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Forgive me lord - for I've sinned

It dawned upon me earlier this evening that tomorrow is the Bangalore Ultra......... THE Bangalore Ultra - and I'm not running in it!!!!

I started my long distance running 'career' by running 25K at Ultra 2009. Since then I've never looked back!

But last 2-3 months have been super hectic, with the startup, with my better half in Singapore and all the

travelling in between. So my running has been going down all the way. 

It all started when I realized I would be missing the Kaveri Trail Marathon in Sept due to my US Trip.  I did not even

register for the ultra - rather did not even get the time to THINK that I've not registered for the Ultra.

I also realized that I registered for the Singapore StanC (Full Marathon, mind you, no less!) back in July -  but I'm in no shape to 

run even half that distance on 4th Dec.

There was so guilt in my heart that I had to do something about it. So I changed in to my running gear, went to IIMB and ran 

a quick run of 6km. 

Hopefully I'll be back in running form next year. 

Real Acad Learning

'Porcupine' strategy: Remember how the porcupines survived the Ice Age?

During the Ice Age many animals died because of the cold. Seeing this situation, the porcupines decided to group together, wrap up and protect each other. But they hurt each other with their thorns, and then decided to stay apart. Now, they started to freeze to death again.

So they had to make a choice: either vanish from the face of the earth or accept each other's thorns. They wisely decided to stay together again. They learned to behave courteously, overlooking the small wounds that closeness causes, because the most important thing was the warmth given by the other.

This week, let's remember the porcupines when we face difficulties working together in our teams.

Credits: RealAcad

Runners High

Our south bangalore runners - arekere, puttenahalli and bannerghatta road runners!

Reduce-Reuse-Recycle.

 

Reduce-Reuse-Recycle

 

 

Disciple: "Oh my teacher! While you are so much concerned about the world and others; why don't you look into the welfare and needs of your own disciples too?"

Buddha: OK… Tell me, How can I help you? "

Disciple:"My attire is worn and is beyond the decency to wear the same. Can I get a new one, please?"

 

Buddha found the rob indeed was in a bad condition which needed replacement. He asked the store keeper to give a new robe to wear on. The disciple thanked Buddha and retired to his room.

 

Though he met his disciples requirement, Buddha was not al l that contended on his decision. A while after he went to his disciple's place and asked him…

 

Buddha: "Is your new attire comfortable? Do you need anything more?"

Disciple: "Thank you master. The attire is comfortable. I need nothing more."

Buddha: "Having got the new one, what will you do with your old attire? "

Disciple:"I am using it as my bed spread."

Buddha: "Then… hope you have disposed off your old bed spread."

Disciple:"No… No… master. I am using it as my window curtain."

Buddha: "What about your old window Curtain?"

Disciple:"Being used to handle hot utensils in the kitchen."

Buddha: "Oh…I see… Can you tell me what did they do with the o ld cloth they used in Kitchen"

Disciple: "They are being used to wash the floor."

Buddha: "Then, the old rug being used to wash the floor..???"

Disciple:"Master since they were torn off so much, we could not find any better use but to use as a twig in the oil lamp, which is right now lit in your study room..."

 

Buddha smiled in contentment and left for his room.

 

 

           Reduce

Recycle Reuse

 

If not to this degree of utilization, can we at least attempt to find the best use of all our resources – at home and at office…??? It becomes imperative in the critical time of Recession…

 

 

Best marathon

Had a great experience running the half marathon at auroville.,, will
return next year as well...

iPhone - A failure in India

iPhone - the most talked about phone of the last 2 years, failed to make any impact in India. The reason for this can be summarized in one statement probably.
The iPhone is a 'data intensive' phone and operators in India are anti-data.
I think everyone agrees with the first part of the statement.
The whole iPhone experience 'lures' people to do more and more browsing of the internet from their phone.
Companies like AdMob get a significant share of their ad-revenues from iPhone browsing which is skewed when compared to iPhone's overall market share in mobile phones.
Coming to the 2nd part - anti-data means that operators in India DO NOT want their subscribers to use GPRS heavily.
When the whole world economy is slowing down - the indian mobile market is
STILL booming to say the least.
In Jan '09 - India added 20 mn+ susbcribers ( in a month!) - that is more than 4 times the population of Singapore!

With the base growing at such a rapid pace, the network of the operators is getting clogged
with voice traffic. We are seeing 'call-drops' and 'please try again later' situations in the network more and more.
In such a situation, the operator does not want his subscriber to use GPRS which will
clog the network even more - since in 2.5G - data runs over the idle voice-channels.

Moreover, whatever channel is free, the operator wants it subscriber to use it for
voice as he makes more money when the subs uses voice as opposed to data!
No wonder, the operators insanely priced in the phone in the Rs. 31 - 36K bracket
- surpassing even the top-notch Nokia phones.

A report in Business Week claims that there were less than 20,000 iPhones sold in India!

Thats a dismal number for any phone in a 300 million+ mobile subscriber base!