Music Marathon

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Music is powerful. I have always believed that music is always very important while running, dancing, working out and driving and of course blogging. It adds to the energy of the environment.

I need to play some really exciting background scores to make the blog marathon thrilling. There is a huge list of my favorite songs in the play-list, some are inspiring, others are high on energy, some are soulful and some are relaxing. So the playlist is going to emerge as a great support system to my efforts to participate in this marathon.

To begin with, Beethoven’s symphonies will do. They help my mind concentrate. I feel calm and relaxed while listening to the finest creation of the maestro. And, who doesn’t like piano.

Next I would prefer some peppy and high energy EDM music and remixes such as Swedish House Mafia, Major Lazer, Chill Nation or David Guetta. This would bring some thrill to the work and it also helps me speed up my typing.

Coldplay is the next. The band has finest of lyrics and beautiful music. They sing so soulfully that my heart just cannot help but feel the waves of the music flowing through each drop of blood.

Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Smiths and various other classics from the golden era of music are also in the playlist. In short, the playlist is ready with some exciting, peppy and thrilling music. The same kind of music I prefer during the drives.

How do I choose my favorites in music?

Actually, my favorite way of discovering that whether I like particular music or not is listening to it while I am driving. Music is never static, so how can one judge its suitability with your mood while sitting static. Therefore, driving the car and listening to the music is the best thing one could do. It helps me enjoy the finest parts of the music, it helps me feel the music the way it should be felt and that is how I choose that which song should go in my playlist.

Music motivates, music pacifies, and music helps me look at the world in a different way. Therefore, music is very important for writing blog posts as well. I have planned following playlist during the blog marathon post writing, and it is helping a lot:

Beethoven-Fur Elise

David Guetta- She Wolf

Swedish House Mafia- Don’t you worry child

One Direction-Perfect

One Direction-You are beautiful

Pitbull-Rain over ME

Pitbull, J Lo- On the Floor

Pitbull-International Love

Coldplay-Lights will guide you home

Coldplay-Scientist

Coldplay-Paradise

Coldplay-Sky full of Stars

Coldplay-Everglow

Pink Floyd-Comfortably Numb

The Beatles-Strawberry fields

The Beatles-Julia

The DRIFTERS- Darling Darling Stand, Stand by me

Mungo Jerry - In the summertime

Dionne Bromfield - Ain't No Mountain High Enough and many more

 This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can  apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today. 

Peppy Planning

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Plans fail. Plans work out. But, plans at least give you a sense of doing something. If you have a roadmap, you can definitely try and go ahead to do what seems impossible to complete right now. I have my strategies lined up, the milestones are set. But, to hope from one milestone to another, I need a peppy and motivating plan. I need to incorporate things in my routine, which help me to enjoy this experience even more.

Because, the plan is to achieve each and every step that I take ahead for this marathon and if I fail to do so, there’s no point of participation.

My father always says, enjoy what you do and do it with full energy and enthusiasm. Since I am running a blog marathon right now, so I want to make sure that it doesn’t turn boring for me at any level. Hence, it is the time to do some peppy planning and enjoy the journey. Here we go!

Eat & Celebrate

The super duper exciting thing is that this is a blog marathon. As in you are running with words, hence there is no constraint on what you eat! Wow! This is awesome. I can sit here, much whatever I want to and enjoy running the marathon. Wuhuuu! I like such things, where there are no food restrictions. So here is the list of all what I am planning to munch and sip enjoy during the marathon:

·         Chips, of course

·         Nachos with cheese and tomato dip

·         French fries

·         Muffin

·         Juice

·         Chocolates

·         Candies

Wooah! What a marathon man, I can eat whatever I want to cause my words are running on my behalf.

The ambience

Since I am privileged enough to run a marathon while sitting in a room, I would choose to have an ambience. Surroundings which bring the best of my thoughts and keep me inspired enough to run until I cross all the milestones. Give me some scented candles, some soothing fragrance of fresh flowers and peaceful surroundings with cushions and curtains to make it look more exciting.

Music: Run Lola Run

The most important part of peppy planning for blog marathon is music. It is impossible to run without music and it is impossible to blog without music. There has to be right music to keep me going. Music has the power to transport you to a new era. It takes you to the zone, where you discover the beauty of invisible energies, the internal inspiration and motivation, the healing and the ability to carry on, even when there is no energy left in you.

So  it is the time to list down the music and preferences, which are going to be with me throughout the journey of blog marathon. 

 This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can  apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

Fighting the doubts back, with an IMPACT!

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Most of the dreams in this world do not come true, because the dreamer never tries to achieve them. What keeps the dreamer from chasing the beautiful dream, which doesn’t let her sleep? DOUBTS!

Doubts shaped in various forms, prevent us from chasing the dream we live for. The idea of fetching a dream into reality is very challenging but it is very much possible. Normally, dreams of people don’t come true. Not because it’s the fault with the dreams. But, because of people!

The dreamers don’t take responsibility of their dreams and they give up on them so easily. They are fooled by their doubts easily and hence no scope of trying.

But, every challenge comes with an opportunity. And we should not give up on trying. Because, if you give up on trying, you actually give up on your dreams! The journey to achieve your dreams my always not be fruitful the way you thought it would be, but it always brings you learning and experiences to count on.

Lights will guide you home-COLDPLAY has a beautiful sentence in it “but if you never try, you will never know”

This song inspires me to the core. It prepares me to deal with the worse but never stop. It’s okay to start late, but if you feel like doing it, just do it. Nothing should come between you and your dreams.

I have many dreams, but right now the most prominent one is running and completing with Blog Marathon the way I have planned. As I write this post, my shoulder aches and cries for rest because I have been working whole week long. But, I cannot give up now. Because, if I give up on trying, I give up on living!

I have my doubts. Earlier the doubt was that I am already late and should I even bother writing because the trophy already looks taken by the leaders on the board. But, I am glad that I fought back this doubt and I am writing for this marathon-With all the hopes to get appreciation and winning, but with no fear of losing… I am not worried if I lose. I would have been really worried if I had given up this marathon to my doubts.

There are many more doubts, trying to stop me halfway, but I am trying to get there. I have my strategy imprinted in my mind, my ideas streamlined and my courage guarded up to reach there! No I don’t see the finishing line, I see the next milestone. Here I come.

But if you never try, you will never know

Could it be worse

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones

*and this one goes to my dreams* And I will try and fix you.

 This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can  apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

Get Set Blog-Fantastico!

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Someone asked Milind Soman-The Iron Man that you have run Ironman Triathlon, how difficult it was? He replied-“No, the Ironman Triathlon was not difficult, the preparation was”.

With this inspiring comment from the ever young and gorgeous runner, I begin to write the first milestone post for the blog marathon, as per the strategy. I am nervous and may be far away from the finishing line, but I am focusing on the milestone. I am focusing on enjoying this journey and learning from it.

To run a marathon, you need strength in your feet, stamina in your body, and courage in your heart and will power in your conscience. Interestingly, to win a marathon, you just need to RUN A MARATHON.

Focus

When you are trying out something as overwhelming as a marathon, when thousands of people are running along with you, it is very common to lose focus. It is very easy to get distracted and most of the time, it leads to giving up!

The only way to not lose focus is to understand the beauty of a marathon. There is a great value in marathons; they are run by people for a cause. Most of the time, winning is not on the agenda. This is the only kind of race, where people come together for a reason, they run towards the finishing line to support a cause, reason or to uplift the society.

Discovering this fact surely helps me to understand the beauty of running a marathon. So, my focus should be on reaching my next milestone, without fail. My focus should be on collecting each piece of experience and learning, which would guide me in the path of life in the days to come.

Time Management

Time management is always a challenge, in life, in marathon, in hell, everywhere. Time is omnipresent. But, time is an illusion too. Encashing on this conflict, I would prefer to be fearless against the time. I would not buy the fact that I started late or finished earlier. I would just carry forward with my pace, aim at completing what I have started and leave no regrets of not doing it.

Its better late than never!

Hold on, Don’t let go

Holding on to the idea of being in the league is a challenge. As they say, you cannot achieve harmony until you have gone through chaos. But, it is difficult to deal with the chaos because all we desire is harmony, forever. So, believing that there will be peace after the chaos, the movement through the turmoil would be worth is a challenge. It is the time to hold on and keep blogging. I need to go by the strategy, no matter whatever tries to distract me.

So dear blogger in me, hold on, don’t let go!

 This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can  apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

Five Elements: Fantastico, Impact, Peppy, Music, Navigation

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As I begin to discover about five different elements, which define the Zica-new car by Tata, I interestingly find a co-relation of the same with five elements of human body.

Okay, maybe that’s only me or someone else could relate it like this but imagine- Fantastico, Impact, Peppy, Music and Navigation are five things that make this car ready to offer you a remarkable driving experience every time you try it. Similarly, human body is made out of five elements-Water, Air, Fire, Earth and Void. With all of these present in one human body, excellent performance of the body is ensured.

Now that I have to weave my story around the five elements of ZICA and for that I have to use my body made out of FIVE distinct elements mentioned above, I would choose to go ahead with a strategy.

Since it is a blog marathon so there has to be a series of posts. But, I would like to create milestones on the blog marathon track and achieve them. Confused? Let me explain it better:

The Strategy

There are five elements- Fantastico, Impact, Peppy, Music, Navigation, so I will consider each of them as a milestone.

I will write 1 post each element and try and cover all the learning and experiences through the same.

To run and keep running without any fear of failure, without any pressure of success, you need to deal with certain things. I will be talking about all those things in my blog marathon posts. Here are some of the highlighted ones:

·         Fighting with fear

·         Dealing with doubts

·         Channelizing energies

·         Utilizing knowledge

·         Experiencing failure

·         Churning out creativity

·         Keeping up the motivation

Life is a marathon

For me, life is a marathon and at each pit-stop or at each milestone, you learn something. Why life is marathon? Why not a race or not a walk? Well, race is generally a rush to reach to the finishing line, walk is little too relax. Life has its own pace of introducing new things, new people and new situations to you; life just not examines you for your speed but also examines you for your stamina. Hence, it is a marathon.

You keep on running; you keep on crossing milestones, building your own milestones and keep learning. You may not reach to the finishing line or you may not succeed at every step, but at every step you learn. Therefore, I would be sharing what all I have learnt during my blog’s marathon for this exciting contest.  

The idea is to think beyond the given challenges, lay down my milestones and work on them. It’s a marathon, everlasting, never-ending!

Milestone 1 FANTASTICO

Milestone 2 IMPACT

Milestone 3 PEPPY

Milestone 4 MUSIC

Milestone 5 NAVIGATION

Here we go!

 This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can  apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

Navigation: From Oblivion to IndiMarathon

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Hi, I am Piyu and I am from oblivion.

Why oblivion?

Why oblivion, Umm because I always shuttle between office-home-office. Interestingly, I have joined a weekend study program, so weekends are eliminated from my life. 7 days a week, 365 days a year, I am at work. In short, there’s no time to ventilate my mind with the things I like doing. So, I call this situation-Oblivion. No, I am not sad. I am just buys. Too busy to be sad even! But wait, I think I am not the only one.

Wait! I am not the only one!

In today’s busy pace of life, we all live in our little oblivion. Some call it cellphone too. But, oblivion is that little space, that zoned-out zone, where we are always available. But, we are missing from all the other places. We are not in that fine corner of our room with your favorite book, we are not standing in the balcony looking at the sky, and we don’t pay attention to the sunrise and sunset. The road to routine-rat-race has become our little oblivion.

But we have to get out of here…

Isn’t it dangerous to be in such a place, where life is too predictable and lame? Same, old and mundane routine followed? Okay some people are lucky enough to have a weekend break but I have my classes every weekend and hence, no break.

May Routine:

Here’s my weekly routine looks like:

Monday: Wake up, Feel low on energy, Freshen up, Have Breakfast, Rush to office, Work, Come Back, Eat, Sleep…

Tuesday: Copy that

Wednesday: Copy that

Thursday: Copy that

Friday: Copy that

Saturday: Wake up, Feel low on energy, Freshen up, Have Breakfast, Rush to classes, Study, Come Back, Eat, Sleep…

Sunday: Copy that

What do I miss?

·         Morning exercise

·         Evening cycling

·         Swimming

·         Blogging

·         Travelling

·         Lying down on the terrace and looking at the stars

·         Listening to my favorite music with a glass of wine

·         Driving in the rain with my favorite music

How do I feel?

There is chaos in this oblivion, there is dead silence in this oblivion, but there is no harmony. I sometimes feel that I should quit the routine and experience a routine breakdown! But how? I need inspiration.

And I discover the Indimarathon!

One fine day, I managed to sneak out from my oblivion state and enter into my blog-sphere. A place, which I have not been able to visit for quite a long time! It was so good to see the blog-sphere as happening as I left it the last time! Ah! Beautiful!

Hey wait! Is that a new contest, an activity or a cause… Oh oh oh! It is something new and exciting. Its Blogathon- as in blog marathon…IndiMarathon…Uh, I have always loved this blogging network for bringing such OUT OF THE BOX ideas, which thrill you enough to get out of your dead-oblivion zone.

The Navigation

But hey, wait! It’s quite a challenging challenge and I am not even prepared. Wait, the time is also running out. Half of the sands from the timer have also fallen. Should I even do it?

Yes, I should! Let’s navigation from Oblivion to Indimarathon.

Let me reintroduce myself, I am Piyu and I have just navigated from Oblivion to Indimarathon, successfully.

 This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can  apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

No Crash Dieting: Eat Clean Train Mean

The idea of dieting needs to be healthy eating. It is all about eating right and eating clean. You need not to fall in the trap of the thing called Crash Dieting. It is not at all a good idea, neither for your body/skin, nor for your mind/soul.

Before you begin to think of the term dieting, you should be ready to read a lot about the nutrition methods and right kinds of food that you should eat. Human body is designed to consume healthy carbs, protein, minerals, vitamins and fat etc. You cannot deny anything to your body that it really deserves. However, balancing the portion aka amount of eating any of these components is your duty. You cannot end up eating carbs and fat loaded food all the day just because you like it. You need to have a balanced diet, which not only turns your body healthier than before, but also makes your skin glow. 

The perfect combo

The idea of perfect combination for leading a healthy lifestyle includes having a perfect mix of eating and workout in your routine life. If you do exercises without fail and eat healthy food then nothing can stop you from being healthy and leading a lifestyle, which you truly deserve. 

It has been proved and certified by health and nutrition experts that people, who do basic cardio, little bit of strength training and eat healthy and nutritious food then they definitely get strong muscles, better metabolism, sculpted body and younger looking skin. 

What exactly is eating right?

Okay! Okay! Yes, you have read the term Eating Right multiple times up there and now you really want to know that what exactly Eating Right means? Well, it is nothing but replacing the junk and unhealthy food with healthier, better and tastier options. How? Read below:

Replace Sugar with Honey. Yes body requires glucose, so give it only that it requires. Giving it extra sugar in the wake of making your tongue's taste better might cause you big harm. Unused sugar transforms into unhealthy or harmful compound for your body. Honey diet will add awesomeness to your life for sure

Replace junk with oats, fruits and salad: Junk food might sound interesting to the tongue but it causes a lot of trouble to your entire body. It is an unnecessary load for your digestion system and disturbs the entire setup of your body. 

Eat right food at the right time: Now that you know what is right food, you should choose the right time for eating too. If you want a healthy, fit and lean body, you cannot eat in the odd hours. Have your dinner before 8 or maximum 9. Stop mid night munching and yes never skip on the breakfast. Try to include healthier elements in your meals. Always have 4-5 meals in a Day, including Mid-day snacks and evening snacks. Hey, snacking doesn't mean the fried stuff or random junk. Choose healthy options and celebrate being fit. 

Say No No to Crash Dieting

If you think of getting fat free in few days and you begin to starve your body like anything, then it might help you in losing some pounds but that would definitely not the fat but the muscles. Losing the muscles is the most painful thing one can experience. It will make you look older and the charm of your skin will go away.

Still hungry? Get some healthy recipes here http://www.daburhoney.com/

Cheers Indiblogger

Switch before it sucks the hell out of you!

There were days, when we had the liberty to bunk school and tuition classes to catch up with the match, but nowadays, it is not possible. Sometimes, we are stuck with the traffic; sometimes other responsibilities make us sideline the plans of enjoying a match we used to do few years back. Golden Days they were.

But, now it seems that technology with all its powers have taken the responsibility to guide us back to those Golden Days or to be precise bring those Golden Days back in our hands. We can catch up with the favorite cricket match live online through our laptops, computers, mobile screens and tabs. If your eyes are busy, you can listen to the live commentary online or if not this than at least you can keep a check with the score updates and highlights. Wow, sounds amazing.  But wait; before we begin to enjoy the benefits of technology, you actually face the bumps on the road. Yes. The bumps! The speed breakers!

Internet Speed: Sucks!

Browser Compatibility: Sucks harder!

When the videos are buffering and pages are loading, it is a challenge to figure out that how to kill time. Staring at the screen could be one thing to do, but which is very lame and sounds unproductive. Therefore, smart people like me often choose to pass faulty comments on all the internet broadband services, the browser, the neighbors, the Government of the country, ex-boy friend/girlfriend or the friend, who ditched you and what not.

The idea is that when our internet or browser sucks, we are stuck with a situation, where we cannot do anything. ANYTHING but express the inner frustration through words. The frustration is at its highest when you are trying to watch a cricket match online and the buffering thing comes up. Imagine the chaos your body undergoes, when you choose to watch the match in bits and pieces.

Switch before it sucks the hell out of you!

Switch to a better internet connection but remember that will only solve half of the problem. You also need a browser with super speed to make sure that your videos run in real time, so no BUFFERING! And, upload and download your favorite stuff through the web, without facing any LOADING issues.

UC Browser is designed to deal with all the major problems you face while mingling your eyes with the most favorite cricket match live on the show. Fall in love with the idea of experiencing the new world of watching cricket matches online in real time without any buffering or loading. UCCricket is the dedicated feature designed for this browser. You can download it online for your computer and Smartphone having any of the major operating systems.

Curious to know more about UC Browser and UCCricket? Watch this video dude.

Hey Indiblogger, cheers dude :)

Co-incidences and beyond

What's the difference between 'co- incidence' and 'miracle'? May be a thin line of perception. How we see things and how we believe in them. As many authors and great people have firmly said in their writings and through other artistic & communicative works that 'only what you believe in, is true.'

Today I bring such an event from my life which happened few hours ago and it made me think that how should I take that particular episode just a random 'co- incidence' and 'miracle'? Though I am a person,  who likes to believe in miracles. But for this situation, I am too overwhelmed to decide on something!

One of my respected and finest gurus (teachers) yesterday handed over two books to me about photography. Since he understands my interest in photography and always wants me to learn more, he suggested me to go through the books precisely. I would like to take a moment and thank my life and its creator to bless me with such wonderful teachers.

I flipped through the book several time and the photograph that captured my maximum attention was a young girl running naked on the street...terrified,  followed by few armymen and other kids in the background.

The picture belonged to Vietnam war...I stared at it, found myself almost lost in the ashes of war history. When I was tired of flipping through the book I placed it aside with the firm idea to open it up next day. This all happened on 22 June 2015.

And on 23 June 2015, I discovered a news piece about a lady named Kim Phuc in 'Rewind-Where they are now' series by CNN. You can read the entire story here.

The news piece talks about a 52 year old lady Kim Phuc, who happens to be the naked girl in this picture. This picture is 43 years old and  get to discover it in a book given by teacher on the same day this story is published by CNN. I can't just name it plain co-incidence and walk away. Neither am I trying to name it a Miracle. I am rather concerned about knowing and exploring that why I encountered about this in such a way that I get maximum notice of this particular story. What's life planning for me?

Anyways, back to the picture and Kim Phuc. She survived the thrashes of was but scars are still imprinted on her body and soul. She says that those events of war still haunt her mind but her heart is healed and she has learned to forgive. She says, "I realized that if I couldn't escape that picture, I wanted to go back to work with that picture for peace. And that is my choice."

What a beautiful massage a war victim has given here. The idea is to call for peace and end the war. Kim now runs a foundation for victims of war and underprivileged children by the name Kim Foundation. She is also 

The photograph was taken by Nick Ut, who was a seasonal war photographer and the photograph managed to appear on the headlines of many newspapers in 1972. 

I don't know what is the purpose of me exploring all this. But, I am sure about one thing that this incidence has increased my curiosity about reading the book that Rajinder Sir gave me and of course more about Vietnam war. Cheers :)

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