After spending 2 months on preparing for GMAT, taking it in October, then starting the long and tiresome application process and now after getting an admit in a school of my choice, I think its finally time to document my journey to a B school on my blog! I did write about how I felt going through the process in this and this post in a subtle manner.

My life is headed for a big change right now. A week from new I’ll be relieved from my job and next Saturday, I’ll be joining the business school . At a time when my life is about to go through such a major change, I decided to give the blog a well deserved makeover (along with a much needed upgrade from WordPress 2.2.2 to 2.7). I hope the new theme looks good. According to me, the theme fits the blog very well and gives it a clean, crispy look while making a personal connection with the reader. 

Becoming a student once again and not getting a monthly salary are some things I’m preparing myself for. And exams, of course! What makes this change bigger is that I’ll be moving to Hyderabad. The thought of leaving Bangalore makes me sad. I’ve spent a little less than five years here, after all. There is a possibiliy that I might come back after the programme ends next year but still. As I sell one peice of furniture after another, I feel like I am giving away a part of my life away. A life that I slowly built in four and a half years.

On the other hand, I am starting a new life with a clean slate and I feel like getting out of my comfort zone here was just the thing I needed to grow. And above all, I can finally experience the much hyped hostel life that I’ve only heard of till now. So wish me luck and brace yourself for new posts from a management student’s perspective!

The past couple of weeks reiterated that no matter how much I plan or worry about my life and the direction in which its headed, I can never claim to be in total control. So I have decided to take it easy for the next few weeks and just take life as it comes. How it would work out is anybody’s guss but at least I won’t spend my time worrying and overthinking the same thing again and again.

Ah, the last day of the year! Always a good day for introspection. Fortunately for me, I’ve been introspecting for the past 1-2 months and though I am mostly satisfied with how things have been so far, I feel the need to do more in life. So the plan is to continue learning new things.

This means I’ll continue learning German (I recently completed German A1 level exam! Yay!), take up guitar lessons again, learn to swim, continue learning to cook and much more. Also, I had kinda loosened up on the fitness regime but no slacking from tomorrow. The fitness freak is back! The only new (and important) resolution for the new year is to spend as much money as necessary as opposed to spending as much as I can which is what I have been doing till now! 

Coming to the things I liked about the year, there were some movies that I really liked: Wall-E (of course!), Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Aamir and Dasvidaniya.

I didn’t find as much great music as I found last year but some of it was awesome. Few soundtracks (Wall-E, Juno) , some new (for me!) bands (Hellogoodbye, Goldspot) and some good Hindi movie songs (Aamir, Ada, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, all songs sung by Mohit Chauhan) worked for me.

Television took a backseat this year for me. I think my TV watching time was less than halved. Lost remained at the top of its game. Family Guy and 30 Rock continued to entertain. I discovered The IT Crowd and Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia and ensured that I watched each and every episode available.

Like I wrote in my birthday post, it was a mixed bag as far as my life is concerned, but the sum total of everything that happened is definitely positive. Also, I travelled much more this year than previous years and my first journey was on 1st January. Maybe its true what they say. What you do on the first day the year….

I look forward to 2009 and I hope it will bring the best of everything with it.

Wish you a very Happy New Year!

I wish myself a very happy birthday! You should too!!

Last year, I wrote how I planned a few things and changes for this year and fortunately for me, I was successful in carrying out most of those. I have mentioned my will to sponsor a child several times on this blog and just a few days ago, I finally did it. I sponsored a little girl from Tamil Nadu. Thats my birthday gift for myself.

As I grow older and wiser (I hope so!), the challenges keep getting bigger and complex. And all I can say is that I am prepared to face all the challenges. 

I am 27 and single. Some of my relatives might run into depression!

I’ve been away for long and for good reason. Just around the time I started thinking that my routine was comfortable and predictable, life decided to get completely unpredictable and in the last two months, a lot of things that had never ever happened to me started happening one after another. Life almost became a string of surprises. Fortunately for me, most of these things were positive and exciting, just few weren’t.

These changes also bought chaos along with them. And the fact that I made two trips back home in the last two months didn’t help either. Now the thing with chaos is that I feel like I am losing my control over my life if there’s too much chaos. So I am trying my best to get used to the changes and trying to make sense of it all. This weekend came in handy in trying to restore some order in my life. I started with a long list of things I wanted to do over the weekend and am happy to report that I am currently doing the last thing on the list, writing this blog post. It seems to have worked. I already feel like things are under control now.

Now I just need to wait for the next surprise! Anyways, the next few months are going to be hectic if nothing else and I hope I would be able to sail through somehow. Wish me luck!