yay!!!!!!

I had NEVER expected this........

CAT 94.62

English 97.45

vo voooo

Love

This can change my life wonderfully !!! And, am sure, it WILL make some people happy for sure.

Thank You Lord

IRC.........

IRC......

My distraction again!! Hope this works this time. Reinstalled, but will not be able to make out any time, not till exams.

Yes!!!!

Deleted the biggest distraction of my life....... IRC!!!

I'm sure this time, I wouldn't be returning, not at least for next 2 years at least, and probably never after. Because, till exams, it's a punishable restriction. After exams, I am planning to relocate for a long duration, and then..... who knows :D

Lord,

Now, that You've finally set me on the right path,

give me strength to keep following it :)

Amen!

Altered Timetable

7a Wake up, daily cleanliness, chores, mild exercise.

8a Chanting/Meditation, Breakfast

9a Study

1p Lunch

2p Study

8p Dinner

8.30p On-line Mails

9p Blog

10p Study

12a Sleep

Restrictions:

No IRC

No on-line period except allotted.

No wandering around in places or people, where I cannot control my emotions.

No skipping on meditation, exercise, sleep, eating or study.

Rewards:
Successful attempt for a day - a new pen/notebook

Successful attempt for a week - a due personal grooming and pampering session at a beauty saloon, after exams (to be awarded in successive months)
Successful attempt till exams - Result will show!
If the result is above the required percentage - Party!!!!

Punishments:
Successive failure for one day - ginger and no on-line time for all the rest of the days, till the backlog is complete.

Target: Required percentage.

Schedule begins: 28th Feb, 2010 7 a

Schedule ends: 7th April, 2010 7p.

Good luck to myself :) *hugs myself tightly*.

Some thoughts

Well, it seems, it's been long since I wrote something fruitful here. Perhaps the reason is that I've been way too busy doing other things and being at other places. May be I was once again taken back in by the cravings I had tried to curb strongly and deal with them forcefully.

What did I do, past two/three months? It's a long story. I explored around, again as usual, mentally. Alternative lifestyles, making on-line friends, meeting people, going out, travelling, studying, trying to study. But...... I realize now, that I had forgotten what I had been made to realize by 'That Super Power above'. I forgot that the true peace lies within. The true discipline is self-discipline, and there has to be trust to develop healthy relationships.

I had lost my capacity to trust. I had, after a bad emotional incident of severe pain, almost convinced myself that people are bad. However, in last few months, I met at least 2 people who aren't bad. They really aren't!!! Selfish, mean, demanding, etc.... may be yes. But bad...no!

I also realized, that just like at times, I cannot handle my emotions(most of the times in my personal life), perhaps people also cannot. Just like, I lose my temper in public also (though rarely in open, which I did today morning somewhere :( I wish I could have resisted.), people do so too. I can understand hurt, pain, mistake, apology, and even apologise. But, what I can't deal with is bitchiness. I do accept authority. But of those who have it. None else. Simple! Plain!

I have been in conflict with myself. Whilst my professional, real life, needs me to be demanding, controlling, dominant, my internal spirit craves to submit. Submission CANNOT come without trust. And somehow, my trust isn't returning. I do not know, if this is good or bad. I hope, this changes, not for me as a submissive person, but for me as a person.

Lord,

I've offended a few good people I've met on this journey.

Please give me the strength and the capacity to find happiness,

to grow and nurture and develop,

for am sure that is all they wanted to see in me,

when they appeared bad to me....

and....

when I resisted and reacted.

Lord,

I beg You to grant them more and more love and grace to spread,

just as they do,

and better people than me to care for.

However Lord,

I wish they do not leave me :(

Lord,

give me faith to explore within myself,

not beyond myself,

and to find,

the serene calm within me.

Help me stick to my decisions,

call me to my true calling,

whatever it is.

Also, most importantly Lord,

prevent me from hurting others,

no matter whether they are important to me or not,

though I cannot undo, what I've already did.

This strength and courage I ask in Your name.

Amen!!!

Ok...... so back to myself, I will now start devising out that structure I crave for, the discipline I seek, the effort I want to put in for someone else. I will submit to myself and my Lord henceforth. And, I apologise for anyone whom I might have hurt.

Good luck to me :)

I'm finally back to Your shelter!!! :)

©2010 anu (Exploring Myself)

Exam Dates

22nd March

27th March

1st April

7th April.

Tentative Exam Date

Around 18th March.

Latest target : 2 books a day

5 Hours per book

And complete study, with 60:40 pattern.

tentative schedule till exams

4-5 a Meditation and chanting

5-6 a Exercise and washing/teeth brushing etc.

6-8 a, Online
8- 8.30 a Break Fast

8.30a - 12.30p, study(with a 15 minutes break in between)

12:30 - 1 p, phone calls, , lunch in reverse order

1 - 5 p Study (with a 15 minutes break in between)

5 - 5.30 p evening snack

6-8 p study

8.-8.30p Dinner and brush and getting ready for sleep etc.

8.30p-10.00 study

10p sleep

Target Due : 25th Feb

• Drama:
• Shakespeare - King Lear, Julius Ceaser
• Marlowe - Dr. Faustus
• Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
• Congreve - The Way of The World
• Sheridan - The Rivals
• Shaw - St. Joan
• Oscar Wilde - The importance of being Earnest
• Eliot - Murder in The Cathedral
• Osborne - Look Back in Anger

2 per day and half an hour of grammar

Back to some serious work

Hm.... I did what I was craving for.... logging into my various profiles, doing what I thought, I was missing, and reading and pondering on different things.... And realized.... I need to work now. For various reasons, about which I'll think some other day.

Right now..... To work.

Here's the syllabus to be covered:

Poetry:

• Chaucer - From Prologue to the Canterbury tales
• Donne - The Flea, The Good morrow, A Valediction,: Forbidding Mourning, Holy Sonnet: Batter my heart, Canonization.
• Marvell - To His Coy Mistress
• Herbert - Affliction, The Collar
• Milton - Paradise Lost - Book 1 and 2
• Dryden - Absalom and Acitophel
• Pope - Rape of the lock
• William Cowper - Castaway
• Wordsworth - Ode to Immortality, Tintern Abbey
• Coleridge - Dejection:an Ode, Kubla Khan
• Byron - The vision of Judgement
• Shelley - Ode to The west wind, Stanzas written in Dejection, Ozymandias
• Keats - Odes to : - nightingale, grecian urn, autumn, psyche, indolence, melancholy.

Prose :

• Bacon's Essays : - Of Truth, ADversity, love, envy, marriage and single life, simulation ad dissimulation, revenge
• Addison:- The Tombs in westminster Abbey, Sunday in the Country, The Exercise of the Fan.
• Swift : - Battle of Books
• Hazlitt:- Indian Jugglers, On familiar Style, On the fear of Death.
• John Ruskin : -Unto the Last
• Mill:- On Libety
• Defoe - Moll Flanders
• Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield
• Jane Austen-Mansfield Park
• Thackeray - Vanity Fair
• Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
• G.Eliot - Middlemarch

Drama:

• Shakespeare - King Lear, Julius Ceaser
• Marlowe - Dr. Faustus
• Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
• Congreve - The Way of The World
• Sheridan - The Rivals
• Shaw - St. Joan
• Oscar Wilde - The importance of being Earnest
• Eliot - Murder in The Cathedral
• Osborne - Look Back in Anger

Grammar:

• Determiners
• Tense, Aspect, Voice
• One word substitutions
• Synonyms, Homonyms, Antonyms
• Phrasal Verbs
• Idioms
• Concepts and Notions
• Comprehension
• Precis Writing
• Report Writing
• Letter Writing - Business, Formal, Informal, Art of Public Speaking, Personality Development
• Literary Appreciation
• Writing for Radio, TV, Mass and Print Media

Now...... This is what I have to study and I have supposedly 30 days flat (Date sheet will come in a week-15 days). Now, I will start posting, as I keep covering the topics.

Prayer

Lord,

Help me trust !!!
Those, who really care about me.
They might not be my friends, guardians, mentors or might not share a close relationship with me.
But,
They care nonetheless.

Save me from the delusions,
the confusion,
and, most importatly...
The diversions.

I come to You...

The all powerful!!
The Omnipresent, Omnipotent!
for the most humble surrender I can offer Lord.

With my shortcomings,
Any one may/may not,
but You will...
accept me!

I know :)

To Your shelter.

Hoping to stay...
Irrespective..
of my surrender.
within my own sweetness,
and within Your Mastery,
of all You've made.
Strong and firm,
Loving and not yet weak Lord.

This I seek in Your Name O Lord!

Amen!!!

© anu (Exploring Myself)