Random stuff
Long time again... that I had not much to write was one reason, that I am lazy is another (more prominent) one.
a couple of things before i forget:
1. you can see my pics at photos.yahoo.com/hotpari
2. read captain's blog. he writes well, certainly not as boring as i am :) sachmuch.blogspot.com
so what's new? well, not much of fun this time, more on the work side. i've rotated to a new desk in lehman. work with mike schmansky and josh spitz on index volatility trading (ya, i know, greek to most of you, but then that's what they trade in, the greeks! :P) really nice people, and well known on the trading floor, so that's an added plus. also, had dinner with all the MDs from the equities side and breakfast the next day with Bart McDade, the head of equities in lehman (ya, the equities division is really pushing it!). the best part of the dinner was meeting with ravi mattu :) he's an IIMA passout (1979) and heads equities and fixed income research in lehman. really big guy. i expected him to be there for a very short time, but to my surprise he was there with us for about 2.5 hours! after all the othres left, we all had great fun together :) ravi was more casual than i expected him to be, and the best was the way he took bhargav's case. :D bhargav is a tam bram, and he kept asking him if he had done all the finance degrees in the world (right from CA to CS to ICW to what not!). all poor bhargav could do was smile :) was good fun that day.
a big discovery that day was the fact that MDs are not as pseud as i expected them to be! i was damn careful about all the cutlery and stuff and not making any noise with it, but after all of them started eating, i eased a bit :) obviously they're good with using knives and forks and what not, since they don't eat using their hands like us indians, but not as pseudly as i expected!
and attended a cocktail party thrown by the IIMA 2005 batch in lehman. was good fun, most of them were nice, except for a couple, whom i blatantly ignored.
so after 2 days of continuous daaru (the cocktail party on wednesday and the dinner on thursday), i decided to go dry this weekend. bad choice since sant invited me over for champagne :( but i had made my decision and stuck to it... am strong, ain't i?! :)
oh, and did i tell u, attended this course on derivatives by this professor from NYU, steven dym. he's really good! thank god i attended this course before attending sankarshan basu's!
and ya, attended a baseball game here (again, sponsored by lehman!) between the yankees and the texas rangers. it was boring... i really find baseball a savage version of cricket. it's like shoaib akhtar (ya, since in baseball u throw the ball, not roll your arm over!) bowling to shahid afridi. true, it's fun when afridi hits, but when he misses, it's very ugly. we left 45 mins after the game started, but it seems we missed one the greatest turnarounds in history by the yankees. doesn't matter.
by the way, on baseball, another quote i read on a starbucks cup:
It's often said that baseball is life, or is like life, or that going to a baseball game is like going to church. Piffle. Baseball is like baseball, and that's plenty good enough because nothing else is quite like baseball.
-- Rob Neyer
ESPN.com baseball columnist and co-author of The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers.
pretty good i thought :) (not that i agree with it)
for those of u who would like to read more of these, go to:
http://www.starbucks.com/retail/thewayiseeit_default.asp
some of them are realyl thought provoking.
what else... well, madhura is coming over to spend the memorial day weekend with me. that should be fun. and di is coming over the next one... so both my coming weekends are jam packed. was thinking of working this one so that i could build up a buffer of work, but my boss just doesn't have time for me! allowed, given the swing in the markets... but i hope i get to do something good here too.
damn, just checked, have written a helluva lot! rest for later
tata,
pari
a couple of things before i forget:
1. you can see my pics at photos.yahoo.com/hotpari
2. read captain's blog. he writes well, certainly not as boring as i am :) sachmuch.blogspot.com
so what's new? well, not much of fun this time, more on the work side. i've rotated to a new desk in lehman. work with mike schmansky and josh spitz on index volatility trading (ya, i know, greek to most of you, but then that's what they trade in, the greeks! :P) really nice people, and well known on the trading floor, so that's an added plus. also, had dinner with all the MDs from the equities side and breakfast the next day with Bart McDade, the head of equities in lehman (ya, the equities division is really pushing it!). the best part of the dinner was meeting with ravi mattu :) he's an IIMA passout (1979) and heads equities and fixed income research in lehman. really big guy. i expected him to be there for a very short time, but to my surprise he was there with us for about 2.5 hours! after all the othres left, we all had great fun together :) ravi was more casual than i expected him to be, and the best was the way he took bhargav's case. :D bhargav is a tam bram, and he kept asking him if he had done all the finance degrees in the world (right from CA to CS to ICW to what not!). all poor bhargav could do was smile :) was good fun that day.
a big discovery that day was the fact that MDs are not as pseud as i expected them to be! i was damn careful about all the cutlery and stuff and not making any noise with it, but after all of them started eating, i eased a bit :) obviously they're good with using knives and forks and what not, since they don't eat using their hands like us indians, but not as pseudly as i expected!
and attended a cocktail party thrown by the IIMA 2005 batch in lehman. was good fun, most of them were nice, except for a couple, whom i blatantly ignored.
so after 2 days of continuous daaru (the cocktail party on wednesday and the dinner on thursday), i decided to go dry this weekend. bad choice since sant invited me over for champagne :( but i had made my decision and stuck to it... am strong, ain't i?! :)
oh, and did i tell u, attended this course on derivatives by this professor from NYU, steven dym. he's really good! thank god i attended this course before attending sankarshan basu's!
and ya, attended a baseball game here (again, sponsored by lehman!) between the yankees and the texas rangers. it was boring... i really find baseball a savage version of cricket. it's like shoaib akhtar (ya, since in baseball u throw the ball, not roll your arm over!) bowling to shahid afridi. true, it's fun when afridi hits, but when he misses, it's very ugly. we left 45 mins after the game started, but it seems we missed one the greatest turnarounds in history by the yankees. doesn't matter.
by the way, on baseball, another quote i read on a starbucks cup:
It's often said that baseball is life, or is like life, or that going to a baseball game is like going to church. Piffle. Baseball is like baseball, and that's plenty good enough because nothing else is quite like baseball.
-- Rob Neyer
ESPN.com baseball columnist and co-author of The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers.
pretty good i thought :) (not that i agree with it)
for those of u who would like to read more of these, go to:
http://www.starbucks.com/retail/thewayiseeit_default.asp
some of them are realyl thought provoking.
what else... well, madhura is coming over to spend the memorial day weekend with me. that should be fun. and di is coming over the next one... so both my coming weekends are jam packed. was thinking of working this one so that i could build up a buffer of work, but my boss just doesn't have time for me! allowed, given the swing in the markets... but i hope i get to do something good here too.
damn, just checked, have written a helluva lot! rest for later
tata,
pari
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