Kia, my new car has been my challenge. Everyday I am trying something new, within a week I started driving on highways, then started switching changing lanes instead of just being in right lane. Initially, I had planned to totally avoid highways and take internal roads because I was scared to merge and also I used to not go beyond 45 miles/hour. But frustrated with commute time I did take a chance to travel on highway. Now I want to travel more than 100 miles in one go. Last I drove to Natick which was around 40 miles away from my place.
Driving, though I knew, I was totally scared initially but now I am loving it. My friends - Shruthi, Sonaki, Vivek have seen my progress from toddler driver to still learning but improvised version. Shruthi- First time I rented a car to drive on actual road to commute to my office, she accompanied me. Vivek - Though he is a new driver he took a risk of accompanying me when I was driving first time on highways. Sonaki - She had been my weekend companion for long drives. My roommate did help in my very baby steps of driving so I can thank her too.
I have started playing badminton. Vivek knew bunch of folks who used to play badminton on weekends and I told him I knew to play better so he added me to that group. They play the badminton as professional and when I played with them I knew I am still in the initial stages. I know to hit the shuttle but if we play as professional and I lack in not giving opponent the hit. I mean we have to judge the other player and play accordingly sometimes hit hard and sometimes too slow. Now he is convincing me to join the fitness classes in my office but I am lazy enough to go at lunch time. I am a cardio person who doesn't want do boring exercises. What I don't like about him is that he keeps correcting my grammar which sometimes get irritating. There are so many things which I want to learn - shooting, swimming, martial arts. Hope after I am back from India I get chance to learn atleast one of them.
In winter, I am anyway getting up late at 8 am and reaching office at 9.30 am which I know I should change but what to do winters make me too lazy. Like my laundry, which has converted from one to two laundry bags but I am lazy to do my laundry and my room has been mess but I am delaying to clean up. Hope I will get all things done today. Friday its going to snow again and I would end up working from home which will make me more lazy. This weekend hope it doesn't snows so that I can drive to witch mansion in Salem. Weekends are dedicated to long drives and now to do shopping for India :) Another change is that I have started wearing heels. I am big fan of floaters and sneakers and these were my always go to shoes. I bought box heels which are less scarier than the pencil heels.
This BlackFriday I had to work though I was in Philadelphia and had planned to just chill :( Because we had the release planned on Dec 4th and I want to get rid of all crash and test failures before working day. And also I couldn't build the sumo robot which I had thought too before the robo competition in eCTC event. Next year I have Facebook interview scheduled which would be my practice interview after long time. Few days before black friday I was so much addicted to Supernaturals - a show on Netflix..but thanks to vacation I got rid and now I am watching IPKND on hotstar.
I overate today so I am feeling sleepy and had to skip one presentation and instead I am writing this post. Atleast I will attend the second presentation now, else if my manager sees me in my cubicle he will definitely question me.
