Major Upset

Today was a major upset for me, with a month of hard work and some decent preparation , I gave a mock GMAT with a confidence of decent score in previous Kaplan GMAT which were 660 and 680 , my score dipped to 540 in the mock I gave today. 41 in Quant and mere 21 in English.

It’s like now or never for me and the current score is making me go into abyss of failures. A dream which is a long awaited for me seems to be turning into a catastrophe amalgamated with a night mare of 540.

With more than 50 days left for my GMAT, it seems that time has come to revamp and re-design my strategies. An exam more this weekend when am at home would help me decide what I need to redesign. Maybe a bit of excitement and agony , marked as the spoilers in today’s exam.

Coming to the preparation side, have to concentrate more on co-ordinate, permutation and combination and probability part. The statistics part still remains untouched and need to practice a lot on the same. Plan to finish of with OG soon and take up Manhattan guide.

Esnips a wonderful place, a heaven that has help me download some unavailable material. Wren and Martin needs to be concentrated upon more, and the pages starting from the mid 200 where in, correct usage of prepositions etc are given has to be reached before mid April and has to finished off within next 5 days. Maybe writing more blogs and thanks to the Microsoft editor and also Pagalguy threads, my English may come to the original picture , which obviously has been ripped apart into pieces after certain changes have been taken up by me, and a major one of them is the 'Slang Dude English. Still cannot believe how could a boy like me could come to this.

Previous PowerPrep practice sessions made me a bit over confident, with critical reasoning involving 3 mistakes out of 15 and sentence correction involving only a single mistake.This made me refrain from further practices.However now , in addition to Wren and Martin , have taken up Oxford Dictionary, and am trying to mug some important words up and also get to understand and know the meaning of few words, which though English look and sound to me as Latin in the latest taken up novel by me, which is the Snow Country.

Well from today a post daily starts with what are the updates on the GMAT front.

World Cup 2007 'Fiasco

Monday March 5

This day the first match though a warm up match was played in the tournament. A major upset was averted by South Africa when they were bowled out for a mere 192 by the Irish team.

Tuesday March 6

A major upset though went unnoticed, which caused one of the major upset of the World Cup occurred, where in Bangladesh defeated New Zealand in a warm up match.

March 11, the world cup 2007 begins with a bang, with more than billions of hope sticking around for their individual country, a total of 16 teams compete with each other, to be more ellaborate,4 groups with 4 countries in it , out of which the top 2 qualifies for the so called super 8. World top 8 includes acc to various statistics:

Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies.

So these were supposed to qualify and the cup was supposed to be a tough one.

Coming to this point, let us peek into future, a date which was the major attraction since the schedule of the word cup was made, “April 15 2007”. A major match was to be played between India and Pakistan.

A match was to be played by those two countries, which have a good history of the so called understanding between them. An understanding, in terms of rivalry, rivalry, in every single sphere of activities, whether Sports or Politics. Well this is future and what lays ahead no one knows, so let us get into what we know.

Two countries set to compete against each other on 15th April, 29 days remaining.17th March, two countries play those two countries which are sure to loose. Pakistan plays Ireland and India plays Bangladesh. After loosing the first match, this match is crucial for Pakistan to stay in the tournament or India, this match is the test of Team India and the justification of the controversial coach Greg Chappell lame excuses of the previous defeats of India. Coming to excuses, there were occasions, wherein, previous defeats of India were justified as a revamp or an experiment for the coming World Cup.

End of the day, the results are head spinning, India and Pakistan loose their respective match, and Pakistan is out of the tournament.

Now India, with a simple win against Sri Lanka could help them also seal a berth in Semifinals as they would have to play the Irish team in super eight.

A Billion prayers on March 23rd could not save India and India in their worst performances ever in the World Cup faced an Exit. An exit; which marked the end of an Era. An Era of Tendulkar, Ganguly Dravid and Kumble.

As if this was not sufficient; another fiasco, in the world cup took an ugly turn, which even raised questions of the world cup being continued and that was the death (murder or suicide or natural or accidental) of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer.

Anyways or whatever, coming to the so called Team India, what went wrong and what were the losses incurred?

As reported by a leading newspaper, and further reports, a 10 second slot which was sold between 2.5 to 3.5 lakh involving India, would come down to 1 Lakh. This marked a huge loss for the broad caster. This makes up a lot of money which is sufficient to have a decent stretch of road, in the so called some bumpy areas of Mumbai, where millions commute using the road transport due to non availability of trains during rainy seasons, which statistically and strategically speaking is few months away. Well coming to the defeat of team India and who are to be blamed? nobody can be or should be blamed as a person himself; it was what is known as a system failure, in which the Operating System itself had a bug, which caused a total System Shut Down. A team which was so well knit and considered to be the major contender for the world cup 2007 was seen to be shattered by row of controversies and politics. A combined team effort though not enough to secure them a birth in Final would have definitely helped them reach the semifinals at least. With a huge arsenal of runs, about 75K runs, the team was not able to explode in front of the major guns causing a complete catastrophe and a system failure. This early exit of India and Pakistan has marked a new beginning in the Cricket era, and also brought the tyrannosaurus of the match fixing back. The so called gentleman’s game has once again shown the ugly face of the Satan. The Satan, which has set in again here to be a real trouble maker. God Help Us!!!

Amazing GMATWoah

Took out Longman English Grammar, 300 odd pages. Target Next Week.

Caffeine

Hmm Long time, this substance has sustained me and help me reach where I am today, and would help me further to gain some things in my life which are still unexplored though seen in those dreams of mine where in I have really dared to go places, and someone has made me realize that I am the bestest of the best and those dreams are real and can be achieved. I know with coffee around me this is not only reachable but can be attained in a bonus manner. Well lets come to caffeine , you must be thinking that the owner of this blog is insane , well I am , and many people feel the same , even those two eyes feel the same, that is why I am always muttering sorry around to her. How can someone write about caffeine, is this something ubiquitous ,well ubiquitous ,made me think , just yesterday I had an argument as to how do we pronounce this word, well I know that someone would definitely be the first one to read my blog as it has been done in the last few days , and sorry to interrupt other people, well just said sorry am too egoistic to apologize, well I am sorry to that person here how it is pronounced as""""""The first "u" is pronounced like the word "you", while the "i'' in the second syllable is like the "i'' in "bit'', "pit'' and "hit''. The following "q..u..i..t" sounds like the word "quit'', and the final "ous'' is pronounced like the "ous'' in "famous'', "dangerous'', and "courageous''. The main stress is on the second syllable. When you say that something is "ubiquitous'' what you are implying is that it is present everywhere. """"""""
That’s better now , lets come back to caffeine, well I am not addicted to smoke, drink drugs , have never doped, but taken coffee in all the wrong ways, have had it since a child, well this is how it began , when I was maybe 5-6 years old , I could not have milk and as my mother was a dietician , milk was compulsory to us, it was like "HAVE YOUR GLASS OF MILK YOU IDIOT"... and this so happened, that my rickshaw man,( in India we have those manual rickshaw pullers for taking toddlers to school ) was waiting for me out side, and i just couldn’t gulp in and here came my dad, mind you he is the best dad you can ever have, he got so pissed off with me , he took the glass , and said if not his stomach let it be his head, and poured the whole glass on my head. Now that’s again not ubiquitous, well this is how it all began, my mom, put a 'lil coffee in my milk and guess what I loved, it and am still loving it, loving it in every sense, with water, with milk, with cold drinks (I have tried coffee with Coke and Thums Up), and above all Raw, to chew it and enjoy the bitterness of every granule. Chew I can only chew Nescafe, Bru Sucks big sense, you can like bru with Milk not raw. Nescafe anytime is 100% granules of coffee, bru contains chicory. Ok what’s caffeine then , why am I just blabbering about coffee, why not tea?A little bit of technical specification , from wiki"Caffeine is a xanthine alkaloid compound,C8H10N4O2, the systematic name 1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6(3H,7H)-dione, acts as a stimulant in humans. The word comes from the Italian term for coffee, café.The world's primary source of caffeine is the coffee bean (the seed of the coffee plant), from which coffee is brewed. Caffeine content in coffee varies widely depending on the type of coffee bean and the method of preparation used;[9] even beans within a given bush can show variations in concentration. In general, one serving of coffee ranges from 40 milligrams, for a single shot (30 milliliters) of arabica-variety espresso, to about 100 milligrams for a cup(120 milliliters) of drip coffee. Generally, dark-roast coffee has less caffeine than lighter roasts because the roasting process reduces the bean's caffeine content.[10][11] Arabica coffee normally contains less caffeine than the robusta variety. Coffee also contains trace amounts of theophylline, but no theobromine.Tea is another common source of caffeine. Tea usually contains about half as much caffeine per serving as coffee, depending on the strength of the brew.” So coffee is the best thing to have after tea, this small explanation would have been sufficient, that is the why coffee is better than tea. I have never tasted pure caffeine but then my intake of caffeine through coffee amounts to a little more than 10 sachets of Nescafe daily, not much huh!! Well that’s the addiction. People say it prevents sleep but then studies show that ultimately your body gets used to it and thus the so called caffeine induced sleep order doesn’t exist, but then this is the first time when I am facing something from coffee which I observed after my gym after a week "Although you may think you're getting plenty of liquids when you drink caffeinated beverages, caffeine works against the body in two ways: It has a mild dehydrating effect because it increases the need to urinate. And large amounts of caffeine may cause the body to lose calcium and potassium, causing sore muscles and delayed recovery times after exercise. “Well that’s all about coffee and my addiction towards it, however a word of caution though for the people out there, I have tried leaving it 100 of times but still couldn’t, and am writing this blog after drinking 4 sachets of coffee. Would like to tell you, if you are trying to leave it, don’t let it go in one shot, give it time and you would come out of it!!
BUT THEN IF YOU ARE LEAVING COFFEE, IT’S A WASTE!!!

-Amen