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.

20080901-20080907

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!

2008013-2008017

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 !

20080810

Gym.

Spl lunch @ Uncles

The almost-lost last test match b'n IND and SRI.

Dinner @ Orient Spaghetti

Successfully FOUND NEMO.

20080809

Sat.

Gym.

Library.

Completed 'Fathers and Sons' by Ivan Turgenev . Quite fascinating. Set in 19th century Russia; it is a description of the friction of generations. The tradition-respecting fathers ( Slavophiles) and the nonconforming sons (Nihilists). The hero, Yevgeny Bazarov is said to be the first Bolshevik and the first ever angry young man caricature.

ఈత.

నకానో ముఖ్య గ్రంథాలయానికి దగ్గర్లోనే ఒక ఈత కొలను ఉంది.
గంట కి 200 యెన్లు. మన బరువున్న వస్తువు తేలాలి అంటే భౌతిక శాస్త్ర పరంగా కొంచెం కష్టమైన విషయమే. ఉపరితలం పైన ఉండటానికి నా తరుపున నేను ప్రయత్నిస్తుంటే నీట్లో ఒక మనిషి తగిలాడు. చూట్టానికి జపనీయుడు లా ఉన్నా, వెనుకన పిలక ఉండటం నాకు ఒకింత ఆశ్చర్యచకితున్ని చేసింది. నాకు ఈత నేర్పించడానికి చాలా ప్రయత్నించి ; చివరికి దీపం (light) తీస్కున్నాడు. అతని పేరు నితై ఉరఫ్ నిత్యానంద్ దాస్. స్ఠానిక ISKCON గుడి నిర్వాహకుడు. రమ్మని ఆహ్వానించాడు. మనకీ దేవుడికీ పెద్ద పడకపోయినా , సరే అని చెప్పి బయల్దేరాం. అతని చతుశ్చక్ర వాహనమంతా పుస్తకాలు, కేరియర్లతో నిండిపోయింది. ప్రసాదానికి ఫికర్ చెయ్యనక్కర్లేదని అప్పుడే తెల్సిపోయింది. సదరు మందిరం కార్పోరేషన్ లెక్కల్లో ఒక ఫ్లాటు. లోపలికెల్లి పరిసరాలను పరికించి, ప్రసాదాన్ని భుజించి, ప్రేమ స్వరూపుడైన ఆ భగవంతున్ని భజించి (ఇది అబద్ధం) తిరుగు ప్రయానం మొదలపెట్టాం.Ochiai నించి వాకింగ్ చేసి వచ్చేసాం.

రాత్రి క్లాక్ టవర్ దగ్గర ఒక గంట దాక సమయ సం హారం చేసి గ్రుహముఖులమయ్యాం.

20080808

The 8-8-8 day !
And the Old-limp-eeks day !!

Wt : 84.95 K

Lunch @ Lotus Moon (Chinese) near Tokyo station

Dinner @ Uncle Tom's Cabin

20080807

more than half a kilo hike :(

84.75 KGs

shd b lesser tomorrow. less c

Lunch @ Dharmasagara
Only extra rice, no extra puri :) Good improvement thr!

20080806

Wt : 84.2 K

Age: 26.0x

Lunch @ Nirvanam.

Just had heavy dinner - expecting a rough and tough trough in morrow's weight graph ...

20080805

Got up at improbable hour of 0630.

0700-0830 GYM.

Wt --> 84.95 K

Lunch @ Mc.Donald's

20080804

Rough day.

Lost my valet to start with. Found .

Missed gym this evening, due to some unforeseen professional circumstances.

Remember, great people has this habit of converting adversities to opportunities;
I am taking this as a wake-up call to wake-up in the morning and tread the treadmill.

Lunch @ Samosa

20080803

Sunday.

Wt @ 84.6 KGs

Time Pass @

• Hibiya International Forum : Flee market is closed by the time we went :( as expected
  
• BIC Camera

20080802

Grave misunderstanding...

The MENU which Sato-san was talking about is the exercise menu and not Food menu, as you mite have thought. The order gets taller.

A cute m/c was employed to calculate my total body fat to be a brute 30.3% , a cool 10% more than the mean normal average value that can be found in a mean normal average body.

Weight - 84.2 Kilos

A record of sorts today; Both meals @ home !
Pulihora for lunch , Brinjal + Tomato + Capsicum curry for dinner.

Started watching Wall-E afternoon but slept half way through , thereby missing the chance to view another hanabi ( fireworks) in Tokyo.

The post lunch seista can also be attributed to the menacing disturbance from upstairs while your narrator is having a peaceful weekend sleep this morning.

20080801

Ring in the new..
Welcome August

Lunch @ DS - Xtra Puri & Xtra Rice have become the norm rather than exception

Wt- 84.7 Kgs

Confronted the only English speaking Gold's Gym instructor on the issue of no mutational weight reduction. He said he will come up with a Food Plan ( I avoided the word DIET consciously :)

Certainly - not looking fwd to that

Dinner @ 1:30 with Egg Burji ( partially played the role of chef, of course with instructions from our chief-chef)

20080731

మధ్యాహ్న భోజనం - ది తాజ్ ( మా వ్యాపార జట్టు లో ఇద్దరు నిపుణులికి ఈ రోజే కార్యాలయం లో ఆఖరి దినం. అందువల్ల మా జట్టంతా కలిసి ...)

బరువు - 84.5 కిలోలు (వ్యాయామం తరువాత)

చదువు - ఇవాన్ టర్గనేవ్ చేత 1860 ల లో రచించబడిన "ఫాదర్స్ అండ్ సన్స్"

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జూలై అంతా జులాయిగా ఐపోయింది

వచ్చే నెల మళ్ళీ కలుద్దాం

అంత వరకూ సెలవు - నమస్కారం

20080730

Everythin went wrong today.. well ..almost..

To start with, its past 9 , by the time I was ready, owing to some external factors.
Then, I started to ofc, only to forget one of my things @ home, now then, I forgot what I forgot. Anyways, thats beyond the point.

Lunch @ Nirvanam; Biryani is not up to the mark, but could not resist eating till the necks (పీకల దాకా).

Weight : NULL

Busy till 2230 running an SQL (Slow Query Language). It ran (forever) like an Ethiopian marathon athlete in Athens Olympics. And in the end; it ran out of memory; Most probably, it forgot for what it actually set out for. We also ran out of - patience and then - office.

Dinner is CFR @ Uncle Tom's Cabin

Just coming back from a long and meaningless walk @ this unearthly/extra-terrestrial hour

20080729

Lunch @ DS Xtra Puri, Xtra Rice :(

Weight @ 84.9 [post-gym]

Short Stories by Junichiro Tanizaki - Completed

20080728

Weight-o-meter : 84.65

mainly bcoz of Lunch @ 8F

Final Destination II : Almost xerox cp of FD I, with the deaths being more bizarre

20080727

Started A cat, a man and two women
Originally written in Junichiro Tanizaki ( supposed to be one of the major Jap writers ) ; x-lated by Paul McCarthy

Went to Nishi Kasai in search of a bigger abode.
Arakawa-san showed us around an apartment; with a perfect view of a base-ball diamond.

Visited Narasimaha-anna at his home in NK, what followed is a steady input stream - రవ్వ లడ్డు, మామిడి తాండ్ర, mixture (కారా), pine-apple and పకోడి.

Result --> 85.65 (Pre-Gym)

20080726

Day starts , rather differently for a weekend, @ 10

A clockwork orange

Post Gym Wt. 84.25 [ Almost emptummy]

Lunch n Dinner : MI - Minami Indo

Bridget Jones Diary Book n Movie done.

Fireworks - Akasaka - River Sumida - Supposed to be Japan's best(for loss of words)

20080725

Current wt: 85.75 Kgs - post-gym, pre-dinner

Lunch : DS - Dharmasagara - Extra Puri and Rice, but walked 3 stations all the way back to ofc !

Successfully reached the safe side of a rather short work week.

Nadir of the day : Sachin Tendulkar Out ; Bowled by Muttu :( :(

20080724

Location: Tokyo

Weight: 84.85 Kgs only (post gym)

Lunch: DI - Dhaba India

Watch : Krishna

Read : Bridget Jones' diary - Yuck.. Not enough decency to not venture into other people's personal artefacts.

Post is inspired from BJD itself.

Quick Hi.
Hi.

The Chronicles of Scorpio

After a short hiatus of 10 months, the bugger is back on the blogger!

As a writer(??) I ran out of literary forms before I stopped to explore the CHRONICLE and here is the devastating result.



Friday, the 14th of March,2007


3:30 PM - Starated at Office on a Scorpio with approximately 10 KGs of solid stuff and 10 litres of liquids (strictly veg liquids) from the aptly renamed MORE store.


5:00 PM - Reached the outskirts - Sonia Gandhi coming to inaugarate the Shamsabad Rajiv Gandhi/Indira Gandhi/Sanjay Gandhi International Airport did not exactly hurried up our proceedings.
Office Gossip.


7:30 PM - Reached Suryapet.Chai.
Antyaakshari interpersed every now with the question - "By the time we reach there meals will be there or not?"


10:30 PM - Reached Kankipadu ( A SMALL VILLAGE as Kota refers to in that legendary episode in MONEY - precursor to the BHADRAM BE CAREFUL BROTHERU song).


Hunt for Kaluvapamula ( venue of the marriage) starts. Its on the way to Gudiwada. First we overshot the target and about to land in another village called Vanapamula. Incidentally there is another village nearby called Kaaturu.No, though the names of the places suggest that might be NagaLokam, we assure you we were stil in Bhoolokam. Back we come and with some guidance enter the original place of interest.



As the bride was busy getting married and not even lifting her head, we head for the all important MEALS.Think you can expect what followed.I only hope the people out there dont know anything about Somalia. Met the bride and groom.Start off for a quick detour of the village. More than anything else, the grandeur of the buildings stuck. Nice cosy independent houses.Not any rat-holes of appartments.As we move towards one end of the village, we find a huge Banyan tree which reminded us of OODALA MARRI a horror progam on TV9.Jump to the other end (the one through which we entered the village). we sat down at the KANA. I dont know what they call it in English, CULVERT probably. You may say it is a sin for a son of a civil engineer to not know about this; but as far as my dad does not know anything about configuring a connection manager in a SQL Server Integration Services package, I am above blame.


More discussion on some office characters. I have given my all time hate-most list of people I worked with. I am sure I would be on most of my colleagues' similar compilations. But that is beyond the scope of the current chronicle. So you better dont think about it.


Back to Marriage Hall. Acco provided in a nearby village MUDUNURU.Slept.Woke up to the arresting aroma of Idlies and coffee.


[ A dialog which would make sense to only those SCORPIOns - ' Inkenti BOBBY viseshaalu?' ]

Saturday, the 15th of March,2007

6:30 AM : Start off to Vizag via Gudiwada


9:30 AM : Dropped off a colleague at TUNI


10:30 AM: Reached MURARI. Chai.


1:00 PM: Hit Vizag roads.


2:00 PM: Check in a hotel.Fresh up. Watch a bit of SD MBBS.


2:30 PM: Deccan Inn. white rice with VANJIRAM PULUSU and Prawns fry.


3:30 PM: Change to shorter costumes aka shorts and hit the Rama Krishna Beach. More sand, less water.The Mughal Army fought with its enemy waves hard and tough till 7:00 PM and then went on to bring light into the life of a BAJJI vendor with bulk buyouts.


8:00 PM: Kailasagiri.Nice panoramic view of the city of destiny.Some snaps with Mr.Lord Shiva and his family.


10:00 PM: Daspalla. Crabs.


11:00 PM: Hit the sack.


Sunday, the 16th of March,2007

9:00 AM : Wake up. Fresh up. Pack up.


10:30 AM : Kambalkonda Environment Park. Boat ride.


12:00 PM : Zoo.


We saw Monkeys,Babboons,Puma,Tigers,White tiger,Lions,Bears.All of them ignored or rather chose not to acknowledge our arrival and subsequent presence. How mean and inhuman of the animals.


Then we had an encounter of third kind. We saw an alien. Atleast we thought so when we saw. Some non geometrical organic object pecking at a trunk of a tree. Hold your odourous breath; what we saw are the jaws of a jumbo hippo. For the next 15 minutes it kept on pecking/hitting/slamming/... at that trunk and then the inevitable happened in the 16th minute. we lost our patience and moved away.


We went on to see Starred Turtles,Python,Rattle Snake,Deers,Beers,Bisons,Foxes and Vixens.you dead-head, Just checking out your concentration. And you failed miserably.FYI,Beer is a beverage not an animal.


Then to Emu, which is famous, as for as I am considered, for its meat. After that we enter a cave of nacromantic and not-so-romantic creatures like owls, jungle cats, porcupines etc. We had a guide accompanying us for this leg.


Onto some Alligators,Crocodiles.we caught them having lunch. As we are busy counting their number, the croc-man ( caretaker) jumped into the arena with a bucket and a long stick. With his staff he prodded open the mouth of the creature. With pin-ball precision he threw a chunk of meat into the aperture. The poor animal wanted more and kept its mouth wide-open; but the old man moved on to the next reptile.


All through this, we saw some animals out in the open;People hurling stones and sticks at the animals irrevarant of the innumerable warnings pasted all around the park.


How about that for a sentimental touch to the post!


4:30 PM : Pickup the driver from the hotel. Off to Rishikonda Beach. Less sand more water. Patrolling guys come up saying the beach is closed (?) at 5:30. Hide and seek with them.More play. An excursion into the sea on a row-boat with life jackets.


8:00 PM : Time for friends. Time for dinner. Daspalla again. Crabs again.


9:30 PM : Return kick-off


11:00 PM : In the midst of a violent outburst of vocal local music, we made a disturbing Observation ; our driver is sleeping with our Scorpio on NH5, his hands on the steering and eye lids firmly stamped on his eyeballs. A horrific sight. Followed by a long discussion. KCR, YSR, CBN,Jana Reddy, Kishan Reddy and last but nowhere the least Megastar entered and left our arguments with the driver.


Monday, the 17th of March,2007


10:30 AM : Rinzim Rinzim HYDERABAD


Note: Almost all the TIMINGS mentioned are wrong.