Breakthrough Weight Loss Strategy

Okay, this is my last resort. Here is my weight loss strategy.
Public Humiliation :-) I cant call it a breakthrough yet, but you know how I love to exaggerate, more than that how optimistic I get when I start to try one of these weight loss thingamigy

I have tried gym, I have tried motivation, I have tried self-depreciation, I have tried over-eating( with the hopes that I might get fed up eventually ;-), and I have had many people actively motivating me, 100$ bets, one good friend even dragged me to walmart to get a weighing machine with hopes that constant weighing might make a difference, but as usual, I came out in flying colors, I am unshakeable ;-) so focused on my mission to remain my beautiful self, so proud in having big curves, so loving inactivity, so full of me :-)

But a part of me wanted to do this just for the heck of it. I just want to know if I can stick to something for more than 5 days, I just want to know how the heck I would look slim.

So I have decided to publish my daily statistics, food and activities in this blog. I know you might think who cares. If not anyone I care, atleast thats my theory for now. Here's how the strategy goes...Day after day if I publish my shameful statistics in public, something might happen and I might actually start giving it a damm( my original choice of word was the end product of our digestive system ;-) about this and be mindful of my wish. Also, I hope to make history ;-) too. Coool, I just attained a momentary high just thinking about it.

So all I request to people who read this blog(I am willing to accept that there might be no readers, yet:-), please feel free to comment on my progress however you choose too. But I reserve to reply in kind ;-).

I promise, I will track for atleast 60 days before I loose interest.[ I can hear my husband saying, just wait until your project work increases ). For the people who know me, thats a LOT of time, equivalent to 1000 light year for me.

For the people who are shocked at the picture I chose, kindly remember my strategy name, PH and hence the picture. Kindly keep a leash on your imagination, it aint going to happen ;-)

So here we go.

Mission Impossible : Weight Loss
Mission Strategy : Public Humiliation,
Test Subject : Aruna Jayaraman

Mission Statistics
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Day 01 , 19-Jun-06 - ;-)
Day 02 , 20-Jun-06 - ;-)
Day 03 , 21-Jun-06 - 212.2
Day 04 , 22-Jun-06 -
Day 05 , 23-Jun-06 -
Day 06 , 24-Jun-06 -
Day 07 , 25-Jun-06 -
Day 08 , 26-Jun-06 -
Day 09 , 27-Jun-06 -
Day 10 , 28-Jun-06 -
[I dont think I will get past this date, but who knows, as the kid in "Angels in the Outfield" says "It could happen". ]

07/15/2006 : Bottom line - I dont care..Didnt follow it even for a day :-)

Theme Parks & Jihad

I know most of you would be thinking that I must have gone crazy, whether I know what I am talking about when I relate Theme parks and Jihad. Have patience and read till the end of the blog and then make up your mind.

We recently went to Orlando for a 5 day vacation. It innocently started with all but me excited about meeting mickey and mini and spiderman. Not wanting to be a kill-fun i joined too. But in the back of my mind I was wondering why it took us 5 yrs to go back to a theme park? We had been to Los Angeles Theme parks before. I convinced myself that I might not have liked that other visit to Disney land and Universal studios because we just had 2 days to see all and it was 5 yrs ago. So I got into vacation spirits shortly after having a satisfying pizza snack in orlando airport. Little did I know of what was to follow....

That night eager to start our vacation with a bang we went to 'Dakshin' an Indian restaurant. The decor was just like getting into a temple, thanjavur carvings, statues and pillayar and all. The menu boasted of yummy south indian items.( We also discovered that contrary to popular belief, Goa is in south india ) . The price was loafty, ( 2 idli = 8$ ), but we decided to take a shot and we were confident of our secret weapon 10% coupons. Long story short, Bill was 100$, service extremely bad, and food tasted as if it was made with requirements spec from a certain software company ;-) But we decided not to let this dampen the spirit. You might ask what does it have to do with theme park and jihad, I am just starting.

07/15/2006 : I got bored of blogging...and here is the short version of where I was going, Theme parks were so expensive, boring, un-stimulating, typical and did i mention expensive...that I was tempted to start my own jh=ihad/ freedom movement to banish all the theme parks from the face of this earth. I would rather watch a river flowing sitting in one place for 10 hrs than to go on a BORING ride / see a show in a theme park.

Guys...leave the imagination and creativity to entertain humans to mother earth...and she is free..

Mp3's & Laundry Baskets

Most of us cannot make enough brain leaps and think of Mp3's and laundry baskets in a single line of thought, but if you know my husband you can, almost instantly.

He is a self proclaimed technology freak. He gets high on Wi-Fi. He loves making our home look like an alien nest, whichever direction you see, you can see wires. Wi-Fi and wires dont go to gether right..wrong...they need chargers, these charges need chargers..they need long plugs...get the flow? The ultimate finishing touch is given by the blinking green-lights from these things, it completes the space ship feeling. The only thing missing is a creature with weird hair style commanding these systems. But which his new found liking to moussee and hair gels, too frequent to my comfort he sports those looks too ;-)

Well coming back to the laundry and MP3 connection...every time his eyes lights up in front of his laptop, I cant help but wonder, what is it now?.. Is it another laptop ? or wireless USB port? or a new digital camera.?..or god forbid, a new MP3 Player...I have a laundry basket full of them already. Yes, people of the world, we have a laundry basket full of MP3 players. Enough to track the evolution of portable MP3 players. Enough to open a museum. Enough to feed a third world country for one meal. In enough shapes and sizes to teach a kid advance geometry. So when I see those adorable eyes lite with a glee with hints of mischief, I think of our laundry basket, wondering whether its time for the latest MP3 player to retire, the one which I had just gotten around to know to fully operate.

Lately, the glee in his eyes have been only for vacation deals. We are going for a 5 day Las Vegas vacation. Many of you would know that we just came back from a 5 day Orlando vacation. The apparent reason being his video iPOD...Hmm...strange..something just dawned on me...the fact that we have only one iPOD at home...only one...can you imagine..taking into account the voracity with which Mr.Jobs introduced all his iPOD series, we had only one...this is a miracle...I can only pray that the miracle it lasts a while...and our laundry basket ...I can imagine it thanking Mr.Jobs for commanding my husbands undivided attention...it can finally start thinking about being a POLB (Plain old laundry basket,)

As for me...being in our home feels more like being in New York harlem...with his highness Kanye West and her highness Shakira blasting away toglory at 7am in the morning...I am starting to miss the good old days when my husband was interested in the players than the music to play in them( if you can call, its hard out there for a pimp, music ;-)

BTW, its the picture of me, taken by you know who, his title for this picture is, 'My favorite twosome ' ;-)