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Few days till the new year . How fast time fly? I grew older but did I grow wiser? Most likely not. Each year I do my resolutions , most of them remain, unfinished, half done. For past 3 years starting my masters , has been top of my list. However, it seems so far reach some times. This is my last year putting it top of my list  yet again. If  it does not happen this year, most likely it would not happen in near future and I have to accept it. New Years Resolution 2015 GMAT Learn Yoga Start volunteering  Learn to give up controls and communicate efficiently. Achievement & disappointment of 2014 I consider, 2014 one of my recent successful year. Yeameen and I bought our first house together.   I also paid off my student and car loan.  I am enjoying debt free life, except the mortgage . I also learn biking . It was one of my personal challenges. Took few awesome trips ( Hawaii, Yellowstone, grand canyon, San Fransisco, Vegas and Washington...

I take on various personal projects to challenge myself. Such as run 1 mile for 30 days or don’t get pissed for a week, take a fruit for a month.    I have succeeded many of these small challenges and failed terribly as well.   Not getting pissed was one of the hardest one. I aimed for 4 weeks and gave up after the 1 st . This time I am taking a very ambitious challenge that is why I am writing about it just so that I can keep on track.     A friend of mine is doing it on facebook.   She had already made couple of failed tries. Let’s see how it goes for me. This is my 100 happy days challenge starting from March 3 rd 2014. I will write about something that made me happy for each day for 100 days. Here I go. Day 1(3.3.2014) - It was pouring so hard. I was struggling with my umbrella, laptop bad, purse to get my building badge out.   An unknown person pushed the access door button from inside to let me in. This kind gesture of a stra...

Every December , I start thinking about my next years resolution and look back year before resolution. For past 3 years it stayed pretty much the same.  Get back in shape, start masters , visit some cool places, make new friends, adventures and most of all be happy. For 2014 it's pretty much the same. Not sure if it means I did not change or my resolutions did not :p Anyway here is my 2014 resolution. Run at least one  5k or 10 k Take GMAT  Pay off my car loan Take adventurous trip Be awesome and ENJOY :)

It has been a year since I became Pescetarian . I do not remember the exact date, I decided not to eat meat.  In an fall night last year, I watched a documentary called Food Inc.   I was upset for animal cruelty in US watching it. I  did not feel like eating meat afterwards.  It was not a conscious decision. I did not  think it will last this long. After a while it became a habit. I was shocked how easy it was. I have dinner with friends and family, who loves eating meat. For some reason, it did not temp me. I always find something to eat in the menu. Even in the house parties. My husband is very respectful of my choice. He never pressures me to eat or cook meat.  My parents accommodates my choice. However they are quite vocal about the fact that , some meat are good for health.My deshi friends and family could not accept, that  someone would choose not to eat meat. They always try to prove that I am a hypocrite or insane, even though they do thei...

We came to Seattle a week before my start date , so that we will have enough time to find an apartment and settle down.  We started keeping a eye on Craigslist and other apartment listing websites from February.  After some research we decided 1500 would be a wholesome budget to find a 2 bed apartment near Bellevue area.  It will be 10-15 minutes drive from my work. The neighborhood seems a good combination of suburb and downtown life style. My company gave me an agent to show us some apartments in the area. We had a half day tour in a very rainy day . It was a epic waste of time.  The apartments were pretty dingy, even the renovated one. The pictures in the apartment listings were from model home. So the actual apartment look nothing like the picture. The square footage for too bed is tinier than my one bed apartment in Houston. Yes I know everything is bigger and better in Texas. However this apartments are worse than my student apartment in Denton, Tx. In Sea...

I left my job as a Information technology specialist at oxy petroleum last week. The good bye was hard. My manager took the team out for lunch.  I was pretty sad to say good byes to all the nice people I worked with for the past two years. However all of a sudden, I realized this place will function just fine without me. People will come to work, have lunch , gossip.... whatever they do every damn day. All is good. I'm taking about two weeks off between jobs. My new job requires leaving Texas and moving to 2200 miles away in Washington (not D.C , the state) This is my Crtl + Alt + Del.  I decided to take this time to chill, try new things , and I'll write about each day. 4/6- 4/7 The weekend was pretty mellow. Yeameen came to keep me company. We went for a run. I was hesitant , as I know how competitive he is and my fitness level is not quite there yet. It was sweet of him , coming back for me , when I was falling behind. However, It reminded of my mom and dad walking ...

Visit two new countries Hit the gym at least 3.5 times a week ( about 180 times in the whole year) Start masters Learn  how to stay calm in difficult situations