so i heard jeff beck's nadia after AGES. it's one of those tracks that sits in yer pc for ages and ages, right next to talvin singh's traveller or train's drops of jupiter... and they're there in a rather forgotten winamp list. which you load accidentally. and thynk... why dont i listen to thys stuff more often? ---------------------------------------------------- sleight of hand and twist of fate anyways i got accepted in pakistan's best business school for a master's degree. they do IT/CS/economics blah blah blah... and their graduates are sitting in microsoft and all. while i have no plans of joining microsoft (inverted snobbery), ive been wondering all day... WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING? no seriously. lets see. im in business school. i dont know how or why. it's like, i was at their campus doing a story (which i never got done btw. their MBA admissions were open, so i said, hey! i wanna do thys. you know those really bratty kids, who want everythyng they see? no? hi. im hemlock. im one of them. so i applied. i barely scraped through their GMAT-wannabe test. i got called for the interview. i blew the interview. they said: you dont have a business background. youll never survive. i said: i didnt have an art background but i graduated with honours. i didnt have a journalism background, but im one of the highest paid ppl at work. (i thynk yer missing the point. im exceptionally brilliant) they said: we dont teach. we give our students problems to solve. i said: problem solving is a skill - not somethyng you can teach. are you telling me all the Hall Road* dukandars (shopkeepers) are MBAs from your school? they've survived in the market without an MBA or problem solving skills your teachers impart, so i bet it cant be that hard. they said: whats the biggest business related news of last yr (with ref to pakistan)? ** i said: i dont know. i dont read the business pages of the newspaper. they said: you want an MBA, and you dont read the business pages? i said: duh! it's greek to me. i see numbers, lots of numbers, and they make absolutely no sense. since i HAVE no business background, and no one ever explains anythyng to me, it's slightly difficult to decipher those codes. ---------------------------------------------------- so im at work today. my mom calls, all hyped: M: beta... sorry i opened your post, but i was too excited... you got in! Me: ma, look closely. it says i DIDNT get in (ma then reads out entire text of letter, and with all "complete and return acceptance letter after reading terms and conditions") Me: hmm. amma, i thynk that means im in. ---------------------------------------------------- im in. on a full scholarship :) for accounting & finance. i get credits for a yr. so i finish the two yr prog in one. ---------------------------------------------------- i wonder what god has planned for me. He sure does move in mysterious way. notes: * hall road: the biggest market for pirated CDs, stolen hardwares (cell phones, tvs, dvds, stereo systems, the works). those ppl deal in billions. ** it's gawadar. with the whole WTO/Free trade implications blah blah. now i know.