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.
