Its Day 7

Still no signs of me getting back on track. Standing for department election and I am so passive, not going out to meet others to talk on various issues. Though, campaign starts tomorrow or so. Haven't ever done any campaigning and also two more in my opposition, hard to fight and win back.Some small or big politics certainly going around here. Just need to wait and watch the pages unfold by next Saturday.

Day 4 and 5

The two days were bit hectic but fantastic. Didnt go for running or any exercise at all.

Monday I saw a play Piya Behrupiya, Shakespeares play translated in Hindi. Tuesday was industrial visit day. Visited Mahindra and Mahindra, NEC and also Sula Wines ;) Wednesday I stayed back in hostel and did nothing great as such. Waiting for my friend, have some academic work with him.

Thats all for now, hope to restart again from tomorrow ie 27th March 2014.

Day 3

Woke up early but slept again. No breathing exercise and no running. Don't have time in the evening too. There is a quiz in couple of hours and I am so worried. Didn't prepare well, hope it goes nice. Then there is also Shakespeare's play translated in Hindi tonight in IIT. Its called Piya Behrupiya.

There is also an industrial visit of our department in Nashik. Busy day again. Just need to be little patient. I dont have to be much critical about myself, I need to understand that it is very much okay to miss out couple of training days. Once in rhythm, then I need to be regular, desperately waiting for end sem and my RA duty to get over. Catch up with me tomorrow, may be from bus.

Day 2 and its Sunday

Waking up at 5.30am on a Sunday. Since the German classes, waking up early on Saturday and Sunday is no big deal at all. Ran two rounds from home to Sambhaji, about 4.8kms. I took some 28 mins, this pace is same as I had three months back when I started running. My personal best on this route is 12mins, and today it was 14 mins. Only positive take away today was less breathlessness. Was well in control of my breathe and hardly got tired. Speed will eventually increase soon.

Gonna meet my crush today evening. Also there is PAF (Performing Art Festival) in IITB. Aamir Khan is coming today at 11 am in campus to watch Satyameva Jayate with us and then have an interaction session, I am skipping that. I may go for cricket too. About PAF, so one of my friend (SHRI) is playing a major role in it and this is her first and last PAF performance. Action packed Sunday this is going to be.

Day 1 starts with a rest

With about 100 days to go for Mumbai Monsoon marathon, I start off today with Rest. Actually I woke up late and never got time in the evening to go for a run. I did complete the registration process.

Why and what this is all about. What I see from here is a Long blogging season, 100 days at a stretch. I can surely write whole lot over here in this single post, but let things unfold slowly. So, the post may be short and may be sweet too.

The content will be directly related to my running statistics and how I felt about the run. Easy, hard, tiring, etc. Occasionally I may add up some other parts of my life and day to spice up the cake. Let's see how far can I get with running and along with blogging.

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Last Day of Year Marks a Beginning of New Friendship

The post was written couple of days ago and it went through major and then minor changes. In the meantime suddenly I got a whole new way of introducing Roshni. I would like to Thank Ms MBiAn for reviewing the matter more than couple of times.

Normal Indian Child, no longer a student but a working Lady. Big Eyes, lots of Innocence and Child Like Qualities. As far as I can recollect she has been away from home since her graduation days. Yes, it has its own pros and cons. Post Graduation and then job, all kept her pulling away from the home. Initial months are surely difficult but then you settle in and start enjoying. One really enjoys the way she opens up her few stories out to you. You are sure learn some lessons. You just lose the track of time listening to it. You should go through some of her blog posts to know the quality of her thinking, almost 4 years since her last post. Let me now start this post.

Roshni

In Hindi 'Roshni' means Light. Many ways to associate it. I am talking about Roshni in my life, the enlightening Light. She is a friend of mine like many other of my friends and yet Unique in her own way, again like how all my friends are unique in some way or other. Friends come and leave or stay and they laugh with you, fight, care, teach you some hard lessons of life and give you those long lasting Happy memories.

Roshni is a friend of mine I met at the end hours of 2013. Bestie was our common link and we both already knew a bit about each other, but never had a talk or meet before. We met at Bestie’s house and talked about various stuffs. Saw some funny TVF videos and literally fell on the floor while laughing after hearing Alok Nath jokes. We had Gujarati Thali near CST and then went off. This first meet deserves a real good place in this post.

We both accepted the fact that we talked with each other more in our first meeting, than what we would usually do. It was due to the Bestie that we could quickly get into comfortable zone with each other. In the mean time, I was busy writing my blog, ie midnight of 31st December. I celebrated December as a Blogging month and also I was pretty sure I will end up being in a relationship and have a Girlfriend by 31st December. Well, not all things happen the way you want. I did write many posts, but no sign of Girl Friend. I was writing my last post and it did end well. I asked Roshni to read it, since it contained her mention too. She liked it and then we discussed few things about our blogs. It is then that I decided I would write a blog about our friendship or a post on her. It was on a condition that we have some more meetings to get some content to write about.

Here, its 25th February as I write this and we just met once in 2014, in January. We plan to have a meet this weekend, lets see how far we go. Well, one more thing, on 31st she came directly from office and was a bit worried that she had her office dress on and not a party wear. Well, the second time when we met, same thing happened, she had to rush directly from the office to meeting place. Next, I will take you some key events, mainly they are related to our conversations. An attempt will be made to maintain chronological order.

In the beginning of any relation one will expect all goodie goodie talks and at times words like ‘Like’, ‘Love’, ‘Crush’, etc. We started with ‘Hate’. Some talk we had and she said I would have hated her for something and so on. It turns out that I misunderstood her and went bit off the track. Around the same time we had our first argument, which was reported. After the first argument, things were back on track and soon we were in a so called ‘Good Friend Zone’.

Gradually we talked and discussed a lot about our previous study years. Getting into Engineering and then Post graduate. Later we dwelled into more detail into our respective college lives and friends and family. She also came to know that I know more about her than what she anticipated. Then came our shopping day, Roshni, Bestie and myself. Shopped here and there. We went to some shoe shop and I just drifted for a minute or so to esquire about some running shoes. I then turned back towards the girls and found them at cash counter, finished with their shopping and payment too. It was real quick.

Then came her Bangalore Conference and we both got busy in our respective worlds. At times we talked about Dravid, our families, our just daily affairs of India. By last week of February it felt as if we knew each other since 3-4 years back. Can’t recollect much from then. Things went up and down and left and right. I was off whatsapp and facebook for more than a week. Had my Mid-Sems and as soon as it ended I was back in social range. Again our talks would go on, we talked about friendship and how people value and at times how some people hardly care about others friendship.

Like how I get ‘Happy Realisation Moments’ midway between my post, same is happening now. Till now what I was writing covered some stories that happened between us. It doesn’t say much about her in detail. Let me try to make an attempt.

Few words that come to my mind when I think of her is Childlike and Soft at heart. Big Eyes though. Initially I thought of her as Childish and realised that best way to put is that she has few Innocent Childlike qualities. Don’t ask me to name those qualities. She has faced some rough times like all of us. One thing I liked about her is that she learned from her mistake and you can see the change she brought in herself. She is closed to her parents and also her first cousins. She is slightly less negative than me and I find it easy to understand her situation. A lot more Sensitive and she may get hurt quickly if not taken care off. Thanks to her ability to learn from her mistake, she is becoming stronger day by day.

It was after this long period and just regular talks that few topics changed my perspective for my own self. I generally talk a lot, specially about my personal life, but there were some pages yet to be turned. One day while having a phone chat that those pages gradually turned. Here there was someone with whom I can discuss few things for the first time. It is in this respect that Roshni suits here a lot. Bringing a ray of Light which Lighted up a whole new perspective of mine. The light helped me discover that I have more pages in my Life than what I had been thinking so far.

We might be having a meeting this Sunday (2nd March), deadline for this post is 28th February. Under certain circumstances, I may take liberty to extend the deadline. Well, I took the liberty and extended the deadline. About the Sunday meet, will come up with it next time. More interesting, let Roshni take this task up of writing next post. Let her include her side of story and she i way better writer than me, both in terms of quality of language and depth of thoughts.

It is good to make use of Light that others bring to our life, but don't forget to reflect that back on them and also enlighten as many Life as you can.