Pakistani Guy

Though I don't really believe in patriotism and shit, I am a born Indian. This happened  in the trip to US, -  I was kind of confused about the NewYork Subway, and decided that I will somehow figure it out. As I put my face into the map and start my search,wishing that I had a Control+F button , I find this old man staring at me. Well, with his wide grin and equally wide smile popping out, he can't be mistaken for anything other than a desi guy.So, I went ahead and asked this guy  about the route, being lazy to search. Well, this guy seemed pretty nice,  gave me an unopened Fanta can - couldn't refuse as I was freaking thirsty-but still for the sake of it refused and finally even  offered to pay. For the next half an hour, he comes with him ,leaving his work and helping me all the way-He even swiped his entry pass for him - at that time,it didnt sound illegal for me -but later wondered what if the cop had caught me- as we did this right in front of him....but anyways he didn't..... He offers me one suggestion which I find a little odd - When in doubt of the route,ask ladies/girls and not men. Finding a disagreeing look on my  face for his weird logic, he proceeds to ask a street vendor(a male) to which he didn't answer.Then, he asked a lady standing near by and she readily helped and what more- this street vendor joins her then in resonating the route...Well, the fanda sounded wierd  but couldn't help thinking about it......

Thank you old man!!!!You rock.

US stint - Week 1

Note: This will not contain any office/work related crap.Its going about the life a

Goa Trip

Continued.........

River Rafting at Bhimeswari

To be posted soon.........

Cycle Ride

This is not the first of my cycle rides, but the first in Benguluru.(aka Bangalore). I have been procrastinating the ride from many days but today I pulled up my body and went for it.Started off at Koramangala, went along the Inner ring road, Airport Road, Marathahalli, Outer Ring Road and back to Koramangala.The Airport road was full of ups and downs and required some power while the outer ring road was relatively flat but the wind was pretty strong there which made that part the toughest of the ride.I took a small break at Marathahalli for some water.(lesson learnt - always carry a waterbottle with you).I covered a total of 22Km in roughly 1.5 hour including the break.On an average, that amounts to 14 km/hr.Not a bad speed for a first time ride that too with no excercise training whatsoever.

I used my Hercules MTB TurboDrive for the ride- a pretty standard bike on the Indian roads.

The following is the pic of the route that I took from walkjogrun.com of my route.

Next weekend,I plan to go on a longer ride, with some conditioning this week.