Just turned a year older this April. While I look upon the way last year has passed (they do breeze by don’t they?), things do not seem  to have gone as planned.

While I am exceeding expectations of my supervisors at work, certainly I have not lived upto the expectations I have set for myself. And this year I have decided come what may, I am not going to disappoint myself. Have drawn out  a list of things that I want to do this year. So hopefully when I look upon this year, I  would have a nice big smile on my face.

1. Get into a good B-school.Very very important. Top priority. Need to work real hard here.

2. Lose 12 kgs. It has to happen this year. But with no time to join a gym, things look difficult.

3.  Do things you love not necessarily things that get you money.

4. Always keep smiling. Never grumble about how life is going. This is a must for everyone, the more you grumble the more worse your life would becomes, and you would end up grumbling more. And the cycle just continues.

5. Learn, Learn, Learn.

6.  Share, Share, Share.

7. Reduce movies to a bare minimum. This one’s really tough. It’s like asking myself to stop breathing .

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No, it’s not the blog getting a new look. It’s me!

Finally, off with that bush between my nose and lips, commonly referred to as a MOUSTACHE.

Now time to change a quite a few things (and not just physically), time to set and achieve my goals, time to continuously keep learning and adding new skills(and not just programming skills), time to blog more often, time to  make and break resolutions,  and most importantly of all…… ‘Time To Keep Enjoying‘.

Kabhi Kabhi Aditi Zindagi Mein Koi……

There goes my alarm, and it’s put off even before a line of the beautiful song is completed.With one eye open , I check out the time its 6.30 am. I roll on my bed for a few minutes before deciding that half an hour of more sleep ain’t going to hurt anybody. The half hour somehow ends up into a 3 hour long slumber.

Damn it, it’s 9.30 am. Had promised I would sweat it out at the gym today. Have been skipping the gym religiously for sometime now, and my ever increasing waistline would soon be the inspiration for setting up a few jogging tracks in my area. But there’s no time now, have to reach office by 11 am.That too seems an impossibility. Dadar to SEEPZ in an hour, that too on a rainy day, would be the height of optimism.

I curse my self for being lazy, curse office for starting at 11am and not 2pm, curse my servant for not coming on time, curse my clothes for not being ironed, curse my mobile for not having being charged. It’s 10 am by the time I manage to leave home. It has started pouring cats and dogs, monkeys and elephants, and I send a last curse to the skies for starting my day in such a miserable manner.

If you haven’t understood by now, I hate rains. Speeding cars splashing water all over you and turning your formal wear into designer stuff, buses being jam packed, auto-rickshaw drivers doing nakhras to take you in, and the Mumbai traffic and pathetic drainage do not help either.

Finally manage to get a taxi, and that’s a pretty difficult task, specially if its a rainy day and if you wish to visit a traffic prone area like SEEPZ. I flung my office bag at the side and decide to catch some sleep in the taxi until the rather long journey to office is completed. Hardly have I slept for a few minutes, that I am woken up by persistent thumping on the windows of the taxi. A little girl in tattered clothes is knocking on my window begging for some money.

I’m a total disapprover of giving money to beggars as I believe you are aiding some one to be reliant on others mercy rather than one’s own hard work. So as usual, I tell the girl to move ahead, without even looking at her. But she stills pleads, saying that she is in real hunger.

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15 th April , 1912 : The Titanic Sinks

3rd December 1984 : Bhopal Gas Tragedy

23rd July 1973 : Himesh Reshammiya is born

29th June 2007 : Himesh Reshammiya debuts as an actor with Aap Ka Surrooor.

9th May 2008 : Mimoh debuts as an actor with Jimmy

And now its time to update this list of all time disasters.

11th May 2008 : Me and my room-mates decide to wake up the Sanjeev Kapoor sleeping within us and decide to exploit our culinary skills.

To all the ladies and a few men, who have ever managed to cook anything eatable in their entire lifetime, hats off to you all. One attempt at cooking and I have realised cracking CAT or I.I.T. JEE seems a lot more easier. And no kidding here.

Equipped with a lot of enthusiasm and optimistic of giving the Sanjeev Kapoors and the Tarla Dalal’s of the world a run for their money, I and my room mates decided to don the chef’s hat.

My grand-mom is the world’s best cook, mom cooks pretty well, and dad also does manage to cook well when he does decide to cook. So guess genetically ( if there are cooking genes) I was pretty much equipped to be a fine cook. So no more waitin, Sanjeev Kapoor was all set to wakeup from his slumber.

Bhendi ki Sabji, Soya beans Masala Gravy, Bundi Raita was what we intended to cook but ask my digestive system and you are sure to get way different answers. I really love spicy food but after having a bit of what we cooked yesterday, it will be good bye to spicy and masaledar food for a while(like for some centuries). Not paying heed to my friend who claimed to have some previous cooking experience, I went on adding scoops of chilli powder to every dish that was burning (cann’t use the term cooking here) on the gas stove. While she prayed for me to stop my experimentation and rest and watch IPL instead, I insisted on being innovative. Something in me said that adding Dominos chilli flakes and Dominos organic seasonings would surely give the food a different taste. It gave it a different taste alright, but it no longer remained food. And the moment I added Tropicana Apple Juice to the soya bean gravy, she gave up providing help with the food. So it was just the food at the mercy of me and my room mates innovation and experimentation.

After about two hours of experimentation with the food. The “so called food” was ready. Cooking reminded me of my Chemistry practical sessions where we mindlessly used to mix up chemicals just to see what combination would be produced. The only difference was the experimentations at the laboratory resulted in me almost losing one of my eyes and the expire – mentations in the kitchen resulted in all of us getting a bad stomach ache and losing the desire of ever having or cooking food again.

Here’s a look at what we prepared. It might look alright, but ask our angry bowels who are right now firing all kinds of expletives (arreey no need of opening up the dictionary : it just a nice way of saying maa behen ki gaaliyaan) at me and my room mates and you shall get pretty much disgusting answers.

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Fitness and health have suddenly become a top priority in my life. Have lost more than 10 kgs in the past 6-7 months but still a long way to go till I achieve my goal of achieving a great body. Riding in my 23rd year right now, want a perfect body as soon as I turn 23. So will I achieve my goal? Definitely I Will.

What’s In My Favor

• My dedication and motivation.

• This blog post, that will continuously remind me of my GOAL.

• A room mate who is equally health conscious.

The Odd’s Against Me

• A sedentary ten hours job.

• A metabolism rate that pretty much SUCKS.

• Time , that always seems so less.

• As I am away from home, have to rely on hotel food and the chefs in the restaurants I frequent aren’t particularly health conscious.

That’s Me , One Year From Now

If you need to say something, Just Say It.

There is no point pondering over things like is this the right time to say this or should I wait for a more appropriate situation. For take it from me, there is no such thing as RIGHT TIME.

I personally used to ponder over a lot over the after effects of what I wanted to say and wait for the right time to come. A wait that would never end. But have resolved to never do so in future and just express my feelings than hiding them deep inside.

So whenever you’ve got to say something, Just Say It.

If you’ve got to say Sorry. Just Say It.

If you’ve got to say Thank You. Just Say It.

If you’ve got to say I Love You. Just Say It.

If you’ve got to say F$%& Off. Just Say It.