What is the world coming to?

Just when I had thought I had heard the worst possible about mistreating/molesting women, I read this absolute shocker of a news - a man in Bombay was sentenced 10 years for, hold your breath, raping an 18 month old baby!! What kind of a sicko does something like that? (The only good thing about this was the the father of the man helped the cops apprehend his son and eventually his testimony got justice done). But the question is: 10 yrs of imprisonment enough? Will that stop such future acts? What needs to be done to root out this evil? This and many such instances in the past are not a good sign, I fear for the society in general.

And Bombay of all places was considered to be the safest city in India, esp for women and kids to venture out alone even late night! The Marine line's incidence, the new year's even incidence and this one have completely shattered that image.

Too angry to continue, but something on which everyone needs to reflect, I think.

-UV.

3-5-1.5

Well those are the targets for the 3 events comprising an indoor triathlon - 3K rowing, 5 miles biking and 1.5 miles running. On 03/28 we had an indoor triathlon organized by the fitness centre in office. Now, I have been as regular as I can be in going to the gym, but I was hesitant to sign up for the triathlon...thinking being the obvious..."I won't be able to do it!" Didn't sign up till a friend said...Dude going ahead in life it should not happen that one day you feel like doing it and then you are in no condition to do it and then you regret that you didn't do it when you had a chance to! Those words reminded me of my new resolve and I immediately signed up for the non-competitive section!! (gotta be realistic as well ;-) )

I just had a week to prepare for it and on Monday tried each for 10 mins and cud barely manage 50% of the target for each! Tuesday I did just 2 of them and skipped Wednesday :-p Thursday was anyways a recommended rest day :-D Well the day dawned and went to work (bro insisted I don't since my cousins were visiting and he wanted me to take a day off and go with them...little did he know what I had in mind for the evening :-) ) Off to work, which was as usual hectic. The moment of truth (at least for me it was that way) came near and I headed off to the gym .... in a hurry forgot my bottle of water as well...and got ready and was all eager to give it a go...was aiming for a completion time of 45 mins (highly optimistic, but what the heck!) and began with real gusto! Finished the rowing in 14 odd mins .... took a break and started the biking but the going was tough...but I kept pedaling as CNN kept featuring the Democratic race! Got done with biking and moved to the treadmill...by this time my legs were so heavy could barely stand! But kept pushing myself (I had to do it!) and eventually got some momentum going and after 54 mins and 50 seconds had successfully completed my first every attempt at a Triathlon!!

And boy, was the feeling awesome! Contrary to my belief, I was very much alive and able to walk and return the stop watch to the front desk and get my time registered! The sense of achievement was wonderful (didn't matter that I had the worst time of the lot...but it was better than what I knew I might realistically take - 1 hr). I had a tick mark against one more thing to do! And I walked out of the gym feeling fresh, energetic and invigorated!

Next on the list is a marathon! or at least a half-marathon :-)

-uv.

Close call!

Have been meaning to write this since yesterday evening, but could get around to it only now...nearly 40 odd hours after it happened...and am lucky to even be here to write about it! Yesterday morning, as usual, left home for work at a time when the rush hour traffic would have subsided and was cruising along the freeway. Like a tonnes of idiots who drive slowly in the last lane, encountered such a dude in front of me, and decided to move to the lane on the right and pass him....gave my indicator lights and had almost completed the manoeuvre when I realized that the dude on my right was also trying to change lanes (with out giving any indicator!) and almost hit me side on at approx speed of 65mph!! Had to break hard and move back to my original spot (luckily no one was behind me) and honk hard at him to make him realize his stupidity!! He apologized and no damage was done to either of us, but once again reminded me of what I wrote in my previous post...Live each day as if it is your last! and also live in the present moment (easier said than done!). But am now more determined to implement this in life...

till then.........

-uv.

p.s. just read this on another blog..sums it up nicely..

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson