City of Dreams....

That's what they call it. Mumbai, the city which makes the dreams of dreamers come true. The strong willed make fortunes and the weaker species is filtered out.

Yes, it is the fantasy come true, the sweetest dream fulfilled. I think i corrected a mistake i committed last year, to a large extent. I have learnt, though through experience, i wish some one had guided me, but now i know.
Never underestimate yourself
Identify your goals well in advance
And give it your best shot, the first time, every time.

I took CAT03, missed the IIMs by a whisker but didnt apply to other good schools which accepted cat scores. coz i never thot i cud have gotten that much so i didnt take the trouble of making enough good applications. And with that score i cud have easily gotten into one of the 'ivy league'. Anyway i took what i got and was pretty happy for the 1st 2 months. But slowly i realised the 'fire in the belly' and all things like that slowly dying down. And i think it was the strangles of an unstructured............i will stop here. I dont want to bad mouth anyplace. but it is only that i didnt fit into the scheme of things. I might have accepted whatever was happening. note; things were happening to me and i wasnt making them happen like i wud have liked them to.

And by the time i decided to give better b schools another shot, it was too late. NM was the only b school which figured in my wishlist whose form was still available, and i filled it. Took the exam without any preparation at all. didnt have much time to do that anyway with the semester exams at MIB hovering. But the exam went ok and i dont think i cud have done it better.

And when yours truly was shortlisted for the PI, a ray of hope, or watever.... and suddenly this chap became pious, faithful with ultimate religious fervor. Wat with daily prayers and all, even ma was surprised at wat was happenin

And then i was really hooked on to NM.
Things came to such a head, that one went to sleep in the night telling oneself that it was now 9 days to go, 9 days to go, 9 days to go for the final result and when one woke up the count had automatically come down and it said 8 days to go, 8 days to go 8 days to go.

Well then, as they say, faith has moved mountains. I am sure more than my work, it is luck and providence which has got me here. It took a couple of days to sink in.

I wondered how the reactions would be, family is happy alright. And the Real friends are happy too, the others......well it shows on the faces.

Any which way, i m eager to meet my fate now. To work with my destiny and make mine and my family's life a better one.
Thank u J, Dibbi, jinny, arch, for your support and your faith and belief in me and my abilities.

I hope u see me through the next couple of years too. I stil need ure wishes.



P.S.: geetu sorri for the delay, didnt have words till now.