Lots of luck and a spot of stupidity

So I woke up at 6:15 in the morning after barely 3 hours of sleep .. thanks to a couple of very well-synchronized crows who started cawing in amazing unison and perfect cacophony !!

Ideally, I would have liked a little more sleep before my GRE, but looks like it was not to be ..
Anyways, more time to read up the word-lists I had never seen !!!
So, did just that ... read word-lists for the better part of the morning ... scared my mom a little with the 'I am not at all prepared' act :)

Reached the examination center well after the reporting time :( .. was studying till the last moment !
Wrote two very ordinary compositions :(
Quants was easy :)
Verbal stumped me .. two words from even outside Barron's .. others were also confusing :((

Then came the score .. I was so elated to see what I thought I saw, that I didn't see it long enough to be confident that I had seen correctly !!!!
As Katoch says "Mere uss samay barah baj gaye the ..." ;)

So now I have to wait more than 2-3 weeks for the score confirmation to come :( .. and all this while, I am roaming the streets smarting a score which might not even be my actual score !!

But till the drop occurs, 1560 is a pretty decent score for that bad a test !! :)
So, the next time you wake up to a couple of crows cawing outside your bedroom, you can rest assured that you will have an exceptionally lucky day, and you are also going to do something extraordinarily stupid. Make use of the former, and watch out for the latter ;)

How I met your mother !!

The answer, very honestly, is 'coz I got tired of studying a couple of word lists !!
That's when I started looking for a new series .. and that's How I met your mother happened :)

Its one more of those NY-based sitcoms (after F.R.I.E.N.D.S) that I have really taken a liking for. But its the ingenuity of the narration style that is of particular note. Would love to sit down with my kids some day and tell them how I met their mother :D

Also the theme (though a tad bit cliche) ..

Boy meets girl ('Have you met Ted?' - awesome game).
Girl meets boy ('So let me guess, you must be Ted').
Boy is immediately into her. Not so much the other way around (Happens ever so often).

And then you have 22 hilarious episodes .. fun-fraught and often poignant. And at the end (of the first season) Ted finally gets Robin (at least, for the time being). In between, there were a string of rejections, other distractions, elation and dejection all at the same time. But as Ted realized time and time again "She is the one".

So, even when he went to her with the final grand gesture and it didn't quite work out .. it only made him more determined (and a little silly too .. who, on earth, does a rain-dance??!!). After all, when you really want something, the universe conspires in a strange way to get it for you.
So, strangely enough, the rain-dance worked. And so did nature's conspiracy.

This is for everyone who is in love with the idea of love ..
Watch "How I met your mother" .. its great and lots of fun too !!!
(though a little piece of advice : don't get started 9 days before your GRE .. 'coz watching 13 episodes a day and then writing a blogpost isn't the most recommended way to prepare for a test this important!!).

But then as I keep saying "There are some things in life more important than any test, the things for which you will travel great distances, write long mails, write even longer mails ;-), think endless nights, (maybe) do a rain-dance, suffer chronic heart-aches ..... all the things that you will do to get the girl of your dreams ..... all the things that will make your own wonderful version of 'How I met your mother' ".