Realization

From the day I had started to make ground work for MBA, I have been apprehensive about it. I had the usual doubts and hopes, just like any other ordinary Indian.

Firstly, I was not interested in CAT, for a simple reason, the competition. The competition is huge, I felt that people were more obsessed with CAT than the MBA, I did not want to be one among the thousands (Read as: I can’t put that much effort). With this, my hopes of getting an admit in India…. No, wait, there is ISB, but I need a score close to 700 or even greater to be considered eligible for applying. But, with that score I can even apply to Harvard!! (Read as: I won’t crack the 700+ barrier, so ISB is out of the radar). And finally,I decided that there are no schools in India that is privileged to take me in. Yeah, I have found my reason to travel abroad.

And thus, I started the long journey of realization, sometime back in the summer of 2008. I was very naive then, both about what I wanted from my career and why I wanted an MBA? But, nevertheless I continued my pursue my dreams, I bombed the first time at GMAT, Later, I found out that I had use shitty materials will be helpful only in reducing my score.So I planned to take up XAT simultaneously with GMAT. The XAT was not a huge hit, but still I managed to get admit in LIBA, thanks to my religion, which I don’t believe. My second attempt at GMAT failed. So I had to take a decision, I had to either tell to myself that is my capacity and go to LIBA or stay foolish and deny the LIBA call. I decided to stay foolish, took my 3rd attempt, got a satisfactory score in GMAT. I decided ‘this is it‘.

After four months, I had made no progress with my MBA application. I had to do something in life. It was a worrying sign. Then, one fine day, out of nowhere a meatball hit my head that was the moment I realized that I should make my fourth attempt!!!! at GMAT. Now, I started to get obsessed with GMAT, people told me that ”I have gone crazy”. But, when wasn’t I crazy? I succeeded this time around. I got a good score. I made few elementary mistakes, else would have been competitive for ISB I had thoughts about the fifth attempt, but for time being, I have shelved the plans and started searching for schools that are eligible to be privileged and honored at my arrival to their school. But, wasn’t I satisfied after my 3rd attempt too?

So what has the realization journey taught me in these one and a half years?

• ISB is not lucky enough to have me
• So is Harvard…
• And not to forget the IIMs, they are also unlucky

No Dream too big.No Distance too long.

“I’m sitting here in the boring room
It’s just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I’m wasting my time
I got nothing to do
I’m hanging around
……
But nothing ever happens and I wonder why

……“( Fools Garden – Lemon Tree)

I was dying of boredom until when my friend came out with a crazy plan. A Walk to the Beach 

Well, is it that crazy to walk to the beach? Not really!!! Unless the beach is 15 Km from your house and the city has already slept.

Map to show what is so crazy about my Walk to the beach

                                              

                                                  Chennai City Map 

It was a journey that started from one end of the city and ended at the other. I expected it to be a long, demanding and colorless a march.

 

As myself and Deepak and also John came out of my house I rushed backed to my room .I had left my mobile back there, Mobile Phone has been my latest crush.

And as soon as we started we had confusion over the route which we were to go. There were too many routes to decide on. Finally, we decided to take the shortest route to the seafront and started walking. Deepak and I were already hooked to our mobile phones. But since it was already late the replies started drying, so had to put the mobile back into my pocket. And when I looked at the time, only then I realized we had walked for an hour now and the distance we covered was just 2 odd KM. Second thoughts began to pop up. Time speeding like the Hare Distance slogging like the Tortoise .But we know who won the race 

We decided to accelerate our pace. To make things less boring John started narrating his college stories. This guy has studied in 4 colleges, discontinued from most. A dozen Schools. A brief introduction about his college life was all it took for us to cover 3Km.Totally, we had now covered 5 Km, so we decided to do our first pit stop at a small Petty Shop and we started again .

 

But again hunger was slowed our pace. Johns college incidents were exciting  enough to cover  another 2Km in no  time .Now having covered half the distance we decided to stop for dinner at hotel near my college, I recommended the place as which was our favorite hangout during my college days.

 

And we started again, as we walked amidst the traffic bypassing the signals. We were filled with joy that had no bounds. The silly reason, At least for once we weren’t caught up in traffic. John wasn’t finished yet. His life has been a non-stop roller coaster ride.

 

I have been talking about John all the while that I forgot to tell about Deepak. He is one of the funniest persons I had ever met, etc. I have loads to tell about him which I will do later. His role in this blog. Well, He is the one who gave the idea and of course kept us entertained us with his humor.

People in general walk for two reasons
1. A leisure Activity
 2 .Mode of transport

I don’t fit in either of these. I was thinking why was I walking? Who knew? I was walking for the sake of walking.

 

At last we reached Gemini Flyover, the hottest spot in Chennai for traffic. It was some 10 Km from my house.<br>

When I looked back at the distance I had traveled .I couldn’t believe that   I had traveled so far. It brought within me a sense of gratification.  But, I had a long distance ahead so turned back and started walking. We had reached the last stretch of road that will take us to the beach. It was a quite a long road. It was so near yet so far. We kept walking on and on for more than 30 minutes .At last we could smell salty air. We could see the horizon where the ocean and the sky met. It was a great feeling to the see the beach at last after 3 painstaking hours of walking.

 

I had started walking with no motive but when I reached the beach I had within me a sense of achievement. I felt that if we wanted do something; we can do it no matter what. It was the moment I realized

No Dream Too Big .No Distance Too Long

                                                            

One Liner

A one-lienr is a jkoe that tkaes to its haert the pricniple that brevity is the suol of wit. A one-lienr, in the strcitest sesne, is a jkoe that is delievred in a signle line.It provoeks laugther or deep thougths!!

I hvae been addcited to one liner for a lnog tmie .It is the best form of adidng hmuor. So I thoguht I will put up smoe of the bset from my collcetion to add life to this bolg.   

                                    Bad spellers of the world, untie! 

And here are some of the best ….. 

  Do I have amnesia? I’ve forgotten.

There are 10 kinds of people; those who understand the binary calculus and those who don’t.

Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.

The important things are always simple.

The simple things are always hard

Why can’t women put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? 

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Procrastinate Later.

!klat kcab ruoy dna uoy nmaD

I can resist everything except temptation.

I can’t promise that I’ll try. But I’ll try to try

Just remember.. if the world didn’t suck, we’d fall off.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Love is a war easy to start hard to stop impossible to forget

I’ve discovered that I often visit the state of confusion, and I know my way around pretty well.

But ocifer, I swear to drunk I’m not god!

Who said “nothing is impossible!!!”……I did nothing in my life!!!!! 

Defeat defeat before defeat defeats you!!

Fiction is our own reality.

There are 400 hundred words in the dictionary that begin with “self” and only 8 that begin with “fellow”.

People laugh because I’m different, I laugh because they’re all the same.

Sometimes I wish life had subtitles!

A bus station is where a bus stops.

A train station is where a train stops.

On my desk, I have a work station..

The trouble with life is there’s no background music.

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. 

Good morning is an oxymoron.

And some more funny definitions… 

Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie.

Advice: what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn’t.

Computers: working daily to make the human brain obsolete.

Oxymoron: Microsoft Works.A metaphor is like a simile.

Life: Sexually transmitted disease, 100% fatal.

To be continued…..   

Default Blog

Hooray!!! At last I got my own blog. By the way, Is it that tough to get one? Not at all. But, It gives within me a sense of fulfillment.
This being my first blog answers all those usual questions, why, what etc

“Rusting to Dust-Emerging from Ruins”

 This is what life is all about and that is what i am going to write about. I have been thinking of starting a blog for the past 6 months .It remained as dream till this day. I know it hardly takes a minute to create a blog but still it took me 6 months to find this one precious minute. And the reason..

When I had loads of time, I had nothing to write
When I had Loads to write ,I found no Time
Now that I have started working ,I have both.

And finally about me, another one of those Tom, Dick and Harry who finds lots of free time in his workplace to blog.