19 May
2013
17 May
2013
10K
After a long time, put in a 10K run on a workday. Also, after years, listened to music all the way. I know there are strong supporters and equally strong detractors of listening to music and not being alert while running. It did keep me distracted though and the miles came be more easily than usual.
15 May
2013
Struggling sun
15 May
2013
The land of Pyramids, the Sphinx and errrrr.. bikini?
Ever heard of the constant rife, sectarian violence and prospect of civil war in Egypt? Well, guess what – in a sudden urge to do his duty, the tourism minister of Egypt has appealed to the world to visit Egypt. His lure? You can’t make this up… in an English interview to The Guardian, Hisham Zazou, the aforementioned tourism minister, said “Bikinis are welcome in Egypt and booze is still being served.”
You think he might be in “de Nile”? 🙂
13 May
2013
Explaining the obvious…
12 May
2013
Great start to a day
Sunday morning run with my Bengali friends – the old Faithfuls – Amitesh, Arup and Samaresh. And then, of course “coffee aar adda” (Starbucks and chatting). Although, Samaresh did bail out of the coffee. There is something to be said about that. For, as a community, we the Bengalis, are not exactly known for prioritizing running over “coffee aar adda” 🙂 In fact, we have a very famous Bengali song about a coffeehouse in Kolkata but none about running 🙂 [Strictly speaking, there is a famous song about Runner – but in Bengali in those days – it meant ‘the postman’ – when mail was delivered by human beings running from village to village]
10 May
2013
This trip’s puzzle
Long coast to coast flight now 🙁 Here is something to keep you busy as I take a nap 🙂
Once again, send me personal message on FB if you have the answer – not in the Comments section.
Last week was my elder daughter (Natasha)’s fifteenth birthday. She had a bunch of school friends over for dinner and sleepover. The shrill decibel levels with a dozen teenagers at our house was enough for the dog to sleep most of the time outside our house 🙂 But I digress. One of her friend’s mom has a cupcake business and we were glad to give her some business. Her standard packagings were 6 cupcakes to a packet, 9 cupcakes to a packet and 20 cupcakes to a packet. We ordered 60 and she delivered 3 packets of 20 each.
Which leads me to my question – what is the maximum number of cupcakes we could have ordered that she would not have been able to fit neatly in her packets? (e.g. 17 cupcakes would be impossible to neatly fit in her packets – there will be some leftovers. I am looking for the highest number that would not fit in her 6/9/20 packet combinations)
10 May
2013
Al Gore
“According to Forbes magazine, Al Gore is now worth more than $200 million. This is what Gore meant when he talked about going green.” –Jay Leno
By the way, Gore, in real life is a very funny (and self-deprecating) guy. There is an interview of him by Peter Segal (Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me) that is outrageously funny. If you wish to hear it check out the Apr 20th podcast.
My favorite – Al Gore claims that he is so stiff and boring that the codename (when he was VP) given by Secret Service was …….. “Al Gore” 🙂
10 May
2013
SFO airport
9 May
2013
Double trouble! Actually double fun!!
Meeting up with old friends during business travel? Awesome!!
Running in different beautiful places during business travel? Super awesome!!!
Running with old friends that you don’t meet often in beautiful places during business travel – Priceless!!!
Realizing you have overbooked yourself by promising two different friends to meet up after a long time and run in the same morning? A little crazy 🙂
A very early morning 5K run with good old Neal near the Golden Bridge and then another 5K with Ananya at Crystal Springs trail. Both were unbelievably beautiful run!!
For all that craziness, I did keep up with both of them thru the whole run – each 12-15 years younger than me! I bet you though they have far lesser number of body parts hurting through the whole day 🙂
