Music the love of life

Our daughter started responding and enjoying to some good music! Thank you God!

P.S.: The definition of good music can be relative, those close to me would know what I consider good music!

The Reboot of training

So the training starts again today, with a speed run at Kanteerava (tracks). I am happy that I am able to keep upto the time I used to take in the last season when I was training with Dharam. I still wish to train with him, but I have at least 3 Kgs to lose before that and this training plan would help me get a little faster as well as help me lose that extra weight!

The fierce training with D would start by August end, before that I would want to re-calibrate myself and do a fast half again somewhere, maybe at one of the Dandi Runs

I am excited for this training like all the previous years, again this year I will be supporting Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation, like the previous years, so any help in that direction would be appreciated :-)

White Light Photography

Today I have started my own page for the new found passion, "White Light Photography", as a first project I will be doing a Photo feature on Dharam, and his quest and preparation for the Boston marathon. Watch out this space for links to the photographs......

Nayi shuruat......

The inspiration behind taking up photography has been Ashwini Tank.
specifically this photograph, this is one of my favorites, this picture speaks so much

http://www.flickr.com/photos/overcooked/2990478004/in/set-72157605131931232/

In other news we named our daughter "Sanyukta Singh".

Wikipedia Link : Sanyukta

On Personal front, life continues to be beautiful and lovely with each new day! 

10K marathon state of mind

So these days I am in a 10K marathon state of mind, I have just been running short distances, and I cant even relate to how I ever ran all those insane distances. I am sure this is just a phase, but to brighten things up, I am going to charge my Garmin today and  make sure that I run tomorrow. This has happened for the first time in the last 7 years that my Garmin's battery is drained out and I haven't charged it since a month.

Secretly I am loving this phase :-P.

But now the important things are taken care and my daughter is keeping me awake in the wee hours of morning, so why not use it as an opportunity to start running. Well if my better half permits me, I want to run the TCS 10K race with my little angel, I can push the baby jogger / pram

Life is beautiful! The joy of being a dad!

Happy Birthday Shadowfax!

So the Shadowfax turns 1 in March 2012. Its been a fabulous one year with the brave heart! I have already clocked 28,000 KM on the Odometer, and I still love to drive it, I still like to take it on open roads, you have to drive it to find out how much it loves the open roads.

I almost nearly booked a Vento petrol, thinking that Diesel Vento is too expensive for me, but then Ankita asked me to go for the diesel one, the difference in cost was 1.25 Lacs (ex showroom) but I guess I have recover that amount already. Here is some maths how

Diesel

KM reading : 28,000 KM

Average mileage received: 15 kmpl

Total Diesel burnt: 28,000/15= 1867 litres

Price of diesel per litre: Rs 46.16/-

Total damages: 1867 x 46.16= Rs 85,882/-

First servicing: Rs 8,800/-

Total: 85882+8800= Rs 94,682/-

Cost per KM: 94,682/28000= Rs 3.3/-

Now assuming if I would have bought a Petrol version:

KM reading : 28,000 KM

Average mileage received: 12 kmpl

Total Diesel burnt: 28,000/12= 2334 litres

Price of diesel per litre: Rs 75/-

Total damages: 1867 x 46.16= Rs 1,75,050/-

First servicing: Rs 8,800/-

Total: 1,75,050+8800= Rs 1,83,850/-

Cost per KM: 1,83,850/28000= Rs 6.6/-

So finally it seems like a good deal. Plus I recovered the price difference between the Diesel and petrol version as well!

Bonus: pics of Shadowfax

Photographs Courtesy:  Nilesh

These pics were taken as a Vento owners meet, mine is the white one!