Is it wrong to be curious in life? So curious that you break the normal accepted protocol levels of etiquette,good/bad,right/wrong,justice/injustice,safe/unsafe,truth/false.. just to understand at a more deeper level and come to a more truer definition of the same above concepts?
I think all the concepts in this world have mostly evolved due to a few people who dared to do the above.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
How can you not love life..
There is so much pleasure in observing the small things in life. Took me 5 months to compile these snaps!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Super humans!!
One cannot even imagine what these people have done and endured,the limits to which they have stretched human endurance,body,mind and soul.There are many more who belong to their category,but these are generally considered the greatest.I am very simply humbled by their accomplishments!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
My training program begins again! I have another month and half to go!
Climbing mountains is a different kind of sport,requires a different kind of training and finally even after training so much its mostly a mind over body thing once you reach the final stages. You train for endurance,you need to be strong to lug those 60 pound plus backpacks but you should not be heavy and be bulky because that will not allow for un-restricted free climbing easily. You need strong thigh,calf and ankle muscles. You need really good stomach muscles to carry that weight on your back,bend over and climb. Finally breathing,you need to increase your lung capacity so that it can process more oxygen as you go higher and higher and the air gets thinner and thinner. My training is focusing on all these aspects but doing it in a gym and doing it on a mountain are two completely different things.This i understood from my Whitney climb. Mt.Hood North face is a completely different mountain,not as high as whitney but would be no cake walk,its mostly mind over body for me for its a steep face and i have mostly my fear to overcome.
Climbing mountains is a different kind of sport,requires a different kind of training and finally even after training so much its mostly a mind over body thing once you reach the final stages. You train for endurance,you need to be strong to lug those 60 pound plus backpacks but you should not be heavy and be bulky because that will not allow for un-restricted free climbing easily. You need strong thigh,calf and ankle muscles. You need really good stomach muscles to carry that weight on your back,bend over and climb. Finally breathing,you need to increase your lung capacity so that it can process more oxygen as you go higher and higher and the air gets thinner and thinner. My training is focusing on all these aspects but doing it in a gym and doing it on a mountain are two completely different things.This i understood from my Whitney climb. Mt.Hood North face is a completely different mountain,not as high as whitney but would be no cake walk,its mostly mind over body for me for its a steep face and i have mostly my fear to overcome.
Walking with the dinosaurs!!
I am a self proclaimed 'Dino Nut'.Not surprisingly i belong to this huge clique of people who are just fascinated with these creatures. I very simply cannot ever imagine that such mega and magnificent creatures ever existed and walked on this planet and ruled it and there is no longer a trace of them anywhere now,its just in-comprehensible. But we know they did!!
Always caught in a child like fascination ,imagining them,if they had existed now we would probably be like the insects -feeling really small. lol!! Seeing a big elephant or rhino or a tall giraffe can cause so much excitement in me,just imagine seeing a 100 foot tall and 200 feet long brachiosauraus walking by you,forget that, how would it be to see one of the greatest predators on planet earth the Tyrannosaurus-rex suddenly run into the scene.Lol!! Well that is what exactly happened at this show called 'Walking with the dinosaurs'.
This 12 million dollar show is right now touring America and they have created around 10 lifelike and life size walking robotic dinosaurs and have made a show out of it. I did not expect the effects and realism of the CGI in movies like Jurassic park and it was not like that ,but i was really impressed with what i saw.The screenplay of the show was pretty weak but not so bad either. The dinosaurs were huge and really life like(though in the back of your mind you know its not,:) ).The dinosaur movements was fantastically realistic,especially the human propelled Raptor movements were amazing.
Having mostly seen them in books and movies,you always tend to imagine how would it be to see one live? And that is exactly what they brought out in this show. Giant moving life-size and life-like robots which stomp around a huge arena transformed into a artificial jungle.
For me the most impressive scene was the popping of the T-Rex. They had a small baby T-rex cornered by a Torosaurus and ankylosaurus and it bays out for help and this huge monster enters into the stage roaring,boy!! That was a really impressive scene. The T-Rex was huge and so life like and the roar was deafening,I actually jumped a bit on hearing the roar.lol!!
I think kids and people in America are really very fortunate to be seeing and exposed to all this. I was really impressed by the creativity and effort that has gone into making this show.If you are a Dino nut then please do visit this show if you ever get a chance,its fantabulous.
If you are not a Dino fan then you may not be really impressed because all the statistics and information about dinosaurs and evolution may seem very boring to you and it would be just a dinosaur parade show for you.
Somebody had asked me this question - If time travel was possible and you had only one opportunity to choose a point in time to travel which would you choose?
My answer was - of course the Cretaceous period.
Today, i was so fortunate to see these creatures kinda live,thanks to the ingenuity of a few humans. Long live the dinosaurs!!Lol!!
Always caught in a child like fascination ,imagining them,if they had existed now we would probably be like the insects -feeling really small. lol!! Seeing a big elephant or rhino or a tall giraffe can cause so much excitement in me,just imagine seeing a 100 foot tall and 200 feet long brachiosauraus walking by you,forget that, how would it be to see one of the greatest predators on planet earth the Tyrannosaurus-rex suddenly run into the scene.Lol!! Well that is what exactly happened at this show called 'Walking with the dinosaurs'.
This 12 million dollar show is right now touring America and they have created around 10 lifelike and life size walking robotic dinosaurs and have made a show out of it. I did not expect the effects and realism of the CGI in movies like Jurassic park and it was not like that ,but i was really impressed with what i saw.The screenplay of the show was pretty weak but not so bad either. The dinosaurs were huge and really life like(though in the back of your mind you know its not,:) ).The dinosaur movements was fantastically realistic,especially the human propelled Raptor movements were amazing.
Having mostly seen them in books and movies,you always tend to imagine how would it be to see one live? And that is exactly what they brought out in this show. Giant moving life-size and life-like robots which stomp around a huge arena transformed into a artificial jungle.
For me the most impressive scene was the popping of the T-Rex. They had a small baby T-rex cornered by a Torosaurus and ankylosaurus and it bays out for help and this huge monster enters into the stage roaring,boy!! That was a really impressive scene. The T-Rex was huge and so life like and the roar was deafening,I actually jumped a bit on hearing the roar.lol!!
I think kids and people in America are really very fortunate to be seeing and exposed to all this. I was really impressed by the creativity and effort that has gone into making this show.If you are a Dino nut then please do visit this show if you ever get a chance,its fantabulous.
If you are not a Dino fan then you may not be really impressed because all the statistics and information about dinosaurs and evolution may seem very boring to you and it would be just a dinosaur parade show for you.
Somebody had asked me this question - If time travel was possible and you had only one opportunity to choose a point in time to travel which would you choose?
My answer was - of course the Cretaceous period.
Today, i was so fortunate to see these creatures kinda live,thanks to the ingenuity of a few humans. Long live the dinosaurs!!Lol!!
Monday, May 11, 2009
Some quotes i like..
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” - Teddy Roosevelt
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain.
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Route up whitney!
I found this snap on the internet which i can clearly use to illustrate the route we took to the top.The red line shows the route we took.The route is called the mountaineers route which is different from the regular hiking route up to the top. We traversed the snow gully along the red line. Click on snap to enlarge.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Life can be really funny sometimes(i don't know what word to use here). I cannot believe that just 24 hours back i was half way across America walking on the surreal mist covered golden gate bridge and spending time with some of my favourite people. Its mind boggling to imagine that just 36 hours back i was walking amongst one of the tallest living creatures on earth - the red wood trees.A physical me saw and did these physical things in the last 48 hours and all these are flashes of memories now,reduced to a few electric impulses in the brain which i will cherish through out my living life.Now i am back to my mundane life of seeing laptop screens and taking calls and looking at code.
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