Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Day In


I haven't had a day to myself for a while now. It's either class or work or dissertation woes all round. Today, I have decided to just laze and relax and catch up on all my TV shows and reading and to try and reply all my emails and calls. What can I say, it's been a nice lazy day so far.

I awoke and switched on the TV and Will & Grace was on, so I stayed in bed for a bit. After Scrubs and all finished I finally took the mandatory shower. Then on made myself some breakfast and then read this book which I've had for ages. It's called Change the World 9 to 5. The book features tips and facts on being a bit nicer to other people as well as reducing our carbon footprint. There was a line in the book which read "Know where you lunch is from: The average kiwi fruit uses up 5 times it's weight in greenhouse gasses to make its way to the UK!" That got me hooked on the book and I finished it, its the sort of book that I will pass around to my friends.


Simply brilliant
















This one is called share your lunch.
















I was psyched also by the fact that my graphic novels and DVDs which I had ordered had arrived today despite the damn postal strike in the UK. My Constantine books are simply brilliant and the artwork is so dark and ominous. What a nice day to sit and read. A cup of hot tea, a lit incense some Kings Of Leon, John Mayer and Eric Clapton in the background and a freshly lit cigarette (so very bad, but yet so good).

It's so very imperative that the mood and the vibe be described yet I feel I'm not doing it any justice here. Hmm... Oh well.. The bottom line is I think I wanted to be alone today, it's a nice time to sit in brood contemplating and organizing contemplations. The Constantine books were still really good though.. Have a look..

















































The films that I got were the Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Burn After Reading, both of which I haven't watched. So that will be done in the latter half of the day. I might socialize later tonight in the form of a jam session with Stu and his new synth piano, the past few jam sessions have been very good and thus making it even more anticipatory. Although this time I was going to get my Tele and amp involved in the process. Hmm... again this requires some brain work...

I walked out of my room to get an understanding of the weather and realized it was as bad as I thought it was. It was dark and gloomy and just almost depressing. However, it did fit right into the kind of day that I was in. It was just as dark and ominous as my books and had a very clear 'stay in' message attached to it.


































Saturday, October 3, 2009

DINNER TIME

I got home from work and I was starving, and I mean absolutely starving. Beyond that, when I get really hungry I will be very specific with the kind of food I want. Today it just happened to be rice and korma. However, I was not about to get a takeout in the rain, nor did I want to get one delivered.

So I made an authentic chicken
korma and made brown rice with parsley. This is the end product... Let me know what you think..
















































Having made this, I realized that I had't cooked for quite a while now. This has now inspired me to at least make time to cook for the rest of the week

BACK TO WORK

I had dreaded today all week, as my one month holiday had ended. I was going back to work. It felt weird at first and everyone was busy as usual but somehow made as much time as possible to come chat with me and it was quite nice catching up with them. Somehow the one month holiday didn't seem like it was that long as I had spent most of the time sorting out my dissertation with the occasional frills. At the top of my head now I can only think of going to Birmingham and The New Forest. Although New Forest is always a very nice place to gather thoughts and at the same time have a mental time out, especially at Baker's.

I went through most of the day in a daze like manner and had just gathered enough
consciousness to get to lunch. Will and I had planned this all day... We were going to head to Chandos at Cabot Circus. This is what I had...
















Baguette with crayfish tails and rocket served with iceberg lettuce, cherry tomatoes and olives
















Will went for a spinach and mushroom quiche




























After lunch work had become more hospitable and I got back into the flow of things. I think it perhaps just required a certain amount of familiarity to kick start the whole thing. Before I knew I had finished and I was on the way home. Let's face it, it's never nice working on a Saturday but this one was not too bad. The rainy weather certainly wasn't helping things, but I somehow do appreciate and like the rain at times. Especially today. In short first day back wasn't bad at all.. :)




Friday, October 2, 2009

TRIBUTE TO THOUGHTS


I have always been drawn to certain ideologies and theories that have somehow captivated my mind since I was a kid. One of the main things that has fascinated me all these years is the yin yang symbol and what it represents. The yin yang symbol stands for the balance of opposites. That is male and female, light and darkness, water and fire. It also encompasses the fact that, regardless of how evil someone is, there is some good in them. Also, on the same token regardless how good someone is there will be some degree of evil lurking in them.

This just to reiterate the fact that we are in fact human and our instinct may be regarded by some as evil (who the hell am I to judge). Anyways, I have to move on to the point of all this. I have always wanted to get 3 tattoos on myself. I have thought about for years. The first one was always going to be an
Arian one (which I got done 6 years ago). It now rests on my right arm and I am very happy I got it.




















For the 2
nd tattoo I have always wanted a yin yang symbol. I have spent a good number of years just trying to figure out which one I wanted with all the ones out there at the moment. Something did catch my eye, oddly enough it was a piece of artwork from one of my favourite bands, Disturbed. This is what it looks like.

















I did like it very much and have wanted for almost 2 years now but something always managed to screw it up. It got to a point where I was so annoyed about not being able to get it done. What was wrong?

My dad passed on when I was really young. I had always wanted some sort of tribute to him. As unlike other kids I did not have a dad growing up. But for the short time he was in our lives, he was a loving husband and father. My mum never remarried although she was widowed when she was quite young. That was the memory and effect that my dad had. I wanted to honour his memory in the form of a
tattoo and I never really knew what to get. Oddly enough, today when I was randomly reading some stuff online (as you do) I discovered that the star sign Libra was almost similar to the yin yang ideology if not one and the same. This just blew my mind away, I have to incorporate some form of a Libra into that tattoo and maybe then it will be what I have been searching for.

Perhaps I will get a variation of the picture above and then incorporate my late father's initials and his birth and death date on the tattoo. This has just opened my mind up so much. I am very excited now on getting this done.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

The First One

I haven't blogged for so long that I didn't realized how much I've missed it. I suppose the best way to go at it is to perhaps just to kick start it as if I was in the middle of a good book (being that it's mid week and all).

This week was an awakening for many as freshers week has ended and classes have begun for everyone. This has not changed the fact that everyone is still drinking and partying like its freshers year. My freshers year was some time ago now. Just that starting over with a masters, kind of emits a vague freshers vibe all over again and it's a nice feeling. The bad thing is, that my mate Stu and I have been drinking every day for a fortnight now and this surely must have an impact on our bodies. Oh well......

In some crazy way to rectify this, I have stocked up on fruit and veg and
wheetabix. I have been drinking only red wine the past few nights. I shall very much hope to end this spree by tonight. As the drinking would get in the way of class and I also start going back to work soon... T_T

AWAKENING

Today has been spent on sorting out as many loose ends as possible. Ranging from retuning emails, texts,
phone calls, to bills, dissertation and contemplating a next module. Its not as productive as I hoped it to be, but it's a start in the right direction. Perhaps an organizer on my phone and one in my bad will help with all that.

The conversation I had with my mum has also managed to help me get my second wind in terms of motivation as I found myself losing what bit I had in the first place. This is perhaps the wake up call and nudge that I needed. Watch out world.. Here I come!!!