Tid-bits

Monday, August 09, 2004

The most eventful one ever!

It was the 10th of February. All of us were sad and depressed for different reasons. Meena, because she had a test the next day, shwetha because she had one the day after that, me because things were not going too well with school and I was terribly upset with not having been able to make it to the mess at dinner time. And of course all of us realized yet another Valentines day when we would be single was approaching. It was 10:55 in the night, I was hoping I'd make it to the gate before the curfew. I ran, made it n went to NC to get some tea(or was it coffee?). As I was sitting alone drinking tea, an idea struck me. I ran to shwetha's room where both shwetha n meena were supposed to have been studying. That they were chatting need not be mentioned. I looked at them and said, 'Guys, do you want to make a lot of money?' and that started it all. Once I had explained my plan to them, they were a li'l surprised n a li'l apprehensive. I had no idea what they thought. Shwetha was the first to react. She thought it was a decent idea but was not sure of the feasibility. Then we went on looking into various aspects of it n coming up with ideas. Meena also got enthusiastic with time. N we roped in Yashas. Shwetha got to typing down an advertisement on her computer. All of us racked our brains, came up with a decent advertisement, The colour coding scheme was a genius stroke because it attributed to most of our success. We sat up all night making plan, discussing logistics, orders pricing, what not! We had no idea how to send the advertisement over. We thought we'd sent an automated msg to everyone at BITS, but then who'd send it. After a lot of discussion it was decided that all of us would do it. Only the next day we realized it was not possible to send auto msges like that! We had to satisfy ourselves with posters. Posters done, we went about getting orders. All of us put the best of our marketing skills to use n got a whole lot of orders. Shwetha n me left for jaipur next morning while yashas n meens got a lot of orders. We got back from jaipur the next day n god, there was so much to do. Laks n Geetha n a lot of our wing also came over to help. We worked like crazy all night making sure everything was properly organized n marked. Next day was the 14th. We went at 6 in the morn around the campus delivering all the flowers to the right ppl with the right msges!
It was definitely the most eventful valentines day ever. Not to forget that we made a profit of 60%. Howz that for a first business venture?!