Category — Books

For the first time in twenty two years, I have come around to set a new year’s resolution for myself. Not many would know that I’m a very clumsy reader. My attention span, when it comes to reading, is worse than that of a kid. And resilience more fragile than India’s batting order. The worst part about it all is that I enjoy reading. I could do it on most days without batting an eyelid. But like most others of my generation, I’ve never really been able to incentivize/discipline/get myself to read. And it is time to slice through this big ball of lethargy.

Taking inspiration from Prasad Sawant’s post, I resolve to read 25 books in 2012. If I were a sales guy, I would have set my target as 25000 and then fabricated books, stories and excuses to justify meeting 0.01% of my target. But I do not believe too much in inflated targets or futuristic projections. 25 it will be then! An honest attempt. It’d be really nice if I could somehow overshoot this target. And I’m hoping I will. After all, setting modest targets has always been my forte (much to my dismay, I may add). I’ll maintain the list of books on my sidebar and update it after every read.

25 books in 2012 has to happen! A start this is.

Wish me luck!

My first attempt at photo-blogging. Inspired by a very random thought. And I scandalized my mom by telling her that I was taking “funny” pics of myself to put on Facebook. The fortunate or unfortunate part was that she believed me and went off to sleep cursing Facebook, the youth and me in that very order.

The good

The bad and the ugly

I have never really handled the camera and it shows, I guess, from the above pics.  The second pic has not come too well with the light reflecting from the surface of the book. But, it was fun nonetheless. Would love to learn from someone who has his/her ways with the lens