February 13, 2006
Masinagudi Camping
I didn’t get the time to put the pictures of the camping trip. I went camping in Masinagudi (Creek n Crag). This was a coffee estate, its more than 300 acres and they have a place for people to camp. They have two nice tree houses and they have kept the nature intact. Its kind of a bit luxury camping, they took care of the food part, they had bathroom facilities. But the one thing which scared me was all the stories they told about the wild life there.
They said they have seen leopards hunting deer and the place where we pitched out tent was the place where the elephants cross. Yeah sweet!
It was a wonderful trip. We weren’t lucky to spot any leopards or elephants.
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January 25, 2006
Tuticorin Trip
I went to Tuticorin to visit my cousins almost a month back, didn’t had the time to update the blog. The last time I went there was almost 10 years back and the place looked totally different and I could not recognize many of the places there.
Myself and cousins we decided to go to a place called Idayangudi, which is a village down south around 60km from Tuticorin. They have a church here and they were celebrating their 125th anniversary, so we decided to go and visit this church. This church was build by SBC missionary organization. Along the way almost many of the villages have churches built by these organizations and also they have schools and hospitals build by these organization.
Still don’t understand why they went to remote villages 100 years back to setup all this. Wonder how these villages will be if they didn’t setup all this?
The highlight of the trip was the ending. We were returning to Tuticorin and on the highway I was crossing a cyclist, and this guy decides to take a U turn with out seeing what is coming and I could not stop my bike. I hit him pretty hard and I lost balance and went and hit another cyclist, now there were two cyclists on the ground. The first guy knew that it was his fault and didn’t say anything, we offered him to take him to the hospital but he said he will take care of it. The second guy, since it was our fault we took him to the hospital gave him some money and we took off. We were lucky that no one was seriously injured. I guess I am still not used to riding or driving here.
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January 12, 2006
Need a break!!!!
It was just crazy busy at work. I didn’t do anything for a long time. No regular running practice for the marathon (means no Chennai marathon), no blogging for a long time, no going out, no nothing….
Now it is little bit free at work and I am going to run away for the weekend. Planning to go camping, really really need a break.
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December 24, 2005
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Everyone!!
This holiday season was very different for me. I just didn’t get the holiday sprit, I tried decorating the house ,tried listening to holiday music nothing helped. But I am happy to spend Christmas with the family after 7 years.
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November 26, 2005
Trekking – Mukurthi Peak
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November 15, 2005
Running Speed
Last weekend Runners For Life had a 33K run. My goal was to run 15k and retire (with the kind of shape I am in that’s a big goal). Unfortunately got up very late and I had only time to brush my teeth. I didn’t have any time to eat anything, just drank a gatorade and started the run. By the time I reached 9k I was so hungry and I had to stop my run at 13.2k. I think I could have run another lap, but didn’t want to take the risk of running with such an empty stomach. The thing that bothers me was the timing; it took me 1.33mins to run 13.2 k. With this speed looks like I can only finish a marathon in 6.00hours. Now I need to try and improve my speed, I am going to try “Fartlek training”. Lets see if this works.
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November 08, 2005
Night Shots
Last to last weekend was Diwali (festival of light), so I decided to try and do some night shots. It was pretty tough to take the firework when you really don’t know which direction the firework is going to come. Well I just stood in my terrace and tried some shots, these are the few shots which came out ok, and the rest were no good.
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November 03, 2005
Looking good
I never realized that looking good means I have to be light skinned.
Got to get the cream now…
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October 31, 2005
Marathon Training Schedule
I am going to miss the Delhi Marathon, Mumbai Marathon because I didn’t do enough training. Now I don’t want to miss the Chennai Marathon which is happening in Feb, so last week I sat and prepared a training schedule for myself. Well I did my first run last week and fell sick after that, I will wait for another day or two to get better and will start continuing my training. Not sure if I am going to follow it fully, but defenetly spend enough time to put this together. I got the schedule from Hal Higdon and modified it a bit.
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October 30, 2005
Sick!
This is the second time I had to get admitted to a hospital in the last six months. I have no clue what I am doing wrong here. This time it’s food poisoning. Had a really bad Thursday night, nothing stayed in my stomach and even if I drink water my stomach was hurting as hell. In the morning I couldn’t even walk properly, because of my stomach ache.
I decided to head to the hospital and get some drip to get some fluid in my body. The doctor prescribed some antibiotics and some pain killer and told me that this can be because of food poisoning and asked me to be on liquid diet and asked me to go home. I am little bit surprised. I am thinking, dude I can’t even walk, I can’t take anything orally and you want me to go home and take some tablets?? Then I asked him if taking drips will help, then he is like “yeah if you want to get admitted in the hospital we can give you drips”. Aren’t these guys suppose to tell me the easy way out of my pain??
Anyways… Got admitted and got everything thru drips for a day and I am back to normal, still on liquid diet for the next 3 days.
Got to be careful eating outside and also had to find a good hospital!
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