Travelicious

Scene 1 : I am taking a member ship of a Gym near my home. And I very happy to be doing something at last to stay fit  Scene 2: Enter the Change room. Everything is normal till now.  Scene 3: As I am about to enter I thought I had seen a completely naked grown up man just pass across the Changing room door.  It's OK i thought , I must be hallucinating Scene 4: Now i have entered the hallowed gates of changing room and there is no doubt in my mind of what i had seen few seconds back. There are naked man (without there undergarments) walking across the room as if they are in the confines of there plush bathrooms back home. Drying themselves and talking over phone.  I think , welcome to Japan and as a matter of fact if you think deep inside , actually there is nothing to hide . Right ? ;-))

Today I ran in the Tokyo YMCA charity Run , a total of 10 KM in relay format. There were 6 players in a team and each one of them had to run approx 1.5 each. Frankly I did prepare for it as I had never before taken part in a race. We finished 33rd out of the overall 90 team taking part in it. Almost all teams were sponsored by companies in Tokyo . I recently developed interest in running. Though I am still of the opinion that it is a very passive and boring sports compared to other like Cricket , football etc . I feel it is essential in my sedentary lifestyle. But overall it was lot of fun and yes at the end of the day I could say "It was all for charity " and go to a good night's sleep. :-)) Some pics from the run . Click

I find myself guilty of not being regular with my blogs. This is the longest period of dormancy . Well not much has happened in my life anyways during this time. I am still here in this beautiful country Japan. One thing that sill amazes me are the wonder full people of japan. The kind of mutual respect and courtesy they have for each other is totally amazing and teaches one or two things to people of other countries and traditions. There might be no religion , or i should say very less of that , these people are still more religious if we consider that ll religions teach and love and respect for there fellow humans. It's been almost a year and frankly I have not seen much of Japan other than Tokyo and my aim for the coming time , is to see as much of it as possible.

The trip started in ways that I never expected , I will put it this way I never expected it to start. We had planned it for Saturday morning and it started in the afternoon. Why because it was never meant to start but suddenly we had a calling ,some divine force , I believed it to be the Fuji san's intervention and the combination of beautiful lakes that was calling us to climb this beautiful mountain. There were forces that we later realized that really existed . These forces were the one that made you strive to reach till the top when you know you can’ t take an extra step , there are forces that made you calm when you look down those slopes and realize that one wrong step and that's the end . You see those people from all ages you are hit by a reality. That some thing really exists , maybe just a faith in Fuji san that it will not hurt you. And it gave us faith too. So that’s it for the divine part , but then I want to tell you things really started bad. We had not do...

One of the best books I read in along time. Made in Japan is one of those books whick motivates you. Akio Morita was a revolutionary. He made SONY into what it is today. Being from a business background he had the abiltity to take risks and think big and innovatively. Walkman is just a case in point . He said that no amount of market research would have told them that Walkman would be successfull. He folllowed his intutions on these matters and luckily for SONY he was always right. Just go ahead and read this book. It's a wonderfull read. Made in Japan by Akio Morita