Resolutions

I just came back after playing a weird game called Maara-Mitti. The game is quite simple. You have to hit any other person in front of you with a small soft ball. Outside on terrace Harit,Miling along with their friends were playing this game. After Electric power failure I came out of room. As soon as the kids saw me standing outside, they forced me to join the game. I asked how to play this game.
They told”Arre bahiyya jo saamne dikhe usse is ball se maro. Is game ko maara-mitti kehte hain”
And next moment I was in game. This game I played when I was small, in Mumbai. But we called it Abba-Dhubbi.I think this name was given to it because this game must have originated in Abu dhabi(just my another weird theory).

So game started. This bachcha party has amazing aim. Even I am starting at far away distance they use to hit me with great accuracy. Rarely did they miss anyone. It was very difficult for me to hit this chinti minti small people who are hopping like frog everywhere. Majority of times I lost the mark hitting everything accept the target. Later I realized due to my size I was too easy to be targeted and chotu public took full advantage of this. Later I was the only one being hit. Whoever grabs the ball, hits me. In 15 minutes I was out of breath and sat down. I raised my hands surrendering to their might.

These people were playing long before I came to play with them and even now they are not tired. I was amazed at the energy of kids. I was sweating heavily and sat on plastic chair on terrace. The game was resumed and everyone continued playing. I felt as if I have ran 1000 mile marathon. Then I remembered of Budhiya. Recently he was in news for his amazing feat to run a Marathon in record time that too at age of 6 years.
These kids have amazing stamina.

Today I realized that I have been wasting too much of my time. I decided to make a time table for myself and set of rules which I will follow strictly. Recently I came to know that I have been spending too much money. Where the money goes …..I don’t know. So I have started cost cutting measures to check my spending. The steps I took are:

1) I fired my maid who used to clean my utensils and wash clothes. If need arises I will fire another one also who comes to clean the room. The consequence of firing the maid was apparent first day itself when I saw all the plates and glasses in scullery to be cleaned.
2) No weekend outing with friends. This is the major source of wasteful spending. No movies nothing. On weekends I will sit at home and study.
3) No making calls from land line phone. I will now make calls from Mobile only. Also I will change my mobile from post paid to pre paid to keep track on money spent. My target is to bring down the telephone charges from 2000Rs to 500. That will be a good saving.
4) No eating out. I will cook food at home. I will eat out only if its necessary or I am truly not in position to cook.
5) No purchasing of unnecessary books, newspapers and magazines. First read the pile of unread books and novels. Then purchase new ones. Only one newspaper is enough and one business magazine. Will cut the subscription of remaining 2 newspapers.
6) No unnecessary out of station traveling.
7) No lending of money to friends. Enough of charity.

Hope my plan of action works. Apart from financial planning I jotted down few rules that I will be strictly following daily.

1) Study minimum 4 hrs for CAT daily and 8 hours on week ends.
2) Get up early in morning latest by 8.00.
3) Do puja and read Hanuman Chalissa daily after taking bath.
4) Not spending more than 2 hours on internet excluding the time required to do official work or study related surfing(what is that?). Strictly no to Yahoo messenger and Orkut.
5) Improve writing skills by writing atleast one review per week on Mouthshut.com.
6) Strictly ban on porn.
7) Clean the room regularly.
8) Strictly follow the rules made for friends(will be posting about that in great detail soon)
9) Be sincere in official work(Is there any work by the way?)
10) Exercise daily two times a day.

I know following all these resolutions is Herculean task for me…but as it is said where there will there is something something. So I am following all the stuff from today itself. Though not fully…but at least I have started following.
“Well begun is half done”