Tomorrow i depart for my climb. This is going to be the biggest mountain i will have ever climbed. I am filled with mixed emotions. But there is no turning back, i will have to go ahead if i wish to achieve what i want to achieve.Wish me luck. More later ...

My latest quirk..

My latest hobby - Playing Bridge. Its a complex card game but extremely fun. I am still trying to get the hang of it completely. The bidding rules are so complex it just leaves you dizzy. I normally go online and play and i royally suck! I enter as a 'beginner' and play with the so called experts online and get royally kicked out of tables for wrong bids,wrong moves and have suffered enough online abuses. But heck I am under an alias and nobody knows who i am,so i just move on to another table. You have umpteen bidding rules which i still have to master. Give it a shot if you can,trying to remember 52 cards being passed is quite fun!

A humbling perspective...

But one can draw their own conclusions ..









Antares is the 15th Brightest star in the sky.
It's more than 1000 light years away.

Polar Bear plunge video!!

Okay!! Here's the video. Comments on my dance totally welcome!! Lol!! Yeah




Kinda reminds me of this girl dancing in the cadburys ad.. Lol!!

Watch out men!!

Saw the 'Watchmen' in IMAX yesterday after the plunge, Storyline is a bit complex,but visually stunning.Hoping to read the book.

Polar Bear plunge!!!

Okay, I decided to be a polar bear and take a plunge in icy waters!! Yup!! Craziness re-defined!! Polar plunge is an event where they cut a section of the frozen lakes and people jump into the sub zero waters just for the heck of it!! I decided to have a go and madhu joined me in this latest quirkiness of mine! The video will be posted a bit later on,but here are a few teaser snaps!! (wink)The temperature was 18 F(-8 C) and it felt numb!! The craziest feeling is when you hit the water,its like a shock going through your body. Totally cool!!You gotta experience it in life!!

link on fickr covering the event - http://www.flickr.com/photos/rkupbens/sets/72157614934872588/

Another wonderful snap on flickr covering this - http://www.flickr.com/photos/84853337@N00/2305791586/

Madhu and me taking the plunge!!







Doing a victory dance!! I went crazy after the plunge!!

Dear Ms. Earhart,

I love that you could touch the sky. I think about you sometimes and I wonder how it is that a little girl from Kansas learns to fly. I'm 48 years old and I still can't walk in heels.

Tell me, Amelia, did somebody infuse you with so much confidence that you always believed you could do anything you set your mind to? Or did somebody cut you so deep that you always believed you had something to prove to the universe?

Were you ever tired? Were you ever lonely? Did you get scared a lot? I like to imagine that from time to time you were all those things, but what I find so really remarkable is that if you ever did feel exhausted or isolated or fragile, you never let it stop you from taking off.

Still, I have to ask, didn't the concept of changing into something made of flannel, ordering in a couple of sushi rolls, and renting a good movie ever tempt you even a little? Because frankly, that's my idea of a perfect evening.

It's not that I don't experience a touch of wanderlust periodically, it's just that for all my talk of missing the swashbuckler gene, I'm currently off on an adventure of my own.


An article in CNN.com by Lisa Kogan,made me smile.

Down with a flu. The feeling pretty much sucks! A sore throat,combined with cold and a slight fever is a triple whammy. Hate Pandora for opening that box.