Doppelgänger

Doppelgängers do exist. 

I saw one today of my ex-boss'. It was really creepy. I thought it was her except for the fact that this person was shorter than her. 

I couldn't her face properly but the side profile looked like her. 

 I heard about doppelgängers in How I Met Your Mother. The characters found doppelgängers of themselves.

Anyways I have been sleeping better due to the cold medicine. 

I awake up all refreshed and well rested.

 

Lonely No More

For the majority of this month, I was home alone. My parents were out of the country and my grandmother went to live with my aunt. I decided to stay behind and live in our house.

I thought I would be ok with it. I was wrong. The food wasn't tasty anymore even though our cook made it. I wanted to eat pizza all the time. It reminded me of my college years. I would eat alone my eat meals in the dinning court and didn't have too many friends. I would eat junk food all the time.

I think i stress eat or eat when I'm depressed/sad. I don't know. Oh well, like the Rob Thomas's song suggests I don't want to lonely anymore.

I wish I was a kid again. Life was so much happier and easier. I was a happy kid, even my name is related to happiness. But life is making me sad about everything.

But I have decided to be positive and look on the bright side. I started counting my blessing because I have a lot of things to be thankful for.

So, from now onwards, the glass is completely full. 

Indenpendence Day

So, it's Independence Day for India tomorrow.

But it's Independence Day for Pakistan today. So Happy Independence Day to my Pakistani friends.

Hope you guys enjoyed yourselves as I will tomorrow. I'm watching Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi as I'm writing this post since it has my favourite actor, Shah Rukh Khan.

Independence days seems to just a holiday for me. I mean, my generation doesn't realize what happened to get to this point. We all have read about it, but that's it. Of course, the many movies dedicated to the subject.

Next topic, I recently read a story on wordpress. It's called A Word's Worth and the best part is that all the chapters are named after movies.

I really like because the main character, Arnav, works in the publishing industry. Khushi, the other main character, works for a famous author and is a fan fiction writer.

It's an amazing story, a real story.

Another amazing story is by Maya Hill.
The story is written in the style which Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë wrote their novels. She writes an amazing story of Arnav and Khuhsi, characters of Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon. You get sucked into the story instantly. She is rewriting the story and I really like it.

I really wish I could write like them but oh well I guess I should stick to finding errors in writings.

Cooking Experiment

So, we had a cooking experiment yesterday.

My father saw his article "The house on Serpentine Street" in The Mint. The author remember recipes of Ramzan from his childhood. The author takes the recipe from Andaleeb Wajid's blog. The post is called This ain’t no pepper fry! The recipe is about Phaal. 

My family and I are big foodies. So my mother decided to have another cooking lesson for me. 

Yipee

I like eating not cooking.

Anyways, she made some changes in the recipe. So the onions, tomatoes and coriander were put in the mixer together. The oil was placed in the pan, then the chicken was placed. Then the garam masala, ginger paste, salt and the entire contents of the mixer. All that in a pressure cooker with five whistles. After the second whistle, the heat was decreased. 

Dinner time came. The gravy was too thin and not enough salt. The less salt didn't bother me but I like thick gravy. The salt wasn't my fault but the thin gravy was my fault. If I had checked on it, I would have found it and cooked it longer for the gravy to thicken and then the less salt wouldn't have been noticeable.

Anyways, today was a good day. I listed all the corrections of a manuscript and I still have more to write tomorrow. Good god. The author wrote so many freaking long sentences. I talking about 7 to 8 lines long.

Overall, it was a nice day. Let's see what happens next in my life. 


P.S. I know you people are reading my blog, please comment. Just a small one

My Bucket List

I never saw the movie The Bucket List but I really liked the concept. Also I found a story called The Bucket List to read on India Forum and its really good. So here is my bucket list.

Have two degrees

Done - Visit at least 1 country of Asia

Done - Visit at least 1 country of Europe

Visit at least 1 country of Africa

Done - Visit at least 1 country of North America

Visit at least 1 country of South America

Visit at least 1 country of Australia

Done - Visit at least 1 country in the Northern Hemisphere

Done - Visit at least 1 country in the Southern Hemisphere 

Have a road trip with my friends or cousins

Meet Shah Rukh Khan, take a picture with him and get an autograph

Meet Bret Lee take a picture with him and get an autograph

Watch Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge in Maratha Mandir Theatre

Slap someone

Punch someone

See a live autopsy

Do something that scares me

Fall in love

Climb a mountain

Visit all the states and union territories of India

That's it for now. I will add things as I think of them or get them done

Happy Tuesday

Yipeee
July 2
It's tuesday
It's also the middle of the year.
182 days are gone and 182 days are left
In honour of today, I present this Jim Hunt photo:

Today this bird wasn't anywhere near my head or body or any part of me.

I have this major project whose deadline we did not meet. I did corrections on this book, but according to my boss I missed some. So, I had to list all the missed corrections from yesterday and today and emailed them to the typesetter (person who makes the text look like it does when you open a book.)

In the meantime, I worked on another project. But I was taking too much time, said my boss. The book had at least twenty corrections on every page which I had to sort out. I had to erase all the pointless corrections and leave the important ones. Those have to go to the typesetter as soon as possible

My third project, I sent my doubts to the author and they got cleared up pretty quickly. So that was good and I emailed the few corrections to the typesetter.

The typesetter emailed me my two projects by today evening which was really amazing and nice of him to do. I did mention that my first project was a top priority and needed to be fast tracked.

My brain hurts from remembering about the statuses of my projects. Sometimes I wish life is simple as it was in our childhood.

My life needs a do-over seriously. Why don't we come with warnings and suggestions? Oh well, just going to have to bear with it and move forward.

Dependence

So, the rains came to India. Thank god my city didn't get the kind of damage that Uttarakand got. People are stranded, dead and lost. Hope they can find their way back to home.

Of course I was stranded without technology. The rains stopped my internett. We couldn't even call MTNL since nobody would be available when they came. The driver had an emergency at home. Finally I complained to my parents and we lodged a complaint with MTNL. The driver came, and so did MTNL. They repaired a cable the next day. Voila! Interest restored. I still had internet on my phone but my parents' iPad isn't my laptop.

We are really dependent on our technology and gadgets. We taught my grandmother how to play to solitaire, and mahjong on the computer. She has an email account and actually send an e-card to people. Its very interesting to watch her handle these things which I have done for many years. Hope technology doesn't take over us humans like it did in Terminator 3. God well us if that ever happens.

So, its my parents anniversary today. They don't really celebrate it. Once in a blue moon, they will celebrate it the big way, but otherwise it's a normal day. That's the nice thing about my parents. They don't make a big of things. I wish I was as smart as they were at my age. Sometimes, I feel like I'm letting them down. Even though they don't make me feel that way, but I make myself feel that. I need to boost my self-esteem. Any suggestions? Oh well, I'll just Google them.