Monday, March 01, 2010

Weight Testing

I’m one of those who have walked this earth carrying different weights at different times.
I was born as a plump kid (8.5 pounds), but was on the lean side all the way till thirteen then tides turned and steadily gaining weight till seventeen. When I finished my school I weighed 88kgs. I’m not tall at all. I’m somewhere between 5 feet 10 inches or 11 and with 88kgs I was nothing less than SUPER FAT.

It was not until I joined college in 1996 where I started losing and went back to 69kgs by 1999. – thanks to basketball and no money to eat food (everything spent on booze, smokes and fun).

But, the weight problem did not leave me, soon after I started earning and spending every second day dining out (off course meals were severed with few pints of beer) and it was not long that I reached my 85kgs mark.

The point is – I never paid attention to either food or the weight. I was too busy enjoying life.

Here is 2010 and I have been gaining weight steadily for the last decade.
With a 1 ½ year old kid and a beautiful wife, I’m not getting any younger and I think It is finally time give it up once in for all (iss dharti pe thoda boj kam ho)
28th of Feb 2010 – I weigh 93Kgs and not happy with my health and I have decided to lose weight, keep an eye on this page for frequent updates and status updates.

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Monday, February 01, 2010

Sunday, January 03, 2010

All izz well

2nd Jan 2010. After almost 18 months, living in Redmond, wife and I went out for a Movie in a movie theater. Our 15 month old Aryan behaved well and slept throughout for the 9.30PM show of "3 Idiots".

What can I say, I'm not a big bollywood fan, but of late have been by some good movies. 3 Idiots was simply outstanding, I do not remember when was the last I was so thoroughly entertained by a Hindi movie, maybe it was "Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar".

Probably the first time, I wanted the movie should not end and just carry on. It brought back so many memories of my college days (1997-98-99).

Kudos to the film production team and the actors, you guys deserve a standing ovation.

Saturday, January 02, 2010

Welcome back Me,

After over a year of taking a break from blogging, forum posting, virtual networking etc, I welcome myself back.

Before picking brains on some interesting things, this post is about listing things worth listing that happened to me since last time I blogged. In no particular order:


  • I gained 12 pounds. (Too much beer and cheese, must cut down on it), I’m now 30 + and time to start taking health a bit more seriously :)

  • I changed my day job from making and shipping games, called production, to research and prototyping new game ideas, called Incubation.

  • My son, started to sit, crawl, walk, run, talk and break everything that he can.

  • Travelled to India and spent time in Jaipur, Delhi, Bhopal, Dibrugarh and Calcutta, celebrated my son’s first birthday with his grandparents (both mines and Tanu’s side of parents)

  • I played 19 Xbox 360 games and out of that completed 9 of them earning only 1890 gamer score. Batman Arkum Ayslum, Trials HD, Shadow Complex, Forza 3 and COD MF 2 were some of the games that stood out.

  • Still did not buy a PS3, will wait for God of War 3 to release.

  • Repaired a broken toilet, a broken tap, a broken door knob and a broken toy

  • Learnt how to clean the house more effectively, this one deserves a full article for itself. More later

  • Added 7 new board games to my collection. Stone Age still being my all time favorite.

  • Formatted and clean installed my laptop with 6 different Win 7 builds, while it was in development. In process became a fan of the OS. “Bagwan ke ghar der hai, andher nahi”, Finally Microsoft shipped an OS (other than XP, SP2) that I think is worth being called an OS.

  • Did not change my mobile phone, still using Blackjack (Samsung), yes not using an I-Phone :)

  • Only watched 1 movie in a movie theater.