Genetic Evolution

In a time not long long ago the "invisible" hand decided to get creative. It sent a unique and special specimen to the Planet. Of all the eligible and eager countries it decided to bless the Mother of Democrazies - India. It is the only place on the planet where God's own country is a state. Among the numerous possible states in the country the good fortune was bestowed upon Cochin in Kerala. Years later, fate and destiny brought him to ISB, Hyderabad.

"Is that like an acronym or a real name?" said Vivin Mathew when he was first introduced to this prodigy. His name was KK.

He chose to announce himself to the world through innovative thinking and kind-heartedness during the big bad world of Managerial Economics. "Sir, why is it a fly?" quipped KK when shown the pic above. "I dont like to aim at flies because they fly. They can get wet and sit on us. Would you like that?" continued KK. "I would prefer ants. After they got wet and came close all you have to do is run faster than the ants. After all its all about intuition."

All this while his engineering skills was lying dormant. Atleast thats what he wanted others to believe. So he engineered a perfect 'leak'-mail of their assignments along with the naturally talented Shweta Divecha. And with all this his "Boutom-line" grew.

KK is potent everywhere - in air, on land and even under water. Under water his Blackberry is like a Bofors gun - shoots and sinks people at will. And just like how Phantom signed off with the "skull" mark on his targets .... KK signed off by saying "Sent from my underwater Blackberry"! His special Blackberry was custom-designed as shown in the pic below:

Over time his violent nature grew until it had reached unmanageable proportions. KK was now looking for signals from above. One fine day down came the legend--wait for it -- dary "Wild Boar" which changed KKs life forever. His war against humanity for these Wild Boars was exemplary. Though he faced undue criticism for calling "pigs" as "wild boars" but KK fought on valiantly. This feat earned him the presudo-Presidentship of the fictitious Wildlife club. Till date he continues to wage his war.

The "Wild Boar" had now taught KK to channelize his raw energy towards discipline. He decided to become what History would remember as the "Shaolin of Cochin".

Legend has it that he still loves his Coffee. Last heard he was trading Rs. 100/- with a bread loaf between his left and right hand so that velocity of Money became infinite and hence GDP became infinite. Wish him luck !

My Election Speech

Food

This cartoon was to emphasize on the fact that the hygiene audits would be stringent.

This cartoon was to signify how I plan to have that 'zing' in the menu

Infrastructure

This was to signify that the response time to infrastructure based issues would be closely monitored.

This was to signify the "Go green" initiatives which also included water conservation through optimal usage of washing machines.

IT support

This was to signify that regardless of the type of problem, support would always be prompt.

This was to signify the need to beef up IT infrastructure in a few places where it was falling short. For e.g signal boosters where wireless signals were weak.

Library

This was to signify the increased range of books that were to be made available at our Library.

This was to signify the need for a mechanism for notification of the arrival of new books in the library.

HealthCare

This was to signify that stocks of all critical medicines needed for students would be stocked at the Wellness centre.

This was to signify that I wanted to look into the heavy usage of Local Ferrari and reasons so see where OIC could step in.

Other Vendors

This was to signify that I would try and get the vegetable vendor twice a week to campus.

This was to signify that I would look into stocking policies at MORE w.r.t availability etc

Accountability

This was to signify that as member of the GSB Core I would be acting responsibly and ensuring that the core was accountable to GSA.

This was to signify that for matter related to OIC the buck would stop at me i.e. I would be accountable to GSA for all OIC matters.

Something that would be impossible ....

This was to signify that action would be taken on all complaints and nothing would be dusted under the carpet and left to God.

Expectations in check !

This was to signify that though I'll try and get in positive changes but I cant get the impossible done in one shot i.e. it will take time !

And finally incentives for those who vote for me ... 

Enter SmackD the Director

Phew ! Whatte Week  ! Last Sunday after spending some awesome time with my friends at Hyderabad I came back to campus a fully contended man ! I felt I was ready to take over the world ! 

I had been in two minds about standing for the post of Director - Operations and Infrastructure Council. It was a trade-off as to how much time I could devote to myself (Friends, BBK, Blog etc) vs. to others (Acads, OIC etc). I loved this kind of Thankless jobs. Brings out the best in me because nothing is more challenging than get a Thank you in a thankless job. My success at Ashok Leyland (in far more worse n thankless conditions) was a testimony to the fact that I can do justice to this post. 

By the way I personally feel voting in India especially in the General Elections is a scam. I think those survey junta like Gallup must do all this and tell us who won. Anyways they make a living out of such kind of stuff. How many people brush twice a day, how many people are men, how many people had monkeys as ancestors kind of surveys ! Will save us a major pain of going and voting between the bad and worse. 

By the way when you are standing for the elections, all of you can think of is elections the whole day. What are my chances, who are all the competitors etc etc ? When I look at my watch to see the time I see elections all over it !

After I had decided on it fully I wrote down my manifesto, bringing about in one page major issues that I wanted to tackle this year. Was careful enough not to have a Jargon-filled manifesto. Afterall I was presenting ideas and not taking a marketing lecture !

Then came the Presentation ! I didnt want to pretend as somebody else on the stage. So I prepared a PPT which had SmackD signature all over it.  ( A separate blog on this coming up next)

In the end though I won by a convincingly huge margin but the competiton was tougher than what it may seem on paper. Hopefully now I will be able to do justice to it.