Twenty- five Seven

Catching up with New Year Resolutions

January 9, 2015

One of my New Year Resolutions was not to whine. Yes, it is true that when you whine , you whine alone and no one wants to listen to a whine – least of all you yourself when you realise that no one is listening to you!

Convoluted as this logic is, I realise that I am prone to whining like many millions of people who somehow manage to fall back on their resolutions made on New Year’s Eve or otherwise. Making resolutions is easy but following them can be hard – not because of the lack of will to do so but often because circumstances come in the way.

Take my New Year Resolution to write every day

Everyone on the net and beyond will now have read my story of woe and how my computer melted down and how I could not access the net and how I could not blog and blah, blah, blah

Blog without guilt

Then just as I managed to get my computer ergo my life back on track, a family hiccup made it difficult for me to blog. In fact I wonder if other bloggers have a similar problem – blogging in snatches and feeling guilty about it . I mean blogging is harmless enough yet whenever I sit down to blog the bell rings, the phone beeps or someone calls out to me to do something. Hurriedly I shut down my computer and my thoughts and get back to real life with a guilt akin to being caught doing something naughty.

Do Yoga at the crack of dawn

This past month Mumbai has been experiencing unusually cold weather. Cold for us but laughable for the rest of the world who would find 27 degrees C a warm summer day! But at 6 in the morning when you get out of your bed it does become rather hard to go down and walk in the compound without wearing something warm. And then within minutes when your body is warmed up, walking with a sweater becomes ridiculous and downright uncomfortable……….so naturally I felt it better to exercise at home with some meaningful yoga.

After a week of deep breathing and meditating in the morning, I did get down to some stretches but preferred to go straight into Shavasan or the Dead Man’s Pose ( which incidentally is the hardest Yoga pose believe it or not!) and then gradually giving it up altogether!

Think positive thoughts

With everyone sneezing in your face and bad news read out on the top of the hour every hour, it can become difficult thinking positive thoughts especially when there are lots of jobs to be done that seem no where near getting done.

BUT

I’m going to remain inspired and continue with my New Year Resolutions and catch up with them as fast as I can.

So, here’s my second blog post for writetribe.com/write-tribe-pro-blogger-challenge/ with the hope that I’ll be more regular in week 3!
New Year Resolutions are meant to be broken.

January 8, 2015
The days pass by in a whirl – such a whirl that I can’t remember what has happened on what day. In order to keep track of things, I’ve kept a diary at my desk and one near my bed side table so that I can make notings of what has happened on that day. Is this a sign of old age or is this a New Year Resolution to be more organised?

Millions of us all over the world begin the year with resolutions to have a more fulfilling year than the previous one. We solemnly resolve to
- be more disciplined
- be more particular
- be more fruitful
- be more efficient
- be a better person.
In the quest to achieve these goals we give ourselves tasks like regularly walking, exercising, eating, reading, meeting friends, or whatever it is that will make this year better than the earlier one.

My one new year resolution was to be a better and more regular blogger but this was stymied by technology. With the New Year crackers and guns that boomed at midnight, my computer had a meltdown and when the computer engineer opened the casing he found one solid mass!

Now anyone who has the remotest connection with technology will know that technology is not what it was while I was growing up. In those days when any machine didn’t work, all it required was a simple disassembling and one could at least try and figure out where the problem lay. But with today’s digital world and virtual reality, things are not what they seem. So if you open up any machine you will find parts that you can’t even attempt to identify leave alone try to fix. This means that you are completely dependent on the technicians and gizmo geeks to help you out. My computer wiz was away in Baroda hence my computer remained lost to me hence I couldn’t fulfil my new year resolution of being a more regular blogger.

I hope now with my new Windows 8 operating system in place and a new computer tower my resolve to be more regular will be off to a good start.

Which brings me to my long pending New Year Resolution that is – try and do a basic course in computer technology so that I can at least identify the glitches in my computer rather than depend on someone for the tiniest of snags……….

But then what are resolutions made for anyways?

To be broken…….
Finally I’m back on track

January 5, 2015

I’d like to think I’ve been missed these past few days especially since I’ve been having severe with drawl symptoms without my trusty PC. For the past few days my life had literally come to a stand still with my computer being on the blink. It had actually stopped blinking even and as I found out, had actually melted.

Being one of those dinosaurs, I still find it hard to blog on my iPad and iPhone and actually enjoy banging away on my touch keyboard which I (still after all these years) find a poor substitute for my typewriter. How I miss that instrument with its ribbons that needed to be changed, the roller , the paper which had to be adjusted so that the typing was not angled up or down, the carriage return and the ting at the end of the line. Unlike the cut and paste option of today, typing was tedious – you had to be accurate because corrections were painful – using a whitener, waiting for it to dry and then carefully aligning the paper so that the letters were typed in the right place. Obviously my indelible memories of this task prove that I have had to do this many times over!

I’ll never forget my niece who was all of four and with her own computer asking me why I wanted to get a PC in the first place. I felt a bit foolish to tell her that I wanted one to replace my manual typewriter and thought it better than an electric typewriter. However, I’m glad that I did get a PC because it has proved to be an invaluable tool and asset, nay even a life line for me!

So from the original 486 and the huge bulky monitor, I’ve finally now graduated to a 17″ flat screen and now the latest Windows 8 OS which I will have to get used to. Actually I’ve always been a gizmo freak and keen on getting the latest technology but was told by my computer engineer that Windows 8 was not half as good as Windows 7. But last week a freak accident whereby my computer just melted inside its tower necessitated the purchase of my new computer complete with a new operating system.

I am grateful that I have Nirav Mehta, a plucky young man who looks after my computer. I’ve always had some glitches or the other before I found Nirav and always tell him that it is his touch that keeps my computer working……..Perhaps his recent re-location is responsible for my computer meltdown????? Thankfully, he is back over the New Year and has managed to get things going once again.

I originally intended to be more regular with my blogs this year and wanted to start with a bang greatly inspired by Corinne’s own decision to dare greatly – sadly I had to wait for 4 days before I could get back on track. But as they say, better late than never so this is my first post for WriteTribe ProBlogger this year . I look forward to contributing many many more, more regularly……..

Catching up with New Year Resolutions

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New Year Resolutions are meant to be broken.

Finally I’m back on track