Sunday evening!!!!

After almost a year and a half long hibernation, I am back again to the blogging scene.. I hope I write at least 5 blogs this year (last time I stopped with 4, this time looking to better my record).. lets see…

Sunday evening!!

Well, It doesn’t necessarily have to be night, for you to get nightmares (phew, I dunno how I came up with this line).. Yeah, Sunday evening to me is the worst time of the week.. The moment most of the weekend slips away from me and when the time comes when what is left is just a few hours which seperates me and yet another week, I feel so down and depressed that I don’t want to do anything. Sunday evening has a two pronged effect on me, one, I would have planned to accomplish way too many things over the weekend and I realize that I haven’t even crossed out one of those tasks from the list. Secondly, the mere thought of having to get ready to face another grueling work week demoralizes me. I cant make any serious plans during that time, because if I get a little late to bed, then I spoil my sleep, wake up late, get to the office late, still feel sleepy at the office and this phenomenon propagates itself the entire week to make it a) a highly unproductive work week b) a more tired me.. I think I might have found a temporary (or permanent) solution to break this norm, I am gonna update my blog every Sunday evening (at least try to).. I would suggest you ppl (if someone actually is reading my blog) to wash/iron your clothes, do your dishes, listen to good music, watch TV (if there is luckily any program worth watching), cook, do your accounts or simply start reading my blog. My blog would enlighten you, make you think, maybe make you ink.. (for ppl who are weak in shakespearic English – Ink means to write)..

My best blog so far…

Ignore the title, was writing after a small gap, so wanted a racy title to attract you people into reading this blog.. Anyways, I was running out of ideas (though it’s just my 4th blog!!!), so I just gazed around my living room and found out that 99% of the stuff sittin’ around me is useless… yeah, that’s the hard cold truth.. We human beings, in the process of making life easier and comfortable have complicated our lives and have put too much pressure on ourselves.. Let me give you some examples.. these are the things that I saw when I glanced around my room -- TV – biggest blunder, 999 times out of a thousand, I am watching a show because it’s the best amongst the worst.. Internet, emails, IM’s, computer as a whole, cell phone, phone, bills, wallet, money, dvd player, remote controls, furniture, carpets, doors, locks, wallet, credit cards, cell phone, last but not the least -- myself… what do we need them for? All we need is food (available in plenty, by nature, includes water).. shelter (not fancy houses, even caves are good…) and sex (the sole purpose is to just propagate the species, no inner intentions behind it).. we don’t need anything else.. the irony is people who work on these basic necessities are the ones who are in poverty – do you know any farmer who is a millionaire?? Do you know if any construction worker drives a BMW?? On the contrary, the people, who invented these useless things I was mentioning earlier and who have made life so damn complex, we haul them as pioneers, greats, legends… I mean whenever you feel stressed, whenever you feel bad, whenever you feel upset, you should blame these people to have made our lives miserable, if not for these complex things, life would have been so simple and sweet…

For a long time, I have been waiting for that one last invention –the time machine…no, I don’t wanna go to the future, I’ll go to the past… the ancient past and live an early man’s life.. where in the sole purpose is to search for food, stay at a shelter to protect myself and have sex (make love)… you know what, that’s peace… and money can't buy it… for everything else, there is your friend’s credit card!! (married women, read as husband's..)

Snooze button

One of the biggest mistakes I have made is that I bought an alarm clock with a snooze button…Why did i do that? It is common human tendency to get attracted to things which are extra/free/cheap.. I hate that dreaded button, the only time I love it is when my arm involuntarily pats it so that I get to sleep for some more time, Where in on the contrary, I should have been in my bathroom doing my daily routine stuff…Who invented the snooze button? What do we need it for? we set up our alarms knowing that we have to get up at that particular time and all of a sudden, this evil idea crops up…snooooooze.. here we go, we get up only to realize that we are gonna be really late..

I am gonna buy this new clock, which is the hiding clock when it hits the market.. yeah, It hides, when the alarm goes on, this clock rolls and hides itself at some place, like under the couch or something.. so to snooze, you have to search, go that extra mile.. I guess I would be better off getting up rather than to kneel, bend, crawl, creep, search, find, reach, snooze, get tired, sleep and get up even late!!!

Gifts

To me, finding a gift is one of the most difficult things to do. Somehow, people relate your intellectual capability to the kinda gift you get. There were a few occasions when I couldn’t come up with a good gift, so I didn’t get a gift at all. Finding a perfect gift is not an ordinary task. There is so much to it. The choice depends on the person whom you are gifting to, his/her importance to you, the occasion, the person’s like, dislikes, the things they already have and of course, your budget, etc, etc. It actually gets tougher from there, you have to find an exciting gift within that tight budget you mentally have come up with. You call your friends, people you know for some gift idea. Invariably, one of the standard suggestions I receive is that of a wrist watch. It seems to be a universal gift choice. Do you think the person who gets the watch is going to be on time every where because he/she now has that other watch? has anyone told you "Thank you for the watch, now that I have two, I am never gonna be late again!!!".

I like this idea of gift certificates. It’s like telling your friend, “hey buddy, I can’t get into these huge malls, walk miles and miles through the aisles trying to find something innovative, something new, something that you don’t have right now, something you would love to have, something which will fit my budget, rather, I am giving you a gift certificate, go get whatever you want and happy birthday!!”. I think we should put the gift voucher in a box, stuff the box, wrap it up and gift it.... trust me, that would be really cool...

My first blog

Just thought i would start blogging too..dunno, how regular i am gonna be or how long i am gonna blog, but wanted to give it a shot..as always, wanting to be a little different.. my blog is gonna be a honest record of the real life observations that I've made so far.. inspired of course by my favorite sitcom seinfeld.. let me start with a simple one to begin with..

I think one of the most difficult things to do in your life is to be yourself.. logically, it should be the most easiest thing to do, but not in reality.. we always have this super human, idealistic, imaginary guy in our minds.. the guy who sleeps at 10, wakes up at 6, doesnt skip his breakfast, is never late, is always successful, etc, etc.. we try to be that guy, knowing that we can never be.. that guy does not exist... that is the human irony.. we know we can never achieve 100% efficiency, but our entire life is based on doing that... another thing on the same notion is that we want to change everything about yourself.. yeah, you may think I would love to have a nose like nicholas cage.. man, I would like to have my hair like tom cruise.. I would like to play the straight drive like sachin.. come on guys, lets face it, that guy has put in a couple of decades and thousands of hrs of practice into becoming one helluva player, do you think you're gonna play like him just because you are holding an 8 pound bat in your hands???

note: you people might think that this is a little too seinfeldy.. actually, that would perhaps be one of the best compliments that you would have given me if you think so..