Ambarish's musings

Ah, poha and tea: best way to start the day. It is time for the third blog post already. I am enjoying writing these days, and I hope you are enjoying to read my thoughts and opinions as well. Sickness                 This week’s biggest highlight is that I was sick for 6 out of 7 days. Being sick, I couldn’t do much. My backlog of TV series just got bigger and I couldn’t read HP6 as well. Couldn’t practice keyboard or Italian. It has been a miserable week to say the least. Hope to be in perfectly healthy before the weekend. Home                 I am so goddamn excited to be going home on this Friday. By this time next week, I would have written a post from home. I’m looking forward to 9 days of undisturbed peace, great food, festive atmosphere and most important of them all, great people. People for whom, you would giv...

Calm and quiet times Hello, and welcome to what is only my second blog post. Read on, I guarantee you won't regret it! Conundrum :                 In 2 weeks’ time, I am going home. It will be Diwali and I want to get my parents and sister something special. Not only special, but also meaningful. So Karachi biscuits go out the window. Also I will go shopping with them, so buying stuff which I can get there easily also doesn’t make sense. Novels are well appreciated at my house, so I am taking novels. But it feels insufficient. Art and craft stuff is also well liked, I could get those. I heard there is a night bazaar near my place, I can go and check the place out. The only problem is I really have no experience in buying stuff. If I buy something and they didn’t like it, then what? I will have to learn how to buy these things, and also look for quality in them. I appreciate any tips anyone can give me...

Its turning out to be a wonderful week and I just had a fantastic day. So before I change my mind about doing something else, I am writing my first blog. So first things first. 15th October. My sister's birthday. Many many happy returns of the day to her on her b'day. Hope she has many more memorable birthdays in her life. She has her exams, so she was kinda busy. I'll take a party from her in November. Italian I am learning Italian as a foreign language on Duolingo. One of the best places to learn a language, better than Memrise anyway. I'm yet to start the BBC courses which are supposedly good. Duolingo says I'm 54% fluent in Italian, which sounds really cool. Maybe it is. I can form sentences which are used daily. In about 15 days or so, I will finish the Duolingo course. Then begins the BBC ones. Duolingo incidentally erased my 23 day streak, which is quite frustrating. I now start from a 1 day streak. Not that it matters. How much you speak, listen...