Frankly Diary, I am disappointed you would think like this. Without even waiting for me to explain what a SPARK OF BRILLIANCE is. So please listen first.

Now you know how I get brainwaves frequently. Like most things in life, you can arrange my brainwaves on a bell curve of success. Many of them are successful, a few are stupendously successful and a few of them have below average success. Some of my brainwaves work right away. And some of them need modifications and adaptations.

For example, surely you remember when I forgot it was my turn to make the marketing group presentation on Data Extrapolation Techniques? It was already 1 a.m. and marketing class was the first one the next morning. I was feeling very sleepy at the time and was just about to panic when I had a brainwave. I decided to use the Data Extrapolation Techniques presentation from one of the seniors in the dorm. Ashwath gave me his DET presentation from his first year, and then I sat and replaced all the names and dates and, for extra safety, I changed the font also.

The next morning you should have seen the look on the face of the other three bastards in my group when they realized that I had actually sat till late night making our presentation. (You remember how much they underestimated my ability to deliver good work. Cynical bastards.)

When my turn came I confidently went to the front of the class, opened the presentation and began to deliver very persuasively. After taking the class meticulously through four slides—Picture of a calculator to set the ‘data’ mood, Title, Welcome, Agenda—I suddenly realized something troublesome. Ashwath’s presentation extrapolated data from the sales of a fictional scooter-making company. However in our year they had replaced it with a fictional company that made mobile phones. The next slide was a big picture of a scooter.

FUCK.

But instead of panicking I simply coughed two three times, acted as if the computer was not working properly, and further also acted as if I was making adjustments. Meanwhile surreptitiously I did a Ctrl-Find-Replace in Powerpoint and replaced all the instances of the word ‘scooter’ with the word ‘mobile phone’. A minor yet somehow imperfect brainwave.

Then when I clicked the next slide a huge picture of a massive Bajaj Chetak Scooter appeared on the screen. And Ashwath, that unnecessarily creative, over-effort putting idiot, had photoshopped the name of the fictional company—‘ScooterCorp’—over the Bajaj logo.

Below this massive picture there was this line in HUGE FUCKING MASSIVE FONT:

ESTIMATING THE MARKET SIZE FOR MOBILE POHNES IN INDIA—A Study of Mobile PohneCorp