Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Experimenting with myself

For people who read my blogs, I beg their pardon for being so egocentric but this blog is totally an exercise to understand myself, to be explicit about what I think about myself and not a literary exercise so most of my daily updates will be a reflection of my life and my idiosyncracies.
Life in 2nd year IIMA is just like your engg days ... the only difference being I don't like sitting idle and watch 4 movies a day like my engg days. So, I decided to explore new things in life. I started with trying to learn how to drive a four wheeler...don't laugh as before that I did not even know how to drive a two wheeler confidently :P
Then I tried my hands and feet :D at swimming ... There is an interesting story behind this. IIMA students are known for their dedication, perseverance or never-say-die attitude. When I joined the swimming class, there were around 20 wannabe swimmers from IIMA...at the end of just 15 days, 10 have left and after 25 days only 3 of us were left trying to cross the final hurdle, that is get a pass/fail approval from our instructor. Unfortunately none of us eventually had the persistence to complete it fully. So much for the IIMA tag and hype!!
Anyways, my 3rd and probably the most interesting attempt is trying to learn guitar. I went to just 3 classes in the last one month but planning to be a lil regular now. The biggest problem with me as a person is that I don't seem to enjoy the process of learning anything, I am just too focused at trying to achieve sthg extraordinary at the end of it ... which keeps me hooked to it but somehow when I achieve that, I feel the excitement of having done it finally dies down quickly. For example, I dream of getting into an amateur music band and performing somewhere sometime though at present I don't even know how to play the most basic tunes !!
The few more things which I am planning to learn is dancing and tennis. Dancing is probably the only thing which scares me to death. Some of u will be definitely be surprised to know that the last time I danced was in 1994 :o and I really want to conquer this fear! Tennis is sthg I want to learn because in an year's time I will be a place where I won't get much opportunity to play TT, badminton or cricket as much as I will get the opportunity to play tennis.
If any of u guys and gals have any interesting idea about things which I can learn in these 6 months, I will be really really grateful to you :)! Please post your suggestions in the comment box...Thanks!

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