2 States -- the story of my marriage by Chetan Bhagat

Forgot to update that I completed 2 States - the story of my marriage by Chetan Bhagat

Completed 269-Paged "2 States-the story of my marriage" by Chetan Bhagat just now. Its very good. Almost every Indian guy in love will connect well to the story ;) on Nov 15 ..

Joy in the Morning

Completed 300 Paged "Joy in the morning " by favorite writer P.G.Wodehouse. I am pondering,musing,brooding and what not over the point why am I able to complete fiction and why not those tech books which I want to read so Much? Why why why? Any help would be appreciated

The 700 Challenge Part - 3

My last post was on Nov 9 and its Nov 23 today. On referring my progress tracker on this challenge, noticed that I completed 149 pages. 551 pages yet to be completed. As I mentioned in some other post, is it going to be yet another incomplete project? I don't know ! I am starting it today again... Will post the progress at EOD.

Wish I could complete this.

BiNgO,

tHe DrEaMeR

The 700 Challenge Part - 2

I started many things in life and left them incomplete just after finishing first 10% of what I thought of achieving. I hope this wont be same case with the current challenge I posed to my brain. Unavoidable things made me stop reading for three days but some strong Fire.. the urge to say out loud to the world that even I will complete what I want to complete.. drove me to sit, and complete few more pages. Each page I am reading, is surprising me ... giving me the right kick I want just like reading some thriller. Its 4:33 am. I am forcibly quitting reading just to make sure that I wont waste whole day tomorrow due to sleeplessness. I want to come back to the book as soon as possible and reach my target of completing 700 pages soon .. very soon and laugh out loud... very loud saying.. I started it, I completed it.. I DID IT..

Lets watch the game

bInGo,

ThE dReAmEr

The 700 Challenge!

Before I criticize my attributes, I am taking a challenge to prove my self and get the confidence that I can read technical books. I decided to READ. Two books off.
Excel 2007 for Dummies and Excel 2007 VBA for dummies. Total of 700 pages. I am amazed to see various features of Excel That I did not use all these days just after reading first few pages.
I finished 105 pages till now. Six hundred pages more to win the challenge I posed to myself.
Hope I wont quit before completing the target atleast in this.. Wish me all the best :)

bInGo,
tHe DrEaMeR

Build to last part-2.

3:23 AM. As always, Feeling absolutely sleepy.

However, I wanted to start the discussion about the first attribute

Laziness:

This attribute I think, is pretty common among most of us. I somehow caught this/developed this into my personality during my early Graduation days when time was ample, goal undefined. Till that stage my schedule was pretty tight. All of a sudden, there is no one to make me do things. I was on my own most of the times.

At this juncture, this super slow poison called Laziness entered my system and has been the top-most self-destroyer till date. Believe it or not, it took seven years for me to realize and most importantly accept that I turned lazy!

This attribute robbed away many things from my life. Right from good grades at College to many more such things.

When we think about it, Profit of being lazy is .. that day will be completed unproductively. It's not that Laziness makes you happy. Losses are numerous.

It just keeps your goal one day away from you. These one days accumulate and keep pushing your ideal way of life away from you.

One of you am sure will throw a rotten tomato at me and yell.. dude what's this? Didn't you know all this while that if you build laziness into your system, that will push you away from your aims?

I would rather wipe that rotten tomato, smile at the person who threw it and inform him

Mr. Tomato thrower, I knew this all along . However, it never occurred to me that I must jot all my attributes some where, do a profit - loss analysis and build the attributes only if Profits outweigh Losses . This process of analyzing attributes, keeping the profitable ones and dumping the useless ones occurred to me very recently and here I am.. trying to do that.

So out of experience ( 7 years experience Mind it! ) I came to the conclusion that Laziness sucks big time. I MUST sleep only SIX hours a day and must be doing something or the other rest of the days.

My decision would be to avoid Mr.Laziness's company as much as possible and if I really ever had some time to kill, it's better to do the P-L analysis for everything.

Hope you will enjoy reading this blog as much as I enjoy writing it ( stolen-standard-dialogue :) )

BiNgO

ThE dReAmEr!

Dream.. Protect.. Achieve.

Build to Last.. Part 1

Thats a stolen title and people who read that book will know that. For rest of you, please feel free to remember that this is a title created by me :)

Just now( 3 AM to 4 AM ) had great food and tea . Kept thinking many things that are making me unhappy. Giving me sleepless nights ( sleepless mornings rather! ) .

By the time I finished the food, mind felt lazy to think and felt like dozing off. Tried to hire an auto - the Indian Taxi but failed. Walked almost two and a half miles to reach my abode. Strongly felt like writing a post on my very own blog and here I am.

I am not even sure if I will complete my flow of thoughts.

First things first,

There are few attributes of mine which always gave me hard time. I tried to list all of them below

• Laziness
• Forgetfulness
• Loose tongue
• Fickle Mind
• Take it easy kinda nature.
• Lies
• Fear

May be I did not list them all. Above listed are the attributes that came to my mind first.

I know most of my readers ( if any !!) are intelligent enough and well aware of Profit - Loss Analysis.I always preach people about Profit-Loss Analysis though I never followed it myself ;)

Its high time for me to practice it!

Simple logic.. If you are doing something which is constantly robbing your happiness ( and sleep for that matter :D ) Why The F you should hold that attribute? Sounds simple enough doesn't it?

Its 4:53 Am and feeling very sleepy. Will continue my flow in the following posts.For my readers convenience, I will be posting these thoughts in several parts . So that it will be easy for you to read it in proper sequence

bInGo

tHe DrEaMer

Next is What?

Don't be to eager to scroll down to the bottom of this post to know what I am speaking about. It's again same thing .. Confusion :) . I am not too sure if I will maintain that at least?

Last but one post on May 20 and Last post on Aug 30. Today its 11-Oct-09 2 AM.

Not bad back to blog pretty fast this time...

I will be granted a new role at my work pretty soon.. the one I was speaking about in my last post.

My Brother is now an almost-dentist. Passed BDS in first class.. Pretty happy news :)

Same old complaint about my self .. not at all concentrating on weight.. eating almost every food coming on my way. May hit 90KG Mark soon :) .. Pray god that wont happen and that I must reach my dream weight 73.

I've grew my hair long again. Trying to wear Pony tail as frequently as possible. Wearing that at office and roaming around. I don't know but I somehow feel doing that removes all the inhibitions I have in my mind. and make me better person.

Books? Yea coming to that. finished Much Obliged Jeeves again! pretty cool stuff. Right now trying to finish 36 short stories by Jeff Archer.

I think its time for me to move away from fiction for a while. I'm getting quite bored. I am supposed to learn Programming languages! Well, I somehow wanna learn the LAMP solution Stack as its open source and I think have thats what organisations worldwide need after recession.

What else.. Yep This Oct 18 my bike will be one year old :) It crossed 5000km mark yesterday.

Learning new technologies, Weight Management , Personal relations management ..

Music, and redefining how I look... being transparent to my Mom and Girl more often.. trying to do these all at one go..

Wish I could blog more often and try to make my self a better person .. and reach those ten things I listed some time ago..

Bingo

tHe DrEaMeR

My Blog... My life

I know I am writing seldom in my dream blog.. However I am coming back to it now and then.. yesterday most happiest thing happened in my life.. My girl's parents came to my place and spoke to my Mom. They were there for about three hours.. and wow what a three hours.. Touchwood.. Touchwood and Touchwood.. Hope this goes well and I will get married to my cute little devil..
Listening to Vamsi-Ilayaraja combo music.. wow this just lifts my mood up...I dont mind listening to this music daily... the instruments Ilayaraja used.. the voices of the singer.. the lyrics.. the way Vamsi extracted this music from Ilayaraja everything is just perfect. I don't know if something can be better than this..
Have been eating lot of junk these days ( as usual ) :D.
Started listening to Anandam - Devi Sri Prasad's cool music
Hmm.. coming back to life..
I am not liking the way I am working at office. That is not my signature work.. I would love to give my best at work.. learn new things day in day out and get perfect in things already learnt..

From this sep 15th, I will be totally involved in tech-support from Accounts Payable. I love this and would love to prove my mettle here .. I wanna grab one more promotion by March- 10

What else.. really wish I could post more often here.. all my thoughts about my life .. my philosophy about life etc .. Let us see :)

bInGo
tHe DrEaMer

Strangely ... feeling young!

I don't know what took over me.. suddenly I am not able to concentrate on my job.. I want to travel.. I want to make adventures.. I just want new experiences.. I am feeling you again.. When I saw my body in mirror I felt as if I am 40 at 24! But suddenly.. I want to get back to youth!
I wanna workout.. I wanna go on long drives on bike.. I wanna bet on shares.. I want to Study! wow What is happening to me! Hope I will do all these things in the near future!
The dReAmEr

My blogging rate!

I conceptualised this blog to reflect my life! But as usual, I thought of a concept but am not working on it! I am posting this almost two months after my last post.. my left foot

The dReAmEr

Where am I in my journey to reach ...My dreams??

Ten wishes and the progress so far

1. My weight as of 27-DEC-08 is 84. I want my weighing machine to flash 73 when I climb it
*** All efforts I am keeping are going futile because I am getting attracted to junk just after one week of proper dieting :( MUST find a solution for this.
2. I wanna see Rs.50,000 in my salary account after all deductions
*** Recession sucks big time. Normally for my current efforts I must get a promotion this April drawing this dream little closer. But due to recession I dont know what the management decides!
3. I want to marry the girl I love
*** Good thing is I spoke to her parents. they are OK with me! :) but the catch is they want the marriage to happen in a Super grand way ! and expecting huge function from me too. Around Six lakh Indian Rupees is what they expect me to spend. If I spend some three lakh indian rupees for everything put together I will be on safe side. Else I will be in neck-deep loans. Don't know why she doesnt understand all these calculations! She too stubbornly wants the marriage to happen in a Grand way!
4. I want to tour entire europe. Especially I want to visit 221, Bakerstreet, London
*** I don't think I must think about this in current situation :) this can definitely wait!
5. I must learn programming! I want to write an application
**** There is little progress in only this dream :) I already created two tools at office which the office ppl found quite useful!
First tool is launched and used fully. And second tool I launched only partially. To make the tool work exactly as I envisioned, I am learning VBA. Will update this once I launch the tool fully and when it starts functioning exactly the way I want it to work!
6. I want to establish a firm and hire atleast hundred people.
*** Right now I am trying to save my job! So this dream is still far
7. I want to get a distinction in PGDRM and PGDSCM
*** :( :( What should I tell? I paid Rs.20,000 Indian Rupees for this course in the month of July 2008. Believe me or not. I did not even touch the course books till now. Must hurry in achieving this dream too. else the validity will be gone.
8. I want to learn Skipping!
**** Another thing that I am neglecting out of sheer laziness. Bought a skipping wire and jumped a couple of times. Thats it. Now the rope is sleeping in its box!
9. I want to take my mother and brother to a foreign tour.
*** I need atleast Three laks spare amount to acheive this! what else Can I say?
10. I want to inspire atleast three people. They must be influenced with my words or my life.
*** I am not making concious effort for this. But one or two mentioned that I am inspiring them! Don't know how!


The dReAmEr

On a Breezy Summer Morning....

I am posting after almost one month.. After a long time I woke early this morning.. Wow what a morning.. When I stood in my balcony golden sun rays shone and cool breeze touched my face gently. My spirits lifted up and felt generally good about life. Why would I waste such a feel? Leaving my ever-buzzing mobile at home, Went to my parking place, took my just-cleaned-shining Super Black Honda Unicorn. Drove aimlessly through the empty green roads with a song from Delhi-6 loitering in mind.. After absorbing what all the breeze I can, sat at a little road-side hotel and had Steaming plate of idli.. Wished world would stand still like this for a moment.. Stared my bike again and drove back home.
I am just feeling like showering love on everyone..
My mom looked like an angel when she gave me one cup of hot steaming Coffee..
Wow Breezy summer mornings really .. ROCK..
Naalona pongenu narmadaa....
The
DrEaMer...

The Joy of invention..

Yesterday when I came home from office at 02:00 AM and started reading Atlas Shrugged, I suddenly got an urge to do something with Access 2007 . Turned my machine on and started working. By 7:30 am, I created a little database which really really made me jump with joy.
Its working as I want it to work. I felt this is what life is! Knowing something I never thought I will know! Now I want to write still complex and more useful applications

bINGo
tHe DreAmeR

03-Jan-09 Job Routine

Yesterday morning I had rice for breakfast and noodles for lunch made at home. So far so good.
But in the evening when I picked up my girl, I had Samosa chat and pani puri. after that a cup of coffee, Three bondas three vadas, dinner and then cool drink! and Gained Countless calories :(:(
What happens today?
I need to go to office now! to make reports and stick posters!
I do not know about other offices but one thing I realised is Learning Access, Excel and Powerpoint is very very important in my office!
I sincerely wish I could learn something about each of these daily !
Already 57 hours flew in 2009 with no solid results! :) Lets see what today would be like!
The Dreamer

My Books!

I have the habit of reading books whenever I feel lazy!
In 2008,I think I read about twenty to thirty books. Since I did not Jot down What all I read, I dont know what I read. So in 2009 I will update about my reading in this blog.
You know what! I started ATLAS SHRUGGED for third time now. Hope I will finish this time! It looks like a dictionary though :(
Bingo
The Dreamer

Living By hours...

2009 . Will this be THE year for me or yet another year?? Well time answers that question.
I made up my mind To Live By Hours . To achieve what all I dreamt..
Its already 24 hours and 16 minutes since 2009 entered. What did I achieve?
** Worked at office with horrible laziness
**My girl fought with me for not keeping the promise of meeting her and taking her out :D
Is this what is life? Is this what I want out of my life? " NO"
Why am I asking the same question to myself day in day out when I know the answer before I pose the question?
When I know the solution for a particular problem before hand , why dont I act upon it?
I know that I will gain weight if I take food with high calorofic value.Yet, I ate two big pieces of New Year cakes, one egg puff, Ice cream and many more !!
I know to get promoted at office I need to work hard at office. But in reality what am I doing?
Working HARDLY at office! I have the knowledge that most of my collegues do not have.Yet, why this laziness?
Huh this post makes me think again about my attitude.
Well, the point is to achieve what all I wanted to do, I must live by hours. Not months and years
The dreamer, 02-Jan-08 12:23AM