Squash’ed

My hunt for good and better hobbies, led me to Squash this Sunday. And it was very tiring to my body and very relaxing to my brain. I stress the importance of physical activity for the better state of your head. Too much of unspent energy attacks your brain like anything. Many of you might have realised this. Unfortunately I don't have any picture of me in the squash court right now, but who knows may be next week!

Let me come to the story of me playing squash. This was my first time playing the game, and being used to other racket games like tennis, badminton, I felt squash cannot possibly be any difficult. But I was SOOOO wrong. In other racket games, the ball comes straight at you, the minute the opponent hits the ball you know where the ball is going to be. But in squash, you never know how many deflections it is going to take and where you have to meet the ball. And this makes it really difficult game. I played with three different people and lost ( obviously) to all of them, but I guess I will get the hang of the game by the third outing.

Fingers crossed.

PS : My blog has got 80 hits from 8 different countries in the last month, thanks to all who have visited my blog.

Sound and Loud mind!!

I am supposed to be attending 2 weeks of logic summer school. It is important to underline, italicize, and bold the word 'supposed'. In the last year and half I have read lots of theories on my own, understood them to whatever extent on my own. And this summer school was a chance for me to correct my own understanding. And it has gone quiet well. But then in this last two weeks I have experienced a sudden explosion of creativity in myself. Many of my friends know that I write stories, or at least I used to write them. I had hit a block and not able to proceed with any concrete story for long.

I have had 5 new ideas in the last two weeks. All thanks to these lecturers from different countries trying to explain ideas of Mu-Calculus and Artificial Planners... I hear them talking and then I hear my head talking. Describing a new story to me, and helping me fill in the blanks in the story during the next 1 hr. It is amazing. The funniest part is, I will be sitting with my note and pen ready to jot down some points in the lecture, listening intently. I will find that there is nothing to take down. After about an hour of no writing at all, suddenly i start scribbling a whole pageful or more details. If only anyone tried to get a good look at what i am writing!! I am sure even the lecturers will be amazed at this sincere student...

PS: I have had nearly 11 visits to my blog in the last three days... Thanks to my readers... You can drop some comments on how to improve my blog... I would be glad to make the necessary changes.

playing

After I finished my bachelors, I haven't been physically active. In IIT we were introduced to the wonderful world of internet and LAN networks. Till then I had watched around 50 hollywood movies in all my life. But in the two years in IIT, I would have watched more than 200 movies easily. And that clearly broke all my love for playing games. I stopped playing.

But things did change in the second year, there was a TT board in our hostel and we started playing every evening for an hour. And then I came to sydney. The first year in sydney was worse again. Stopped playing all kinds of games, no physical workout.

I have revamped my schedule now. I have been regularly jogging for nearly 3.5 kms every weekday morning for the last 4 months. I walk 20kms every week. And add to that, I recently bought a TT board and we play there atleast once a week. But the highpoint is the last two days. I played 2 hrs TT last night against a Chinese guy. And I wasn't that bad. We were on a top-spin battle. He was giving me vicious spinners with a lot of bounce and I was giving them back to him. It was nice fun. And today I played badminton after 4 yrs, and I have still got it... I still suck at it...