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Broken ……….. and working

Lazed around in the morning. The worst moment was when I realised that my CD player was inoperable.Now, my CD player is blog-famous and has featured on my blog beforeBatteries downMusic goes ouch! Finally it seemed to have died quietly in the still of the night and no attempt at resuscitation – including punching every button, juggling the adapter in every socket and changing the disc etc – showed any signs of life.I was left with the option of playing CDs on my laptop which was more cumbersome. Anyway – no other option. I needed to buy a new mobile and my budget wouldnt allow me to add a CD player to that list. Vinu lent me his adapter but…

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Cleaning up

I wont get into the intricate details, but today my bathroom was finally fixed and cleaned. Er… it’s not exactly the most cared place where I stay. The flush was slightly blocked, the sink discolored and quite a bit of cobwebs around. The mirror had become non-reflecting and the frame actually broke a few days ago. I actually just wanted to fix the mirror and had left a “Job Request” at the MIQ reception. One thing led to another and soon the plumber was there and deftly inserted a broom stick into some part of the flush tubing and water flowed in quite fast. I had a new mirror fixed and a cleaner came up to clean up the whole…

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Smoother

If you’ve read some of the posts in the last few days, you’d know that I’ve been struggling with my studies and distractions that seem to be slowly taking control.Over the last couple of days though, things have become more under control and although my study time is still suboptimal, the flow is better and the distractions are much lesser. The randomness is giving way to some kind of sensible order and I can feel God in control.I did sleep a lot today, but also spent a few hours in the library and ate well. Bumped into a few friends, had coffee with Om P, updated the blog, sms chatted with joyce etc in the midst and at the end…

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The story of Prince

This happened last week in India and the sequence of events left me happy first … and then aghast!Basically there was this little kid who fell into a deep narrow pit and couldnt be reached. A massive rescue operation involving the army was made and with a touch of technology and lots of emotion we soon had an entire nation praying and hoping that Prince survived. After 60 hours, Prince survived and everyone heaved a sigh of relief – including the Prime Minister! It was a typical Readers Digest epic with lots of drama.You can find the story in the Times of India and at CNN news coverageSo far so good.The next day revealed a dark side! Amazingly every minute…

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My Music chart

OK it’s the end of the month and I think I’ll put in my personal Music Chart for the month of July – based on music blaring out of my 10 year old 80 watt boombox with loose wires, scratched speakers and a dusty cabinet and connected to my laptop and CD player that play a variety of CDs which I bought at ELS, ebay, were gifts or just copied and also a range of radio stations from air1, KLove, Acaza, CMradio and Youthfire. So friends – here we go. Top 10 Songs for July1. One day at a time – Jeremy Camp2. Praise you in the storm – Casting Crowns3. My Saviour – Aaron Shurst4. The more – Downhere5….

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Randomness

Disjoint? That would probably describe my day.1. Midnight saw me drinking coffee, aimlessly surfing the internet and making small attempts at studying. What is it that repulses me from these textbooks that are my hope to pass exams??!!2. I had planned to leave to Chennai and surprise my parents at 3AM and had arranged with Vinu to stop me at the unearthly hour. At 4 AM I was still awake in my room and somehow felt too lazy to make the trip.3. I went to sleep at 5 AM – what??!! Is my biological clock out of sync??!!4. I MISSED CHURCH. Why? I woke up at 8 AM and then re-slept all the way to 11AM. That meant no church,…

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Curry stains, cramming, tuning and spyware scanning

Last night I’d gotten some chicken curry stain onto my shirt sleeve. It was a nice shirt and the stain was large and messy. After finishing dinner I came up to my room and soaked it in soap water. Today as soon as I woke up I rinsed it and bingo….. no stain! Lol… iszzat magic or what?I continued my confused quest to learn for my exams and made multiple trips to the lib, back to my room, the mess, to my bed etc etc. I ran a spyware scan on my comp (ad-aware) after a very long time and luckily there werent any serious threats detected – took 3 hours for the scan though!10 PM saw a timid knock…

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My failing memory

I did the awefullest thing you could ever imagine – forgot that today was Amma’s birthday. OK – it’s like this. I’ve never use my watch in the last 2 months as we dont use it in the nursery and hence it showed today as 25th July. And being on study leave totally disengaged me from the day and date of life. So much for excuses…. I felt bad. At 10 PM Appa sent me a gentle SMS reminder. After struggling with a congested network, I scooted back to my room and called them up from my landline. as expected – she wasn’t surprised. It wasn’t the first time I was doing this. Had a pretty long chat with appa…

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Where am I going….?

Started today on a blurry note – got up late and just goofed around the room. I felt very distracted today. I opened my Nelson’s Textbook but couldn’t read. Had a flight of ideas screaming through my mind and I was getting nowhere. Music zipped out of my boombox and was lost before it even hit me. I dozed, I ate, i dozed and gave in again to thoughts that drifted…..I went to the library where cramming was painful and I couldn’t progress beyond a few paragraphs. A tea-break, a hunger-break and I was back in MIQ basement and soon was watching a movie – aptly called Crash-Landing which seemed to be what I was heading for. The only thing…

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Thoughts on Leading Worship

Gladwin was leading worship today and although we had met yesterday for practice, we were still underprepared musically and had lots of loose chords and starts. As usual God took charge and although we did hit a few wrong chords, the church truly worshipped the Lord. The songs came out well and we were quite happy. At the end Peter Dailey met us and offered to help smoothen out our worship. He noticed the lack of proper practice and coordination and was willing get set things better organised.I realise that we tend to be quite haphazard in our approach to leading worship. Part of the reason is the busy and varied schedules each of us have making co-ordination of practice,…

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