16 December 2012

Pope tweets

At one time, the church considered Galileo’s theory of the earth moving around the sun as blasphemy. Today, the pope sent a Twitter message! Somewhere God must be texting “LOL” 🙂

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16 December 2012

Pentagon

“The Pentagon is preparing for massive budget cuts in the event that the country does go over the fiscal cliff. You can tell the Pentagon is scaling back because today it became the ‘Triangle.'” –Jimmy Fallon

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16 December 2012

The Sunday trio…

Sunday morning Bengali run. We switched to our traditional winter starting spot. It is a mile and half of straight going down and unfortunately, back 😉 The three traditional members – Amitesh, Samaresh and myself showed up together after almost two months….

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15 December 2012

Hill runs..

The effect of the hills were very evident. 5 miles took almost 5 more minutes to finish. They were pretty steep hills. The downward slope were very punishing on the knees. I think I still need to master the barefoot running foot falls….

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12 December 2012

After twenty years!!!

It might be a lot of fun to ride in a one horse open sleigh but let me tell you what is more fun: Meeting up with somebody I worked with twenty years back!! And we met by running together for a few miles early in the dark morning in Central Park, New York!! The Starbucks after that was extra special as I caught up with the fascinating twenty year journey of Sourabh Banerji. Always feel special to count such successful professionals and genuine human beings as my friends.

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11 December 2012

Oh! My kingdom for a pair of gloves!!

Winter is a wonderful instrument to sharpen your memory. Today, it drilled into my memory cells that I should not forget my gloves when running in the thirties. Boy oh! Boy. The light wind did not help either. After 5 miles of brisk running, I had to run inside the Starbucks bathroom and run warm water in my hands for about five minutes to get senses back in my fingers. The thumbnails hurt real bad. Just to be safe, I am going to keep an extra set of gloves in my car now. Other than that, a nice enjoyable run. Good chance I might put in a run in Central Park tomorrow.

7 December 2012

And she is jealous of what????

This morning Nikita grudgingly got up from bed to go to school. The first thing she mumbled after getting up was “I want to sleep some more. I am so jealous of the blacks”. My jaw nearly fell. I was like – What on God’s green earth are you talking about? Eventually, it did dawn upon me that she is doing a project on Rosa Parks in school when, half way to the bathroom, she mentioned that during the segregation period in this country, blacks could go to school only for five months!!
Classic!

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