Archive for October, 2006
Running with a veteran, and Rabindrasangeet
Yesterday I resumed running along the Charles after a brief gap following the half marathon. And it was the hardest run of my life. I met this gentleman from Calgary who was also running, on the way back from Harvard square. He’s over 50 now, and has done 56 marathons!!! He’s training for his 57th [...]
100 things to do before I die
Thanks to the person whose website I accidentally stumbled across where he had listed his 100 things to do before I die. My first impulse was to try to do all the stuff he had listed, since there was also a checkbox I could check and feel good and rewarded. But on second thoughts, I [...]
Jo beet gayee
Jo beet gayee is one of the most powerful poems of Harivansh Rai Bachchan. Bachchan was extremely fond and devoted to his wife, and after she died he was inconsolable, during which period he is supposed to have written his finest poems. Jo beet gayee is supposed to be about the loss of his wife, [...]
Is naNo catching up with me?
I have been talking a bit about eaTing biG and thinKing naNo recently. Well, its not just thinking and talking no more. Looks like its beginning to catch up with me like a true prophecy-come-true. How? A friend of mine sent me this huge card on my birthday. Like 1×2 feet. I was really impressed. [...]
Run
Yesterday was the Boston Half Marathon. I completed it . 2 hours 3 mins 53 seconds. About 16 minutes better timing than the last time (and the only time I did a whole 13 miles), which had been 2 hours 20 mins. Lien, my friend from high school who was visiting from TN and also [...]
Eat biG think naNo
I’m Indian. So I love food. I think of food when I’m hungry and feel pleasure in anticipation. And as I type this I can’t help but get reminded of Hemingway who was broke, living in Paris and would walk around hungry looking at food through windows and getting a thrill out of the hunger. [...]
Bday wish experiment
I thought it’d be a neat little experiment to see the sequence and timings of people wishng on a bday, and the medium they use to do it. Lets say I am the guinea pig here. So the wishes start coming when its the afternoon of 1st Oct here, when its already 2nd in India.(actually [...]
