Archive for September, 2008
Wonderful World Shadow Puppet
Sep 28th
‘What a wonderful world’ by Louis Armstrong is one of my favourites. A year ago I came across this amazing video on YouTube – a shadow puppet show of what a wonderful world. Today I again got a forwarded link from a friend and enjoyed the video.
Shadow Play is a rapidly diminishing art and I remember watching some of finest Shadow Play artists in Baroda. Here is saluting Shadow Play artists through this video.
31 countries & counting
Sep 28th
We love traveling, meeting new people, appreciating different cultures, enjoying different cuisines and learning something new from every country that we visit. My work as well as personal travel has taken me to 31 countries & over 230 cities/towns/villages (many in India). And many of the small places are not yet there on TripAdvisor mapping tool. 
My goal is to visit over 100 countries – I don’t know how long its going to take but I’m for sure looking forward to reaching that number in next 8-10 years. Lets see how that goes.
Losing Weight
Sep 28th
Gaining weight is very easy and in last 18 months I gained 8 kilos. Always had excuses of excessive travel, stretched lifestyle, not eating healthy, not enough sleep, no time for exercising and not liking air-conditioned gyms etc… And I kept telling myself… yeah you’re overweight but not so bad… its OK… you still have time till it becomes alarming. Heart in heart I knew my approach was wrong but I was in denial.
It all changed when I got back onto courts around 3 months ago. It was tough. Playing Squash with additional 8 Kilos was proving to be tough to the power of tough. Playing Tennis was no longer fun. And playing Badminton doubles was just about OK. And that started ringing very loud Alarm Bells. Finally I decided to solve the weight problem.
After the initial trials & tribulations… I embarked on a path of exercising through sports or outdoors and going really careful on Food. My grandfather used to say: “no one becomes fat by eating less food”. Made some changes to my diet, made some changes to lifestyle, and made some changes to my attitude. First 45 days were tough & depressing as I couldn’t see any results – and I wanted them in a FastFood fashion – but I didn’t lose my heart & kept trying. Finally the results started showing (slowly & steadily) & I have managed to lose 4 Kilos in last 3 months. Now my target is to step up the momentum & lose another 6 Kilos.
And once that is done… I’m for sure not daring on the Weight Gaining Path again.
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