put videos and photographs when I am provided with. We couldn’t manage the rock show without a sponsor though, but this Unify experience was one of the best things I’ll take with me after college ends in another two months.

College is ending, woof! So soon. Tonight seems like the evening of the day in whose morning we started college. Frankly, first semester and last semester have a lot in common. In the first semester people didn’t have grudges and now they don’t care anymore, so it has all boiled down to the same thing. All of us are starting to get (a lot) emotional about college ending, which none of us really wants to think about at this point.

While I write this the warm up India vs. Australia game in the Cricket World Cup 2011 is on and India is kind of being slaughtered. I sort of wanted this to happen, they will be in shape when the real games start, then we’ll tell Australia who’s who.

Looking back, I think I’ve caught a fancy for Trance. Unrelated, but I wanted to say this.

Update: India won the warmup game.

I am the best!

Posted by maneel | Posted in Academics, Life, Personal | Posted on 30-03-2009

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I just realized I am the most intelligent student in college. Testimonials coming soon.

(Although I am intelligent, I still can not figure out why others don’t use their brains).

P.S. I have been awake for too many hours now and have been studying this while (yes, studying!!!)… so don’t take any of the above seriously.

P.P.S I still remain intelligent-est… that’s a universal fact.