My first Long run!!

Today I did the longest run of my life.. as far as I remember
I have been running off late and I'm totally enjoying it. I have done about 15km last week with about 5-6 km of walking

Today I did my longest sprint. 7.1 km in 50 minutes and felt awesome. It was an office group run and we are preparing for Melbourne Marathon which is comign up on oct 12th.
I was almost dead after the run but I recuperated. I feel happy that I am not injured or anything.. though last time around I had a severe knee pain after 2 days of running continuously.

Feel haapy to be able to run for long.. :) My desire to be fit till old age, is undying.. :P
Am glad am putting effort towards it..
My Strava details are here

Mary Kom and relevance to our lives!

What a heart touching movie it is.. Mark Kom. Hats off to you Mary and am in love with PC all over again. She again proves she can play any character the best. 
Such inspiring, motivational and ofcourse an emotional movie.
Most importantly it has a message for all married people.

Indian husbands should surely watch this. The support a husband should/must give is shown perfectly.

You want a wife who is a superwoman in all fields of life (whether you say or not you love it if your wife is a star in all fields)
As a working professional, as a wife, as a mother as a Daughter in Law, as a cook, a woman with talents and hobbies, a woman who is Fit, A woman with good GK and IQ, a woman who is financially independent, 
a woman who can drive, a woman who is presentable and speaks awesomely well without denting the image of the husband, a woman who is not a spendthrift and shopaholic, ahh my wife blogs.. here is the link.. thats a pride too..
The roles/expectations out of a girl are never ending.. All agreed and accepted, but as a husband the support and encouragement you give to your spouse is what is most important and this precisely is well shown in the movie and thats a defining factor for all the roles a Wife plays.

I'm glad I watched it with my husband and he agreed it is difficult to be such a husband.

Not just men, but its such a lesson to all women too, who are strong and committed to different things and play a great role in each of the fields. Life is more than just being good to all. Life is about your own dreams!

A spouse always makes/breaks a person. What we are or what we are not, whether a winner or a loser in life, the credit also goes to the spouse, 
but nevertheless the urge to do or to be is primarily our own duty and not the spouses'.

floating thoughts!

Identify the extremists and negatives and isolate them!

let go n take refuge in the quiet corner of ur heart!

My gift to my love

As most of my friends know, I was on a break from job for more than an year. Literally I hadnt bought any gift for him during this time as I would feel, how would I gift him when I am jobless. Though I had enough money of my own during this period, I still dint feel like buying/shopping.

But now that I am back to job after 1.5 yrs and this is my first job in Melbourne, I could buy a nice lovely running shoes for him with my first sal. It isn't an expensive one. It is about 9k inr, but it felt great that I could buy for him. The joy of being financially independent is beautiful, atleast for me. I am someone who hates to have any dependencies and specially financial dependencies.
Love the feeling!

My Plants

Finally the dream of having plants in my home has come true.
I had decided I would gift myself some plants on my birthday. Though it got delayed by a month, I finally bought some seeds, soil and pots and have planted Coriander, some flowers, spring onion, brocolli, lettuce, Basil, Tomato plant, capsicum and dwarf beans on 31st Aug.
Now I cant wait for them to grow but the seeds will take atleast a month to fertilize.
I happily water them daily and they are such an added beauty to my Balcony.

Hope it doesnt go flop and hope they all grow well.. If not anything its so lovely to look at them every morning!

Love