Alladin & the genie

Been having some very interesting conversations lately. My boss is on a spiritual trip nowadays so work hours often sprinkled with deep insightful talk.

He started telling me about the Alladin concept - basically a reworked Alchemist theme. The idea is to see yourself as Alladin and the whole world as your genie. Every thought you have strokes the lamp and the genie i.e. the world goes out there to make it happen. I think the Little Prince also speaks about this. So we have to be very careful & discipline our minds not to let ourselves down by negative thinking because that just might be the wish that is granted today.

I'm still upset though, I honestly had my hopes up on LBS but somehow my genie didn't get the message. But a firm believer in destiny that I am, I suppose there is a grand scheme in place... there is some place else I need to be.

Dinged by LBS

Win some Lose some....
Dinged at LBS. This was my number one choice but I suppose destiny has other plans. Somehow I'm still in a daze, just don't understand what went wrong. Probably the interview.
I dont think I have the energy to go thru R2 applications. So its goodbye to London from me

Hey guys, little late in posting but good news is always welcome
I'm through to ISB!
This means no matter what I am going to school next year, even if where is still open for discussion.
LBS will send out its decision tomorrow and that will decide the fate.

A little economics

5 days for decision day at ISB
9 days for decision day at LBS
Insead interview - still awaiting response from interviewer
So in the meantime, I've nothing to do apart from a whole lot of work and a whole lot of day dreaming and a whole lot of twiddling my thumbs looking at R2 apps...
Did pick up 'Free Lunch' by David Smith, a sort od Eco for dummies just to get the studies going. Having fun with it right now since most of it is nowadays all over the papers and doesnt require too much brain power...with holiday season around some serious lack of the aforementioned :)
On an interesting though disturbing note - read a UN study which qoutes the following statistics
1% of the world's population owns approx. 40% of the world's wealth.
The top 10% own over 85% of the world's wealth
The bottom 50% own ...hold your breath... only 1% of the wealth of the worlds

Its rather disgusting, the inequality obviously proves the trickle effect doesnt work. This has been going on for so long but with all the laws and good intentions and experiments with socialism, capitalist, left & right - nothing has worked.
So congrats to all who read this blog - it only takes assets worth $2200 to make it to the top 10% but do spare a thought about the world...

Interview over & out of my hands

Thanks to all for all the wishes, I hope to meet some of you at some school on some continent, in some country under some circumstances.
I started the MBA journey in June and I have no clarifications on any of the 'some's listed above :)
So now for the interview update.
I met an alum from LBS, an investment banker (expected that) and he turned out be very nice. He was extremely open and chatty and very welcoming. The interview was in his office, the investment floor of a large bank. Interesting lace though I've been to one before when the floor was abuzz and alive with action. My interview of course was at the end of the day and the space was rather quiet.
We started with the most common of all Q's - why mba? I started my rehearsed, rehashed line he smiled and said 'I'm hearing jargon now"
Quickly changed tactics and relaxed since he seemed humorous. The q's were all of the expected kind but were framed more conversationally. I have no clue if I answered it well or not coz once I get chatty, well I get chatty.
The case presentation was interesting and I hope I fared well though on second thoughts I may have messed up understanding the basic issue. Hope not. V much like GMAT AWA.
All in all it took a little over an hour.
I asked a lot of questions especially regarding financial planning for LBS,London life, exchange programs,oppertunities. I suppose the problem was that I was meeting someone who wwas available to talk about my dream school and the questions just kept pouring out. I'm hoping I didnt mess it up.

Its out of my hands now and I've started counting down to Dec 19th already (17 full days to go)

About to interview

So the big LBS interview is today, well actually in another 1.5 hours and what am I doing? Blogging, after too many days. Its like a comfort zone you turn to in stressful circumstances. It helps to know that somewhere in the world strangers are going thru much the same thing and actually understand your views right now, much better than the loved ones.
I've been feeling a bit disconnected lately, work has been hectic and with everything changing, including my comp from a PC to a Mac so life is just a big merry go round.
Ok time to go and best of luck to myself and everyone else out there...