Things-to-do 2010

Yep, I've made it a point to do the following in the next year. They're not dry hard core resolutions but an easy and foolproof way to improve myself (in alphabetical order and NOT in the order of preference) :

1.Blog *#frequently as compared to 2009. (* excluding the Vocab posts # doesn't matter if my posts really make sense or not! hihihi)

2.Buy a few of my pending non-fiction books and read them in the first half of 2010. 

3.Clear the November 2010 attempt as per the plan.

4. Donate some money out of my stipend to a Registered NGO(s). Will not disclose the amount here..Don't wanna look like a show-off you see..

5.Get a good pair of branded shoes!

6.Get more passionate doing a couple of things, studies being the topmost one. 

7.Gift an Inspirational Speeches/Seminars CD to a teacher of mine who taught me the golden rules of accounts!

8.Give a smile to a stranger once in a week. Females, preferably. The risk of smiling at females is much lower than smiling at males you see. Who knows how the males will react?! :D

9.Stop *biting my nails. (* allowed during tensed situations!)

10.Study harder. That's the need of the day, or rather, my day.

11.Use 'Thank you' more oftenly as compared to 2009. Hey that doesn't mean I'll end each sentence of mine with a Thank you!

12.Write a poem each for 5 friends of mine. I have decided a couple of my pals, 3 are yet to be shortlisted.

13.Write the best moment/incidence of the day regularly in my mast-moments diary. Had kickstarted in the first half of 2009 but was regularly irregular in doing so! I realised its importance when I opened the diary and unknowingly smiled reading a few moments getting all nostalgic..So decided to write regularly to make a provision for my source of smiles!

vocab for the week 29

How is the word ‘homage’ pronounced? 

The ‘o’ in the first syllable sounds like the ‘o’ in ‘hot’, ‘pot’, and ‘got’, while the ‘a’ is like the ‘i’ in ‘bit’, ‘hit’, and ‘sit’. The ‘g’ is pronounced like the ‘j’ in ‘just’, ‘jump’, and ‘juice’, and the final ‘e’ is silent. The word is pronounced ‘HO-mij’ with the stress on the first syllable. When you pay ‘homage’ to someone, you usually show respect to him and say nice things about him. You have great admiration for the person, and as a result praise him for his achievements.
*We must pay homage to the man and his incredible achievements.

5 Reasons why..

Got a new haircut today evening. And yet again (right from the day I had been for a hair cut 'independently' during school days) my mum failed to notice that I trimmed my hair! Following are the possible reasons (which I figured out recently between some haircuts) :

1. She thinks getting a haircut means shedding my hair to 50% of pre-haircut-hair
OR
2. She thinks the boy/bob cut still suits me like it did when I was a kid!
OR
3. She thinks the more I chop my hair off, the more should I pay and vice versa
OR
4. She can't, rather, doesn't want to digest the fact that I paid more for an unnoticeable haircut
OR
5. She simply wants to 'unnotice it'!

Be it any reason, I enjoy delivering a couple of mum-daughter dialogues and act all emotional, cribbing about a daughter's haircut being ignored by a mother..hehehe..Love you Aai! Hope you don't mind (I know you don't..wink wink!)

Robin Sharma's blog 07.12.09

Following is the extract of Robin Sharma's blog post dated 07.12.2009. Something similar had struck me today but didn't pay much attention to it. Oh well, read on..And give a minute to each one:

It only takes a minute to tell a loved one you adore them

It only takes a minute to run towards a fear

It only takes a minute to set a big goal

It only takes a minute to drink a glass of water

It only takes a minute to read a great idea (that just might rock your world)

It only takes a minute to write the most beautiful thank you note you have ever sent your parents (or a teammate or a customer or a high school teacher who blessed your life)

It only takes a minute to smile

It only takes a minute to connect to a friend or a co-worker

It only takes a minute to help a human being in need

It only takes a minute to raise your standards to world- class

It only takes a minute to go the extra mile at work and wow a customer

It only takes a minute to reflect on what you can do today to be better than you were yesterday

It only takes a minute to embrace change

It only takes a minute to make a new choice that will lead to your best life.

Make the best of your minutes. Each one of them makes up your life.

vocab for the week 28

What is the meaning of ‘close on the heels of something’?

This is an expression which has been around for quite some time. When you say that something came close on the heels of something else, you mean that it came soon after or immediately after. Other expressions which have more or less the same meaning are, ’hard on the heels of something’ and ’hot on the heels of something’.

*The young couple had a baby close on the heels of buying a house.


The expression comes from the world of hunting; when a hunter is close on the heels of an animal, he is very close to his prey.

vocab for the week 27

Does the word 'daymare' exist?

Yes, it does. In fact, the word has been in use for several hundred years now; the well-known author, Charles Dickens, used ‘daymare’ in his novel ‘David Copperfield’. A ‘daymare’ is like a nightmare except that it takes place during the day time. The anxiety attacks that we sometimes have when we are wide awake can be called ‘daymares’. The pressure that we feel on the chest when we have a nightmare is usually present during a daymare as well.

*She has a daymare every day around noon.

The Not-so-Straight Jalebis

Yep, I Actually went to my kitchen for reasons other than munching..Made some jalebis last weekend, thanks to mum not at home and Gits Jalebi mix! And FYI, the jalebis were very much 'edible and eatable', disregarding the fact that they resembled only 80% of a normal jalebi hehehe..Any way, here is the pic:

vocab for the week 26

Can the word `guys' be used to refer to a group of girls? 

Yes, it can. When used in the singular, the word always refers to a man. One can never say, `She is a nice guy'. It is always, `He is a nice guy'. The word `guys' can be used to refer to a group of people. The people in question could be a group of boys, a group of girls, or a group consisting of boys and girls.

*Come on you guys. Let's think of something interesting to do.