home sweet home! back to earth's finest abode.....it's nearing the results. so what next?.. i feel that i shouldn't take any chances. A one and a half month's preparation would do well for a decent GATE score. someone asked me, why this 180 deg turn? the answer is to keep all options open. you never know what's in store for u. whether it is cat gate or whatever.
it was a bit difficult to start with - obviously- but it has started working and i can feel myself under a different threshold rather than what it used to be for a typical cat preparation.

I was checking out the cutoffs required for iim calls as calculated by various coaching centers.
The one given by TIME is 44 +/-1 fora single call. and 44 is where exactly my calculated score lies based on the key provided by them. But here comes another catch - the key given by ims is having a couple of questions with different answers..and my attempts are not spared.God! these speculations and discussions are killing me. But why should I worry about the stuff, coz i gave it the best shot i could ever deliver. now to wait with fingers crossed....

next week , after a long time i would be going home this week.

expecting the unexpected, the CAT philosophy..

True to the legacy of CAT, it threw up a couple of surprises. With practically no easytakes the exam proved to be a tough nut to crack. and to my horror and later to a few others too, the verbal section - the everyones's cup of tea - turned out be a real bloodshed with passsages about articles ranging from the mystical pablo derrida's deconstruction theory to a technically oriented game theory. Heard that the passage called edwardian summer is an editorial by Guardian editor Larry elliot...hats off to those who could make out the questions itself. A rough estimate of the paper's difficulty level can be estimated from the fact that almost none of the coaching centers could come with a complete answer key on the day of the exam although many of them had claimed to put them up on the website right after 3 hrs of the exam...quite strange that we are trying to crack a verbal section in 30min which the whole of the iim/xlri passouts running the premier coaching institutes couldn't do in even 12 hrs. still, since the stakes are high for CAT that doesnt deter anyone from trying a second shot next year..But i'm dead sure that if i end up not getting a call, then the next thing is to give the GATE ,the last in the stack.

Saw the much talked-about film anniyan today. I had read a couple of reviews about the movies some days back. Bare a few, almost all of them acclaimed vikram's performance that steals the show, and none of them had the scathing tone which was ubiquitous in their reviews about shankar'searlier venture 'boys'. Truely anniyan must be another feather in the crown for vikram. He continues to be a director's delight. A stunning performance as three different characters supported by whiz kid shankar's direction, the film is bound to draw a formidable audience among all classes.

The film is about ambi ramanujam (vikram), a middle class lawyer who lives in an utopian world, stricly law abiding in all its sense. He gets frustrated by the way the world around him behaves with him. In addition his childhood sweet heart nandini(sada) ditches him because of his seemingly hyperbolic ways of strictness. Out of these reasons he develops a Multiple personality disorder by which he changes into the vicious character anniyan, killing the antagonists of the society as per punishments given in the hell for sinners. A character called remo, a flamboyant model, comes to the scene. He is none other than ambi himself. As expected nandini falls for him. The rest of the film is about how ambi comes to know about his alter presonalities and ultimately winding up with a terrific climax scene. - i think thats an allround review without much spoilers.

plus points are obviously vikram's performance - the scenes where he switches between the characters are simply brilliant. Then comes the camerawork. Ravivarman's camera lavishes on the beautiful tulip gardens of amsterdam. Sabu Cyril's artwork is evidently superb especially that of the sets of thyagarajar music fest and that of the song "iyengare veetu..". Harris Jayaraj has , to an extend, filled the ar rahman vacuum in the shankar film. But he couldn't deliver a effective BGM for the movie.(compared with the one he did for kaakha kaakha).

Peter heyne's stunt sequences are breathtaking but at points they seem to be blowing out of proportion - man! people flying on a single blow is increasingly indigestible.
Flipsides - the concept of MPD has been already overused, first we had manichitrathazhu, then aptamitra and the latest with chandramukhi. One who is used to shankar's earlier movies can spot a familiar and repetitive anticorruption, antibureacracy thread that manifests itself in the form of punching dialogues which as intended by the director somehow strikes the emotional buttons of the people. But then for all its cliched nature it shows the society as it is without any pretense. That should be definitely appreciated.

At last the time has come to move out.....We left the college today morning at 6.00 am (28/04/03). Thus freezes those great moments, the 4 wonder years. Lets make it a point to remain in touch, forever.

I would love to remain there once more.....(oops! the good old tearjerkers)
In the first place it does seem awkward to think like that...coz someday i should face the real life..To carve out our own niche..

Thats it folks, all the best .....We shall meet again, to relive those great memories...

Its nearing..hope the change is smooth, anyway i have to face it......

Four years and still counting....its only two weeks to go.

Still dont know what it was all about...a breakthrough engineer or a four year farce..
Gone are those days, only thing that remains is the memories..