Isabella Adjani said once:
‘I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious’
I have been very busy, enthusiastic and curious these past days so I guess I have been in a very agreeable state. Budget 2006-07 is finally out and this sole document has kept me working 12 hours a day without a weekend for the past few days. I like being busy but the quiet that follows this whirlwind routine is often quite deafening. You go from being a valuable employee of your organization to being just you!

I have attended too many press briefings by finance minister for my taste. And it is days such as these that I realize why economics never appealed me. It’s so clichéd. I asked the state minister about the growing poverty in the country…and his reply to me was that in six years, the percentage has come down from 34% to 23%. You express poverty in terms of percentage? Can you reduce people to numbers? And then he went on to admit that inflation is on the rise. How can poverty be reduced if the prices are climbing?

As anyone can see…I’m a mess! Every time I take time to read my previous posts…I see how this blog is a container of emptiness. But I am determined to be happy and get out of this succession of busy nothings.

A few days back bhai and I got to cleaning his room to convert it from his bachelor pad to the room Aban had left behind. It used to be my room before the couple moved in and I had left quite a few things behind in the closet. I finally took them out and found a few books I thought I had lost..all my old note books from my university days and a scrapbook my juniors had made for me. It’s an old QAU tradition. Scrap books are made for all students of the outgoing batch and placed in the department so anyone who wants to write something about the person has access to them.

Mine was made in a particular style of a scroll…instead of the usual folder. And it was done in black and gold…black being my signature color in university. There were many interesting comments and from some very interesting people. I had a great time going through it.

Aban is going to be here tomorrow. Something I guess my entire family has been very eagerly looking forward to. Amrat and I plan on taking dancing camels and monkeys with us and preparing special turnip dishes for our Princess!!! She’s gonna disown us alright!