Just sharing:

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YOU'VE BEEN AN MBA FOR TOO LONG WHEN....

1. You ask the waiter what the restaurant's core competencies are.

2. You decide to re-org your family into a "team-based organization."

3. You refer to dating as test marketing.

4. You can spell "paradigm."

5. You actually know what a paradigm is.

6. You understand your airline's fare structure.

7. You write executive summaries on your love letters

8. Your Valentine's Day cards have bullet points.

9. You think that it's actually efficient to write a ten page
presentation with six other people you don't know.

10. You celebrate your wedding anniversary by conducting a performance
review.

11. You believe you never have any problems in your life, just "issues"
and "improvement opportunities".

12. You calculate your own personal cost of capital.

13. You explain to your bank manager that you prefer to think of
yourself as "highly leveraged" as opposed to "in debt".

14. You end every argument by saying "let's talk about this off-line".

15. You can explain to somebody the difference between re-engineering",

16. You actually believe your explanation in number 15.

17. You talk to the waiter about process flow when dinner arrives late.

18. You refer to your previous life as "my sunk cost."

19. You refer to your significant other as "my co-CEO."

20. You like both types of sandwiches: ham and turkey.

21. You start to feel sorry for Dilbert's boss.

22. You believe the best tables and graphs take an hour to comprehend.

23. You account for your tuition as a capital expenditure instead of an
expense.

24. You insist that you do some more market research before you and your
spouse produce another child.

25. At your last family reunion, you wanted to have an emergency meeting
about their brand equity.

26. Your "deliverable" for Sunday evening is clean laundry and paid
bills.

27. You use the term "value-added" without falling down laughing.

28. You ask the car salesman if the car comes with a whiteboard and
Internet connection.

29. You give constructive feedback to your dog.

Rab, its time to come home buddy, time to do something totally mindless. Look at BK, coming home totally took the pole up his ass while he was in the Big Apple.

Joe,

I'm actually visiting Manila right now. Nanood pa nga ako ng Team B vs. San Beda last weekend. Even had a chance to meet BK there.

rab, that was Team B vs. FEU in San Beda. I was there, too. You might have heard me

Rab,

Ang labo mo naman, hindi ka man lang nagparamdam sa amin. You staying long? Pare get-to naman tayo minsan.

Joe / 5-ft Carrot,

Hindi ko kayo namukaan. Imagine me approaching a stranger and introducing myself as "rabbaddal of Atenista.net". Kung di taga A.net yan, eh di diyahe na ako!

Yup, that was FEU. BK was easy to spot since he was wearing the Ateneo jersey and we used to correspond by phone in NYC. Jun Dalandan pointed him out to me. I don't think I heard you, 5-ft, bec. the men in the Ateneo crowd were rowdier than the girls. The gays over at the FEU side were also boistrous.

I'll be here about a month or so. But I've gotten in touch with some of the posters here in the forums and I will most likely join you folks in the next get-together. Minsan minsan lang naman ako babalik so I definitely wanna get the chance to see the faces behind the nicks!

Rab,

Benta mo na lang ang frequent flyer mileage mo sa akin so I can go home and join the Pasaway next season. Bwahahaha. I wonder if my batchmate Jun Dalandan still know who I am? I met his boss this past weekend, Fr. Tito, concerning the Ateneo Capital Fund. Enjoy your stay in Manila.