Exams, New Template, Procrastination
Okay so finally here I am. Back again. I said I was not going to be back until January coz of exams! But turns out that I postponed that January exam to June. I realized I just wasn’t prepared to take it. Its a huge deal and I wanted to make sure I am well prepared before I take it. So now, I only have one huge exam in March - the one for my licensure.
The past few weeks have been crazy and super busy! I have been busy studying for these finals that happened last week. I have been up all night, high on caffeine - drinking coke, tea, coffee or whatever that would keep me awake all night! I guess thats what happens when one procrastinates and does not study till the very end! I really need to change these habits if I want to pass through the four years of professional school.
And now, finally the winter holidays have begun and I am enjoying every minute of it. Not that I am resting all day, because I will be working five days each week till college re-opens. Everything and everyone around is in festive spirits, with christmas presents being bought, houses being decorated and malls being jammed! Festivals are always such a wonderful time because everyone is relaxed and with family. But I must say, it has been freezing lately! That is the only downside of winter - its cold!
Now to the template, where did I get it? It was the day before my last final and you know how that is. One never wants to study for that last one because one is about done with boooks! Procrastination seeps in and then you think up all new and improvised way of procrastination. One result of that procrastination was this template! I was so tired of studying that I thought “chalo lets just check the blog for a second” and that second turned into two hours and ended only when I published this new template! Got it from Blogskins and made a few changes here and there and voila!
The most useful thing I did this past week was to come up with new ways to procrastinate during exams:
1) Sign in to ALL your different email accounts and start reading old emails and reflecting on why you wrote what you wrote then.
2) Delete all those emails you have been rotting in your inbox for the past thousand years or so.
3) Search for new templates on the web and take your sweet time doing it. And then CREATE a new template
4) Watch re-runs of your favourite sitcom.
5) Write emails to friends you have not written to in eons - does not matter if they don’t remember you.
6) Go to online shopping sites and dream about buying those items - does not matter if they are too expensive for you!
7) Download songs?
8) Take online surveys because you have nothing better to do.
9) Write a new book. Come up with the first and last lines “Once upon a time” and “happily ever-after”
10) Make a list of people you would like to invite to your wedding.
11) The room that you have been trashing things in due to lack of time suddenly is ready to be cleaned up when you actually need to be studying.
12) Internet is the remedy to all woes. it needs to be avoided like the plague during exams!
13)Change your desktop wall paper from those frilly flowers and mountain scenery to the hot guy you have always wanted on your desktop. My current desktop - Arjun Rampal
14)Check your email every zillionth of a second.
15) Hit the gym - for the first and last time of the semester!
16) Take the longest way home in hopes of finding a shortcut or that scenic road you always dreamt about
17) Read blogs and make a mental note to comment on each one, then read blogs you have never read before and then go to all your old posts and re-read them. Very insightful exercise.
18) Imagine you are the CEO of a huge corporation and give a speech to the newbies…
hehehe okay that last one I did not do, but worth a try eh?
Anyways that was it for the past few weeks. I feel like I have lost all of my writing skills - whatever little I had. I shall try to come up with a decent post soon. Need to get in that right mood to write. Till then, ciao!
wow me 1st
Becoz u put on word verification..so i wont comment 2 times
all tht lists u made..i did it today or have been doing it last few days..
like yesterday downloaded Zinda, rang de basanti, fuzon and some other songs..just lovely one..these days addicted with Addat-jal
before few mins..was just reading old posts..gives some kinda satisfaction…
welcome back..and i liked the template
God bless u !
I was to return in January too but kya karein control nahin hota.
Don’t even remind me of FINAL days. Ah!! I so hate them. I am having a great time in holidays though. Total masti. It’s been a blast.
You and your templates…sigh. I think you are doing template search 90% of your free time.
Nice ways to procrasination but you used that word like zillion times, so much so that it actually lost its meaning…LOL
ohh i used to hate exams when in skool/college…..christmas is sucha lovely festival…i love the decorations all over n santa singh jee….have a nice vacation…tc
I like the new look….. makes me wanna run to the Max Brenner next door and grab a cuppa!
Postponing exams to be better prepared?! - reminds me of myself and my Driving exam. I was supposed to give the Driving test this Feb and havent given it yet!! Just becuase I want to practise more…. but I never drive. He drives it all the time!
And Gurl - I dont even know what I do with my time…… because I cant stop complaining how slow its going….. and I cant stop making excuses for not replying to any emails from friends etc……. *I’m a bad girl!*
hmm.. so, u r enjoying the winter hols.. gud..
), I used to read blogs, comment like this when I’ve loads of work… 
reg procrastination, i guess most of us are like tht.. doing things at the end when the time is nearing.. hard to change
btb, the list of thigns u do past one week.. of those.. some of them I do everyday while at work
whenever I feel I’ve worked too much, tht i feel every 1 hr atleast
Anyway, enjoy ur christmas vacation and have fun..
oh!!!
same pinch on all the items on the list……
i do that everytime…
i have a collection of templates/picks…
i have loved blogs taht i ahve read only once..its exams naah so blog hop n hop n forget where u started!!:D
n random browsing…sigh
all this while sayin oh i have exams lemme study to the ppl on my messenger list!!!
ha! those r the days!!:)
TC,
Divs
:-))
hi kaush…
The things u have mentioned on ur blog are my fav time pass..i love making new templates..kind of gets me in a mood to blog , i love downloading songs all kinds old n new..n i also love to read my old emails…n i hit the gym everyday…have a wonderful christmas and a happy new year…cheers..
hmmmm …. I guess you are just true to your sunsign …. “..doesnt study really till the end” .. thats true with most of mercurians ….
u have some good innovative ways in those listed there ….
you postponed ur exam because you weren’t prepared! wow, i wish we had that option in engineering here…. a four year course would easily strech to six years!
i said it once, and I’m saying it again…. i looooooooooooove this template…. its just sooooooooo cool!
kaushi..whenever i had exmas coming up, i used to clean my room like a maniac! and always slept early the night before coz i was paranoid about falling asleep during the paper, so i wonder how i passed!
that was RSSSSS…damn…why does this thing have the word verification thingy? why does it exist at all anyway?-RS
good good i know all u ppl out there can’t stay back for long.. & new template is okie. but can;t sip coffe alone here
coz u come on to ur bgo while i sleep & viceversa.hmm & y r u testing (teaching) my Kindergarten skills again with those alphabets below (iz that spel check?)
well…. thats really an interesting
list
what would be more interesting would be to know how much u actually end up accomplishing…hehe
do let us know…
ooopss..
faux pass
hmmm..did u actually do all those things ? hmm….and u said u were busy with exams…lol
NEETIEji yes yes I put word verification on because blogger sometimes has several spam comments everytime one publishes..so I figured i could remove that
Haven’t heard Zinda or fuzon? ache hai? and thanks so much for liking the new template 
hahah RICKY, aisa hi hota hai…..blog veterans like us cannot leave blogging for long eh? unless there is a damn good reason. Although I must say a lot of the people I started blogging with are still blogging! its soooo great
and aise bahot kam log honge jinko exams pasand hongi! and LOL yes yes I am searching for templates all the time! But you know what..i really like this template so this one is gonna stay for a while — I am not saying for sure coz you never know when you find a better one hehhehee..:D
hey MEHAKexams are just ugggh! and if you love christmas decorations then toh you should come here! EVERYWHERE its sooooo pretty! every house has light in it! even we have put some lights…actually they have been on since diwali
but I miss diwali time in india..it feels the same..jsut colder! 
toh batao yahaan kab aa rahi ho?
NUPUR—thanks so much for liking the new template and making you run to Max Brenner next door? haha - what can i say ….that was the idea
and LOL bad bad gurl!!!! take the driving test jaldi jaldi so that you can show off your driving skills…and those things that you dont do ? dont you worry…we are all in the same boat 
Yes PRASAD, I am very much enjoying the holidays…yes yes I do work everyday but its allright, atleast there is no studying! and haha I can imagine you doing these things everyday..when there is more work, you do more non-work
;) right?
Hahaha DIVYA So you know exactly what I mean right? I guess thats what happens to the souls who are deep buried under college work! chalo great to know there are more like me!
PINKS — sahi hai! but you hit the gym everyday? thats awesome!!! unfortunately…for mme so far it has only been a means to procrastinate on something else eeesssh!
haha PV, you should know right? You too are a true blue gemini aren’t you? kya karen? I am blessed with double mercury what with my moonsign and sunsign being the same???
and you should try some of these innovative ways when you really have to do some work but really dont want to do it! 
ANKS arre yaha bhi kuch aisa nahi hai..cant postpone exams..but this exam was an entrance exam and since it is given on a computer, I can chose the date -provided it is on a day the center administers it, have a range of options for this particular exam only …so rest assured all of us in the world are tortured with exams every few months and none of us can get out….no matter how innovative our excuses are…yeh woh balaa hai jo der se aaygi par aayegi zarooor hehhe…and thaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnkkkkkkkkks for liking the template! I love it just as much too :d hehhe
hahah RS what can I say, you were a wondergirl! I do that too! clean everything like a maniac..the clean-your-dishes-immediately syndrome only hits during exam time too…the rest of the year its more like leave-your-dishes-in-the-sink-till-its-full! and lady why are your comments always anonymous? check on “other” and put in RS and your link naa
it will vbe easier that way 
Yes CHANDU cant stay away for too long from such wonderful friends can I? I have to come back to get privy into everyones lives dont i? Yes , you do come here when I am asleep and vice versa..kya karen..times dont set up well..i blog usually at night now
you are probably at work then (i hope!)and those alphabets are being tested coz stupid blogger has spam comments —sheesh what has the world come to!
tsk tsk VICKY skim kiye the kyaaa ? and then actually went and read? ki slip of the fingers ho gayaa thaa?
chalo atleast that way I got two comments from you…always the comment-yearner:D and LOL yes I was busy, but busy trying way to not study for exams 
Talking about exams, made me to reminiscence, my exam days, staying up all night, phew ! glad its over
but once its over, u will want those days bac 
Winter is my fav season too, to jus chill
D and enjoy the festive feeling..
Hi Kaush, will read the post later, but can you give me your cellphone number? I need some help.
wud love to be in the US of A during Christmas…..i loooob Santa
Kaush!!
Sorry late for commenting!
first of all its an awesome template, Coffee devi/devta ki Jai ho!!! Looks pretty coool!
and could so much identify with the last part of ur post, checking email every second, cleaning up old emails, checking blogs and making a mental note, going to online shopping sites every half an hour etc. etc…!!
read this line on facebook - Procrastination: If You Wait Till the Last Minute, it Only Takes a Minute To Do!
cool, right ?
very nice post kaush dear. staying busy is good..but take some time to rest and enjoy the holidays!
i also love doing many of the things you said.. reading old emails.. sending emails to those friends that i haven’t talked to in a long time… cleaning up my room!!! (its so true yaar..just during exam time i would crave to clean my room!
)…looking at site to buy stuff.. yup done that.. as well as create a wedding guestlist (that’s how my current list that’s on my site was born 
)
its amazing how you can do just about anything BUT study….but then at some time it will hit you that your time is running out and you need to take the time to review once more.
all the best dear! happy holidays!
JS I know once these days are over I am going to miss them a lot! I had a professor tell me once that the best days of your life are the days you spend as a student! Your limited responsibilities include studying and getting good grades and not worrying about those bills, kids, etc etc! Sigh! Sach kaha hai!
Sure ITNL Yahoo pe bheja hai! Email bhi karna …anything bad?I am very curious now..shall wait.
Hey MEHUL!! Thanks so much for liking the template…and speaking of coffee - caffiene is the only thing that kept me going during those exams days..and you being in the exact same position as me..i know you totally understand! waise facebook reminded me..i need to go there!
Sahi hai POONAM You want to do everytthing BUT study during exam time..and haha I have started on a wedding list..dekhte hai kab khatam hoga!