Kahani mein twist

I was previously blogging about how busy my schedule was and how I was struggling to manage it. At last I had to take a call. Cos I just was not able to spend enough time at Google. So just last week I decided to take a break from the club and concentrate more on my work. Although, I will be playing there on Sunday night going forth. There will always be a few days that I might be required to be at the club. I think thats Ok. At least I wont be zonked at work on the weekdays.

Work is at last smooth and I am working my way up slowly but surely. It feels good to start off the workout schedule again. I have definitely lost a lot of muscle weight which I dont like. Apart from this I am practicing my guitar regularly. After all, its in my blood. Its 11pm now and I am kinda tired after a good 70 mins of workout. I think its time to hit the bed a little early. 8 hrs of sleep should do the trick. Yaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnn!!!!!!!

Learnt the trick of the trade

At last I am getting a lot getting handling my busy schedule with Google and Excess. the calculations are like this. 9 hrs at Google(8:30am-5:30pm) and 7hrs at Excess(7:30pm-2am). That accounts to a total of 16hr. 2 hrs of travel everyday except Mondays and Tuesdays.It leaves me with just about 6hrs to workout and sleep. The way I am handling this is by getting a small nap from 7:30-8:30 or 9 as there is no crowd till then. Now those few minutes are really helpful in recharging your batteries. but my main chunk of sleep comes on weekends when I sleep for at least 8 hrs. I guess its just you have to figure out how to manage your time and refine the usage over a period.

I’ve started losing some weight at last. Almost 3 pound in 3 weeks which I consider a good improvement. According to my trainer, I can lose another 4 punds to get into proper shape. But those 4 will be really stubborn to get rid of and will take me atleast a couple of months. The only thing I need to do is not to give up which I am working on really hard.

Its Sale time all around Hyderabad and its time for me to do some shopping. Some of the most prominent discount offers on the off-season sales are

Woodland – Flat 40% off

Reebok – Flat 40% off

Pepe – Flat 40% off

Fastrack – Flat 20% off

Reliance trends – upto 60% off

Adidas – Flat 40% off

These are the few ones that I can remember as for now. Will make note of a few more and keep posting.

I shift in focus of responsibilities and priorities

I think its time I start taking things a lot more seriously. Had a talk with mom and she sooo wants me to get married. The surprising thing is that, even I have started to think in the same lines now. I definitely feel a lot older now. I cant keep going on this way all the time. But the problem is that I havent had a girlfriend in a loooong time. So what do I do now. Settling in for an arranged marriage is not an option. I would feel like a whore. I just hope that things work out a lil better this year.

Its been quite some partying for me all this while. I definitely have done a lot of drinking, smoking and fooling around. It definitely is time to start getting serious about a few things. But before all of that, I very badly have to take a vacation. The only way I can do that is to complete all the projects I have on hand at work, get done with all the private gigs and plan out a place to visit. It will most probably be my sisters place in Bombay. Mmmmm…. I am already excited about it.

Upgraded to Windows 7

I was soo excited the whole of this week about the performance improvement in Windows 7 that I decided to finally take the risk. I downloaded the RC from the MS website, burnt it to a DVD and finally started the installation today. The installation went really fast and smooth. But what annoyed me the most is the installation of the drivers. The problem is not with Windows but with the Dell website. It does not have a complete list of software for the laptop. But I managed to get almost all of them working.

This time I decided to partition my drive. One solely for the OS and the Apps and the other only for all my data. Right now I am in the middle of formatting the data partition so that I can copy all my stuff back. Everything seems to be so zippy on 7. The boot is incredibly fast, no unnecessary notifications, beautiful visuals and I simplete LOVE the new taskbar. It just like the Apple doc.

Will keep you posted more about my finding as I start installing more and more softwares on it.

What makes me feel good about my new laptop

Right from the time Windows Vista was released I was wondering what would be a GOOD score of Machine assessment. When I bought my Dell Studio 1737, that was the first things that I did. And I am really happy to brag about the results on my blog.

Windows Assessment score of my laptop

Really hilarious pic from the Bachan family

Now do you think this was deliberate or just coincidence ?

Should I grow a beard?

Iam kinda sick of shaving every alternate day. So now I have decided to let it grow. Initially it might be a little itchy but Iam sure it will start looking cool later. Post comments if you think I shud.

Things changing for better these days

I think at last all the hard work is paying off. At the beginning of this week I got a good news that I was nominated for a peer bonus at work by one of my colleague for a project that I was working on. And yesterday, I got to know that my team(Me, Ujjval and Shyam) won the Google Health Challenge. It feels so good. At first I thought my team stood no chance. But in the end we kicked some serious ass. Now the challenge is to keep the same dedication for the rest of the time. I gotta start working on my health. Have to start working out harder. Also, there are alcohol problems popping up again. But this time I am able to control it. I’ve started playing cricket at a friends place. So that kinda gives me the excercise on the weekends.

Reggae Mania

Its definitely been a long time since I’ve taken a vacation. I’ve started listening to Reggae on monday, and the more I listen to it, the more I wanna be on a sandy beach, with nothing to worry about, sipping on some beer, enjoying the warm glow of the bonfire and talking about old times with friends. I think its serious time I need to plan something out.

The weather is way too good today. It aint as hot as it was last week. Its cloudy and a really good weather to go on a bike ride. But not many among my friends like to ride a bike. Its just a means of transportation to them. Need to find some new company.

I am hungry, gotta get something to eat.

All set on my new laptop

At last I managed to get the proper setup on my new laptop. All the softwares, drivers, plugins, media, everything. All set and done. Just waiting to start using this baby at a live gig.

Just that I need to get my house collection sorted by genre and energy levels. I have more than 800 tracks that I need to get started with sorting. I dont think today is the day I would be doing that. Maybe tommorow.