Last few weeks have been very busy for me. At least my outlook calendar shows that. Also, in a sad turn of events, a sequence of power cuts burnt my PC’s motherboard, which is to be repaired yet. IPL has been a bit of relief in this stressful times though.
However, while coming back from a friend’s house last Sunday I happened to visit some roadside bookshops in Abids area (popular for bargain-shopping) and interestingly, found that some good titles are sold at just around 100 rupee. So the reader in me invoked & I was more tempted to buy some after seeing a person buying “Chicken Soup” for just 100. Then in no time I decided that I’d buy a couple of good titles which I could not buy earlier for their high price tags.
Browsing through the books in the stack, found 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and “Men are from Mars…” . And would you believe that I paid off in total, just 150 bucks for the two! I think this was the first time I could bargain successfully on something.
Now trying to find time to read these two books. In last four days I have hardly crossed 4 pages of ‘7 habits’. Let me see how long can I pursue this. As I have written earlier, reading is one of the hobbies which I have always wanted to pursue for a long time and every time I started a book, for some reason or the other, it hadn’t continued for long.
Another thing that’s given me some relief is the IPL-II. This is another reason I have not been able to cross more than 4 pages of '7 Habits'. Except for the irony that the team I support in the day does not win, everything else is just passing time well. Yesterday’s match between Mumbai and Punjab was really entertaining and an exception for the irony I mentioned just now.
For some more days IPL is on the calendar, then comes T20 World cup. So far so good.
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