Sunday, April 30, 2006
Diary
Things have been improving overall i.e. in all aspects of my life.
Health is stable and somewhat improving. Weight is again under cobtrol and reducing slowly as expected. Depression and activity levels are also quite imroved. Except for an occasional blip of anxiety or panic most of the times things are looking under control.
I am enjoying my ipod music collection. My song colelction is increasing and I am able to enjoy music to its full extent, well almost. I am also enjoying some of the excellent podcasts like twit, npr ones and a few others.. I am also able to rip some good audio books and enjoy them on my ipod.
I am also being more organized thanks to one website rememberthemilk.com and now I am able to focus more time on important stuff.
Also overall our home is becoming more and more like a home. I was just jokingly telling my wife that now our house is fucntional earlier it was more semi-dysfucntional.
I went to the indian dvd store today after a month's gap and picked up some audio cd's and dvd of 'being cyrus'. I was surprised to note that Himesh Reshaammia has suddenly produced a bunch of hit music-tracks and he is all over the place. I had almost written because of his weird comments and obsession with Vinit but he seems to have produced some really catchy and peppy tunes. Good for him.
We have also started using more and more productivity tools to make ourselvs power-users.
I am really enjoying being mopre and more of a pro computer user. Some of the useful apps i use are Firefox & its great extensions, PhotoShop, RoboForm. etc..
With ipod now most of my music is in digital form except for few audio-casettes which IU am planning to transfer to cd soon. My next focus is in digitizing my old photo prints and also make dvd collections of my mini-dv movies.
Other big thing is that we have finalized to go back to india next year. Befor going back to india we want to go and visit some remaining us sights(LA,NY,Hawaii, Yellowstone etc)...I am improving in my trips planning and exceution. Our last trip to reno/tahoe with my in-laws was a great success.
More next sunday.
Health is stable and somewhat improving. Weight is again under cobtrol and reducing slowly as expected. Depression and activity levels are also quite imroved. Except for an occasional blip of anxiety or panic most of the times things are looking under control.
I am enjoying my ipod music collection. My song colelction is increasing and I am able to enjoy music to its full extent, well almost. I am also enjoying some of the excellent podcasts like twit, npr ones and a few others.. I am also able to rip some good audio books and enjoy them on my ipod.
I am also being more organized thanks to one website rememberthemilk.com and now I am able to focus more time on important stuff.
Also overall our home is becoming more and more like a home. I was just jokingly telling my wife that now our house is fucntional earlier it was more semi-dysfucntional.
I went to the indian dvd store today after a month's gap and picked up some audio cd's and dvd of 'being cyrus'. I was surprised to note that Himesh Reshaammia has suddenly produced a bunch of hit music-tracks and he is all over the place. I had almost written because of his weird comments and obsession with Vinit but he seems to have produced some really catchy and peppy tunes. Good for him.
We have also started using more and more productivity tools to make ourselvs power-users.
I am really enjoying being mopre and more of a pro computer user. Some of the useful apps i use are Firefox & its great extensions, PhotoShop, RoboForm. etc..
With ipod now most of my music is in digital form except for few audio-casettes which IU am planning to transfer to cd soon. My next focus is in digitizing my old photo prints and also make dvd collections of my mini-dv movies.
Other big thing is that we have finalized to go back to india next year. Befor going back to india we want to go and visit some remaining us sights(LA,NY,Hawaii, Yellowstone etc)...I am improving in my trips planning and exceution. Our last trip to reno/tahoe with my in-laws was a great success.
More next sunday.
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Update after a long tme
It has been long since I have written my blog. I want to make it atleast a weekly affair. Lets try to summarise the things which have happened so far.
Health : Overall progress has been quite good and encouraging. My weight is now hovering at around 176 lbs compared with 192 lbs abt 10 mnths back. I am to wear waist 36 pants instead of 38 now. Infact today I was even able to wear a 34 waist pant which has made me really happy. I have two 34" pants. I am going to wear one of these tomorrow to office and it would make me feel great. I should be giving some kind of party to my wife soon about my waist finally becoming 34". With this I am at the last leg of my weight reduction. I need a further reduction of about 10 to 15 lbs to make my weight reduction project complete. After that I just need to maintain it at the same level.
Family: Overall things have been going very well. Our newborn daughter(now 6 mtnhs) is doing very well. She has given least amount of trouble comparing to our older son. She sleeps well, eats well and gives least amount of trouble. I am able to spend more quality time with family and also able to enjoy various fun activities like sight-seeing , eating out , movies etc.. I was telling my wife that due to my trouble our family had almost become semi-dysfunctional. However now our family is looking really functional.
With more shopping , more family time etc my wife is also finally getting more happiness and she is slowly beleiving in me.
Work: Things have been kind of stablle at my new employer which is a big company. I was rated average for my last year's 4 months. So I need to put a little extra effort and visibilty fraud to make my image as above average.
Books: Things have been going well in Books front as well. I have been better in reading books and finishing my books. I have read following books in last 6 months.
- Lolita
- Various books abt books
- Saved by the light (abt near death exeperience)
- don't sweat the small stuff
- Bill Gates biography
I have also discovered the usefulness of audiobooks. I got the lolita audiobook and have ripped it in my ipod and have listen to more than half of it and its such a great pleasure. I am falling in love with Nabokov's style of word usage he is like an artist in terms of usage of English vocabulary. I am going to listen to Lolita quite a few times. I have also planned to buy annonated lolita book so that I can read the explanation of various french passages in the book. I have also got few more audiobooks (the lord of rings,romeo juliet, much ado about nothing, 1984, a tale of two cities). I am ripping these books on ipod. I have a feeling all the classics and some other difficult books which I could never read due to various reasons, I will finally be able to savour these books thru audiobooks.
I have also started going to Palo Alto book sale since last two months and it has been generally pretty good. Last time I quite a few children's book for my son and also some cookbooks for my wife. I am planning to go to this sale whenever possible.
General: Overall my activity levels are improving. Confidence in doing various things is also improving. I am also being a better organizer and my life is becoming clutter-free slowly slowly. With being more organized I am able to monitor, track and plan my tasks more effectively using one website. I have made a weekly task for writing my blog. This will be quite helpful for me.
I have been also using Podcasts quite effectively from my ipod and it has been a great pleasure and learing to listen to some top podcasts. There are so many very good and high quality podcasts available for free.
Will try to keep this blog regularly updated.
Health : Overall progress has been quite good and encouraging. My weight is now hovering at around 176 lbs compared with 192 lbs abt 10 mnths back. I am to wear waist 36 pants instead of 38 now. Infact today I was even able to wear a 34 waist pant which has made me really happy. I have two 34" pants. I am going to wear one of these tomorrow to office and it would make me feel great. I should be giving some kind of party to my wife soon about my waist finally becoming 34". With this I am at the last leg of my weight reduction. I need a further reduction of about 10 to 15 lbs to make my weight reduction project complete. After that I just need to maintain it at the same level.
Family: Overall things have been going very well. Our newborn daughter(now 6 mtnhs) is doing very well. She has given least amount of trouble comparing to our older son. She sleeps well, eats well and gives least amount of trouble. I am able to spend more quality time with family and also able to enjoy various fun activities like sight-seeing , eating out , movies etc.. I was telling my wife that due to my trouble our family had almost become semi-dysfunctional. However now our family is looking really functional.
With more shopping , more family time etc my wife is also finally getting more happiness and she is slowly beleiving in me.
Work: Things have been kind of stablle at my new employer which is a big company. I was rated average for my last year's 4 months. So I need to put a little extra effort and visibilty fraud to make my image as above average.
Books: Things have been going well in Books front as well. I have been better in reading books and finishing my books. I have read following books in last 6 months.
- Lolita
- Various books abt books
- Saved by the light (abt near death exeperience)
- don't sweat the small stuff
- Bill Gates biography
I have also discovered the usefulness of audiobooks. I got the lolita audiobook and have ripped it in my ipod and have listen to more than half of it and its such a great pleasure. I am falling in love with Nabokov's style of word usage he is like an artist in terms of usage of English vocabulary. I am going to listen to Lolita quite a few times. I have also planned to buy annonated lolita book so that I can read the explanation of various french passages in the book. I have also got few more audiobooks (the lord of rings,romeo juliet, much ado about nothing, 1984, a tale of two cities). I am ripping these books on ipod. I have a feeling all the classics and some other difficult books which I could never read due to various reasons, I will finally be able to savour these books thru audiobooks.
I have also started going to Palo Alto book sale since last two months and it has been generally pretty good. Last time I quite a few children's book for my son and also some cookbooks for my wife. I am planning to go to this sale whenever possible.
General: Overall my activity levels are improving. Confidence in doing various things is also improving. I am also being a better organizer and my life is becoming clutter-free slowly slowly. With being more organized I am able to monitor, track and plan my tasks more effectively using one website. I have made a weekly task for writing my blog. This will be quite helpful for me.
I have been also using Podcasts quite effectively from my ipod and it has been a great pleasure and learing to listen to some top podcasts. There are so many very good and high quality podcasts available for free.
Will try to keep this blog regularly updated.
