Aftereffects of an internship

Midhun goes to the NGO & completes the internship with panache

An incident

Midhun: Mommy, I am going to the jail.
The girl next door overhears (In hushed overtones to her mom): So, that’s the case. Midhun chettan is on parole. And he boasts to us that he is doing MBA.

The fact stands apart. Midhun’s NGO deals with prisoner’s children and he as part of the field work is supposed to meet the prisoners for his short film project.

Something parallel happens in another city of Kerala.

Rejil: Bro, I will be late. I have to be with a sex-worker.
Brother’s friend, who came as a guest, stands stone-faced
(& thinks) So, this is what is termed progressive thought process and an accepting family.

In fact, Rejil planned to meet the sex-workers for the purpose of a survey and research.

But there in Kottayam, an irritated Midhun prepares the report as per the list.

Field work (Mandatory): In spite of the NGO vehemently opposing my move to plough the courtyard and other available areas, my inherent talent to convince him helped me win the task. Now paddy and wheat is cultivated all around the NGO premises.
Field work indeed!!!

Communication strategies: Forced the NGO to get the postpaid connection with the maximum offers.

Documentation: Noted minutes wasting hours together.

External communication: Spoke to God. Do help me finish the projects on time.

Internal communication: Spoke a lot to myself. Yes. Intrapersonal communication.

At the end of the day Midhun wonders: When I speak to God, its prayer, but the vice versa is schizophrenia. Why so? ;)

And Midhun's report gave importance only to the three mandatory tasks. Yes..Exactly as you guessed.... simply because it’s MANdatory.

Footprints – An annual Pune delicacy (Prepared the Kochi way)

MAIN INGREDIENTS: - An empty tumbler, 500 audience (Peeled and cubed), 240 large cups all-purpose PG, 140 small cup all purpose UG, 2 big cup sponsor, 2 small cup sponsor, 1 teaspoon publicity seeds, 1 pinch event management skills, 1 full cup network, ½ tablespoon exposure, ½ teaspoon exposure seeds, 3 grated themes, 12 red hot speakers roasted, few media leaves, 1 inch piece UKC and/or AS to taste, butter, 1 table-full mementoes and handful of bouquets.

VARIANTS: 22 tablespoon regionally flavored syrup

PREPARATION TIME: - 15 days after lid is opened.    

SERVES: - 500- 800 (Based on the tumbler size)

HOW TO PREPARE: - Take the entire 240 large all-purpose PG and 140 all-purpose UG.  Leave them for a few days and see them automatically separate. Add a pinch of event management skills and event details to make the process faster. Finely chop the event outline and spread it in a pressure cooker. Wait for 3-4 whistles. Then take 21 small tumblers from India and one from Dubai. Segregate the separated mix into the tumblers. Knead the PG’s well. Preheat the cold tumblers to 350 degrees Fahrenheit for the UG’s to toughen.

Take a small frying pan and heat a little of the theme, one by one and roast the previous content, audience, media, colleges and add schools separately till an aroma begins to rise. Keep it side and let it cool for three months.

The other option would be to start using it, which may affect the taste of your other foodstuffs like assignments, projects and test papers.

Now dry grind the corporate letters for the speakers, sponsors with the roasted Ananya seeds (Kind of round and sweet seeds found in Gujarat) and get it polished by UKC paste ( Strong and aromatic paste from Bengal). Coarsely grind the grated sponsors and speaker nuts. Just let the blades rotate a couple of times. Add a lot of patience. Take a frying city pan and put the two big and small sponsors in pieces of associate sponsorship, main sponsorship and add the first paste we made. Cook on a low flame for 5 days or till the pressure and heat grips the handle. Any number of proposals can be added for experimenting different tastes. Add leaves like flyer, backdrop, ticket, onsite announcement, banner, poster, handout continuously for 10 days. This lowers the pressure a little. Then add the exposure seeds as available to taste. Cover and cook for 10 days till red in colour.

In another pan heat the clarified sponsors & keep on adding PR till it’s pampered and hot. Always keep chanting the sponsorship mantra, intelligence and innovation for a healthy and wealthy stomach. In the other stove in low flame keep the speakers in position lest they cool down. Keep sprinkling as much media as possible through print mugs, online spoons, radio pipes and television sprinklers. After everything is channelised, add the chopped SIMC clips and fry till its dark brown color by evening. Don’t forget to include the UKC/AS inch piece a day before the preparations. As the remix gets ready, pour it over the audience continuously and serve in the available stalls along with a salad consisting of pen, notepad and folder. Use the logo for color wherever required in this cuisine. As footprints gets over in the tumbler, see the young cashews and raisin achievers. Don’t forget to add the selected local spices like mementos, bouquets as per the requirement from the start of the event. Pour certificates after footprints is eaten in full.

In case of goof up’s / hiccups drink a lot of water and stay cool. If this requires more gravy add a little more of media after finishing the meal.

POINTS TO CHECK:

• Try adhering to the cuisine book as much as possible for guaranteed results. Can be tried using various combinations of 15 speakers, 2/4/6 sponsors (The more the merrier in taste)
  
• Collect the cash token before dish footprints is served to the 17-25 year old audience.
  
• Get the feedback on the quality of food served and check whether the impressions are stamped.
  
• The butter can be used by those who are used to buttering the judges.
  

It is important to remember that cooking styles vary from regions and communities within the same country. This is a Kochi style of preparing footprints as taught to me by my “what’s cooking” cookers.

Traditionally Footprints cuisine has generous amount of spice added to it. The final recipe report will consist of 4-5 green chilies and 3-4 tsp of red chili powder along with the spices. But to suit a non-Indian palate, I have reduced the spice a little bit.

FOR THE CUISINE JUDGES: Using a long, sharp knife cut a circle about 3 inches in diameter in the center of each team dish, making sure to cut all the way through to the bottom to get an exact idea of the effort taken to bake. Then slice them as you would a pie into individual portions and mark them accordingly. 

DASHAVATAR - Vaanaravatar

The philanthropist - Based loosely on an old fable and inspired by the links

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community.aspx?cmm=55011066 and

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=41516335&tid=2583731290985039587&na=4&nst=150&nid=41516335-2583731290985039587-5258041191628372832

This is the story that happened in Lavale, the media country ruled by Mr. Muni Monki hailing from the Dakshin. Unhappy with ways of eliciting work with enticing baits in the form of assignment status, the semi-civilised hilltop performed a two year long penance. Lord Ventikeswara received complaints via email from females of Symbiflam err Combiflam group of institutes. Finally Lord Ventiki appeared and asked the hapless inhabitants on whether they required an MBA, Placements, fame or money.

Lavale-ians from Footprints 2008 reverberated in Chorus, “No God… No..”.

Lord Ventiki in his unruffled poise continued, “Subjects, then what is that you require?”

Sankat, whose name apt to the crowd’s mood spoke, “We are a happy lot today, but our pre-story was one embroiled in controversies and complaints. We weren’t steered properly to the distant shore. At least avoid it next time & we want none from PG2011 to face similar hurdles.”

Lord Ventiki’s eyes filled to the brim. The little tear drop on earth would spell disaster, a Tsunami that can wipe out the shores of Chennai. Before that great flood inundated earth, Lord heeding to the request decided on the last incarnate of his Dasavatar. Lavalaites were impressed by his austerity and granted him a space.

Being an actor himself, Lord Ventiki donned the new role effortlessly. He opened the hostel almirah and Lo!!! Muni Monki, the tree saint, was born and to remain the central character throughout the epic titled Vanaravatar, where he would drink the holy nectar and save the PG2011 with countless advices on their future to be. Monki’s attire and character of short-term commitments suited him best among the ten avatars.

This incarnation gains relevance today with IT boom and the pose of some professionals caricatured as simians.

Once at Lavale, Monki forgot the essence, reason and righteousness behind his avatar. He deviated from Mission Guidance to Vision Nonsense and threw away his lethal weapon called Talentaayudh. Needlessly he jumped state to state, tree to tree in search of the sweeter nectar and the source from where emanated an exceptional feminine aroma. The lust to temporarily capture the throne (in common parlance the Maha ‘simc’anasa) of the symian hilltop made him greedier than ever.

The decision of Lord Ventiki to be born as Monki instead of Kalki had already instigated many a smaller God. Meanwhile the femme fatales among the aspirants had an eerie sense of insecurity. Sensing the deviating purposes of Muni Monki and understanding his true colours, the PG 2011 approached the smaller God’s for help, who in turn formed a cartel to cancel Monki’s entry pass to the once heavenly abode. Unaware Monki continued jumping more trees.

To teach Muni Monki a lesson and to save the PG2011 from the unsafe clutches, one mischievous God dressed as an Apsara, the beautiful maiden, seduced Muni Monki into drinking the nectar.

Surprise!! As soon as Muni Monki was served nectar, the Maya software emanated a fragrance. The source of the distant scent was an Asura’s cave. Disturbed and disillusioned on finding his search turning futile, Muni Monki wanted to start afresh with a Google search and Orkut community. Muni Monki proposed to marry the maiden serving nectar. At the very moment, the Apsara disappeared, deceiving Muni Monki of everything from wooing and charming the Lavalein gopikas to writing a long discourse like the Bhagavad Gita.

Suspended mid-air, with neither an entry in heaven, hell nor earth, a once compassionate Lavalein lady steadied him on a tree stump.

Years passed and this Muni Monki finally became the coconut tree. Today Muni Monkis’ hair is what we see as the coconut leaves, the French beard as the husk, nectar as the coconut water and the stump itself as the the tall trunk. A life once lived romping from trees to trees finished as a tree itself - The kalpavriksh.

There are different stories on Monki’s techniques of knocking the feminine doors and thus pocketing them. The tips are used by the present Gen-X kids and Muni Monki is a rage in cartoons, comics and Jokes alike.

Yet another touching story of Muni Monki is that he read the entire Bhagavad Gita with oscillating hopes of finding a beautiful damsel called Gita in at least one of the pages. The glossy magazine pages had corrupted his mind. Thathasthu!

There Orkut community reads something like this: “We're a group of seniors who'd like to help you and share whatever we did and had to do to get here…

The actual purpose is genuinely to be helpful in different ways like

• Join Orkut, the platform of interaction, the masquerade of ingenuity. PG2011 via the camouflaged 2010 can meet each other, create the team feeling and clear the GD’s with ease.

• The 2010’s advice helps provide a coupling feeling long before 2011 reaches Lavale. Especially beneficial to homesick girls who will have someone in the moderators and Owners to look forward at the barren hilltop.

Farsightedness aka binoclar-o-technology invented as early as SEP 16 & OCT 17th respectively. Are the birds watching?This generosity, this love, this interest for the future of SIMC, even when the rest were occupied with their first semester exams ....sob..sob...the time people take out to help others.We meet so less of nice people these days.Emotions are choking me and am unable to write more. So many lucky souls who got enlightened and moreover so early in their careers, even before the SNAP forms were available. Lucky juniors with this pole star or say guiding light. Now my memory is flooded with the lone unselfish lighthouse, battered by winds, waves & taunts, yet stoic and unabashed. How I wish I had joined this year with all the free expert advice... :P :)

Final Word: There was once a King who was blessed with a boon of choosing one diamond from the many strewn in the path he walked, but on a condition that he couldn’t turn back and select any that he crossed. The king started walking. As he was about to pick a well polished glittering diamond, he found a better one and then a bigger one and so on. His greed did not allow him to pick the one in front, as he hoped for a bigger one ahead. He walked and walked and the diamonds started getting smaller and duller. Still the greed and hope remained. The king continued walking, ending up with the smallest one available.

After Footprints - A report

The most abused 11 letter word – S P O N S O R S H I P

The most ‘impressed’ 10 letter word – F O O T P R I N T S

Dreaded 9 letter word - C A N C E L L E D

Loved 9 letter word – C O N F I R M E D

The ''just for the day'' pampered 8 letter word – A U D I E N C E

Dreaded and loved 7 letter word - S P E A K E R

The threatened 6 letter word – R E P O R T

The 5 most tired letters - U K C A S not in that order. ;)

The most used 4 letter words – S E L L, P A S S in that order

The overtly polished 3 letter word - C S R

The two most efficient 2 letter words - U G, P G

The missing 1 letter word - ZzzZzzZZ

THE 4 DIGITS THAT CREATED WONDERS - 2008

CHEERS TO ALL MY BATCH 2010. GOOD SHOW

Impressive these Impressions ???

Once upon a time there lived a lion in a city full of Footprints. Being a city inhabited by dreamers, he too had a dream. To wear uniforms while impressing the best of Footprints across the country. He waited, waited and waited. The uniforms never came.

And then arrived Kochi footprints. The lasting impressions on the D-Day anyways yielded positive results.

On the way back to his foot-printed caves, the bruised lion wanted to roar and not many millions heard it. What and why that lion had to say was for a legacy he would soon leave behind for the cubs. But the inflated sounds tried their best to silence his echo.

THOUGH A LITTLE DEJECTED, THE LION SLOWLY NEARS HIS CAVE.

The little cub came running to meet him asks, “How was the event, uncle?”

The jolly good lion said- “The official release from the kingdom mentioned three young achievers. And the beautiful mementoes were designed in three crystal pieces glued to get an envious design. What the designer never knew was the infinite inherent advantages of the three pieces, but Team Kochi experienced it.”

Cub(All anxious): “What experience?”

Lion: I will tell a situation. If in case a city received only one of the mementoes for the Three Awardees. What will be a solution? Think.

Cub: Simple. Break the one memento made of three pieces and give one to each Award winner.

Lion: Bingo. Impressive your are! It was made easier for team Kochi with the biscuit cover packaging. The kochi-mates just had to give a feather touch and Magic!! The one was converted to three pieces. Also saved on the concept of ITEMS in management.

Cub: How and what are ITEMS?

Lion: Information, Time, Energy, Material and Space. Information exchange was nil. Time and energy is saved automatically. Saved two mementoes and hence material. Space for storage, transportation.

Cub: What innovative thoughts does your college have? Truly adorable. Futuristic thoughts and management starts from the office staff itself. Wow.

Lion: Not over as yet. The third major advantage is when the event culminates. If any lazy team didn’t arrange an entertainment show. See how this can be tackled.

As the young achiever receives the 3-pieces memento, the material gives away, feather touch. As the audience begins a hushed giggle, me the smart announcer announces- “This is a lesson which we would like to impart. Learn to be on your toes any moment under any adversity. Turn opportunities into adversity.” And the first achiever gives two pieces to the second and the second to the third.

Cub: Lovely concept of brotherhood among the journalists and non journalists. Hats off. But if this happens, is there anyone to blame?

Lion: YES. Ourselves. Since it’s we who didn’t go, search and then research the entire courier office. The student as per the Aide memoir is supposed to check whether someone send late couriers to be received on time! But again there are benefits. Though you lose time from the last minute event polishing, you become skilled to perform better than a sniffer dog.

Cub: Just one culprit as per the office blame-rs?

Lion: No, No. The faculty too because they did not carry the baggage of mementoes & certificates along with their tardiness and instead requested them to be couriered.

Cub: How can it be their responsibility? Are they the camels to carry everything otherwise?

Lion: So says the esteemed office as per office rule book, rule no 3232. Violation demands an apology. The faculty has to bear the burden  also because it’s them who conceptualized footprints. isn't?

Cub: Ohh..Good sarcasm lion uncle... but what does the office do then? Why are they there for?

Lion: Listen, if all are busy with their respective work, who will play the blame game? So they have a busy chart of blaming him, her and them. If not they confirm and keep it in their mind whether the courier was done at least a day after the events. So that SIMC students receive coats and suits to go for the neighbours’ wedding and etc’s.

Cub: (Giggles) So how many finally received the event certificates?

Lion: We played smart even there as we did not have a certificate to give. And why else are you collecting the individual details of the crowd? We have promised to go to each one of their house/school. Call them, apologize and deliver the certificates after a one month’s delay. This is Indian media’s professionalism. See and learn.

(Cub is silent )

Else use this as a new plan to generate the crowd for a next year footprints. Announce that the certificates will be given to those who come for the footprints 2009. So, repeat audience and what a crowd.

Cub: (Suddenly, eyes wide open): Wow. Novelty everywhere. I want to join the office, not the college. Less work and more blame game. Niceness!

Final word: Did the uniforms and certificates finally reach?

Yes, after a delay of 30 hours, 2 days virtually. Most of them still lies at the destination unclaimed. 

What difference does it make? None going to wear it whatsoever. But is an obvious burden to carry on our return trip. 

But the reasons for the delay? 

The delay in take off of the Pushpak viman from the Viman Nagar,Pune. The starting trouble. Blame it not on the pilot or on the ground staff. Blame it on the birds that were flying free in the city of Kochi. Even before the Viman could take off some terrorists named NAAC came in. So what? Does the railways stop functioning because the airport was to be inspected? Yes, in SIMC. So the Viman got unduly delayed and delayed till the event got over. Now what does the dreamer do with it? Instead of cribbing on not wearing it on the D-day he wears it wherever he goes aka a Wedding, Child birth, to offer condolences and ask not! Everywhere. Effective utilization thus making amends before reaching Pune.

But the Lion learnt his lesson on not to open his mouth even while in a media school as it violates all Aide Memoir. Also did his neigbour's Cub.

(The mails exchanged between the office and me are idling in my inbox)

'Guess a girlfriend' contest

This is the story of a guy who is a pan Indian phenomenon like Footprints. He has girlfriends, 21 in India and one in Dubai. UNlike Midhun, he hasn't got footprints embossed on his cheek.

By cutting five minutes of ISD calls every day for a month, his girlfriend has decided to sponsor Kochi footprints.

Can you guess who this guy is?

Clue: This youngster is an integral part of Kochi Footprints.

A question: Is it mere coincidence that the house where he stays in Kochi and the girl bear a similar name?

About the ISD girl: A Hybrid car. Runs on British gas and Indian steam.  

PRIZE: A bagful of tender coconuts. (As a tribute to the guy who is too young to be called a ripe coconut)

Please do chip in with your replies.

Kochi Footprints & SPOOF OF ONAM LEGEND

The legend of King Midhun Murali is the most popular and fascinating of all legends behind Kochi Footprints (KFP). KFP celebrates the visit of King Midhun to Kochi every year. King Midhun is also popularly called MM or Mallu monkey.

Reign of King Midhun

The story goes that the beautiful city of Kochi was once ruled by King Midhun. The King was greatly respected by his Target Audience. It is said that Kochi witnessed its golden era in the reign of King Midhun, with a shrewd, but able minster in Rejil[:P] to play the cards. There was neither crime, nor corruption with treasurer Cadre-nath looking after the budget. No thieves, thanks to Brain dead Sid kid and grapevine queen Padma, in whose memory Elamakkara celebrates padmotsav*. It was real Utopia.

*Padmostav is celebrated every year in Kerala, (like the tourism week) as a mark of happiness from continuous chatter. This is celebrated seven days from the day queen Padma leaves Cochin, for the gossip stops and truth prevails.

Brief Sketch of King Midhun

It may be noted Midhun was the son of Murali and grandson of Mura-murali. Midhun had a son called Mirror, popular as Bhookha Darpan. King Midhun’s bravery and strength of character earned him the title of "Midhun Chakravathy".

Challenge for Gods

Looking at the growing popularity and fame of King Midhun, Gujarat teams became extremely concerned and jealous. They felt threatened about their own supremacy and began to think of a strategy to get rid of the dilemma.

To curb the growing reign of Midhun, Vinaya, sister of Sponsor Prakash seeked help of Lord UKC (The preserver in the SIMC trinity along with Lord AS) whom Midhun worshiped.

It was said Midhun was very generous and charitable. He never asked for reimbursement of the money he lent, nor the phone calls he made for Kochi footprints. To test the King, Lord UKC disguised himself as a dwarf and a poor Brahmin called Ananya. He came to the Kingdom of Midhun, just after Midhun performed his morning prayers and was preparing to grant boons to the sponsors and speakers.

Lord UKC takes Anaya Avatar

Disguised as Ananya, Lord UKC said that he was a poor Brahmin and wanted as much land as could be covered by his three footprints. Midhun though surprised, agreed.

A inclusive & exclusive media adviser to the King, Nitin-acharya / Coconut-acharya, who till then was in Padmasana sensed that Ananya, with the pot belly and popy kuda (POPY UMBRELLA) was not an ordinary person and warned the King against making the promise. But, the generous King replied that it would be a sin for a King to back off on his words and asked the Brahmin to take the land. The King could not imagine that the Brahmin was Lord UKC himself.

Just as King Midhun agreed to three footprints of land, Ananya began to expand and eventually grew to cosmic proportions. With his first footprint, Ananya covered the whole of venue-Kochi and with the other footprint the 20 other venues. He then asked King Midhun Murali where to keep his third foot.

Midhun realised that Ananya was no ordinary Brahmin and not providing his third footprint means minus marks in MBA. Midhun with folded hands bowed before Ananya and asked him to place his last step on his head so that he could keep the promise of a 1.5 lakh Budget. Ananya placed his foot on the head of Midhun Murali, which pushed him to the corp. comm. Dept of Paataal communications private limited, Pune. There Lord UKC appeared in person. The Lord told Midhun that he cleared the class-test. King Midhun was pleased. Lord UKC also granted a boon to the King to visit Kochi footprints for free every year. (Rs 30/- saved)

King Midhun as the legendary character of SIMC

Lord UKC also blessed Midhun that though all his self study tests are null hypothesis as far as marks are concerned, Midhun would always be loved by Ananya and Team SIMC.

“The Footprints analogous to IPL is an interesting concept where people from different nations unite and play together under their respective city banner, truly symbolizing the confluence of various cultures and creating an electric atmosphere where their skills are tested at a different level of competition. The game is the ultimate winner especially as it is fast paced, unpredictable. More importantly you get to see the great masters of various nations play as a single team, which in itself is a treat to watch”

Guess and Win PRizes contest

Another guess game starts here…

What do you call a person who finds PR in everything?

PRo?

Na…na.. though he looks like an O, he isn’t exactly a prO..

So... let me give u some hints...

His name starts with PR and he lives with PR… even during the admission process, he thought that PeeR interface is only for PR students…

Now as FOOTPRINTS is fast approaching, he is the only one working on PR…

He is so obsessed, dedicated and involved that it’s written as footPRints.

As irony has its role to play - Though an Indore person, he is always seen outdoor.

PRay he attends every PRoject and PRogram.

A last question: Eyeing the PResident's chair.?? Then where will PRatibha patil sit?

AS the truth is, this person treasures more of positive qualities, which will be enlisted alongside the answer.

PRizes galore. So, think & win PR. The PRobability of you going wrong is almost NIL !!! Adding more insights about the person, with your comments, will win you brownie points.
GAME ON... :)

Take home business management.

Chitra , a small town girl came to the campus with a hand bag and a suitcase.

After a few weeks into the first semester, she knew that there is nothing much to take home from the class. But she decided, rather a very strong decision. She will make it a point to focus and take home a lot more than what SIMC offers, even before she completes the first semester. That is what sheer determination is. And see for today, here stands… rather sits the epitome of success on her first visit home, with the take home from SIMC.

But coconaughty sincerely believes that these girls left the hostel forever.

Simply since they seem to have taken home a lot more than what they brought to the hostel.

Any idea what these bags contain?

Chitra has already started business in her home town. Godrej Almirahs (Just 3 months old, but at a fair discount), cot, table and chairs dismantled (fungus infested in the corners, yet sturdy).

Buckets, mugs, hanger bar, ropes, pillows (Kutthe ka bhi), closet (Need to bargain), fan( not for sale, fixed at home).Mattress parceled, yet to arrive...but the list is endless...

Caution deposit saved. Hats off to Chitra and Team….

See her, minutes before leaving the Pune platform (pic below), tired but contended, as if a task accomplished, hand on her head, a smile adorning her face, relieved /escaped it says.... What a pose!!! Lovely...

After Mohenjo-Daro...

Excerpts from Midhun ka son (M-son’s) CBSE history textbook, First edition, 2100 AD.

The greater Lavale region was home to the largest of four ancient urban civilizations of Media - Advertising, PR, AV and Journalism. Most of its remnants, in the form of alumni, still remain to be excavated. The ancient Lavale script, passed in tidbits of answer-sheets has also not been deciphered.

The lavale-Daro’s like the Mohenjo-Daro’s had well planned roads, but without transport. So the roads are in good condition even today. They had ponds instead of wells, because of the multiple reasons and its multiple uses. Humans could swim, bathe, and drink from the same place. Ecological imbalance maintained with frogs, mosquitoes and crocodiles breeding in the same pond.

[Aadimaanav in heaven sighs seeing all the naatak and communicates interpersonally.
Lavale-Daros, Good that you don't have Wells. Nahi tho kab ka SUICIDE kar lete baccche. What a foresight!!! Hats off symbi.]

‘Skeletons from the Lavaleian cupboards’ testify to a continual intermingling of communities from the west, east, north and south of India, not to forget the North East 'so-nines'.

Ancient texts speak of trading with at least two civilizations - SIBM & SITM, dealing with coins and telephone cables.

Candle business was the most proliferating one. During exam nights, Lavale kids received candelabrum at subsidized rates too.

Hearing this being read aloud, Midhun comes out of 5 year comatose and hands over a taped conversation. M-Son plays it loud.

Super-kid: “ Ohh!! S***. [Corp cult( read, corporate culture)], Bijli chaali gayi”

Roomie: “ Bada aaaya laath sahib, bijlini khair khabar poochan waala” (courtesy: Ruhi)

Super-kid: “ Oyeye.. How will we learn for tomorrow’s exam?”

Roomie: ”Waise bhi tho, ‘true or false’ hee aaayega na!!”

(Disgusted Kid prays and Lo!!)

Angel comes in the form of Sreejayan’s wife: “Bete, Candle laga lo”

Super-kid: “Aap kya haarappan ke zamaaane se hein kya?. Candle se aaj bhi Laptop chalta nahi hein!!!!"

Angel: Stumped !!!

Colonel consoles her and conceptualizes ‘CANDLE light dinner’.

(Next day)

Super-kid: Oyeye, I can’t see anything. Am i going Blind?

Roomie: I formally inaugurate the concept of ‘Dry day’. Get water to wash away the soap on your eyes.

Super-kid exits the bathroom to a more EnvironMENTAL friendly design. Kudos!!!

Super-kid is tired and finds another way out, grinds for the morrow.

Subject paper: MEDIA PLANNING

Q: What is copywriting??

Answer: @#$@$%^%^&&**###+@#$%

There ends the day with an OOS...Yes, not OOH !!! OUT OF SYLLABUS. Continue another day. POOR SENIORS. We don’t pity you, cos we too await the guillotine eagerly. Die another day.

Super-KID retires.

M-SON CONTINUES READING THE TEXTBOOK.....

The people of Lavale-Daro lived in brick houses that had as many as five floors. Their elaborate drainage, though without water was centuries ahead of their time.

None knows what happened to the Lavale-Daro Valley civilization. It's possible that a great ignorance wave weakened the civilization. The moving knowledge plates that created the MICA and similar institutes may have caused a devastating shift of faculty plates.

AVeologists are continuing to find new ASi-facts. In time, mAD people may learn how Moonshekar learned to create an ancient civilization in the modern world.

The rediscovery was made by Uno Journo Kumar in his 58^th stint as director, thus renaming it to the SIMIAN INSTITUTE FOR MASS CONFUSION (SIMC), without altering the acronym for the 90^th time.

ARTIFACTS IN TOYS

The chief toy found was a 'Lean man-Standing tall' statue that is some 4500 years old. Just AS it was keyed, it started acting, educating and entertaining the AV-eologists.

Another ‘mute’-ant variant was a toy with the left- hand permanently on the mouth, like the FEVICOL AD.

The next to be dug out was a fast running toy, from one end of the room to the other for half an hour. Mind it!!!

Another dancing toy, though with a little of blubber, was found doing continuous Garba.

One more converging toy was excavated, but is kept in isolation for further investigation.

Final word from 'M-son' on his Dad.
‘ASsignMENTAL’ = ASsigning novel ways to go mental.

NOTE:

Seniors didn't have power nor water in the hostels during their exams.
May your papers 'rust in piece'

Akshay PTC's and Nikhita PTC's

Two new types of PTC’S introduced
Anchor: The new breeds of PTC’s to hit the journalism market are Akshay PTC & Nikhita PTC, two variants, but of high intensity and dedication, they can put any kind of mike into the throat of the remaining 221.

Effects on Akshay – Found leaner after the PTC exercise.
On Nikhita - Facts and Figure –ney, ney… nothing…figure is the same almost.

Why Akshay PTC’s

Relevance to the location – Closest to Pune.
Qualities- The multi-skilled professional people look forward to. He can act, pronounce, catch snakes, top the academics, write excellent poems, sign off and is a jack-of-all trades. So does he love carrots and photography.
Follow ups – Akshay is following up earnestly. Who??? The question remains to be answered.
Forecasting – Unlike multicasting, seems something a little too different and difficult.
Linkers – The grapevine club will help him link facts with gossip.
Bytes – Bite on the juiciest carrot for the photography club president.

Breaking news (From Akshay’s hostel room): A fragrant white flower entangled in the gardens of a Saaavan. (H is twice silent)
Err… Pardon, that was flash news.

Ambient sound:Akshayyyyyyyy, PTCcccc pleaseeee, Nikhitaaaaaaaa, PTCcccc pleaseeee, (Repeated loudly in different voices and umpteen times)
Interviews & bytes- Akshay steps out of the door and oooohh lalala!!! The snake never bites unless provoked. Isn’t Akshay, the Mr. Charmer!!
Visual 1: A Smiling director.

Akshay goes home:
Asks for the collar mike after wearing his shirt and starts speaking non-stop.

“Dad, am hungry, get me some from the stock”.

VO: (of AK’S BK dad) Bete, have breakfast.

Akshay: I just need a ‘byte’.

Tommy, his dog overhears and gives one sound-bite, so sweetly on the buttocks.
At mom’s persuasion, Akshay PTC agrees for breakfast, but with some conditions like

“Use cheese as filler, cut away the sides of the slice and if something still remains, I’ll eat it”
(While leaving home)
Sign off: Papa, Mama, This is Akshay, with cameraperson Rajesh, the TUM-BOL, signing off for college.

After effects:
Nightmares of breaking stories & breaking news.
With various sounds, Akshay shakes.
No commercial breaks for the ad professional and so everything is breaking for Akshay PTC
After some days, it will be graphics alone. Even the present bones and skin would give way.
Akshay hears words like lapel, boom, gun, and he cries out loud: pleezzze don’t shoot me.
UKC uncle: No no, Akshay, this is not the war front. These are mikes and we are shooting videos.
Ohh gosh… please sign out… Err sign off

SO-HUM...SO WHAT ???

As aptly as it can be named, it’s an ART OF LEAVING, the marathon sessions are set to conclude in dwindling percentages.

The Gyans from the past few days, for SIMC 2010

1. Do five acts of kindness

The following are mine.

• I was so kind to my body, that I stopped coming for AOL.

• I was so kind to my roommate that he stopped talking to me.

• I was so kind to my tummy, that I stopped eating mess-y food.

• I was so kind to the dog that I got the anti-rabies injections.

• I was so kind to my parents, that I may quit SIMC.

2. Always be happy

• Don’t do your assignments, and be happy.

• Pile up and burn the assignments, and be happy.
  

• Don’t come to AOL, and so I am the happiest.

• No more phaltu Gyans, the most irritating part of the special edition of AOL – the SIMC way, with attendance sheet, class tests and assignments, and am happy.

Are you happy, my dear dentist sir?

U r taking my breath out, instead of the teeth!!!

3. Ecological footprints.

Please pardon. We are too busy with Ananya sir's footprints, and trying not to get it embedded in Kochi's seabeds forever. Folklores will get another Mahabali and Vamana in Ananya sir and UKC respectively. Or does it look like Midhun and Ananya sir!!!

Soooooo… hum??? No, no….. soooooooo… what!!!! That’s an attitude.

SO...HUM???

With every SO, I think of the Photoshop assignment, and with every HUM it runs to the Photography assignment.
The next SO transports me to my footprints which is already in turmoil, (Kochi dates changed by the college), and the HUM takes me to Nakhate sir’s assignments.
As I plan to meditate, there comes the next SO like a bolt from the blue… UKC-sir’s assignment, with the HUM looking at the pending PTC.

GIVE US A BREAK SIMC. At least for AOL, keep the attendance sheet out. It’s not part of a syllabus. To be better an individual is by choice, not by brute force.

(For me, I hate GODMEN, YOGI’S & PREACHERS, leave alone going to temples/churches or Mosques, which I rarely do, only to appreciate the architecture. So no offence meant to anyone's beliefs here.)

Breathing not granted - BNG.

Instructor: Done with your assignments?

Midhun: (Wondering on how he knew about the incomplete Photoshop and Photography?)

NO sir, partly done.

I: (All confused). So you took the breath in and didn’t leave it out or vice-versa?

M: (All dazed)

[(in his mind) - Breathing assignments? 10 marks total, 4 for breathing in, 4 for breathing out, and 2 for holding it. If you are dead while holding the breath, lesser insurance]

No sir, as a matter of fact, I didn’t get time to even breathe because I was too busy with the assignments here.

I: Since you didn’t do your breathing, you are chucked out.

M: (Intrapersonally) Idiots!!! If I hadn’t been breathing, I would have been dead by now.

Stress relieving or adding on???

What does the college think with AOL? Part of a syllabus??? Sri Sri SOHUM insists the same to only those who are interested, and that too for a period of 120 minutes maximum at a stretch. But SIMC, as always has the regular rules twisted. Almost 5 hours or say 300 minutes of AOL at a stretch. Is it for showcasing to SIU, that we got a fill on the number of hours, per semester??? Pressure build up or relieving??? Child’s play!! Answer us boss.

While doing the suryanamaskar almost to 20 times, Midhun felt a Hrithik Roshan in lakshya, not with the 6 packs, but felt the intensity of a military punishment.

4. Tell / Do something to your parents which you haven’t done.

Midhun’s conversation

Midhun: Hello, daddy, I love you, mom, brother and all.

Dad: (Pause)

The following is what is going through dad’s head

Have I committed mistake a in life by sending my son to Fungiosis?!!
How many psychological problems, from screening to screaming!!
Are these people making my son insane or is he automatically so? Or is he contemplating suicide? A 100 more thoughts makes dad stressed, while trying to keep Midhun stress free.

M: Daddy, honestly you all were so good to me in life. I never could tell you that I love you so much.

D: (He decides to console) Don’t worry dear, everything is alright. Don’t commit suicide. A new girl will come in your life. We have a solution for everything.....

M: (Intercepts) No dad, nothing like that

D: Don’t tell lies. Is it money that u want? I will send it.

M: No dad…AOL ....

Dad doesn’t hear anything. He flies the next kingfisher to Pune.

M: Dad, nothing serious, it was a part of living…err… art of living… and since 90% of us have left it, its rechristened Art of leaving. We lost faith in the instructor once he too lost his cool. He taught us running race, ringa ringa roses, father had a donkey...not me… and lots more…

D: I too am quitting.(Curtain comes down)

CUT, BACK TO CLASSROOM.

Our instructor turns to his next prey, Mr. Venki - monk-i (monk=saint)

Instructor: Don’t get angry over anyone. Be calm.

Venki: what sir?

Instructor: Don’t get angry over anyone. Be calm

Venki: what sir??

Instructor: Can’t u hear me, you bunch of disrespectful people? SHUT UP & GET OUT.
(And a plastic smile added, as if to show that he is calm)

Venki: Don’t get angry over anyone. Be calm. :P

Instructor gets TNG. Quits AOL. PrateeQ Baba takes over along with Swami Ankit Nanda.

Enough of advice Doctor sir, these are the same things we had been hearing from the past many years, and let me reaffirm that we aren’t in KG, but in PG. If at all we are to change, the feeling should flow freely from within and can't be extruded, that too with four worthless pieces of paper called the attendance sheet.
Crumple the attendance sheet and see how many less would attend.

GOODBYE SIMC-AOL TEAM .I HAVE REACHED A POINT OF NO-RETURN. AM NOT EVEN ATTENDING REGULAR CLASSES NOW.
EVEN THE GRUESOME MUMBAI OFFICE & TRAVEL COULDN'T MAKE ME SO STRESSED & TIRED.

Question paper review

Bizzzzzzzare communications and Corporate life KILLS

Q1. How do you gear up to your seniors expectations?

Venki gets a doubt, still the remaining piece of 'intellect inside' knocks...

Expectant or expecting seniors??? In college, we arranged vehicles, doctors and nurses in case of an emergency. In the office environment, maternity leave is of greater importance.
At SIMC, since our seniors haven’t got much of an expectation, this question didn’t make much sense, and obviously was difficult to answer. But yeah, staying quiet on IP may gear me up, to meet the senior’s expectation.

Q2. Tele-conversation with an irate customer (Verbatim)

Venki habituated in trying the toll-free, tone-free, sweet toned girls at the call centers (CC), could attend the question well.

CC: ‘How may I help u?’
V: Am Venki from Chennai, currently in Symbi top, for AV….
CC: Excuse me sir, are you the same monkey who rung up yesterday, but from another number???
V (flushed, excited n expectant) : Yeah, yeah,…
(koook..kook…koook…koook)
V: As usual, she too disconnected it Sahil. Let me try the wrong number technique now….
(and it goes on and on)

Customer was the ladybird, so answer is correct. 8/10.

Q4. What are listening etiquettes?

Venki remembered a conversation with the No. 13th ex-girlfriend.

The practical experience followed in paper
• Maintain eye contact with the 13th girl
• Focus on content, not DELIVERY (??!!!!)
• Sit as if you are hearing, and in between, tel a 'YEAH, OK, OF COURSE, ALRIGHT, as and when u feel it.
• Avoid distractions (14th gurl in the nearby chair) when the 13th speaks.
• Treat listening as a challenging mental task (Proven Mental!!!)
• Stay active (Hmmmm, forced to!)
• Use the gap between her rate of speech and our rate of thought. (Winking venking uses the gap fruitfully to earn the 14th )

SMOC analysis – As usual went up in smoke, the ash remains still. Tenders invited.

Q6. TRUE OR FALSE (2010 Stumped!!)

After all this effort, Venki gets a doubt. Am I in PG or KG? Err… if my memory doesn’t defeat me, I did this exercise way back in 5th standard…or say 7th standard.
Anyways, at SIMC, we strive to maintain the same standard, else the faculty will. :-)
Come on… true, true, false, false, true, false…
Wow… There ends the day!!!

A happy Venki runs to the hostel and gears up to meet his seniors expectations.

Next change, yet another paper for the blog.

Viewspaper

ALUMNI MEET ACCREDITED

With the semester exams culminating in a stereotypical disaster, Batch 2010 was seen eagerly enquiring the dates of Alumni meet 2011. Alumni Meet dates, which always had been an intelligent way to write backlogs, but with a saving grace, is the most sought after function after college. The word 'Alumni' was acknowledged by the Oxford dictionary in 2009, and is being used in a lot of spaces. This was evident after Fossil’s six-year old son who flunked his Class test said , “Papa, Maths mein main ‘Alumni’ ho gaya. I promise to write it better next time”.

CHICKEN ENTERS MESS, HOGS LIMELIGHT

After a unmarked period of silence, Chicken finally entered the SIMC domains of Lavale. This Mega event was marked by the presence of the entire UG batch, and later entertained by songs written, composed, sung, marketed, sold & heard, by Mr. Air of Batch 2009.(But we like it)
"The lovely chicks of Fungiosis found themselves let down with the entry of those luscious legs in the mess, gifted with amazingly soft and satin smooth feel" opined Midhun.
After seeing chicken legs, some of the crab like girls were found searching for the sea-anemone guys, with whom they were usually seen to be forcibly attached.

‘P-ART OF LIVING' INTRODUCED

The maximum number of successful classroom-proposals happened in the SIMC Auditorium today. The P-Art of living took an initiative to help those spineless guys propose the best of the girls. The permitted dialogues were strictly told to be reciprocated verbatim as, “Hi Y, I am X, I belong to you”.

TAKE HOME BREATHING ASSIGNMENTS

SIMCians weren’t spared by the torrent of assignments even by the AoL team, who instructed them to practice breathing modules, so as to facilitate breathing in the subsequent semesters. This is a welcome relief to all those who suffered stifled cries and also forgot to breathe, while writing assignments in the congested first semester, opined the director. Those who are unable to breathe for 15 continuous Ujjwalas are likely to get a BNG (Breathing not granted).

REPETITIVE MANAGEMENT AWARD

An absolutely innovative type of management known as repetitive management or redundant management, won the "Students-patience" award. This was added to the MBA module of Batch 2010.
The awards will be presented on the 26th January, followed by a Needs, Wants & Desires speech. This is bound to happen in every subsequent semester, said a senior quoting anonymity. Needs, wants and desires will haunt you till you enter the market, he added. N,W & D has donned several human forms at a time and horrified the seniors students too.

The (f)art of miscommunication

Guest writer @

www.protocollide.blogspot.com

On the hillock whose fables have been in this forum for the past several months, there are other creatures too. And since everything from the Bible to the Bhagwadgita to Microsoft Office has different versions, there has to be one for coconaughty too.

I'm neither coco nor naughty. So any attempt to infuse humour is partly due to our common liking to the text propounded here before, and the insane wish to do a fan mix.

In the hilltop known to propel people every which way, what with 50 km/h winds that even take away the roof of the gem-nauseum (the defunct-as-it-is-yet-to-be started cardiac-arrest section), there are other animals too.

And as with George Orwell's Animal Farm, there's a strange psychology at work.

The Seven Commandments of the SIUKWLVMTPMHSIMC Farm are as follows-

1. Thou shall not fall asleep on the field even if the supervisor sings the same song eighty-five times on powering a point into you.

2. Thou shall not tell to the Squealer how you feel, for the Squealer will squeal and let you know how it is.

3. Thou shall take, lying down, any piece of linseed or dung cake that comes to you, by way of ins-truck-shun.

4. Thou shall inhabit the stalls where garam paani and thandi hawa are available in inverse pro-portions.

5. This commandment is open for self-contemplation. You may here, choose the color of your nail-polish or the amount of facial hair, regardless of your sex, you are allowed to have.

6. Thou shall answer all questions-even if they involve the unscrambling of YANKEE ART into the name of a management consultancy you've never heard of (note to self to anticipate comeback- Serves you right).

7. Thou shall eat peela daal-like water to ensure equal and proportionate input-output system, eat roti of the made-of-aata-tastes-like-atta-too brand, and eat papads of the soft-like-roti variety, and not be flummoxed by the fact that 44 of the 100 rupees you invested in feeding yourself are buried in the swimming pool which you can't use.

At this point, you shall promptly break a foot, smash your head against the wall, and look forward to your superannuation.

Ohh! and before you forget, if at any time you choose to whimper a protest, you'd be proudly shown your place in the pecking order, issued a its-a-war-ning letter.

So there. Understand the bureaucracy-cum-red-tape-cum-how-the-shit-flows a little better.
Atleast the perspective helps.

Miscomm - I (Syllabus)

The exams aren’t over as yet.
After Bizcomm, or say Bizzare communication, the last paper for the semester is Miscomm – I, part II, III n IV of which are sure to follow in the subsequent semesters.

CODE: 115

MODULE: Miscomm – I or Miscommunications - I

OBJECTIVE: To introduce the student into as many confusions as possible and thus infuse in them a low-confidence wave, which gets them practice the visual imagery of Panchagani. This module will also introduce the theories and practices on how to book, rebook, and cancel the tickets for their respective hometowns.

DETAILED SYLLABUS

Sessions ------------------------- Topics

I ---- Introduction to Panchgani fun, Infusion of hope and desires.

II ---- History of Senior Panchgani’s, Visual imagery of the place and associated feelings.

III ---- Introduction to Indian railways, Indian airlines (Indian) and private airlines. Learning the itinerary of various airlines to suit requirements

IV ---- Sources of rumors, news – official and unofficial sources, public gossip, developing a news story

V ---- Expressing through whines and whimpers, Skills required for writing official complaints, booking & canceling tickets, Issues and concerns in the hilly context.

VI ---- Why or why not panchgani? Role in the confusion mix.

VII ---- Management – student relations – a confusing case study.

VIII ---- Departments and their role in confusing students.

IX ---- Difference between booking and canceling tickets, losses and gains, How is Tatkal booking done?

X ---- Basics of meeting crooks, antisocial and requesting unavailable tickets, How to polish the ticket examiners, coolies and other staff to get confirmed tickets.

XI ---- Fundamentals of facing any adversity with élan, composure

XII ----Psychology of student behaviour, parent behaviour & management behaviour

XIII ----MENTAL VIEWPOINT, VERBAL LANGUAGE AS MUSIC TO EARS, CREDITS, SCRIPT, PRODUCTION, DIRECTION, AWARDS (Best acting and direction)

Playback option for the next year.

Recommended Reading:

The art of voice acting - Director and Staff (SIMC Lavale & Viman Nagar press)
Presentation of news to the public – DD (Lavale press)
Handbook on managerial miscommunications – SIU, Pune
Irctc.co.in – Booking and cancellation rules
Cleartrip.com – Booking and cancellations- Terms and conditions.

Folklore from SIMC

Premise:

Grandma is trying hard to put the child to sleep with a lullaby. The kid isn’t happy with the songs and wants a story instead. Grandma is more than happy to share a bedtime story which would forcibly put any child to sleep.

Story:

Once upon a time lived in a cyber village, the Kida christened DOLLA. As the famous nuisance creator in a far off village, he was in the habit of sleeping late, simply because he loved owls, bats and crickets. Even before A,B,C’s were taught, the intelligent Kida learned making Hindi words with it. Eg: B for Behen…, C for Choo…., He simply got into a habit of showering the words at will on anyone before him.

Fed up with his antics, the poor parents packed three bags and bound it tight with a bank loan. The train was destined to an unknown mountain perched between two valleys. Luckily, for the young Kida, his exile was a perfect breeding ground. The mountain in itself was devoid of civilization. As luck would have it, he got nocturnal friends, gifted with dictionaries without the words like culture, courtesy, manners, behaviour, society or co-existence. Life went on and on. Finally one night, a furore kept him awake, as someone tried to advertise his state of mind and creativity with paper cuttings/collage.

(The child eyes popped out)

Child: (curious, and in rapt attention) Then what happened grandma?

No response

Child: (More inquisitively) Then what happened, please tell grandma?

Grandma: The next day, ASID uncle, his caretaker, took up the case and the rest is history.

If anyone in that college was found to be awake for long, ASID uncle used to come and give a warning or two.

Child: (A little relieved, gives a deep sigh) and…

G: After some days, Dolly bunkida some classes, when a poor yem-yem / Midhun Murali Boy was leading.

The proclamation echoed deep in his heart, and followed in action, “Attendance mera janamsiddh adhikaar hein, and I will have it, chahe class mein hein ki nahi”.

Child: “Ayyo…Then..”

Nothing else. “Jaldi so jaaa, varna……… uncle aaake warning letter dega…” :-)

The frightened child goes to sleep without hearing the end of the story.

Even today, years after Dolla was reprimanded, folklores carry the story via Doll play, puppetry, adultery and what not!!!

The children who don’t sleep early are told the story with a last sentence

“ Jaldi so jaaa, varna……… uncle aaake warning …” :-)

Moral / Caution : Whenever things get out of hand, uncle has the authority to get free tickets booked to your hometown, but from the “caution!!!” deposit.

IT'S INTRAPERSONAL

Midhun looks through the advertising module. Greek and Latin!!!

Where are my notes??? His mind echoes. A thorough search, yields results. Rushing through the entire notes generates nothing but, uninterest, exactly like the Rs 1000/- sleeper classes in SIMC. He slowly flips through the pages, like in the memory of a beloved one.

(Background music: ‘Maanasa maine varuuuu….’ means, “Return ohhh my beloved..”)

His caresses on the pages are worth many a tear-drop.

(The camera zooms in for clarity)

Date: 11/07/2008

Summary of the notes: Intrapersonal communication, Interpersonal communication. Mass communication, ATL, BTL.

Camera zooms out. Close - up shot of the happy Midhun face.

Midhun flips more pages.

Date: 21/07/2008.

Summary of the notes: Intrapersonal communication, Interpersonal communication. Mass communication, ATL, BTL.

DÉJÀ VU!? Ripley's Believe It Or Not! ? Or was it a photocopy?

Amusement writ large on his face, he rings up his next door loyal, studious, scholarly, diligent, intellectual Rejil, who is into big time self-advertising these days.

M: “ Rejil, what are the notes that you have had on the 21^st July?”

R: Just a moment....

(Rejil thinks Intrapersonal) Notes! What is that?!!

(Effective utilisation of Silence)

He finds something somewhere...

“Hello…yeah Midhun, it’s Intrapersonal communication, Interpersonal communication………”

(Midhun interrupts the conversation)

So, please check it for the 11^th.

R: hmmm… yeah, got it. “Intrapersonal communication, Interpersonal communication…

M: (In a confirming tone) Ohh, so it wasn’t Déjà vu.

R: No, not at all, since the syllabus is too compact and can be easily covered in 5 classes, we were having a deferred live telecast. And for your information, the whole month had the same exercise, till a revolution happened.

M: “Revolution!!! what??”

Date: 11/08/2008

R: “LUX IS A BRAND, AND SOAP IS A PRODUCT”

M: ‘But the subsequent classes, dated 22/08/2008, did have a change.
SOAP IS A PRODUCT AND LUX IS A BRAND”

Some August occasions over. We hopefully welcome September, without lamenting on the losses.

Flipped the September notes. Screening of Advertisements.

Date: 07/09/2008

Summary of Midhun’s notes: “ Sony Bravia - 3471 balls, 877 green, 740 blue, 378 yellow, 568 orange, 299 red, 444 brown. The rest went down the drain like the Ad students”

Wrong count. Repeat classes.

Phewww!!

Date: 19/09/2008

Summary of Midhun’s notes: “Sony Bravia - 3296 balls, 872 green, 733 blue, 371 yellow, 580 orange, 329 red, 411 brown”

Midhun gets his balls right, while others wait for their number of balls to fall in the right place. Midhun is happily whistling his old tune.

CURTAINS TO SEMESTER ONE, ADVERTISING CLASSES.

Midhun again in INTRAPERSONAL communication.

“What about MEDIA PLANNING and AD CREATIVES???”

Fungiosis on a rescue mission: Don’t you worry MIDHUN, we introduce before you…

SELF STUDY TEST -101 Tips.
No, No, don’t you rest(ing) be panicky. Not a new subject paper in the SIU time table*

* TILL DATE

This is a newly introduced book in the market, presently minting money like crazy. All SIMC-ians are requested to get the book for better results. Co-authored by YOU CAN SEE.

Midhun laments: ‘Rs 6 lakhs, for a correspondence course in PR.”

What correspondence Midhun? Correspondence at least sends you sensible notes, in proper condition unlike…”

Examples quotes as below.

SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

The three main stages are physical and mental and all these three have their own unique characteristics – Page 11

In underdeveloped countries such as India (*&^%$###@$, politically incorrect), the media has a great responsibility to fight backward ideas such as casteism and communalism – Page 5

The entire dependency is now on imported genetically engineered corn and soya and ready-to-eat mixes of strange things that are not supposed to be eaten - Page 42

AV MODULE

Depth of Field.

It is the field (for ploughing??) which is in focus. it is the distance in focus which is in front of the object and beyond the object. in case of the close, object is the starting point of the depth of field.

Connective Shot.

Shot for connection of background and other ground ( UNDERGROUND???) by using trolley.

Bottom Angle

Views the object from the bottom side ( Whose bottom???) --- ALL IN ONE - PAGE 19

Lots more in store. Wait and watch.

After all this torture, Midhun is highly into intrapersonal conversation, leave alone communication.
Tthe famous psychiatrist Dr. Combiflam in Ujala white, opines.
“This is incurable, and we have given up hope”