Thursday, January 10, 2008

L.P.P......Life Partner Problem...

I wanted to get married...I was looking for a wife (obviously)....I thought, why not use knowledge of subjects learned in MBA syllabus?...
First comes Cost Management...So I listed down Cost factors which might arise in my life after marriage..after preparing Cost Statement, I found out that costs are so huge and there is no profit at all !....but as it was compulsory to get married (just like minimum production required to meet committed quantity), I had no other option....
Then comes Operations Research...I found out maximum amount that I could spend per month on each cost factors like shopping, hotelling, movies etc etc....with these variables and my budget, I prepared constraints for my L.P.P...then I wrote objective function of L.P.P which would seek to minimise occurence of these cost factors in a month...any girl which would be in the feasible region of L.P.P, minimising the Cost function, deserved to be my life partner !...
How to find such ideal match ??...here I decided to use the Marketing Subject...I selected Simulated Test Marketing method to address this issue...this method attracted responses of around 100 girls !! (I was surprised with such a good response and was on cloud nine...)...I gave Rs.2000 to each girl and sent them to a mall for shopping...any girl spending minimum amount out of Rs.2000, was meant to be my life partner...
When all girls returned after shopping, I tried to figure out who had saved the maximum amount of money...Then I realised that they had actually spent the entire amount...I asked for explanation and they told me...."It is better to spend entire amount than marrying you !!"....and they left cursing me for giving such a small amount to each of them...(now I came to know why so many girls had gathered in first place)...

I am still wondering whether my knowledge about these subjects is inadequate or me,as a product, failed... hmmm....at least I have minimised my losses to Rs.200,000 !!!.....

1 comment:

Joanne D'Souza said...

Yo! good blog and I anything I say about your ingenuity in relating seemingly unrelated concepts will be less… so I will refrain from stating the obvious!
But, as a girl and a concerned friend, let me point out to you 2 things…
1. These concepts will only help in developing an entertaining blog and no further…!
2. Rs. 2000 is indeed too less for shopping!