Day 44 & 45: For the Last 45 Days...

For the last 45 days, this has been a great way to lay off the stress and be happy no matter what the circumstances. Although the days when I feel low have reduced considerably lately (knocking on wood) I have been able to sustain it a little better because of this outlet. But with exams coming up, I won’t be doing much anyway to be able to update this on a regular basis.

So sadly, as of today I’m taking a break and I will be back after the May 17 in full form and continue to post 5 Good Things everyday. And it’s not as if I am not going to do the exercise at all. I’m going to be thinking positive and happy all the while!

So until later…

Nikita…

Day 43: For having this Outlet

Today was the crappiest day I’ve had in a long time.. I know that by writing this, I’m defying the very purpose of this blog, but I just had to say that just so I could go on to the better stuff!!

Why was it crappy??? No reason. Apparently I’m having mood swings for no reason and I seem to have no control over my tear glands. Anyway, the day has passed and since today was one of those days on which THIS blog is supposed to make me feel better, I’m going to list 5 Things I’m Thankful For…

Today, I am thankful for…

1. The karaoke that I had by myself at home with some awesome songs… made me feel a lot better.
2. Being able to keep up with my promise to my other blog about updating it regularly.
3. The fact that my sister got to meet Shashi Kapoor today (it should be one of the things that makes her happy. But I’m happy that someone from our family met a star!!!! Oops!! I forgot about Dadaji and Sunil Dutt’s story… for another time and definitely not on this blog!)

4. Having Jyothi as a part of my life. Just had to say that! No specific reason.
5. Being able to watch this!!! The tears started with this and I still don’t know why!!! It’s just so beautiful!

Day 42: The People I've met Recently

I lazed around the whole day. It usually happens to me after I’ve had a super awesome day the day before (studying wise) which tires me out (mentally) and my brains just cannot absorb another word!! Or, maybe it is the jinx I feared! Either way, I’m not going to update stats anymore… As in, it won’t be a part of every blog post, it’ll be on the side bar (if anyone cares.)

So I basically studied for about an hour and a half before I realized I was just wasting time because I was suddenly feeling sleepy, and I closed my books and had planned just to take the next hour or so off, but ended up taking the entire afternoon off.

I had dance class in the evening and I had to go a little early to help a friend out and I lost the evening that way. But the dance class in itself was awesome. We just have one more class to go this batch and then we’ll (hopefully) meet during the next batch (Summer Funk.) Gradually we had grown used to being in class and meeting each other every Tuesday and Thursday, and knowing that there’s just one more day left made us a little sad. I’m going to miss all these people till we have class again!

Nevertheless, we are all pretty excited about the ‘Friends Class’ we’re going to have where we get to invite our friends and family to watch!!! Yippie… And we’ve already started planning for which batch we would prefer to join. So it’s a one month break and we’re going to be meeting again in April to Dance again, because hey, If thou shalt have feet, thou shalt dance :P

Day 41: For being Enthusiastic

I’m almost afraid that by saying this out loud I might jinx it, but I don’t think I really care. I am amazed at myself – at how I woke up in time to start studying and how I managed to achieve around 70% of my day’s targets! I told you the stats were only going to get better :)

Oh! And I just discovered today that ‘I Dream of Jeanie’ is back on. I used to watch it when I was in the sixth standard (almost twelve years ago… Gosh! I suddenly feel so old!!! :P) and during those days it used to be dubbed in Hindi. Now I can watch it in English the way it was supposed to be watched… and Major Anthony Nelson looks so cute!! :)

Stats time…

Study Stats: 07/03/2010

Audit – Target 20 pages/day in 34

Current – 15 pages

Overall stats – 59/666 (in 6/34)

Costing

Overall stats – 1/11 Chapters

Direct Taxes – Target 60 pages/day in 31

Current – 22 pages

Overall stats – 38/1206 (in 6/31)

Day 40: For the Call...

With each passing day, updating this seems like a task because I don’t get to do much with my free time – whatever little of it that I have. So the next few days, I’m going to keep it pretty simple and straightforward.

A good day… started studying about 30 minutes later than I was supposed to… but still… Mom experimented something for lunch and it was awesome… I later realized that it’s called a Kulcha and I’ve eaten it before…

Somewhere around five in the evening, the day got just a lot better when I got a ‘I-just-called-to-say-I love you’ phone call. I’m still smiling about it. And it was so awesome that I’m not going to bother writing about the rest of the day. Ooohhh wait! Just a few minutes ago I just got a text message which pretty much conveyed the same thing; I can’t believe I was almost going to forget that!!!!

Anyway, here are yesterday’s stats…

Study Stats: 06/03/2010

Audit – Target 20 pages/day in 34

Current – 10 pages

Overall stats – 44/666 (in 5/34)

Costing

Overall stats – 1/11 Chapters

Direct Taxes – Target 60 pages/day in 31

Overall stats – 16/1206 (in 5/31)

Day 39: For Resisting the Urge to switch the Computer on...

Today, I almost decided to not write this post and then I realized that I had started this as an everyday thing and I couldn’t not write it. So here I am with a few things that made me happy today.

1. Being able to finish and entire chapter in Audit as well (only the last few pages were left, so I finished those and I realized in the last few days I had gone through an entire chapter.)
2. Watching only 30 minutes of TV along with lunch. Usually, my lunch break extends to more than an hour; which means that I watch TV for at least 45 minutes after I am done with lunch. But today, after I finished lunch, I went straight to my books!!! :)
3. Resisting the urge to switch the computer on in the afternoon. After lunch, I had about an hour and a half before Desperate Housewives would start. A part of me wanted to log on and check and update FB, but I resisted that urge and dove into my books. I never thought I’d be able to do that.
4. Being able to be of a little bit of help for someone I knew. Apparently they needed a girl’s opinion on some girl trouble, and they spoke to me. I felt so special!!! What?? I did!!!!
5. Being able to go to the temple :)

Study Stats: 05/03/2010

Audit – Target 20 pages/day in 34

Overall stats – 34/666 pages (in 4/34)


Costing

Current – 1 Chapter
Overall stats – 1 Chapter (out of 11)

Direct Taxes – Target 60 pages/day in 31
Overall stats – 16/1206 pages (in 4/31)

Day 38: For our First Fight

Today, I am thankful for…

1. (Most of) The whole day that I spent studying and managed to finish one whole chapter of Costing… it is a part of tomorrow’s stats but counts as something that I’m happy about today.
2. Our First Fight. I might sound crazy being happy about a fight (and I don’t know if “Is that what you were upset about??? This was what upset me?” “Oh really… I didn’t think of that” counts as a fight; but we didn’t speak to each other the way we normally do, for about thirty minutes after we met today. We were just about to sit to study when he said, “Wait. We have to discuss this before we start studying” and that’s pretty much how the discussion went!) Yeah! I admit that I’ve officially gone nuts! You needn’t say anything. :P
3. Being able to buy him a birthday present (from all of us); almost a week after his birthday, but what the hell!!
4. Being able to spend a little time with friends and go to a restaurant  with them (where they had dinner and I merely sat and constantly kept checking my watch to see how many more minutes I had before I said, “Chalo guys! I’m leaving… See ya’ll next week.”)
5. Being able to beat the 9.11 direct train (from Andheri) home. I left Andheri around 9.20 when I took an auto from Saki Naka to Chembur station, and got into a train from there. :)

Study Stats: 04/03/2010

Audit – Target 20 pages/day in 34

Current - 16 pages

Overall stats – 34/666 pages (in 3/34)

Direct Taxes – Target 60 pages/day in 31

Overall stats – 16/1206 pages (in 3/31)

Signing off for today!!

Day 37: For my Little Cousin

Today, I got off to a pretty good start. I started studying only twenty minutes later than I was supposed to (which is good because yesterday, I woke up around 12.30 when I was supposed to start studying by 10  and ended up wasting the entire day) and accomplished quite a lot. But I must admit that I could have done more yesterday, but I was a little distracted. So the stats aren’t as good as I promised. Lets see how the week goes so that I can decide what went wrong and how to remedy it.

I’ll give you the actual stats at the end of the post. I just wanted to highlight a few good things that happened between yesterday and today :)

1. I spoke to my cute little cousin yesterday, who lives in the US, and oh! It was such a sweet conversation!!! I really miss her.
2. My dance partner bunked class today (again) and therefore when we were redoing our Salsa routine (and I was the only one without a partner) my (cute) instructor danced with me throughout the session!!! :)

Other than that, I’ve been studying at least something everyday. But still, I’m going to go back on yesterday’s promise :( about giving you excellent stats today; they will be there next week. :)

Study Stats: 03/03/2010

Audit – Target 20 pages/day in 34

Current - 8 pages

Over stats – 18/666 pages (in 2/34)

Direct Taxes – Target 60 pages/day in 31

Overall stats – 16/1206 pages (in 2/31)

I don’t want to embarrass myself with such stats again. That’s motivating enough!

Day 36: For a Start, However Little...

As I said yesterday, I don’t have much to talk about today. I’ve gotten off to a much better start than I had expected. I’ll be giving the previous day’s stats, since I’m not done with today’s quota yet.

So yesterday’s study stats (they’re not so great yet. Hope fully by the end of the week we’ll have awesome numbers!!) were as follows

Audit - 10 pages

Overall stats – 10/666 pages

(looks bad right now, I’ll brighten it up by the weekend trust me!)

Direct Tax – 16 pages (along with making last minute notes)

Overall stats – 16/1206

I’ll have better ones tomorrow… I’m working on it, I swear!

Day 35: For being Inspired!

Today, I am thankful for…

1. Getting up (almost) in time to keep up with my schedule to study!
2. Being able to go through a good 10 pages in my first slot (the target was 20, but today’s the first day since I’ve actually started, so cut me some slack here. Give me a day or two and I’ll give you exactly 20 pages… maybe more :D)
3. Being inspired while watching Legally Blonde!
4. Having the energy and the awesome mood to sit to study again.
5. The wonderful song that we danced (Indo Jazz) to today in class… ‘Tu Jaane Naa’ from the movie Ajab Prem Ki Gajab Kahani.

New Feature: Since during the next two months, I’m not going to be getting out of the house much, I won’t have 5 Things to be Thankful For, because lets face it; it’s going to be books for me most of the time. So what I’m going to do is, describe the day in short, emphasizing on the good aspects and give updates of how much studying I’ve accomplished during the previous day, starting tomorrow (that ought to feel good :P)

Well it doesn’t mean that I won’t post 5 points when I do have something! This provision is only in case I have had a very ordinary day within the walls of my house buried in my books!