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There are three main parts for being healthy.
Food, exercise and sleep.
I have been guilty of violating the most basic rules regarding all three.
No more.
Rules:
Sleep is important. Get it.
Exercise is important. Get it.
Food is important, But don’t get too much of it.
Its that simple.
I am planning to *run* the SCMM- half marathon in Jan-10.
I will wake up at 5.30 to go out and run.
Upper body exercises, yoga during evening.
Sleep latest by 11. (means in bed before 11, winding down from 10.30)
Develop rituals.
Watch what I eat, watch before I eat. Say No. No, thanks to be polite.
Chew. Meditate.
Learn.Change.Enjoy.
Take care.
I am totally caught up in the day-to-day work to complete the ideation activity I was longing to do at the year end. I guess tomorrow would be the day after all. It sucks when you have to come to work on holidays, and my productivity is on a decline since long.
Till now, my resolutions are: no booze, and no non veg but fish.
I am feeling bored in the current job, in just 8 months. I feel a major factor for that is the time. I spend 4 hours a day just travelling, and I simply cant do stuff during travelling but to put in the earphones and listen to whatever. I tried listening to audio book, but if u drift even slightly while listening, the book is done for. I cant read anything, I cant practice anything. Hell, I can barely breathe in such a crowd.
Mumbai, in many ways is a suffocating city. Be it the hot n humid atmosphere, or its speed of life. For me, the main irritant is the traffic. There is just too much crowd in mumbai. Overflowing from every open door. After some days, it gets to you.
In the last two months,I have broken every long standing health rule I had imposed on myself. One tends to rebound after a few unsuccessful efforts to inculcate a habit I guess.
The task in this year is cut out. Get healthy, get going.
This is where I need to start. Again. It begins today.
Wish me luck this time.
Take care…
Finally I am eating the food cooked by my mom!!! the legen-wait for it-dary dabbawallas are to thank for this miracle of course.
Then again, all is not well. The person who maintains the tiffin delivery leg on my side is full of attitude. He is very strict in the sense that he would just keep the tiffins for my floor outside the lift. He wouldn’t even take a few steps it takes to keep it separately. The neighboring office ( jewelery shop or some such secret society ) houses some millions of noisy ladies and all of them get their own tiffins as well. The brainiac watchman just scoops up all the tiffins and takes them inside. By the time the error is discovered, the tiffin angel is back to collect them. He wouldn’t even wait for a few nano seconds, in case he would lose the race against photons….
Enough is enough sometimes. I had to rise to this matter of life and death. As the clock ticks towards one pm, my ears are perked up. Like a hunter in the jungle, I am sitting at a my place, without any movement.My focus flows in a zenlike state ( aided by the growing hunger of course). The second the lift door opens, I make out the difference in the noise made outside. After practicing and lots of false alarms, now I am a pro. This time the lift door opens with ‘THAT’ noise, I am already out, taking out my tiffin bag from the plethora of others strewn around. I sometimes catch the door closing…practice does make a man perfect…
Then, the sweet taste of victory lingers on my tongue…. not for long though, the tiffin needs to be out within half hour….
The race continues…
Take care…
or what makes an embryo human??
The Mumbai High court denied an abortion to a woman, whose embryo was detected with a heart condition. I have my own personal observations to share about this.
My younger sister would tern 17 tomorrow. Even if I write “many happy returns of the day” she cant read it. She cant read anything for that matter, or see a movie or the rainbow. She is blind, congenitally. She is also autistic. Some part of her brain refused to develop, along with the rest of it. The eyes never got developed. She cant speak. And yet, she is intelligent enough. She can very well emote, and identify people and enjoy life as she sees it.
It confuses me to no end. What exactly is a human being? I am sure philosophers are dusting off their books in anticipation of a new virgin entering in their hunting grounds, but I dont want all those brainy answers. My questions are different. For example, does she have a voting right? what if he has no clue of what is democracy and why she is pressing the button, will she still vote?
I am confused.
On an unrelated note, I had to climb up 12 stories to reach my office. Of the 3 lifts in the wing, one is under repair, one is broken, and almost all of the employees of the myriad offices turn up in the same narrow window of time. The queue stretches to infinity. So I took the stairs. And immediately noticed the difference in me. The tiredness has come down drastically. The thigh muscles are still under worked, but the respiratory system has become efficient enough. Till the 9th floor, I was not even breathing heavily. Last time when I climbed up, I was panting since the 4-5th. I like my breathing exercises. Whats more, they are simple, take around 5-10 minutes… AND ARE FREEEEEEEE!!!!! I guess raw food is helping the cause too..
I am planning to buy a cordless headphone set for my sister tomorrow. She enjoys music a lot.
Take care…
feeling tired.
Okay! I am only half kidding. I am feeling very tired since the last week. The quality of my sleep has been shot and that I guess is showing finally. Add the month end load factor and it is a recipe for a disastrous mistake in work. Or worse, in some relationship.
I have already started my Nth back to good health program. Pranayam ( more of the pre pranayam or shuddhikriya…. means cleansing breathing practices) 3-4 asanas ( positions ) regularly in the morning. Also, I have just shifted to eating banana smoothie and raw food in place of dinner. The next step is to cut down on all the gallons of coffee I have been drinking while hanging out with friends in this or that coffee shop. The cups of tea in the office are killing my digestive system too, guess too much of powdered milk will make me feel acidic in stomach.
Next target for me is a drastic one. I am going out on a 3 days 2 nights trek with my local friends. I need to get in shape for that. Guess I really need to push my body in the remaining two weeks to get in some semblance of shape at least. I guess I would focus on push ups for the next three days. Waking up early enough and for that matter sleeping on time must be my priority.
After Wednesday, I have hopefully woken up early for all the three days. Then comes the going out in the morning for a morning walk part. By Friday,I must be jogging. I am so totally out of walking and jogging part that I am getting friction burns due to all the sweat while I walk. I am not aware of any solution till now, which would get rid of all the extra fat that has found place in my thighs. Specially when I am strictly opposed to following any crash fad diet.
Luckily I learnt a crucial thing during the last trek. Its more about mind than body. I am sure of myself that I can push my body to the limit easily, without any mental struggle sapping my energy. That was of great help to me that time, hope it comes to my rescue this time as well. Other wise I am toast with all the extra pounds of fat I am always carrying around on my tummy and thighs and what not places.
Another weekend over, another chance of relaxing and recovering and regaining strength lost. Learning from mistakes sometimes is just plain more difficult in some areas than others.
Take care…
when I am supposed to just be lazy, and be lazy I was that day.
Nothing of notice happened on last few days, except on a personal level. Nothing I could share on a blog.
Did not exercise for quite a few days, hogged around a lot more than I should, and the fat has immediately started to show. Working out is the only feasible option it seems. I will also have to incorporate the eating raw at night habit, but my mom is impossible, so unless I take up all the preparatory part on me, its not going to get done.
I ahd a very difficult month end professionally. Most of my work over month end consists of updating the client portfolios manually. Manually because my office still has not quite understood the concept of using a software to automate such processes. So we take the data from various websites and type it in excel. It is criminally stupid, but I am too junior to fight it. All I could do till now is to automate some parts of information collection by using excel web queries. And to think I never worked on excel. Sheesh, some offices just need an engineer MBA combo I tell you. As the days will go by, I swear I will make enough changes to make the organization competitive at least at the local level. I mean, clients cant even see their own portfolio real time on the net. Every time the person handling the stuff has to pull down the information, confirm about all the transactions that have occurred from various sources and then pray to the god of portfolio updation that the portfolio is without any mistakes. How my company gets clients is a question to me. Maybe because the services and personalized attention that we provide is not matchable in the industry till now. So, luckily we are ahead of the curve.
Enough cribbing. Got to go to work and make some value add tomorrow.
Take care.
and not at all proud of it. Somehow I get this immense mental block against doing something, as if taking clothes to the laundry involves doing my engineering again or something similarly impossible. I have no clue how I came out of that engineering college in the first place. Maybe they bribed those examiners to get me out.
Another thing is that I tout some character traits as being my intrinsic part. This mindless repetition has ingrained those harmful traits in me. Like being lazy for one. I justify that one by saying librans are lazy, or that smart people find easier ways or that I am like that only and so on. Totally untrue. So I need to watch what I feel my mind. More and more closely if you may. Not that I don’t do this. Strictly no newspaper for gathering information. They put in too many depressing and negative pieces in there for my taste. Me, I am an optimist any given time of the day. I wish I could share you my “balls of steel” experience here. So be it.
So, back to the main line of thinking. I need to be more energetic. The only way to do it is to tell that to myself so many times that ultimately I know I AM energetic. Keep telling I am, energetic. I am full of energy and vitality. On and on. Continuously. That is one trait I have. Like a bulldog. Don’t think. Don’t get tired. Keep going at it, again and again. That was how I upped my scoring from 56% and a KT to 74% and university topper. In a year. Just two semesters. I used to skip my lunch and even having water the whole day. Just study.
I have moved on now. I have become complacent. Lethargic. LAZY. Too much food and too few challenges or shocks. Dad once said to me, I will not learn unless I will get a shock in life. I needed three. To change. I changed good but. I cant wait for shocks now. I may not come back to the leadership position I covet. I need to imagine those shocks. I need to feel deprived of my rightful place. Easy enough. I am off to write it out now.
Did not exercise in last few days. Bad enough. I will be back on it tomorrow onwards. Or now.
Addendum: Now it is.. Push ups 25+15. crunches 0.
Take care.
My first day as a worker in the office. My joining was on 7th april, but today was the day I actaully got to do something. The story goes like this:
There are five people in the office, the boss and four of us associates. The back office guy feels ill in the morning, decides to skip the office for the day. The marketing guy is in serious health trouble, is taken to the hospital by the roomie who is the third colleague. So its me and the boss in the office for the day.
It was fun though, not really hectic but at times I got confused. No accidents though, and the day is saved. I also attended a couple of meetings, one with a client and another with a fund manager. Good day for me in the sense that things are now moving in the direction I want them to move.
Reached home late, at about 8.30PM. Had dinner today for a change. No exercise though. Sad.
Tomorrow, I am going for three meetings, will be fun. Need to hammer out what I want to accomplish in professional and personal space for next few months. till then
Take care.
I woke up at 10 to 7. got ready to catch the 7.57 Churchgate fast. Reached Churchgate station and walked the way to the office that takes about 20-25 minutes. Had huge breakfast with Poha and Shira. The dude stands outside the building in which I work and his massive storage gets over by the time its 10. Then its office time. I skipped the normal tea at 10.30 but had one at around 12. Lunch is nice and the tiffin is provided by this company. Freaking good food, and the meny is hardly repeated. We have opted for an option where we get 8 rotis with vegetable and curry. Thats a collosal amount of yummy food we all enjoy to hog down.
The food part for the day ends here. In the afternoon another round or two of tea ( at 3.30 and at 5, if I am going to wait after that). And I left the place at about 5.30. A slow walk across the sea shore again and I reach just in time to catch the Borivli fast at 6 pm ( I dont remember exactly, I just saw the “Bo ” and that the train has not come yet, and ran to get a good place to jump in) ( got window seat too , 
you losers!!). I reach home at around 7.30 and luckily I see couple of my friends going to the neighbourhood chaiwala. So quick cutting, and we are off to play table tennis on the table bought recently. 2-3 games and the crowd increases. I am finally at home at 8.30 pm.
Few push ups and ab crunches and its time to have fruit juice. Today its chikoo milk shake and I am done for the day. time to blog and touch base with my google reader. will sleep by 12-12.30.
So, all in all, I get free time from 8 till I sleep…. pretty boring but good enough than many of my friends.
Take care.
Yawn…..so I woke up at 5.30 and all today morning. Worked out lightly and went around getting ready for the office. Slept at 10.30ish so had 7 hrs of sleep. Not enough though. I think I seriously need to intensify my workout and cut some food intake or at least change the quality or type of food intake.
The whole day was a blur. More so because I am not getting any work to do, and appearing busy the whole day is impossible. I have already started to cut down on my tea consumption, which is one good thing.
I am feeling so sleepy, can be seen from the random thought fluctuations splattered all across this post. Uh, well….its just the first day.
I joined a library!!! so a book a week scheme is back on. Took a book called “turning point” by Capra.
Tomo morning, I must study some, along with working out.
Seeing the time I need to get ready, I will shift the time of waking up to 5 and then 4.30. I think this will give me sufficient and continuous time slot for myself. The practical details of how to achieve this would be worked out in coming days.
Overall, a tired but definite start.
I need to come up with a mantra for this transformation too. Al that, later. Now time to hit the bed.
