Emm Bee Aay.

This post would have been titled “That This That Was Left Out Those Two Times” but then Vasudha Pande pwned me so I had to think up something new. You made a lazy guy think up new titles, V, God will not forgive you for that.

Anyway, the exams have finally, finally ended and I have about a month and half of summer vacations now. You would expect I’d enjoy, watch movies, hang out with friends or at least laze around if nothing else. But it doesn’t work like that. There’s a new chapter in the life and times of ME. Notice the pompous beginning? I’ve always wished that my life be so exciting that someday somebody writes a book on it. Right now that book would have about 3 pages – The title, the contents and Chapter 1 which still needs to be written. So, anyway, the new thing in life is that I’ve joined MBA coaching classes. Why I’m doing an MBA is a long story so we’ll chuck that. I really don’t know what this chapter would turn out to become. It could be life altering or it could be like re-reading of the previous chapter where I joined Engineering coaching and didn’t end up becoming one. Right now I’m not thinking about the end. Some of you would tell me that it’s stupid to do something without thinking about what happens at the end of it but I really don’t care. I’ve realized that I’m not somebody who gets motivated by aims and targets. If I am to get somewhere, I’ll get there and if I’m not, then setting my eyes on IIM-A, visiting the campus and setting my Facebook status as “Going to IIM-A” won’t help. That’s just not how I function. Besides, I know it’s not my aim. It’s just one of those things that you need to do in order to facilitate the achievement of the aim, or basically just to shut everybody up and to make them let you be on your own. I know I shouldn’t be affected by what people say but that’s just how I am. And it’s not like I haven’t tried changing it. It never worked.

Anyway, the coaching involves 2 hour long classes of Math, Logic and English. I think English is fairly fine, Logic is interesting and Math, well, it’s not that bad after all. I’ve attended about 8 classes and 1 group discussion and they’ve been do-able. But this is just the beginning so you never know what happens as the complexity and stuff increases. Logic is interesting because it makes you work. It’s surprising how you tend to not be able to solve things which have such simple logics behind them and yet you can solve the biggest math question that there is. I’d been thinking, thinking and thinking over the following question for over 2 days and yet I couldn’t come up with an answer:-

A: If I say 6, you say 3. If I say 12, you say 6. If I say 10, what do you say?

B: So simple! It’s 5!

A: Haha, no! It’s 3!

B: Uh oh?!

And you had to tell how 10 became 3. So I kept banging my head, I tried all the Math I know, I tried the number line, I tried almost every confusing technique in the book. And then I decided to put the question on Facebook and it took Dabido an entire 2 seconds to come up with an answer after I told him it’s a logic question.  Goes like this:-

6 = SIX = Three letters.

12 = TWELVE = Six letters.

And

10 = TEN = Three letters.

And that is why when I say 10, you say 3 and not 5. Just how simple was that? And yet I never thought about that. I think it’s about observation and IQ. Dabs took 2 IQ tests which told him he’s among the top 1% people in the world. So technically he’s a genius. But that doesn’t make me feel any better about myself! 2 days and I hadn’t even started thinking along those lines!

And then there’s the English which I tend to take too seriously for some reason I’ve been trying to find out for a while. There was another Flaw Detection question in which we were given a paragraph in which we had to find errors. One of the lines in the paragraph went:-

Harry Potter, the hero and Vandermot, the villain of the famous Harry Potter series were seen having tea together.

I read that line and up went my hand in the air. I had found the flaw! Here’s what happened:-

Me *raising hand*: Sir! Sir!

Sir: Yes?

Me: Sir! I found the flaw!

Sir: You did? What is the flaw?

Me: Sir, the villain in the Harry Potter series is called Voldemort, not Vandermot! Hee!

Sir: Oh come on.

Me: Yes sir! I know! How could they have been so silly?

Sir: Sir, we’re finding grammatical errors here. Not factual errors.

Me: Uh, but. But. Uh, alright.

But how can anybody just call Voldemort Vandermot? It’s almost a crime! It’s bigger than any grammatical error that there is! Not in the CAT though.  After those rather inspiring incidents, I don’t know where this is gonna go. But it is kind of scary.

Have you noticed how June has so many birthdays? Nidhi had her birthday a few days back. Kriti had hers on Sunday. Reema had hers yesterday and its Ashish’s birthday today. Some month, eh?

The power situation out here is rather erratic. I think I’ll have to go back to spending my days like I did during one of those bad summers during the engineering coaching days. We knew the power cut timings so we’d go and park our asses at McDonalds or KFC for hours every day because they had their AC’s running. 30 bucks for 2 hours in the AC is a fair enough deal, I think. Agreed the coffee sucked but still, it was better than sitting at home doing nothing and getting fried in the heat. The only problem now is that I don’t have a friend to take along with me to KFC or McDonalds. I think I’ma have to make some new friends at the coaching place. Talking about McDonalds, their Chicken McNuggets are the end of the world. And the Barbecue Sauce that they provide with them is something beyond the end of the world. Talking about the end of the world, I saw Angels and Demons. I can’t decide if it was good as bad. If you compare it with the book, it was sad. Stand alone it was just about okay. If they’d taken Megan Fox for Vittoria Vetra, I would’ve said it’s good. That said, Megan Fox isn’t looking too hawt in the new Transformers promo. Transformers reminds me of Shia LaBeouf. He reminds me of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (which is awesome, btw) and Conan’s show reminds me of Green Day. You totally have to watch the new 21 Guns video. Like NAO! And it’s right there on the Green Day link so you don’t even have to click anything extra. Do it, I tell you. PS – It’s high definition and so it might hurt certain dial-up and limited broadband connections. Don’t blame me if you overshoot your bandwidth!

Wimbledon is on. Nadal isn’t playing. Federer won his first match. But India is too busy cheering Sania Mirza on who’s managed to reach the second round. It’s like she’s won the title or something. But going by her current form, it is kind of big deal-ish. The grass at Wimbledon seems to be very slippery this year. I saw quite a few people falling around yesterday. Djokovic’s opponent – Julien Benneteau (Player Profile. He resembles Chris Martin a little.) had a rather bad day at the office but played well. He was running to play this lob shot and banged his knee into one of the walls (See here). Ouch, that must’ve hurt. Everything said, I hope Federer wins. And if Maria Sharapova can somehow end up winning too, then nothing like it.