Classification of Students

Types of Students:-

# The First Benchers - The daring ones who look into danger’s eyes straight on. Mostly to be in teacher’s good books and sometimes because sitting anywhere else may lead to sleep

# The Third Benchers – They are those students who don’t want to sit right under teacher’s nose and yet don’t want to be the “back benchers” so they sit in between.

# The Outlookers - No no they are not the ones with some radical outlook or any outlook at all. They are the ones who sit by the window seats in class and keep looking outside at God knows what!

# The Legendary Back Benchers – The ones who sit on the last benches in the hope of playing cows and bulls or do other naughty activities during class. Yet once in a while some smart ones also emerge from there.

# The Wise Guys – Those students whose sole purpose in class is to gain girls’ attention by passing comments and getting encouraged by their giggles.

# The Ever Doubtful – The ones who have the hobby of inventing doubts in simplest things and sometimes pursue the teacher from second floor (where classroom is) to ground floor (where staffroom is) holding copy and asking doubts.

# The Flirts – Those who try to get into good books and gain favours by flirting with the teacher of opposite sex. Some even succeed entirely due to the teacher’s lack of integrity.

# The Blank Lookers – Those with a blank expression on their faces always which seems to suggest that they have no idea as to why they are in this field.

# The Yawners - The ones who yawn in class like an anaconda opening its jaw to swallow a big animal, that too not behind teacher’s back and don’t even have the manners to cover their mouths.

# The Moths – Those students whose eyes keep flitting towards the girls’ side while taking down lectures and become very attentive when a girl stands up to ask something.

# The Chicks – The pretty, stylish girls who by their mere presence create a sort of sexual tension in the class. Mostly useless in studies.

# The Stimulators – Those students who grasp the topic, are intelligent in a non-geeky way, ask the right questions and are fun to teach.

# The Extra Curriculars – Those who are very active in sports, seminars, functions and what not..anything except studies.

# The Guest Stars – Those who show up in one class, bunk next 7 classes and again show up and so the game of hide and seek goes on entire session.

# The Amnesiacs – Those students who for every incomplete assignment or practical work give the lamest excuse in history of teaching- “I forgot”.

# The Resourceful – Those who are expert in devising unique ways to cheat in exam and do everything except follow the simple method of clearing exam i.e. study.

# The Defaulters – Those students who remain the black sheep of the class and no amount of cajoling, coaxing, threatening, scolding or punishment makes them amend their ways.

Hot As Hell

AAACHHOOOOO!!!!

That morning sneeze…

That morning chill in the air….

That extra laziness to get out of bed…. [extra because I feel lazy to get out of bed daily! ]

That reluctance to wash one’s face with that cold water….

Even more reluctance to have a bath….Thank god for geyser!

Applying lots of moisturizer on dry skin and lip balm on dry lips….

Eating peas stuffed kachori, vegetable cutlets, carrots, spring onion (pyaj koli to be precise) sabzi ….

Smaller days and longer nights….

That bump in the elbow hurting real bad….

Sipping that warm coffee….

When I got up this morning, I found that winter is here already! In October!

But will it stay?

I am wondering this because the duration and the magnitude of Winter season has been decreasing every year in my town. It gets cold for two days and then again it is as hot as in summer. Last year it was proper Winter only for two weeks, that too in January. December was quite warm. All my sweaters including the Allen Solly ones which I had been waiting to show off didn’t get a chance to come out of the closet. Sigh!

Those who say global warming is a myth should come and stay in my town for a year. The temperature in summer reaches 46 deg C , the monsoon is erratic, no more 4-5 days of continuous heavy rain like we used to have many years ago, no more cold winter months and the pleasure of sleeping under quilts. And after the so called winter, its Summer again. There is no Spring practically!

I guess all of you had read several posts on October 15  about Global Warming as many bloggers had participated in Blog Action Day 2009. As I was on my Diwali vacation during that time and as I don’t think blogging about an issue should be restricted to just one day, I am blogging about it now. Moreover I have not added my blog to that website [as it asked for my password] but still I feel strongly about the issue. Today when I felt the first winter chill, I was happy!! But that happiness was short-lived as I remembered last year’s winter season and the change in my town’s climate over the past few years.

Trust me, no matter how much water is found on the Moon or how many missions are sent to Mars, this is the only planet that can sustain life.

So save it while you still can. Or it will be literally hot as hell on Earth. Here a few things you can do at your level to stop global warming :-

Use Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
Inflate Your Tires
Change Your Air Filter
Use the washing machine or dishwasher only when they are full
Use Recycled Paper
Adjust Your Thermostat
Change the AC Filter
Choose products that come with little packaging and buy refills when you can
Buy fresh foods instead of frozen
Choose energy efficient appliances when making new purchases
Take a shower instead of a bath
Take Shorter Showers
Install a Low-Flow Showerhead
Defrost old fridges and freezers regularly
Buy Products Locally
Buy Minimally Packaged Goods
Cover your pots while cooking
Buy a Hybrid Car
Buy a Fuel Efficient Car
Carpool When You Can
Don’t Idle in Your Car
Reduce Garbage
Plant a Tree
Insulate Your Water Heater
Replace Old Appliances
Do not leave appliances on standby
Put on a Sweater
Insulate Your Home
Air Dry Your Clothes
Switch to a Tankless Water Heater
Switch to Double Pane Windows
Buy Organic Food
Bring Cloth Bags to the Market
Turn off Your Computer
Eat less meat
Encourage your school or business to reduce emissions
Ditch the Plastic

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On a lighter note, Global Warming may be helpful to some beings after all!!

RECESSION SAYS IT ALL!

As we know, there are vast numbers of Indians working abroad in IT companies. One of the major impacts of recession or economic slowdown has been on such midsized IT companies and to some extent, the big players too. This has created a scenario where employers are cutting back on contracts and are forced to lay off workers. Layoffs will be affecting people working in countries other than their own as they will be the first ones to be fired. This is so because obviously every country would not want to keep their citizens jobless and employ a foreigner.

This is exactly what happened to my sister’s Indian friend, Mrs. Reddy who stays in Ireland. Mrs. Reddy thought that she had it all made. Her husband was placed highly in an MNC, they had bought a lovely house and what’s more, she too had secured a job in the same company. So they could commute to and fro to work together. But as ill times would have it, the recession hit and slowly employees in their company started to get the pink slips. Fearing the same would happen to them, Mrs. Reddy decided on what she thought would be the rational move to make. She quit her job and took up another offer presuming that at such an alarming rate of terminations in their present company, either or both she and Mr. Reddy could be asked to leave. So, by joining another company, at least one of them would be in a job.

Much to their chagrin, their plan backfired as the company Mrs. Reddy joined also began to lay- off its employees and the first ones asked to leave were the ones who had joined in the recent three months. So Mrs. Reddy lost her job and within a few days Mr. Reddy was asked to leave. But he got a hefty compensation as did all the people who were in the company for a year or more. Unfortunately Mrs. Reddy lost not only her job but this compensation as well.

Now she has returned to India and is staying alternately with her parents and in-laws while her husband is still in Ireland desperately hunting for a job before his visa expires failing which he will have to return as well. They will not be able to procure a good price for their house or car with the falling economy and it pains their hearts to see their dreams crumble just when things were on an upscale.

Another incident which is a little out of the ordinary is the one that happened to my colleague’s sister. The girl has been staying in California, US for the past four years and now when her parents started pressurizing her to give her consent for marriage, she agreed to it but with a condition of her own. She insisted that the boy should be working in California as she wanted to settle there. Her parents, after a lot of pains, did find a boy working there. Both the parties were agreeable to the match, the boy and girl liked each other and just before talks headed towards the planning of the betrothal, the boy lost his job and had to return to India. Now all talks have come to a standstill. The girl is adamant about her decision and the boy is still hunting for a job not knowing whether he will get one in India or California. Now one wonders whether things will move forward if the boy does get a job in California or what would have taken place if the girl were to lose her job and return to India. Yet another effect of recession!

Fortunately for India there was no real recession, albeit some sectors were affected. Job losses became common leading to a fear psychosis gripping not just affected industries but others as well. The recession mind set has led to some value choices being made which may remain with the Indian consumer as we head into the future.

So, while Indians have not seen recession, they have been affected by the ‘recession psyche’. The outcome will undoubtedly be smarter, savvier and economically sensible Indians heading into the future. 

E-Terrorism!

Even if you are not computer savvy but have an email account, than it is for sure to have encountered email terrorist attack on your mail box. Wondering who these terrorists are and what are they up to?
Definitely you must have got mails at some point of time from your own near and dear ones with a beautiful picture of some God or Goddess and asking you to concentrate on its eyes to reap many fold benefits or witness some kind of miracle in your life to happen in the next 7 days. Needless to say that normally such kind of unsolicited chain mails keep coming on your mail box. These mails with spiritual or religious sentiments attached come with statutatory warning that the chain should not be discontinued to avail the benefit and also   must be forwarded to another 10 persons failing which you shall encounter some miss happening! And lo! You are in soup what to do next, to forward the mail or not. God only knows who the perpetrators of such mails are and what their agenda is but one thing is sure, the threat and the fear factor works. Invariably, the recipient of such mail is tempted to pass on the buck on to another 10 persons. This is what I term as e-terrorism!
In a similar manner, there is one more kind of e-terrorism not in the nature of chain mails which keep popping up on to your mail box. These are bound to rob you off if not acted wisely. Sample this:-
“Congratulations, your email Id has been selected by our electronic random selection system for a cash prize of US$ 50, 00,000/-” OR “You have won a UK lottery of 165, 50,000 pounds in our monthly draw, Congratulation!”
In such mails, you are asked to send them Bank details; password, email Id password, etc along with foreign remittance of few thousands to cover handling charges. What happens next should be well known to avid readers of any newspaper. The bank account is hacked and computer injected with virus through e-terrorism!

TAARE ZAMEEN PAR

We all came to this world, gifted with innocence.Life was so joyful being a child. We smiled more than 400 times a day. We reveled in the simple pleasures of life, be it indulging ourselves completely in a cone ice cream, dripping down in our fingers, or insouciant trails with nature, where we counted the number of stars in the sky and followed the moon running behind us. What on earth went wrong while we were growing up? While we began to acquire intelligence, we parted ways with innocence. Life has never been so joyful since then. We gradually added baggage to our identity, identifying ourselves with all those we began to look upon. All those which mattered to our life started sketching an image of ourselves with its inevitable, robbing us of the ineffable pleasure while living in the unmistakable lightness of our being. Is this intelligence so precious to merit a trade off with our innocence? Such ruminations often arise whenever I see kids playing around happily in the SIC campus, while I am strutting anxiously across the stairs for my next lecture with my mind filled with thoughts for the upcoming quiz. My mind, however finds its original voice. The truth emerges amidst the clutter. We were born with silence and as we grew up, we lost the silence and were filled with words. We lived in our hearts and as time passed, we moved into our heads. As management students, we can learn so much from our children. The foremost being the simple art of forgetting things. While we were children, we fought with our friends. Such enmity and bitterness was so fugacious, vanishing in thin air whenever we move on to next thing. Once we had expressed it, we were exhausted. We never used to carry residues of anything and we were able to smile so blissfully the next moment. Why did we forget this beautiful skill?

With technology bringing all kinds of negative influence in children’s lives, it appears that they are losing this beautiful trait. Children take pride in being violent. If they lose their temper, they feel that it’s normal — they take pride in it. One who is very aggressive in the classroom, gets more attention than one who is peaceful, isn’t it? So children grow up feeling, ‘‘If I am aggressive, then I have my say’’.

Isn’t it obvious to see that a child is so happy — walking, moving, jumping around and then that same child goes through college to become so sad, upset and depressed! Is this the purpose of our education? Its highly essential that children’s education addresses all these concerns. Only then, children can remain blissfully child like and maybe, we can learn a lesson or two in management from them too.

Koi tan dukhi.koi mann dukhi;



Koi dhan bin rahat udaas;


Thode thode sab dukhi;


Ek sukhi Ram ka dass.