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Count your steps (and blessings)

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Alright… Ignore the blessings bit for a while, but let’s talk about steps first! I have been monitoring my steps for a few years now and have had really good days and poor ones too… However after a while steps became a part of my daily routines, and I did not really have to make any special efforts to get to (about) 10000 steps a day! the days I was going to office, 10000 steps were happening by default. The days I was working from home, I would have to make some effort and get walking!

What I have realised over these years is that step count does not make any sense if at least 40% of this is not coming from a dedicated walk. 10000 steps roughly comes to about 8kms, and 40% of that is about 3.2 kms. So what you gotta do is do about 3.5kms of a walk to make it really count… anything more than that is a bonus on top of your 10000 steps!

And now the blessings part… Please be thankful that you are able to walk and run!

Get walking….

CTRL Z and NOT, with Pictures…

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You want attention, and love… you don’t get it…

You realize that you are being a leech, you back off and someone “now” realizes that you should get the attention… funny…

And this happens only after the critical balance is lost, which was never met… wish there were come CTRL Z buttons in real life too…

On the other hand, I am thankful there are none, because I have a strong faith in the fact that while you think there is something going wrong.. there is something else which is only getting better !!!

like my days in London… After I have shifted to london, I have been busy.. with friends, walking around, talking, taking pictures, buying stuff, and clicking with the stuff I bought… very interesting…

Last Saturday, the shopkeeper even offered me a Lens Reviewer Job… he gives me a new lens.. i use it, and review it and post the review… Very interesting, though it requires me to study a bit which I would soon…

Some of the other non CTRL-Z moments, minutes, hours were spent over the last two weeks that involved walking around some parts of London in no hurry…

Went to the O2 Arena last weekend, and this weekend walking around Covent Gardens, Trafalgar Square (for Chinese New Year Celebrations) and British Museum ( yes, yet again :); its high time I dump this blog with loads of pictures from there…soon)

I have a li’il too much to write about and that is making writing difficult so the best way out is to leave right now with loads of pictures… enjoy London the way I am doing…

Some pictures from a visit to O2 Arena…

The ticket counter of the show Afrikai Afrikai
The two crazy people in London who are my life lines right now…
Some pictures from the Chinese New Year celebrations

And a few random pictures that I kinda like…

Vandalism (Not too uncommon a sight all around London)
The Escalators @ Canary Wharf Underground Station
Bow Church Station
My savings 😀 after the lenses… I am playing in Penny and a few pounds 😀
A “Visit Canada” kiosk in Canary Wharf Area…
Vodka tastes better if you put in some lime slices and a slice of Orange in it…
My Desktop wallpaper these days.. another still of the same glass as above…
ME 🙂 Looking a li’il extra red because of the warm lamp above me…

keep walking..

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Happiness…

is

Music

specially when you are walking

on a road

which has minimum traffic

in a weather

which is cold and wet but its not raining

and you are hit

by wind on your face… lets call it cold breeze for pleasure 🙂

and रफी साहब sings

गम और ख़ुशी मे फर्क न महसूस हो जहाँ
मैं dil को उस मुकाम पे लाता चला गया

(Gham aur Khushi Mein Fark Na Mehsoos ho Jahan
Main Dil ko Us Mukaam Pe Laata Chala Gaya)

I was smiling throughout my walk today i guess…

Thanks to

Manna डे who sung… आयो कहाँ से घनश्याम
Kishor दा who sung… एक हसीना थी एक दीवाना था
and a few other lovely singers who gave me company…

aaj maza aa gaya… sach !!!

ello… ek aur mast gaana…

jihal-e-masti mukun baranjish
Bahale hijraan bechaara dil hai…

sunai deti hai jiski dhadkan
tumhaara dil ya hamara dil hai…

wo aake pehlu mein aise beithe
ke shaam rangeeen ho gai hai…

zara zara si khili tabiyat
zara si gamgeen ho gai hai…

aisee evening ke liye clapping !!!!

God bless

Walking with myself…

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Walking is a nice thing to do…

depending on how you’d like it lets you talk to yourself, sing to yourself, be quiet, be sad or be happy or whatever…

or you may just walk…

i did… primarily because i was feeling too restless in my room yesterday… it was very warm and cozy, and probably thats exactly what i did not want at that time… so i picked up my jacket, the phones ( which i will not when i go out for a walk now, probably) and went out..

walked for about an hour before i came back… and in a much better shape mentally than before.. i could appreciate that warmth in the room better now… and was feeling more at ease as well…

realised:

that i can humm one song for about an hour… and when i attempt to change the track, i will get back to the original within 5 minutes…

that i need a music player with all my favorite oldies.. somehow when i am alone, the new songs don’t strike that chord that the oldies do.. maybe because i can sing along better.. whatever…

that i could resist the temptation of looking at my cell for a while… the first half i just kept looking at if off and on again… dunno what was i waiting for… but maybe i needed something to break that silence, before i got to terms with it…

and that walking helps you with acidity too 🙂

i hope i can gather enough courage to change clothes and get out of my room again tonight… its getting real cold these days here… as low as 0 degs which is predicted for today… right now my igoogle says that the temprature is around 8 degs outside…