ordeal of CAT 1

One fine day in my 3rd year i decided that i would do my pg in business management...it would be the portals of IIM through which i would pass and this time nothing is going to stop me from achieving it. I managed to convince a friend of mine to pursue the same path. After much deliberation about the institute for the coaching we decided that we would join TIME. It took us nearly 2 months before we could find time to go down to the institute and find out about the course. After all the councelling and stuff, we decided to join the morning batch. we were supposed to have classes thrice a week. There was a catch in this marvellous plan of ours. We had to catch our college bus immediately after the class, which meant that we had no time to back to our places and as a result i had to be out of my place by 6'o'clock in the morning with my bag almost bursting with my so called CAT material and two lunch boxes and not to mention, my engg books. I felt stoned the day i attended my 1st actual class (my 1st class was a surprise exam which i fared horribly). the day was hectic. By the time i reached home at 6.30 in the evening i was ready to quit..
it took me two weeks of time before i could adjust to this new timetable of mine. the classes were fun and i usually had a field day. my two hours of journey to the college seemed fun after i started my coaching. me and my friend started solving the material on our way and were enjoying very bit of it. before we realised we had the semester exams round the corner and it was time for our CAT preparation to take a back seat..

life of WHAT IF'S

the word which i use annoyingly often.....a word which at times changed the course of my life....at every crossroads of decision making i was plagued with this word...what if i do it this way?...what if they feel bad?...what if i don't go there?...what if ....x..y..z.....no matter whatever the situation was....it's always been "what if".....
this "what if" has been a great help and a hindrance....there were times...when it saved my neck...and there were also times when it cost me a lot....some tricky situations in life need handling with care...."what if" has been both helpful and disastrous....i often think...do anyone else lay store so much in this word?
i remember well..there was a time during my schooling...when i had a real big and nasty fight with a close friend...i was hurt and angry and was ready to go for her neck at the slightest chance...i was just an inch away from severing my ties with her....ready to weed her out of my life...and then when i was about to do it...this word spranged into my mind...what if it was my fault?..after some very serious introspection..i realised that it was as much my fault as it had been hers...we were both equally faulty...i was in no way different from her....i made peace with her and now...she is still my very good friend who is always there for me whenever i need her...needless to say..my "what if" saved me from losing such a wonderful person as a friend....
coming to think about it ...there was this incident during my engineering....i had a major disagreement with a few of my classmates regarding some plan....we had a heated argument and i left the place in a huff....after i cooled down i wanted to go back and clarify my position with them....and as usual...i was like...what if they can't understand?...what if they don't bother?....i never went back to speak out the issue..to clear out things....and needless to say..we never saw eye to eye again.....we never spoke with each other again....
in the meandering course of life..there have been times when...my what if....helped me to evolve as a better person...to understand people better.....to be more human......then...there have been times..when these words held me back...prevented me from taking that much needed step forward...from taking an occasional risk which could have worked out in my favour....from plunging head long into a challenging task....
no matter what my experinces are...no matter what my short comings are...i still find myself thinking..."what if?" whenever i find myself at the crossroads of decision making....even now i'm thinking...what if people read this blog................

ho hah india???

cricket.....in india a religion...the team india...an icon....the members.....demigods. no where in the world we find such adulation and adimiration. we boast about having the best talent pool in the world of cricket. sachin..the master blaster, dravid ...the wall..the list goes on......every time team india enters the ground, a nation of 1 billion people awaits in bated breath...praying for their win. we are forever fervently hoping that they weave their magic on the field and trounce the opposition. they do trounce the opposition.....we indeed did win some spectacular matches......
the current going icc championship trophy is a story which is better forgotten...considered as a warm up session before the world cup....we couldn't make it to the semifinals....blame it on whatever reasons...a number of star players not in their in their form, some injured....we still did not perform upto the expectations.... we bundled out of the game way too early and in a not so elegant fashion...
while we huffed and puffed to victory in the first match.....we lost in the second one. the do or die match against australia saw us play like novices....the instinct...the urge to trash the opposition which was so much in evidence in the australians...was sadly missing in us...we had in fact some major edge against them...we had the advantage of playing in home ground....a billion people rooting for our victory....the australians were also under equal pressure to perform.....yet we bungled....we had a chance to challenge their might...and we lost it....like a silver lining we did see some brilliant performances from our men in blue...but that was not enough to smoke out the aussies...
no use pondering over spilled milk...with the country rooting " ho hah india" lets hope that this would waken up our men in blue to the ardous task they have to do if they want to lift the world cup this time....coz.....we have it in us to do it....else one would have no choice than to wonder
ho hah india???