3 Things I want to do if the world would end in 2012

Will the world end in 2012? Is the Mayan Calendar true? Is December 21st, 2012 the real dooms day?

The Mayan Calendar is creating quite a buzz about extinction of Human Race. I was wondering what would happen if this was true?

Then I asked to myself, What are the things I want to do if the world Dec 21st, 2012 is the Doomsday? I am not greedy person, I have just three wishes. Here goes the list…

Feature in the top 10 list of Serial Killers of all time:

The world is going to end anyway, so how about a fun ride, where I go kill people at will. No patterns, No sexual abuse but just murder people. The chances of getting caught by police within three years is less. I don’t intend to follow any patterns, so that makes things difficult for the cops. Even if get caught, it is just three years, after which everyone is going to die. So does it matter?

Feature in the top 10 Robberies of all time:

Just imagine how great it would feel to be in the foot of John Dillinger ( Remember the movie Public Enemies), to be famous but people don’t know you. I don’t know why, but I feel that fooling people gives oneself immense satisfaction and a sense of fulfillment. So this is number two. I want to be a great Bank Robber!!!

A vacation at the Bora Bora Island: A vacation at the Bora Bora Island, I feel this is the real heaven, not the one high in the sky, where you have to live with invisible people, isn’t that spooky!!! Bora Bora would be the ideal place to watch the world end. Also it would be the perfect hideout considering the fact that I would be the most wanted Criminal in the world.

But, I feel that is another one of those stupid conspiracies which remain true only on papers and I will have to try to live a sane life which is of course BORING!!!!

Few other similar conspiracies I remember are the Y2K (end of the world at the start of the millennium) and the Failure of the Large Hadron Collider experiment would suck the world!!!!

So what’s on your wish list?

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