Ding Dong Bell and All That Cat Crap

Another of those weekends where you loaf about and laugh like a hyena with a gland problem on laughing gas or some similar and equally painful descriptions. At some stage of the weekend we were like terribly tired and decided to lie about in the regular hangout (inhabited by people you’d need a novel to describe) and watch TV and talk about extremely relevant topics like “When did we watch TV last without beer in our respective noses” with slight exaggerations that brought the values to something staggering like 15 years ago or so. Anyways, cnbc was airing this all day show about the CAT and how it affects everything. They went about interviewing people who didn’t seem to have a clue as to what to do now that the exam is over. It (the exam) apparently went on for longer than it was supposed to and drastically altered all the sales calculations of the territorial rag pickers around. Longer the exam, more the paper and other such issues had cropped up apparently. Anyways, here were a few comments or statements or whatever that came out in the interviews. “uh… the exam was uh easy except the English section which was difficult as compared to my opinion about it.” “I slightly think that the English section was slightly tough” (there were quite a few uhs again, didn’t bother putting it in here cause you get the point anyways) Now if these characters were seen by the people who conduct interviews, would they stand a chance of making it? I mean why jump at a chance of being seen on TV. Everybody does this nowadays. If some of these TV clowns were to confront me, I’d probably mumble something incoherent and scoot for cover, hoping they’d clip that part off during the editing. Honest. Deal is, the CAT is quite significant and one of those rare real worthwhile events left in the country as of date, now you media junkies, please don’t make a mockery of it. Don’t discuss issues you have no clue about and make them seem ridiculous. Don’t make issues up where there aren’t any. Publish (or air) news. Is that too much to ask? And most definitely, “We do not need opinions of all and sundry!!!” As for those whose opinions do matter, Are you sure an increase in the number of seats in IIMs is a solution for all issues? I’m not sure, I’m just this techie dude you know… -Komodo Dragon