Potpourri

As the year 2011 is already knocking on our doors, I thought it will be good to do a "the year that was" kind of post. Owing to my poor memory I am sure I am going to forget all the important events but let me try anyway. This year, unlike the year 2009 which was marked with losses of all kinds at all levels (yes, I know everybody remembers my lost laptop and plans to tell the story of a girl who lost her laptop to their grandchildren. Worry not. Thanks to my well wishes I am sure you will drop dead well before that!!), has been a year in which I haven't lost much. On the contrary, in fact. Chikku came to Bombay in February. Max gain as the generation next calls it. That clearly was the major highlight of the year. But there is more. I became a doctor on the first of this year. Technically on the last day of 2009. But that evening is more like a haze for me. So the day I realised that I can call myself a doctor, it was already 2010! The discovery of Mrs Grace Rao , the ...

It took a complete stranger to tell me that I really don't know how to put my foot down. And he meant it literally. I have been trying to run and increase my running capacity for more than a year now. But all in vain. In IIT ground, I was running in my own funny way when a complete stranger stopped me and told me that the way I was running was totally wrong. I being a flat footed person had a habit of first resting my heel and then the toe on the ground. He told me this is not normal. Not normal? NOT NORMAL!!!! I was taken aback! How could it not be normal? I have been running like this since I remember. I somehow tried to keep a bold front in spite of having been rudely corrected. I asked him to show me what he thought was correct, if this was wrong. And he asked me to look at any other random person. He said your toe must touch the ground and then the rest of foot. I thought, "my foot"! I decided to try it anyway. I tried to run that way in the house and then the next t...