6 Km a day keep Dr. away

In March 2008 I joined Delcam PLC. Most of the colleagues in Delcam were of age group 22-23 and I felt odd man out (not because I was 24 but because I was overweight). In the early days I used to go to coffee whenever I get stuck in assignment. Sooner I realized that machine coffee is worse thing one should ever drink - it is really mixture of Powder and hot water - and you gain lot of weight because of this.
My weight was almost 80Kg - shock!! to me.

Jitu (G2/ Jitendra Rane) my school friend was telling me same problem and suggested me a good idea - "Let us go to Wetal tekdi (Law college tekdi) every day". And we really started going there every day. First day was more than tiring, we could not think of any walk after reaching the mandir on the top, same thing happened for 1-2 weeks. In few days we realized that we are missing many "beauty spots" who come on the tekdi for walk since we do not go any further, so we started walking on Wetal Tekdi up to the "Akashvani station" in search of such spots and by our luck there were many.
In addition we were going to Sinhagad every Saturday or Sunday (Sunday was really better option because on Sunday we could get to see some public). In 3 months around June my weight was drastically reduced, almost 71-72. I was happy that I have reduced weight and also could reduce fat (at least flat ab - though nothing like 6 pack).

After that around Mid of June I started going to .NET class (evening 8.30 to 10.30) and could not go for morning walk. Suddenly I started having back-pain, initially I ignored it (as usual) but afterward it was paining like hell.
Then I went to UK - where I used to walk a lot, sometimes walk from Delcam office to City centre and sometimes I used to walk in Delcam campus for almost 1-2 hours. Weight was in good control and I was happy with it. In my 6 weeks stay in UK my back-pain was almost vanished but I gained lot of weight in the end (almost 300gm chocolate a day :( ).

After coming back home I started going to class again and my morning walk was almost stopped - also I almost stopped going to Sinhagad. With all this I need not say that my back-pain started again, this time it was more than hell. I talked to Dr. Gokhale sir (Dr. for human doctor and my teacher for .NET) regarding the back-pain problem. Sir suggested me simple thing - walk 6 km daily and tell me in a month (unfortunately I stopped going to class because of this), and to my surprise my back pain stopped (completely disappeared) in just 2-3 weeks. I almost forgot that I had back-pain. After few weeks I stopped going to walk for various reasons (really speaking laziness) and now the back-pain is back (though it does not pain like hell now a days).

So I started morning walk again in 2009. This time I have decided to go for morning walk alone - as it helps me for mind programming. Now a days I am going again to the Dahanukar colony - Cummins - Mahatma society. Hope I will continue this without fail.

Wales is the beautiful part of UK

During my visit to UK from 09Aug08 to 20Sept08 I got opportunity to see various places in UK like Wales, Oxford, WarWick, Birmingham and Scotland (Edingbergh).

I could describe my opinion as follows -
1. Oxford - When you come to Oxford you can easily realised that the Oxford university is THE PLACE TO STUDY. It is very beautiful university when I looked from outside. Unfortunately I did not go inside the university campus but whatever I saw was great. Somewhere thought came to my mind that why these people are still a date using such old buildings? Why are they not using modern buildings? Perhaps the right people to answer this question are the students and teachers (Profs.) in Oxford university.
Overall my marks are 7.0/10

2. Birmingham - This was the city where I stayed for almost 6 weeks. I am not at all impressed with this city. It was somewhat unclean. When I went to walk on roads I could see Glass bottles throws on footpaths - one can not think of walking on footpaths of Birmingham without wearing good shoes.
My work experience at Birmingham was great, first of all I got something I like very much completely new development project where I am the only developer and the job is pure development (0 maintainance of others code). The development team at Delcam UK is amazing. People are helpfull and truly most of them are experts in their work area. Also I liked the way they work - mostly 8am to 6pm without diverting their mind to anything else and then at 6pm it is time to go home so people do not unnecessarily stay back. It is difficult to find people doing something other than work in work-timing. The language UK people speak is very polite - I am just impressed (and also felt guilty about my rough language) by their language.
City centre at Birmingham is amazing, who-ever visits Birmingham should must go to the Museaun and Art Gallary (I hope the name is right) - it is very beautiful museam lot of things to see and they do not cost you a single pound. I will suggest even if the museaun do not charge you do give then atleast 5 pounds for the Art they have preserved.
I missed National sea museuan and also the Think Tank.
I will give 6.5/10 to Birmingham

3. Scotland - Reminds me of the movie "The brave heart" Scotland is beautiful. I think the tickets for entry to Castle are quite expensive (@ 10 Pound) but the castle which I saw was very beautiful and well preserved (fortunately even I did not pay for ticket - it was sponsered by my company). The view of Edinburgh from Scott Monument is beautiful. One has to climb almost 250 steps to go to the top and the way becomes narrow and narrower as you go up
I will give 7.0/10 to Edinburgh/ Scotland.

4. WarWick - I wont write much about it. It is the place you MUST SEE. Beautiful Wax statues. Wonderful museum and lot of things to see. Quite costly tickets ~17 Pounds (and I paid on my own for it ;) ) but still worth for the things I has got inside. The shows going on inside the castle are great.
I will give 8.0/10 to Warwick.

5. Wales - Most beautiful site I saw in UK.
The Greenary is amazing. I fail to put the description of Wales in words, surely go to Wales if you visit UK.
I will give 8.5/10 to Wales

What is our purpose of life...

This question is the difficult most for me to answer up til now. At the time i was doing my engineering i used to thought that i am born to design the best mechanical machinery and if i don't design and if i don't make new machines there will be nobody else in this world who can do that. But now a days i am working with the software industry, after getting the feel that how inferior somebody can feel if he is just having great number of years of experience but who can compete with you. When i came to software industry everything was new to me and again i was taken up by the passion that i will design the software which will be unique and the algorithm i will write will rule the world. I was also reading Ayn Rand at that time and i used to think that i have got the goal of my life.

I failed to understand there was till one more goal i totally neglected, I was wanted to become the best son for my parents to be the pride of my mother. Unfortunately i was so busy with my work that i could not even think of taking some time to spend with my family also the career goals in the design were total failures. Unfortunately my mother died and i couldn't manage to get the opportunity to be with my mother and to support my mother in her last days. So i though that to become a good son should be first goal and soon realized that if i don't work well and if I don't keep 24 our bond with my job this goal is also useless.

Now i think that is not it the goal of my life to work for my country and to do something for the society and i tried a little to become the social worker but i could not find anyone with whom i can really work, i want to work and not want to pretend to show that what i am doing. I think that is useless and to achieve this goal now i think that i should better get in to the politics and should become the minister to serve the nation but when i look at most of the politicians i feel like rather than they serving the society the society is serving them.

I started reading some material on Swami Vivekanand and i think that it will be a great help for me on my path.

Am i unable to find my purpose of life or the thing is that i have more things to do than what is feasible in one life?

Can somebody share his her experiences?

Hello all, I am continuing this blog after long time.

I think all of the "I want to be I have written before" are to some or more extent externally driven. There are some of the odd which we think that "I have to..." and the influence of safeguarding oneself in the situation is so much that people start thinking in the way "This is what I want to". The real thing is one can not want to do something because one has to do it. After the 2 years of experience with 2 MNCs and other experience interacting with the people from various backgrounds and various goals now I realise that "Very few people in this world understand what they want to be" most of the others are only trying to covert the "have to" into "want to".

So what about my search? yes the first aim was the right one. I liked mechanical engineering and I liked studying functioning of machines. Its almost 1.5 year I am not in touch with any of the mechanical engineering subject but till today's date I sometimes amaze people working in the mechanical engineering domain with my analysis of the Mech products. Regarding the Software development I think that software development is the right job for the people who want to face challenging problems. A software developer has less to do with the software engineering knowledge and more with the Problem solving attitude. I have the second quality and Software development job has the challenges.

Now I think that there can be a best thing I can do my combining my knowledge areas that is to work in the field which can offer Mechanical engineering problems to be solved using software. The opportunity to develop products useful for mechanical engineers. And yes again I am talking much about "have to things".

The real challenge is to discover "What I want to be?" the second question which is more difficult to solve and which makes me think of other alternative to the first answer is "Why do I want to do this?".

I think I should start meditating to get the solution for these 2 questions at the same time. I have realised that while meditating we some times really go to the roots of the problems. Because while meditating we know that there is no point convincing my own mind that "A = B" if i repeat it 100 times :).