So it’s the long weekend. Some of you, I know, are thoughtful, organized people who can keep a Things-To-Do list, and what’s more, pull it off, striking each activity off with aplomb as you complete it. Well, if thats indeed you, then you have something planned for these three days.
As for me, well I’m home. I didn’t plan ahead.
I’ve dealt with Things-To-Do lists from the time I was in junior school. And I must say, as if you had no clue, I am a miserable flop at them.
Making time table for exam study and all that. Of course, that had other objectives built-in, like wasting time in order to delay as much as possible, the insurmountable trauma of opening a text book!! And since i touched on that, i must tell you this - I remember my dad mentioning on more than one occassion to mom or to an assortment of friends, relatives or visitors "if you really have to hide something from Sundar, simply slip it inside his text book".
A list of Things-To-Do.
Never worked for me. I could never recall anytime having ever gone past item one on the list. I’ve even tried beating this shortcoming by making the idea itself part of the idea :
Things-To-Do Today
1. Follow this list religiously.
2. Clear the Table and consolidate bills and bank statements.
3. Are you following 1 above?
4. Buy New Year greeting cards for People.
5. Make a list of People.
6. Be sure to do item 2 above.
7. Have you done item 5 yet?
8. No, item 5 can’t be before item 4.
9. Ok have you done item 4?
10. How can I do 4 before I know whom the cards have to be bought for?
11. Don’t give up yet.
12. Try jogging in the morning. It clears the head.
13. Need a clear head to wake up at 6 am.
14. Don’t defeat yourself by uselessly arguing. Deadline: 5 PM.
15. Do 18 Now.
16. Have you completed the 43 items from yesterday and the last weeks’ Things-To-Do?
17. Ok. Give Up if it’s too overwhelming.
18. Do 15 Now. Review list once more. Persevere.
19. Have you done ANYTHING today? Make a list of things you did today.
20. If you are at 20 just curious to see whats at 20, go back to 1.
Commmmmonnnnn!!! Just go swallow a Hippo! Thats not me! I have better things to do than things to do.
Yeah right.
Ok. Its that time now when you have to come face to face with facts and with your head down, face facts. All this, is in fact a DNA level feature. Just like TVs or Digicams or mobile phones have dozens of models – 804, 804E, 6600, 6600i(the i is in italics, mind you. We do pay prodigious attention to detail here!), 6600i+ with Bluetooth and so on, some models have certain features, some don’t. My DNA model didn’t have any such advanced features. I think my folks didn’t want to bother with such features.
“whats the use? Why does he ever need to plan anything? He’s never gonna do anything so important that he would need to plan. Ok give us the basic model with basic features please. We essentially want something that is low maintenance, fairly long life with good mileage, and can just manage on its own, even without the Advanced Planning implants. And minimum Memory and processing capability will do thank you.”
True. You don’t need a supercomputer if all you are going to do on your computer is use Notepad.
So anyway…the long and short of it, I am at home. Theres even no office to go to. Sitting here, watching a day pass by uselessly. No this to do. No that to do. Not putting the day to good use. Not even sleeping. Oh how could I sleep? If I do, I would catch up on much deprived sleep, become fresh and so on and that means the day would become useful! That certainly doesn’t augur well with my purpose of existence does it?
Well, at least I was of some use to you by being able to help you strike off “Read jvpathe.blogsport.com today”
Merry Christmas.
7 comments:
oh yes i did read d jvpathe 2day. as 4 things 2 do it's made its way into mobile phones as well. d last one i remember wuz a reminder on d mobile phone not 2 forget 2 take d mobile phone with him ;-). so much 2 things 2 do. all i does is add ne more thing 2 do. d list.
Now is the time to shape up that ck vk cc
I came... I sew .. an I conked off ( after multiple backspaces courtesy my resident peripheral (read keyboard!!) at home in Kerala!) and trust me I can't take my eyes of the board :<
your posts are getting interesting by the posts .... and phluuuze pardon those typos - alien machine dude :)
Quite interesting Machi. Spice it up with lot more Lata/Asha lines.
Interesting read...time worth spent!!!
As a matter of fact this situation of urs on a weekend is sometimes my regular days...lol...
Well!! sometimes confusions and pain can be hilarious!!interestingly u make me come back and read ur blogu(blog)everytime.
:):):):):)
So little to do, so little time. So little to do, so much time. So much to do so little time. And then of course, what i claimed, "So much to do, so little time"....And then blessed are those who can sit up in the middle of doing a million things with their day, and say - "So much to do, so much time!" Thats not a man with a user-friendly watch and a skewed concept of MUCH. Trust me, the people ive seen in my concious phase who pack most into a day and still can take on more, never ever complained about time. "A busy man always finds time" said a prof of mine in Engg. About the only sensible thing he ever said, but it stuck to me. Not that i Learned much from it. But it stuck to me nevertheless.
Vinoo: yeah we all need PDAs, Mobiles blah blah to make our lives more easy so it can get more difficult.
Sweetaka: i agree. Now is the time. why am i never worried i am passing a deadline everyday!? :D
Rajeev: quite cryptic! Thanks for noticing that my blogs are getting better. but are you suggesting my first posts stank!??
Anonymous Santosh: asha and lata are like mummies. thats why they seem to wear white more often than not! i swear that bridge will scrape past their XXL noses. Once they even suggested that if asha and lata stood at each end of Napien Sea road and looked at the sky in a specific angle in such a way that their noses touched, They wouldnt need to build a flyover afterall! unfortunately they have become old and fragile. Not something that the RTO would approve.
Sujata: I never claimed it was only weekends that were so totally un-history-friendly. Its all week. all month. All Year.
Soujilu: bloglu designed to make you laughlu, to entertain you. so just give inlu. keep lu coming backlu. Btw. how does a golt say honolulu? honolululululululu??
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