As a follow up to Resolutions’10.

So its about to be a month since the beginning of the new year and hence my implementations of the resolutions which I blabbered about all over in my previous post. And its my moral responsibility towards “mujhe chahne wale” people, towards “I told you so keep the resolutions in heart, dont just pen them down” people and towards those who have a secret crush on me ;)(if any :D), to update about my status.

1.Addiction of Caffeine:- Notice the word addiction, you get to know that you are addicted to something or somebody only when you try to lose them. And so thats the case with me too. I just came to realise that, wow I have an addiction, I am addicted to caffeine. Although the case is better than the pre-resolution time but to bring it down to a ground low is I think impossible for me, especially with our profs taking so much pleasure in providing us a good 3 hour sleep daily and the coffee centre being so close to the classroom. The chaos at the core-2 coffee shop is not enough to shake my determination of grabbing a cup of coffee.And ya, while writing this para, I coulnt resist going two floors down to have a cup of coffee. 😀

2. The Nocturnal Me:- There is a story which I heard when I was small. A crow jealous of peacock, tries to disguise itself as the peacock by wearing its feathers, but when it speaks it gets caught. Same story with me, however hard I try to become a human by waking up in the morning to attend the classes and claiming to my friends on the friday “Is hafte maine sari classes ki hain”, the saturday brings forth my true self. Except for the cases when I am summonned by my professor to attend some seminar or something, 😀 I need some inspiration on the weekends to wake up. (Today I woke up at 2 in the afternoon, and missed all the classes as I was not well :D).

3. The Rusted bones:- Maybe the grease got expensive or maybe I got more lazier, this is the only resolution which I havent even touched upon in the whole last month. I cant wake up in the morning to go with manpreet and in the evenings I have no partner. But ya I can claim that my typing speed has increased since the implementation of the resolutions. 😀

4. Talk more, Chat Less:- This is the only resolution I think I am proud of. I have cut down my chatting time. Except for the cases where I have to talk to someone(or to publicize my newly posted post :D), I usually don’t come online. And I have spend some 200 bucks on phone this month. In the present call rates thats somewhere between 330-400 minutes talking to my family and friends. 🙂

5. The Blog is rolling Baby:- Technical posts are bad, they consume a lot of time and no one reads them. 😀 So I dont regret not letting out even a single one. Although that doesnt mean I have totally shunned them. And regarding non tech ones, they are spontaneous and unpredictable, they dont come to the mind everyday, so I am happy with the 3 posts I have written this month. 🙂

So I know I am going to hear a lot of “I told you so” or “koi baat nhn resolutions to todne ke liye hote hain” comments. But its been just a month, and I have a whole 11 months ahead of me for perfection. 🙂

So now as the new year is approaching, everyone is busy making resolutions. So I thought lets give it a try. So here I am penning down my new year resolutions.
1.Cut the Caffeine:- It was not so long when I actually started believing that if I cut my veins, a fluid which is roughly a mixture of one-fourths of tea and three-fourths of coffee would come spurting out. Though things have improved since then but still needs to be improved. So with this new year I plan to reduce my caffeine intake.

2.Try to be human, not an owl:- I wonder how our body gets to know what is a bad habit so that it can catch it easily. There’s no guarantee that a 10 days of proper sleep would provide me with a 11th day of proper sleep without any effort but there is a cent percent guarantee that a one day’s improper sleep would provide me with a month’s improper sleep without any effort.There have been days when I missed the face of the sun totally, especially in Guwahati where it sets early.So I now plan to be strict with my sleep timings.

3.Grease your rusty bones:- All thanks to my beloved Department of Computer Science, the only bones of my body which are rust free are I suppose my fingers. I am a touch-typist you know. :). So I am planning for a jogging sessions regularly in the evenings. Its manpreet’s responsibility ofcourse, so I dont have to worry about it. 😀

4. Talk more, Chat less:- Chatting is bad. Its slow and addictive. Also theres no warmth in the chats. So with the call rates going down, I plan to call regularly my family and friends, and defer from chatting. 🙂

5.Keep the Blog Rolling:- Although originally I planned for a technical blog, but one heartbreak changed everything. 😀 . So now its both technical and non-technical. So now this year I plan to let my imagination fly.And sure I’d like to bring some technical stuffs in between. 🙂

P.S.: I did not mention that I resolve to increase my CPI, so please dont urge me to do that. 😀

A few days back, 24th to be precise, I had a wonderful evening with Raghav, one of my best friend. The title of this post is just one of a dozen of things told to me, I wonder why? 😀

25th of December is Raghav’s b’day for those of you who don’t remember or don’t know him. So I threw a party for him. It was just we two. Only boys, and not the chatterboxes. 😛 So we bought a packet of kurkure, 2 bottles of sprite and a bottle of “this thing” and went for a drive to kaliasoth. There we mixed this “this thing” into sprite and our party began.

I curled my lips around the bottle and the clear liquid started flowing into my throat straight to my stomach and the intestine. It was like a hot magma flowing into a freezing valley, melting the ice coming in its way and relieving the valley of the chill of the winter. I could trace where it was at any particular moment. The stillness of my mind melted away and I could feel a new excitement, a new passion, a new confidence that told me I could rule the world.

So we called one by one our friends. The ones we got to talk to were shilpi, kratika, aditya, shivam, raman, megha and nikita.  The boys being our best supporters welcomed the party though we had to listen a lot many things from the gals. “Raghav tune sanmukh ko bigad diya hai :P”. “Use Call mat karna, tu hosh mein nahin hai”. I had to recite the birthdays to prove that I was on my own, although I dont know how much it helped. 😀

So it was yet another wonderful evening where I got to know how rich I was in terms of the treasure of friends. Love you all guys. 🙂

Cooking is an art says they but every thing can be cultivated says I(stolen from krishna ma’am’s treasure :D). So I started off with my cooking classes with my first project being “Veg Biryani”.

Well some may not call it a good start as I skipped the boring part of cutting the vegetables which my mom did instead. I directly jumped to the part where I lit the stove and put a cooker on it. Then I put in some ghee followed by jeera, rai, elaichi etc etc. Now translate yourself these ingredients as I am in no way offering you a “dummy’s guide to cookery by a dummy” :P. Then some tomatoes, cauliflowers, onions, and soyabeen baris were the ones to jump into the cooker. I mixed them thoroughly, which I suppose helped my body to exercise some of its unused parts.(I dont think watchin movies and sleeping most of the time require all the portions of the body :D). So then I added some rice and water, again mixed them for sometime and was about to close the lid. Wait I missed something, oops I forgot to add salt. So I added some salt and finally closed the lid.

Now I had to wait for the acknowledgment of the cooker that everything inside it has been cooked. Meanwhile, my excitement  brought me here to write this blog post. I hope when I open the cooker and eat whatever is inside it, it tastes somewhat better than that thing which I had to eat daily in the hostel mess.

Its the moments of happiness which makes you prepared for the depressing hope crushing life ahead, they give something to hold on to which life can never take away from us.

Today it was a similar evening worth remembering till the end. It started with my friends Raghav and Kratika picking me up from home from Raghav’s brand new I10 and raghav being the driver :P. Then we picked up nikita which was when the silence broke for ever. Although before in no terms it could be called a silence but as compared to the entry of nikita in the car and moments thereafter, it was no more than the silence of a library where you could hear even a pin dropping on the floor.

The whole hangout was marked with uncertainties, rather a better word would be confusion. We fought over deciding the places we eventually dint go and went to the places which were in first place not even a part of discussion or say fight. We went to the lake side, and my wallet got lighter sponsoring the food supplies and then we went for a stroll alongside the lake. The most amazing part was Nikita paid for our bhel-puries, definitely a tale to be passed on till generations ;).Then a drive along the lake and a crawl on the busy roads of bhopal led us to a decision we never even considered before, we were going to kaliasoth dam at 8 in the night. We took some snacks with us went on with our adventure. Then after admiring the beauty it was time for us to return. The return journey was marked with the world famous words(screams) one hears from the mouth of gals “Yar raat ho gayee hai, late ho gaye, ab daant padegi.” 😛

So we dropped them one by one and went on to our homes. It was a beautiful evening and theres a lot more to it but i just dont have the words to express them.