Life Reloaded!!!

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head. - Paul Auster

Like previous year, I participated in the half marathon (approx. 21kms) competition in Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2014. I completed the race in 3 hours and 25 minutes. My friend Amit Prajapati from SEBI also accompanied me for most of the race and completed the race along side with me. From SEBI, total 59 officers completed half marathon whereas 4 even completed full marathon. Fortunately this time I didn't have much of problem with my legs post-race. I even didn't have much pain 2 days after the race day. So it was a normal race. Amit and Anuj Wait, this much summary is enough for my parents to know. Of course, my life has unexpected adventures even though I try to avoid them. So here goes the detailed story - As you might already know, I gave up my practice in last December. Even though I had recovered at the start of year, I was too lazy to restart my practice. It was obvious that I was going to face issues during the race. But I was confiden...

I know I am more than a year late in posting these photos, but I just received them today. Special thanks to Alpit Saxena from current AlumCom who made the efforts to get these photos from Academic section of NITIE.

“ The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. ” -    Steve Furtick

I had bought book  Relativity : The Special and General Theory  written by Albert Einstein . As a kid, I always had a curiosity about the theory of relativity. I remember having discussions about time machines with my friends. So last year I decided to buy this book. In the preface to the book Einstein has mentioned that he wanted to explain the theory of relativity in as simple language as possible for lay man to understand. However, even though I have a bit of science background, it was very difficult for me to understand the book. After trying to “read” General Theory of relativity, I took a break of almost 10 months and then read the Special theory. As I we would call it in college slang – it was a “bouncer”.

I think this is going to be my longest post of the season. So as Ned Stark would say, “Brace yourselves!” (for long post). I recently read a post by Rutuja on the topic of marriage and career. Since I have gone through a similar thought process in this year, I thought I might pen down some of experience in this regard. It had all started last year when my parents started asking me that long awaited question – “When are you getting married?” I kept avoiding that question till the end of last year. By the end of March however, I realized that it was about time I started looking for my partner, as my school/college friends started getting engaged/married. Whatever one might say about peer pressure in office/studies, there is a similar pressure when it comes to marriage. It can be very awkward in the end of marriage season, as each of your buddies gets committed and you are the only one remaining single. Of course, the real problem isn’t that. As I have always said, life is li...

There never was much hope, just a fools hope. - Gandalf