Getting Ready!

We are getting ready for the new phase!!!!
I am so excited! :-)... its close now.....

RIP Dev Sahab

On Sunday, when Dev Anand left us, an entire era of romance and melody left bollywood. I have been listening to the songs starring Dev Anand since then, I am a great fan of him, and then realized my Dev Anand favorites.

RIP Dev sahab.

The songs are in no particular order....

1) Kala Bazaar - Apni To Har Aah Ek Toofaan
Aawesome picturization of this song, sung beautifully by Mohd Rafi. My favorite part: "Dil hi to hai isne shayad bhool ki hai, Zindagi hai bhool kar hi rah miltui hai....." starts at 3:12 in this video




2) Kala Pani - Hum Bekhudi Mein Tumko Pukare
Another Gem by Mohd Rafi. I was listening to this song yesterday in car, and was trying to sing along with Rafi sahab, realized that its a very tough song. My favorite part: "Dekha kiye tumhe hum banke diwana, utara jo nasha to...."



There is a very lovely line before the song starts "Zindagi bhi ajeeb nasha hai dost, jab chadta hai to sar chad kar bolta hai

3) Prem Pujari - Shokhiyon Mein Ghola Jaye
I am not a great fan of Kishore Kumar, apart from the RD burman songs he has sung, but I am a worshipper of SD Burman's music.



4) Guide-Din Dhal Jaaye Haye
This is from one of my all time favorite movies. There is a very lovely line before the song starts "Zindagi bhi ajeeb nasha hai dost, jab chadta hai to sar chad kar bolta hai. Again a very beautiful and tough song (try singing "badnaam" and "dil ko thaam" in the first stanza) sung by Mohd Rafi. My favorite part: "Dil ke mere paas ho itne fir bhi ho....." "



5) Patita - Yaad kiya dil ne kahan ho tum
lovely movie and beautiful song

Make a difference - Donate and help fight Cancer

This year I am supporting the Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation, this trust is started by a freind and I have closely seen the kind of work they are doing. The money received from the donation is used to buy Cancer medicines for the poor and needy. A lot of people in our country cannot afford the Cancer treatment, this charity works with them and provides help to them

I am planning to run the Standard Chartered Mumbai marathon 2013 in this season                              

I have been training hard for this event and hope to achieve my goal this year.

If you want to support the idea of running for a cause, then I would request you to please donate Rs 50 for every Kilometre (or more!) that I run, this would make a huge difference. 

Also if you wish to donate please reply to this. So that I am able to track the donations and send you the receipts.

Since it is a new trust, so the payment gateway still needs to be incorporated. However you can initiate a wire transfer or deposit in the bank account or handover the cheque to me.

All Donations are tax exempted, I will mail you the reciept for the donation made.

Please mail / call me if you wish to donate, would send a mail with the donation procedure. 

SCMM 2012

So, with the 1 mile time trial today I started training for SCMM 2012. This is going to be a lot more fierce as compared to last year. Butyeah I am excited about it. The Mumbai Marathon would be a special one for me, the people close to me know the reason for it being special one!

The fight that began 4 years back, still holds, to do my personal best in Mumbai.

here I come, putting my best effort ever.....

Hatheli main hain kayi garmiyan... junoon sakht hai.....

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming

~Frank Shorter~ American Olympic gold medalist for marathon

Kaveri Trail Marathon got over last Sunday, and I was there to witness the event. This was the first KTM where I didnt run, but was there to cheer up my buddies! Prateek did fantastically and tamed the trail finally, I guess he is at peace with KTM now, it has been bothering him for some time :-) Congrats champ!!!

Pankaj, Priyankar, Nari, Vasu, Rishi, Partha did well as usual, how effortlessly they run the marathon, wish I could do that someday.

1st October 2011, starts my training for Mumbai marathon 2012, yes I did my PB last year, which wasnt that great timing, but here I am again standing at the start line of a new training program, with new hopes, new promises and new goals for this running year. To top it all I have a new coach this year!!! Introducing Dharam, he is back from US and did some kick ass training there, and now he is here to kick our asses :-)

Looking forward to the training, like last year, my pardner Meher is sailing with me on the same "sinking" boat!! :-)

This song has been playing in my head since some days now, and this is a perfect song for the start of the training season!

specially the lines:

"Hatheli main hain kayi garmiyan......."

Wish List

The thing which is on top of my wish list is a DSLR camera.
wanted to try my hands on it since a long time.....