Life Balances

Life is such a RUSH!

All that I’ve been doing in these past few weeks is rushing from one day to the next, one chore to the next, one job to the next, one mood to the next.. It’s a wonder one year has passed by and I haven’t noticed time fly by with the amount I have been rushing about.

One thing that I do struggle with the most is time management and to use the word ‘struggle’ really undermines my efforts!

From work, to my personal life, to friends and my space – it just seems like there aint enough time doing justice to either area of my life. The only area I think that is most justified really is my work, with the amount of time I spend at my computer and the amount of time I spend at my phone talking to people about work, for work.

So here is what inspired this blog post:
Jobs in India: specifically Bombay involves slogging your ass off, sure work maybe a lot of fun but it leaves with you with barely any time to socialize. Having said that, although work hours maybe super comfortable (with come in when you please, leave when you please) there isn’t anything to do after you leave since you leave that late – since you are that tired and family is just waiting for you to get home and talk about your day and everything you missed out on, while you weren’t home.

To top it off after 5 days of work work work, comes the blissful weekend – the ‘Saturday’ and the ‘Sunday’ (the angels sing aaaaah!), but everything that you have planned for the weekend can be worked out today. But hey! guess what, just like you have planned stuff for your weekend, so have the people in your life planned stuff for ‘YOUR” weekend.

How do I balance that? By doing what everyone else wants and pushing my sleep and my two days of rest aside.

For those of who (if there are any readers to this blog) are in college and are reading this blog wondering why I’m complaining when I’m working and thankfully not studying and in college…. All I wanna say to you “Enjoy college while it lasts, once your out – Life happens”

P.S. If this blog sounds to you like I am complaining – I am not, I love my job and have the perfect family, I just need to learn how to balance my life out. In the comments: Suggestions on how I can do it – Will be very much appreciated!

 

Mumbai Indians v/s South Australian redbacks

So yesterday’s match was quite tense. Just when you thought the action was building up, Sachin Tendulkar was bowled out by Newbie O’Brien having touched just 20 runs! The Mumbai Indians star yesterday was Tiwary with 44 runs, Rayudu following closely with 38 runs.

The shocker of it all was that after Mumbai Indians was done batting I thought to myself they’ve made themselves a good score of 180, going to be a tough one-this match, maybe they could make their first win today.. And walks in the South Austrailian Redbacks, DJ Harris making 56 runs & M Klinger at 50 runs.

And, just when I thought they would win, South Australian Redbacks wins the game with 182 runs just about knocking off Mumbai Indians out of the CLT20. One more loss aint going to go well with them.

What I am worrying about is that the South Australian Redbacks seem like a tough team, and they are going to be playing against RCB next! RCB gotta be charged to face them and the thought just makes me nervous.

Your opinion???

This post was first posted on – Royal Challengers

 

RCB’s First Match & their First Win

Yesterday was RCB’s first match against Guyana and we knew we were going to walk-through to winning position quite early on in the match.

Lady Luck was in RCB’s favour with first winning the toss and then the very easy victory for RCB. RCB sure started the tournament well. The beauty of winning yesterday was not just the part that we won but that we won with 49 balls to spare, and that was what made the winning so worthwhile. Guyana only had a score of 102 for RCB to beat and if RCB couldn’t have beaten that, it sure would have been shameful. But RCB helped us hold our heads high and with pride for not just beating their score but beating it with a 106 with just one wicket down AT 8.1 overs. We are so proud of RCB! It took nothing out of them to win this match, which proves to all of us that they are geared up for a lot more competition.

What was disappointing though was Rahul Dravid’s performance yesterday. One catch missed and no real performance to showcase with his batting either. The one wicket that RCB did lose was Rahul Dravid, but I guess we could spare him the criticism this match since we’ve won and also since he was not totally feeling his best yesterday, he should get better by the 17th

Looking forward to a whole lot more excitement in the days to follow! Go RCB!!

This post was first posted on Royal Challengers

 

A day in Bangalore

So work takes me to Bangalore and outta Bombay for the first time. Why was I going? To witness the first ever Fan Summit by RCB.

Did not sleep the night before anxiously waiting for the day to begin, in a hope that I would not ruin the first campaign that I had taken the pains to put together, right from the first day it began. So as I lay awake in my bed, all I did was rehearse the entire day in my head over and over again, which was my lullaby that night.

Woke up early next morning to know my flight was delayed by an hour which only gave me some more time to panic about stuff going wrong. We flew out, reached the beautiful ITC Gardenia with Bangalore’s most pleasant weather at 22 degrees welcoming us.

Had some tasty lunch, started to set up and as I did I started to calm down too. I realized all I gotta do is what I love doing the most – Blogging about the entire event, meet the fans, talk to people, enjoy the fame RCB gave me!

It was actually supposed to have been a day at work but it turned out to be quite a fun day actually. Which is when I realized – You gotta love the work you do, you gotta be confident you can pull it off, knowing that you can and seeing a picture of it in your head is what drives you to do it right.

As the bible says, “Man’s imagination has the power to create”, which I realized is exactly what I did.

I make my day, I imagine success, I imagine positivity and I imagine a complete work.

Thank you Lord for that revelation, sure helped me through the day You made possible for me! Amen!

 

Happy Birthday to ME!

The 26^th of February, 2010 was my 22^nd birthday & also the first birthday I had nothing planned out. It was turning out to be quite a normal day except that a lot a people called me to wish me.

My day started with my phone ringing away, me forgetting it’s probably someone calling to wish me, disconnecting the call and going right back under my blanket. When I did wake up, returned all the calls and my messages, it still did not feel like a special day at all.

I went to work, did not have any new clothes to wear so wore something that was lying ignored that mum thought was new, so that worked well. Went to work, was flooded with birthday emails which was a lot more attention than I’d normally get at work and That was when the day started to get special!

Dwayne came to meet me for like 10 mins at work which was good enough for me The Royal Challengers Blog had a Happy Birthday to Natasha blog post up with all the fans on RCB wishing me on my birthday. I felt like a celebrity! Not just that, one of the fans from RCB – RadioSandeep had started a discussion called ‘Happy Birthday Natasha’. You’d think that was it right? More than enough celebrity treatment for a girl? Well, that was just the beginning! My friends at work/colleagues treated me to lunch, we cut cake (strawberry cheese cake!!) & well.. something else on RCB!!

So Nidhi walks in with- “Oh good, your still here! I need you to just check one more thing before you leave” (Just when i was about to leave, i was just hoping there wasn’t more work to do) She continues, “Check the Blog on RCB, something there for you.” I checked it to find – A Podcast – My First! A Podcast dedicated to me!! I had goosebumps listening to it. I felt celebrity-ish! Too Bad I can’t upload the podcast here. Check it on the link.

After the podcast, we drove in Nidhi’s ‘dream zen’ just to get some coffee, but when we reached it was time for me to leave!

So I leave for home, when I get home, Tanya tells me get ready quick.. we going to dinner. So I go to my room, find clothes laid out for me to wear, come back out and there are all of my friends standing in the dark in my house screaming “SURPRISE!!!!” Tanya had planned out the WHOLE thing!!! I was so ‘surprised’ to see them I did not recognize them in that much time, I could only see people, couldn’t process who they were:) That by the way, was only when Oscar wished me.. But it was all fun anyway! And i finally met Gina!

So my birthday turned out even more and more special through the day. Turning 22 was fun!

Oh and.. I will Blog more!