My experiments with leading a simple and green life...

In my attempts to go green, have been doing the following for weeks now:

1. Handwashing clothes, including baby's cloth diapers. Seemed like crazy and challenging, now it is fun. Line drying also saves electricity. My new motto : 'Never waste a heat wave' :)

2. No to disposable diapers and an 'Almost no' to wipes..Kawaii diapers are a godsend so are Imse Vimse flushable liners

3. No to plastics, atleast in teh form of bowls and spoons and kitchen utensils..Been trying to take a silver spoon to work for my lunch. Somehow cant bring myself to pack lunch everyday. Should even try that

4. Grocery and produce bags - just ordered. Hopefully an end to that as well

5. Decomposable trash bags - next in line

All in all, I just long for the good old days, when everything was simple and reusable and green, without we even realizing that!

Will document more of the revamping and regrouping in my life..The idea is to get back to the good old days without becoming obselete! Quite a challenge!

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Guilt

I see him everyday when I walk back from my office to New York Penn Station. Easily a 40+, he stands tall. Decently dressed, a cigarette in his hand, he can be mistaken as yet another guy you see in the juggernaut called NY. But he is different, he continues talking to himself and smiles at passers by for no reason..He holds a pan but he himself is oblivious of his begging.

He smiles at me everyday when I pass by. But call it fear, self-obsession or the resultant lack of time, I cannot return the smile to an innocent soul. Lost in my own world, just like he is, I go past him as usual into my crazy world.

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A new start

Friends - It has been quite sometime and I couldn't get to blog, lethargy and having lost in my own world being reasons for that. 

Nevertheless, I am back after a successful first year stint at Stern. Last year has been one of the most important years in  my life and I learnt quite a few things in life and tamed a few beasts in my mind. The most important lesson that I learnt was that I am afterall not so bad as I thought.

With one month down already in 2009, lets see what life has in store for everyone of us. My kitty currently has marketing and corporate finance :)

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The semester that was...

Gone with the wind - the 3 month old first semester. Managed to score only a B+ in statistics, despite my engineering background and so-called aptitude for quants. What to do if the class average score is 92 - tough guys out here! The only saving grace is the A in the other course, Management and Organizations. Walmart and Newell papers received rave reviews while Enron fetched a mere b+ (one lesson here: If the thesis doesnt come out clearly, it is a wasted effort). The gist is that effort is inversely proportional to grades.
This sem, Microeconomics is interesting and challenging. All said, for a perfectionist, boundaries are nightmares :-). Talking about boundaries, I hope to get some sanity and start managing my time better to tackle the curve balls of studies, work and life...

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