Working Out and Gaining Weight Inside

Just a few months ago, I had reached a point in my life when even the belts were not enough to keep my pants from slipping. Surprisingly I had lost a lot of weight and felt very fit. Guess I have to owe everything to all the cricket that I used to play during that time. Coming to current form, I'm nearing the nervous nineties and frankly speaking, I have no intentions of scoring a century when it comes to weight. Guess all the good news in the recent times has accelerated my binging and indulgence in calorie rich food and drink.

The end result of all of this is that I'm running out of holes in my belts and have managed to just hold onto the last hole. So I finally made up my mind yesterday to do something about it. After two boring IPL matches on a Sunday and on a rare day when it was sunny and warm in Glasgow, I decided to go for a run with my two bodyguards. Yes yes, I was worried that I would either run out of breath or body fat to burn. There was a 99.9% probability that it would be the former one.

I was pleasantly surprised with my stamina as I ran without taking a break for way more distance than I expected. The great thing about this weather is that you really need to break your bones to break a sweat. While I was on my way back home, there were a couple of weird looking little kids just playing the fool as usual. One of them had a huge stick in his hand and it seemed like the Starwars ghost had got into him and he was totally unaware of his movements. As I tentatively neared him, he poked me with his long stick where it hurts the most. Well in all respects, my stick was no match to the real wooden counterpart and it really hurt!!!!!. Damn those kids!!

With the worse out of the way, I came back home only to be craving for more to eat. After munching on some yummy fried homemade stuff like ಕೊಡ್ಬಲೆ and ಚಕ್ಕಲಿ and some chicken donner late in the night after dinner, guess all the sweat and a possible 0.001gm of fat that I had burnt went in vain. These incidents have just made me realize that a physical activity like this is not only going to not help you in reducing weight but will you also help you a great deal in putting on some extra pounds. And unfortunately these are the pounds that accumulate around your waist and not in your wallet.

P.S - Any magic health tips deeply appreciated.

P.P.S - Forrest Gump was a bit overrated!!

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"We Are The Champions" - India #CWC2011

Yesss!!! Yesssssssssssss!!!Wooooohooooooooooooo!!! These were the words that came out of my mouth when Dhoni scripted the most stylish finish to a world cup. The adrenalin was pumping and everyone was so high on energy at Walkabout on Saturday that it mimicked a stadium atmosphere, which even included a dhol. I had held onto my beer mug till the end and composed stone cold's entrance music to commemorate the victory thus sacrificing the mug. The Indo-Pak fever had literally got to me and I was down with fever earlier in the week. Even though I missed watching that match in similar atmosphere, I have to confess that watching India winning the WorldCup was the best feeling of my lifetime.

All thanks to a wonderful team in whom I always believed, I can now tell the story of how India won the worldcup to my kids and possible grand kids. There have been some absolutely stunning individual performances over the worldcup but there is no doubt that this victory was a perfect team effort dedicated to the great man himself, Sachin Tendulkar. Kohli's statement was perfect when he said that Sachin had carried the burden of a nation for 21 years and its time we carried him on our shoulders.

Yuvraj Singh was one of the start performers of the tournament. There was a time I remember when he couldn't field at point and had upgraded his looks with a double chin and a paunch. But it was definitely a treat to see him flying on the field along with murdering the bowling attack and chipping in with a few wickets as well. Zaheer Khan has become such a mature cricketer that its a treat to watch him when he is on song. I still remember the first over he bowled in the 2003 worldcup finals when he had a lot of Sreesanth like temperament. But to become the leading wicket taker in the tournament and most importantly taking those vital wickets has to be one of his career highs.

Its really hard to put yourself in Dhoni's shoes. I can't even imagine the pressure of a billion fans on your shoulders. No doubt he had taken a few calls which backfired and some almost did, but at the end of the day, he had the guns and balls to pull things back and put up a show when it really mattered. Hats off to this gem of a cricketer and the greatest Indian captain. It just makes my rendezvous with Dhoni 6 months back even more memorable.

This win has given me one of those "I was there" moments. There were a lot of people at Walkabout who had come to be a part of history and there were some who had come just for the heck of it. The latter group of people mainly consisted of self proclaimed eye candies who couldn't even tell the difference between powerplay and innings break. These were the people who had come to say "I too was there". At the end of the day it was great to see a lot of divided people united by a common cause. The hashtag of #CWC2011 has finally seen its happy ending and we will probably see a birth of #IPL4 soon.

Congrats India once again for the winning the WorldCup and hopefully we can retain it 4 years from now. The stage was perfectly set for Sachin to retire, but then again I guess the kid in him is urging to push till the next WorldCup.

P.S - I also felt one of the legends of the game Muralitharan deserved a better send off.

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Dark Truth About White Terrorism

Just a couple of weeks back, I talked about natural calamities and as if all of it wasn't enough, we are hell bent on making this world a living hell. While terrorism has mainly been synonymous with Islam, not many people realize that the same when done wearing wearing suits earns you accolades. This type of white terrorism is what most of the first world countries specialize in and eventually make a habit out of. 

Lets go back just a decade. The 9/11 was the biggest inside job with Bush and co staging it. They just wanted a reason to invade Iraq and capture the oil wells. Bush invaded Iraq on the pretext of finding Saddam's weapons of mass destruction(WMD) even though everyone knew there was none. The movie Green Zone sheds some light on this topic and is a good watch as it doesn't over hype the U.S military like in most other cliched movies.

10 years later, its the same story yet again but with different actors. Its Obama now who has invaded Libya on the pretext of ending Gaddaffi's regime. Libya has one of the purest sources of oil and their main exports are to other European nations. So its the oil yet again thats doing the job of a carrot. The U.S have suddenly decided to take a step back and have announced that the power has been transferred to Britain. One can only assume that David Cameron pursuaded the queen to invite Obama to the Royal Bachelors party and luring him with the fact that his old buddy Snoop Dogg will be there as well.

If at all the U.S were really honest about their intentions, whatever happened to imposing a no fly zone over Egypt as well which faced a similar situation. No oil, no invasion. I have really lost all respect for the U.N and all those bodies that meet once in a while to bring about the so called peace. The biggest irony is that a person like Obama who actively initiated the war, received a Nobel prize for peace recently. People are quick to judge Muslims as terrorists for killing innocent people. But the men in suits have killed innocent countries and I believe its high time, the rest of the world stepped up and warned U.S to mind its own business and pick lint from its own shit.

While all this is said and done, the terrorists who are actually scheming to bring down a country by planting silly bombs and suicide bombers are not better either. My issue is never with a community or a country but the intention behind these destructive acts. I don't give a damn whether you are a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian or whether you are from U.S or India or Pakistan. Whether your motive behind killing people is as commercial as oil or as narrow minded as converting people to a particular religion, you are a terrorist.

I read a statement given by a leader of some Islamic body saying that Allah has punished Japan with earthquakes and tsunamis for supporting a country like U.S. These are the kind of things that make me detest the religional beliefs as these people are not only in a delusional state but also try to wipe out the sanity factor in others. If at all there is god, I really don't think he/she would be bothered about punishing some X country for supporting decisions of some Y country. #SuperLame

These two kinds of terrorists are not only incapable of thinking outside a cloud filled with stinking thoughts, but will manage to kill a lot of innocent people and contribute to ending this world with some help from natural calamities.

P.S - Amidst all this political/cultural/religional nonsense, I'm really happy that my life is back into my life and I'm very excited. People who know me well know what I'm talking about :-)

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