Recently, I've been discovering a few of my limitations. Some I want to work on; others I couldn't care less about. One of the things I've given up completely on is Environmental Engineering; one of those I want to work is my social awkardness; and the one I'm going to blog about today -- which really doesn't matter either way is -- I've lost all ability to simply while away time (after almost 6 years of not having any -- time to while away, that is).

So I went to 2 malls today; Forum and Oasis -- and even watched a movie (99). So how did I pass my time?

1. Roaming around aimlessly. For normal people, this amounts to window shopping and walking around slowly; for those cursed with my unfortunate afflictions, it involved walking around quickly, pausing only occasionally and doing 2 full rounds of the mall within 45 minutes. And then wondering what to do next.
2. Watching a (mind numbing) movie (99) [Insert: I've detected a new pattern in Bollywood films. Hero comes, bad coincidence happens, stuff happens, finds heroine, insert crisis here, more stuff happens, inexplicably resolved by various coincidences and miscellaneous acts of god, more stuff happens, happily ever after.] I did my best to add to the laughter soundtrack at appropriate instances, but that was all. I possibly would have preferred a root canal (at least it would have been over quickly).
3. Drinking coffee with a novel. Being a coffee connoisseur (I prefer my coffee bitter) I wound up at Cafe Coffee Day with a Kaapi Nirvana. It was more like the innermost circle of ice coffee hell; dilute sweetened coffee overloaded with cream. I had planned on loitering over my glass, perhaps whiling away an hour or two; I finished as much as I could bear in fifteen minutes and walked away.
4. Having lunch. Now, you might ask yourself that this is probably something anyone can spend hours on. I beg to differ -- under extenuating circumstances (such as a family of 5 carrying trays of food breathing down your neck waiting for you to get up and leave -- specially when they can see that you're lovingly lingering over a few remaining french fries). Maybe there's more than one reason they call it fast food. Dinner involved hot dogs. And juice.
5.  Walking between two malls. For me, this was the best and most fun part of the day. I've started enjoying walking, specially as my legs started to cramp after moving from cycling 6 km a day to sitting on a swivel chair all day long.

As I reminiscence about my day today, I am realizing that the most productive part of the day was that I could write a blog post on it. The other good stuff that happened today was that I got a great webcam (iBall for anyone interested) as well as a good book to read (Cosmos/Carl Sagan).

Hoping that the weekends ahead won't be as bad.