Devesh’s Gratitude Journal

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 :)