Pretentious Friday..

As it sets pace for the next 2 days to follow, I like a million other people pronounce Friday to be the godfather of all the days ! I just love waking up on a Friday knowing as the day progresses into evening, the usual makes way for life. People just tend to rush things at work so as to keep working from on the weekend or better still, don't work at all. Some others like me just pretend to be working. So imagine how difficult it is to do that when the boss is on leave :) I ain't complaining though. Who will, given the circumstances? A boss's unplanned absence from office is like all the goodness in the world suddenly converging into your cubicle :D. So while I while away time writing this utterly rubbish post, cheers to all the bosses who take leaves on a Friday !!!

Project 1 begins

Without further ado, I have kick started "project 1". I began reading 'The rise and fall of the third Reich" yesterday only to realize that it might need more insight into German history (before 1933) than what I currently possess. I need to put in substantial amount of effort into the history of the first and second reich to do full justice to this book. So after some initial wikipedia browsing on the matter, I plan to begin today. I give myself 3-4 months to finish it. Let's see how that goes. Any pointers anyone?

Happy new year ~!

As I moved from the last year to this one, I realized not much has changed. I am still making a list of the same resolutions I made last time, still mulling over how to achieve them, still planning vacations I wanted to make last year, still writing first posts on my blogs - to sum it up - still being the lazy me.
Something interesting happened in the last phase of the last year though. I DID scrape through GMAT and I did score well. Although, after the debacle of that interview (of the only school I applied to) and mulling over my disastrous answers over a 1000 times in my head, I seem to have made peace with it. As I sat reading an article about how we humans can never be happy unless we start accepting things at face value I realized I need to stop doing it. So what? It's just one school. And it's not the only chance.
The good thing about the whole experience although was the insight it gave me into my own self. It was like someone forcing me to look for more in the mirror. I seem to be more focused now. I still don't understand why or how a terrible interview experience can do that to me. But I ain't complaining :)
So this time I have a more achievable list of resolutions - both personal and professional. I have finally decided what 'projects' I need to work on in 2012 and get going with them. I really want to make things work this time around so I don't find myself blogging the same stuff in the Jan of 2013. Talk about vicious circles !

War

I have declared war. Finally. After months of procrastinating the preparations and days of dawdling the booking of the date for my GMAT appointment, I have finally taken the first (maybe the second step as well). So 18th Nov it is. To make it or break it. I am not feeling exactly very confident with a month to go, but I think i can work on that. With the kind of expectations people have set on me though, I can't afford to screw up :|
I'll have a lot of posts following this one about my preps, my thoughts, ideas, rants etc (all GMAT related). So hang in there..