Work... and other things

It has been so long since i last posted that I'd forgotten I've a blog that I maintain. So it was when i was reading Dhvani's hihgly entertaining observations on teaching that I thought about penning a few lines on my life.

General events happening in the last four months:
1. I'm FINALLY a lawyer (yay!)
2. My reval results are taking an inordinately long time and hence, I've given up on them!
Bombay university has this way of making you philosophical.. its a sort of short cut course in Vedanta.. no theory.. only practicals..
3. I've begun work.
4. I've discovered that only when I'm pressed for time (like now) that I realize how many things I want to learn. For eg: I had all the time in the world to "learn a new language", "learn odissi", "learn to play the violin" before I started working. I wonder why these desires have intensified to such a point now that am frustrated that i "do not get any time to do all the things I like" becuase I'm working...!

Thats about it I think. More experiences in the next post.
Love to all until then

Birthday woes and wows :)

18th May dawned bright and early, and the usual excitement on a birthday morning was sadly lacking in me. I was generally grumpy about people not being in a mood to celebrate my bday, thanks to the grand celebrations we'd had for other functions (being my bro and sis in law's first anniversary and a tiffin-dinner arranged for some relatives) which had tired out my family. Although they had a perfectly acceptable reason to be tired, I persisted in my juvenile claim of a bday morning lacking zest. My general spoilt attitude hit home and my darling family decided that something needs to be done to pep up my day. 

So aside from umpteen calls and messages (thank you to everyone who remembered), my brother got me 2 books on his trip back from the US, my sister spent 3 hours at crossword with my dad (who took a break in between work!) and ended up buying me three books, my other sisters, with the brothers' help sat up making a presentation of my pictures with funny captions and put it up, ordered a cake, and the mothers cooked a yum Italian dinner.. In short, my unusually dull day had just gotten transformed into a classic birthday, thanks to the efforts and the love put in by each member. 

I shall forever remain grateful for the lovely family I've been born in and blessed with, to have the BEST siblings in the whole world, and the most amazing set of parents any child could ask for. 

This post comes as a tribute to all of them, who have, repeatedly, and in various ways, been there for me, making my journey of life, exceedingly pleasant! 

Thanks and hugs to each one of them! :)

Thinking up a topic to write..

I seem to belong to that category of people who think of the title of the piece they're going to write about and then start thinking along the lines of the topic. Since I have spent considerable amount of time 'thinking' about what i want to write, I labelled this post as 'thinking up.. etc etc'

Anyway, since I've mentioned thinking, I was thinking (!) about the various ways one could make their blog useful. Going through mine, I found it has zero utility value other than boring others with my relentless rambling, especially my exam woes. Unfortunately for me, very little else is going on in my life. And right now, my parents say, the focus should be studies. Of course, thats all very good, but the mind is a fickle creature and it craves to unleash its creatiwitty on a forum like this. 

Having said absolutely nothing in the preceeding paragraph, I think (!) that I should write a travelogue. Since I seem to have the compulsive desire to 'get out' of the city and visit new places, it'd probably interesting to write about my experiences.

Of course, those experiences would come under the aforementioned class of 'relentless rambling' and hence, this would be a travellogue with a twist, I shall state how one can manage to visit fatte places (ignore the lapse into colloquialism) with a minimum budget. Yes, my dear readers, it is possible to see the world with a fixed budget and I shall share my secrets with you (drums playing... for effect) More on that, after the papers.. And since Mumbai University deemed it fit to subject us to this ultimate form of unwanted stress, my posts will necessarily be deferred to sometime after 25 may! :(

My experiments with banking law

I'm wondering for the nth time what prompted me to take up banking law as my elective when Mumbai University had so helpfully left this paper as an optional one! I cannot fathom the reasons for my choice, despite the fact that most people in the class smartly left this subject on the shelf! My only consolation that my group friends (barring a few) are suffering the same fate as I (terrible I know).

Now, I'm a big secret fan and i think by constantly branding banking law as 'boring', 'terrible', 'unexciting', 'soporiphic', I'm just making the subject that much harder to deal with. Therefore, a change of approach is needed. From this moment on, banking is the 'doable', 'interesting', 'stimulating' and 'kind of fun' to do. (actually i'd started to put 'best', 'fun' etc, but i wouldn't stretch the secret theory to such insane extents either!)

Heres to new approaches! :)

Inter alia...

The title seemed fitting, because, though my exams are scarely 20 days away, i seem to be 'studying' among other things..

These aforementioned other things include shopping (for a trip that am only just "planning"), facebooking (the new cocaine), know it all quizzes on fb (to byheart the capitals and sound smart during dinner conversations) [acutally, mainly to best my brother, who has an irritatingly accurate memory for capital cities!], mickey mehtaing (its a new thing I've joined, have attended the calesthinics [refer previous post] and yoga so far and they have successfully succeeded (!) in breaking different parts of my body at a time).  

To add to all of this, i tripped and fell absolutely flat on an ironically uneven road, next to a gutter, while guiding my friend (who was parking her car), successfully managing to hurt both my knees. I thought i was being brave when i danced properly at dance class later, but I felt the foolishness of my actions catch up with me when i reached home and had knees the size of tennis balls (no exaggeration). I was extremely disappointed when none of these marks of bravado remained the next morning and i couldnt boast to anyone about my supposed fall :( 

Anyway, swollen or otherwise, my knees have given me a brilliant excuse not to go to "mickey mehta". Having said that, they did allow me to happily parade around bandra from 11am to 4 pm shopping :D 

Coming back to the studying bit, I have decided that i need  "banking law for absolute dummies" to get me through this semester !!!! Anyone volunterring to procure this for me???

Everyday musings..

I fall into that category of persons, who make great plans and resolutions in their head, but are seldom able to see it through according to their plan. After much thought, i decided the root cause for this behaviourial pattern is laziness. Although my head came up with a perfectly acceptable solution to this problem, I am yet to put it into action (a symptom of my class of persons i suppose)

Anyway, today is the day I have decided to be most efficient. Its 10.20 am. 

Results of my progress in the next post!

Exercising

I wasnt really too much of a blogging fan. This was before i discovered some very enjoyable reads by seasoned bloggers and I thought, this is fun :) It is like your own personal newspaper where you can post everything and anything you like, comment, critique, applaud, cry about etc etc. There fore, here goes:

My first post is about exercising. Since my usually limited mind could think only upto 7 am this morning when i taxed it with the charge of thinking up a topic to start my blog with. Anyway, so this morning, armed with new shoes and new tracks  etc (you get the idea) i set out for a calesthenics class at mickey mehta's 360 (very good btw)

The session was gruelling, to say the least, and my inexperienced limbs cried out loud at the effort to do crunches. Since i was so adept at performing crunches, i decided to take a nap on the comfortable mat and let the others do the exercise. Of course, my irritating partner (responding to his clarion call of duty as a responsible partner) kept urging me up, but even his persuasions could not get me to do more than 5... !never mind, i credit him for getting me up atleast for those 5 times. My sister ont he other hand, seemed born for this.. She kept going..10..20..30.. no sign of jet lag or fatigue anywhere, considering she'd just landed in Bombay the previous day.

But all was not lost and I managed to reclaim some of the lost self worth in the other exercises. The flip side to the whole thing, as i smilingly and bravely might i add, bade good bye to the fellow mates and got into the car, was a crushing pain on my shoulders which made steering a car with power steering an unbelivably difficult task. The drive back was even more painful and flopping down on the sofa at home was the sweetest thing that ever happened to me since this morning!

Tomorrow I have an aerobics class.. More updates on that later!