Wass Happening....

Good things and bad, as usual

Goodies first:

 

Good-thing 1

Finally, I am back to reading…I realise I read more when I am busy as opposed to when I have all the time in the world.

 These days I am reading Murakami (AGAIN!). What I like about him is that he fucks up my head. To explain this a bit more: Other authors I read and on some pages, I go “hmm..nice” and on some “oh! so awesome”…then I put the book down and I forget....but Murakami stays in my head enough to mess up my dreams and haunt the shit out of me. He makes me believe that with all the real’ness of the world there is something surreal, which we pretend to ignore and justify with science and logic. The fact that he makes me believe this is enough for me to award him “my favourite writer’.

 

Fat cool!

 

The book I am reading currently (The wind-up bird chronicle) is about to end and I think I am going to have withdrawal symptoms for some time.

 

Good thing 2

Work is keeping me really busy and so I have no idea where the time flies – this is super good for me because the moment I am ‘un’busy, I am bored and sulky and cranky. I think I am sort of a workaholic but I am not really sure yet, because I don’t really jump with joy when I am immersed in work. It is just a good way to keep away from unnecessary emotions smothering the brain.

 

Good thing 3

Some windfall gains have made their way into my life in the times when the world is gloom’ing about money. I am ecstatic and almost about to faint with materialistic joy! I am not sure if I should be singing the money song on such a forum. So, shush…!

 

Good thing 4

…..?

 

(I guess there were only 3)

 

Moving on to the bad..

 

Bad thing 1

 

Because of “Good thing 2”, I am not able to continue my aerobics classes for almost a month and it makes me really unhappy and stresses me some more because it means going through the agony of the body-pains-of-a-fresher-at-the-gym once the workload at office comes down. It is terrible and I hate it.

 

Bad thing 2

 

Though it is not a recent development, but nevertheless a bad thing – the smoking – cannot seem to stop. The thing which makes it bad thing to worse thing is that I have always managed to stop when I wanted to but not this time. Every time I finish a pack, I try not to buy another…but then one fine weekly-grocery-shopping day, my feet automatically stop at the cigarette counter and all will-power goes to the dogs…damn!

 

Bad thing 3

 

I seem to be losing my cell phone more often than people lose their pens, and often enough to be the author of the book “How to lose your cell phone is 10 days”. Quite ridiculous!

 

In fact, more ridiculous is the fact that I just do not remember a single phone number from my fat phonebook list of 90 people. Not my parents’, not my sister’s….or anyone I claim to love deeply. I guess the brain needs some ‘defragmentation and disk clean up’ to accommodate more useful information.

 

Bad thing 4

 

Very shamefully, I confess that I can have “Maggi and kurkure” for 4 dinners at a stretch (maybe 5 or 6, if I hadn’t run out of 4-in-1 pack of Maggi on day 5). Combined with ‘Bad thing 1’ and “Bad thing 2”- this can result in quite a disastrous health scene and even more disastrous waistline.

 

Bad thing 5

 

Bad thing count always exceeds the good things count.

 

 

 

Till next time….