Quite an anachronistic issue to post considering the dormant period of grand slam tennis, but doing this under obligation :). But....
How can one even in his wildest dreams compare by juxtaposing them!!! Doesn't everyone know that Federer is no match for Nadal!!
Some SILLY reasons why I say so: the first inane reason being the pronunciation "nadaal" gives some peculiar feeling of power :D, Nadal is fashionable with his gaudy sleeveless shirts and the three-fourths, a left-handed maverick of his age, with highly curvy muscles, long hair and acting to the trend of the world in fact he is making the world act to his trend :).
Winning four french open titles in a row, is aptly called the King of clay, routing the world champion in all four of them be it finals or semis. The last one being a nightmare for the world champion where he could only manage to score 4 points from a three set routing. And then in 2005 he nudged himself to activity on grass court grand slam, and within a year saw him go through to the finals in wimbledon 2006. And then in 2007. In 2008 however the King of clay assailed over Federer. Although many say it to be a close contest, it is pertinent only to the 3rd and 4th sets when both the sets had to be decided by a tie-breaker. The previous two being won by Nada by a margin,not very easily though.
The only player to have more wins that losses over federer, the only player to have won 80 odd matches consecutively on clay, the only other player to have won four french open titles, making the french open title less and less palpable for federer he deserves to be given the FIRST page in tennis history :D.
recently, exacerbating the agony of federer a third contender comes into the brawl which was otherwise a duel since three years. He went away with the Australian open. Thus making it a triple strike for federer, who has the backing of Mr.Saturn(dunno what english people call sani, hence made a translation from telugu myth :D) whenever he doesn't need some. After having fallen four rungs in four years in the form of french open and three rungs consecutively this year, Federer looked back to see Nadal incognito ;). But Nadal remains modest and still hails federer to be the number one, although half the world considers him to be.
However, this argument with sense or not is entirely supportive of Nadal. For you Federer fans, there are no jargon of tennis that I used here and this is no technical talk and I admit that the other side of the argument is more elegant and burnished. However, I tap to the tune of Nada Nada forever, until the two are existent in tennis!!! I hope Nadal backs him forever :D
Friday, July 25, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
GRE-2
In my first ever post in blogger, I express my amateur thinking regarding the GRE. This is how i feel like, after having gone through the preparation and the test.
" I agree with the introductory statements even now.. i feel there is still a little lack of preparation, since I did not by heart the Barron's word-list, which is considered a must for GRE preparation. I don't think the way to start our preparation is mugging the word lists in order. If you want to retain all the words that you have read by then, completing the word list would take a lifetime! instead go thru some word groups. By word groups I mean, arrogance has a lot of synonyms some of which directly indicate arrogance and some of which indicate in a sinuous way, similarly there are many groups like irascibility, hard working, laziness, etc..
If you take hard working a variety of words express it : industrious, assiduous, sedulous,diligent, so on. similarly something/being in the starting stages or birth: incipient, inchoate, genesis, fledgling, germinal, seminal, etc..
similarly other word groups include broad topics like law, sports, mythology, etc..
these cover most of the words you need to learn. not all but the very important part of the word lists. other words are not very frequent..
The most repeated smaller topics are arrogance, friendliness, stubbornness, laziness, working hard, quarrelsomeness, criticizing, praising, hugeness or lightness, being sad,being cheerful, type of personality, nonchalant attitude, active or inactive, copying, stealing, deceiving, exaggerated speech, patriotism, cunning, innocence, kinds of literature, mockery etc..
After having gone through these topics the questions will be relatively easy since most of the questions should use this kind of topics, and then one can target the remaining words. No need to be very upset if one doesn't know many of them. very specific nouns like parapet are not seen very regularly. After taking so many tests I haven't seen many words like that.
barron's includes words like parapet which means a small wall at the edge of a balcony or terrace for which you try hard to remember when it is relatively a very unimportant word. Moreover when u do not remember the word with a context, it is highly likely that you forget it. Instead take a topic "spontaneous presentation w/o prep": some words that have a similar meaning are extempore,ad lib,improvise,impromptu. These words will be easy to remember if studied as a group and can be considered as a single reading, whereas if studied from a word list they would constitute a different read every time one of these comes across.
contrary to what I said in the post earlier mentioned, we prepare for vocab not because a professor at a very good univ speaks a high level english, but the vocab skill is more or less equivalent to one's logical skill! it serves an additional purpose of testing if we have enough vocab skill to be able to live there may be!!
In my first days of preparation I didn't find any logic in the questions, once I had enough words in my grip I started to find some logic. In fact, a word can be used in various ways and thereby different logics.
analogies have two words in which we have to find a reln between the words.the relation should be modified if necessary in a more specific way depending on the options . all this accounts to a logic.
sentence completion tests how one thinks in a situation,a blank.
similarly the opposite of something can be taken in various ways and our thinking should be in tone with the options again.
That's all for now!! I've been talking too much about the GRE as if I succeeded in getting a great score!! So I stop this for now!!My next topic is one, whatever bub says!! ;)
" I agree with the introductory statements even now.. i feel there is still a little lack of preparation, since I did not by heart the Barron's word-list, which is considered a must for GRE preparation. I don't think the way to start our preparation is mugging the word lists in order. If you want to retain all the words that you have read by then, completing the word list would take a lifetime! instead go thru some word groups. By word groups I mean, arrogance has a lot of synonyms some of which directly indicate arrogance and some of which indicate in a sinuous way, similarly there are many groups like irascibility, hard working, laziness, etc..
If you take hard working a variety of words express it : industrious, assiduous, sedulous,diligent, so on. similarly something/being in the starting stages or birth: incipient, inchoate, genesis, fledgling, germinal, seminal, etc..
similarly other word groups include broad topics like law, sports, mythology, etc..
these cover most of the words you need to learn. not all but the very important part of the word lists. other words are not very frequent..
The most repeated smaller topics are arrogance, friendliness, stubbornness, laziness, working hard, quarrelsomeness, criticizing, praising, hugeness or lightness, being sad,being cheerful, type of personality, nonchalant attitude, active or inactive, copying, stealing, deceiving, exaggerated speech, patriotism, cunning, innocence, kinds of literature, mockery etc..
After having gone through these topics the questions will be relatively easy since most of the questions should use this kind of topics, and then one can target the remaining words. No need to be very upset if one doesn't know many of them. very specific nouns like parapet are not seen very regularly. After taking so many tests I haven't seen many words like that.
barron's includes words like parapet which means a small wall at the edge of a balcony or terrace for which you try hard to remember when it is relatively a very unimportant word. Moreover when u do not remember the word with a context, it is highly likely that you forget it. Instead take a topic "spontaneous presentation w/o prep": some words that have a similar meaning are extempore,ad lib,improvise,impromptu. These words will be easy to remember if studied as a group and can be considered as a single reading, whereas if studied from a word list they would constitute a different read every time one of these comes across.
contrary to what I said in the post earlier mentioned, we prepare for vocab not because a professor at a very good univ speaks a high level english, but the vocab skill is more or less equivalent to one's logical skill! it serves an additional purpose of testing if we have enough vocab skill to be able to live there may be!!
In my first days of preparation I didn't find any logic in the questions, once I had enough words in my grip I started to find some logic. In fact, a word can be used in various ways and thereby different logics.
analogies have two words in which we have to find a reln between the words.the relation should be modified if necessary in a more specific way depending on the options . all this accounts to a logic.
sentence completion tests how one thinks in a situation,a blank.
similarly the opposite of something can be taken in various ways and our thinking should be in tone with the options again.
That's all for now!! I've been talking too much about the GRE as if I succeeded in getting a great score!! So I stop this for now!!My next topic is one, whatever bub says!! ;)
after a great deal of thought the night I could recollect some of my test questions. I told one of them to my friend who was about to write in the next batch.. After the test he got the same question!! The question is
celebrate:lamentation::
of course i do not remember the options u can try out various connective themes from them.
another one
symptom:palliative::
some antonyms being
Noisome
The only option I remember is fragrant, the answer to the question :).
subtle
options palpable scad so on..
some other words that I came across are hagiography, untenable,
a sentence completion question
most of the colleagues are very _______ in their praise for the tenure of their manager on his retirement, but unlike them Nadar was ______ in his hagiography
options I remember
cautious sarcastic
insincere (some sort of praise)
topic I have taken for the issue essay is "history tells us only one thing: it is not useful for people in making important decisions"
will update this post in case I remember some new questions
celebrate:lamentation::
of course i do not remember the options u can try out various connective themes from them.
another one
symptom:palliative::
some antonyms being
Noisome
The only option I remember is fragrant, the answer to the question :).
subtle
options palpable scad so on..
some other words that I came across are hagiography, untenable,
a sentence completion question
most of the colleagues are very _______ in their praise for the tenure of their manager on his retirement, but unlike them Nadar was ______ in his hagiography
options I remember
cautious sarcastic
insincere (some sort of praise)
topic I have taken for the issue essay is "history tells us only one thing: it is not useful for people in making important decisions"
will update this post in case I remember some new questions
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Now, its only half as cumbersome
This has been easily the best week for me this summer. Not only did I get through two of my three jobs-to-do, I received a good reward in both of them. First of them being the driving license for which I was waking up at 6 in the morning all through the summer, the reward being a quick response from the RTO that I got my driving license in less than a week delivered to my house :D. Another effort pertaining to GRE paid off. Although not a great score I am content enough with what I got.
The test score is this satiating because I was very tense, in fact I was never this tense before for any other exam, because I preferred GRE preparation to placement preparation. Anything wrong if happened would not only have ruined my effort but also make the placements more crucial for me, that too with a very little preparation.
Coming to the test, nothing is allowed inside the exam hall except the passport,a must.
Then there is no extra section, a verbal or quant section,that I heard from so many people. There is only an experimental section which you may or may not attempt. And finally coming to applying for the four universities, one should better note their anticipated universities and their states as well, as there are so many universities, they were divided in terms of state. I missed out one of the universities I thought I would apply :(. The universities I sent my score card are: Univ of maryland,college park
Ohio state univ
univ of california,san diego
texas A&M univ
A respite in terms of encouraging your prep: do not be obsessed thinking that the words will be tough. I did not find any tough words in my exam: of course part of that happening can be attributed to the fact that there is still a possibility for 250 marks. But even then i think the most difficult is the most easiest question and that which uses simple words. I was very confused early on when all the questions I got seemed easy to me and since this is a CAT(computer adaptive test) test the level of the question remains easy only when u answer the previous one wrong. But there is a other way of looking at it which did not cross my mind then. The words or questions I know do not imply that they are easy or whatever, but with the natural negative tendency I became over cautious and lost some important time. Adding to my fear there came the reading comprehensions, which I feared the most, in the topic I feared the most(literature).I left out all of them, a whole of six questions which I guessed w/o even seeing the questions. These factors made me think of canceling the test, however the invigilator insisted on proceeding to the score, ultimately made me joyous. I didn't want any thing to prevent me from a good score, this made me resort to something I have never done before in my life wholeheartedly or by myself, devudi bottu pettukunna :)
The test score is this satiating because I was very tense, in fact I was never this tense before for any other exam, because I preferred GRE preparation to placement preparation. Anything wrong if happened would not only have ruined my effort but also make the placements more crucial for me, that too with a very little preparation.
Coming to the test, nothing is allowed inside the exam hall except the passport,a must.
Then there is no extra section, a verbal or quant section,that I heard from so many people. There is only an experimental section which you may or may not attempt. And finally coming to applying for the four universities, one should better note their anticipated universities and their states as well, as there are so many universities, they were divided in terms of state. I missed out one of the universities I thought I would apply :(. The universities I sent my score card are: Univ of maryland,college park
Ohio state univ
univ of california,san diego
texas A&M univ
A respite in terms of encouraging your prep: do not be obsessed thinking that the words will be tough. I did not find any tough words in my exam: of course part of that happening can be attributed to the fact that there is still a possibility for 250 marks. But even then i think the most difficult is the most easiest question and that which uses simple words. I was very confused early on when all the questions I got seemed easy to me and since this is a CAT(computer adaptive test) test the level of the question remains easy only when u answer the previous one wrong. But there is a other way of looking at it which did not cross my mind then. The words or questions I know do not imply that they are easy or whatever, but with the natural negative tendency I became over cautious and lost some important time. Adding to my fear there came the reading comprehensions, which I feared the most, in the topic I feared the most(literature).I left out all of them, a whole of six questions which I guessed w/o even seeing the questions. These factors made me think of canceling the test, however the invigilator insisted on proceeding to the score, ultimately made me joyous. I didn't want any thing to prevent me from a good score, this made me resort to something I have never done before in my life wholeheartedly or by myself, devudi bottu pettukunna :)
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