Kailash Mansarovar Yatra - 5 - 2019 - Medical test- ...

KMY 2019, demanded I undergo a medical test and get a certificate from a doctor. So I underwent tests and got myself certified as physically fit. Last time, I remember before a Himalayan trek, writing a letter authorizing myself as the sole responsible person in case of any happenings during the trek and nobody to blame.

With flight booking done, medical test done, amount paid, it was a month of wait due to the delay. And finally it was July 10, 2019. My dream of participating in India's holiest pilgrimage was about to come true!

Cheers,

Change in office shift timings

I have been allocated temporarily to a project and as a result, I had to undergo some changes in my work hours. Apparently this new team which I work with, works from 8 am in the morning to 5 pm in the evening. As a result the manager told me to come in the first shift.

It happened so, after 6.5 years of second shift 11AM + to 8PM, I am back to morning shift. I had gone early only when I had attended interviews in all these years.

This made me undergo yet another change. My gym timings are 8 AM in the morning, but now, I had to decide to go to gym in the evening.

So today after 6 years of morning gym sessions, I had my first gym session in the evening. Only to realize I didn't need warming up. Generally in the morning, I used to do 10-15 minutes of warm up and stretching, but in the evening, I tried warming up and felt, as if I had already warmed up :)

Apart from that, running on treadmill needs more effort in the evening as I feel not so fresh as morning. But the good part is, there is no sun nor heat to slow down in the evening.

If I can control my diet after my evening workout, there is a high chance I might lose few kilos weight as well. Fingers crossed,

Cheers,

Reason for blog name change - and back -

One of the things which I did as a part of this year 2019 was to change my blog URL. There were multiple reasons for it though, I do want to mention them.

- Last year around September October, 2018, I went through a bit of turmoil at work where in a project which I had been tirelessly working just got downsized, and I was instantly released being a senior resource and having a costly billing, they could do nothing. They couldn't afford and I ended up in free pool, so this put me into a kind of shell, where in I neither wanted to speak to anyone, nor want anyone to know what I was going through, it was hard for a couple of months, where in you aren't able to forget the project because you have put in your weekends, fought for quality, got a good reputation. Good news was I almost instantly got a new offer from a different organization (after 7 days of bench warming!).

- Few people I was speaking with ( yeah I meant people) kind of humiliated me with their words, attitude, behavior. I just didn't want them to read my blog anymore. They knew I blog and knew my blog URL.. Considering I hardly interact with only 2-3 people on a few day/week basis and you end up getting humiliated by them itself, calls for totally lack of luck ( I meant I got lemons from these people in terms of behavior). So I basically wanted them not to read my blog. Will they read now? Well, those few people are out of my life though and I hardly interact with them, if they do read them now, its up to their discretion, I just don't care anymore.

- I had less to write, and I had written few posts describing my unceremonious sacking or release from the project, where in few people who weren't performing instead staring at RV college grounds could be released, but yeah, it was me. I didn't want people to read these posts.

In fact, boot lickers, ass lickers and home grown talent (people who have joined organization as freshers and have survived or rather worked 10+ years in the same organization) take higher precedence, over lateral hired experienced and costly billing resources. That's the hard truth of Indian IT industry where talent and knowledge takes a back seat.

- I was skeptical too about these posts being searched via google, I shall double check if my blog features in google search results. So with these kind of posts about workplaces, I definitely didn't want to go with my name URL. Now, I have pulled off all these posts as drafts, so they aren't public!

- I am having a torrid time with my system at home and laptop. Now using my office laptop without VPN to post this. Both laptop and system have been behaving badly and its time I correct them or buy a new one. Meanwhile tried backing my pictures on home PC now, I see it boots up with no display, what a pity.

Cheers,

PS - Posting it on Dec 15, placing it on January Month as if nothing happened :)-

Years at the gym -

December 23, I guess, I shall complete 6 years in the gym. Its been a pleasure transforming myself. I love to exercise, had loads of interest in exercising, never materialized until 2013, though 2002- 2004 I did exercise, had loads of time.

Once I joined industry, never found time plus travelling to Marathahalli, and other longer places from Uttarahalli, never brought enough commitment out of me.

But after struggling to climb Gingee fort in 2013 december, I thought I had enough. I had all the while nurturing a secret ambition and it could never be fulfilled with this sort of fitness.

What was my secret ambition, well, to climb the Himalayas - :)-

Believe me, it could never have happened without the gym (mentioned in the previous post).

Need to be careful going ahead, not to hurt myself. This year pulled a back muscle just couple of weeks before my Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. Though I have recovered fully, reminds me of not to overdo anything!

Cheers,

Gym offer for 2020

There is an annual offer at the gym. Sure I shall make use of it, can save couple of thousand of rupees. Just that I have to be consistent in the gym, and should not skip for months. I am pretty much confident of it. I just take max 2 weeks off for longer trips :)-

Cheers,

Exercise -

This year had less travel, I had couple of tours and one cancelled one, all of which required huge planning and logistics, that I couldn't travel excessively. Plus my new workplace requires me to travel to Marathahalli each day, so its hard to pack a travel punch unless I am equally committed.

Considering how boring my new workplace is, I never felt motivated to travel, because in order to travel with interest, you need to be well grounded, both personally and professionally.

What it did mean is, I got loads of time to exercise in the gym, yup, months after months, I was in the gym, helped me a lot mentally, physically left me drained out.

Will write another post describing what workout I used to do! Till last year I even chose to workout 7 days a week, but this year cut down to 6 consciously, having one day as a rest day!

Cheers,

100 posts for 2019 - Can I make it?

Every year I planned to write down 100 posts for the year, about something, travel, personal experience etc etc. It hasn't happened last year, on the verge of closure of this year too, I have a feeling I might not be able to write down 100 posts.

But I still have 15 days, if I can make 7 posts each day, over the next 15 days, I probably can get to a 100. Wow. that would be a miracle, but sure possible!

Cheers, lets attempt it from now!
Here it goes. Though I am going to randomly and shamelessly fit them into previous months.