Of Narcissists and Mice

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After going 3 days without any human contact i’ve finally gone off my rocker. everyone has gone off to India and im stuck here cos i have exams! right now im bored enough to try to write a post from my mobile More gory details later!
P.S. - I haven’t had human contact cos I have to study for the exams next week

Yesterday I met a friend who had been on my mind for a while. I met the friend while on the bus. It was just a coincidence. And I got to thinking what would have happened if I hadn’t woken up at the unusually (for me) late hour? What would have happened if I had spent a little more time in the shower? What would have happened if it had been a shaving day (I shave every other day)? All these little seemingly inconsequential things came together to make two people meet in the bus.

But that wasn’t what really got my attention.

What about the people I didn’t meet because I woke up earlier or later than my usual time? What about when I gave up on a bus because it was too crowded? What about when I skipped shaving? Did I miss the future Mrs. Pereira because of these events? Did I miss meeting my future business partner? Did I miss meeting the person who would ruin my life (I don’t really miss meeting that person, truth be told)? That is what I was really thinking about? What did we miss in our lives because we took too long to wake up or decided to shave or decided to go back to get our wallet / handbag ?

I know these are stupid questions. None of these things happened so why should it bother us? It bothers me because I’m always in a ‘what if?’ mode. I can’t help it. Hopefully I won’t dwell on these things too much.
This post is dedicated to the people that I missed out on because I took too long to shave. You would have been great. Or maybe not. I’ll never know.

I realize that it’s a bit late for New Year resolutions. But these are Non Resolutions. So I think I will be excused for posting them this late.

This is a list of all the things that I will NOT be doing this year. These are New Year resolutions gone bad. Passed over to the dark side. These are the New Year resolutions you would not like to meet in a dark alley. This is what happens when you don’t hug your resolutions.

This document contains a whole cart load of ‘NOT’s. Because of this it may contain confused sentence structures. I’m very sleepy as I write this so I haven’t been able to keep track of all those negatives mixing with each other and becoming positives only to break up in a huff to become all negative again.

Without any further interruptions I give you, My New Year Non Resolutions

1. I will NOT spend another needless year learning things that I need to know in order to do a job that I am already doing. Which means, come hell or high water I will NOT be a lazy bum and spend my time NOT studying so I can NOT sit for exams to complete my degree.

2. I will NOT be taking over the world this year. I mean, come on, have you heard of anyone without at least a masters trying to take over the world? It’s always Dr. whosit or Dr. whatshisname. So frankly, without at least the BSc to add to the end of my name I’m hardly capable of taking over the world. I’m NOT competing with the likes of George Bush without being able to spot market trends or NOT being able to give the probability of it raining when a family who goes out to fish toss a coin to decide who gets to use the hammock. (Which is what I’m NOT learning since I am NOT attending lectures for Probability and Statistics – 203)

3. I will NOT be a poster child for how NOT to manage your money. As of the time of this post, I am Rs. 1600/= and two weeks away from complete and utter financial ruin. I will NOT be a credit card company’s model customer. I will NOT give up getting my hair cut due to destitution.

UPDATE : I have just received payment for leaves NOT taken in 2007. I am NOT staring at a financial meltdown at the moment. I did NOT just make this up. It really didn’t NOT happen.

4. I will NOT let my shoes melt into the road before I purchase a new pair. I will NOT be the proud owner of one pair of shoes. Instead, I will be the proud owner of two pairs of shoes. I will NOT wait till my socks are thicker than my shoes to purchase a new pair.

5. I will NOT be the centerfold for ‘How NOT to Behave at Social Gatherings Monthly’. I will NOT freeze whenever someone makes small talk with me for the first time. My social graces will NOT be ridiculed.

6. I will NOT be a great dancer. I will NOT be caught dead on a dance floor, unless it is to walk across it to reach the bar. I will NOT look like an arthritic hippo doing a jig.

7. I will NOT have anymore pending birthday / Christmas (Yes, I have pending Christmas gifts L) gifts this year. I will NOT be caught dead with an IOU. I will make my gift giving habits legendary. I will hone my abilities to such a peak that people will talk about my gift giving habits for a long time to come. Following is a conversation that did NOT happen.

The Bob : Did you watch the documentary about 21st century John’s gift giving habits?
A Bob : Oh yes! It was amazing, I wish I had someone like him to buy me gifts. Just thinking about someone like that makes me giddy.
The Bob : Yes, I know what you mean. I’m going to have a lie down.

8. I will NOT NOT watch Broke Back Mountain. This movie is now in my official “To Watch” list. I will NOT laugh at the thought of straight actors acting gay or gay actors acting straight.

9. I will NOT make New Year Resolutions.

And that’s it. I give you full permission to print this list out and frame it. Don’t be shy.

The year in review. Narcissist style. I still can’t spell ‘Narcissist’ properly. I always have to get it spell checked. I always put in an extra ‘c’ or an ‘s’. I never realized that my blog name would give me so much trouble. If I had known that earlier I would have used something easier to spell like ‘Life of Bob’ or something like that. Much easier to spell. Ignore the grammatical/spelling errors. This was written in a rush while I was supposed to be a contributing member of society.
This is going to be one long boring post. I recommend that you do not read it. Of course the first thing anyone does when they are told not to read something is to read it. Human nature. This is just a log of things from 2007 so that I can read this on the cusp of 2009 and laugh at myself. I suggest you read just the last part of the post and wish me a Happy New Year. Less painful all around.

Well, it’s the first New Year I’m coming around to after starting my blog. I haven’t posted as much as I like but I suppose it’s doing ok. Haven’t gone into the list of ‘Fantastically Successful Blogs’ yet but there’s always next year I suppose.

Where do I begin? First I’d like to wish everyone have a Healthy Wealthy and Wise 2008. I’m not sure whether that is grammatically correct but I suppose that it will have to do. I chose it because I’m going to review the year in that order. And we begin.

Healthy

This year was a rather unhealthy year for me. I caught the flu twice which was rather unusual since I only get the flu once a year and that’s it as far as sickness goes. But this year I got,

Sore Eyes
Flu
Diarrhea
Diarrhea
Flu
Diarrhea
Diarrhea
Food Poisoning
Diarrhea (During Christmas )

As you can see Diarrhea was the sickness of choice this year. I have no idea how this came about. My stomach was never a delicate affair and could handle anything put into it. Even taking into consideration the unhealthy combos that I put up with. Nothing major at any rate for which I am thankful. For example, I could have been afflicted with Jumping Frenchman of Maine. Let me tell you, the firecrackers would not have been fun.

As a result of being afflicted with Diarrhea I am one of the few people who actually weigh LESS after all the Christmas food. Sad situation. I have also got fully acquainted with our loo. I can navigate it in complete darkness. Even with the mop and brushes and things lying about.

Wealthy

Since my last job, my salary has more than doubled. So has my work but I enjoy it. Of course, With Great Wealth Comes Great expense. Due to this I have been financially destitute for most of the year. Always on the brink of financial collapse. But needless to say I made it through the year with only the equivalent of one month of salary as debt. This is worrying since I don’t even live a life of debauchery. I debauch very little in fact. Mostly during the weekends. I will be adding budgeting and money management to my New Year resolutions.
Still didn’t win a lottery though.

Wise

I completed the final year of my degree. Which would technically make me a degree holder if it wasn’t for the fact that I have a few subjects from the 2nd and 3rd year to complete. I never thought I’d get through the final year so I was dumbstruck when I found out I had gotten through. For the final exam I studied a grand total of 6 hours for each subject for a total of 1 day/s. Did I mention that I did not go to lectures even once? I didn’t even know who was lecturing us. That’s why I was dumbstruck. Sometimes my amazing awesomeness amazes me no end.

Learned about industry standards and such. Trying to put all that into my website. Nothing much to be seen there as yet because it’s a work in process. As usual I’m on the cusp of giddy success.
What else happened during this year? A lot of things actually. This year probably saw the most amount of change for the good I think.

Best of 2007

Discovered My Chemical Romance. Took me awhile to like them and after that they have not left my phone the entire year. Discovered Breaking Benjamin and Arctic monkeys as well. These three bands were the holy trinity in my music list. Yes I realize I lived an empty life before I found these musicians.

Made a bunch of new friends. Most of them from the forum I idle at when I’m supposed to be working. Great bunch of people. No one can call me anti-social now because I did the whole meetup thing and everything. Although I was terrified most of the time.

Fell in love with V for Vendetta. That was the best movie by far for me this year. I don’t think it was released this year but I only got to watch it this year and loved it. Notable mentions movie wise are –

Transformers (This has got to be watched in the theatre! So awesome!)

• Hairspray (I sooo wanted to dance for this movie)
• Resident Evil (Watched it just last week)
• Bourne Ultimatum (This guy is cooler than James Bond)
• Blood Diamond (Who thinks that South Africans speak the coolest English?)
• Casino Royale (Daniel Craig makes for a much tougher Bond)

I have a pretty basic movie taste. I prefer to just switch off my brain when I watch movies. I love shallow movies with lots of stuff happening.

Started wearing jeans. Heh heh heh.

Started spending loads of time on the Internet as well. At least 10 hours a day on it. This is because of work of course. But now that I see the advantages I’m trying to exorcise my PC of the dialup connection and get ADSL. Dial up is a device of the devil.

I was depressed for a couple of weeks. Complete and utter despair. No joy at all during that time. It was quite the experience.

I found out that I am terrible at first meets. Absolutely horrendous. I just can’t seem to make any conversation. This gets better after the first meet though. But the first meet is always tough.

All in all 2007 was a roller coaster ride. The highs were really high and the lows were really low. I’m hoping that 2008 is going to be better and I think it will be better. All the signs are that next year is going to be the beginning of something really beautiful.

Happy New Year Everyone.