I was in Mumbai a week before the dreadful blasts and clicked a few pics in my sub megapixel phone cam. I was again supposed to be there on 27th but had to change the plans.

Movie land - Bollywood

A sand sculpture on Juhu Beach near my Hotel.



The Love Guru taxi, shares the road with a sexy Bentley.



A view from the sky

My knees hurt, as do my ankles, my thighs and a lil bit of my calves. But I feel great. Bib no. 10472, Rishi Madan did it . I ran the half marathon. 21.097 kms in 2hrs 48 mins. This was much better than the time I was planning which was approx 3 hrs. I was sure I was gonna complete it but with breaths to spare was a surprise.
The feeling of driving your body to the limit is exhilarating. I knew i was hurting but i knew i had to finish it. I followed my own tempo kept my chin up and with single minded focus kept on running. The feeling is so primal when its only you and your body running on & on. Simply loved it ! N I wanna do it again. Hopefully soon !

The fastest was an ethopian at under 60 mins ! I crossed them on the 39th minute when I was on my 5th and they were on their 14th km. they were sprinting away. After all a speed of 21km per hr is awesome and to maintain this speed for all of 21 kms is just wow !

Ravi Srivastava also ran and finished fantastically in 2hrs 11 mins.

We had a visit from our friend Sophie from Germany. She was over for a holiday in Kerela and came over to recover from the experiences. Turns out the brochures were glossy but the reality was not.


At Kasbah for Dinner.

Weekend break on 26th Jan

The Indian republic day on the 26th Jan afforded us a weekend break, which we took in Chandigarh to attend a wedding in my wife's sisters family and had opportunity to woo her beautiful daughter, all of 3 yrs. Some pics from our fun moments :

coffee @ costa!

its been a busy past week with some visitors & lotsa work. We had a small ceremony to celebrate the arrival of Ranak Rustam Madan - as he is now officially named. You can see lots more of his pics & news at his own blog : www.ranakmadan.blogspot.com

Yesterday met up with my school friends and one of them after a very long time - Parikshit or Pari as we affectionately call him. Also there were Ravi & Parul Priya Srivastava (PPS), Jatin & Ashwinder, Sue n me and ofcourse Sweekriti (with Pari). Here's a pic :

Size !

Ranak 'Rusty' Madan - really active kid, with eyes roving about all around. He is still a handful but what fantastic pair of lungs , wow. you can hear him across rooms & all over the house when he lets one out!

A few of our friends and us got together for a bar-b-q. Some fun pics emerged as inhibitions were left behind. Sharing here a few of them !

Aman & Shruti - The Dharmendar of the group !


The magnetic duo !


The fun hat & hatters of the evening (if we might say so as we had a lot of fun!)


The Trio !



Some strange happening with Santa were seen that night, maybe he was rejuvenating himself after the busy Christmas schedule !