Dance - The stressbuster

I had learnt Katthak when I was in school. It was a Sunday ritual which I really looked forward to. The sound of the ghungroos and the fine nuances associated with that form always left me aghast. There was so much to learn and so much to do. But sadly just like my other hobbies, I left this one too somewhere mid-way and concentrated on my studies.

Cut to 2016.

The story of my Fitbit Alta

It all started some 6 months back when the start/stop button of my Fitbit Charge started giving problems. It would light up the display screen of my charge with the slightest movement of my hand. I dismissed it for some temporary problem and overlooked it. I ran the Pinkathon with my Charge on my hand. And it showed me my first ever running performance and I was immensely proud of the statistics. Then one fine day after finishing my Yoga class, when I came back home, that very problematic button had fallen somewhere much to my dismay and it was so tiny that I couldn’t find it anywhere even after searching on the road from where I got home. I was left with no tracker and that left me little dejected. 

Guru Pournima

Today is Guru Pournima.

I quote from Wikipedia

Guru Purnima is an Indian and Nepalese festival dedicated to spiritual and academic teachers. This festival is traditionally celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Buddhists, to pay their respects to their teachers and express their gratitude. The festival is celebrated on the full moon day (Purnima) in the Hindu month of Ashadha (June–July) of the Shaka Samvat, as it is known in the Hindu calendar of India and Nepal.[1] This day marks the first peak of the lunar cycle after the peak of the solar cycle.

Consistency helps!

I had posted sometime in March about starting Yoga once again after a gap of nearly 10-15 years. I had one or the other reason to not invest time for my good health and all these years I hardly did anything to make myself fit and feel energetic. But then in April 2015, I became extremely serious, took a well-balanced diet and exercised well and shed off all the baby weight that I had accumulated all these years.

Going solo

I bought a second hand car in May this year and I am proud to say that I own a car now ;)

It's a blue wagon R, my favorite color and it is pretty ok for a beginner like me. I took the car with my dad sitting beside me to a friend's place on one afternoon and my dad was more scared than I was of the traffic. His hand was on the hand brake all the time and he did not spare any chance to pull it in the middle of the road if he thought I was banging onto someone. I told him to relax and that I was in full control and will drive carefully. He didn't seem convinced, a father's heart you see!