I used to be mad about Photography. Anything that I used to see, I wanted to capture on my camera. I wanted to go out birding and take a lot of photographs of birds. I loved experimenting with the camera and its settings and see in how many different ways and angles could I capture [...]
Categories: Personal
Tagged: cost, expenditure, hobby, interest, photography
I was on doing my Physio exercises as usual today and as usual I started dwelling on the past. Basically, in the physio therapy I have to do about 7-8 exercises for 10 counts each and during each exercise I would feel the strain on a particular muscle in the leg and hence I would [...]
Categories: Personal
Tagged: acl, bike, injury, knee, leg, memories, power, strength, tug-of-war
I was watching the moview – The Shawshank Redemption, yesterday and there was a thought in the movie that got me thinking. There were a couple of inmates who had to serve life terms and were in for 50 years and 40 years respectively. They were so used to the life inside the prison and [...]
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Tagged: acl, cycle, incident, memories, operation, perspective, reflex, shawshank, skid, surgery
I was asked the previous night to get ready by 7 – 7:30 as the nurses will cart me off to the Operation Theater by 8am. Of course, it is impossible to sleep past 6am since the knocks on the door start by then. I had my coffee at 6:15am and went on to take [...]
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It is when you can’t do something that you really feel how little and how helpless you are. There are a lot of things that one wants to change and make a difference to, but one just can’t. It is not just global issues and burning issues, but you understand the perspective when you are [...]
Tagged: global warming, helplessness, hopenhagen, solutions, summit, terrorism, usa
This will be a post of how I have been improving over the days following the ACL reconstruction surgery. What struck me was when the many doctors that I met, who said that this was a minor surgery and that I will be able to bend my knees the very next day after the operation [...]
Categories: Personal
Tagged: acl, crutches, daily, operation, physio, physiotherapy, progress, report, surgery
Friday the 11th was the day I had to check in to the hotel… errr… hospital to undergo my ACL reconstruction surgery the next day. I had to be at the hospital by 2pm, so we had a very early lunch and wife and I left on her Honda Activa to the hospital. It was [...]
Categories: Personal
Tagged: acl, experience, hospital, ligament, muscle, surgery, tear
ACL = Anterior Cruciate Ligament. It is one of those ligaments that holds the thigh bone and the shin(leg) bone together. In fact of the two Cruciate Ligaments, the ACL is the more prominent one andthese two muscles are responsible to ensure that the two bones stay together at the joint and dont slip. Imagine [...]
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Tagged: acl, arthroscopic, dislodge, hosmat, knee, ligament, operation, reconstruction, surgery, tear
It was about 11am and I didn’t have any internet connectivity for the past 60 minutes. I had with me 4 different mobile number of Airtel technical staff who had over the past weeks fixed at least 5 complaint requests that I have had to raise thanks to the awesome service of Airtel. None were [...]
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Tagged: airtel, bsnl, call center, internet, railwire, story
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