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faisaldfstuff-blog · 6 years ago

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How important are your parents?

Well, for starters, they brought you into this world. Took care of you not just because they gave you birth but they were totally besotted by your innocence, the fact that you were a part of them became an afterthought. Have they become an afterthought in your lives? A source of negativity, sadness and even a burden? Let's ponder and retrospect over what really happens versus what should.

Being the eldest child, I was always tolerated a lot more. My younger sibling didn't get the leeway I got for the simple reason being the inexperience of my parents at handling children. I was allowed the luxury of doing whatever I wanted and as I live now I'm a reflection of the freedom I was allowed when younger. My younger brother was also given a lot of freedom but lessons were learnt and he took the blunt of it more than I did. Some good, some not very good.Not sure about others, but I never thought that my parents would get older and their requirements would change.

There comes a point where you feel that they have this obligation towards you where they have to always be there for you, pull you out of the waters, be this shoulder to lean on, the biggest pool of advice. They have known you your whole life. They gave you birth.

Bill payments:

Our parents didn't just pay our bills. They were there every step of the way - emotionally, physically and mentally. How come we think we are great children because we are contributing more from our pockets? Most parents, being proud people may not be very open when it comes to asking their children for help. Depending on the financial status, they may or may not ask for monetary assistance but their old age requirements are almost always taken for granted.

Hiring a maid or servant is not enough. Spending an hour after work is a good start but not enough.

All religions advocate taking care of one's parents when they reach their old age but forget religion for one second, think logic.

They took care of us in every sense of the word when we were helpless, isn't it an obligation and a duty that we do the same when they have reached their childhood again?

Various stages of life:

Birth-->Childhood-->Adolescence-->Middle age-->Childhood-->Helplessness

One might add useless and worthless but that is just not fair because they should have you to lean on for comfort in their time of need especially given they were there for you.

Knowledge cycle

Our parents gave birth to us when they were in their twenties or thirties.. So basically, they acquired knowledge about you, your preferences, good/bad, what works and what doesn't , say from they were 22-45 or 28-51 years old.

They had acquired knowledge about you when they were adults. Research says the best age to learn, be it by reading or mere observation and action is your formative age - the age group of 5-20. This is the time when we learn how to read, write, play, observe and act.

This is also the age when we are absorbing knowledge about our parents. What they like, what's good for them, what doesn't ,what foods work on their body , their lifestyle and what they consider being treated with dignity and respect.

If you really, ask yourself, you would be surprised at the amount of knowledge that you possess about them. Shouldn't it therefore make sense to be at their side when they are older especially when there is nobody else that knows them like you know them?

Age table:

Age vs true age in terms of maturity, care and attention required.

Age True Age

00-10 --- 00-10

10-20 --- 10-20

20-40 --- 30-50

50-70 --- 20-10

70-90 --- 10-1

The initial part depends on various factors, how you have been brought up, lifestyle, your preferences if you are an athletic person vs a video game lover. The middle age is a reflection of how you have aged so if you are obese and haven't quite lived an athletic life, didn't watch what you ate, then you are really 30-50 when your real age is between 20-40.

As you grow older though, mentally you get younger. Our wishes and desires don't follow logic and you want what you want. Stubbornness, childishness and in some cases incoherence are the predominant qualities.

When your parents are in the age groups of 50-70 (true age 20-10) and 70-90 (true age 10-1), are you going to transfer the work that only you can do because of your vast knowledge about them to a third party? Remember, paying bills is not enough.

General excuses:

I don't have time

A maid or servant can better take care of them

Their needs are different

They have special homes for this age

Wait, the best one, this is what they want.

Really?

Where is your loyalty gone?

When it comes to selecting your bride/groom, you were adamant with your choices. Clothes, type of food, lifestyle was always to your preference, now suddenly when mom and dad can't bring themselves to ask for help and are magnanimous enough to say - you live your life, your way- you become the quintessential obedient child!

The nice agyakari boy, eh? Very convenient.

There's no excuse. There cannot be a good one for sure.

Everybody wants a share of the property. Children get very dramatic when it comes to their share and how they are the heir apparent but nobody wants to bear the work of their parents' old age.Nobody can hear anything negative said about them, yet when it comes to yelling at them out of frustration, there's no holding back.

They were there for you in your formative age but when it comes to their old age they are treated as who they have become - worthless and useless?

Much to ponder. Much to improve.

They may need money but more than that they want the satisfaction of having raised good children who are loyal enough to look after them much like they looked after you.Remember, what goes around, comes around.

Are you ready to face your deeds?

#Parents #Children #ModernTimes #Love #Respect #Culture #Itsallaboutlovingyourparents

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faisaldfstuff-blog · 6 years ago

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How I lost 41 Kgs

This is not meant to be an inspirational blog but more about some techniques that I feel can help everybody. You really don’t have to exercise a lot to lose weight but the input is where almost all of your focus needs to be.

Around October of last year, I had made up my mind that I WILL drop weight as it had reached astronomical figures of close to 150 kgs, about 60 more than what it was supposed to be (90) .

Despite the fact that I have lost so much of weight in the last 12 months, the journey is still on and would be on for quite some time if I want to do it right.

Before I proceed further, want to get it out there that I’m not a nutritionist and don’t recommend anybody reading this to follow this to the tee. My weight was getting to a point where I had to lose weight to avoid further damage and had to take a chance.

Below are some of the things I did that you can try:

Food instinct:

What is your instinct towards food?

I have always loved my food, right from when I was a little boy. As I grew older, my emotional connect with good also grew. All of us a have a different connection with food. You could be one of the below:

You eat to survive and not get distracted at work

This is ideally where we need to be, simply eat sufficient to carry on with our daily tasks. The food need for our bodies in terms of quantity isn’t much. For example: If you have 100 gms. of boiled peanuts (about 350 calories), it would be sufficient for a good 4-5 hours whereas feasting on a biryani would make you feel so full that it may put you to sleep

You eat because you want to be full and gratified till there’s no space left

Clearly, I fall in this bucket. There was an emotional connect with food, the point was to not just eat but to destroy, empty and finish its existence. Almost like giving a fitting reply to hunger - “Here’s to you hunger, what are you going to do now!”

For some , eating is a task which is worth it ONLY if the food is tasty. You have to like what you do, right? Same rule applies to eating, the more you like, the more you eat. I realized that this relationship needed to be altered.

You don’t care because your metabolism is naturally good

These folks are lucky plain and simple. Enough said.

Habit change:

It’s damn near impossible to change who we are and have been for the best part of our lives. It’s just not possible. As we grow older, we can only modify habits to suit your eating trait.

For example: If you always eat till you are full, simply eat your favorite fruit, vegetable and Prove Your Love for it :)

It sounds funny but this is what worked for me. I always loved drinking water so it was time to prove my affection for it. I survived on water melons, ladies finger, carrots,cucumbers, peanuts and about 4-5 litres of water for a good three months. Needless to say, the results were great initially as I lost about 25 kilos. Then it began to stay there until I decided to exercise a little but most importantly I added protein to my diet. Just stopping the carbohydrates may lead you to gain back all of your lost weight. This is where protein helps.

I love my fried chicken, so I simply replaced the regular sunflower oil with extra virgin olive oil, reduced the salt and spice a little bit but again I had to prove my love for it - So I started surviving on it for a few weeks. The thing with chicken is its low on carbohydrates and high on protein - arguably the cheapest source of protein. Drank plenty of water because protein digestion requires a lot of work on the inside.

Salads:

Cucumber and carrot were always my favorite but making that a whole meal was tough, so I added things to it to make it tasty yet healthy. Things like lemon, peanuts, chicken pieces, sometimes curry. Be wary of the quantities, about 80% of it needs to remain just carrots and cucumbers!

Stay away from pure sources of carbohydrates like rice and roti while on a weight loss program. I know people talk a lot about having cheat meals but it didn’t work for me. The more I cheated, the more I felt like cheating even more.

Muscle memory makes you do things, tweak it to your advantage.

Traction and Routine:

All of us have routines, something we do to gain momentum and repeatedly do to accomplish our tasks. I created a new one - counting my calories and water intake.

Ideally, exercise should also be on the list but I was never an athletic person so I let it pass. Like I said, don’t change who you are, identify what you love, best calorific value and simply live on it.

Some of my best practices are below:

Drink a liter of water with EVERY meal

Have about 4-5 meals a day

Make a note of the time you are getting up and when you sleep (for me, this was about 16 hours of up-time and 8 hours of sleep). The longer you are up, the more you would feel the need to eat. For example: Say you get up at 6 am in the morning and sleep by 10 Pm.. At any point in the day, measure how many hours have passed and how many are left before you know you will go to sleep. Plan your food accordingly.

I did not give myself a break until months into my diet, gradually I lost about 35 kgs and currently trending at 41 kgs (currently at 108 kgs) but there’s miles to go - about 20 kgs to be precise

Use muscle memory to your advantage:

See Biryani, destroy its existence, right? Don’t have it.

Survive on fruits, salad, chicken, water - stuff you love but low on calories. Because this wasn’t a habit earlier, your body wouldn’t know what to do - feed your body with new data so that a new muscle memory is created

Don’t change who you are, just prove your love for what you like!

There’s got to be something that you like which may be (even accidentally) healthy and with a lesser calorific value.

Find it, Eat it and Destroy Its existence! :)

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faisaldfstuff-blog · 6 years ago

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Dhoni - an asset or a liability?

This is a controversial topic for many.

The man who has given India two world cups, rose the team to be #1 in Tests from almost nowhere , won us our first and only champions trophy, groomed several players under his watch including the likes of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja among others and not to mention several IPL crowns for the CSK franchise (it’s the most consistent team in IPL history). Cricket, they say is a great leveler - his form is waning, his concentration is on the decline, his instincts with the bat are not the same - why then should he be chosen as our #1 wicket-keeper for the world cup?

Experience:

A wise man once said, experience is the hair that live gives you when you are bald. Another one said selecting Dhoni or anybody for that matter solely on basis of his reputation is a blemish on his career and even the criterion for selection into any team.

The things one normally looks at when selecting a side are two F’s - Form and Fitness. There shouldn’t be any other criteria.

Sure, he has played more than 320 ODI matches captaining about 200 of those, 90 test matches again as captain for more than half of those, arguably the best finisher the cricketing world has ever seen - and in fact I don’t think anybody thought there was an art called finishing in cricket before him, always was see ball - hit ball towards the end, his instinct for the game, judging match conditions and play according to it, motivate players, literally handhold them in some cases, believing in himself to take the game to the very end, taking tough calls and the list goes on and on and on, much like his career.

Is all of the above the only reason for his selection? Let’s delve more.

Core job:

What is the core job of a developer? Develop code. What is the core job of a doctor? Well, be good at his job and hopefully cure patients .

Would you ever agree that a core developer must also be good at testing or worse deploying in an environment that he has no knowledge from a compatibility point-of-view?

How about a doctor? So if he’s a neurologist, should he be good at matters of cardio too? Sure, it helps to know a little bit. Cricket though, is a funny game and you have to know more than your core skill. Same is the case with wicket-keeping especially in Indian cricket.

Back in the 90′s, I remember a wicket-keeper’s key role was to be the best wicket-keeper i.e. don’t do anything that gets you noticed negatively. Don’t drop a catch, miss a stumping, don’t concede byes - basically be alert , have strong instincts, be fit and most importantly be reliable as its tough to create chances to get a wicket, missing out is surely unacceptable.

Then came a man called Adam Gilchrist of Australia. He was such an attacking batsman especially in the limited overs version of the game that batting almost became a core skill for any wicket keeper. This is certainly unfair as an extra skill can not and should not be given so much importance. But, you have to agree that one has to change with the changing times and get better to compete with the rest, the competition is surely cut-throat.

Then came another man called Mahendra Singh Dhoni simply called MS in the cricketing fraternity these days - to me that stands for Most Skillful. Gilchrist was an opening batsman and literally killed the bowlers in the first half of the game unlike Dhoni who came in at 6 or sometimes even 7 to simply finish off games.

Before the advent of Dhoni, the art of finishing an innings was unheard of (at least to my knowledge). Sure, there were middle order batsman like Michael Bevan, Ajay Jadeja, Moin Khan, Lance Klusener who did really well closing an innings - if it was the first innings, they gave the ball a good whack towards the end of the innings, seeing the team through when they were batting second. They were known for those things but the role of a finisher wasn’t clearly defined in the sense it was more like the batsman at #6 was merely an extra batsman if the top-order failed, gave the team that extra cushion. Nothing more than that, usually it was a player who could bowl a bit.

The selection of Dhoni was in the season of wicket-keeper selections in India. When Nayan Mongia was left out (nobody still really knows why), we tried several wicket keepers - Saba Karim, Deep Das Gupta, Ajay Ratra, Sameer Dighe, Rahul Dravid (he donned the gloves for a long time), MSK Prasad just to name a few. Thankfully, we haven’t needed anybody since MS.

It must not be forgotten that a wicket-keeper core job is to WICKET-KEEP, not bat or save a team. He is surely expected to be a better batsman than the tail but at best he should be looked upon as a steady reliable batsman who doesn’t throw his wicket away.

Don’t drop catches, be alert behind the stumps, don’t miss stumping opportunities and just be quick and alert. THAT is and will forever remain a wicket-keeper’s core job. The extra shenanigans are always great but who would pick a wicket-keeper who can bat but is poor behind the stumps? This is the reason why Parthiv Patel hasn’t been playing cricket for India on a regular basis.

Age and its natural justice:

As we grow older our reflexes slow down, our mind gets this disease of analyzing everything, is too careful and the fearlessness of youth is gone.

I remember when my kid was two years old, she was trying to grab this metal piece or beach rock from the top cupboard. It was about 4 feet above the bed and she kept climbing my tummy using it as a means to get to it. I wasn’t letting her get there scared that she might end up hurting herself. Was also playing with her just to see if she’ll get there eventually despite the obstacles thrown in her way. She did the same thing over and over again, would put her foot on my tummy and I kept holding her down. She tried different things and kept failing, it got to a point where I gave up unable to cope up with her energy and will. Then, I realized a very simple thing - I had forgotten to never stop trying!

I began to wonder, how did this kid all of two years know never to stop trying. She won, I lost. It is obvious The Creator gave this knowledge to her by default. All of us have it but somehow manage to forget it or just don’t try long and differently enough.

It’s important to do things differently when our tried methods are not working. This comes with experience as long as you don’t give up.

This swash buckling batsman at #6 who won India many many games many many times, who has a record of seeing the team through 9 times out of 10 at his peak in any innings or situation was suddenly failing too often.

His form, the numbers and especially the strike rate saw a huge drop. Almost by half! The naysayers and the naive called for his head and wanted to drop him from the team - they call themselves the realists whose opinions are not formed on emotion, who don’t tempted by Dhoni’s experience, laurels, his history and what he brings to the table. Nope! They are so practical and real that they forget that his role can be altered, his experience can be utilized differently, his instinct and knowledge can be put to use in other areas. His strike rate and instincts have dropped but his core skill of wicket-keeping is getting better and better. His hand-holding of the spinners, his sharp eye behind the stumps enabling him to look at the entire ground, his DRS referrals have been dare I say, 100% accurate. Not 99% but 100%! He says refer, you refer. He says don’t, you just don’t, when he says he’s not sure, it’s better if you don’t unless you somehow had a better angle of what happened.

Innings builder and the reinvention:

In my opinion, the way he is playing these days makes him a perfect fit for #4, surely not above, definitely not below.

What is the role of a #4? Play well in the middle overs, hold one end in a stable manner, let the openers (or #3) play their natural game, play with the lower middle order, the finishers and dictate the innings based on match situation and pitch conditions. Respect the bowler and disrespect when the ball is their to be hit.

Though the margin for a lower strike rate is difficult to digest in the current limited overs setup especially with the advent of T20 cricket, there is still room for that grafter, that player who is reliable, who has that innings-building ability, who promoted himself up the order at #4 when he was captain knowing full well that his finishing prowess was not the same, who wanted to take Indian cricket forward enabling another player to play the finishers role in the build-up to the 2019 world cup. Not a lot of people remember this period (this was just before him quitting the ODI captaincy back in 2015-2016 season), some conveniently forget.

His experience, self awareness, his instinct - that anybody that played with him and watched him play was in awe, his professional nuance made that decision.

Sum-Total:

The complete package of experience, numbers, ability to reinvent himself - the hair that life gave him when he was bald, the light that his experience provides to the youngsters (even the captain) much like his gray stubble between the very little black hair- is the value Dhoni provides to Indian cricket heading into the 2019 world cup.

Would you drop the absolute best WICKET-KEEPER in the world just because his extra skill is not the same?

Shrewd businessman or an emotional fan - which one are you?

#Dhoni #Age #Wicket-keeper #worldcup2019 #Indian Cricket #MS #Finisher #Innings-builder #Strike rate #Opinion

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faisaldfstuff-blog · 6 years ago

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India’s first ever series win in Aus was bigger than world cup - Really?

The test series win against Australia in Australia was surely a matter of pride. After all, never in the history of Indian cricket was such a feat achieved. Despite that I’m not convinced with the brouhaha over it.

Our Series Win

So, we did it! Our first series win against Australia in their own backyard.

Back in 1999, I remember getting up in the mornings almost scared at the thought of playing Australia in a Test in their own conditions. Besides Sachin Tendulkar, there weren’t any players of considerable repute at the time. Ganguly and Dravid had just come in (about two years) but this was their first tour down-under. We were blanked 3-0 with Sachin being the only player from India to have done well. He was the highest run-scorer in the series.I remember the decision to announce him as the Man-Of-The-Series didn’t sit well with the Aussies. I don’t know if I agree with that decision either but his was truly the most remarkable performance in the series, albeit in a losing cause.

After that series, we have improved, of that there is no question. With at least a win or a draw in each of the series that followed the 1999 tour. This performance in 2019 is surely the hallmark, our best performance without a doubt but let’s get the elephant out of the room - two of the most prolific batsman Australia (probably ever) in Warner and Smith weren’t playing. Let’s analyse this a little bit:

We won the first test match by 31 runs

Australia won the second by 146 runs

We won the third by 137 runs

The last test was a draw predominantly because of rain

The Difference:

In my opinion, the first match was the difference maker as the second and third tests went - one to our side and the other to theirs almost by the same margin. Assuming Warner and Smith had played and I know hindsight is 20:20, do you think the result would have been different?

I think the result of the first test, at the very least would have been different. What would’ve the scoreline been if the odds were reversed,India losing by 2-1 ? It would have been another lost opportunity much like our tours of a full strength SA (with ABD, FAF,Philander) and England (with Root, Anderson,Broad).

I understand the result of the test series against England (which we lost by an unfair margin of 4-1) was not a true reflection of what happened and Root even acknowledged that in a chat immediately after the 5th test with Kohli. It sure was closer but the difference between the two sides was England’s never-give-up attitude and our new-found weakness of not being able to finish off the tail. I’m not sure if we can confidently say that we have taken giant strides in crippling the opposition or cleaning up the lower-order either. Australia got as close as they did in the first match because of their lower order who never gave up. It is this latter quality of Australia that almost convinces me of our defeat if they Australia had the services of Warner and Smith.

If Australia were to win in India when we are without Kohli and Pujara, would you think of it as huge? I know I wouldn’t. This is the thing with statistics, they tell you a lot but they don’t tell you everything.

Kohli and Shastri have said that this is their biggest win ever, including the ODI World Cup victories which they were a part of in 2011 and 1983 respectively. Something about that just doesn’t sound right.

I think its the emotion of finally have gotten there for the first time in 70 years and their subconscious literally telling the whole world “Don’t forget, we got here first”.

It’s almost like their legacy would be defined by this win and they want to be remembered for this especially when they weren’t captain of their respective sides in 1983 (Kapil Dev) and 2011 (MS Dhoni).

I would love to know if they would still call this series victory their biggest win ever if India go on to win the 2019 ODI World Cup (which most likely will have Warner and Smith).

The Positives:

Our fast bowlers:

The biggest positive that has come out of our cricket this season has been the emergence of our fast bowlers. Bumrah, Ishant, Shami, Bhuvneshwar with Yadav playing a supporting role.

The number of overs they have bowled and the fitness levels they have maintained (minus Bhuvi who was out injured for a little while) is truly commendable and the comparison with the great West Indian fast bowlers is not an exaggeration (although the quicks from windies created an aura based on their consistency to find such bowlers for an entire era). I wish and pray that we find such bowlers when our current quartet has played their time.

Cheteshwar Pujara:

Pujara has clearly taken his game to another level. His ability to bat, bat and bat is probably making Australia think - how do we find a player who wears the baggy green to possibly bat like this? No Smith or Warner can match the style of a Pujara. His ability to grind and concentrate for long periods of time is truly unique and equally commendable.

The negatives:

Our Openers:

Our openers issue still hasn’t been resolved. We thought we’d open with Shaw and Rahul - two-aggressive Aussie like batsman who love the ball coming onto the bat. Unfortunately, Shaw got injured and Rahul is clearly not the player that played the IPL 2018 (or even when he came on the Aus tour last time when he got a hundred in only his second match) . .

We were almost forced to stick to Rahul and Vijay (who is clearly past his prime and most likely would hang his boots in a year or so) .. Then came Mayank Agarwal !

The way he played, he reeked of confidence, self-belief and courage.

Given, that he has only played two test matches so far but he has shown that he belongs at the top level. The Australian bowling with their menacing pace bowlers and their shrewd off-spinner is quite possibly the best in the world (with the only other comparison being India) and to have made your debut here in trying circumstances was probably one of the main reasons we won the series.

Vihari’s performance shouldn’t be discounted, he survived about 20 overs and allowed the Kohlis and the Pujaras to have formidable partnerships in the third test. That really shifted the tide in India’s favor however it looks like Vihari’s elevation to being an opener was a stop-gap arrangement as he was immediately replaced with Rahul in the next match when Rohit Sharma was unavailable (I think him leaving after being conveyed the news that he had become a father was unprofessional unless of course his wife or daughter’s life was in danger. This was the series decider after all).

It seems like the way-forward would be Shaw and Mayank . . BUT there are some problems.

Shaw is yet to be tested in foreign conditions, Mayank is just two matches old, Rahul is not even half the player he was, Vijay is nearing retirement and is big time out-of form, Dhawan is a flat-track-bully.

Where is the stability?

Spinners:

Who exactly is our #1 spinner?

I’m talking about away series where in most cases, you can only play one. Ashwin is clearly not because he can barely remain fit. He breaks up at the drop of a hat - we saw it in SA, England and Australia. Is he only restricted to showing his magic and top fitness standards in India when he’s picking a bucket full of wickets? Jadeja is great, bundles of energy, ability and discipline but he’s someone, like most finger spinners, needs the pitch to help him. Kuldeep Yadav is good and is a very different type of spinner but not currently at the level to be our #1 spinner.

I understand that its always horses-for-courses i.e. we will pick the spinner based on conditions but the question of being #1 spinner has to be sorted fast especially when playing outside of Asia.

Inconsistency of our #5:

Rahane has blown hot and cold this whole season.Don’t recall him scoring a century in a very long time now.

An odd inning here and another one there is not enough. Needs to be more consistent. It seems like he no longer knows what his game is or what to do. The third test, where he scored an impressive 70 and another fifty before that, saw a very different version of him. It was almost like Rahane was trying to break the shackles and intentionally be aggressive because didn’t know any other way to claw out.

Warner and Smith:

Warner would have replaced Aaron Finch and Smith either Shaun Marsh or Travis Head (or both based on how good Smith is and how susceptible Marsha and Head looked).

In my honest opinion, India played really well to take 70 wickets this series and we owe most of those wickets to our pace attack but if Smith and Warner were around, I don’t think the result would have been the same.

Add that to our issues with the openers, the lack of a #1 spinner, our inconsistent #5, our clear inability to finish off the tail - What do you think the result would've been?

To rank this series’ win above our ODI World Cup victories is definitely an exaggeration and was said in a state of emotional euphoria.

Case Closed.

#Warner #Smith #IndiavAus #Biggerthanworldcupisanexxageration #SHastri #rochak kohli #commercial #Brouhaha #Indian Cricket #Analysis #Rahane #Ashwin #Jadeja #Kuldeep

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faisaldfstuff-blog · 6 years ago

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How I lost 41 Kgs

Around October of last year, I had made up my mind that I WILL drop weight as it had reached astronomical figures of close to 150 kgs, about 60 more than what it was supposed to be (90) .

Despite the fact that I have lost so much of weight in the last 12 months, the journey is still on and would be on for quite some time if I want to do it right.

Below are some of the things I did that you can try:

Food instinct:

What is your instinct towards food?

You eat to survive and not get distracted at work

You eat because you want to be full and gratified till there’s no space left

You don’t care because your metabolism is naturally good

These folks are lucky plain and simple. Enough said.

Habit change:

It’s damn near impossible to change who we are and have been for the best part of our lives. It’s just not possible. As we grow older, we can only modify habits to suit your eating trait.

For example: If you always eat till you are full, simply eat your favorite fruit, vegetable and Prove Your Love for it :)

Salads:

Muscle memory makes you do things, tweak it to your advantage.

Traction and Routine:

All of us have routines, something we do to gain momentum and repeatedly do to accomplish our tasks. I created a new one - counting my calories and water intake.

Some of my best practices are below:

Drink a liter of water with EVERY meal

Have about 4-5 meals a day

I did not give myself a break until months into my diet, gradually I lost about 35 kgs and currently trending at 41 kgs (currently at 108 kgs) but there's miles to go - about 20 kgs to be precise

Use muscle memory to your advantage:

See Biryani, destroy its existence, right? Don’t have it.

Don’t change who you are, just prove your love for what you like!

There’s got to be something that you like which may be (even accidentally) healthy and with a lesser calorific value.

Find it, Eat it and Destroy Its existence! :)

#Weightloss #MyDiet #Notanexpert #Myexperience #Salads #ProveYourLove #Healthy #Focus #Discipline

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faisaldfstuff-blog · 7 years ago

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Poem - It’s been a week

It’s been a week,It’s been a week,

Water flowing through the creek.

Doesn’t seem like yesterday, seems much longer,

I walk, diet, exercise but just don’t feel stronger.

Someone came, did what they had to,

Left without a trace breaking everything through and through.

This isn’t fair, cannot possibly be right,

Oh their filth, their strength and their super might!

Fear they have not, being down has never been their endeavor,

They don’t give a damn, therefore no longer a believer.

Who said, time heals all, that’s not a fact,

What’s close to being true is that I may have a tear spewing cataract.

They have gotten so accustomed to the new life,

Ignoring galore, cruelty reigning, still rise and thrive.

Be afraid and have fear,

There will be a time when no one would be near.

Don’t forget the 6x4 which is our abode for unknown time,

You would be asked questions for everything including the current crime.

You may be in my prayer,

Despite it not sounding fair.

There are things that I can control with ease,

But this one I’m trying to cease.

Not sure what this will lead to,

It may very well be a life in seclusion, free of wants and a black view.

This view is of the ground and mud,

People walking all over you, thud-thud.

You will cry for help, shout at the top of your voice,

Little would you know that you’re being punished for your own choice.

As long as you drive your life in that foreign beehive,

Do not ignore the ones who barely survive.

Fulfill the rights of those who think of you everyday,

It’s getting to the point that’s difficult to convey.

I haven’t spoken, nor have heard your voice,

May you truly feel what I feel and pay the ultimate price.

I still wish, still hope and still pray,

For not that I have faith in you, but trust in Him will create a way.

Reminiscing the old times is what occupies my mind,

Until the time I’m reminded of your actions of being the unkind.

There is still time, pick up the communicator,

Stop being the cold hearted, self-proclaimed superior.

For I will not allow you to walk all over me,

To hell with whether you agree or disagree.

Stay where you are but dialogue with me,

I have been there too but this wasn’t me.

It’s been a week,It’s been a week,

Water flowing through the creek.

Doesn’t seem like yesterday, seems much longer,

I walk, diet, exercise but just don’t feel stronger.

#Poem #It'sbeenaweek #Sadness #Vindication #Faith #Grave #Karma #Love #Friendship #Justice #NoReferencetoreligion

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faisaldfstuff-blog · 7 years ago

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Indian cricket - some bold decisions need to be made

This blog is about Indian cricket, what can be done better in the current tour of Australia, team combinations,what went wrong, Virat Kohli as captain and what India should do to win more overseas.

First things first, we really got the team combination wrong in the second test at Perth. Traditionally, the conditions at Perth support fast bowling as the pitch supports good aggressive bowling where the ball reaches the keeper almost at shoulder height and the ball skids quickly off the pitch. Pace and bounce was never our forte until now where suddenly out of the blue we have been able to extract great bowlers from the likes of the Bumrahs, Shamis, Ishants, Bhuvis and even Umesh Yadav. Granted that IPL has certainly helped when it comes to unearthing these great talents but what’s surprising to see is we never had great fast bowlers to look up to.

Kapil Dev was a fast bowling all-rounder and Srinath was never the king-pin but a very decent, ‘I’ll give my 100%” bowler. Therefore, I use the term suddenness than thoughtful, strategic and natural production. Hurrah to the rise of fast bowlers though. Did we need them bad or what?

Virat Kohli totally got the team combination wrong in the second test, playing four fast bowlers on any pitch is not a good option. There needs to some variety, regardless of the conditions with very few exceptions being rank turners which one usually gets in the Asian subcontinent. I don’t want this to make a regular “Jadeja should have played instead of Umesh” argument, want this to be a little more concise and detailed. Let’s dive into it a little deeper with what the team combination should have been, not just for the last test match (which we lost badly) but the overall series.

Rohit Sharma should have been our opener for this series. Him and Prithvi Shaw, in my opinion, would almost have been perfect. It is well-known that Rohit has failed miserably in the longer format of the game but he should be playing where he’s had the most success in all forms of the game - At the top of the order - As an Opener

I also understand that test cricket is a different ballgame compared to the ODIs and T20 but you need intent and sustenance at the top. Sharma may not be the best technically but when you have the best opener in the world, why not try him at the top in the Test format too? Who thought that Sehwag would become a great opener? Didn’t he literally throw the rule book out first thing in the morning, all mornings of his entire career?

Rohit is a better batsman than Sehwag if you go purely by numbers. Another reason why Rohit should open is because we are playing in Aus where the balls comes onto the bat nicely and who better than the “Hitman” to get some runs on the board at the top?

It’s unfortunate that Shaw got injured and we’re hearing that he’ll be out of the whole series. Murali Vijay (and not KL Rahul) woud be a good fit to replace him at the top. Granted that he has miserably failed at the top of the order but the inconsistency of Rahul is getting very annoying. One can argue that Vijay is past his prime and most likely would get dropped from the next match, but I feel that he’d be a good fit with Sharma playing his natural game

If not Murali Vijay, I would absolutely play Hanuma Vihari at the top with Rohit Sharma. He’s solid in defense and can take a beating with the new ball as well, comes across as a gritty and temperamental cricketer. So making a choice, I would go with Rohit Sharma and Hanuma Vihari as my openers (if not Murali Vijay)

The openers should be followed by Pujara, Kohli, Rahane, Pant, Pandya. Pant has a lot to learn when it comes to playing with the tail, doesn’t shield them as he should. Pandya is not an expert either but he has certainly more experience than Pant and adds that ever-needed balance to the side.

That’s my Top Seven i.e. 5 specialist batsman, wicket-keeper batsman and batting all rounder (or bowling all rounder, depends on which side of the bed Pandya’s gotten up from)

Choosing the faster bowlers is relatively simple with Ishant, Bumrah and Shami doing well. The lone spinner selection is dicey. I know that Ashwin did well in the first innings of the first test but he’s not consistent enough, almost doesn’t have it in him to get the tail out. He bowled about 50 overs in the last test for god-knows-what-reason and got injured. He’s a good first innings bowler but lacks the fitness and experiments too much when he doesn’t get wickets.

Jadeja is better fit. In my opinion, he is our best spin-bowler, not Ashwin! Don’t know if its age or too much variety but what you really need at this time is consistency and high levels of fitness, being a left arm bowler doesn’t hurt. And besides, having a Vihari in the side gives another option of an off-spinner anyway.

Therefore, my playing XI would be in the below order:

Rohit Sharma

Hanuma Vihari

Cheteshwar Pujara

Virat Kohli

Ajinkya Rahane

Rishabh Pant

Hardik Pandya

Ravindra Jadeja

Ishant Sharma

Mohammed Shami

Jasprit Bumrah

Below is what I think likely is going to happen because of the un-experimental nature of the think-tank these days. I’m sure they haven’t even considered having Rohit open and forget about trying Jadeja instead of Ashwin!

KL Rahul / Parthiv Patel

Hanuma Vihari

Cheteshwar Pujara

Virat Kohli

Ajinkya Rahane

Rishabh Pant

Hardik Pandya

Ravichandran Ashwin

Ishant Sharma

Mohammed Shami

Jasprit Bumrah

The last piece I want to state is the importance or lack thereof of this series. My prediction is we are going to win this series 2-1 so statistically this would be of great importance as India has never won a test series in Australia and therefore, this would come across the biggest series win in the last 11 years (Since Dravid’s India defeated in England in 2007).

Statistically, there’s a lot on the line but I wouldn’t really rank this as the turning point it would most-likely be painted as. There’s no Smith, there’s no Warner in the XI and I know this is beyond India’s control but the win would have mattered a whole lot more if they were around. What if Australia won a series in India minus the services of Kohli (Captain) and Rahane (Vice-captain), would you have rated it eqaully vs when Kohli and Rahane were playing? Nope.

Surely our media would go crazy but no one would give Aus all the credit in the world.

Not sure if this series victory would really be the turn around that Indian cricket needs, that we so desperately hoped for against South Africa last year (2-1) and probably came closer against England (even though the scoreline of 4-1 doesn’t reflect that) . I haven’t even thought about us losing this series, that would be a huge-letdown and may even call for Virat’s head as captain of the team and Shastri’s as coach.

Virat Kohli is known for being bold, abrasive and won’t-listen-to-anybody avatar. Surely, he is the undisputed leader of India not just on the cricketing field but in all cricketing matters in the country (don’t forget the RCB) but he needs to work on his over-the-top antics and be more calm,composed and mature.

Dhoni is Dhoni and Kohli surely is Kohli, but there are things we must learn from our seniors for only a calm mind and cool head makes good decisions.

But the question right now is, is he ready to drop Ashwin as the lead spinner, try Rohit Sharma at the top ?

If these changes are not made, in my opinion, we would go back to the sometimes hot and sometimes cold team India that we are so accustomed to seeing outside home (in the SENA countries i.e. South Africa, England, New Zealand and above all Australia)

A captain is only as good as his team but the right team needs to be picked for the captain and the team to look good.

#indiavsaus #Virat Kohli #Rohit Sharma #Opener #JadejaOverAshwin #Virat's antics

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