I need prayers.

I don't yet know how I do it but I am eternally thankful to God for making me like this. I seem to have an uncanny ability to get back to good times. Fun times. I wish this never changes.

I have a pathetic (work) weekend coming up and an even more stressful next week. Looks like I am going to be out of the picture for the rest of this month. Apart from July 30th of course, my second camping trip for the summer. Yay!! Some motivation to get by the next 8 days.

Oh and I have to document this. My dear little niece is playing with her friend. The friend seems to be avoiding her, not playing with her and all that jazz. My sis, visibly upset with the happenings, tells/asks Arshu not to continue playing with her. "Why do you want to play with her if she isn't giving you any "bhav"?" To which my dear little niece replies, "Mumma, we should be good to people even when they are bad to us."

I'm so very proud of my niece. I have a paavam lil sweetheart and I love her a lot.

Aaaaah!

So I finished my first bike (bicycle) ride in Colorado. An easy-ish 14 mile ride. There is a new found appreciation for the Colorado Rockies.

On a side-note, I just saw a purple cauliflower. Something I hadn't noticed till now. Does it taste any different?

Dave - You & Me

:)

There is an area that I need to work on when it comes to sports. I've seen that in most sports, infact all the sports I play, my game gets severely affected by the quality of the ground, equipment etc. Even in a game like volleyball, my game drastically changes if the ground is uneven. Playing on a flat surface or an even grass field, I have a lot of confidence in my smashes and blocks. My confidence drastically reduces to defensive play if there is unevenness in the field. Same with football and most other sports. My game changes from one who can change the game to just another decent player on the field. I rely a lot on touch and finesse/skill to execute. Never been a brute force sorta guy. Having said that I do play with a lot of passion and aggression but aggression without confidence actually hampers your game than anything. I'm not quite sure if its a mental block or its the fact that lack of consistency in the pitch, equipment etc affects the free flowing nature to my game. Whatever it is, it's something I need to work on overcoming. How? I don't yet know.

Also, what's wrong with using Roma Tomatoes in cooking? My chicken turns out alright with them. Am I missing some magic kinda tomatoes?

Good song this:
Everything - Lifehouse

There are some things that I keep very close to my heart that I prefer to not write about. The reason I do it is cause I like to have a certain aspects of my life just open to experiencing, something that should only be felt and not documented. I don't have a good enough reason as to why I do it but it is what it is and it defines who I am. Which is the point of this blog anyways.

Today for some reason I feel like writing about it. So I am a Christian and not a Christian by religion or by family but by faith. I was a nominal Christian cos of my Christian family background but I really became a follower of Christ when He made Himself known to me about 3 years back. I realize it's been a little over 3 years but for me it's been 1170 days (massive days) of living my life getting to know Christ. The reason I bring this up today is because of a friend of mine. A childhood friend of mine, similar religious (Christian) background who actually (from a mortal standpoint)is a very good person but not really a person who has experienced Christ. The faith aspect of it ( and I might be using the term "faith" very loosely here, my apologies) is kinda missing in him. After knowing Christ, its only natural that you want to share Him with people around you. Especially your close friends, family etc but you need to be careful not to come across as a fanatic. It's cause Christian life is not about being this religious fanatic or this person who abandons materialistic mortal pleasures and establishes base in the mountains with meditation the only means of livings. In fact far far from it. So coming back to my friend, I think the only thing thats stopping him from being a good person to an amazing man of God is he hasn't experienced, felt Christ. Sure he acknowledges His presence and what He might have done for him but then there is a difference between acknowledging something and experiencing something, no? In that regards, I've been a little (more than 3 years) fortunate than him but today I really felt Christ working through me for him. I really hope for his sake, he experiences the same thing that has changed my life.

I used to be the guy who felt it was probably best to just leave this God stuff alone. Good and all that but thank you very much. Practically speaking I know why people think along those lines and I completely understand where they are coming from (cause I was there too). The first fear people have is about completely changing their lifestyles (remember the monastic lifestyle I tried describing?) and the way you live. The other fear is what do I do now? Which is why I stress on the fact that there is nothing fanatical about being a Christian. If you've experienced Christ, there is nothing that compares to the spiritual nourishment that you get. Absolutely nothing. Which also explains why I don't quite like writing about it. It's something that you need to be experiencing before you can have faith or come close to having one.

He is a dear friend of mine who I'm sure with time will have his own experiences. My only hope is that I've done my bit to help him. The truth being in doing so, I've really only helped myself.

I just wasted 3 hours of my evening watching Dexter. Not that it's a crappy series, in fact very much the opposite. Nevertheless I wasted my time. It's an addiction I cannot afford to accommodate in my life. I have my accepted set of addictions that I've come to live with but all in moderation. After all that's what prevents it from being an addiction. Not so much with series. Which is why I'm not going to test how good "Modern Family" is. No matter how good it might be. Sorry Sush.

Is there a thing like good addiction? Like Liverpool perhaps?
I need to be careful not to get obsessed with not getting addicted. At the end of the day, anything can be an addiction, no?

Another one of my random posts.
Oh btw, camping in the Rockies, highly recommended!