So much to do in this life, and so less a time and money

Too much, too soon is...

I had thirty-seven rupees and fifty paise in my pocket...

Thats all I had today evening when i got down from the bus, at Atta Market, on the way back to room. Toady is last friday of December - so you can imagine how much money would have had in my bank account- and had thought that i will get down at Atta Market and buy 'Business and Economy' magazine, and will walk back to the room and will. As it being a weekend, I had lot of time, and had planned that today's time I will spend reading it.

Unfortunately, the new edition of the mag' hasn't arrived. And I was not exactly depressed, but all my plans failed. So I thought i must buy some other magazine instead of that.....

....and looking for others, I ended up buying 'Business Today', 'BusinessWorld', and 'Money'.......

But then, will i be able to read it all?.....Well I think I can, as I finished the whole of the previous issue of Business Today in just one day, yesterday.

Content will that I was on my way back, and could not stop the temptation to walk into 'Galgotia Book Store'. I love going through books...and was soon absorbed in the books on the racks. Just to mention the intensity of it, I stood there going throught the books for more than an hour, oblivious of so many people besides me.

And the same thing happened here too...
Too much too soon...
I ended up buying:
1) The Best of Ruskin Bond 250/-
2) Shantaram 416/- (international best seller)...while browsing through it i loved it though I never heard of this beek before....maybe you can say, first love.
3) The Writerly Life (R K Narayan) 295/-

So here I walked out with a bill of 961/-....
Despite having only thirty-seven rupees and fifty paise...
....I had to use my credit card, and I am already in a debt of more that 19,000/- that i borrowed from my friends.

You may call it bad luck, or a good one depending on the view you take.

In spite of spending so much in a single buy I was happy. Happy because I was out with such a low bill, as while i stood there amongst the books I cam across many of the famous books that I have in the list "to be read". Just to mane a few, Midnight Childrens, A suitable Boy,
Train to Pakistan, Delhi and Nightingale by Khushwant Singh...and many more, but its not possible to mention all of them here.

So I have got a lot to finish and that too very soon....
I am currently in the midst of 'Great Expectation'(...started it more that three weeks ago, but coudlnt finish it yet.....); and 'The Best of O.HENRY'.

"So much to do in this life, and so less a time and money"

kya koi hai... jo mujhe yaad karta hai???

"..tum nahein ho uss gali mein.. ,jahan the hum kabhi..
par aaj bhi, unn galiyon mein goonjTi hai tumhari-hamari awaaz

kyun baithe ho yun nirasH se..
jab baithte ho khamosh se, tanhayi mein..

suno to sahi,..uss gujare hue sannate mein..., aaj bhi sunayi degi wo awaaz !
..kya lagta nahein?? aaj bhi pukarta hai koi,.. tumhare naam se....unn KHOKHLI galiyon mein ...?

kyun,...ab kaho...kya aaj bhi kisi ko tumhari yaad nahein aati???"

November was a Bad Month

I participated in "NanoWriMo 2005", which is a novel writing contest thats held every november.





All writers, amateur or professional can participate in this event online. In this event you have to write a 50,000 words novel, during the period of november month, i.e. 30 days. And if you can make it, you may win, and see your work being published.

During the initial days I wrote quite well, with good speed and ideas. But, because of my hectic work schedule at that time, the continuity was broken, and so was my dream to reach 50,000 words. Because of the interruptions i coudnt go with the same vigor, with which i started.

And here I am, with just 6713 words. It doesnt make any sense, now, not to me and neither will it to you. To you, it will just be a crap of events put on a white sheet. And to me?... Its a shattered dream. Its just an story which doesnt have an end, and will neither have it in future. Its just an story that has to be buried in the grave, too early in its young age.