There may be a chance that my girlfriend has been cheating on me.

When paying a visit to her, I came across several very intimate cell phone text messages from a Christopher Dani, proclaiming his love for her and how much she means for him and etc. Complete with the flowery phrases and "i love you" phrases.

I saw her replies, while not so intimate, seemed to be relatively personal.

Doing the sensible thing, I confronted her with the situation. She claimed that is was a person who was infatuated with her and she has no relationship with him whatsoever. She then proceeded to delete all the text messages and his phone number from her cell phone.

Should I believe her? Is she cheating on me?

p/s Could this be the reason she's not so keen on getting married?

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I have been lagging behind in my GMAT with the Chinese New Year festivities. I hope I'll be able to catch up with it soon.

Anybody know of a good way to improve quant? Any specific exercises etc? Books?

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I was notified by my girlfriend that she's considering not marrying me. I guess that will explain the aversion to long term commitments from her. Apparently wanting to do an MBA plays a role in her her consideration. Maybe it's just me, but I really would like to push hard and see how far I could go.

When I was younger, I happily failed through college. Now I look back and wonder how my life would have been if I had studied properly and given my best. Where would I have gone? Where would I be now?

When I reach 50, I don't want to look back and wonder, What if I had done an MBA? How would things be like? I don't want to regret not trying my best again.

It's not easy to sit around and think about ending a 6-year long relationship. Granted it's been long distance, that there were ups and downs, the effort and emotions that went into the relationship - can I just walk away from such a relationship?

Well, I guess I may very well have blown it again. Hence my earlier post when the realisation hit me that after 6 years, I still don't have a long term relationship plan.

She says that she doesn't want to break it off just yet, but on the other hand, she doesn't want to commit to anything either. So that puts me, in limbo. Should my future plans include her? or exclude her?

Oh my,

I

Have

Screwed

Everything up.

I had such a strange dream yesterday in which I met up with an ex-girlfriend that I haven't spoken to for the past 5 years. We didn't part on very good terms and I've always wondered how she is. Last I heard, she was in Australia.

Anyway, in the dream we met up and spoke about the past. She was going to come over to the house for coffee when the alarm rang.

I definitely wanted to continue sleeping to see how the conversation went.

Maybe this is what they call closure to a relationship. I do miss her sometimes.

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Back to the GMAT.

It's like this giant hill that I climbed, jumped off and have to reclimb again. :(

First, identfying my key areas to be improved. Did this by discussing my results and my goal on GMATClub.com. Got some advice on what to look at (quant).

So I will be brushing up on my quant, which requires a humoungous amount of brainwork. As a warm-up, I did 10 questions, my brain moved so slowly. I've got to learn how to read and understand the questions again in the GMAT context.

Got some ScoreTop questions that I will be doing. However, I doubt the validity of the answers given. I think the answers that I've been given are all jumbled up, so I don't get the right answer for the questions. Nevertheless, I shall continue to do the questions as an exercise.

Bit by bit. Target exam date is end June/early July.

Dear Wannabe:

Thank you for your interest in the Yale School of Management. After careful consideration of your application, we regret that we are unable to offer you admission to the Class of 2009.

Due to the large number of high quality applications we receive each year, we are faced with the difficult task of selecting a small incoming class from a very competitive applicant pool. Unfortunately, this means that we are unable to offer admission to many otherwise qualified individuals.

I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

Sincerely,

Bruce DelMonico
Director of Admissions

P/s Thank you for your USD180 application fee.

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Not much can be said. Guess that's it for USA schools and for the moment. Will work on the GMAT again and apply later this year in early decision rounds and r1.

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Not everybody is born great or destined for greatness. Anyway, if you're destined for greatness, it doesn't matter whether you go to HBS/Stanford or Timbuctoo Business School, for you will be great.

My Internet is in pretty bad shape. Lots of lost packets. :(

I hope things work out well for my Internet.

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My family has planned for me

1. Do banking exam (certification).
2. Do diploma/degree in finance (part-time, locally).
3. Continue working in the bank (no job change).

So, forget about re-sitting the GMAT and forget about doing an MBA.

Girlfriend agrees with this too.

So everybody's happy, except me wondering what if I did do an MBA, how would my life be changed.

It's a very funny feeling when everybody has planned things out for you and expects you to follow without saying much. Strangest part is I'm already an independent and everybody keeps expecting me to follow what they say like a child. Maybe I should stop being less accomodating and do what I really want to do.

Maybe that's the curse of being conservatively Asian. Family expects you to follow what they say.

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Tuck Ding

As expected

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Dear Wannabe,

Thank you for applying to the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. After much thought and careful consideration, I regret to inform you that we are unable to grant your request for admission to the Tuck Class of 2009.

etc.

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That's a wrap then. There's a feedback offer that they claim is offered to less than 10% of applicants. Wonder whether that's really true or not?

Well, guess it won't hurt to get some feedback. It'll help when I apply to other schools and possible to re-apply to Tuck.

It's not devastating as I've been preparing myself for a ding. But sometimes, for a moment, you can just let your imagination run and say "What if they accept me?". Guess all dreams don't always come true.

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A saying I came across

"Poker is a lot like sex. Everyone thinkgs they're the best, but most people don't know what they're doing."