Showing posts with label hobbies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hobbies. Show all posts

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Fun Things to Do

Ok so its Saturday afternoon and you are bored, or you are with a friend and have nowhere good to go out to because..well.....you are short of cash...and all places have a paying prerequisite. Anyways, here are some fun things you can do and not even spend a dime:

Take a walk in the park:
When was the last time you actually did this? Yeah, we can complain that there are no open spaces, no parks but you will find some if you are willing to actually move your body out of the couch and do it.

Volunteer:

Go do some volunteer work. Take your friends along. It will make you feel content.

Play Antakshari:

All you need for this is:

Baithe baithe kya karein?
Karna hai kuchch kaam
Shuru karo antakshari
Le kar prabhu ka naam!

Cook:

Yeah! Get together and cook! Create something new in the kitchen! If it turns out good you will be very proud of yourselves! If it doesn't, it will be something you will laugh about for a long time!

Create a Collage:

On the computer or using pen, papers, scissors, old pics. Do it alone or with your friends. Get your creative juices flowing. Extend this to other forms of craft or art....as you wish. Its a great activity!

Read:

If you are anything like me or my friends, you will enjoy a lazy afternoon spent reading.....and enjoying yourself with different stories and characters.

Create a Boardgame/ New Sport:

We used to this a lot as kids. Crete a new game or sport, with our own rules and scoring systems. Saturday afternoons were a laugh riot because you can think of the silliest rules and enjoy yourselves.






Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Joy of Reading

Curling up on a cold winter or rainy day with a warm blanket, a hot cup of coffee and a good book......ahhhhhh one of life's best pleasures!

What do books mean to me? Everything. From a way to unwind, to a way to learn, to go to when I have doubts.....everything.

My love for reading comes to me from my grandmother and my father. He introduced me to the beautiful world of the written word and stories. It started with Archie comics and Tinkle comics, perfect way for a 7 year old to spend her summer vacation afternoons.

This love did not fade with time but just grew with me. From comics I moved on to children's fiction...from the classic Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton to Judy Blume and Nancy Drew.

As I grew I moved on to classics in both Hindi and English, poetry, and now I have diversified to non-fiction books especially management and psychology books.

I clearly remember an incident where we had a motivational speaker come our school to address us. He asked us if we were given 86400 a day, what would we spend it on? My first thoughts were "books, books, books!!!" Well 86400 referred to the number of seconds in a day..........and I haven't changed my answer till date!!!

Reading frees me....it helps me express my self in the way I interpret what I read. it helps me boost my imagination. and I always am touched by something in a book...be it a word, a line or an emotion. I have a diary full of such words and emotions......