New Year Resolutions

There is this cycle in human life which has a habit of occuring every year .. Mostly around the same time of year.. The cycle of the New Year Resolutions.. Every December each of us does a performance review of our life in general over the past 12 months, and sets goals which can be achieved during the next year.. We set forward that starting January 1, "I shall / shall not xxxxxxxx.." (Fill in the x's) .. Goals include go on a diet, stop smoking, eat less, be more pro-active at work, stop drinking .. January 1 comes along, and we begin our resolution with full gusto.. Come December however, we find ourselves making the same resolutions again .. Why is it so tough to stick to our resolutions?? Are resolutions made to be broken?? Then, why do we call them resolutions???

One question has always struck me.. Why do we need to wait till Jan 1st to start a change in lifestyle.. Why can't we just say, "I shall / shall not xxxxx starting right now" .. Somehow, that statement is made only when you are in deep introspection after your 4th tequilla shot, around the same time that you remember that you forgot to return the library book when you were in 7th grade and you are repenting .. Point is, that there is no way you are going to remember this resolution when you wake up next morning..

Is there some wannabe psycho-analyst out there, who can clarify as to why the human mind works that way?? Why are we so weak, and more so, what is it that makes up give in to temptation?? Is there a gene in us, which makes us this way?? According to TIME, there is a gene in us, that makes us religious / agnostic, so there should be a gene for temptation also .. Or as the religious would say, is there a devil inside us that makes us so susceptible?

Those are the thoughts for the new year .. This year I decided not to make any more New Year's resolutions.. Atleast that's something I shall have the least trouble keeping up to!!!

Cheers,
SG

Lazyness personified

Hey there blog world .. How have you been .. I know I have not paid much attention to the blog world in a long long time .. I think once the initial honeymoon period with the blogging thing was over, it took a real effort for me to log in and write trash .. and since I am the king of the Lazyness Kingdom, it was too much to ask ...

Anyway, ab ke liye itna hi .. I think I shall try to update this as often as possible .. but really dont promise .. Having promised once and not kept up to it, I dont think I should ..

May God bless those affected by the tsunami tragedy.

Cheers,
SG

I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaack

Haven't been online blogging for a while .. It has been over two weeks that I have written any thing .. I have come to realise that it is only on weekends that I am able to dedicate some amount of time to the "deep" thinking needed to get on with such serious activity .. since we had friends come over last weekend, there was a small sabbatical .. but now I am back .. especially since we do not have any friends / relatives scheduled to visit us for at least another month ..

Anyway .. Whoever reads this .. let me know what you think of it .. shall be more regular with posts from now on ..

Cheers,
C

Sandgroper?? Who exactly is Sandgroper?? or more precisely, what is a sandgroper?? what sort of activity is groping sand?? If questions like these are arising in your brain, then WAIT!!!

The name is just a nickname .. Apparently it is an Aussie nickname .. I don't even know if it is an authentic Aussie nickname, since it was given to me by a computer program, which would give you an "Aussie" name when you enter your name... Of course, it is important to note, that the whole program was such that it had a database of about 5-6 names only.. So there must have been quite a few Sandgropers in the world.. And no, this is not a forum for those of us lucky to have this nickname to interact with each other .. This is me, Chirag Panjikar, venting my thoughts, aspirations, dreams, frustrations at the world .. if no one is interested in reading me, or my thoughts, I honestly dont care .. I shall carry on writing stuff that I feel like, how I feel like ..

I have always had a dream of writing .. My favourite activity in school was the English Composition .. As an idealistic 13 year old, my dream occupation was to be a journalist .. that probably had more to do with the fact that reading the newspaper in the morning while on the shitpot was so fulfilling, that I had the dream of supplying other lucky souls with the same feeling while reading my writing .. Somewhere down the line came the realization, that if there are people reading my "works" while in the john, that would also give them a chance of flushing it down .. And that would hurt my massive ego .. Also, along came the muse called Reality and the fact that writers, journalists and other members of their ilk, do not make enough money .. As a "worldly-wise "16 year old, I figured it is much easier to follow the current and get into the rut of scientific education.. To cut a long story short, here I am, a qualified engineer, still with the keeda of writing something that will make people nod (some people at least) and at the same time, not be able to flush it down the toilet .. I am new to the world of blogging .. and there will be goofups along the way .. but I will survive .. At least I can read what goes on in my mind ..

That's enough BS for now .. Until later,

Cheers,
SG

Intro

Hey,

This is me.. Sandgroper.. This is a new experience for me .. Hopefully as time goes by I shall get better at this and write more coherently.. Till then, you (and I) shall have to bear with this "hi-ok-bye" kind of stuff ..

Anyway, hope to be writing in a lot more about me, in the days, weeks, months, years to come..

Signing off for now,
Sandgroper