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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

haan to bhai,
today i saw meter down errr. i mean taxi 9211, i would love to have inputs as to how u ppl liked the movie

perhaps an overhyped movie, good performances no doub, but something was missing somewhere,

the best about the movie which would have gone unnoticed is that ppl are not good or bad but our viewpoint makes them so, shivaji satm's role was good and the characterization too

sameera reddy abruptly left john? perhaps she knew bips couldn't digest it, but was very badly treated and nana had a good role too, dheek dhak movie, but watchout for the song METER DOWN, very well used in the movie

Friday, March 10, 2006

for all u ppl who want to kno wat MICA ppl look for wat happens, here's everything

these ppl ask u to fill up ur centre if choice for interview probably for recreation only, i went till ahmedabad all the way from dehra dun that too when i had filled up my centre as delhi,
let's get to the process

first there's the MICAT; a psychrometric test which u shld give honestly plus three essays and one section in which we have to identify the linking word, as one of the MICANs puts it, enjoy the test.

my topics for the essays were:
  1. is gandhi relevent today, argue for or against
  2. how wld u explain taj mahal to a 5 yr old
  3. rural immigration is quite prevalent these days causing congestion and other problemsin the urban areas, wat r ur suggestions on how to solve the problem

the linking word test is where they give 4 clues on one side abd 5 options on the other, u have to link all the clues to one word, for e.g options are iron,farm,apple,earth and material and the clues are pig, ore,cast and hand ; clearly the answer is iron as iron ore,pig iron cast iron and iron man.it required some thinking .time urself properly

then comes the GE, an exercise was given on wat are the major factors influencing global peace , 9 options were given out of which we had to rank them as order of importance, first individual ranking for which they gave 5 mins and then group ranking for which we had to discuss for abt 20 mins.we had a good discussion and one sane man amongst us said that we shld better start with the least preferable parameter so that we can give the top three in quick time.voting was not allowed.

then comes the interview, the q i was asked were,

  1. u seem to be quite interested in ads,which is your fav ad?
  2. why?
  3. which are your other fav ads
  4. can u name some AD agencies
  5. wat is stress?
  6. r u under stress right now
  7. why ag engg into MICA
  8. why MICA
  9. wat is so diff abt MICA
  10. do u kno the spl'ations MICA offers
  11. name them
  12. diff betn market research and marketing research.
  13. we r not convinced abt ur switch, convince us
  14. why sld we take u ?
  15. u say u r very restless , explain
  16. u kno anyone in MICA
  17. whow did u come to kno abt MICA
  18. which newspaper do u read
  19. why

I forgot other qs although there r just oneortwo left, my advise is fill up their form after taking a lot of time and get ur responses on it photostated, it will help, they want analytical ppl and beleive me, if u don't belong there don't go for the interview and find abt MICA as much as u can . remeber its pronounced as M(y)CA and not M(ee)KA as many of us do