Devesh’s Gratitude Journal

Jumping in, straight to the point - here are the points that I am appreciative for yesterday:

• I’m really grateful for being able to accomplish my weekly tasks at work by mid-week. Happens quite rarely but this only means that the rest of the week is relatively relaxed.
• Received a call from an old client of mine. He tells me that as it’s tax season now, he’d rather pay me for a website renovation than the tax guy and suggests on pre-paying me for the whole year! Now as elated as I was on hearing that - I told him lets draw the parameters of the extent of the project so we both can be on the same page - hopefully heaps of moolah coming in shortly ;)
• Got another call from a small organisation I had recently done a website for - they need to made a few additions and asked if I could sort it out for a fixed fee :) Suddenly work seems to be propping up out of no where - and I’m truly grateful for it :D
• My flatmate has been busy with his exams lately so we hardly have been watching any TV at home. I was in two minds last night whether to watch a movie or not - also didn’t know what to watch and wasn’t sure if he’d get tempted and keep his books aside LOL! Anyways, turned out that he was quite prepared for his test the following day and came home with the intention of watching a flick - coincidently, they just started showing The Sentinel on Fox - both of us hadn’t seen it before, and the synopsis seemed intriguing - so we ended up watching a proper movie to its completion after a long time last night :)
• Well, overall I must say that I was thankful for another relaxed day yesterday.

I think my posts are going to be a bit irregular over this weekend - considering I’m flying to Melbourne for a short break. I guess I’ll make a cumulative one on the trip later :)

All day today I thought I was not gonna post in for yesterday. Primarily because yesterday was just a very straight-forward, downright, boring day. But then I thought to myself that I should put something down even if I dont have 5 whole points.

So here is the only biggest thing that I was greatful for yesterday:

• Overall I’m greatefull that yesterday was a much needed break kinda day. No blood nerving excitements, thrills, worries, stress or even news - which was good ‘coz all I did was breeze through the day and felt truly relaxed!

:)

There’s a fair amount of time lapse between my committment to post and me posting. However I’m still glad that pretty much the next day that I write about yesterday - not as bad eh?

• Yesterday was a pretty busy day at work - usually we have reports that run over the weekend and Monday is ideally supposed be a day where we follow up on checking if they all ran fine. since the time I’ve been here, I’ve never seen all reports successfully run over the weekend. Yesterday was the first Monday ever that all the jobs had finished running and it was pretty much, ideally, business as usual for this week. Which only meant that this week would be relatively relaxed from Wednesday onwards :)
• After work I caught up with a friend of mine - we hadn’t seen each other in over 8 months or so. It was time very well spent indeed :)
• I got back home pretty late in the evening, and considering how social I was feeling that evening - I ended up catching up with another close friend. Next thing I realised was that it was 3am already! Time does fly when you’re having fun :)
• Well - there were 2 more things I was greateful for yesterday - however, I can’t publically write about it yet - at least not until it works out. Simply put, there could a big change coming over the next 6 months if it works out. And when it does happen, you can be assured I’ll be writing about it ;) Time will tell.

So I guess that’s it for yesterday. I’m keen to get back to writing as the day ends - let’s see if I can do that tonight :)

Sunday usually is what I call a “whining” day! It’s the day where I sit and mourn on the death of the weekend :-\

But hey! This is a place where I’m writing down what I’m grateful for, not what I despise - so here goes a list of things I am thankful for yesterday:

• Saturday night was a long night catching up with a few close mates - and I stayed over at their place (Strathfield) - Now recently, I came to know of this Asian shop in Strathfield that serves really awesome omlette-sandwiches! Reminded me of having omlette-pav (soft, small bread rolls in India) in Bombay. My mates were planning to drive down to a place to have a full meal - but I decided to not join in and instead darted straight to that Asian shop and relished 3 servings of their omlette-sandwiches - totally made my day :)
• Usually if I’m out of my house for over 24 hours, I start craving to get back - just an annoying addiction of sorts. As mentioned in my previous post, I can’t stay away from home for long. As much as my feet were twitching to get back home, I decided to take the train and head the opposite direction to the next suburb and spend some time at the bookshop. Once again, it was a good satisfying feeling to just relax, read snippets from various books and just be in the moment not stressing about anything else :)
• Another pet-peeve of mine is coming to an empty house - getting back home and realising there’s no one there :) Don’t get me wrong, I really like my roommates (plural as my roomie has a friend stay with us for a few days). However, I still love the feeling of returning to an empty apartment. And that’s exactly what happened. I got back home to find no one home. Called up my roommate and he was at work :)
• Eventually my roommates got home and they decided to cook some good old butter chicken :) So there ya go - had some of my favourite meals all day :)
• Last but not the least - got a call from a really old friend of mine from Auckland - caught up on a lot of things - he recently got married and was sharing his new found woes (in a good way) with me with his wife next to him scoffing at the point that boys will be boys hehe!

All in all it was a pretty relaxed day with a lot of decent things that came along :)

(darn! did you see the number of smileys on the post above? LMAO!)

I wasn’t home last night and therefore didn’t post anything. However, I’m still being loyal to this and here goes my five things I’m grateful for, from yesterday:

• Last week was really hectic - with work and client commitments after work. With so much happening, I was running short of a fair ounce on my sleep. I know this is silly, but I’m really grateful for the fact that I caught up on my sleep on Saturday. I didn’t wake up until 1pm or so. It was so refreshing and much needed :)
• There was an uncertain expectation of negotiation for a quote on a recent piece of business I acquired. Saturday morning I received a confirmation email from my client that she is happy with the quoted price for the project and wanted to discuss deadlines :) 
• Recently we got our Foxtel connection back after a long time - I had put a stop to it more than a few months ago as I used to live alone and realised it was a waste of money considering I hardly used to be home to watch it. Saturday arvo, I thoroughly satisfied myself and vegged out on the couch straight for a few hours, doing nothing but watching movies on Foxtel :) Yes I had a lot on my mind, but it felt good for once to put all that aside and just enjoy some good old movie reruns.
• A few set of close friends had invited me for a long awaited get together - in their words, I quote, “let’s try and relive our old days for one evening”! I had been quite disconnected with them for a while now, you know the usual rut of life. As much as I normally wouldn’t have gone, I made a snap decision, took a shower, got ready, put on my shoes and took a train off to their place. One thing I’m always uncomfortable with is staying over at anyone’s place - no matter how late it is, I always prefer to come back home. However, last evening I went over to their place with a mind-set of spending the night there. It was great seeing them after so long - they all got drunk to the core (pretty much like the old times hehe) and I got high on insane shots of macchiatos which had me buzzing until the wee hours of the night. Ended up streaming live videos over the internet all night (friends on twitter were pulling their hair - sorry tweople hehe). It was really decent - for once I just let myself loose -dropped all inhibitions, worries, concerns, got transported back in time and truly chilled out :)
• Last but not the least - I think there was a good incentive for me to head over to my friends’ place last night - I got to “re-install” their computer. Almost everyone who knows me, know about my obsessive compulsive disorder about fresh computer re-installations - I just love doing it and will jump to any opportunity I get hehe. 

So here I am - on the second day. And I’m surprised to find myself navigating to posting here again! 

Let’s see what I can conjure up today… here goes nothing:

• Was running late to work this morning so had to take a cab. Now usually the cab from my place to work costs around 20 bucks or so. While I was almost at my destination, I suddenly realised that the cab guy had his charge meter switch off - which I found really strange as I’ve never seen that ever happen before. Anyways by the time I realised, we pulled over right in front of my work place - and I pretended to not have noticed it. As the cab guy pulled over, he said that’s $10.00! I must’ve had that quizzical look on my face which pushed the little asian cab driver to explain - “Well, you’re my first customer of the day so I thought I will not charge you by the meter and give you a discount”. I was of course pleased with his gesture and thanked him for it. So there goes, my first grateful feeling of the day :)
• Work was really, really bad today - as in busy bad! Which is probably I hardly tweeted all day. Anyways I received a call from Mitch this arvo - randomly, out of the blue. Just to let me know that he had referred me to a mate of his for some future work prospect (a probability). It felt really good to know that he thought of me and referred me on- irrelevant of it’s materialisation :) Thanks Mitch :)
• I had to go for a social event at the cruise bar (yes I know what you’re thinking - a social event at the cruise bar?!) - anyways it was kinda a family thing, yet not - was to meet up with this completely new bunch of people that I’ve never met along with my cousin sis. Eventually turned out a wonderful evening between me and my cousin as we couldn’t really be bothered mixing in with the crowd (despite of the insinuating attempts from some of the girls) - we bid an early goodbye to them and pub crawled until 2 a.m. - headed to the establishment, followed by the Ivy pub and finally to Tank! Danced our hearts out, had a great time and had a wood-fired pizza before calling it quits!
• While I was at the establishment, I couldn’t stop thinking of this really good mate of mine, Ben, who I was in touch with about 6 months ago and hadn’t spoken to since. So I randomly txtd him and eventually ended up calling him. He came down to the establishment and it was really great seeing him after so long - we had so much to catch up on!
• Finally - dropped my cousin sis, Rachelle, home and ended up having a really bizarre, yet delicious, soup kinda thingie that aunt made at home. Caught a cab, got home around 4am or so - found my room-mate busy with the game “Oblivion” on the XBOX360. Made 2 cups of coffee for the both of us and put on “Euphoria - Maaeri” - the song that truly transports me back in time, in the chillness and the silence of the night. 

I’m going to dive straight into it - Here goes, my first day of 5 good things that I’m grateful for today:

• Had a busy, fruitful day at work despite of the tough week. Got a lot done :)
• Went to DFO (Direct Factory Outlet) to buy a suit and some more. But unfortunately it shut just when I got there. Was disappointed at first so headed to Rhodes shopping centre, thought I’ll look around it being a thursday-shopping night. Found an awesome branded store and ended up getting way much more within my budget - they had an end of financial year sale :)
• Watched The Incredible Hulk with roommate and his mates - totally loved the movie - been a long time since I had watched such an intense movie that completely leaves you satisfied to the bone :)
• Came to know Metallica is releasing their new album “Death Magnetic” in September - was really thrilled. Apparently it has an instrumental too (which will be after so many years) - really looking forward to it :)
• A few days ago, I randomly got a business client. Today the deal was materialised and locked in. Got a new small project :)