A Week of Mixed Emotions

Mission weight loss continues: It started on 13th April and despite the unlucky date to start it on, I have surprised everyone at home(none more than myself) with the regularity of it. I have not skipped it for a single day and now the limbs are getting to normal. I don't know how many of you have experienced it but if you play/exercise heavily after a long gap, the following days turn out to be a nightmare. All the imaginable joints and muscles in your body start aching like anything. For the best part of the week gone by, I felt as if someone had pumped a good 5 kg of Iron into both my thighs and shoulders. The entire body was feeling so very heavy but thankfully I stuck to the routine and now it is much better.

Two days back I proudly announced to my elder brother that I have hit 50 sit ups in a day, in 3 segments(25+15+10). It was then that the old IMA trainee in him woke up and asked me to show how I had been doing them. He showed me the "correct" way of doing it and the next day my 3 segments of sit ups had the count 15+8+3 !!

All in all, the exercising part is good and now I am addicted to it.


My N-73 roars back to life-This was the best part of the week. Normally I am not extravagant but when it came to buying a new mobile last July, I wanted it to be the best possible thing. I begged to my parents for increasing(nearly doubling) the upper limit set by them so that I could go for the nokia N-73. I had made enough money from my blog so I was confident of affording the phone, which is what I actually did.
Here is a short account of how I ruined it. I was hell bent on getting it repaired but some logistical obstruction(read money) or the other(read time) kept on popping up and I was not able to get it sorted out. The minimum requirement for the repairing was a four figure amount and I did not want to bother my parents with it. I decided to make some more money out of my blog apart from taking up a few sponsored posts and thanks to
this website, I was able to earn enough and get my phone repaired. That mobile and my wristwatch(gifted recently from bhaiya-bhabhi on my birthday) are my two most loved possessions and I can't really put to words how happy I felt on 17th April, the day I got it repaired.

IPL 2 - The Passion is back:The IPL started two days back and honestly, I was not really looking forward to it. I even missed a major part of the games on the first day but seeing Rajasthan Royals crumble to the spin of Anil Kumble was a great sight. Rahul Dravid's half century in the same game was equally impressive and that gave me an impression that this time round, there would be a fairer contest, as the bowlers are getting help from the South African pitches, something that was missing in India last year. The opening day was good enough to get my Delhi Daredevils T-Shirt on for the next day and the team didn't disappoint, giving over rated Punjab the battering they deserved(but somehow escaped) last year. All in all, I'm back in the IPL mould and that win covered up for Manchester United's semi final loss to Everton last night.

Getting rid of those THREADS:You can't keep everyone happy in life and there are times when you have to take a stand. I am an egoistic person and even if you're my friend, there's only "x" number of times I would compromise on my BIG ego to mend our relations. I decided a few days back that I had had enough of "friendship" with this person and in this "friendship" that lasted less than two years, I felt cheated. I have been trying to break free of the threads that surround all of us and hopefully this is the first step. I do feel a bit sad after having refused "any possibility of future communication" with the person but then, that is how I am. Once I take a decision, whether right or wrong, I stand by it.So, arrogant as I might sound, I have cut out the risk of deservedly expecting a birthday wish from someone and then not getting it.Time is a great healer and I'm sure in the coming days I will learn to move into the same loneliness that has been my faithful companion all these years.

All in all, life's been going fine and the only concern for me now is to get my mid term training report approved, signed, sealed and then sent to my college.Once that is done, I'll be busy preparing the industrial training report and then the final report of my last semester project. How I wish I was doing my project with someone who could do all this work for me..