Weekend Pledge
Ever since I started this blog have had bursts of writing sessions and then a continuous slump. I wonder if other bloggers too suffer from this syndrome as well. May be not. When I started out I thought I shall just keep on writing whatever came to my mind. But then always thought have nothing to write or thought may be tomorrow. But I think it is nothing but procrastination, which keeps me away most of the time. Well, today I pledge to myself that I shall write everyday at least for ten minutes no matter what.
As we head towards the weekend I already have started to make plans for Friday, Saturday, Sunday to start with, clever me, talked to a newscaster friend of mine while she was on air. I never knew one could actually while you were presenting the news! And the other thing the news caster who looks seated while presenting is actually standing and doing the job while tap dancing on the teleprompter key.
So dear readers the news caster in today's world is not only the glamorous side of the media but is also multi tasking at work just like other mortals. It was indeed very gracious of her to key in the couple of lines while she was reading out news for the spectators. Wow! I for one certainly don't envy her at all. My multi tasking at work ranges from telephone calls, meetings, mail responses and of course chatting with friends all over the world but it is not in such public situation and I have nothing to fear if I falter. I would have been a complete disaster in her place. There is no audience to watch me slip. Such performance pressure modern day work demands, I shall not crumble.
I am planning for my next trip out in the hills. It will be a short one but a memorable one I am sure. Have started the intense pre - trip research already. From tomorrow onwards there will be new spring in my steps as I look forward to get out of the rut for a few days of sublimity. Honestly though don't know if at all I will survive in a desolate place like my dream destinations, don't think I have that in me. I am a city bred girl who would definitely feel totally lost with out the neon lights.
No matter how charming and romantic the quaint hilly villages like Barlowgunj sound, but I don't think I shall survive it beyond a month, I must take the plunge once to find out. Well, so the next big plan is to get a months leave and stay in a out of the way hilly village. Now don't start saying that its not possible. I am sure it is. Am not asking for the moon here. Just a months leave and staying put at one small village for one month, that cannot be wishful thinking right? It's neither exotic nor far fetched. But do let me know if you have any ideas upon how to execute the minor details of managing the illusive one month leave I will be ever so touched. And dear reader you are guaranteed a friend for a lifetime.
Oh I am letting you all on lot of secrets today, first the occupational mysteries and now about my wishes. Well I am feeling generous what can I say? But a pledge is a pledge...you've gotta keep it!
As we head towards the weekend I already have started to make plans for Friday, Saturday, Sunday to start with, clever me, talked to a newscaster friend of mine while she was on air. I never knew one could actually while you were presenting the news! And the other thing the news caster who looks seated while presenting is actually standing and doing the job while tap dancing on the teleprompter key.
So dear readers the news caster in today's world is not only the glamorous side of the media but is also multi tasking at work just like other mortals. It was indeed very gracious of her to key in the couple of lines while she was reading out news for the spectators. Wow! I for one certainly don't envy her at all. My multi tasking at work ranges from telephone calls, meetings, mail responses and of course chatting with friends all over the world but it is not in such public situation and I have nothing to fear if I falter. I would have been a complete disaster in her place. There is no audience to watch me slip. Such performance pressure modern day work demands, I shall not crumble.
I am planning for my next trip out in the hills. It will be a short one but a memorable one I am sure. Have started the intense pre - trip research already. From tomorrow onwards there will be new spring in my steps as I look forward to get out of the rut for a few days of sublimity. Honestly though don't know if at all I will survive in a desolate place like my dream destinations, don't think I have that in me. I am a city bred girl who would definitely feel totally lost with out the neon lights.
No matter how charming and romantic the quaint hilly villages like Barlowgunj sound, but I don't think I shall survive it beyond a month, I must take the plunge once to find out. Well, so the next big plan is to get a months leave and stay in a out of the way hilly village. Now don't start saying that its not possible. I am sure it is. Am not asking for the moon here. Just a months leave and staying put at one small village for one month, that cannot be wishful thinking right? It's neither exotic nor far fetched. But do let me know if you have any ideas upon how to execute the minor details of managing the illusive one month leave I will be ever so touched. And dear reader you are guaranteed a friend for a lifetime.
Oh I am letting you all on lot of secrets today, first the occupational mysteries and now about my wishes. Well I am feeling generous what can I say? But a pledge is a pledge...you've gotta keep it!
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On the solitary life, I would say I grew up in a hilly place away from neon lights and I can be pretty happy in my litle nook of slow life. the year before last i went ans stayed a month with my brother who owns a remote farm land in Pensylvania. His nearest neighbor is about 5 miles away. At night there are no lights around, except if you shine the torch on some wild animals eyes. Its quite, secluded and very villagish. My brother loves it. he works from home and when he is done he does hunting, fishing in the rivers and jungles nearby or drives a few miles to the nearest buddy's house. So it is possible. I would have been okay with sucha life, but yeah having neibors within the seeing distance would be nice :)
Have always had thought that I would love to stay at a quaint place and why life is not giving me such a chance. Went to this trip to a far flung village in Himachal Pradesh. The village population is at 750. The two days and nights that I spent there were the most memorable of them all. On day one we asked every possible person when will the sun set, it was a full moon night. But boy! we were not ready for what we experienced after the sunset. The million stars that covered the sky was just the bonus. The silence of the valley around us was the experience of a life time.
When I reached Delhi couple of days later I could not function for two complete days...it all seemed so unreal.
But to stay in Chhitkul forever I don't know if I have it me...that's what I want to find out.