airtel great delhi run 1 november 2009

ok...this post has been due for over a week now. sincere apologies {as if some was waiting to ready it ;) , but still kehne main kya harz hai :)}

this year it was my first tryst with airtel great delhi run. first time ever i signed up for an event like this. i was hugely apprehensive about signing up for it. though i saw about it way back in sep beginning on the airtel website, n did think about signing up for it {was too idealistic - 2 months shud be sufficient to train n develop strength n all} but as life moved on n i realized that waking up in the morning n going for a jog was not my cup of tea. i thought its wise t0 decide other wise and stay off the event. neither were a couple of my other friends, whom i had asked

but then AK, NS n SM were game for it ans strongly recommended that we all shud be attending it as it wud be a good experience. they strongly suggested that the goodie bag was a good enough incentive to signup {implying that it wud help me break even with the registration fee ;) - bounded rationality of an economist mind i say} so we all sign up with a couple of their friends from office n all.

race day -

with just 2 morning walks to back me up, i decide to walk through the event {walk through as in the literal sense, the two morning walks which were supposed to be jogs made it clear that i cud not run beyond a couple of meters}. better incentive to attend the great delhi run - cud get opportunity to click some pics n pacify the amateur photographer within me.

on race day, we all met - a group of about 10 people, exchanged pleasantries with the new people n there we were all set for the great delhi run.

things went as per plan - i was comfortably walking, cliking pics of people {moslty 'backs n bums' as i wud like to put it- no offences meant - i was focusing of the messages people had on their shirts.} was good to see people come to gather for some cause. many of the runners belong to my category - here for photographic pleasure - click or be clicked whichever.

i soon got seperated form my gang as would stop every now n then to click a pic n then i wud loose track of where they r. so there i was alone n in bliss, clicking pics n all, thinking about captions for them et al. but was fun, really enjoyed it.

one sad sight was the litter we participants had created the holding area. that was a sorry sight, a real dampener :(

event pics

http://picasaweb.google.com/joseph.nishal/AirtelGreatDelhiRun1November2009#

i did post the link for the pics on the various communities. did get some good reviews as well :)

interesting phrases from chetan bhagat novels

my compilation of interesting phrases from chetan bhagat noves - moslty - one night at call center and three mistakes {was too lazy while reading five point someone to jot these phrases down ;. but will skim it once again someday for the phrases. pakka :)}

• we were talking but there was no conversations
• 'xyz' look
• blind snake - feel sorry of it is blind but still it is a poisonous snake.
• i dont knw whats awful - a shouting girl or a crying one. i am bad at handling either
• she stopped crying after 70 seconds, around the same time any girl would stop crying if you ignore her.
• 'xyz' poof as in bullet proof - indifferent to something
• female telepathic network
• something sizzles inside the way they fry french fries at McDs
• eyetalk
• for breakup, location takes priority over ambiance
• larger scheme & normal scheme
• rounding error
• pause for effect
• inner voice had lost its volume
• life is an optimization problem with tons of variables and constraints
• ranked x among the top 10 y
• one of the decent things happened to me in the past one month.

once in a blue moon

today after church we were discussing about names given to our music instruments. it all started with ashish askin shruti about her recently acquired keyboard christened micheal. ashish's guitar is named job. all the instruments we have have some name

that set me thinking what name shud i give to my guitar, which is almost a year old now but is just 1 song old yet.

BLUE MOON - it striked me. what better name can i give it, given the fact that i play it once in a blue moon.

need to change the situation ASAP...