1) You are waiting for the lift in your office, and along with you 15 more people are waiting, and there comes a girl, no she is not new to the building, she stands in the front row and as soon as the lift comes climbs on to it. What the heck, is she the only person in a hurry, and if yes then there is something called manners, she can atleast tell that she is in a hurry to the rest of the 16 fools standing and waiting for the lift!
2) You are standing on the right side of a red light and waiting for the light to become green so that you can take a "right turn" but then a yellow number plate "cab" comes from the left and plans to take a right turn, blocks all the traffic that is supposed to go straight, and it turn ends up blocking the traffic that was waiting for the right turn since a long time.
3) Waiting for the auto, finally it comes and you ask him "bhaiya xyz chaloge" he slows down and then just moves ahead, he can have the courtesy of saying atleast a "No"
4) The city buses which stops just after crossing the red light.
5) The cab drivers who doesn't respect the pedestrians, and in the morning and late nights the runners(since I am a runner, I have been nearly ran over by these "yellow" number plated vehicles a number of times!)
6) Somebody asking you "why do you run!" or this one is better how many more KGs do you want to lose (another comment on running)
7) Bangalore: It pours whenever you are planning to leave office, and you end up thinking all clothes wet.....what am I gonna wear to office tomorrow!
8) None of the auto fellows and the city buses listen to the police walah (pronounced as "Thulla"), and he takes out all his frustration and asks you to empty your wallet if he catches you! ;-)
9) Mondays!
10) The weird music people get fitted in their car and it suddenly starts playing when the car is in reverse gear, this really gets difficult if anybody is trying to do so late in the night.
11) the John Abraham (of Dhoom fame) bran of bikers, who get weird silencers put in their bikes.
12) The Yamaha RX100 breed of bikers who thinks that their bike is actually a dirt bike!
These were some of my thoughts, do drop in what irritates you the most in comments!!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
That is irritating!!!!!
Bangalore Ultra
The Bangalore Ultra marathon is on 16th December, not much time left now, I have already started practicing for the same. but still not decided what distance I would target, maybe depends a lot on my practice. Since Sunday I have started running at a higher pace, just to check my stamina.... and I found it to be good!
Now I aim to run around 5 Km daily at a good pace (approximately 10 km/hr).
So far so good! Will keep posting my experiences here!
Links:
Training for Half Marathons (copied shamelessly from the Bangalore Ultra's Website)
Song Today: O meri Jaan
Film: Life in a.... Metro
Sunday, September 23, 2007
My Experiences with Running: Part-3
Sunday I had a totally different experience, running with a group of people. I joined Runners For Life (RFL) some days back, this is a group of enthu runners in Bangalore, who keep organizing runs at different places. So this Sunday I decided to go for a run, I missed India's match (T20, India Vs Australia) on saturday just to sleep early as I was supposed to reach the venue (White field) at 6:00 am. The route was the same as that of the Bangalore midnight marathon.
Reached the venue and found that around 20 - 30 people were there, it was a great experience running with them, all this while I was used to running alone, but this time I had a lot of people to chat with while running, we chatted on a lot of topics from politics to Bangalore, but the hottest topic there was stretching exercises after running. However I didn't like the plan of running on road, but I guess the venue was Whitefield because of the rains. In the past the group had organized runs at some really good places like Nandi Hills, Bellandur, Chamundi Hills.
Every Saturday some people from the group meet in Indira Nagar to play hockey as well, no this is not because of the Chak De Fever, actually hockey is one of the best games for core strengthening, as you bend and run to drivel the ball. Lets see if I can make it there sometime or not!
On weekdays I am running in and around Koramangla with Rathi, Some guys from the RFL might join from tomorrow!
Overall it was a great experience, and looking forward for the run next weekend!
Links:
1) Runners for life
2) Bangalore Ultra Marathon
Song Today: Katra Katra
Music: RD Burman
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
"AN ECO-FRIENDLY BOMB"
I read a news article on ibnlive.com, Russia tests world's most powerful, eco-friendly bomb. Now what is an "eco-friendly" Bomb supposed to mean? I am pretty confused will it not hamper the surroundings, will it not kill people. Now atleast the Nations have a better justification to go on war!
The press release says that "dad of all bombs" is four times more powerful than the US "mother of all bombs." Now this is again Cold War in the making, what was that George W Bush and Vladimir Putin meet all about in the US?
These matters get really confusing at time, and to top it all "AN ECO-FRIENDLY BOMB" !
Song Today: Aise na Mujhe tum dekho...
Monday, September 3, 2007
Bangalore Traffic.......
The traffic in Bangalore has gone from bad to worse, during the rush hours it takes about an hour to travel 10 Kms, but we are only to blame for it, we fail to follow the traffic rules at times, with some or the other justification every time. But there are some really irritating things happening on the road while you are driving, atleast they are irritating for me.
1) The most irritating thing I find on the road are the BMTC buses, no they should be there but there should really be some kind if training for these BMTC bus drivers, they stop anywhere (I recall this is the problem with the Blue line buses in Delhi too).
2) The BMTC should really re review their bus routes at times the roads are too narrow and are not designed for buses to pass through them, and as a result whenever they stop on the bus stop, the whole traffic behind them stops!
3) During the rush hours the traffic cops switches off the red light and tries to manage the traffic manually, and when they do that they end up stopping the traffic for atleast 10 minutes, as a consequence the whole traffic floods the next traffic light and this continues.
4) Some auto walahs have sworn to themselves that they will always overtake from the left, even if there is scope on the right.
5) If the autowalah bangs you dont ever try to argue with him, just say thanks and try to get the claim from the insurance company, as the minute you stop to talk to him, atleast 50 auto walahs will surround you.... the same is true for the cab drivers
6) As a government norm every cab has to write a phone number saying that "if the driver is found driving negligently please call-----" but dont try to do that, as nobody picks up the phone on those numbers
7) Since the BMTC bus drivers are govt. employees so no police wala fines them... instead I have seen scenarios where the bus walah ends up abusing the "thulla"
8) Even if you are right there is no pint in arguing with the "Thulla" as most of the time he wont prefer to talk to u in Hindi / English, and if he talks then he ends up threatening you that he can frame you in false charge and since you are away from your hometown it would be best for you to just walk off.... this is the face of the protectors of Law here!
9) Its seems that the cabs in Bangalore just doesnt have any brakes in them, as I have seen numerous incidents where they jump the traffic light.
10) The state of pedestrians is really bad in Bangalore, it seems that none of the pedestrian light works here, I have seen foreigners crossing the road frantically! And they are talking about making Bangalore an international city!
BTW this post is inspired from Rathi's post on traffic read it here
Song Today: Do Naina aur ek kahani
Film: Masoom
Music: RD Burman
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Red Fort: New Delhi
Was watching some of the photographs clicked by my friend Deepak, and loved this (A soldier on duty at Red Fort)one for some reason, maybe seclusion, sense of Duty.... or a lot of other adjectives
See his collection here: http://photocurry.blogspot.com
Song Today: Huzoor is Kadar bhi
Film: Masoom
Music: RD Burman
