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CAT 2008 Special – 3

On the day before CAT Aditya Meshram told me that Sidscope and I were going to the home ground while others were playing away matches. What he meant was both of us were going to give CAT at the all too familiar place – King George School. I have given so many exams at that place, right from Agrawals to IMS SimCATs… that it kind of feels, he was right. So when I reached the school, it felt like home coming. Actually, I had not come to the place since I gave my SimCAT last year. Sidscope came after me and we met the ground. Next stop was the classroom. I was sitting on the second bench, first row. I got the answer paper first. 15 Minutes to go for CAT and we were given the sealed question paper. When I took the paper in my hand, I told myself – whatever happens, don’t panic. I read the instructions. My initial plan was going to be 30-30-30-20-20-20. But then, it turned out to be 25-25-40 paper. I thought that it must be VA with 40 question. Instead of thinking about it as being a disad

India vs England 4th ODI

So India won the 4th ODI and along with it the series. Congrats guys!!! After the match was reduced to just 22 overs per team, it was going to be display of power hiting along with an array of variations from bowlers. And it happened like that only. What hurt me though was the Man of Match award. The game was so much Batsman driven that it was almost impossible to produce an economical spell. In such adverse conditions Zaheer produce an awesome bowling performance. He gave away just 20 runs in his 5 overs, in a match where the runs were scored for more than 8 runs per over. And that’s not it. He also took 2 wickets and a catch. But the Man of the Match award went Viru. Just shows how much the game has turned into batsmen’s game!!! P. S.: Did you notice how Oasis Shah intimidates Indians while he is batting- running for a double even when the ball is going straight to fielder, making funny noises while running between the wicket!!!

CAT 2008 Special - 2

The CHANGE had begun. Nope, I am not saying there was some revolution or something. I guess I already new those tricks which I learnt, but seemed to have forgotten them completely.  It happened like this- I was called for special TIME counseling session along with Sidscope. We were in separate sessions in batches of 4. The TIME guy, Satya, told us to show our TIME Mock CAT scores till that week. As I told you, my performance was inconsistency personified and Satya asked me the reason for it. I simply didn’t know it. So we went ahead with the session. Most of the points he told us were a repetition of in my IMS sessions last year, till he really get into the grooves. He asked each of us for the paper we read. 2 were TOI reader, 1 ET and myself HT. Satya told us that TOI is one of THE ….. worst news papers in Mumbai. So what’s new? Well, he added that even HT and DNA are not worth it. He advised us to read The Hindu or Indian Express. Today, I agree that HT certainly doesn't have the

Orkut Testimonials

Last Sunday after the CAT, it was time to meet my old school buddies once again. Many of us gathered at Aditya’s home, what we might call our second home considering the amount of time we have spent at his home. If I am not wrong, I met Sunil first time after our school days. That reminded me that he was the first person to write a testimonial for me. So today when I logged on to Orkut, I went to my profile page to read my testimonials. When I last visited it, there were 6 testimonials. Now, there are 4. Two missing are from Sunil himself and other one from Piu. It seems both have deleted their profiles from Orkut. The 4 which exist are from my best buddies, 2 from school and 2 from college. As I remember it was Sankalp who followed Sunil, then Piu, Divin, Jeetu and finally Nik. I feels really great to read what people think about you, what they expect from you and how you can improve. I know Jeetu must be thinking about the pending testimonial which I am supposed to write for him.

One of My Favourite Songs

Mera Dil Bhii Kitanaa Paagal Hai, Ye Pyaar Jo Tum Se Karataa Hai Par Saamane Jab Tum Aate Ho, Kuchh Bhii Kahane Se Darataa Hai O Mere Saajan, O Mere Saajan, Saajan Saajan, Mere Saajan... Kitanaa Isako Samajhaataa Hoon, Kitanaa Isako Bahalaataa Hoon Naadaan Hai Kuchh Na Samajhataa Hai, Din Raat Ye Aahen Bharataa Hai ... Meraa Dil Bhii Kitanaa Paagal Hai ... Har Pal Mujhako Tadapaataa Hai, Mujhe Saarii Raat Jagaataa Hai Is Baat Ki Tumako Khabar Nahiin, Ye Sirf Tumhii Pe Marataa Hai Meraa Dil Bhii Kitanaa Paagal Hai ...

CAT 2008 Special - 1

Well, its finally over. Result will be declared in Jan’ 09 and I will be eagerly waiting for it. I honestly didn’t use any of the “score calculators” which create so much confusion and chaos in people’s mind. I prefer to keep the “good” feeling till the actual results are declared. As you might have guessed from the “good feeling”, that I had nice CAT this year. It was nice because I felt like reaching to the next level which I always wanted to reach during this year. I am not saying I have cracked the CAT. No. I had a few tricky moments during the test, but what makes me happy about my performance is that I felt satisfied. After a many ups and downs during my AIMCATs in TIME, I came through with a decent performance in each section. It was really amazing how this CAT preparation shaped up. I started the studies in July end though I joined the TIME test series earlier. I had joined IMS test series for past 2 years but didn't see any real results in the final CAT. In fact, I had

Picnic 2 Collage

I was trying out Picasa 3 beta. This is what I created after using it for a while :)

Quote of the Day

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.                                                                 - F. S. Fitzgerald

“Prank”ed

Well, I can’t believe it. I really can’t. I never thought that I could fall for it. Damn. It happened yesterday after lunch. I was working in the office as usual when Deepali told me on IM that someone had called me, but since my office phone is not working properly, it was transferred to her. She said that the person had left her phone number: 09371272497. I was surprised. I haven’t given my office number to anyone. Then how come someone called me in my office? Keeping my suspicions to myself, I went to Deepali’s desk and confirmed whether it was indeed “Siddhesh” whom the person was asking for.  After she confirmed, I thought its better to give a call so I picked the phone and called on the above number. There was one women at the other end. Since I couldn’t recognize the voice, I didn't say anything initially. But that women suddenly started accusing me that I sent her some “lewd” SMSes and if her brother comes to know about it, then I am a “gonner”. I told her that there seem

Disappointing "Times"

Yesterday, as usual I fetched the two newspapers left at our doorstep. I opened "Sakal", the marathi daily which we generally read. It carried a story of "Bharat Ratna" as its main headline. In fact, it filled its upper half of front page. Congrats to one of India's greatest singers ever, Bhimsen Joshi for getting this honour. On that happy note, I shifted my attention to Hindustan Times. And well what do I find? Obama and Mc'Cain had taken over their headlines. Ok, some of you might say, "HT" is an english daily, so it has the so called "global" reach. Well.. Fair enough..Can you explain why there was just 2-3 lines of mention of Bhrat Ratna, that too in the corner. Even today they have not rolled out any details about Joshi's music career. And you know what, they even had a story about Gambhir's request to stall his 1 match suspesion being denied. Was this story more important than Bharat Ratna? In fact, did this story actually

Don’t “Prepone”

It’s amazing how languages develop. Look at english. Even if it is originated in England, it now has spread all across the globe and has undergone multitudes of changes. In fact, every region which speaks English has its own specialties, its own words, its own phrases. To explain you this I will give two examples, both told to me by Sidscope, occured in Lehman Brothers. The first one is related to a phrase or rather “greeting”. Many people have a habit of saying,“What is your good name?” Sidscope’s colleague was chatting with his Japanese counter part and he started of by saying the same thing, “What is your good name, Sir?”. Well, the Japanese got angry and replied, “Do you think all Japanese names are bad?” His colleague had tough time explaining the Japanese guy that it was normal in India to ask this question as a symbol that the other person name, whatever it may be, is good. Second example was kind of shocker to me. It was about a word which I have used so many times in my li