random thoughts...

drive me crazy...etc..

ive been trying to rack my brains thinking what possibly could have been so interesting three days ago that i tried so desperately to type out and publish on my blog. i just cannot remember!

so i will tell you the story of my life these days!..... no!!!! please dont leave! :o)

the only thing of a relatively lesser amount of insignificance ive been doing lately is brushing up on my driving skills. every morning at six, a certain mr. gangadhar comes to help 'baby' get some driving practice. poor chap didnt realize what he was getting into. but yes. now, after several near misses at pedestrians, almost being run over by a bus, and and a narrowly avoided head on collision with a truck, he realizes his mistake. young mrs. gangadhar must be wondering whats happened to her dear husbands' head of black hair.
his pupil on the other hand couldn't be happier. someone used to crusing along the bylanes at a modest speed of 20 k.m.p.h. happily zooms along the highway while mr. gangadhar tries his best to signal warnings with his hands... nay, his arms... to the other innocent, totally oblivious, drivers.
(though i must add... this pupil is getting better by the day!! :oD )

after a morning thus well spent, i treat myself to a nice little morning nap. i can sense the bai stare at me sprawled on my bed every morning... eh... what does she know of my morning exertions (excursions?)

now i wouldnt want to waste the entire morning would i? so i get up and make a list of all the things i should do in the day. now, on the days when my taste veers towards the more rustic, i use good ol' pen and paper (i even have a fancy notepad that has a heading 'things to do today' on each page.. but that is used only on special days). when i feel slightly biased towards technology, i use my phone and set alarms for all the to-do's (just to see the flashing lights!! :oD). and when im in my strongest pre-MBA mode, i use an excel spreadsheet. colour coded not less! red, orange, yellow, blue, green in decreasing order of importance. i make time blocks, set deadlines, grade the tasks to be completed and finally go back to sleep.

wake up for lunch, realize ive lost 3 hrs out of my tight schedule and so forget about it altogether (the schedule not the lunch). after lunch i sit down to do what im doing right now (i.e. aimlessly while away my time) for an indefinite period of time.

evening comes. on the days i do manage to make it to the gym, i greet the evening with this feeling of self righteousness. ah! a day well spent. else, i spend the evening with (like minded) 5 yr olds and then say to myself... 'this is what life is meant to be like. i push myself too hard... poor me. i must give myself a break..'

while on the topic of 5 yr olds, i must tell you about my little neighbor boy. not yet 5 but will soon be. and boy! does he have plans for the year. he wants to get married!
he thought it would be ashwini, his best friend from school... but then she did not match his expectations. you see, she was bad at colouring.
so then he looked again. this time he found ishita, his 3 yr old neighbour. now here was a girl who could colour.

he told his mum,

'i want to marry ishita after my 5th bday'

'you cant only ask me you have to ask her mother too'

our hero goes to her mother

'auntie, i want to marry ishita'

'beta you have to ask her yourself'

the kid is not prepared for this

'how should i ask her?'

all the young aunties now begin to kid him... 'you have to sing and dance for her to say yes'

so this little fellow actually, in front of all his friends and all the aunties (who wouldnt miss it for the world) sings and dances to 'mujhse shaadi karogi'!!!!!

he even has plans for his life, rather their life, after marraige. he will cook, he will clean and he will go to work. all ishita will do is colour!
poor chap was extremely disappointed on being informed that it was illegal to marry before the age of 21. he stood thinking and finally whimpered 'but that is so far away!'

awww..... and you thought romance was dead!!

posted by deepti @ 3:41 pm