It is vacation time once again. After 2 years at IIFT...this is the longest I've been home at a stretch having nothing to go back to. I have a job yes...but that doesn't start till forever...And my continuing lack of interest in "Yellow Newspapers" has made me rather apprehensive of joining any place that deals with the stuff that those papers are made up of.
So decided to get my act together and find something to do...result...I discovered I can't do a damn thing unless there's the proverbial sword hanging on my neck. One by one I started taking up stuff to do...only to discover that it is too easy or too difficult or too boring...
1) Cooking: Since I'll be staying alone in Mumbai once again, I decided I'll learn how to cook. Motivator: Still haven't shed the pounds I happily loaded on last time, having eaten out day and night for a month 'n' a half!
So did what logic dictated...started hanging out more in the kitchen much to my mother's delight! But alas! The honeymoon period with subzees and chhauks got over fairly soon.Reason: Everything in a Punjabi household seems to be made of the same key ingredients! How they end up tasting so awesomely different when my mother makes it beats me, coz all the dishes I made tasted identical...no matter what subzee I used...
2) Exercising: Try this. Sit on your fat behind for over a month...doing absolutely nothing...then suddenly decide one day that you are growing too fat...so undertake a month's worth exercise that day (Kya pata...Kal Motivation Ho Na Ho)....
Actually...Don't try it...unless you want to limp around for the next one week...rubbing sore shoulders...having lost any desire to exercise ever again.
3)Getting creative: By this I mean REALLY creative...what gave me the bug? Watching Disney Channel 24/7 ( or whenever I can get the remote in a male-domineering house)...
So anyways...took up scissors...and loads of paper...and created a big mess. Took up some cross-stitching too (found an Anchor Cross STitch kit from when I was 8 I think!)...Lost interest...the doggy I was embroidering is currently 1-eared, playing with half a butterfly next to half a flower...so much for persistence and getting things completed (what jazz we come up with to get placed..)
4) Reading: The ONLY place where I have found some success! Started off and finished "Who Killed Daniel Pearl" and plethora of other books! The Pearl tale got me hooked to my new hobby...
5) Cutting out obscure things from the newspaper: This is absolute FUN! Inspired by what terrorism is doing to our world...I started keeping a scrapbook of all terror related things and India's defence prowess (recently digressed to real cute Christiano Ronaldo cut-outs and "15-days-to-a-slim-you" tips)
Apart from this...and a lot of obscure dreaming about fighting terrorists, becoming a witch overnight or getting super powers...there's not much going on...
Call it lack of ambition ("X's son", "Y's daughter"...they seem to be slogging so much more in holidays! How dare they put ideas into my family's collective head?! Boring gits!)...or simply inertia...but I am at my laziest best these days...and worse...I don't seem to mind it (except for the yearning for strange adventures mentioned above)...sigh...Anyone doing any better out there?
So decided to get my act together and find something to do...result...I discovered I can't do a damn thing unless there's the proverbial sword hanging on my neck. One by one I started taking up stuff to do...only to discover that it is too easy or too difficult or too boring...
1) Cooking: Since I'll be staying alone in Mumbai once again, I decided I'll learn how to cook. Motivator: Still haven't shed the pounds I happily loaded on last time, having eaten out day and night for a month 'n' a half!
So did what logic dictated...started hanging out more in the kitchen much to my mother's delight! But alas! The honeymoon period with subzees and chhauks got over fairly soon.Reason: Everything in a Punjabi household seems to be made of the same key ingredients! How they end up tasting so awesomely different when my mother makes it beats me, coz all the dishes I made tasted identical...no matter what subzee I used...
2) Exercising: Try this. Sit on your fat behind for over a month...doing absolutely nothing...then suddenly decide one day that you are growing too fat...so undertake a month's worth exercise that day (Kya pata...Kal Motivation Ho Na Ho)....
Actually...Don't try it...unless you want to limp around for the next one week...rubbing sore shoulders...having lost any desire to exercise ever again.
3)Getting creative: By this I mean REALLY creative...what gave me the bug? Watching Disney Channel 24/7 ( or whenever I can get the remote in a male-domineering house)...
So anyways...took up scissors...and loads of paper...and created a big mess. Took up some cross-stitching too (found an Anchor Cross STitch kit from when I was 8 I think!)...Lost interest...the doggy I was embroidering is currently 1-eared, playing with half a butterfly next to half a flower...so much for persistence and getting things completed (what jazz we come up with to get placed..)
4) Reading: The ONLY place where I have found some success! Started off and finished "Who Killed Daniel Pearl" and plethora of other books! The Pearl tale got me hooked to my new hobby...
5) Cutting out obscure things from the newspaper: This is absolute FUN! Inspired by what terrorism is doing to our world...I started keeping a scrapbook of all terror related things and India's defence prowess (recently digressed to real cute Christiano Ronaldo cut-outs and "15-days-to-a-slim-you" tips)
Apart from this...and a lot of obscure dreaming about fighting terrorists, becoming a witch overnight or getting super powers...there's not much going on...
Call it lack of ambition ("X's son", "Y's daughter"...they seem to be slogging so much more in holidays! How dare they put ideas into my family's collective head?! Boring gits!)...or simply inertia...but I am at my laziest best these days...and worse...I don't seem to mind it (except for the yearning for strange adventures mentioned above)...sigh...Anyone doing any better out there?
