Terrorism
Whats the aim? People die, but of course they cannot kill all the people they hate. They want attention. But among all bunch of groups claiming responsibilities who gets the ownership. I guess nobody knows by doing what can we get rid of this problem. The reasons are may be known but the problem is too big right now to even think of solving it.
Day after the jaipur blasts, I reached office unaware of anything. I was puzzled by a mail from my friend just asking if everything ok back home. It was good that another close friend mailed me who knew that all was ok. It didn't even cross my mind that a bomb blast or even some other natural calamity can happen there. It has been such a peaceful city for sometime now. I saw the images after and recognised the places. It hits you hard. Images more than all the words. So far I always thought its really bad for the people who suffer. Only this time I knew how it really felt. I was there just two weeks back riding the same roads. I did my shopping around that area. My cousin takes the same roads everyday for work.
Jaipur is one of the biggest tourist destinations in India. Its a fast growing city in the region. Its a metropolitan now. But to me terrorism never made any sense anyway. It may help them to get attention but now people are too used to it. Strictly talking the markets went up the day after london blasts. Jaipur blasts, people barely heard about. It has stopped registering. Thats the world we live in.
How I lost 10 Kgs !?!?
This is a declaration(i did it!), a wonderment(does the word exist!) and record of what I did about those 10kgs. Long time since I did something entirely for personal reasons. It was always professional for sometime now. :)
Though not many people notice. My mom as usual says that you look thinner. But that she used to say even when I moved from low 70s to 80s to nervous 90s. I always had a resolution that I will never be in the 90s. The first day I netted 90.4 on the machine, I got psyched out enough to do something about it.
I don't exactly remember when I started but jogging around the imperial palace here last summer was the start. Its a good 4.8km of track around the palace surrounded by a moat, lined with trees. I sometimes used to do two rounds. I even tried three once and thats when I screwed my knee. My dinner those days were one or two bowls of daal and a couple of oranges/apples. And those were busy days at office. I used to come back from office at 9ish and go for the jog come back 10ish and putting together a full dinner was anyway a big hassle. Also lunch at office is usually very early. And once I followed the routine for a few days it was surprisingly easy to go without the dinner. I did push in an evening coffee/snack those days. Weekend binging with friends was always there. So in a way I was not starving myself. Diet wise it was as easy at it gets.
Winter and my screwed knee meant the jogging stopped. But I started squash on the weekends. It was two days of squash+gym but more often squash+swimming. In those days I was sort of stuck midway in these 10Kgs. And I don't recall how I broke through that but pretty soon I was approaching it. These days squash has also stopped and have finally started using office's in house gym. I never liked working out at a gym. Its indoors and its lonely :). But it does feel good after a long day at office to do that. Also I found out a nice public swimming pool near my house. Will go there more often. My swimming still sucks. Its embarrassing to splash water all over the place while people around me pretend to be fishes.
After the recent trip back to India I have eaten my way back into a couple of these 10kgs but now I know what to do. It did take close to 12 months but will be easy to maintain. This timespan included trips back home, my parents visiting me for a month, meaning I was back on heavy dinner schedule for a month in between etc. But I am surprised by the ease of it. I was just a little conscious about it, regular workouts in whatever way was convenient at that time and avoided overeating all the time. It feels good !!
