How GREEN can we be?

I have been on a constant quest to find a sane answer to this question. Since high school, I have been trying to think of ways and means to reduce my carbon footprint. It took me some time to realize I could not "change the world" all by myself. I continue to keep a check on what I buy, what I do and how I could work on making my activities more greener.I have grown to be more tolerant with the non green earth inhabitants around me...however, like any true blood revolutionary, I do continue to crusade!..lol

As they say, to each his own. As of today and right now, I am still not sure as to how I could contribute to the greater good. I make sure I pick up ideas on my way from everyone around me. Ans surely feel that may be I dont have much to contribute....why else would it be that I am unable to make a significant change....Days pass by and my doubts remain....

i see around me and a few like minded crusaders keep me afloat....i was very happy to read this
WAR AGAINST plastic
but the proportions to which this has blown, current levels of awareness and efforts by a select few is not enough......

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SUD-CONOMICS!!....Intro

Can one describe how it is to be challenged?...Either emotionally, mentally or physically?...I am not sure. It is a dreadful state!...Time and again, I have seen myself swinging between having a tiny ounce of confidence and loads of lack of it! ...leaving my deep rooted thoughts at that!

Each one has a specific definition for success and failure. Parameters differ and so do perspectives of those parameters. Human quest for finding some meaning for each breathe inhaled /exhaled has been eternal. I am not the only one doing it; nor am I the only one trying to convince myself of sanity in such a quest.

Success to me is not failing as a human. This may sound too melodramatic, but yes; Thats the way it is. If I am able to go to bed at peace with myself, having done at least one thing right for the day means a lot. Moving onto somethings more important in life!

I would describe myself as an aggressive Earth friendly individual. I am an ardent and a staunch believer in the fact that we have borrowed this planet from our future generations. Every act of ours, both right and wrong has a major impact on our future and the future of our children. Hoard to accumulate "wealth", is taking us nowhere. There seems to be no limit on our targets (to save money, accumulate property, invest in savings?)....I get to hear mind boggling numbers from a cross section of people. Each one's economic background, access to means for wealth accumulation, exposure to ways and means to spend those earning, and the list goes on.

I always think about Maslow's hierarchy when I think about the Mad rush this world is into to hoard up "stuff" for the future. (I recommend - reference to :WIKIPEDIA ; love wiki for this! :D).. more insight into why i say that!


It is not possible for the current generation to stop and think about Economics when it is seemingly a time to "save for our children". Though not new, I would like to present an interesting angle to this fundamental belief of our human race.

Every body would have heard about terms such as " cost of living", interest rates, returns on investment etc. But if we actually understood them as they apply to regular life...is a question better left unanswered. I intend to write more on sudconomics soon!

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Hi blog!

having had a roller coaster year (2008)....I want to catch up on the lost time.....Apart from a few tormenting issues with my parents' health and mine, nothing much has changed....Just that I have started to be more conscious about my talkativeness, or so I think...

My weight though, has kept me company all through ..lolz.....i guess it is high time i stopped even trying to loose those "extra" kilos..

Its with me for keeps. 2008 had another event happening in my life......I graduated from UIS with my MS in MIS.....But I guess appa and amma kept me busy mentally and emotionally....We have had our differences, fights, tear jerking dialogue baazeez......but this time it was different......the scare of loosing them shook me beyond what I could imagine......having struggled with appaz health, financial issues, and a lot of other things......amma has another major battle ahead.....I can only pray and hope that God has some thing nice in store......ITz HIGH TIME!....


All this and more......has held me from letting me enjoy the fact that I finished my LONG Pending MS (Phew 7 years....2001-2008)...I have always known ...these things dont really matter.....winning an loosing dont matter at all.it is ur mental state on the victory or the loss which counts and will matter to you...so what everyone else judges deosnt really matter.....I wish i could translate this view of mine to other important components of my being......so that i wouldnt let others hurt me as they do now.....

2008 sure zoomed past in a jiffy.......waqt accha ho ya bura......ek din tho sirf 24 gante ka hotha hai .hai na!........to quote a very old saying....Its all in the mind as they say....it is my thought process which puts me thru hell or heaven...knowing this....being emotional hurts me a lot.......I have always let otehrs rule my life, my happiness...and it hurts even more to realise that i have always been the process of growing out of it ...and failed miserably......i value everyone more than I should......and the other person who so ever it might be.....carez a damn about me.......more on this later......

To start my new year, i invested in a much research area.....Cookware.......yes, srinath and I bought a four "barthan" set of tri-ply clad cookware...this was to reduce my cooking time and conserve my energy and of the utility aspect in the apartment!

Another interesting angle to this is that I joined the home shopping wives club..heheeh........a major change from what i was earlier...counting cents seems to be gone thing ....I sure hate this part of me.......seems like i am taking the dude for granted.......I should be more conscious........and be the good old sudha who knows what each cent means......I loved the way I was.....knew my limits and yet happy with the way i lived......Stingy is the word according to others........To state just one....I had a budget for the petrol i put in my scooty, and when i crossed the weekly limit.......i used to restrict my trips on the dear one!....and I am surely proud of how i managed my money or the lack of it ...:)....seriously speaking i m fine and happy even when i dot have money the only thing i am scared of is to have to pay medical bills and not have money for that........i am really happy that the person who is the center of my world also feels and thinks the same way.........i m definitely blessed for all the Wrongs I have in my life.......so no complaints.......the only thing being.......that i would love to be able to walk on my own......get up without support.......and having struggled the last decade with such issues.......i may loose the need to get well too..It is becoming a way of life.....no no...I am not passing any depressig comments......u just learn to live with it with time!....(will let surely let out my steam on what happened..but abhi nahi..)


Another milestone this January is the completion of five years of bliss with the dude!.........He is a simple guy with a lot of love in his heart and smile on his face........cant trade anything in this world for what I have........i surely believe in " not getting something u want is always a wonderful stroke of luck!"

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