I had to go to San Jose in September of 2013 when my wife was pregnant of about 8 weeks. We were happy to know that we were going to be parents. In all that happiness also, my lack of stimulated work environment kept me awake in the nights. So, I decided to change companies. My friend Murali asked me if I'd be interested in joining Ineda back.
I joined Ineda in December of 2013. On April 4th, 2014 my son Karna (Budugu) was born. We decided his name even before he was born. We decided one name for boy and one for girl. We didn't want someone forcing us to name him based on some stupid star and time of his birth. So, we named him even before he was born.
The moment I first saw him, I almost cried. I never knew I'd be that excited about seeing a baby. Basically, I thought I'm not a father material. But, once he was born everything changed. As Sahaja couldn't take care of him, there being a Cesarean operation, I'd take care of him. I learnt how to change diapers, how to bathe him, how to change his clothes. What started as a difficult task, started being fun.
The day when Karna was born, I called my mother first to inform her that he was born. She cursed me, talked very rude and creddled down the phone. That day, I decided I didn't want to call them again. Though I had the happiness of my son being born, I cried because of the way my mother started talking to me. I didn't call them after that incident.
Karna is almost 9 months old. Sahaja decided to celebrate his birthday on 4th of every month till he's 1 year old. I accepted. Everytime we celebrate his birthday, I get to eat chocolate cake, chicken biryani.....yummy!!!!
Speaking of chocolate cakes and biryanis, I remember a quote. A moment on lips is a lifetime on hips. Let me step back a bit and explain what happened after Karna was born. After he was born, neither Sahaja nor I had enough sleep in nights for almost 6 months. Therefore, I used to wake up at about 7:30 AM or so, against my 5:00 AM before he was born. So, I started skipping yoga, except on some rare days. This along with biryanis and cakes, added about 20 kgs of wait to me and a huge waist line.
I weighed 104 KGs when I checked my weight in October. All the people who knew me were saying that I was putting on lot of weight. So, I decided to do yoga again sincerely. But then, as I stopped doing yoga for a long time, my flexibility was gone and I had to start from the starting all over. I wasn't comfortable with that idea (though I tried it for about a week). Then I decided, let me start walking. My initial aim was to walk 1 mile/~1.5kms every day.
So, for the first time in my life I bought shoes for walking. I downloaded Nike+ run app, started using fitbit (that Xilinx gave me), started keeping track of my food habits using myfitnesspal. Till date, I've walked about 420 Kms using Nike+ (my overall is way beyond that ~600Kms). I missed walking sometimes, sometimes I overate. But that didn't stop me from bouncing back. I walk at least 4 - 5 times a week for 10Kms (everytime I walk). The walk takes me about 1 hour 35 minutes - 1 hour 40 minutes. I've cut down my intake of junk by quite a bit. Having a fitbit also makes me think of moving further and further. Now I've reduced by about 8 KGs bringing my weight to 96KGs. There's still a long way to go. But, then I've started my journey just now.
Books:
After my marriage, my reading reduced drastically, because of talking more and reading less. So far, I've read only <> books:
- Oxford -- Indian History till 1911
- Complete works of Sherlock Holmes
- Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao's complete works 3rd volume
Only recently I started reading Ranganayakamma's "Ramayana Vishavruksham". I'll try to spend less time on TV and more time on books, the coming years.
Bike:
I bought my first ever motorcycle, Royal Enfield Classic 500 (black) in June 2014. I slowly built confidence over the days in driving it. I'd to read a lot of literature to really understand the dynamics of motorcycle and braking (which I was very bad at). I bought a decent protective gear, barring shoes.
I bought my first ever motorcycle, Royal Enfield Classic 500 (black) in June 2014. I slowly built confidence over the days in driving it. I'd to read a lot of literature to really understand the dynamics of motorcycle and braking (which I was very bad at). I bought a decent protective gear, barring shoes.
Movies:
After my son was born, it became impossible for us to go to movies. Till we started feeding him solids, we couldn't even think of going out for movies. We had to adjust seeing movies whenever they come in TV. But after my son started having solids, the dependency on my wife became very less. So, whenever we had the opportunity (like my brothers-in-law being here), we went to movies. Interstellar (spectacular movie), Exodus (much below than average. I just went to the movie as Christian Bale was the hero) and PK (nice movie). May be these are last in some time to come.
I'll have to write more on my blog.
