I am jealous...

What I always wanted to do ( well still want to do ) is just leave whatever I am doing and take a year off...may be go to Australia or take a tour of the Europe...or just go back to India and help my uncle in his farming...well something that I can enjoy ( as you can guess I am really enjoying my job right now !!! ) ...then again thinking about it, its not my job I hate, its the freedom that I miss...its not as cheesy as it sounds...when was the last time you got up in the morning and thought lets go to someplace and you actually did it???



BUT everytime I think about it, my head take-over my heart for two particular reason...one where the hell I am going to get the money ( very very important or is it?? )and second my head always plays the uncertainty card which kills my heart's enthu...well isn't it the part of the fun...isn't that something which gives you the kick ??? well the day I win the battle I will be off...but for the moment I am jealous because somebody else has done it...and he did it in a style...hats off to him and his courage...

First time is always the hardest!!!

I don't know when was the last time I did any meaningful excercise...I mean something like jogging or cycling...I knew I was going to be in real trouble :) It was the first practice walk in preparation for the 3 PEAKS challenge...But there was a sense of excitement of doing something I have never done before ( or may be that was because I was going to buy a lot of high tech gear!!! always a sucker for something high tech )...

My preparation ( means shopping :) ) started with searching for specialist stores...I was astonised to find out how many stores there are in this country and how much they all like to walk...Its kind of an oxymoronic situation. Britain is the no. one for obesity problems in all of Europe and yet walking is the most favourite sunday activity !!! But anyways coming back to the point I decided on a store and went there to skin myself ( these stuff seriously cost some money man )...The problem with going to a specialist store is that you are always surrounded by people who know what they want and you are always running a high risk of making a fool out of yourself...but in one of those brain ting moments I went inside the store, and said I am going walking tomorrow and I want the whole lot...man the joy on the sales guy's face eased my heartache ( from the bill ofcourse ) a little bit...

Keeping up with the english tradition, it was on a sunday but getting up on a sunday morning ( I had to travel two hours just to reach the base )  is one of those life laughing at your misery things. Somehow I made it, probably the flashing images of all those poor starving children's face whoes food I have already eaten in my short life span and whoes food I will be continuing to eat had something to do :) The walk started alongside a beautiful country gold club, cris-crossing it at some places it had a slow ascend to the mountain top. There were few old idiots playing golf and you literally had to dodge their fore calls in matrix style ( may be its a bit of an exaggeration but I can play better than them any given day - i am sure my leeds golf buddy will vouch for that :) ) From the top it was a gergous view of the Kent country side. There was one spot( patel point ) where you almost matched the height of the pine trees from the valey ( it wasn't that big a mountain ). It reminded me of Harry Potter movies scenes. There was also a section of the walk which went through a beautifully shaded woodland, typical to english country side. My fellow walkers at this point were engaged in a discussion about global warming while I was observing this beautiful nature ( i can almost hear the thumps, people falling off the chairs n rolling on floor laughing :) ) . And the conversation starter was a pair of butterflies!!! Yaah it was like they have never seen butterflies in Feb and blah-di-dah. As this was sort of towards the end of the walk, the only thing that I was really worried about was how cold the beers are going to be and how many more children's food I can eat in the local pub.

The walk was just over 3hr 30mins and it was rewarding, thanks to the unlikely good weather of the day. The food was really good at the pub as well ( i guess after almost 4hrs walk everything tastes good :) ) . Now did it really motivate me to go through the whole training process and do the final walk??? Is it really worth the pain, sunday mornings, no late night saturday drinking??? Yes it was and I hope to continue with my preparation.

Will upload some photos soon...

Mission Impossible

When you join a new company its always hard to get used to the new ways of working. I mean its not just what you are going to do or how things work, its more about how the hierarchy works. Who are the right people you should know about and how to raise your own profile. OK I know I sound very selfish and cut throat, but you are in the industry and you have to do all these things to suvive. But anyways beside the point, in a moment of inspiration ( or may be insanity inspired by my very own psycho friend ) I decided that joining a charity event will help me a little to know people ( who cares about the charity :) ) in the company. But what I didn't realise was how hard the event is going to be. I have signed myself in for the 3 PEAKS challenge.

Let me give you an overview. The challege is to walk three mountains ( precisely 50 miles )in 24hr, without sleep. So that means I will be walking some mountain in the dark as well!!! To make things worse, all the three mountains are in three different corners of the country ( UK that is ). What was I thinking!!!

Now that I have decided to throw myself into the deep end, I thought lets retrofit some real meaning to my endeavour ( you know like the morden artist do these days, create something weird and then think of some really cool story. Then we all go what an art!!! ). Here is a list of things I came up with:

1. In the process help some charity ( I swear the lord this is my primary goal )
2. Get fit or Meet fit women ( there are surprisingly a lot of women )
3. Quite smoking. (Yaah if thats ever going to happen )
4. Build a healthier life.

So now I have a purpose and a motive...watch out...
Will try and keep a blog of all the training session and walks...

New Beginning...

New year, new beginning...Thats what all of us think about on the first day of every new year. Well actually if you are in a state to even think about it, you do !!! Isn't it funny how soon the anticipation and excitement dissappears...It always makes me wonder what is it that brings this excitement. Its just another day...