Jogging/Running Lessons

Ever since the project has gone live, I feel as I am re-living each day with the same uneasy feeling of boredom and frustration. Being pushed to support and with not many incidents in queue, I am just whiling away my time. Its almost 3 weeks now with such state.

I need to do something before this gets out of hand. Turning this into opportunity for me to expand my knowledge is gonna be a biggest challenge for me. Even if I can spend 2 hours a day I can reach the target and I resolve to accomplish that. There is a reason for this new found confidence in me. Over the last few weeks barring a day or two I have successfully jogged 2 kilometers in the morning. This forms my favorite part of the day and it has improved me in lot many ways.

I have lost good bit of weight. I am now very chosy about the food I eat. Oily foods, Chicken Biryani, Chicken Soft Noodles,Delhi ki mushoor Kulfi,  Snickers, Chicken Manchuria,Fried Rice, Khaju Barfi, Omlettes, Chocolates in general, Rasmalai, Chocolate Ice-cream so many of favorite things I have cut down. I don't repent a bit. Mind you, controlling the desire of food is only tip of the iceberg. Jogging 10 rounds in the ground is the toughest part.

I am amazed at how arduous the seemingly simple task is to implement. I get up in the morning, freshen up and set to go to the park. I stretch for a while and then begin my jog. The first round seems simple enough and then couting begins - 9 more to go, 8 more to go and so on. I try to divert my mind on something say thinking about any module within the system or thinking about a movie or thinking about the day's activity or my favorite - thinking about the marriage time. There are some days when I wanted to give up after the first round feeling slight pain in the stomach and sometimes this happened during the 4th or 5th round. I never succumbed but pushed myself hard to complete the rounds and stick to the routine and successfully did it and touch-wood, continue to do it in the future. It’s a constant fight with your mind and body to exert and push and sticking to the target. There is also weather I need to fight with. Every time it rains first thing I pray "Oh God, please don't let the ground wet". I am then forced to do my exercise routine indoors.

This involves 15 surya namaskaras followed by crunches and ab exercises. Though I sweat, it is not as fulfilling as running/jogging a full 10 rounds.

It is now I realize this focus is what is missing coming to current state of work. If somehow I can fix my mind to put that effort in reading the books and practising stuff I can do hellava things. The bigger picture to take note is this "resolve" to do needs to get ingrained. I have lot many things that I have planned myself to accomplish as listed below- (First off, I need to buy that darn whiteboard and stick it in the bedroom)

Learn Foreign Language - Preferebly French/Spanish

Learn Salsa

Learn Musical Instrument

Learn Golf

Learn SSAS
Run 5K Marathon

That's for now.

'KAMINEY' - Utterly ruthless, beware

Dhan ta naaaaaaa...ta na nana...Naa, it aint' the movie folks. 'KAMINEY' is the name I have given for my cricket team part of the EPL (Elsevier Premier League) contest. There were 4 teams in all and we bagged the 3rd place. An entirely different matter altogether. :)

As part of the team some of the things demanded were dress code, anthem and a team logo. In purusit of which I have touched upon one of the most toughest and highest form of creative form of writing, the one which demands hell of a patience and most imaginative minds. This in no way is a self-trumpet of my achievement (might be partly) but I sincerely feel writing poems is the most difficult task and with this small piece I hope I might try it again...Without much ado, here it goes -

The Anthem/Threat (You Decide) -

They call us the brutes...
Not Having an iota of a clue...
Tortured and tethered...
Rugged and haggard...
Eternally restless and dying with thirst...
Winning with Vengence...the only salvation!
Naam hai KAMINEY...
Dhan ta naaaaaaaaaaaaa....

And I proudly present our team Logo -

P.S. - Have already received good number of flak for using heavy words. So apart from that any general comments, I highly welcome it. And yeah, the lack of rhyming is done too

Namo-namaha

2 months back, Hari had called me up and he said "Dude, suggest some team names for cricket" and then I was like "Ok, give me sometime.". That time went on from 10 minutes to an hour to the whole day and the next day and went on over months. By that time these guys finished their game and the team had already bagged 6th place out of 84 teams.

The point is it's becoming so hard to come out with jazzy names. Be it for your signin name for forums, social websites, team names, siggies, so many. Personally there are only two that I could muster - aquinn_21, yossarain(ya I know, it's yossarian and not yossarain). The former stuck with me for long time and was a bit popular too among folks at my college. Popular as in people know who the Quinn is kind. It's also my yahoo ID and goes without saying the period when it became popular and subsequently vanished into oblivion with G coming up. It sounded funky, looks cool and that's it.

Blog came along right at the end of 4-1 or beginning, not sure. Fresh out of Catch-22, one of the most profound books giving an insight into what a war really is about, gave rise to my next psuedo-name yossarain - a perfectly safe and unique name. I used it for all the sites to login from then on. Days went by and it was some article I read I realized the fad of having such names is a passe and it is high time we start valuing our own names. So true, indeed. That's our identity and it is YOU after all. No wonder Facebook looks so professional than Orkut with what some names like #~~@#$% or such kind just for the heck of it.

Yet, the need of a pseudo identity which means something, a creative YOU persisted. I confess I am still on the tryouts for good ones. So going back to the team names, I was literally stuck for sometime zeroing on one. I googled for names, got a list and it wasn't really what I was looking for. The taste of Indianness is missing. I called ahem ahem Hari and asked for it. Surprisingly he had a huge list of team names in alphabets and almost all of them were trite and expressionless. Doesn't have that aggressiveness and machoism I was looking at when you are naming a team for Cricket nonetheless.

Used my own brain and here are what I came out with. -
Crickit
Kaminey
Mean Machines
The Angels
Avengers
The Dark Knights (My favorite)
Phoenecians

I know excepting for Kaminey and Crickit, everything were again the bunch of tried and tested team names. MY team on the other hand liked none of these and they didn't have any suggestions either. 'Kaminey' was unanimously voted the best by 3 different third-party candidates and that clinched the deal. It was just the right word I was looking for and I damn well knew the mystique, the roughness et all that it creates.

What followed next was an anthem and a team logo (the next post). Well, I would just like to know all ya guys/gals out there do drop in any funky cool names you can think of be it a individual or as a team and do share your experiences in naming a 'name'.