that day of the week

when I am supposed to just be lazy, and be lazy I was that day.

Nothing of notice happened on last few days, except on a personal level. Nothing I could share on a blog.

Did not exercise for quite a few days, hogged around a lot more than I should, and the fat has immediately started to show. Working out is the only feasible option it seems. I will also have to incorporate the eating raw at night habit, but my mom is impossible, so unless I take up all the preparatory part on me, its not going to get done.

I ahd a very difficult month end professionally. Most of my work over month end consists of updating the client portfolios manually. Manually because my office still has not quite understood the concept of using a software to automate such processes. So we take the data from various websites and type it in excel. It is criminally stupid, but I am too junior to fight it. All I could do till now is to automate some parts of information collection by using excel web queries. And to think I never worked on excel. Sheesh, some offices just need an engineer MBA combo I tell you. As the days will go by, I swear I will make enough changes to make the organization competitive at least at the local level. I mean, clients cant even see their own portfolio real time on the net. Every time the person handling the stuff has to pull down the information, confirm about all the transactions that have occurred from various sources and then pray to the god of portfolio updation that the portfolio is without any mistakes. How my company gets clients is a question to me. Maybe because the services and personalized attention that we provide is not matchable in the industry till now. So, luckily we are ahead of the curve.

Enough cribbing. Got to go to work and make some value add tomorrow.

Take care.

its torrrrrrrrrrresssssssssssss!!

Good fun it was last night. I was at my friend’s place with 10 others to watch the final of the euro cup. We all had this betting going on within out group, nice time pass and something to discuss about.

So I won the most, and thats that.

Was sleepy today as the match ended at 2AM in the morning, and couldn’t sleep properly as the bedding was lopsided. Still feeling tired. Today being a month end was a slightly hectic day, but I had very less work. Just scraped through the day and got back home. Will sleep early today to catch up with the sleep debt i have accumulated over the weekend.

My belief in the mainstream media is over. The news is no longer information about an event, it is a sold piece of some ones opinion. Like if I am a leader, and i need to rig the public opinion over an event or need to distract them, all I need to do is get hold of a murder or theft or an imaginary affront caused to a community. And rake up a storm over it. Shuffle some feathers. Give some strong statements to some gernos. The main head lines over a long part of the month involved a double murder. All this while the oil was boiling and the inflation was flying high. Where is the relevant news these days?? That is why I read blogs. I hope I will get good information there at least. And some thoughts for food.

Anyways, todays count is 25+15 Pu.

Take care.

Sloppy sunday

I think it’s in the name. “SUNDAY’. I feel lazy just by hearing that word. Sleep late, wake up later, don’t do anything worthwhile basically just waste these precious free hours which I get out of the week’s busy schedule and work. Then evening comes, and I feel guilty about all the waste. Never missed this routine for many sundays now.

Simple solution is to have targets for the day. Just do this and do that, rest is free for you to waste! This will work for me definitely. As long as this and that does not involve investing too much time. Sunday is all about having time for me, time to hang out with the friends I grew up with, friends i critisize, friends I will not be able to ever live without ( okay, thats way too much) but still, I have had and continue having massive fun with them.

I watched “Forest Gump” just yesterday. I am shocked. Shocked that I had this movie with me all this time, and I just didn’t see it. Made a great impact on me. It told me :

• Listen to your momma, but interpret in your own way.
• Find and keep great friends, specially friends who are thinking different.
• Siting will not solve any problem, you have to run for it.
• Fall in love, stay in love.
• Try new things. Buy a boat if your friend comes up with a great business plan!
• Think simple.Stay simple.
• A great pair of shoes is one of the best gift.
• To get back the one you love, you have to let him/her go first.
• Respect choices made by other people.
• ” If god wanted to make everyone equal, everyone would have got braces”. Feel sorry for others who lack those gifts you have. So go and help them.
• Say yes, especially for giving a speech, to a large audience. you might find the one you are looking for.
• Feel proud of you kid. Specially if he is not like you.
• Whenever you make your own decision, people will follow you.
• Do what you like. Make a run for it.
• Whenever you are tired of whatever you are doing, get back home for rest.
• Stupid is as stupid does.

I am sure there are many learnings I have not realized yet, but these are enough to last me for several lifetimes, or several marathons….

BTW, that first paragraph was basically to say that I did not exercise today. Just had dinner as well, so no more opportunity. Tomorrow is another day they say….

Take care.

Lazy…

and not at all proud of it. Somehow I get this immense mental block against doing something, as if taking clothes to the laundry involves doing my engineering again or something similarly impossible. I have no clue how I came out of that engineering college in the first place. Maybe they bribed those examiners to get me out.

Another thing is that I tout some character traits as being my intrinsic part. This mindless repetition has ingrained those harmful traits in me. Like being lazy for one. I justify that one by saying librans are lazy, or that smart people find easier ways or that I am like that only and so on. Totally untrue. So I need to watch what I feel my mind. More and more closely if you may. Not that I don’t do this. Strictly no newspaper for gathering information. They put in too many depressing and negative pieces in there for my taste. Me, I am an optimist any given time of the day. I wish I could share you my “balls of steel” experience here. So be it.

So, back to the main line of thinking. I need to be more energetic. The only way to do it is to tell that to myself so many times that ultimately I know I AM energetic. Keep telling I am, energetic. I am full of energy and vitality. On and on. Continuously. That is one trait I have. Like a bulldog. Don’t think. Don’t get tired. Keep going at it, again and again. That was how I upped my scoring from 56% and a KT to 74% and university topper. In a year. Just two semesters. I used to skip my lunch and even having water the whole day. Just study.

I have moved on now. I have become complacent. Lethargic. LAZY. Too much food and too few challenges or shocks. Dad once said to me, I will not learn unless I will get a shock in life. I needed three. To change. I changed good but. I cant wait for shocks now. I may not come back to the leadership position I covet. I need to imagine those shocks. I need to feel deprived of my rightful place. Easy enough. I am off to write it out now.

Did not exercise in last few days. Bad enough. I will be back on it tomorrow onwards. Or now.

Addendum: Now it is.. Push ups 25+15. crunches 0.

Take care.

yaoo!

My first day as a worker in the office. My joining was on 7th april, but today was the day I actaully got to do something. The story goes like this:

There are five people in the office, the boss and four of us associates. The back office guy feels ill in the morning, decides to skip the office for the day. The marketing guy is in serious health trouble, is taken to the hospital by the roomie who is the third colleague.  So its me and the boss in the office for the day.

It was fun though, not really hectic but at times I got confused. No accidents though, and the day is saved. I also attended a couple of meetings, one with a client and another with a fund manager. Good day for me in the sense that things are now moving in the direction I want them to move.

Reached home late, at about 8.30PM. Had dinner today for a change. No exercise though. Sad.

Tomorrow, I am going for three meetings, will be fun. Need to hammer out what I want to accomplish in professional and personal space for next few months. till then

Take care.

Today

I woke up at 10 to 7. got ready to catch the 7.57 Churchgate fast. Reached Churchgate station and walked the way to the office that takes about 20-25 minutes. Had huge breakfast with Poha and Shira. The dude stands outside the building in which I work and his massive storage gets over by the time its 10. Then its office time. I skipped the normal tea at 10.30 but had one at around 12. Lunch is nice and the tiffin is provided by this company. Freaking good food, and the meny is hardly repeated. We have opted for an option where we get 8 rotis with vegetable and curry. Thats a collosal amount of yummy food we all enjoy to hog down.

The food part for the day ends here. In the afternoon another round or two of tea ( at 3.30 and at 5, if I am going to wait after that). And I left the place at about 5.30.  A slow walk across the sea shore again and I reach just in time to catch the Borivli fast at 6 pm ( I dont remember exactly, I just saw the “Bo ” and that the train has not come yet, and ran to get a good place to jump in) ( got window seat too , you losers!!). I reach home at around 7.30 and luckily I see couple of my friends going to the neighbourhood chaiwala. So quick cutting, and we are off to play table tennis on the table bought recently. 2-3 games and the crowd increases. I am finally at home at 8.30 pm.

Few push ups and ab crunches and its time to have fruit juice. Today its chikoo milk shake and I am done for the day. time to blog and touch base with my google reader. will sleep by 12-12.30.

So, all in all, I get free time from 8 till I sleep…. pretty boring but good enough than many of my friends.

Take care.

and I wonder…

Nice song this.

Anyways did good exercise today. PU 20+10 AC 12. My target is for 100 PU and 25 AC. The target date is 15th August.

I am a subscriber of this tiny little library couple of minutes from my place. Its actually really a shack kinda, and it has books in 3 languages. Good enough novels collection, but non fiction suckz. Anyways, picked up Paolo Coelho’s “The Pilgrimage” yesterday. Small little book, as big as two hours. As I had read The Alchemist, Zahir, 11 minutes already, so I am quite familiar with his semi mystical style. Love it actually.        The book is about a pilgrimage he takes ( erm… road to santiago..) with his guide, to reclaim a sword. Let me not write the summary here. His books are to be experienced anyways, the summary will only confuse you.

So, I am in a happy mood today, reading a good book always makes me so. The work day was also good enough. Not much of a work. For anyone. Anyone with my speed at least. Few tasks in the office, and my main job profile is all about meeting people anyways. Front end, The. Pretty glam eh? meeting those richie rich people, is boring actually. I would love to meet those first gen successful entrepreneurs but, pretty sharp them owners.

Next task is to set mile stones for next three months. Personal front and professional front.

Take care.

I is a back…

to normal life. to routine.

Daily count PU 20 AC 10.

So my boss was out of the office to Jaipur. I had no work at all. Nothing of importance happened today in my life at least. I am more thinking of taking the leaderless place ahead by some means. For those last days, I was absorbing the culture of the place, and its slow. Very relaxed. In fact, too much relaxed to feel safe in this dog eat poodle world. I mean, for buffet’s sake, the sensex went below 14K intra day. It does no harm though. The cash keeps flowing in. People are in for a long term. Not that they have much option so as to say. Even I have started investing. I am in for a long term too. I believe in buffet, but the index funds in India are notorious in their performance. Simply put, it is independent of the index they are tracking. I know! miraculous right?

So the life goes on… Need to formulate PoAs as goes my career and personal life too. The office needs a leader to give a direction. When the students are ready, the teacher appears.

ohk, fine enough

At least its a start.

I was down yesterday, and it reflected today while working as well. I have a doubt that it was mostly mental though. Just wanted to escape the routine thats built up these days. And that also within a month and half.

I need a challenge, something thats just within the outer range of my capacity. Something to fuel me, and give me something to think about the whole free time. Something to live for, something that will contribute for my future life.

Anyways, I continued on the brief burst of simplification today as well. Actually, I am not reducing the stuff per se, I am just shifting it from one space to another. So after thats done, I really need to think how to DISPOSE IT OFF. Most of it are books though, books my dad used for engineering, books which I used for my engineering, dad’s books which I also used for learning a few subjects. Too much emotional attachment I guess. That has to go. I must move on.

Anyways, todays count PU 15, AC 5

Simplify

reduce

Unclutter.

Thats the new mantra I would be adopting for the next few days. There are a lot of things occupying very critical space in my house. The only way to free up that space is to methodically reallocate or just throw away that ’someday I will use it so lets keep it today’ stuff.

Maybe my life, my mind will get uncluttered as well! That would help a lot…

BTW, it seems even focusing on one goal is difficult for me. Today I was ill, couldn’t even work out. Never mind, there is always next time.