My eyes are heavy with sleep after a filling lunch.

Junk food has been a “no-no” for lunch for sometime. Today i started it again - pasta dipped in hot salsa with yoghurt consituted my lunch. Oh you wondering how pasta qualifies as junk…any meal that doesn’t constitute roti/rice is defined “junk” at home :(.

Forcing myself to stay awake, i tune on the TV. My fingers inadvertently press the combination “24″ to play the channel “TLC- Life unscripted”. When i started viewing this channel 2 weeks back , i was a big critic, now i just love it. All programs shown are essentially true stories of common people. To name a few are “a dating story”, “a baby story”, ” a wedding story”. The one i like the most is the “the makeover story”. What i like most is that its so natural, no inhibitions. I guess “life unscripted” says it all.

My mood swings have been very high today. After reading a story in today’s tabloid i cried. It was about a 12 year old kid who died in a freak accident during one of his ice-hockey practice sessions. I guess each one of us who is alive and hasn’t lost their dear ones is lucky to be so.

Everything happens for a reason. There is no coincidence.

Day’s work: Design review

Sheer coincidence. Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article titled “Managing your career”. It talks about how college students make job-hunting tougher with weak resumes. I also got my statistics wrong in my earlier post. The article states that employers scan a resume in about 15 seconds. Now thats FAST. So beware when you write a 2 page resume next!

A face in an ad in today’s “USA today” caught my eyes.

This is what i think everytime i see these faces :

AH - Devil

Pol Pot - Gruesome

OBL - Dangerous for mankind

SH - Merciless Dictator

Now imagine a face whose forehead is that of Pol Pot, eyes those of SH, mush of AH and beard of OBL. Result : Evil staring right in your face leashing out a reign of terror. Check out the video.

Art of writing resumes

It doesn’t come easily to everyone. Scanning through 15 resumes in different styles, formats over 3 hours, i realised how tiring it is. Hunting for information you are hungry for in a pile of junk is a pain. I didn’t believe what i read a few days back - employers scan about 10 resumes in 10 mins i.e. a whooping rate of 1 per minute. Now i have a better understanding of how to articulate an eye catching resume.

Todays’ timepass :Peanuts contd..

You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression.Ensured the first conversation went on well. Am on a uphill ride

Am glad the weekend is over. I had never imagined that one e-mail could spark off a chain of actions - people all over trying to get in touch with me over the weekend. Am all charged up for whats in store - these are trying times but got to prove my worth! Life is all about choices and I have made a choice.

Weekend Highs:

1. Glass painting experience was good, freaked out with all the dashing colors. Stained, colorful, jewellery box luminisces beauttifully in light.

2. A visit to the art galleries in Natick Mall Saturday evening was memorable. I have laid my eyes on “Tree on the fence” painting - going to buy that one before i leave
3. Roaring Harley Davidsons, Yamahas and Hondas on the road. It was fun to watch about 15 bikes driven by 20-something guys and gals making their rounds through the day. By evening it looked like a live F-1 race. These are the first signs of spring setting in.

Weekend Lows: Spent most of the weekend all by myself. Until i have walked a mile in his moccassins, i may not understand how it feels to work 7 days a week and 14 hours a day for 2 months at a stretch.

Today’s timepass: Clearing my head and putting my thoughts on paper.

This weekend is going to be fabulous. Got this feeling since i woke up this morning to an announcement by Vivek - “Hey good news..you have a got a reply for your mail from the Chief Operating Officer”. Half awake half asleep, I couldn’t believe as he read out the mail for me. I hope things will change for better very soon. Two days ago, i wrote about intense emotions. I realise sometimes a frustrated state of mind can do what a calm mind cannot - the sarcasm in my mail spoke the truths however blunt it was - he acknowledged it and answered with honesty.

Vivek says :

Wife is screaming and i’m smiling

Heater is roaring and i’m still smiling

Aeroplane above and cars on the road

But i hear no sound

Am enjoying my music

Thanks to my BOSE headphones

Todays’ timepass: Glass painting.

Hotels and Motels - class wide apart.

The above sentence says it all and we are living through it. Feeling the difference every moment. It all starts with the difference in the first letter of those words and goes a long way! Staying at a motel now and i can see the “Sheraton” across the road - standing magnificently in style clad in brown english-styled roofs.

Moteliers are ignorant of customer satisfaction and hoteliers swear by it. Strange situations that life puts one through and there is no escpaing from them.

Todays’ timepass :The day is almost over “car-gazing” - my new passion.

Prospects

Hopes

Communication

Expectations

Dreams

Inspiration

Action

Rejection

Frustration

This is a chain reaction. Intense emotions shroud the thinking process. Frustration makes me helpless. I don’t know how to come over it! Do u know how to?

Its exactly a week since i started posting my blogs. Thats a job well done!

Criticism doesn’t come easily to me - be it a friend, acquaintance, relative. I believe in these words –

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

The degree of negative impact increases with the closeness to that person. But i’ve started working on it by using the two ears GOD has given.

Negative emotions dampen the spirits. But i want to live this day to the fullest - do things i love to do. And am gonna start with cartoooning

Changed my room last night. Standing by the window, I have a beautiful view of the BOSE mountain. Am so tempted to peek out all the time that am scared my neck would be disoriented to the east permanently!

Completed the Perry Mason novel too. I like the way Erle Stanley Gardner writes. Its simple and the courtroom scenes are what i enjoy the most. There’s a strange twist to all his stories that keeps the reader wondering why hadn’t he disclosed it earlier!

Today’s timepass: Sherlock Holmes: The complete novels and Stories Volume 1

Check out Google today. The icon for “Earth day” is really cool.