Diet

Below post was typed on Nov 21st.. posting it today :)
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Today i met one of my friends after around 6 months...
Actually he met me at my work place and we started walking out to find a joint where we can sit and talk.

Near my office, there isn't many joints... there is an icecream parlour nearby and if we walk down further, there is a juice shop.

As we were walking, we came across the icecream shop first and then i said,"oh..we can't go there. icecreams are not good for me". He replied,"what, you are on diet again?".
I smiled and said,"Yes. i have lost couple of kgs." and then added,"i know there is a huge scope...but this is a small step".

He smiled and said,"I am really amazed at the perseverance with which you keep on trying. Maybe a day will come when you will realize that it's not a big deal to be a bit fat".

I didn't reply anything.

But his point really made me thinking. I couldn't understand one thing though...
When i realize that it's not a big deal to be a bit fat, is it a failure that a person can never become slim and hence accepted defeat or is it a success that a person has overcome one obsession?

Those stupid ads

Recently i felt 2 particular television ads to be really annoying in their own ways.

1. It's the ad for diamonds. Marriage between 2 individuals is happening amidst 6-7 people. Bride is wearing diamond jewellery. As a final act of marriage,the Groom applies tilak on Bride's forehead and Bride tells the Groom," You may now kiss the Bride". Groom looks at the Bride with such a pathetic look.

Is the Groom puzzled as why the Bride replied like that or is he giving a teasing look to the Bride? Answer is Neither... it's one of the pathetic looks as a response.

I really fail to understand the intention behind this ad. There is no logical relevance between Diamonds and the Bride's reply.

2. Next is the Raymonds ad. Wife/ Lover has left a new Raymond suit to her husband/ lover with a note that she will be working late. Husband/ lover wears the Raymond suit and meets her with a red rose at her work place. Then the ad goes on saying that it feels like heaven and so on...

Problem with this ad is, the whole situation is a complete copy from the movie "Shall we Dance?" Infact this is one of the most romantic scenes in that movie. Seeing the same in this ad, that too in such an irrelevant context is highly annoying.

One down in the list!

Nowadays I seem to think about writing a post only when i am upset or irritated.

But i am not going to write about that scenario :)

I gave CAT in November 2004 and failed marginally by not getting any IIM Calls. I scored 98.28 percentile. But didn't get any IIM Calls as my English score was around 89%

I think i have written a few posts regarding this in this blog way down in 2004 posts.

Then i never tried CAT again. One of my friend asked me to write GMAT at that time itself. But i was really not confident enough to write it.

After 3 years, i gave GMAT last week... ofcourse after preparing for around 2-3 months...
i got a score of 700 with Quant score of 50 and Verbal score of 35.

This hasn't changed anything drastically in my life. But atleast one of the TODO activities is down in my list and i have regained a bit of confidence that i am not all that pathetic in scoring :)

Do i feel happy?
I am not sure.

Do i feel satisfied?
Yes. a lot.