….or atleast resolutions that I am going to try and keep!
There have been several things on my list of to-commit-to-soon for a loooong time now! I have either been too lazy, too preoccupied, or just plain procrastinated on trying to accomplish any of these. So am making a concrete running list. Lets see kitna hota hai aur kitna nahi…
- Clean my room before Diwali! (the state is NOT abysmal anymore:))
- Start working out (this has been on the list of ages now….need to need to absolutely need to get on with this one)
- Create back-up of everything on my laptop..finished half of the backing up! (I have been thinking about this but have not gotten around to it. Am scared of losing all the content. Work/college documents, pictures, and my beloved songs!)
- Work on improving my posture (have noticed a slight humped posture in pictures and in my mother’s reprimanding words…am going to work on keeping my muscles intact!)
- Work on ergonomics and my instrumentation techniques so that I do not get carpel tunnel or atleast prolong it! (along the same lines..habituate my muscles)
- Save money…(pucha naa yaar kya hua 
)
- Study and prepare for the Dentl Admission ka Test for four more years of teeth-study! SIGH!
- Study and prepare of my board exams for licensure
- Have breakfast each morning (trying to start healthy eating habits now..)
- Reply to emails - official and personal (I know i know..I really need to work on this)
- Actually accomplish everything on this list or atleast try to 
I was at the local grocery store today and overheard two kids talking about how one’s daddy had bought her a BMW to take to high school. The other girl talked about how her dad did not understand her needs and gave her his old car to take to school. The BMW daughter said,
“Yea but you know, I think I am undergoing major “depression”. I mean I have a new car and all but daddy wouldn’t let me go to Cancun for Spring Break last year and refuses this year too. I mean how sad is that! I just don’t understand why my life has to be such hell. I mean comon….I neeeeeeeeedddddddd to be in Cancun with my friends right? I think I am gonna have some major depression if he doesn’t let me go this time either”
The other one seemed to totally understand what the deal was and nodded her head apologetically. Yours truly here wanted to go shake the girl up and tell her that she was way blessed and just had to take a look around to get rid of the depression. Pitied her too. Poor little rich girl.
In contrast, am posting a picture I had come across a year or so ago.It is a young girl photographed during the Sudan famine. Contrary to what the picture says about the photographer, he did not leave the scene immediately. He “sat under a tree and cried and chain-smoked” and couldn’t distance himself from the horror of what he saw. He does not know what happened to the girl. What would I have done?
A picture is worth a million words….
Luck of the draw????
It is around 5 pm on the east coast. A certain girl enters her apartment and walks directly to her room. She surfs the net for a few minutes and then decides she needs to go to Walmart. She is in her room with her room door shut. She wonders if her roommate is in the apartment in the room across from hers.
Conversation on a certain Yahoo! Messenger….
kaush: are you in the apartment?
berly: Lol yeah hon
kaush: LOL
kaush: i m gonna go to Walmart soon
kaush: wanna come?
berly: I would like to, but I’m not feeling so hot, and I neeeeeed to study.
kaush: well its a long trip, walmart, this school that I have to drive to tmr and all
kaush: oh okay
kaush: test tmr!
kaush: ?/
berly: yea, Italian
kaush: what do you wanna have for dinner tonite?
berly: dude, i’m just walking over to talk to you
kaush: lol…oh okay!
That was the chat conversation that I had with my roomie…verbatim! No joke! She was in the room across from mine. We had quite a good laugh over it and it was all in good humor. However, thinking about it now, its really kinda sad. And although both of us arent that bad, there are people whose complete lives are devoted to being online. On one side, people make lasting friendships online sometimes, somebody needing help recieves tons of it through forwarded messages. And on the flip side, we are calling our friends less and less relying on offliners to talk to them. Sometimes we don’t see or talk to friends for long periods of time but through forwarded messages.
Without pricking too deep into it, let me say we did get a kick out of this little incident. Twas’ fun “talking” online to the roomie in the next room 
hehehe…
Sigh. The face of things to come????
Had a very uneventful weekend. Worked both days, decided I wanted to study some but ended up doing nothing, thanks to sheer exhaustion. Instead, I saw Mangall Pandeyy. What a waste of time too! I shall spare the agony of even writing another review on this movie. Sigh.
To my delight, papa had filled the fuel tank of the corolla completely and I did not have to worry about that today. The car is fine now. The new tyre looks nice but it seems like the other three old ones don’t like it! I don’t why, but it just looks like it haha.
It is Sharad Poornima today and also the last day of garba and dandia ras at the mandir hall. I did not go this year on any of the days. My brother and cousin went for five days and are going today too. I am just not interested this year. I do not know what it is but I used to not miss garba at all and used to wait around the WHOLE year for navratri to come by. This year, it feels different. There seems to be a bigger void than all the past years. There is nothing that motivates me to get ready, be happy, and dance all night. So I decided not to go, not even on sharad poornima much to mom and dad’s surprise who kept wondering, is saal suraj kahaan se uga!
Instead, took a long drive by the lakeside under the full moon. My idea of garba at sharad poornima was to drive over the lake listening to ‘dholi taro dhol baaje’ at the highest decibel. The night was bright with shining stars and the moon’s light (well the sun’s to be technically correct). Had the sunroof open and let the light filter in as I drove over the lake. It was the most exhilarating feeling as I could see the moon’s reflection over the lake and the ripples that the waves caused in the light. Only thing missing was him! Would have made the night perfect. Sigh. I guess a lot of “perfect nights” shall remain imperfect until the time we are together again.
This week is full! Well half the week is full. Have break from Thurs-Sunday. Two tests, patients, and community screenings packed into the next three days. Atleast the time goes by faster that way. Sigh again.