Now that I have made the realisation, I have to really get my head down and plan out how to fix what. I am doing better than I did before but I am not at the speed I should be at, to cover the loss of all these years, I have to plan better, play smarted and act better. Not to mention I have to give up on the bad habits like- I will do it later, I won’t be able to do it or this is not my cup of tea.

With that realised, the question now is where do I start and how?

I know one thing that my first decision is always right, be it anything, my first hunch is always right and its what I think later, is what gets me out. So this is what I am going to do – trust my instincts, trust my wisdom. You can say that the wisdom part is over ambitious but then again if not now then when?

Next would be to set up some serious goals. Both for my personal life and my professional life. I need to work on both the short term goal and the long term goals. For that I need two things have good sleep everyday and take timeout for myself. It’s important to have a good sleep to perform better everyday and I need to join some dance class or something to learn something other than what I do.

There is no doubt that I should be earning more. And yes that’s one main point earn more.

So my new resolutions:

1. Be more organised.
2. Workout regularly.
3. Eat good food.
4. Let your intuitions take the decisions 

Some want freedom to protest, some want freedom to print the images of god/goddess on their tops, some want freedom from corruption and some want freedom to do what they wish. Actually what most want is more freedom for themselves, how it affect everyone is not what they care for.

So what is new for me this year, it is a holiday so that is one, apart from that ummmm… nothing much. Same goes for most of the people I know. One new thing though that I see around me on FB is the fight against corruption. And how? Kick PM out, who infact is one of the few honest.

I think most of the nation is blind to see that they themselves voted the wrong person, but Sonia Gandhi gave key power to an honest man who has failed to play politics. It’s hard to believe that we were once the most powerful and civilised country.

But do I see hope? Well there is a small light at the end of tunnel and the traffic at the back is pushing us to it. The fact is we all are corrupt and we want other not to be. Until, we can’t change our selves, I don’t think we can change the system.

Here are a few odd things:

1. Transformers opening scene (click here): One MH53 helicopter turns out to be an alien transformer and is able to destroy a full US military airbase. Wow! That was cool. But the same robot was unable to do anything at the end of the movie… why… did he finish all his ammo?

2. Optimus prime: Whenever he is in shape of a truck he is shinning, you can look at the paint quality and just love it. But it seems whenever he transforms into standing robot lot of paint is rub off. Dude… amazing.

3. Bumblee bee: Can’t talk in movie one till half way because of some problem with his sound system or whatever, but the doc robot fixes him but then again from moive 2 he can’t talk. So much for alien technology.

4. Agent simmons and sam get access to every facility.. cool!

5. Transformers most of the time are firing bullets.. I mean come on… we humans can do the same. Whats the fun in being an robot if all you can do is fire bullets??

In all, I was not impressed. I wanted to see more fights and more cool action. I mean the destructive powers of transformers should have been awesome like movie 1, but apparently they are not as cool.

I spent the whole day at the service center, checking out and monitoring what the service mechanic did. The experience was drastic, men\women taking out to address your issues, talk to you and offer choices was a big change.

Bike now feels great and so I decided to take care of it everyday. I would be spending a good amount of time with it now in the garage. Washing it, Oiling it, lubing it and polishing it every weekend.

It was a good weekend. Friday started with a good day in office. In the evening I had to attend Praveen Sathaye’s wedding reception. It was a good excuse to meet old friends.  Somanath had come from Banglore on his bike. Hrishi and Kartik came from Mumbai. Hrishi and I had gone to Leh together and so, it is always good to meet people with whom you have to placed. Sathaye was as always late

Caught up with Navendu too, the first biker in Pune I rode with (except my bro).  It was nice meeting them, they were still talking about bikes as they used to years ago. A time when they were bachelors and didn’t have a care in the world. Chinmay, Somanth and others also joined in. In all it was good to meet all.

Saturday was a ride day. Me, Nav, Sathaye, Chinmay and Somanath went for a ride to Lonavala. Had breakfast at Kamath’s and then short ride to Khandala. The weather was cloudy and it was drizzling every now and then for few minutes. The weather was fantastic. The clouds moving along the mountains, nice cold weather and a company of fellow bikers. I was liking it.

Chit chatting

Things got better on the way down to Khopoli, it had started raining and riding in rain with slipping tires is fun… Yeah! I have to agree its not fun when tires tend to slip every now and then. Fortunately for us the highway was closed, which meant we could ride on express way. Expressway is a 3 lane one side highway from Pune to Mumbai. The route is scenic and roads are great. Since it was a downhill track… speeding was so much fun.

Saturday evening me, Sathaye, Khyati and Chinmay went for Cars2. Cars2′s begining was nice but then the story became too boring and too predictable. Its not bad but it doesn’t live up to the reputation.

Yamaha R15s

Sunday was relax day. But it turned out to be eat more than you can day. Devraj bhaia invited me and Rajat Jain for breakfast. Ohhhh we were served one of the most delicious pranthas with loads of butter and curd. And prathas kept coming till we were not able to eat anymore. I ate 5 or 6; had to skip lunch after this brunch.

Evening was good too; for a change washed my bike and lubed it. It felt nice.

But overall a good way to start morning.
There is a lot of improvement I have to do, 1 on the skill side, 2nd on stamina and 3rd power shots when playing back hand.

Time to get ready for office

So today, I thought of trying the saddle bag on R15; I have tried them on Pulsar 180 and CBZ but never on R15. So I packed the stuff I was to take to Goa and went for a trial ride. The saddle fits nice to R15 too, but due to the design on rear, the bags does come out a bit, but nothing too weird. I had to remove the side plates from the bag, the side plates keep the bag in shape but due to the design of the rear having the plates on would have caused the bags to come out. Then I put the cross shaped bungee cord around the bag for added safety. Everything looked fine.

Another thing I was wondering was taking the iPod along. The small iPod Nano touch is not exactly what I had thought it would be. I bought the small touch screen version thinking it would be easier to use but it isn’t on bikes or on the move. The problem with touch screen is that when you are riding, you can’t feel the buttons and so you don’t know where your finger is in respect to the button.  You are just guessing and many a times you end up changing the screen rather than changing the song on the go. So I had to put it where I could atleast see and at the same time be sure that I don’t drop it. The idea I tried was that I put it on the loose end of the bag strap. But safety was a issue so I just used the strap which comes with pen drives to tie it and then wear the strap around the neck.

After fitting the bag on the bike, I decided to head out for a short test ride,;about a 5-10 KMs. But as soon as I started riding, I didn’t want to stop and kept riding. It was around 5:00 pm and the weather was nice and the bike was going smooth.

R15 at Khandala

Initially I was planning to go to Lonavala, but that is too common so I thought of going to Khandala for a change. I stopped to take few pics of the bike. There was a decent crowd around, group of young riders and young couples kissing.

It was nice ride from there to Khopoli exit via express way. I don’t know why but everytime I get on the expressway, I feel the road is unsafe and my bike would skid; so I always lean soft.  It got dark on the way back and as all Indian bikers would know, its the time when mosquitoes attack. The incoming traffic with their highbeams make you raise your visor becaue the incoming light scatters and block your vision and when you do this, the attacking mosquitoes can hit you in they eye, which is even worse.

I reached home at around 7:30PM, it was cold now. And right now there is high speed winds blowing.
A very nice evening.

Performing self check [no actual system check, only brain thoughts]
Thinking…..
Thinking…..
Evaluating current performance….
Evaluating performance 10 years back….
Evaluating performance 20 years back….
Analyzing…….
Result Generated:

• Muscle Strength : 10%
• Stamina: 2%
• Vision : 6/6
• IQ: 70%
• Reflex action: 60%
• Heart performance: 70%
• Lung performance: 20%
• Stomach performance: 40%
• Digestion Performance: 50%
• Bone strength: 30%
• Abs: 0%
• Hair quality: 60%
• Skin quality: 60%

So if this analysis is to be believed, then things are going real bad. What I was capable of and what I am not shows clearly from the above data. The body is going down badly. I am loosing on physical strength and mental capabilities. And somethings need to be done in order to take care of these. And this needs to be taken care of urgently. So what all precautionary measures need to be taken?

If I go by my nature, I am sure I will not follow on anything until I see results, I am not patient with things and want them fast. So what do I need to do.?

1. I definitely need to start a game, there is  indoor badminton court here  and if Akshay is ready to play a game in the morning, then things can start.
2. I also need to restart playing table tennis everyday in office. I started playing table tennis but then due to work I left it. Bad mistake. So, lets start back on this.
3. Gym, I don’t care what I do, but I should atleast spend sometime there. Good thing I have started this, now I need to be regular at it.
4. Walk: I can go for a walk after dinner. A round or two won’t hurt. I need to take my time out for this.
5. Weekends: I can definitely start going to some hills, forts, caves etc. There are a lot of these around. One per weekend won’t hurt. So here is a to do: Make a list of places to hike to.
   - Ganesh Ji temple near Somtan phata
   - The hill behind Jain temple.
6. Yoga, this is something hard to do, but I do have to start this. Lets start spending 15mins on this everyday and see what happens.
7. Stop eating things which are increasing my paunch size.
8. Drink more water.

These are the things I can start immediately, but for long term I need to do the following:

• Get regular at gym
• Ride alternate weekend on twisties.
• Swimming, I definitely need to learn it.

Lets set a goal and see where I am heading. Probably I can write some code for this health tracking system. Hmm. I guess I would do that. Will start on it from today.

And today, I saw trailer of “Lock On – Platinum”, the things have come so far ahead in terms of graphics, but then again I don’t want to spend a lot on PC so I looked at a cheaper option – consoles. xBox 360 hits the nail. But for me air combat is important so I did some google and found this:

The graphics are simply amazing. And I hope the gameplay is too. I liked the old white xBox but the new one is decent too, it looks something like this:

The new xBox 360 Console

And I might buy one of those small 23″ Montor TV to save desk space