Ah…a weekend well spent…
- “Stealth” – Useless movie except for the graphics; they’d have you believe that flying a bllion dollar stealth fighter is more or less like playing a video game; last scene where the unmanned “wingman” plane sacrifices itself for its “pilot commander” is too good-straight rip-off from either a Hindi or a Telugu movie (not Tamil, my friends, not Tamil-us guys are class acts-esp. Rajnikath ;-)
- “Gajni”- A new Tamil movie – okie…Suryas good..Babe’s pretty…plot was neat…could have been a bit tight, music was nothing to talk about…sore point was this Nayantara female running around and trying to about look like a Med student…delusions of youth, what…anyway if I get 50 lakhs, I wouldn’t mind looking stupid too, I guess.
- Got drunk at the Taj with a coupla colleagues and tried unsuccessfully to gatecrash into Taandav-the only disc in town at 2am…watching a firang and an Indian make feeble multiple attempts at a fist fight (only to be dragged away again and again by all and sundry-after the 4th time it got boring) must have gotten into our collective alcohol tainted blood.
- Finished Jack Welch’s – Straight from the gut.. Amazing book…so much to learn and to assimilate into my way of working…trying, trying…
- Right now on “The Ground beneath her feet”…don’t know about the plot and progression etc as yet but this guy’s language is amazing.
GMAT prep – Bad deal at IMS
Went on Sunday for a free trial class to IMS where another CAT/ GMAT aspirant takes class for us. Mallu chap; poor guy’s very good at Math and quite sad at English…we all have our strengths, I guess. Apart from me two others,one with a “British” accent. God save the kuween. The other guy claimed to have come there to “sharpen his aging mind” (noble thought costing just Rs.8k)…just another liar embarrassed to admit he’s trying for GMAT at age 45, I guess.
Pretty sad classes – both the material and the tutors…convoluted questions with unclear and sometimes wrong answers…esp in sheer contrast to the well framed questions of Kap/OG, seemed pretty sad. If mathematically challenged me was THE star of the math class, well…you can imagine. English was full of sitters with the centre head giving us gyan. However if its one thing that’s not lacking, its enthu…unfortunately, for someone who was planning to join there for getting a system into place/ sharing practice approaches with other students-JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Will probably check out the mid-Nov batch and decide. However after this class, felt like a stud ;-)
Lone wolf at work after cooking pasta…
- Back at home, have worked out GMAT prep schedule and have pasted it on my wall. Along with some pictures of Tuck & LBS ;-)
- One last indulgence before prep – an hour spent in cooking absolutely amazing pasta + mushroom…had kept half of the portion in fridge…however lone wolf morphed into greedy pig half an hour later and finished it off. Khallas. It wasn’t me, just my alter pig-0 ;-)
- Finished basic math material of Kaplan and PR…tried some 20 odd problems in Kap and realized that my Achilles heels just remain what they were… perm/combos/ inequalities/ probability and advanced geometry (ok, ok,…its not so advanced)
- Planning to move onto the KAP regular math qns and then prepare on OG quant basics today.
So help me, God! Amen.
