Changes to my Blog

Since I am not good at HTML, changing the contents in my blog is truly an experience. Initially I thought that I could get a book from the library and modify things. I tried it at TAPMI, but was soon bored since it was taking a long time and I was not reaching anywhere in terms of modifying the contents. That’s when I hit upon this simple idea – Get the source of the pages you like and modify accordingly in your page!!!

The first such operation was conducted on Karthik’s blog. After that I had not touched the settings and the blog was as it is. For the past few days, I have seen a lot of new things on other blogs, which I wanted to add to mine. First one was the “Currently Reading” section, which I added without any help from other blogs. The main thing which I wanted in my blog was a Visit Counter. I had seen such a counter in Krish’s blog as well as Yash’s blog.

Since I have been free for most of the day; I tried to get this thing on my blog. Firstly I tried Krish’s blog, but somehow I was unable to get any help. Then I tried Yash’s blog and this time I was able to find out that he had got this service from StatCounter. So I go ahead and sign up with them, get the codes which is to be added to my existing HTML code, and there it was – Everything which I wanted was there on my blog.

Here are some other updates that I wanted to post.

Started Don Quixote. The narration style is so very different from the novels that I have read so far. Read some 20 odd pages and its interesting so far.

The maid has not been coming to clean my house for sometime now. Its in a mess and there are also a lot of clothes to wash. Hope she comes today and gets my house back in order. Now I know why my mom tells me to marry whenever I complain of my untidy house – we men are so good at making the house dirty and I don’t know how these women have the ability to keep the house clean all the time.

I have also been smitten by the investment bug. I am looking at various options of investing my money to gain maximum benefits. Looking at Mutual Funds, Insurance, NSC, etc. There are a few hurdles like not having a good advisor/agent to help me out, some difficulty with Internet banking, due to which I am not entering the foray now, but I hope I can get into all that from next month onwards.

Even thought there are a lot of things I do not like about Chennai, the cost of living here is very less when compared to Bangalore. I am able to save a considerable amount of my salary, and inspite of the fact that I will end up spending around 8k for my house and other things, I can still invest around 6k after repaying my education loan as well as giving a part of my salary to mom.