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This post comes from a guy with a 2nd class college degree, who came from a no-name college, average gmat, worked at not so well known companies, had no extracurriculars at college - but lived his life the way he knew best - flat out ;)

Look what he got a couple of days ago :D :D :D

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Wharton Office of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid

The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
420 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340

215-898-6183 Phone
215-898-0120 Fax
mba.admissions@wharton.upenn.edu
mba.finaid@wharton.upenn.edu
http://www.wharton.upenn.edu

Dear PaGaLGuY,

On behalf of the entire Wharton community, I wish to congratulate you on your admission to the Wharton MBA Class of 2008.

Your outstanding record of personal, professional and academic achievements has clearly distinguished you in an exceptional applicant pool. As a Wharton student, you will join a diverse, international community that will both challenge and support you in your efforts to learn more, do more, and be more. You are part of a select group of individuals invited to join our community during the 125th Anniversary of the school’s founding, an occasion that honors Wharton’s spirit of innovation and far-reaching influence in global business education.

The Wharton MBA opens a world of opportunities. We invite you to learn more about us by attending one or both of our admitted student events: Wharton Winter Welcome (February 8-10, 2006) and Wharton Welcome Weekend (April 6-8, 2006). Information about these events is posted on our admitted student portal (http://[snip]), where you will find a wealth of information about the program, including our “e-talk” discussion board (access code:[snip]), where you can meet your future classmates and get your questions answered by members of the Wharton community.

An Admit Pack will arrive shortly with detailed information on financial aid, matriculation requirements, and other materials you will need to begin the next part of your journey. Please note that a $1,000 non-refundable enrollment deposit must be received in the Admissions Office by 5pm, Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Thursday, April 27, 2006 in order to secure your place in the Class of 2008.

If you have any questions or need additional information after receiving your acceptance packet, please do not hesitate to call the Admissions Office at 01 (215) 898-6183.

With best regards,
Thomas R. Caleel

Thomas R. Caleel, WG’03
Director
MBA Admissions and Financial Aid

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Dreams, the stuff that makes the world go round! :)

Posted 25 December 2005 † PaGaLGuY § Gibberish § More More Gibberish ‡ Comments (12) °

Dream running!

Running/waddling/walking/crawling .. or intend to do so at the Stanchart Marathon. Will be doing this to support the cause of the physically challenged - www.naseoh.org , the NGO where I and a bunch of the PG gang teach every Sunday :) . Can I even do the dream run ? No I can’t. With zilch amount of preps and err.. with no intention to prep until the marathon .. I am sure its gonna be one helluva long walk. But who cares as long the as the loooooong walk is with friends! :D :D :D

Happy Waddling!

Posted 18 December 2005 † PaGaLGuY § Gibberish ‡ Comments (2) °

Moving!

Moving pangs. I’m shifting my residence after living in the same place in Mumbai for over 20 years! My schedules are all haywire, all thanks to the insane amounts of work needed to furnish the new residence. Wall colors, veneer prices, designs, lights, cable tv connections, bathroom design, colour of the fans, wirings for every plug point, height of the ceiling, concealed wiring, door designs, plywoods, laminate designs, wash basins, shower panels, speakers, picture lights, bed designs, chandelier style, color schemes, smoothening walls, cracked joints, door handles, hinges, telephone connections, transformers, 10 watt bulbs, crystal lights, spot lights, PL lights, jacuzzi, french windows, mosquito meshes, shoe rack, paintings, picture frames, marble designs, granite colors,foot light, wardrobes, drawers, handles, kitchen fittings, sinks, chimneys, mirrors, designer glass, tiles, window frames .. are just some of the things I’ve been working on a daily basis for the last couple of months. Its a challenge to build something from ground up and I can almost tell you what piece of hardware you can buy where in Mumbai !

Its been a challenge like none other! My family didn’t hire an interior designer for a simple reason. We wanted our ‘own home’. I realized that although I love looking and admiring abstract furniture designs and concepts, I dont necessarily feel comfortable being around em.

Um..now where do those ‘up lights’ go …. at what height do we want the door handles ….. how do I beautify the balcony… what.. ? did you say ’sleeper wood’?

As you can see I am seriously in a deranged and info overloaded mode. Handle with caution!

Posted 08 December 2005 † PaGaLGuY § Gibberish ‡ Comments (6) °

Randomitis

Since I have nothing interesting to add here in this blog anyway, let me play a game of tag. I was tagged by puneet - http://sdfn.blogspot.com/ . Now I gotta ramble about 20 random things about myself. So here you go :)

1) Started driving cars at the age of 6 .. used to sit on my fathers lap and drive em .. at 7 I could drive alone ;)
2) Biking started at 9 - learnt it all alone by hijacking my fathers bike when he wasn’t home. Yes, my feet wouldn’t reach the ground and I would have to balance until I reached any ledge where I could balance one of my foot to stop the bike
3) Was forced to sign a statement at school stating that I would leave school if I created any more nuisance than I already did ;)
4) Extremely clumsy and have to dash into every piece of furniture in the house even if all I do is get up and sit down in the same place.
5) If I get addicted to an idea/possibility, I can’t sleep. Have not slept many a nights due to this
6) Ex voracious reader right thru college. Went through approx 2K books and exhausted my local library before 12th grade. Now haven’t read a book in a couple of years :(
7) Played cricket for my school - stopped watching matches ages ago
8) Wanted to play the drums - someday I will. Once I have a big office and stuff.. I intend to take classes at work after the employees leave ;)
9) Been a computer freak since childhood. The first computer bought was a Sinclair Z-80
10) Always been a stickler for privacy. I respect others’ privacy and expect the same and luckily i’ve found that the best of my friends think the same :)
11) The first time I earned money was when I and my friend bet Rs.1o on a cricket match we and the neighbourhood kids played. We won.
12) Had only 1 friend through college.
13) The worst thing about running pagalguy.com is dealing with business school students
14) Never been to a pub, never had a sip of beer, never smoked a cigarette. I guess I have bigger addictions and life is one of them ;)
15) Failure doesn’t mean squat and is just success delayed. My astute belief.
16) I want the time to write and inspire. Someone out there might find something useful from my life experimentations.
17) Fav. dessert is the caramel pudding my mom makes. NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING I’ve eaten across half a dozen countries comes close.
18) My fav line to my mom - “Mera kya hoga” for which I get the response ” Tera kuch bhi nahi hoga” :P
19) Games. PC Games. Will play em now..and will build entire gaming rooms sometime later in life ;)
20) For 1.5 years, I didn’t tell my parents I founded and ran pagalguy.com . Now they can’t gush enough [grin]

And no, I aint tagging no one. People deserve peace ~

Posted 15 November 2005 † PaGaLGuY § More More Gibberish ‡ Comments (9) °

Woo meeeeee

I get to speak about my experiences as an entrepreneur at IIM Indore’s fest - IIMI - IRIS. Last year I was applying to the IIMs to study and this year I am speaking there. Thoroughly humbled by fate, me.

Posted 23 October 2005 † PaGaLGuY § More More Gibberish ‡ Comments (2) °

Do the numbers ad up ?

Going through a rather interesting situation at pagalguy.com . We’ve been tracking our traffic levels and over the last one month we’ve seen skyrocketing growth. We are serving close to 325,000 pages a day and the forum ends up serving over 150,000 pages on a business day. Assuming we have 6 ad spots, that makes a total of 900,000 - 1,000,000 (yes, close to a million ads a day)!

Ok, this is the possibility, next question is do we have the ability to fulfil that kind of inventory? When we’re looking at fulfilling approximately 3 crore impressions a month, I am realizing that it is extremely tough to get that many advertisers on board to ensure that the inventories are taken care of.

From what I sense, once the bottleneck has been identified, the problem area can be fixed. But here, I think I have become the bottleneck ;)

May be its time to hire a dedicated crew to market the website, but I am not too fond of that idea because I’d rather focus on what we do best. Develop new features and build better communities. Anyone here who can guide me to somebody who has a much better idea on media selling than I do ? :)

Posted 23 October 2005 † PaGaLGuY § More Gibberish ‡ Comments (2) °

Ever had a bschool essay haunt you ?

One question - over 45 days of thought/ramblings/incoherent behavior and I can’t get around to answering one question from a bschool that I intend to apply to. Yes, ‘intend’ is the word because I am almost ready to drop my app because I can’t get the answer right. I’ve seen myself getting caught into the act of trying to write what I think the bschool wants to hear and have deleted my essays over 10 times just to redo the same.

I hail the geniuses at this school for putting up such a question. A question that probes the very depth of your thoughts and your understanding of your career and the challenges you will face.

In other news - PG’s new office is almost set. Setting up tel lines and stuff before moving in and creating some national chaos :) . To apply for work, head over to www.inzanelabs.com ;)

Posted 05 October 2005 † PaGaLGuY § Gibberish ‡ Comments (2) °

Boooyah!

Was featured in Business World this week.

Me in Business World

The poses you gotta give to photographers..when they hear I run pagalguy .com ;)

Posted 26 September 2005 † PaGaLGuY § Gibberish ‡ Comments (2) °

The cycle

I guess every person who has started or runs a business will face this

Start of Company –> No money –> No development –> No Future –> No Money

I guess people who finally break out of this vicious cycle go ahead with their ventures. In the words of the guy who taught me cricket - Either you Hit out or Get out, dont stand there and enjoy the scenery.

Posted 16 September 2005 † PaGaLGuY § More Gibberish ‡ Comments (1) °

Is more pagalguys the answer?

I’m thinking constantly, weird ideas get tossed up at work, even more crazier solutions come to mind. Most of them go unutilized or not implemented because I believe I’ve hit my limits in terms of the amount of time I can work in a day ;) . May be the answer is to hire more pagals, no make it pagalguys. People who share my vision and are passionate enough to take it forward. Um..more pagalguys.. gotta find em.

Posted 08 September 2005 † PaGaLGuY § Gibberish ‡ Comments (4) °