Dad

    Nothing feels better that when you prove your father wrong.   My father is an IITian, and has always been an idealist all his life.  he is very pragmatic and has achieved a lot from his humble beginnings.  Only after i grew up and saw the harshness of the real world , i started to understand him.  After all he is a human with strengths and weaknesses too. Discovering your fathers's weaknesses is not a joy at all   .  But in an attempt of doing so you you discover what has been the thought process of your own existence. We all our an attempt of our parents. most of the time a failure of your parent's dream.   

Friends or Foes

My Dad says -  do not make friends.  they are of no use.  

Lately i have come across some unusual friends.  I have an uncanny habit of making a lot of friends.  But every friend leaves a mark on my thoughts and probably in many ways that i can think of today.      In my unending appetite for sports, i made some friends lately and few are even 10 years younger than me.  These guys are full of energy and i see them really knowledgeable on worldly matters , but they remind me of my past.  Sometime scary. So here is how i see all of them,

1) New friend (owner of a uptown 5000 Sq feet villa , in a posh locality). He is a really busy man.   he is my running friend.

2) India under 18, rank3 swimmer.  high IQ individual.  I call him overgrown brains. he is my swimming buddy.

3) 10 year younger, hyperactive . stay foolish stay hungry kind of a guy.  he wants to be my food buddy.  So today we decided that every weekend we will go out and test new restaurants and new cuisines. Now i would love to have a woman in this role.   what the heck.  till the woman comes in my life.  he is my food buddy.

Other friends i can think of

4) Drink buddy-  this guy prefers to go out with me for movies, drinking and dining. He even ditches his GF for that.  now what is making him do that.  I can tell one thing.  he runs away for those women,  But he gets lots of attention from opposite sex.  but he does not do anything about it. crazy.

5) Chuddy Buddies-  my school time friends who happen to be in the same city as i am.  They are always open for get together.  These days they have been keeping busy with taking care of their wives and producing kids.

I need to  touch base with my tennis and my  football buddies . I just 2 days in the weekends.  Limited hours, limited energy.  hey by the way i bought a guitar this week.   So I will be keeping really busy from now on.     Oh I need to study for my GMAT too.

Out of Gym again. : '(

  Gyming or lets say bodybuilding is a science. Just for the record, i was good in science in school days.  Lately i have realized that it is all about recovery.  The faster you recover the better muscles you make and faster you get them.  You should supplement your body with anything that makes the recovery faster. Sleep is one of them.  You see babies growing so fast.  So probably they build muscles faster because then sleep a lot.  I have read that the most of the babies muscles are not made in the gym but rather when one sleeps.  So a good reason to sleep more .  by the way i love afternoon power naps.  I can do anything to have one of those.  I have even heard in kolkata , all shops are closed after lunch for few hours.