The Blues Brothers

What a fantastic movie ! The awesomeness start and just never ends ! Anyone who likes the classic jazz, R & B, blues, soul specially the legends music, will love this movie.

Dan Ackroyd & John Belushi are awesome in this movie. The fun part, their costumes remain the same (in fact the SAME) throughout the movie.

Here's more info on The Blues Brothers Costume

The cameos played by the real musicians like Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles are awesome. Must Must watch.

Some video links from you tube :

Cab Calloway Minnie the Moocher

Aretha Franklin Think

For more information click here for the IMDB brief The Blues Brothers

A funny thing happened ...

This funny thing happens every day ! He has only one policy - IGNORE DAD. I change his diapers, burp him, walk him to sleep. Love him. but who cares - its Ignore dad policy at work all the time.

Perhaps the reason for this, I can fathom.

Credit of the sketch to the original artist. Reproduced from Cartoon Stock

Thanks guys for excellent work.

Drunk !

You may have seen drunks sleeping it off, limbs akimbo, mouth wide open, lost in their own world with no idea whats happening around them. Something like this guy :



Well here's Rudy, punch drunk, on milk !

Rudy & Sammy

This is Sammy the caterpillar, Rudy's favoritest toy.



This is Rudy, during his daily conversations with Sammy.

The Christmas Sunday run (contd.)

My Garmin Forerunner 210 is now connected to my notebook and am able to upload my route and view it on google maps.

So we ran two different courses yesterday.

RUN 1 - was the tradition, oft done Nehru Park to India gate via Rashtrapati Bhavan. route. Flat, shaded and beautiful early morning. The view of India gate as the sun is rising, the cyclists, skaters, walkers, joggers, hawkers and gawkers complete the scene. You dont see T shirt and shorts clad runners passing by on cold, foggy mornings like this one.



RUN 2 - took us to Nyay marg which was sunny and very low traffic. The best part was that across the road from UP house, Jharkhand house, etc is central ridge area. We ventured across the road into this area. This also houses the Delhi earth Station which is an ISRO facility. Right here, we also came across 2 old world markers stating this to be the estate of Princess of Oudh Click on this link to read the story by Indian Express. The route of the run is here, at the north most point you can see the route taking us into the ridge and thats exactly where we saw the boards.



When we were nearing the end of the first run we, saw searing past at atleast 200 kmph a Yellow Lamborghini. At the end of the 2nd run, there raced again another Lamborghini at roughly the same speed, this time a white one. Those cars sounded beastly and oh-so-fantastic. However they were f***ing dangerous as these guys could definitely not apply their brakes on time. The lambos could probably react but the drivers, i do not think, have that experience. Exhilarating but sad.

A good run in any case. No cramps, a bit of muscle soreness and a slight niggle on the right knee but that shall pass by end of the day today. RICE - Rest Ice Compression & Elevation will do its work.

The 31.66 K Christmas Sunday

Finally, I crossed the half marathon barrier !!

Ran a 31.66 KM today morning, in preparation of the StanChart Mumbai Marathon. This is the single longest distance I ave ever run.

I was fine till about 27 th KM but then I slowed and walked for a bit and started my running again. It was more of a shuffle than running but let's just call it running. eventually I was on my feet for abt 4 hrs 10 mins. Mighty proud of it.

Shiv, luckily for me, shared his magic elixir of Tang + electoral. The mistake I was about to commit was that I was gonna drink only water, no sodium, potash or salts of any kind. My future long runs will see me carrying salt replenishment as well.

The experiment of sandwich worked well. 2 pieces of bread with butter & German homemade strawberry jam cut into quarters and individually wrapped in cling film made it easy to eat on the run without my sweat mixed in my food. This way I could share my foods well with the good fellow runners.

More on the route of the run with maps later.

The devilish angel - Rudra

The last two days our sonny boy has been sunny. He does not realize that when the sun goes down so must our heads and we must sleep. For him night time is paaartey time, so he's up showing us all facets of emotions, lying quietly, smiling, chortling, crying, howling, bawling, poopy face, hungry face, cry face etc.

Here is a pic of him finally asleep in mommy's lap looking angelic :