A happy moment for me - my old jeans fit me again.

The 5 km jogs (5 days a week) have finally paid off. I have now progressed to 8 km (almost every) day - 1 km walk + 5 km jog + 2 km walk.

It’s almost funny how, 6 months ago, I used to struggle for just 1 km.

My only company during jogging is my iPod. Sometimes I listen to podcasts (such as Inside the Net). Sometimes I listen to music. There’s really nothing like listening to Yeh Hai Meri Kahani (K Rap Mix) and jogging at night under the lights in the track field.

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” — Lance Armstrong

I’m writing this a few days after coming back to Bangalore, because I had to get over my holiday hangover. It seems unfair to gain so much, make so many new friends and have so much fun, and suddenly let it go, and that too, back to the daily routine life.

The trip was centred around attending the YHAI National Himalayan Winter Trekking Expedition, although it turned out to be the Dalhousie picnic because the trek was easy, but that little dampener didn’t stop us from having a great time.

It all started a couple of months ago when Niara and myself wanted to go to the Himalayan trek organized by YHAI in December, and we started planning.

Then, I remembered that I had inquired about the same trek last year and had got my friend Abishek (who is into making movies and graphics) interested but he got an offer to do a Nokia ad and he said he didn’t want to miss the opportunity. So, I had to shelve my plans that year. So, I soon started reading up the official YHAI website and was glad to be planning for it this year. We did plan a lot, and WriteBoard came in handy so that we could coordinate ourselves, from booking train tickets to getting medical certificates.

The trip started on the evening of Christmas Day of 2005, when we boarded the Rajdhani train to Delhi. It was going to be a 36 hours journey.

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I’m finally getting a vacation, so I’m off to trek in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Incidentally, my new year celebration will be trekking 10 km in the snow, from Khajjar to Mangla.

The doctor has ordered me to not have coffee any more, as a precaution.

This is so not fair. It’s not like smoking, ya know?

Merlin talks about Benjamin Franklin and the 13 virtues he rigorously pursued with just a small note book.

It’s amazing how Benjamin chose these 13 virtues and that too in that order. More so, on how he cultivated this habitude.

Love what you do. Do what you love. If not, then what’s the point?

Over 300 close family and friends in your home on one day + followed by Ramanagaram trek on Saturday + Savandurga trek on Sunday => me happy

Ramanagaram

Savandurga

From the perl.perl6.language newsgroup:

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Good article on The Time Thieves by Dr. Donald E. Wetmore.

(via LifeHack).

Read about the Indian independence movement on Wikipedia.

Update: The Presidential address.