It's 4AM and I have not been able to catch a minute of sleep after the marathon meeting at office yesterday. Yes, a marathon meeting on a Sunday, that's what makes startups fun and really separates team members from company employees. While the meeting was lighter than expected, even though we came back home at midnight, the last 1 hour of the day at a coffee shop with my colleagues has been very valuable. It has made me step back and think on where I was going. Maybe something around what Annkur pointed about the reality distortion field. For the past 4 hours I have not been able to stop my thoughts. It has left me sleepless and inspired. Wish I could share more on that.
Meanwhile, there is something more interesting for you to know. Which coffee shop in South Bangalore is open till midnight? Costa at Koramangala 1st block. Yes, it was surprising for me as well. The only other place we could think of had a "midnight cover charge" of Rs.250 per person to access the cafe. This is probably the first of its kind I have come across. Anyways, guess that is what being in a metro is all about. You never get the feel of it until it throws surprises at you. No matter how small.
Side note - While I type this, I can experience that the new interface of Blogger is so much better. There is more focus on what you are writing.
So, the new year is suppose to be about putting a refresh button to your life and making resolutions. More importantly, making an obligatory announcement of the resolution irrespective of whether you follow it or not. So here it is, my contribution to the long lived tradition. I am not sure if these would really be called resolutions because then I would need to follow the tradition and break the resolutions. Anyways, in no particular order, following are few things that I wish to accomplish over the next few weeks.
1. Learn to ride a bike- My fear of speed, or rather I should say fearing of hurting someone and falling into trouble, has kept me away from learning how to ride a bike. I have tried this every time I am at home for the past 6 years, all in vain. My colleagues and friends say I have a delay flipflop, ie. it takes me more time than normal person to react to things and that is one reason of my failure at this. I acknowledge that but I also realized that helps me concentrate at what I am doing, so I intend to keep it that way. I guess the fear has something to do with my risk taking appetite as well. Certainly I will have to overcome that if ever I have to run my own business. So the first step I have taken is to agree to buy my colleague's bike. It is now parked at the office so that I can practice during breaks. Why bike, because I don't want to start everyday haggling my way with an autowala to work.
2. Talking of business, one of my goals is to figure out a business for myself, even though I don't intend to start it this year. Something that I wish to run all my life. It's amazing that I am one of the only three members in my extended family who doesn't have a business of their own. The common thing though is that all 3 and only we 3 are engineers. Did that reduce our risk taking appetite? Do we analyze too much. Anyways, as a first step I have started talking more openly about it. This being the first.
3. Running - From being under weight to over weight is what I have gone through in last 3 years. Last year, most people who saw me after an interval of few days would first point at my ever growing tummy. This is gone from embarrassing to unhealthy. Even I could feel the difference when I would get tired after a kilometers of walk. So, as a first step I have decided to run atleast 3KMs/day for atleast 5days/week. Last week I did 4 days. The inspiration was a colleague who finished 3rd at the Bangalore half marathon. Technically first amongst non-pro runners. It was 21KMs. I wish I can do that much by end of year. No I am not setting any targets now.
4. No non-sense weekends - In the past 2 years of staying away from home I have developed this bad habit of singing up for just anything for weekends, specially the last 6 months in Bangalore. From hat-trick movie weekends to visiting the same mall 4 times a month. Yes, a mall, the worst place to spend a weekend evening I guess. I end up watching most pathetic movies, just for the heck of it. And above all not thinking even once before spending. I spent 3K on a Levi's last month and about another 4K on 2 T-shirts. I am in love with that brand but that's a post for another day. I still remember the day in Mumbai when at ShopperStop I was scared on seeing the 3K price tag on a FCUK and a 3.5K on an Ed Hardy. Yes, scared is the word. Though some part of me also wished that I could buy that. The wish has been achieved, I need to decide whether I liked it. If not, revert to my previous avatar. While I needed to get out my habbit of thinking too much about money, specially while spending on myself, but this is getting out of hands. It even ended up spoiling my New year eve when I bought tickets to a rip-off party without thinking twice. I guess I need to go back to my coupon/bargain hunting days. I need to better plan my weekends andspend invest in experiences that I will cheris for longer.
I guess that's it. This will take care of my time, money, health and happiness for the year - in that order.
Few more things, I finally unsubscribed from Techcrunch as that was creating too much noise in my reader and keeping me away from the better blogs I follow. Keeping it only on twitter for now and trusting the ecosystem to bubble up the interesting reads. I will rather invest that time to read a book. I haven't read a single book last year. Wish finish atleast one this year. Lets see if I am able to pick up a good one before my next post.
And yeah, happy new year!
Meanwhile, there is something more interesting for you to know. Which coffee shop in South Bangalore is open till midnight? Costa at Koramangala 1st block. Yes, it was surprising for me as well. The only other place we could think of had a "midnight cover charge" of Rs.250 per person to access the cafe. This is probably the first of its kind I have come across. Anyways, guess that is what being in a metro is all about. You never get the feel of it until it throws surprises at you. No matter how small.
Side note - While I type this, I can experience that the new interface of Blogger is so much better. There is more focus on what you are writing.
So, the new year is suppose to be about putting a refresh button to your life and making resolutions. More importantly, making an obligatory announcement of the resolution irrespective of whether you follow it or not. So here it is, my contribution to the long lived tradition. I am not sure if these would really be called resolutions because then I would need to follow the tradition and break the resolutions. Anyways, in no particular order, following are few things that I wish to accomplish over the next few weeks.
1. Learn to ride a bike- My fear of speed, or rather I should say fearing of hurting someone and falling into trouble, has kept me away from learning how to ride a bike. I have tried this every time I am at home for the past 6 years, all in vain. My colleagues and friends say I have a delay flipflop, ie. it takes me more time than normal person to react to things and that is one reason of my failure at this. I acknowledge that but I also realized that helps me concentrate at what I am doing, so I intend to keep it that way. I guess the fear has something to do with my risk taking appetite as well. Certainly I will have to overcome that if ever I have to run my own business. So the first step I have taken is to agree to buy my colleague's bike. It is now parked at the office so that I can practice during breaks. Why bike, because I don't want to start everyday haggling my way with an autowala to work.
2. Talking of business, one of my goals is to figure out a business for myself, even though I don't intend to start it this year. Something that I wish to run all my life. It's amazing that I am one of the only three members in my extended family who doesn't have a business of their own. The common thing though is that all 3 and only we 3 are engineers. Did that reduce our risk taking appetite? Do we analyze too much. Anyways, as a first step I have started talking more openly about it. This being the first.
3. Running - From being under weight to over weight is what I have gone through in last 3 years. Last year, most people who saw me after an interval of few days would first point at my ever growing tummy. This is gone from embarrassing to unhealthy. Even I could feel the difference when I would get tired after a kilometers of walk. So, as a first step I have decided to run atleast 3KMs/day for atleast 5days/week. Last week I did 4 days. The inspiration was a colleague who finished 3rd at the Bangalore half marathon. Technically first amongst non-pro runners. It was 21KMs. I wish I can do that much by end of year. No I am not setting any targets now.
4. No non-sense weekends - In the past 2 years of staying away from home I have developed this bad habit of singing up for just anything for weekends, specially the last 6 months in Bangalore. From hat-trick movie weekends to visiting the same mall 4 times a month. Yes, a mall, the worst place to spend a weekend evening I guess. I end up watching most pathetic movies, just for the heck of it. And above all not thinking even once before spending. I spent 3K on a Levi's last month and about another 4K on 2 T-shirts. I am in love with that brand but that's a post for another day. I still remember the day in Mumbai when at ShopperStop I was scared on seeing the 3K price tag on a FCUK and a 3.5K on an Ed Hardy. Yes, scared is the word. Though some part of me also wished that I could buy that. The wish has been achieved, I need to decide whether I liked it. If not, revert to my previous avatar. While I needed to get out my habbit of thinking too much about money, specially while spending on myself, but this is getting out of hands. It even ended up spoiling my New year eve when I bought tickets to a rip-off party without thinking twice. I guess I need to go back to my coupon/bargain hunting days. I need to better plan my weekends and
I guess that's it. This will take care of my time, money, health and happiness for the year - in that order.
Few more things, I finally unsubscribed from Techcrunch as that was creating too much noise in my reader and keeping me away from the better blogs I follow. Keeping it only on twitter for now and trusting the ecosystem to bubble up the interesting reads. I will rather invest that time to read a book. I haven't read a single book last year. Wish finish atleast one this year. Lets see if I am able to pick up a good one before my next post.
And yeah, happy new year!
You are forgetting me. I am also the part of the extended family you are talking about. Though the only one who is jobless, without a college and without a business but I can teach you biking if you come home. I can accompany you for running too.
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