Day 217: For my Support System…

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       The heavy rains that led to the cancellation of my dance class. I totally enjoy my dance class, but on this particular day, I was feeling unreasonably lazy! I would’ve preferred if the lecture in the afternoon had got cancelled! Even that is class afterall! :P

2.       Maggi Noodles I’ve been having everyday!!! I just can’t seem to get through the evening without a pack of those noodles. And when I add a special touch to it with ginger, garlic and pepper, they taste even more yummy!! I’m almost hungry enough to have them again now!! ;)

(I’m going to cheat a little here and make one point into three and get my 5 points for the day! And I’m allowed to do that!!!! It’s my blog afterall!)

3.       The amazing support system I have in Sandeep and Jyothi.

4.       Whenever I’m having an off day, I can be certain that he would sense it in my voice and I can be doubly certain to get a reassuring text message from him (if we’re not able to directly communicate over the phone) saying he’d always be there to support me and wants to see me smile always. :D :D :D

5.       Whenever my internet connection fails me (as it did today because of the heavy rains) I can almost always rely on Jyothi to play Café World on my behalf and ensure that my dishes are served before they spoil and something else cooked for the next day – even thought she’s across seven seas!!!! What would I do without her??? My kitchen (on such occasions) would be a mess!!! :P

Day 216: For being Strict!

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       Being at home in the evening. It had been raining the entire day and I would have rather not been out at all. Even so, I was glad to be back before seven thirty! :)

2.       Being able to get some control over a noisy classroom. I am very patient in class and have never raised my voice ever!!!!! No matter how hard I’m pushed and how badly my limits are tested. But today, I was compelled to take action. I have been authorised by Ma’am to ask a student to leave the classroom if they’re being troublesome and today I did exactly that; and very politely. Why, you ask?? Even though he had been chattering incessantly since the lecture began, I lost my head when he started clapping hard in the middle of the lecture for no apparent reason!?!?!?!? Good riddance I say!

That’s all for today!!! Nothing great to add to my happiness… I’m elated because now when I tell the students that they’d be standing on the other side of the door if they distract the others or misbehave, at least they’ll know I mean business! ;)

Day 215: For the Long Journey

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       Having the patience to travel four hours in all just to be able to go to a special place and come back home.

2.       Not oversleeping and therefore being on time (a little early in fact) wherever I wanted to be.

3.       Being able to meet friends I haven’t met in a long time.

4.       Being able to spend quality time with the people I love.

5.       Being able to sleep peacefully after a tiring day!!

Day 214: For Helpful Souls

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       Being able to have a fairly good day in spite of the tini tiny hassles that happened.

2.       Being able to have a fairly decent lecture with an entire class of bratty kids! :P

3.       The appointment with a friend that got cancelled. I was supposed to meet a friend after my lecture and he cancelled just five minutes before. I generally wait in the office and read between my lecture and dance class. Since I was already outside the building to meet him and I was too lazy to go back up, I decided to drive around for a while and read when I reach the dance class since I would have have reached earlier than planned. When I tried to start my bike, it wouldn’t go!!!! Apparently, there was something wrong with the wire that enabled quick start and took about forty five minutes to repair. Had I decided to go back upstairs and read, and leave just twenty minutes before dance class, I would’ve been late. See… sometimes bad things happen for a good reason. :)

4.       The helpful parking guy who called the mechanic and ensured that got the damage repaired as soon as possible.

5.       The wonderful drive that I took all by myself and explored roads I hadn’t explored so far!! :)

Day 213: For something New to Read…

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       The wonderfully yummy lunch and awesome noodle snacks.

2.       Being able to multi-task.. Read (and finish) ‘Sons of Fortune’ while playing Café World! I’m amazing!! :P

3.       Being able to start reading a new book – ‘The Host’ by Stephanie Meyer. So far, it’s okay. I’d be in a position to say something more after I’ve read a couple of chapters and that’ll be soon I’m hoping.

4.       The amazing ear-phone experience! My ears are loving it!!

5.       Being able to post before I slept off. I’ve been posting once in two days these days so its great that I got to post today’s Happy 5 today itself! 

Day 212: For Getting Back to being Lazy

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       The lazy start! I woke up waaaaay after noon! Can you blame me after all the running about I did yesterday?? Great! :P

2.       Having Dance class to look forward to after my lecture today! Sometimes I just feel like getting away from the classroom and today was one of those days. It helped a lot since I had the dance class to look forward to; and my book and my new earphones to get me through the hour and a half long break between my lecture and the dance class.

3.       Finally being able to continue the book that I was reading. It seems like I have been reading ‘Sons of Fortune’ forever. After a long time, I continued from where I had stopped and was thankfully able to make sense out of it! :)

4.       The new song we started dancing to today - ‘Morning After Dark’ by Timbaland. I just love the songs my instructors select! Plus, I get introduced to great songs I haven’t heard until then and wouldn't have, if it wasn't for them! :)

5.       Finishing all four seasons of Prison Break!! Phew! Done! Even if I had to be up until six in the morning watching it! ;)

Day 211: For a Tour of Mumbai

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       Having things to be thankful for. After having my hands full and running about the entire day, I’m happy to see the silver lining.

2.       Being able to meet Sandeep twice during the day; in the morning and again in the evening for dinner… :D :D :D aaaaannnddd.. the new ear phones he bought for me :D

3.       Having a mini Mumbai Darshan as I travelled from home to Kala Chowki to Churchgare to Cuffe Parade to Vashi to Home to Vashi again for class and then back home and then to meet Sandeep for dinner all the way in Mulund and then back home!! Phew… Tiring, but the way the day began and ended made it all totally worth it!!

4.       Not having dinner at Pizza Hut again! It seems as if every time we go out for dinner, we end up at Pizza Hut. For the last few times we’ve been steering clear of that place. Not that it’s not great, because we both love it; but every time???? So we ended up at Pop Tate’s instead; and the Nachos with Beans and the Mexicano sizzler that we had, was brilliant!! Loved it.. and would recommend it to all those foodies… unless of course you’ve already gorged on that!

5.       Knowing that after the looong day, I’m going to sleep reaaaally well!

Day 210: For Dancing Again

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       An early start to the day that let me accomplish a lot of things.

2.       Finally being able to watch a movie today after a long time, ‘Once Upon A Time in Mumbai.’

3.       Finding things unexpectedly. I need to fill out a form and submit it, and I was going to take a print early tomorrow morning. While I was looking for a passport sized photograph that was required along with the form, I found a copy of the form neatly put in an envelope in my desk drawer!! Phew! Saved me about fifteen minutes worth of time in the morning! A few minutes later, I also found the photograph I was looking for. :D :D

4.       Dancing!! Man, I’m having fun! We’ve had four classes already and I’m thoroughly beginning to enjoy it. We did a routine that lasted about one and a half minute on ‘Imma Be’ by Black Eyed Peas. Now we’re working on another routine on ‘Take Your Shirt Off’ by ­T-Pain from Step Up 3 and I absolutely am in love with the song. It has happened to me before… we start dancing to a song and I fall in love with it. I have a lot of favourites that way!! :)

5.       Reaching level 60 at Café World.. Lame I know… But I’m just so excited about it that I thought it was worth mentioning!!! :D :D :D

Day 209: For Chocolate Milk Ice-cream

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       Not sleeping the day off and waking up while it was still morning. Yeah… it is a BIG deal for me :P

2.       The cup of chocolate milk that froze. I generally drink my milk cold and with lots of chocolate in it. Because it wouldn’t be cold enough by the time I would be ready for it, my mother put the cup in the freezer and mentioned it to me a little too late. And hence, I had chocolate ice-cream. Yum!

3.       All the spongy and soft chapattis that I made yesterday.

4.       Another great good night conversation; which involved singing ‘In pin safety pin…’ somehow.. I don’t know how exactly, but I’m very sure it was sung... more than once. :D

5.       And… For sleeping early… just a few minutes past midnight and yes, that’s early for me!

Day 208: Old Memories

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       Having all the time in the world. Not really, but Sundays are generally lazy days and it seems like you have so much time on your hands. I just looooved the feeling.

2.       The awesome noodles that I had for snacks.

3.       My habit of saving souvenirs. I attach a sentimental value to everything; be it a letter, a book, a flower or even restaurant bills. I am crazy enough to save e-mails, chat conversations and text messages (thankfully, my phone has the capacity to save thousands of messages in its memory!) I knew I had a back up of my old phone’s messages somewhere on the computer and I found and read it! I had messages as old as 2005 in my phone – both sent and received. And it was really fun reading them!

4.       Being able to watch cool movies.. I saw ‘Hush’ Saturday night and ‘Prison Break – the movie’ today on DVD and ‘He’s just not that into you’ today on HBO. :D Happy!!!!

5.       A great conversation that had me reminiscing about old school and college days!!!