Day four : 11 Oct 2013 : TGIF

Today I had a holiday. Yey. I had a fantastic day. Muaah.

I skipped yoga in the morning and cleaned my living room instead. Worth it. Diwali cleaning has begun and are in full swing at my place and my mother is leaving no stone unturned this time. She saw me free and gave me a 'phatka' and 'gamcha' and a very dirty living area..thaka hi daala. Mere do  anmol hathiyar, ek hai hai phatka, ek gamcha..phatka....gamcha...(This is me after watching Ram Lakhan movie in the morning, rum pum pum rum um pum rum pum pum pum one two ka four, four two ka one..my name is Lakhan, sajno ka sajan..mera naam hai Lakhan..Eye ji...).

Afternoon was well spent watching Television. I loved 'tu mere agal bagal hai, mein tere agal bagal hu' which when translated gives hilarious answer - 'you are near(or next to) my armpit, I am near (or next to) your armpit' .Eww I know..Also be for beimann, she for shaitan, rum peeke hum BESHERAM. Kuch bhi gaane bante hai aaj kal..

From 4-6, I played my fav. BADMINTON...*swosh swosh jor daar seeti* This was the best part of the day. Our game was later stopped due to rain ;) and we had to rush home. 

I face one problem while playing, that I do not trust my prosthetic and thus dont cover the whole court. Whenever I put my body weight on my prosthetic limb, I feel I lose my balance and I feel that I may fall. Also my socket is not airtight. some air seeps in and I feel like my leg is going to come off. It usually does come off. Now I have to go to my prosthetist soon to fix these issues. 

But whatsoever, I love this game Badminton and will play even on a wheel-chair.

Then comes the evening: Yesterday Sudha Chandran had come to my colony to perform for Durga puja. I never knew abt this or I would have gone to see a legend dance. Nervermind, I went for Puja today.

The pandal was so beautifully decorated and the theme was Jamini Roy's paintings. The whole area is decorated with replicas of Jamini Roy. I love her paintings esp the way she narrates the feelings by painting big eyes. Those eyes are simple yet speaks thousand words. Mashaallah. Well decorated pandal.

One of the decoration at Pandal

The whole sthapana  of Maa at Old community Centre

Jai Maa Durga

An hour later, GARBA. 'ayee halo halo..I am writing this blog after coming from garba. Tired and exhausted

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Garba and Mandir at Shiv temple

Me anf my mother enjoying Garba

Zeal and enthusiasm of them filled me with positivity

So to conclude, this 'one new task a day' is making me do more then one task a day and I feel I am glowing already. I have already started with cleaning for Diwali and regular yoga and now Badminton (hope I play more) and Navratri with Garba is an icing on this cake. I hope at the end of one month I have some great memories too.

Day Two : 9 Oct 2013 : Aaj Bhindi khareedungi!

Yesterday I had given myself a task to change my daily routine. So for that I had promised myself to do atleast one thing a day that I don't do daily. I started off by writing a blog as a journal.

As this is a start of my assignment, I am too excited to do a lot of things in a day. So I started my day with Yoga which I did for one hour (This includes warm up, pranayam, few asanas and meditation). During my yoga I also did few ab crunches which I don't do often and did few standing exercises and asanas. 

In the evening, I went for a walk for an hour and sat on the newly installed bench at the fountain near Almora building. Whenever I would pass by that bench, I would always have this curiosity to sit on it. (bright Yellow and Red attracted me). I sat on that bench and funniest thing that i did was, I meditated sitting atop it on the middle of the road during peak hours. Hahaha.. I am still laughing at myself for doing this. Bahut maaza aaya esp meditation karke. 

I wish someone had clicked a pic so that I would have posted it here. 

Now comes  the best part of the day.

After reaching home, I went to Sabji mandi at Sahyadri building. We (myself, my mother and my father) reached vegetable market and selected a few veggies. I was buying fruits when fruit seller said 'behanji taste karo, ekdam taaze hai' I had to eat the whole fruit in front of every one. Person selling corn said 'taste karo madam, meethe hai' and I had to eat thoda corn..Also had peanuts there on the same note.

(feeling full already)

Sabji market at Sahyadri building

People were kind enough and allowed me to click a few pics one of which I have shared here.

I had a very nice day where I did meditation in the middle of the road and a trip to vegetable market ended my day at a very good note. Hope I have something exciting to write abt tomorrow too.

Experiment No. 1: To change the daily routine.

Aim: 

To indulge in activities on daily basis to change the normal lifestyle and daily routine.

Materials required:

1) Strong will power;

2) Inspiration;

3) New ideas (most difficult);

4) Most importantly time from this routine.

Procedure:

Some will say that they are their own kings, they control themselves. But I feel ekdam ulta. I feel I am my own slave.

I have developed a very bad routine that I myself do not find time to do things that I love. I do everything in pattern. At whatever time I get up, I leave for work at 9. I follow routine even in office.My real presence in office is known when I swipe my card. I am a slave in office. First I check my mailbox, then my IMS cases and then I will login with BPS and get access to database. After that I will solve all issues and by the time I am free ( that is usually by 11), I adjust my prosthesis (daily). I  reply mails if any and then get back to work. Then I go for lunch, read papers, go for tea from 4-5 (usually) and then leave my office premises. When I leave office building, I go and find rickshaws. And there what I find: I find same rickshawalas at a particular time. I mean they also follow their own pattern. These rickshawalas also know my pattern now. When I reach home, I turn on my wi-fi and check messages on my phone, reply, have dinner, watch TV and go to sleep.
Everyday in the morning I find same set of people, I find same set of people in the evening. I see same set of people in office and I react to every situation in a particular way. My wish also has a particular pattern in a day. My face has a particular expression in different time of the day.

I am so used to my routine that I am addicted to it. I just cannot change. I cannot actually adapt to changes. I have become my own slave. And I have become such a slave of my daily routine that I get no time for recreation and stuff that I enjoy. I spend majority of my time doing office work.

So now I have given myself a task to do one thing that I don't do usually-daily for next 30 days. i.e. from Oct 08 2013 till Nov 08 2013.

I am going to note it down on this blog and  update it daily.

Things that I am going to do can range from climbing a hill to reading an article to as small as cleaning my table. One task one day is my new mantra.

Date 08-10-2013:

Task: Write blog

Observation and Conclusion:

One task a day will help me find a new ME and I may explore new avenues. There will be times when I will run out of ideas too. If you have any suggestions, you can inbox me.