Archive for August, 2007

28
Aug

Of Accomplished Missions, iPhone Killer and Hateful Buses

On my last visit back home, I was told that I had gained some weight which was surprising because I had already joined the gym and I thought it was working for me. After hearing lots of similar comments, I decided to take matters into hand, went through lots of websites related to health & diet and came up with my own plan of eating healthy and staying fit. And thus began “Mission Hotness”! It was essentially a 2 month plan (which ends August 31) that required me to live under a new fitness regime - eating 6 balanced meals in a day, staying away from fatty food and of course, working out, exercising and walking. I followed the plan religiously and even though the mission is yet to end, I already have biceps and triceps just about visible to the naked eye, I can see the emergence of a v shaped torso, my waist has already gone down a size and I have lost around 1kg. I am ecstatic and want everyone to know that such plans do work!! This achievement did cause its own problems though. All my regular fitted jeans became loose and the loose ones became useless. I had to buy two new pairs of jeans in a hurry!! But thats all part of the game. I’m going to continue following the plan for now and hopefully, I’ll be in perfect shape soon!

I bought my second cellphone more than two years ago. I had just started regular blogging back then and I wrote this post about it. I had promised myself that I will use the new phone for 2 years and then buy a new phone. I kept my promise and two weeks ago, I bought a shiny new HTC Touch. Its been called an iPhone killer by few sections of the media but that doesn’t really matter to me. What I like is that its tiny (its codename was elf!), sleek, sexy and most of all a windows mobile phone which lets you do everything with just a finger. Honestly, I don’t have to use the stylus at all!

The morning bus to work hates me. I have to fight with the window for 2-5 mins to get it to open. And because it always loses to me, it decided to get back at me couple of days ago by spewing its venom on me. Sure, it was intelligent enough to disguise it as muddy, rain water but I know what it really was. If I had an open wound, I could have poisoned! But it isn’t the only evil bus I have to deal with. The new evening bus is the most sadistic bus ever. Its so uncomfortable that one can never sleep even for a second in it. And I have to spend close to 2 hours in it. It has made my life miserable. Its hard to resist the temptation of setting it on fire. And if you are wondering why I am writing about buses all of a sudden, I spend 3 hours in these buses everyday! What else do you expect?

20
Aug

Thoughts on a Lonely Afternoon

After months of hard work and procrastination, I have finally managed to move my blog from Blogger to its self-hosted Wordpress self. The blog now a new name, a new domain and a completely new look.

Things weren’t too easy in the beginning though especially since I had no knowledge of php. But I slowly learnt the small little things I needed. A big help was the large number of Wordpress users who have developed a plugin for everything you might need. Special thanks to Dean J Robinson for this fabulous theme called Redoable. And finally, I would like to thank myself for customizing the theme to suit my needs, working so very hard on the move and most of all, manually migrating most of the images from blogger.

So all the regular readers of my once regularly updated blog are requested to update their bookmarks and blogrolls. Also, (mostly positive) comments and questions on all these changes are welcome. I already am aware of some small bugs but still of you find something then let me know.

And keep visiting!! Expect long regular post(s) really soon!! No! Sooner than that!!

10
Aug

No Stress

I recently discovered this two-disc album released by Warner music Denmark and it is amazing!! It is sure to de-stress you!! My favorite tracks on the album are “Remember My Name” by Bliss and “Break of Day” by Tina Dico. I was also impressed by the acoustic version of “Romeo” by Basement Jaxx.

Definitely, one of the best collections of chill out music! But you are not going to find it anywhere else other than the internet. So drop a comment if you want some helpful links.




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