GUD-DAY

I wasted the entire time in the morning trying to wake up ..... i finally managed to get up at .... 11.... normal by my standards but the standards have to change I know in order to get some respectable score in the GMAT which is fast approaching ..... ok will try my best ... anyway I woke up at 11 and spent the entire afternoon gobbling up the news in all the newspapers I get at home and managing to fit in some lunch time in the afternoon ...... by the time I thought that I should be studying it was 4:30 .... so a lot of precious time wasted .... finally I managed to sneak in to IMS in the evening at 5:30 ...... I found Birju sir sitting in the center which was a big relief ..... so as usual I approached him with my quant troubles ..... and guess what he managed to teach me the whole chapter of profit and loss by 7:00 .... which was like in 1 and a 1/2 hours flat and I managed to learn a lot in that little time period .... Now I know what I am going to do tomorrow .... I am going to revise both .... Rate & work and Profit & loss....... not much happened after that but still I am feeling good about the fact that at least 1 chapter is somewhat done ..... Hence a good day ......ciao

IRRI-TATE-TING

I started to work on a new chapter in quant .... Profit and loss .... mixtures ...DI etc ..... and was not able to get the head or tail of it ..... i mean i understood things like

Selling Price - cost price = profit
cost price - selling price = loss
% Profit = Profit/Cost Price*100, viz = Selling Price-cost price/ cost price * 100
Marked price- Discount= cost price
etc

But but but am stuck again in application ... guess I will need some amount of professional help here .... so what does lil Gau do when he gets confused .... he moves on .... so now I have started wrestling with Geometry ... which is like one part of math that I really love .... all thanks to the interest I took in the subject in 9 th grade .... I used to sit with my geometry book during physical education classes and ya I did get penalized for that .... had to kneel down for one bright sunny hour.... so now I have moved on to Geometry ... I have revised things like Different types of triangles .... sum of interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees ... and how for any other polygon the sum of interior angles is ........ (n-2)180...... where n is the number of sides... cool na .... and ya what are the different types of polygons till the polygon having 8 sides ......

3 sides ----- Good ol TRIANGLE
4 sides ----- QUADRILATERAL
5 sides ----- PENTAGON
6 sides ----- HEXAGON
7 sides ----- SEPTAGON/HEPTAGON
8 sides ----- OCTAGON
..... there ..... am stll wondering why are they not named in plain straight simple english ..... something like fourangle, fiveangle, sixangle, kurtangle .... no not kurt angle ..... but like the other three ... ok chuck it ..... so here I am studying geometry a little bit of it at least .... have to reach home soon today as it is my grand mom's death anniversary .... and mom will be waiting for me to keep the plate full of grand mom's favorite dishes pointing towards the north and pray for her ..... so that's all for today ... and ya i still have to do some research on those rules of grammar ..... ciao

TYRE-SUM

Ok let me start with something good ..... I came to know about the 8 rules of grammar today .... These rules are required when you have to solve sentence correction types of questions in the GMAT ..... let me list them down

1. SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT
2. PRONOUNS
3. TENSES
4. MODIFIERS
5. PARALLELISM
6. IDIOM
7. COMPARISON
8. KISS FORMULA ----->>>>>>> KEEP IT SHORT AND SIMPLE

Now comes the difficult part .... i.e. learning them I have to learn them as fast as possible and be able to apply them correctly ..... well what has to be done has to be done .... there is no way out of this so lil Gau will have to study.... and be good with it ..... no let me rephrase that .... be the bloody best with it ..... wishful thinking you see .... apart from that the day did not include much studying .... ok I went to Churchgate in the morning .... or rather afternoon .... morning for me anyway.... I got to Borivali station and on the way there I was thinking what would happen if there was no train to churchgate on platform no 1..... now you see I am not that well versed with Train travelling .... so I get lost if the right Train is not there on the right platform .... which for me is platform no 1 ..... which is just there when you enter the station .... and Western Railways came to know about my thought .... I suppose I was thinking too loud .... so they decided to test me ..... I bought the return ticket to churchgate from the ticket counter ... of course where else would you get that ticket .... and entered platform no 1 .... my happy place .... and what do I see there is a train standing right in front of me ..... the only problem with the train is that it is pointing in the wrong direction according to the indicator above me which said ...... VIRAR..... which is at the very other end of western railways..... so what next I thought .... platform no 2 of course but the train there was saying BHAYANDER ..... Antara Land ..... Platform no 3 said Bandra .... which is near the half way mark from Borivali to Charchgate .... I kept staring at the Indicator and finally found what I was looking at ..... CHURCHGATE ..... where .... platform no 6 .... and the train was going to leave in 2 minutes flat ..... I rushed towards the overbridge ran all the way to platform no 6 cursing myself for thinking out loud .... and finally managed to board the train .... and guess what ... this particular train had been waiting from the last 20 minutes and it was packed .... I managed to get some space to stand two spaces next to the door ... the only good thing about this train was that it was Churchgate Fast ... which meant it would stop at a very limited number of stations after Andheri .... so thats how the nightmare began .... people kept on boarding the train at every station it stopped and very few people got down .... you could the ratio of people getting in to that of the people gettin out was something like 50:1 .... it was as if the whole damm world wanted to go to Churchgate ..... the rest of the journey was something like a wrestling match... I was punched in the face, stomach and was stamped on my feet .... I guess that's what happens everyday on the Mumbai Locals, but at 1 o clock in the afternoon it was not something that happens everyday ...... anyway ..... I got to breathe and finally sit when we reached CHARNI ROAD .... which is like two stations away from Churchgate ..... but still something is better than nothing ... I reached Churchgate went to IMS Churchgate .... requested for an Orange Juice ...... sitting in the A/C center and drinking orange juice ... that felt like heaven in comparison to the train journey I had just encountered ..... Then it was work as usual .... Satyen sir gave me some fundas for the verbal section in GMAT and they were really good .... a sample of which I have put up at the beginning of this post ..... After the learning session I had to get back to borivali .... enduring another Train Journey ....... which I hoped would not be as painful as earlier one .... I walked into Churchgate station ..... got a practically empty Borivali Slow local .... I had enough of fast locals fo the day ..... set myself on a window seat .... which was pointing in the right direction ... I.E. pointing in the direction the air would flow .... I felt really happy about the whole thing I even bought a sandwich from the seller who boarded my compartment ... or boogie whatever you choose to call it ... he was selling Samosas too which is like my favorite food stuff ... it is part of my staple diet... but then I refrained from buying it ... my stomach asked me not to ... all those potatoes would end up upseting it.... there I was on my way back to borivali gobbling my sandwich and drinking Gatorade .... it's an energy drink I bought from the station .... when suddenly my mind started wandering again .... I was thinking about Borivali station how there are three platforms all placed in a single line .... let me try and explain it diagrammatically so that you get a better idea

Kandivali .........,_____(8)_____,______(7)______,_____(1)_____


The numbers 8,7 and 1 represent the three platforms at borivali station .... as you can see from my pathetic attempt at drawing that platform no 8 is closer to Kandivali than it is to Borivali .... ok my mind wandered ... I was thinking what would I do if the train stopped at platform no 8 instead of 1 or any of the other platforms which are laid parallel to 1 .... and again Western Railways were really paying attention to me and by the time the train entered Kandivali Station the announcement came clearly on the antique looking speaker system that this train would be stoping at platform no 8 at Borivali ... I really felt like kicking myself for thinking .... I had to walk a long way before I could reach my office ... good ol IMS Borivali .... ok that's about all the excitement for the day ..... got to do some studying now to wrap it with a good note .... and next time before you think .... think on what do you want to think about .... Big Brother ....oops sorry Western Railways would be listening ...... Ciao

SUM TING ACHI-EVED

it's been a Good day today ......... I finally managed to get the hang of Rate and Work kinda problems.... though am not that confident on that front ..... suppose it will come by practice.... so I will move on to the next chapter if I find time tomorrow...... The day was really eventful ...... The Maharashtra CET results were declared today .... and lots of mixed emotions were there to see .... There was sadness...... there was joy ...... and most primarily there was confusion present ...... Then the XLRI final results were announced today ... Shreyans managed to get a final convert after 3 years of effort and hard work .... guess it was due this time ..... and ya Nishant managed to get into the waiting list and he's no 23 or something there .... hopefully he will get in ..... and me ..... I managed my RATE and WORK ..... so all in all an eventful day ..... I still have miles to go before I can get that MBA admission under my belt .... so it calls for lots of hard work and perseverance ..... I guess i will manage something finally .... it's been many years since I have studied like I studied today .... well even though it wasn't that much but still it was something .... Birju sir is a genius ... he has to be to make a crackpot like me comfortable with the dreaded subject called maths..... I guess I will be putting in more effort henceforth ..... somehow I have this feel good factor about the whole thing .... let's see what happens ..... I have to score good in that GMAT thats gonna come my way one of these days..... lot's of people are looking forward for that ..... I never knew so many people were concerned about my well being .... god bless them all and hopefully i will be able to fulfill their expectations from me .... I will be going to IMS Churchgate tomorrow ..... will make it a point to ask satyen sir somethings in English so that the day isn't completely wasted .... am right now planning to do some studying in the train journey tomorrow.... let's see what happens bout that tomorrow........ well I do feel good about something I don't know what ....... neways for now let me hope for the best and put in the effort ...... ciao

War Begins

Well well well ..... have completed stage one today.... that is getting my transcripts from my college ..... it turned out good ..... Girija maam was so helpful in all this that I feel a lot relieved it is as if a burden has been lifted from my shoulders....... on the GMAT front ... well I have started studying ... believe it .... i have completed Rate and work problems in quant.... though not so confident about the application part ... but that will come with some practice i am sure bout it ... will speand one more day 2morrow on it and then move on .... Mr. Nishant agarwal has been lots of help in the rate and work problems.... for ppl not in the knoweth he is a faculty here in IMS ( Thats the place I work ) and he is a graduate from IIT bombay ( Institute oof intellectual technologists ...or something like that )..... i know stupid name for such a prestigious school ...ok it's Indian institute of technology..... i am not getting into the details of this great school i will allow Nishant to describe it .... ok now you will say I have been banging my head on rate and work problems from the last 3 days .... i know but still I seem to be starting something ...... and that's an achievement by my minuscule standards ..... i have to get em standards up .... i will i am confident bout that for the first time in my entire life..... in spite of this I can be a lil bit happy of the fact that my logic still seems to be in place when it comes to this type of maths ...... but you can say that TIME is still on the winning side as it is running really fast ... while I have started running ... and if there is a race now I will surely beat the snail in it .... cant be so sure bout the turtle though ..... turtles are smart ..... i read it in a story..... chuck it ....... so round one of this great war of the 21st century goes to TIME..... anyway don't seem to be in a mood to write a lot today so will stop for now .... will keep updating the story of the war between ME and TIME ..... as and when I find the time to do so ......ciao

SUM-Klary-tea

I started off the day with some amount of irritating behavior as my tummy was surely churning itself in and out.... one of the primary reasons being I was awake till 4:30 am last night..... no I was not studying at all .... in fact I was reading a book .... called DISTANT ECHO.... damm great book .... gobbled all of it last night I mean I could not get sleep till the book ended.... so you can say wasted time reading fiction rather than studying...... well that's me ..... today was somewhat a good day... had a talk with mom regarding my confusions ...... my MBA confusions ..... well told mom that I don't see myself doing anything after that and it was scary ...... told her that the creative fields are something that I am more interested in and that the pull is so much that it is giving me sleepless nights.... apart from the book that is..... well mom told me that if I did not want to do my MBA then set up some business as I was somebody who always dreamt of running my own show..... good thought I said but then again there would be loans involved in setting up the business and since my economic background is not that very strong mom would have to take the loan.... which is something I dont want.... I mean my mom has done so much for me and supported me in all my adventures and all I have ever given her is a bucketfull of failures ..... I don't want that to ever happen again.... so the discussion continued and finally we came to a conclusion that whatever MBA I ended up doing it should be something that is close to the MEDIA and ENTERTAINMENT industry..... that made me feel really opptimistic about the whole idea of an MBA..... my mommy is the greatest ... why didn't I think of something like that ... maybe I was so muddled up in my web of confusions that I missed the point.... or maybe it's because mom's always know what their childen would be good at.... so finally it's decided I am going to do that MBA ... ya ya I know that I said this yesterday also.... but I am getting surer as the days bounce by .... the only problem is that time is running too .... and there is that big wall called GMAT to cross before I reach the lush green fields of an MBA..... so lil Gau got a lil bit more serious today and actually did some studying .... yes yes believe it..... I did some Rate and Work concepts ... not much though but still there is a begining ..... and that feels good ...... so now will have to remember the formula better ......SPEED= DISTANCE/TIME..... which implies TIME= SPEED/DISTANCE..... and in my case the TIME element is very less and the DISTANCE element is very large and my SPEED is something which only a turtle or rather a snail would be proud of .... so the time has come to optimize and beat time at it's own game ...... hoppin for the best.....ciao

CON-Fushion

Ok i have to accept that I wasted yet another perfectly sunny day on this beautiful third rock from the sun...... I had planned to do some rate and work problems today .... but finally did not manage to do any.... somehow the interest is not coming ...... I know I have to give the GMAT and then do my MBA from some fairly decent university in the USA ..... but the problem with me is that I don't know why..... I mean what will I do after my MBA I am absolutely clueless about it...... Today was the day when this ultimate question popped in my lil brain..... WHY MBA......:(..... and I could feel empty space resonating sounds within my cerebrum.... I have always dreamt of doing something different .... like becoming an Actor.... or maybe a Writer.... how is my MBA going to help me achieve these goals..... almost went into depression thinking about it..... Was getting frustrated at anybody mentioning about an MBA..... So did what I always do when I am low.... called up my sweetheart had a talk with her.... she told me something which gave me a big boost.... she said I could go ahead and do whatever I wanted she would support me in my endeavors .... if I wanted to be an actor i could as well go ahead and struggle.... she would support me .... now these simple lines have given me a lot of faith and confidence ..... so now what.... can I try and take the plunge into acting..... maybe yes.... but then if she has so much faith in me and is ready to help and support me and become my anchor in whatever I plan to do .... then even I should act responsible and do something ...or rather achieve something before plunging into my dreams...... well yes you guessed it right I will go ahead and prepare for that dreaded test and go ahead and do my MBA.... acting can wait .... maybe I wont get a lead role maybe I will get the role of somebody's father or elderly uncle .... but what the hell i might atleast live my dream someday.... let me hope for the best now..... if in case my dreams don't come true then maybe I will still be working with some firm in some position doing some marketing or other such stuff.... but for now MBA has become the hurdle no 1 to cross ...... everything can wait ... let's see what this rollercoaster of a life has in store for me.....ciao

GEEMAT

Welll today the day started as usual as always..... I wasted another good sunny perfect looking day.... well I did manage to do something productive i.e send myself a mail which had the Manhattan GMAT files and also managed to write myself a mail in the process..... o for people not in the knoweth I am supposedly supposed to be preparing for the GMAT .... I have been trying to do that since one long year and somehow am not able to get the hang of it..... I mean I am still not able to understand how do you prepare for preparing for the GMAT.... hope to do that soon so that I can seriously start preparing..... now why am I preparing fot this so called test .... well tis because I want to go to the USA and do some kind of program known as MBA..... aka Masters of business Administration ....... I have a gut feeling about it that I will surely be going this time....... GMAT is step one..... step 2 is documentation and then comes the dreaded step 3 ..........i.e. arranging for the funds .... it might cost me around Rs 30 lacs...... and now I am bored of typing ..... you see this is my problem ....... I tend to lose focus so very fast........ thats all for today .... will be back with some crap whenever I do find some time or when I am in the mood to do so next time whichever comes first ...ciao

intro-duck-tion

Well there is a reason behind that name FULLY USELESS..... if in case anybody around this big round third rock from the sun does come for a visit to this blog... I do believe that he or She might not find any thing useful around here..... well if any body has noticed ( hope atleast 1) you must have seen that there is nothing to notice except this stupid post I am writing.... God knows why... ?..... still I am writing something..... does not matter if it makes sense or no..... Now if celebs can write things on blogs ... half of which donot make sense.... so can I..... really... well thats not the point.... the point I was trying to make is .... you will find this blog pretty useless so the name