1. Attend Church every Sunday - This one's already begun and I must stick to it
2. Lose 10 Kgs by my Birthday - Have already begun gymming. Now need to focus more on Cardio.
3. Increase my threshold of tolerance - I really need to get more tolerant about people free loading, shirking work, bad service, abusing other's things etc. etc.
4. Learn an instrument/new language/ something new - This one's been pending forever. Must do it, this year at least.
5. Get into a commitment - This was the year that I almost proved to everyone that I am not commitment phobic. There's hope for me still and yes this year is definitely the year to commit.
6. Get a work - life balance - It's nice to love ur work, but it's also necessary to have some fun.
7. Remember Birthdays and anniversaries - I've remembered the important ones this year. Now need to try and remember all of them.
8. Visit a new place every year - I've travelled a lot this year but yet to visit a place I did not visit earlier.
9. Play football regularly - Kolkata might be the last place I'll get to play football with friends. Need to do it more often.
10. Plan my future - This really should've been somewhere at the top, but I am not much for planning my future. At best I can plan my finances. For starters, I'm investing in a house in Mumbai.
So that's my list of resolutions and I am counting on all of you my friends to help me keep them.
Towards a brighter new year
Luv,
P.R.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Expanding my horizons
If your from India, bet that you've seen this typical Hindi movie scene when the doctor unrolls the bandages around the hero/heroine's eyes and suddenly he says 'Doctor..., Mein Dekh sakta hoon'. Of course if you've seen that you've also seen 3 heroes donate Rh +ve blood to their mother simultaneously. But that's beside the point.
The reason I'm talking about the bandage scene is that I finally had my contact lenses trial. Yes I know I've been planning to get lenses from ages. Spectacles which are the sole reason other than god for me being to blog today have a limitation with respect to peripheral vision.
Peripheral vision you see is the vison from the corner of your eye. You know that chick you check out at a mall while checking out the price tag of a designer jacket you can never afford. For bespectacled people like me it involves a little less discretion and more focus :D.
Of course checking out chicks is not the reason I'm getting lenses. Well at least it's not the only reason :). The reason is sports and more specifically football. In Kolkata I've re-discovered football. After ages I even scored a goal in a competitive match for ITC. Well, the field must have been 1/5th what a proper football match involves and is a 5 a side affair but it's fun none the less. There's also this mouth watering prospect of practicing with a colleague (actually ITC's soccer captain Sanjay) and his gang.
What with the tournament being played at night and a lack of sports without specs, my dependency on specs has gone up to such an extent that I wore my specs while playing football. To make a long story short, wearing specs while playing football which is very very physical unlike sissy sports like cricket (can't help taking a dig) is dangerous. Which is what caused the inclination for a pair of contacts.
The catalyst for me finally moving my butt to the shop was my pair of spectacles breaking, so I decided while there what the heck. After having the doctor help me put my first pair of soft contacts, (I'd tried semi softs earlier and they're way too painful.)I blinked umpteen times thanks to the irritation of a foreign object in my eye. After both lenses being placed/worn and after a few minutes of teary eyes and a runny nose, I was stunned.
Suddenly it seemed like my world had expanded from the small little window of my spectacles to this limitless expanse. After years I finally could look at my eyes without spectacles. The right eyeball was reddish, the eyes a little deep set in my pudgy face, but I could see them clearly. I blinked and the eyes blinked back. I turned to the Doctor and stated (and this is true) 'I can see everything'.
The lenses were trial lenses, which were not exactly the right size and definitely not the exact power but they gave me a feeling of breaking free. I have what some might describe as mild OCD when it comes to cleaning my spectacle lenses and here was vision almost flawless.
I still would probably restrict my lense usage to soccer and am quite freaked out by the idea of putting something into my eye but for that one moment when I wore those lenses, it did feel like bandages were unwrapped over my eyes and I opened my eyes blinked and suddenly felt like saying 'Doctor... Mein dekh sakta hoon'
Towards a wider tomorrow,
Luv,
Pranay
The reason I'm talking about the bandage scene is that I finally had my contact lenses trial. Yes I know I've been planning to get lenses from ages. Spectacles which are the sole reason other than god for me being to blog today have a limitation with respect to peripheral vision.
Peripheral vision you see is the vison from the corner of your eye. You know that chick you check out at a mall while checking out the price tag of a designer jacket you can never afford. For bespectacled people like me it involves a little less discretion and more focus :D.
Of course checking out chicks is not the reason I'm getting lenses. Well at least it's not the only reason :). The reason is sports and more specifically football. In Kolkata I've re-discovered football. After ages I even scored a goal in a competitive match for ITC. Well, the field must have been 1/5th what a proper football match involves and is a 5 a side affair but it's fun none the less. There's also this mouth watering prospect of practicing with a colleague (actually ITC's soccer captain Sanjay) and his gang.
What with the tournament being played at night and a lack of sports without specs, my dependency on specs has gone up to such an extent that I wore my specs while playing football. To make a long story short, wearing specs while playing football which is very very physical unlike sissy sports like cricket (can't help taking a dig) is dangerous. Which is what caused the inclination for a pair of contacts.
The catalyst for me finally moving my butt to the shop was my pair of spectacles breaking, so I decided while there what the heck. After having the doctor help me put my first pair of soft contacts, (I'd tried semi softs earlier and they're way too painful.)I blinked umpteen times thanks to the irritation of a foreign object in my eye. After both lenses being placed/worn and after a few minutes of teary eyes and a runny nose, I was stunned.
Suddenly it seemed like my world had expanded from the small little window of my spectacles to this limitless expanse. After years I finally could look at my eyes without spectacles. The right eyeball was reddish, the eyes a little deep set in my pudgy face, but I could see them clearly. I blinked and the eyes blinked back. I turned to the Doctor and stated (and this is true) 'I can see everything'.
The lenses were trial lenses, which were not exactly the right size and definitely not the exact power but they gave me a feeling of breaking free. I have what some might describe as mild OCD when it comes to cleaning my spectacle lenses and here was vision almost flawless.
I still would probably restrict my lense usage to soccer and am quite freaked out by the idea of putting something into my eye but for that one moment when I wore those lenses, it did feel like bandages were unwrapped over my eyes and I opened my eyes blinked and suddenly felt like saying 'Doctor... Mein dekh sakta hoon'
Towards a wider tomorrow,
Luv,
Pranay
Friday, December 07, 2007
I can blog in Hindi tooooo
कभी सोचा राजा बनूँगा।
कभी सोचा बनूँगा सिपाही।
कभी सोचा डाकू बनकर,
मचऊंगा हर जगह तबाही।
लेकिन फिर सोचके लगा कि,
इस महान देश कि जान बनूँगा।
सबसे पहले में भारतवासी,
एक अच्छा इंसान बनूँगा।
Testing out the Hindi translator from google. BTW this is a poem I'd written in school.
Good naa
Luv,
प्रणय रो
Damn even they can't get my surname right.
कभी सोचा बनूँगा सिपाही।
कभी सोचा डाकू बनकर,
मचऊंगा हर जगह तबाही।
लेकिन फिर सोचके लगा कि,
इस महान देश कि जान बनूँगा।
सबसे पहले में भारतवासी,
एक अच्छा इंसान बनूँगा।
Testing out the Hindi translator from google. BTW this is a poem I'd written in school.
Good naa
Luv,
प्रणय रो
Damn even they can't get my surname right.
The trials of being pranay@gmail.com
xyz: Hi Pranay
Me: Hello
xyz: Abbe hello kya kar raha hain saale.
Me: Hi This is Pranay Rao
xyz: Abbe saale yeh Pranay Rao kya hain
....
xyz: Abbe tu Pranay Sharma hain
Me: No this is Pranay Rao
xyz: Nahin tu Pranay Sharma hain
.......
xyz: Abbe saale nahin baat karne ka hain to bol naa
Me: Mujhe nahin baat karna hain
xyz: Ok Sorry I thought u were Pranay Sharma
N this is why I've stopped adding any1 and every1 whose email id doesn't seem familiar.
Luv,
Pranay rao (not Sharma)
Me: Hello
xyz: Abbe hello kya kar raha hain saale.
Me: Hi This is Pranay Rao
xyz: Abbe saale yeh Pranay Rao kya hain
....
xyz: Abbe tu Pranay Sharma hain
Me: No this is Pranay Rao
xyz: Nahin tu Pranay Sharma hain
.......
xyz: Abbe saale nahin baat karne ka hain to bol naa
Me: Mujhe nahin baat karna hain
xyz: Ok Sorry I thought u were Pranay Sharma
N this is why I've stopped adding any1 and every1 whose email id doesn't seem familiar.
Luv,
Pranay rao (not Sharma)
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
The secret of corpoate excell-ence
Put down this challenge to any manager be he in finance, marketing, IT,, HR, etc. Tell him/her to work for one week without Excel. For the uninitiated it's that program with loads of cells which is used for everything from planning a picnic to signing a multi- million dollar deal. I consider myself more than a novice in excel but far from being a master.
Anyway my excellence in excel had me working for days on end creating a super duper sheet which calculated, recalculated, cross referenced and generates whatever I have to do in my budgeting function and provides all the information at my fingertips.
I remember the first time I saw excel, I was this 14 year old kid who had just got hold of his first PC. I went crazy with Powerpoint having planes swooping by the screen, balls bouncing with all sorts of sounds. Word was interesting too but Excel? Never wanted to touch it with a barge pole. Who in their right minds would spend their lives typing numbers in these cells :).
Excel is not all evil, I must say. I handle a budget of over 40 crores, which is way more than I might see in a lifetime. One false (key) stroke and I'll probably be hung by my mouse cord. This nifty little program must actually be responsible for reduction of stomach ulcers and heart attack rates in most I banks in the world though incorrect formulae may have caused more heart attacks and ulcers :D.
Anyway for good or for bad, excell is here to stay.
- P.R.
Anyway my excellence in excel had me working for days on end creating a super duper sheet which calculated, recalculated, cross referenced and generates whatever I have to do in my budgeting function and provides all the information at my fingertips.
I remember the first time I saw excel, I was this 14 year old kid who had just got hold of his first PC. I went crazy with Powerpoint having planes swooping by the screen, balls bouncing with all sorts of sounds. Word was interesting too but Excel? Never wanted to touch it with a barge pole. Who in their right minds would spend their lives typing numbers in these cells :).
Excel is not all evil, I must say. I handle a budget of over 40 crores, which is way more than I might see in a lifetime. One false (key) stroke and I'll probably be hung by my mouse cord. This nifty little program must actually be responsible for reduction of stomach ulcers and heart attack rates in most I banks in the world though incorrect formulae may have caused more heart attacks and ulcers :D.
Anyway for good or for bad, excell is here to stay.
- P.R.
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