The dwindling numbers on my blog's site-o-meter, suggest some readers taking flight to greener pastures (which in this case happen to be regularly updated blogs!). Self-effacing as it may sound - but currently my blog has very few patrons, and I would do nothing to shoo them away; least of all because of my lazy spirit.
However folks, there are things to do, targets to achieve, mountain summits to climb, and deadlines to meet. More importantly, there are cupboards to clean, house bugs to fog, cobwebs to vacuum, and flies to whisk...
So here is an update of my very busy schedule
However folks, there are things to do, targets to achieve, mountain summits to climb, and deadlines to meet. More importantly, there are cupboards to clean, house bugs to fog, cobwebs to vacuum, and flies to whisk...
So here is an update of my very busy schedule
- TOEFL: My TOEFL exam(Test of English as a Foreign Language) is scheduled for August 11. The marathon test runs into an agonizing 4 hours. After all these years of perfecting my English pronunciation skills, and making sure that "Pomeranian" is not pronounced as "pomerian", I am still tagged as a non-native speaker. Dhobi ka kutta na khar ka na ghat ka. English for most of us, is not a foreign or borrowed language anymore. It's pervaded all aspects of our existence, even creeping into our thought process. I even blog in English... and considering that I haven't received any brickbats for my "rudimentary" language skills, I would like to believe that I should be rewarded an honorary score. So now I need the support of the blogging brethren, in getting a TOEFL waiver!
- Turkey: Went to Turkey for a holiday. Shelled out £60 per day for a hotel stay where the bed croaked at night in protest (no I do not weigh 300 pounds!), the tap leaked, the toilet seat wobbled, the air conditioner droned and the electric socket hissed nastily, at my mobile adapter. Should have known better when I booked into a "Hotel Poem", and stayed a room, which was ironically called "Out of Tune". Save for the mishaps and misfortune on this front, the trip was fanatabulous! Had a lot of fun, took a lot of pictures, and marveled at the historical relics. Last but not the least, developed a new found respect for the Sultan of Turkey, who in his life span of 55 years, built a harem for his 200 companions, spent "quality" time with each one of them, and fathered 112 children as an afterthought!
- Enrolled for a photography course....For I realised that just like you can't drive a Ferrari 575M Maranello, with the driving skills of a Ambassador Mark IV, you can't use a digital SLR camera, with the skills of a pinhole camera....
