Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Hard time....

Damn, cannot believe that a 7-day holiday would end in a flash.....it's over!

Dad and Mom were here for a week, had no other option but to take leave. Initial plan was to study at least for 2 or 3 hours and complete some chapters in Math. Everything went down the drain as we suddenly decided on a short tour to a few places.

A sense of guilt has crept in, the much needed "flow" is lost, the energy levels are at a low ebb. When I sit in front of the study table and open the G-books, I feel every living cell in me protesting, revolting, cursing and wanting me to thwart those books and rest on the cozy bed which is surprisingly at a negligible distance from the study table.

With great difficulty, started working on Kaplan today. My views on Kaplan Verbal:- (CR is what I started off with........these views are for the CR part only)

1)The questions are unusually tough vis-a-vis the ones in OG(I once did around 10-15 questions from OG-10 and had 100% hit rate, a ratio which compares to 75% in Kaplan)

2)The "unusually tough" questions are not because of the nature of the argument/reasoning but because of the insanely crazy language that Kaplan uses to make the questions difficult to comprehend

3) The book is not "human" by any definition whatsoever. It is so damn bland. You must be equally cold/bland to stay with it. (Am comparing this with Princeton that I read sometime back - this book is so lively, full of life, so engrossing that you begin to love the big G)

OK, enough donning the "critic's role".

I will have to work and take the motivation levels up by a few notches. Need something to stir me up..........

Have drafted something, a blue print of sorts which, I think,would help take me through the next few months to follow:-)

Ciao

Unplugged

Friday, December 7, 2007

Quite busy........

It's been a long time since I wrote my first post. Needless to say,I have been very busy these days. The thought of blogging from my office has been doing rounds for quite sometime now. Have a relatively free hour now...so, thought I would update the blog.

So, here's what has been going around for the past 15 days...

6:00AM - Get up - Hit the gym
7:30AM - Come back have a shower
8:30AM - Have breakfast
9:00AM - Office
Work your ass off managing the customers till 7:00PM
7:00PM - Attend the French Class
9:30PM - Have dinner
10:00PM - Start studying......

Yes, the last activity says something about what I intend to do this year - MBA. Not that the other activities do not interest me, they are the things that I do for my survival and I have to.

Have started studying for the GMAT since last week and to say the least, this G-thing definitely requires DEDICATION & COMMITMENT to the fullest of one's ability.

I hope to keep this tempo up for 3months at least, to be in a respectable shape to score well.