Morning!

So I woke up too early this morning and came to work for no real reason ( When I come to think of it may be it was because of the disturbed sleep I had last night). Came across these interesting quotes:

"Good Morning is a contradiction of terms" - Jim Davis

" Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first" - Unknown ( Reminds me of the days when me n my friends used to go straight to the mess from the bed)

"Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation" - Unknown

:)

Home

So yesterday, I was feeling nostalgic about my dorm room 328 and was thinking about how I if I were to call any place as "my home" that I would pick Room no. 328, Sharavati Hostel, IIT Madras, Chennai - 600036.

Ironically, I had a dream last night making me doubt that. Well the dream is really short. I was in the kitchen of my parent's place in Hyderabad reaching out for the jars above which had cashew nuts and peanuts in it.

All I can say is my parent's place had a point to make and it made it through the dream.

Addictions

So I came across this weekly horoscope in a magazine and it was interestingly put. So this is what it had to say for me (Aries):

"Success coach Tom Ferry says our ability to pursue our dreams can be damaged by four addictions: 1. an addiction to what other people think of us; 2. an addiction to creating melodrama in a misguided quest for excitement; 3. an addiction to believing we're imprisoned by what happened in the past; 4. an addiction to negative thoughts that fill us with anxiety. The good news, Aries, is that in the coming weeks you will find it easier than usual to free yourself from addictions 1, 3, and 4. On the other hand, you may be extra susceptible to addiction 2. So take action to make sure you don't fall victim to it! What can you do to avoid distracting adventures and trivial brouhahas?"

I don't think I have a problem with 1 and 3. 4 on some special occasion :P. Usually I am not bothered by 2 at all. But these days I seem to be doing it. I mean creating melodrama in my head, not on the outside though. Also how would one know if the quest for excitement is misguided until it ends badly? Even if it ends badly, could it be that its not misguided?

Am I Awake?

So thats the question one apparently got to ask oneself all the time. Well if I did that I could potentially be increasing my productivity but I could also be ruining one of my favorite routines of day dreaming. Before you become all judgmental, here's what some random site has to say about day dreaming:

"While daydreaming has long been derided as a lazy, non-productive pastime, daydreaming can be constructive in some contexts. There are numerous examples of people in creative or artistic careers, such as composers, novelists, and filmmakers, developing new ideas through daydreaming. Similarly, research scientists, mathematicians, and physicists have developed new ideas by daydreaming about their subject areas."

Who am I kidding? I know I don't day dream about my subject! Anyways, moving on...

So came across this interesting concept called "Lucid dreaming" today. Its when the person is aware that he/she is dreaming. Seems counter intuitive but apparently has got some advantages and you can actually 'learn' how to lucid dream. I think its a useful skill to develop for most of the times my dreams are too close to reality (missing deadlines, not being able to wake up on time for examinations and the like) and they scare the shit out me.

Too tired.

Random thoughts of the day:

1.http://lifehacker.com/5441045/sleep-cycle-analyzes-your-sleep-patterns-for-a-better-wake+up Crazy!!

2.iMac !!! Quadcore!!!Badass!!! Thats my machine.

3.cooked stuffed brinjal for the first time. I liked it .

This crazy girl over here

enough said.

The day I disabled Google Buzz

Today I finally disabled Google Buzz. Why? Coz I read the following conversation on it.

A: crashing
B: what happened?
A: Tried to sleep but could not.

I felt stupid for reading that conversation and I had done that just because Google Buzz said 3 unread messages. Anyways got rid of the idiotic thing now. I guess I could be much more productive if I deleted my facebook account. But I guess I should start off experimenting with it. Like not using facebook during the week etc etc.

Anyways, back to the ever existent homework.

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I am inspired by movies as much as I am inspired by real life people. I always fantasize biking to work just like Meg Ryan did in the movie "City of Angels". I do not like the movie but just watched it for Meg Ryan and I liked the idea of biking to work so much that right now I am actually considering to a place further away campus so that i can bike to school. Yeah I'm slisha crazy :P.