Bol Bachan Losers Team! - 07

[IAYF]

Originally Posted by vineet.nitd

The team has got nothing to lose and only to gain.The belief to capitalize fully
on our potential is what drives us towards the DDay as the team BBLT.

The team of Losers.....the ones who have got nothing to lose ..but loads of support
and brother-hood to cheer themselves successfully towards the dreams of their lives...


Three Cheers 4 BBLT

If this is what this team is meant for...count me in...three cheers to brotherhood...just chkd the first post n man, only two vacancies...so i better put forward some sound reasons to take me...

well, here's what i think--

1. i don't think putting in hours n hours of prep gets u any better results...it's the smart work that matters...the amount of concentrated effort that u put in...there are people galore who've proved me wrong but, i'll stick to what i believe...so far i've been the 'loser' but...

2. missed XL quant cut-off by a whisker, nd screwed VA in CAT season'06...they said you should have been there, they said you deserve it--I said, take it easy man...they tested me, n i screwed...that's all...missing out on some numbers doesn't mean i don't have it in me...nd i moved on...

3. brotherhood...since joining PG (june'07) i knw why i want to be in a top b-skool...'07 has been awesome for me with all kind of nerdy things that i did and getting here on PG is on the top of that list...just sharing this platform with some of the best minds has got me into the groove...nd truly, this brotherhood has given me amazing belief n confidence that i feel each day in me...
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and as Martin Luther King, Jr. put it:
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."
so let's carry on the bhaigiri nd hit the floor!

BBLT, here i come...

[vineet.nitd]

Originally Posted by prem_ravi

hey..can I still be a part of this team???... if so please accept my nominations (Sorry didnt go through the whole thread...)

Prem Unkil ...You can only go for 1 team.You will surely fit in nicely with this team.


आप पहले सोच लो की बीबीएल्टी मे आना है की इयुदिटी टीम मैं जाना है ?

[hameed]

Originally Posted by prem_ravi

hey..can I still be a part of this team???... if so please accept my nominations (Sorry didnt go through the whole thread...)

prem_ravi bhai .... there are many here like me who have been inspired no end by your posts and the struggles you have been through....you wud be an asset and inspiration no matter where you go. Every team should love to have you with them

Rock on!
hameed

[prem_ravi]

well...more than UDT (as VINEET says)..I fit in here...Aah, the love & support of puys (neednt have to say), thanks to all, but I have something to pay back to UDT...will stick to that...

[vineet.nitd]

With due respect to prem unkil's decision I hereby present before you the list containing nominations till now for BBLT...

1. Elusionist
2. Greenspan
3. vineet.nitd
4. RISING
5. buck_was
6. contender
7. writetotanveer
8. hameed
9. justlikethat
10. deep_agrawal
11. abhishekuit
12. sinistercancer
13. pavanpadekal
The final team of 15 will be finalised on 6th of September night.
Till then keep nominating yourself and proving yourself fit for the team

[writetotanveer]

I have learned something well worthwhile that victory could not bring;
To wipe the blood from my mouth and smile where none can see the sting,
I can walk head up while my heart is down.
From the beating that brought it's good.

And that means more than the champion's crown, who is taking an easier road.
I have learned something worth far more than victory brings to men;
Battered and beaten, bruised and sore, I can still come back again.
Crowded back in the hard tough race
I've found that I have the heart to look raw failure in the face;
and train for another start.

Winners who wear the victor's wreath, looking for softer ways,
Watch for my blade as it leaves the sheath sharpened on rougher days.
Trained upon pain and punishment I have groped my way through the night
But the flag still flies at my battle tent, I have only begun to fight!

Author: Grantland Rice

And Time to ensure that this thread is not just talk but lots of action as well!!!


From my side in the days running up to CAT I will try to post relevant passages that could help us cover the varied types of RC passages that might come in CAT .

And I will also be scannning PG and try to post all VA related material that I come across every day.

The philosophy fro me is simple ----.

Each post on the thread should help the reader to move a step closer to the ULTIMATE GOAL!!

Regards
Tanveer



Here is the first of the many steps..

The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss

The Devil in Amber is the latest Lucifer Box adventure from the League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss, author of The Vesuvius Club

He was an American, so it seemed only fair to shoot him.
I'd already winged the beggar once - somewhere in the region of his flabby calves - and was now in hot pursuit with the tenacity for which I'm mildly famous. For reasons too dreary to dwell on, I found myself clinging to the running board of a motor car, wind whipping at my face, positively pelting through the choked streets of Manhattan. Ahead of me loomed the gorgeous elegance of the new Chrysler Building, thrusting like a sword into the cold, brilliant blue sky. Ice and sun glinted off its exterior; sharp as a pin in the eye.
For those of you not in the know (dear me, where have you been?), my name is Lucifer Box: painter, occasional memoir-scribbler and agent (most secret) for His Majesty's Government. Sad it is to relate that my artistic career was somewhat in the doldrums. Fashion, that gay but inconstant dog, had moved on and I was regarded with some suspicion by the bright lads of the new school. Passe, old-hat, pre-War (the Great one, you understand: although there'd been nothing particularly great about it from my point of view). Between the Surrealists and the Cubists and the Whatsists, there seemed precious little demand for a spectacularly good portrait painter such as yours truly. Oh, don't protest! Modesty is for amateurs.
Even the landed gentry who had once positively drenched me in commissions seemed in thrall to the damned new religion of photography, and were busy cramming the green-damask walls of their country piles with horrid daguerreotypes of their scarcely smiling selves. And so here was I, the gorgeous butterfly of King Bertie's reign: middle-aged and rather neglected, my hair shorter and greying - though my figure still as trim as a boy's, thank you very much.
Crouched low against the cold metal of the motor, I peered at my distorted reflection in the window. Still a head-turner, no doubt about it, and those eyes no less blue, no less cold and clear.
So much for Art! Happily I had other interests and when not exhibiting my daubs to an increasingly bored public, I was engaged, as I've said, doling out death and violence as gleefully as I did Crimson Alizarin or Mars Yellow. Every man should have a hobby.
Trouble was, of late the glee had rather gone out of this too. But I mustn't get ahead of myself.
The chap I'd been assigned to bump off on this charming December day was called Hubbard. Hubbard the Cupboard, don't you know (the Colonials like their schoolyard nick-names), his curious moniker coming not only from his ungainly shape but from his being a dealer in stolen goods. It was said Hubbard's cupboard was never bare.
The fat fool, however, had strayed somewhat from his usual territory of filched diamanté and crudely forged Demuths, being the brains, it was said, behind an influx of cheap cocaine that was currently drowning New York's nightspots. So, before the hooters of all the hoofers were irretrievably rotted, Hubbard was to be removed from the scene forthwith.
I was in town, tying up the loose ends of another job (the startling history of the Sumatran Automata will have to wait for another day), and, at its conclusion, had been hastily shunted off in pursuit of this nefarious drug baron.
I kept my head low as the car slowed down. The fat man's blood was visible in the snow, trailing in neat crimson curlicues as if fallen from a leaking paint tin. If I could finish him off by lunchtime, I knew a place down in the Bowery that did a smashing shad-roe-caviar club sarnie.
Dropping from the running board, I flattened myself against the grimy wall of the nearest brownstone and watched as the flivver chugged off with a backfire like a Lewis gun.
Inclining my trilby at a rakish angle, I paused a moment, knowing I cut quite a dash. I'm afraid I rather fancied myself - but then everyone else did, so why should I be left out of the fun?
The trail led off the pavement - or 'sidewalk' as I suppose I must call it - and I moved off, my breath billowing like exhaust before me. The air was heavy with the stink of Polish cooking and uncollected rubbish.
Hurrying through the churned-up, brown drifts and following the trail as it swung right, I found myself in a light-starved courtyard. At its centre, smothered in snow, stood a quaint little clapboard church, fragile and unremarkable - save for the polka-dot pattern of bright blood on the steps. The door to the church was slightly ajar. I had him.
As quietly as possible, I slipped inside, taking a moment to adjust to the musty darkness with its familiar odour of incense and damp. Rapidly I made out shadowy pews, a pulpit like a ship's fo'c's'le, a narrow spiral stair leading to the bell tower.

[pavanpadekal]

Not many ppl out there know that there exists or there is going to be a Team as such.Moreover BBLT as thread title and tag may not catch the attention of many! Is there some way we could let more people know and nominate themselves ?

[sgx100]

hey
thats a gr8 initiative
count me in

in a tearing rush...will put a post tomorrow...

[ankit_insane]

Im surely in, if im given the chance that is.

reasons:-

Gave CAT last time, thought people who prepared for it were idiots, ended up doing great in DI and erbals(everybdys nemesis last time), and screwed up Quant big time( Yes im talking about the Quant of CAT 2006!!!) I realised then tht prep was so important, but heck who had the time to study for the other tests, i ws enjoying my last sem of engineering, im frm Manipal..and enjoying is not very useful work.

Still managed to clear SIBM and NMIMS cutoffs(didnt apply for SCMHRD to save 1200 bucks..the idiot i was), thought..aah..my comm sklls are so much better than the others..ill clear so easily.., had fabulous interviews, but the GDs sucked( due to my complete lack of nowledge of wht was happening in the world..i ws in manipal)...i had no idea wht an SEZ was during one GD!!

Rejected by these 2, i had a job in IBM, but decided in Feb, this time ill prepare like hell, blah blah blah. Joined the IMS classroom course n the TIME test series, prepared a lil..very lil by normal standards, but very high by manipal standards. Have been doing decently in my mocks..ecept the last 2 TIME ones( i hate the really tough ones)..gt 85 n expectin 80 in this one. Usually i get around 93-98, got 2 99s

I feel I can do this cuz ive noticed in CAT level papers i do v well, in simple papers i do good too, but at the tough ones i suck.

SO if CATs tough, screwed, if its average or simple, I have a chance.Still determined, inspite of my com[plete incapability to work hard, that i can do well, and prove a point to myself that Im not as useless as Manipal made me.

Would love to be a part of the main team...bench would be good too, but main team great. whatever it is, i see a few ppl here whose cores ive been following an im sure wholl make it thru the IIMs, and ill be glad to be in thier company.

cheers. Sorry for the way too long post!!!

PS: Joining IBM on 28th September. Hope i have the privelege to send in my resignation papers by April,and I hope its bcoz of MBA!!!

[jimmygoogle]

Originally Posted by sinistercancer

A team of individuals bound together in pursuit of a common goal.


2 more openings, on the bench

My story starts here,
i studied in KREC, located in jungle, in college days, we had the attraction towards pubs n all, just to party in bangalore, wrote XAT in 2006 when i was hung over, performed descent compared to my state of mind & prep (it was zilch) managed to get good percentile in DI, was not expecting a call.
Then came to bangalore, done with pubbing scene n all, finally got bored with Bangalore, looking for an escape! wrote CAT in 2006, screwed it up big time but quants & di was good. it was enough to give me the confidence that i can DO it.
Finally getting serious with CAT, XAT n all, and hoping to get into one of the top b-schools in india. Now i have realised after mocking the CAT few times that CAt is not totally about preparation, there are lot other things required for this.
They say (who got in to IIM) it depends on luck, the only thing which is in your hands is get too much percentile, get as many calls as possible, after that just leave it to them. If its yours no1 can take it from you but if its not, you cant do anything.

PG helped me a lot getting to know about others' stories, how they are performing & what they are doing.
I think these lines are perfect for the situation we are in,
Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream until your dreams come true
Dream until your dream comes through