Thinking Aloud!

Originally I had planned to make a few New Year Resolutions,
but could not do so due to a number of reasons. So, I
thought it will be a good idea to make these resolutions on
my birthday. But now I cant wait till that date, so here I
am making these resolutions, around two months after the new
year’s eve and few days before my birthday.

I will:

Blog at least once a week.

I can’t give any arguments in favor of this, but I feel that
blogging is a good habit and I should post at least once a
week.

Do pranayam + aerobics + weight exercise at least 3-4 times
a week.

2-3 years ago I used to exercise regularly, but due to some
“unknown” reason the schedule was disturbed. But I want to
restart it because 20-30 mins of exercise in morning can
make you active and full with energy for the whole day.

Try to wake up before 5:30 am.

It isn’t very early when you go to bed around 10:00pm and as
I am most active during the early hours, so these 1-2 hours
can be really useful. Plus it will also give me 20-30 mins
for exercise.

Gain at least 4-5 Kgs.

Well I am fed up with people commenting “tune khana-peena
chhod diya hai kya?”. Though I know I am totally fit and
healthy and can beat most of guys of my class in any
physical activity, but without those extra 4-5 kgs I won’t
be able to get that “respect” from others.

Not try to win arguments.

I heard somewhere that whenever you win an argument, you
loose a friend. I totally believe in this, but these days to
my horror I am finding that people are trying to avoid
opposing or arguing with me. This worries me as it means
that they think like “yaar isne man na to hai nai”. No yaar,
this is not the case at all.

Work on my spoken English.

Its kinda shameful for me that even after studying in
English medium schools and then in a good engineering
college, I still cant speak good English, though I can write
reasonably well in English but jab bolne ki baat aati hain,
its entirely different story.

Start studying at least one week before the mid-sems and two
before the end sems.

After coming to college I have hardly studied the course
books even one week before the exams, but this being the
last sem, before placements, I will like to do better this
time.

Prepare seriously for placements.

This means studying books like “Sedra-Smith” and “Morris
Mano” etc. because even though I am in third year but even
now I dont have full knowledge of many basic things

Not play any PC games.

This doesn’t seem very difficult now, as it has been more
than 1-2 months since I last played a game on pc, but still
I have wasted so much time in these games that I wont like
to repeat it again, especially in this “placement year”.

Not waste time on net.

Well “wasting” time on net will stand for reading blogs more
than one hour or reading BBC news on Africa etc for more
than 5 mins or reading summary of cricket matches for more
than 15 mins or scanning through ppl’s profiles on orkut/hi5
for more than 20 mins

Not waste time on “useless projects”.

Hmm its hard to classify them but anything about which I
cant write a 10 page report should fall into this category,
and I have wasted plenty of time on such things in past 2
years that I will certainly like to avoid them now.

Make at least one useful analog circuit.

Ya this is something that I will like to do even if it
doesn’t meet the 10-pag criteria, as I have hardly made any
analog circuit in past 2 and half years and it will be
shameful to sit in placements as an “electronics engineer”
without making anything “real analog”.

Not copy any assignment/practical files.

This is something which I can definitely do and which will
also help me in exams as then I will at least have some idea
ki class mein kya-kya kaam hua hai.

 
posted by Sumit Tada @ 4:42 PM

3 Comments::

 
MoonWalker said…

i cud identify with loads of the
stuff u put here!!!!!

Yess even i need to clear some basics before i sit for
placements…

i need to put on a few extra kiloz as well:D

I too have been very careless when it comes to my health ,
so i too have begin with yoga once more*deep sigh!!*

Moreover,CAT ke liye loads of hard work !!!!!

i am glad my blog inspired u to blog once again!:D

and yess…u see ,i use moonwalker cuz tat way my blog does
nt become searchable on the net…i even changed my blog add
once cuz it had become searchable on the net:D..isiliye MW
hi chalega hi nahi, daudega!!!

 
10:22 AM, February 20, 2006


   

  ankita gupta
said…

hi

that was kansal n now my turn( u said na that we 2 shud
write diff blogs  thts y)

its grr8 to c taht u took resolution on b’day (thus choosing
unique day n different from others) but tell me one thing
dude…that resolution list is for one year or entire
life??!!

good work( n effort)..keep it up n BOL for it too

 
3:45 PM, March 06, 2006


   

 
Sumit Tada said…

MW

He he lagta hai aaj-kal apni age ke sab logon ki priorities
same-same hain…

Ankita

Abhi to ek saal ke liye hi hain waise aage bhi aise hi
chalta rahe to koi problem nai hogi i guess.

 
12:29 PM, March 08, 2006