Aaaahhhh...weekend!

Ahh…the contentment of a weekend well spent – weird, considering the fact that no doses of alcohol or pretty women were involved!

Saturday started off like any other working day…and screwed all major chalked out plans that I had made. After listening to continuous lectures from the Big Man on “giving it our best shot”, “stretching ourselves” and similar cliches (part of motivational gyan to get us to achieve Oct targets), was getting quite sick –would be much more simpler to say: “Fatass, if u don’t get there, we wil sack you” – cuts through the clutter, as they would say, instead of adding on grimy layers of inspiration which leave an insipid taste in your mind.

SHYLOCK @ WORK
So did “everything possible… and a lil bit more” and rocketed out for theatre practice…this thing is shaping out quite well – actually was a bit skeptical about how certain people would shape out – but junta have been pleasantly surprising me time and again-esp someone who I had pegged down as a total non-theatre guy -that guys totally cool- does stuff so naturally! As for me…er…uh huh…me is not getting under the skin of my characters – more in the “involved bystander” mode which means that I sometimes laugh out aloud/ smirk at the characters in the play forgetting am one of them. Control, mano – that’s what we need! Remember the Merchant! Remember the Jew! Remember pretty Portia who was the inspiration and the centre of the earth in 4th standard…lets get going!

Play Diro suggests adding some adding some sections about Sethuramiyer and Hotel Keralafornia…eeeeks was my 1st reaction; has been done toned to a dslightly more decent “weeeeellll”….me has my own doubts – Keralafornia sounded positively tacky…Sethuramiyer was just a wee mite better. Not that I mind poking at the sensitive Mallu pride or mind criticism from the grand-dadas, just that the rest of the gang don’t seem to be comfy as well…lets see – if it shapes up well, amen! But still, Hotel Keralafornia seems like stretching the skin of an already spread-out, stretched & dried-in-the-desert-sand chicken…Wow, whatta metaphor! Or is it a simile ;-) Monday morning does this to people.

SUNDAY & SOME SERIOUS GMAT PREP
Started off real bad…woke up at 8am, lazed around, had bread n eggs…then went to office for GMAT prep. Breezed through PS/ Geometry/ CR/AWA etc – did very well in Kap Verbal & PS as well…after lunch was trying to laze around but the revival of English theatre in Cochin was too momentous a duty ;-) to be ignored and therefore went for practice…Was cool – played a dead body for some time, some sumo wrestling and karate. Since entire gang wasn’t there, the thrills of competing against someone was missing but nevertheless interesting.

Went to church after prep and stared a lot at PYTs. After that spent some solid 3 hours on GMAT prep – quite happy with myself – am damn good on Verbal and even PS.

VERBAL

• No issues except careless mistakes.


• Since am good, tend to rush through and miss out on nuances that the GMAT usually plays around with.


• Have to slow down and discipline myself into double-checking.

QUANT

• PS seems cool…as of now – don’t know what surprises the OG holds yet.


• However DS in an entirely difft matter, though…Main takeouts are:

1. Mind locks up on DS number prop qns – still don’t have a method to logically process these problems.


2. Lingering/ unresolved questions of whether 0/1/2 are prime? Intgers? Etc


3. Confusion in basics: between factors & multiples/ finding LCM/ GCD.


4. Need to do a thorough revision of Geometry also.

AWA TEMPLATES

• Almost decided on AWA templates; now seems much more workable

SUMMARY

• Great start to establishing a weekend format.


• Weekday format leaves much to be desired


• Need to discipline myself in something as basic as waking up early (Feel so stupid writing this down)


• Need to use forums a lot more – HOW & WHEN is the million $ qn.

AMEN.