The short of it

After returning to Hyderabad, i chose to join a job in a non-IT sector. I decided to bide my time till a promising option in software came by. It had been nearly 2 weeks since the cat forms were out. Sandy, a colleague of mine  had already applied for the cat. As luck would have it we were let off from work on friday afternoon thereby making the weekend a longer one. Sandy offered to drop me home on his bike. In the next 20 min ride Sandy managed to convince me that i should give the CAT a shot. He was and still is of the opinion that my verbal skills were good , which is achilles heel for a majority of the aspirants.
Life sure had become lazy and i thought this preparation would come handy for sure.
by end of day i was 1400 bucks poorer and nearly damaged my exam voucher when instead of scratching of the card to get the voucher no, i decided to remove the tape covering the code. Luckily for me the exam voucher no was intact.
Apart from a bright career i had other motives too for applying for the IIM CAT; a reason which i shall disclose if the events unfold favorably ;)