Not sure if it is lack of sleep, too much data and a small buffer, ageing, retardation, maturity or something else… But there are enough mishaps to constitue a (blog) enumeration. So here it goes

• I realized that I never gained 15 kgs. It was a wrong pound-kilogram conversion. (Somebody calculated 100 lbs as 55 kgs & I believed it, grrr)
• Today I put clothes for laundry & the detergent in the laundry basket and the laundry card over the clothes. I went to the laundry room opposite to my apartment and started loading the clothes after pouring some detergent. At the end I had to swipe my card to start the cycle and realized I hadn’t taken the card out of the basket. I didn’t see it in the basket and took the clothes out thinking it probably fell in the washer with the clothes. But no, it wasn’t in.  I looked around thinking if it had fallen out somewhere & traced my way back carefully till my door but no luck. Now the card was missing, I had loaded two washers, clothes were in detergent, so there was no *no washing* – I had no time to waste and I was frustrated. The leasing office was open, I could take a walk and perhaps explain the story and get a new card. Sigh, anything that involves me talking to the *polite* staff in my leasing office sends this electrifying sensation in my veins. You have to be in a certain mode with all the shield of thick skin you can muster to talk to the women there. I carried the basket back to my house and was trying to get into a different mode. When I put the basket down I noticed the laundry card sticking to the vertical side! Blue card against blue basket standing up…and I had missed seeing it. Uggh. Hurray, no visit to the dreaded place.
• Few weeks back, I was cycling back home in the night. I had just begun to pedal and thought something was wrong with my back tyre. I turned behind, all looked good and I turned back to see that I was headed straight for a post. Next, I was on the grass next to the post and all I felt was embarrassment. There were probably some house parties going on in the neighbourhood, I could hear some girls in the distance discuss “Oh my God Oh my God…Look…..Oh she is moving…oh she is getting up….”, I got up and lifted my bike and pedaled away telling myself that I was wearing a helmet & a light jacket and it will all be forgotten tomorrow when the world sobered up.
• Now, I do not recall this, my sister cited the whole story to me. Apparently she called me, I took the phone and she asked if I recognized the voice. I said “no”, she then said she was Neha. There were some question answer series and my sister got upset and hung up. Apparently she waited for me to call her back and apologize. My second sister cited the story to me (& the phone records validate the story :-( )and I had to call up Neha and justify.
• In the beginning of the semester, I mailed by broadband cheque with the to and from addresses interchanged. And when I found it in my mailbox after a week+, I told myself I am not desperate to mail cheques to myself. This resulted in my broadband connection getting disconnected for 2 weeks. Life was bad then.
• I finally got an old car last weekend. I am yet to affix the license plates but I have been driving a bit. All the 3 people who have sat next to me while I was driving have been slightly uncomfortable. I know that I need to brake when they stretch out their legs involuntarily. I am having a lot of fun driving though.
• I showed some pictures of my car to my brother and he very politely said (in hindi) "Car thodi khataara nahi hai"!(I am not sure how to translate that). I laughed and replied "Thodi nahi, kaafi khataara hai".  
• I can’t help smiling when I see a stop sign, especially a 2-way, 3-way or 4-way stop sign. For those of you who don’t know, if there is a 4 way stop sign at an intersection where 4 roads meet then all vehicles stop completely at the stop sign and proceed in the order they arrived. Now, I smile when I see this because I think how this would be if it were in India. The day we follow this rule in India, lot of things would have changed. It would be very very interesting.