Home Improvement...

After more than a year of complaining, cribbing and being cynical about how my peer group hates anything to do with thinking or growing mentally etc etc (which i'm sure everyone agrees is THE cause of this blog... and its title.. and its web address), i finally decided to take the advice of someone who i don't like too much and decided to do things that i would find interesting, whether or not someone else does and hopefully find other similar minded people.
So task # 1 was to start reading again. Started off with something veryyyyy light to get myself back in the groove. Beach Boy by Ardeshir Vakil. Decent book. A little predictable though and gets a little unrealistic at times but a good start. Next came something i heard about through the 'Environmental Design' elective group. A book called 'Collapse' which says that basically every single civilizational collapse is caused by environmental problems. Read the weirdest excuse for India's caste system: apparently the reason why it was invented is so each caste could protect their own resources to prevent over-use....
Task # 2 is attempting to watch movies... not the KANK types, but the ones Rohan writes about so often. Caught the first 3 obstructions (??!!) of 'The 5 Obstructions' as i was procrastinating about A.D. And also saw 'Roger and Me' with the film theory elective people. And now i know i'm bored and irritated with Michael Moore's i'll-shove-a-camera-in-your-face-whether-you-like-it-or-not type movies.
Task # 3 was shutting myself off from the 'Why do we need to think?' comments that one gets to hear so often in class. And it's not working too much. And the need to reflect that frustration onto this blog was toooooo over bearing. And i tried to immerse myself more into tasks #1 and #2 and also a bit in A.D.

Hence: no post (hehehehhee... long explanation no?)

And ya, before you wonder which elective i'm in... it's called 'Urban Theory' and i haven't seen the guy who's supposed to be doing that elective for 4 weeks. He said he won't come for one Saturday but hasn't turned up for the remaining three too. So can someone check up on him??