WOW - Hashing

A newly added stuff to my hobbies - HASHING. I have been hashing regularly for the past 3 months and its a great experience.

For those who are hearing this term for the first time - Hash is a community of people, namely Hashers, who have passion for running. They meet every Sunday and they run for beer. (Ofcourse I am interested in the former than the latter.)

We meet every week at various places (mostly at ECR road). For every run, trail (track) would be laid by the hares (who are the leads). We would have to track it and finish the run. For runners it would be about 8-10 kms and for walkers about 6-8 kms. At the end of the run we have circle where people would be made to sit on ice and literally ragged.

Oops I almost missed it. I started this posting to write about yesterday's hashing. It was a novel experience. This time the hash was at Kelambakkam - Vandalur Road. When we started from home it started raining. Knowing Chennai all my life I was so sure that the rain would stop before we reach the place. My guess was right and by the time we reached it stopped. However because of the rain all the trails were washed out. But still we decided to continue the run assuming the hares would guide us. We managed to track the first two trails and then chaos started. All the trails were washed out and the hares could not remember anything.

Believing some one would have good sense of direction we continued our run. After some time we were lost. Then the fun began. It started drizzling, then started raining and finally poured. We could hardly hear what others were saying and could see nothing in front of us. We ran in serpentine - between thorny bushes - on pools of water - dirty grounds (fell couple of times) - around the lake. Finally we managed to find our way back to the cars.

By then we were totally drenched. I had mud all over my body. But still it was such a great experience. It is one of the best hash I have ever done.

What a way to start the day!

Today as usual my day started and I went for my morning walk. Hardly 5 min walk when a guy, in his bike, came near me n tapped my shoulder. Don't know if had tried to snatch my chain or a rogue. At that moment I really got annoyed and caught him by his shirt. But this did not stop his and he raised his engine to escape. However Idid not leave my grip and started shouting.

At this point I lost my control and fell down. By then another person heard my shouting and tried to stop this guy. He kicked him. Bike walla fell down and started running. People tried to chase him but he managed to escape. However he left his bike on the road.

I was so annoyed that I wanted him to caught, therefore tried calling the police (100). This was even more annoying when I was not able to reach them. Everytime I called 100 line kept disconnecting. I don't understand what kind of emergency service is this.

However an auto fellow went and called the police who were in rounds. They came and started questing us. Some of the questions were so stupid like why didn't you stop him. Finally they took my complain. I came back home.

Couple of things here - Some one can't walk alone in this city and it is difficult for a common man to answer the police.

Filtered Life

It has been almost 2 weeks now and most of my favourite web sites are blocked in my office. I hate this FortiGuard which keeps blocking websites. Whenever I feel bored and needed a change I visit some of these pages like youtube, orkut etc. I never realised I will miss them all so much. I hate to sit at computer at home but these days have no choice. After returning home I need to spend atleast 30min before the system to check mails and catch up with old friends.

This is so boring :(

My first PODCAST

Ssssssss.......... Finally I did my first podcast. I had been trying to do my podcast about DASAVATHARAM for a long time. N finally I did it.

Yesterday I took off from office. Had a hectic week and worked over the weekend. So decided to take off. Stayed and home and felt bored. Then decided to utilize this time to create my podcast. I had the script ready long back but never had time to really sit down and record it.

Initially tried recording it in my Zen. But it carried some noise. Then tried windows recorder and again I was not happy with it. Finally did the recording in Audacity. Also tried to mix the sound track from the movie itself.

I think for the first timer I have done a good job. Let me see what you people have to say.

What is happening to me???

I am not myself or rather this is me when it comes to taking decision. One mind says 'YES' while the other says 'NO'. It is a tough decision to make. It has been almost a week now since I had my normal food, sleep and the most important thing my good time laughter.

Just walking around always thinking about something. Unable to concentrate on things. I hope this gets over soon. I want to be myself back to normal.