20080908-20080915

Monday but holiday.

Keiro-no-Hi - Respect for the Aged - Day
Respect or not ; its the holiday that matters

Going to an older monday in this period;
M - Chinese @ Roppongi - Forgot the name of the dish and that of the restaurant. But its spicy n good.
Tu - Jewel of Indian @ Roppongi
W - Nirvanam
Th - Office Canteen
F - Office Canteen
Sa - Noodles & Noodles
Su - Noodles & Chicken Biryani @ Uncle's
M - Chicken Fried Rice @ Uncle's

Sujata Massey Bride's Kimono is on the reading table.
Covered some more of Brando's auto-bio today at library.
After a looong 3-day break to gym, I am weighing more or less the same.

This week is topsy-turvy on the health side. A seasonal change effected a cold and mild fever towards friday. Missed a gym session for the first time in over 2 months. And was on the brink of pulling out from a planned trip ; when impossibility of cancellation of train tickets deemed it impossible.

So saturday... Nakano -> Shinjuku -> Matsumoto -> Shin shimashima -> Kamikochi
A scenic hilly area in the belt of Northern Japan Alps as christened by a christian priest Reverend Walter Weston. We reached Kamikochi bus station around noon, had some bland noodles in the station complex, started off to Kappa-bashi ( bashi = bridge ) on our way to the Alps Hotel. About to start again for Myojin pond; when rain also started off. Determined and equipped with umbrellas and torch lights we set off into the woods. Back in our huts ; we decided to check out the common kitchen for the campers. There we set up a fire and were having a GOOD time when off went the lights @ 9 PM; this we were warned about by a Jap gang who had a fireplace by our side and who lent us the bootable fire ( if you can call that that). Had our dinner in the dark or rather in the light of the fire wood. Good night's deserving sleep. Sunday, we targeted the other places in Kamikochi, some bridges, Weston Relief. Bus to Norikura. Waterfall. Lunch. Another jungle trail for Ichinosen. 5 PM . Start back to Tokyo.

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Mon - Italian @ Bravo, Hibiya
Tue, Thu, Fri - Office Canteen - Guess this is a record in itself. Thrice in a single week.
A Wednesday is incomplete without Nirvanam.

(Just added "Nirvanam" to the dictionary!)

On the weight front, going great for now...
Broke the 83 barrier to weigh a neat 82.8 today...
But again, lets see if this holds. Also that is the weight post workout on a Sunday morning.
So what you see is sometimes not what you get.

Watched Casino Royale.
Through with 'Forrest Gump' book. Extraordinary stuff.

20080825-20080831

Last week of August...

Megastar making a superb entry with that memorable public meeting @ Tirupati
Fast come and Long live PRAJAA RAAJYAM.

India won the ODI series in LANKA.

Coming to a personal and personality front..

the hope dint hold ; wgt is up and now @ a 84.2 ; fat content = 29.9 % :(
all this after visiting gym with alarming (alarm rings @ 6:30 every work morning) regularity !

Mon,Tue,Fri - DharmaSagara - a record of sorts - I vow i wont have even a single bite there this coming week -
Wed - Nirvanam
Thu - Bravo

Yday watched the SAMBA dance @ Asakusa. Quite a spectacle.

Through with the Scenes from the Japanese Lives; started with FORREST GUMP. Watched the movie when in ENGG.

Just one movie this week - Miss Little Sunshine.

20080818-20080824

Looong week..

Mon,Wed - Nirvanam
Tue ,Thu - DS
Fri -
Lunch @ Italian @ Bravo
Dinner(?) Zest

Sat - Woke up @ Noon - Egg Plant Fry & Eggs - Gym - Dinner @ Uncle's -
Kathanayakudu antha Ullaasamgaa Utsaahamgaa ledu.

Sun - Woke up @ Noon - Gym - Fat content hovering over 30% again.. :(
Though the weight touched its low point in quite some time at 83.95. Lets c if it holds.
- Lunch @ Papera
- Spent 1.5 hrs in Nakano City Central Library. Flipping through Marlon Brando - The songs my my mother taught me.

Completed False Impression this week and got started with Geisha, Gangster, Neighbor, Nun - Scenes from the Japanese Lives , by Donald Richie.

- Dinner - Taco Salad + Fried Chicken @ Coco's

As I blog, IND is winning the ODI 3 with SL and Beijing is over!

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13th. Nirvanam.

14th. Dharmasagar

15th. Celebrated Indian Independence day with Italian food @ Hibiya
Dinner @ Uncle's

16th. Gym.Uncle's.
Pizza(hut) snack :)
Jambalaya @ Coco's for Dinner

17th. Jog scheduled for 7 AM ; postponed to 10 AM.

No lunch, as , Dark Knight @ Wald9 Cinema

Grabbed a chicken kebab in Shinzuku. The kebabur says he hails from the native place of
Mohammad Jalaluddin Babur , Uzbekistan.

Prep'd some upma using instant mix.

Just wacthed --- Megastar's political arangetram on TV9!

All the very best !

20080812

GYM

TAJ

Note that the weight is not being updated daily due to the blogger's realization that weight is not the index to be looked at, but fat % ( view being put fwd by our Gold's Gym trainer - Sato-san).

The first target is to get it under 30 !!

20080811

First weekday :(

Gold's Gym and my physical activity are closed for today!

Lunch @ Nirvanam Idly, Bonda

Started Jeffrey Archer's FALSE IMPRESSION.

HARE RAM !