Gmat Fever

Sometimes I feel the gmat verbal is too hot to handle in the time period of just 75 mins. yes it is. Some paragraph are so complex and so confusingly written I need to look at the passage three times to get the idea.

However I got a very useful tip while browsing through the test magic forum. One of the succesful guys who scored above 700 (the G mark) wrote in his write up that reading the passage only once should be enough. If it doesn't work for you get used to it. I mean while you converse with people in your daily life do you ask them to repeat what they said 3 times before you get the idea? No. So let the case be the same with your verbal. Justified.

Adaptation ...

could be practised in as less as 2 weeks and that too in completely new place. When i say new, its new continent, new country, new culture and completely new people. It only took me less than two weeks to adapt completely to the place, weather and environment there. The place was seem so familiar after sometime that i could bike around as if i have been there for long. I knew the places nearby and the routes around. The local store, the restaurants, the lakes and everythings seems so "home" in short span of time. I was comfortable with the public transport too.

And the people? It seems like i have known them for years.

Talking Basics

My Europe trip has left me wondering about how people think differently (or rather how we have to think) on things that effect ours lives daily. Back home we usually face a daunting task of getting petroleum and gas as we like. We need to be in queue for hours to get our bike refueled and it might take a month to refuel your gas cylinder. Obviously they matter to us greatly in everyday life. So if things get better and we get those daily needs without much hassle then these things excite us. We talk about how we managed to remain without being frustrated during 9 hours a day load shed. We inform our friends and relatives that life's getting easier, or you can get those things at these particular places. If not we discuss how the fuel shortage problem has hit us hard again and how difficult and tiring it is to get to the office walking. We discuss about how long we waited in queue to get refuel or to what extent we went to get a bit of what we wanted. The monsoon is ending soon and the topic will now shift from fuel shortage to the daily load shed. We talk about these voids usually. It’s not a hobby it’s a necessity, you have to learn to survive. Wise men said "sorrow is divided when shared".

These talks are a total shock in Europe. infact people there have never ever imagined in their worst nightmare that getting your bike refueled will take you hours or you have to wait a month to get your cooking gas cylinder or you have to face 9 hours a day daily load shed. They haven't worried about those things ever and it’s likely that they won’t' have to in future too. Infact I didn't find anything they should be worried about. Perfect living condition, good income, healthy and happy people, clean and healthy surrounding, cheerful and friendly people, adequate resources, perfect weather etc...Did I say weather??Yes. The only thing I found them worrying is about the weather.

When I was there we have weekend’s plans to visit the Alps. But they were worried about our plan at Wednesdays as they already knew what the weather is is going to be in the weekends. It rained on both the weekends. They often discuss about what the weather is going to be in the next couple of days. I wouldn't have worried about the weather a bit. Back home in Nepal it would have been a trivial to worry about the weather. why would I worry about the weather, I have to get a new cooking gas cylinder, my fuel is going to be finished in a week's time and I don't have sufficient petrol for my bike too.