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Friday, February 27, 2009

Weekends and catching up onTV

Well, ever since Abhi made a resolve to not watch TV during the weekdays, so that we 'supposedly' spend our time more productively, and through some sheer stroke of magic (must be one of those days when my reasoning powers are at their super-low), convinced me to join in the plan, our weekend beginnings have been quite interesting. Take today for instance, he called me up at 4.30 in the afternoon, convinced me to get out of work so that we could hang around and then, instead of enjoying those one-off warm days in Boston, we headed straight back home- with reasonable haste, mind you- to enjoy all the amazing programmes that were waiting piled up on our much-beloved TIVO! It's another story altogether that TIVO decided on its own, to not work this week, which actually makes it less beloved...hmph, yet we were able to find an online version of our fav show. So anyways, after sitting glued in front of the TV for a straight hour or so, thus having satiated our pent up TV-viewing urges, we decided to have dinner.

Which brings me to the other TV escapade tonight. While flipping channels for something adequately dull and interesting to accompany my dinner preparation of methi paranthas (believe me, its always a real challenge to choose something just right on TV while i'm cooking across in the kitchen--well if I choose something real intersting, that's all I end up doing while the dishes take their own drastic course, and if it is too boring, then I spend all my time flipping channels to find that perfect dull-intersting combo). So anyways, today happened to be the former instance. Thankfully the methi paranthas survived too, and i ended up watching 'The Great Debaters' on TV. It was quite a well made movie, and i didn't know till the credits rolled up that it was directed by Denzel Washington - so kudos to him, great acting and good directing! Two other intersting factors in the movie were connections to Boston (Boston Univ and Harvard, with shots in Cambridge), as well as references to Gandhiji and civil disobedience in the climax. Since I have now completely run out of my patience with this keyboard (you should really appreciate how there is not even a single mis-spelt word in my blog, cause trust me its mighty difficult to manage that on this laptop!!) i will bid adieu!

Not bad, third day and still counting....:)
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

How to be an early bird??..(consistently!)

Not bad, not bad...my second day of the blogging initiative and all I can think about in office is blogging...but as I have also resolved...these blogs will need to be spontaneous....yet revolve around topics that matter to me...willl hopefully allow me to share my views and also learn something new by doing some necessary reasearch..so following up on that train of thought..today i'm going to write about how I should train my obstinate self to get up on time..which is 5.30 a.m. and not a second later if I want to get everything done on my plate in the morning and not be the one to walk into office later than everyone else on my team...if not the whole frickin office!!

okay..so after googling for a few minutes...here's what I have learned..tan-tan-aaaa...there are 2 schools of thought on this issue...one leans towards training the mind and the other towards training the body...in short, the former focus on cultivating self-discipline while the latter on training the body...so that essentially at 5.30 a.m. getting up will be a bodily response to the alarm clock that I would have habituated myself to....hmm...they even suggesting trying this activity out several times during the day...even when I am not sleeping...just to get in the habit and so that my body knows exactly what to do when its time to actually get up in the morning...and the mind will have absolutely no say in it. Since i have been struggling with the self-motivation option since a long time...I think I am going to give this physical habit one a shot! Nothing to lose...plus from what I have heard personally from people who consistently get up early in the morning si that it invariably is like a habit....
Another intersting tip...no matter what time you sleep at night (ie. sleep only when you are actually sleepy..don't force urself to sleep at 9.30) get up at a fixed time every day 365 days a year...this is essential for the habit forming thing to work!
So summing up on what I have decided to do....will place my alarm clock away from the bed...actually in the corridor...directly after switching it offf...I will NOT enter the bedroom again...willl directly go to the bathroom and then the living room...drink water...open all the shades...and put on some music...this sequence of events should be enough (I hope) to have thrown me out of slumber....
So update tomorrow...or rather after a week on how this has fared out..
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A naya-taaza resolve to start blogging

I still don't know why this seemed like a good idea..yet, this time around (so, yes, this is my second, hopefully , longer lasting attempt at blogging) I hope this blog remains active for at least longer than a week. I have resolved to try and blog almost every day, to not think too much while blogging...as I guess that defeats the whole purpose...to be as spontaneous as time allows...and ufff to use a better keyboard (this one's driving me nuts) and considering that i will probably have to use this if i blog at home .I'm amost thinking of taking care of all my blogging activities in office :)...wouldn't be a very bad idea maybe...so that's not bad....I've managed somethin that looks like a para already...and its time to go to bed..so ciao! and cheers to a happy, satisfying and interesting blogging future!
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