You are currently browsing the daily archive for December 18th, 2007.
1. Reading
2. Listening to racy songs with good beats.
3. Playing
4. Listening to rain falling, especially in the night
5. Eating anything which mom has cooked in hurry! ( she somehow changes the standard taste and I love that!)
6. Eating anything which granny has made ( she is one for experimenting and she wants me to finish off the whole thing, even if the recipes says “serves four” 
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7. Watching good movies ( I like all kinds of movies, depends on my mood that time)
8. Watching cartoons ( I LOVED cartoon network during ‘96-’97 then it went from bad to worse IMHO)
9.Writing poems ( I seem to have lost this art though, gotta start it once again I guess)
10. Hanging out with my budds having cutting chai
11. Staying up late night with friends chatting about nothing and everything 
12. Watching people, especially when they are very happy
13. Helping out people
14. Playing computer games, I think I pick up most games very rapidly at least initially
15. surfing to read up new things ( I was into gmail, orkut, etc much before people even started wondering about them)
16. Arranging my things ( Once in a blue moon I get this mental shock where I suddenly become neatness freak for some time)
17. Writing in different fonts ( big story, but I really like to experiment this)
18. Listening to people ( I have become so expert that I can listen for hours, and still remember what was being said)
19. Being alone ( I revere that! I really like to have a personal space, though I had never got it till now)
20. Learning new skills ( I like to always learn how things work)
21. exercising
22. Challenging myself ( In all fields in life, I also believe I have achieved many things due to this)
23. Solving puzzles ( even in my dreams I create puzzles for myself to solve)
24. Playing with my sister
25. taking photographs ( I want to develop this further )
26. Think ( I love to do this!!)
27. be lazy ( I am a libran for gods sake!)
28.My new hairstyle
29. Puns ( I love to play with words, I am good with verbal, and I love to read also! )
30. To wake up early ( the morning has its own charm I think)
31. Sitting in sun doing nothing ( I still remember one such lazy afternoon in Bangalore)
32. Hog ( I can eat way too much sometimes, and I love to do that, if I could ofcourse..)
33. To go on a drive with friends
34. To buy T shirts! ( I love to wear t shirts! and I am very choosy about them)
35. Repair things that are broken
36.Discuss ideas with people
37. Walk ( alone sometimes, sometimes with friends, and I lovvvveeee to walk with my father)
38. Go for trekking
39. Collecting and keeping relics from childhood
40. Listen to good professors, especially when they themselves are completely immersed in the topic of their interest
41. Love to eat sweets 
42. to be with my grandparents ( i can cry even now just by thinking about those days.)
43. To sleep on the couch ( its gone now… sob sob…)
44. To sit on a beach, and ponder about nothing
45. Laughing
46.Smell of soil when rain just starts to fall
47. Taking warm bath
48. Understanding something which I was struggling to understand
49. Solving objective type tests
50. Writing essays ( I used to write awesome essays for my age when I was in school, now I am trying to reclaim that skill)
to be continued….
I completed the book by Viktor Frankl last night, although I think I would have to read it a couple of times again before I would really understand what he is trying to convey.
Now the book I am reading is Cialdini’s ‘Influence’ . It’s a book in psychology about how people or events influence on your decisions. In fact, now that I am through with some part of it, that I realise what Sanjay bakshi was talking about.
Uhhhh…. How cold the world can get… especially on a winterly December morning.. I woke up at 7 am to be honest, but before I could claim the territory outside my blanket the clock was showing 8 already!
As I had planned, I skipped the exercise, although now I am having second thoughts about COMPLETELY skipping it. Maybe skipping the weight training and replacing it with something else would help me much more in establishing a routine.
Another topic I really need to think about is the waking up part. The cold is a strong foe and to come out of the blanket is the most difficult of the events I can think of in the day. I think the mistake I am making here is that of giving myself the time to think, even before I am out of bed and into the morning routine. Somehow I need to configure myself to get out of the bed before I can consciously think about NOT getting out.
Today I changed my routine somewhat, and I think this is the way to go. I took bath before I had breakfast, and I think I will stick to this routine only ( If I can call it routine just after one day). Also, today I had very light breakfast, of just one parantha.
Studied for some time, and finished reading the fourth chapter of the book. The best thing I can say is that I have already studied a few chapters beforehand, so the task is much simplified than it looks actually.
today I have 3 lectures. And during that time itself I plan to plan the day.Of course, that would be the ideal thing to happen, which doesn’t.
The lunch consisted of “Chhole” and pumpkin. The “Chhole” part really doesn’t agree with me, so I need to create an alternate plan for Tuesdays. Now, a simple plan that I have though of is to gorge on the breakfast, and survive till dinner on fruits ( oranges to be precise). Lets see what happens when I will try out this plan on next Tuesday. another plan would be to exclude “Chhole” and and eat a smaller lunch of pumpkin.
The best thing is that I was awake in all the lectures and that also without coffee . Feels so great to feel the way I was when I had just reached college, and was yet to screw up the things as far as the health, and the body rhythm goes.
Now a days I am feeling that I have so much time to myself and really not many things to do. Although thats because I might be missing out on the things I should be doing right now, but at least this is a marked improvement compared to the days when I never even realised where my day went without even lifting a finger!
I am now planning to introduce more things consciously in the schedule, keeping in mind that I am not an automaton or android who would execute the rigid plans no matter what. The real change I think I am feeling now is that I am enjoying much like I used to, but somehow I am also finding this extra time in life which I can utilise to improve myself wow! what a change in just a few days!
