January | 2023 | thebengali

I can do it; One day at a time

January 7, 2023 by thebengali

I won’t get a medal for this but am enjoying this small success for 60 seconds. It feels good to achieve a goal that is longer than a day. The numbers read: 10, 10.2, 8.3, 9.5, 8.4, 13.2 and 11.5 for an average of 10.2 across 7 days. Typically, in any matter, I set an annual goal and then focus only on the day, every day, reviewing and correcting course once in three months. My approach is to start strong […]

Categories: Mountain Walking, Training, Work • Tags: thebengali, Walking

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Kimchi, Kheema Mutter and a Cheese Cube

January 6, 2023 by thebengali

Today was a great day in the kitchen. All 20 minutes of it. I made kheema mutter (mince goat meat cooked with green peas in a shallow gravy of Indian spices). But then instead of eating it with pav or bread, I decided to eat within Korean kimchi and an Amul cheese cube. Best decision because it was a satisfying meal with all the tastes I wanted to have at that moment. Some times you’ve gotta go beyond the template […]

Categories: Cooking, Learning, Mountain Walking • Tags: cooking, Indian food, kheema mutter, kimchi, Korean food, thebengali

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Chilli Con Carne in the name of Trinity

January 4, 2023 by thebengali

Pune, 4 January, 2023, 2109 hours: Am finally comfortable with the chilli I make. I started a wanting chilli con carne from the first time I saw Terence Hill wolfing down beans with a slab of bread in They Call Me Trinity. I still am a big fan of Bud Spencer-Terence Hill movies but last year I started wondering if it was all because of the beans. It was a long time before I found out that the chilli con […]

Categories: Cooking, Learning, Mountain Walking • Tags: chilli, chilli con carne, Fort Worth, Mexican chilli, mince meat, Texas, thebengali

An approach to test the limits of performance

January 3, 2023 by thebengali

Can I write a 5000-word article in a day? Can I write a 5000-word article and edit 2, 1000-word articles in a day? Can I write a 5000-word article, edit 2, 1000-word articles and design a 1-hour learning program in a day? Can I write a 5000-word article, edit 2, 1000-word articles, design a 1-hour learning program and Ideate a new assessment system in a day? Can I write a 5000-word article, edit 2, 1000-word articles, design a deep-learning program, […]

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Function, Purpose and Motivation in Fitness Training

January 2, 2023 by thebengali

Pune, 2 January 2023, 2101 hours: Just past 9 pm and I have clocked 10 kilometres of walking for the second day in a row. Will I be able to sustain this for the rest of the year? These are the kinds of questions I don’t sweat about. To be precise, I don’t think that way. I have always trained for something or the other, but never in a gym or a controlled formal environment and this was by choice […]

Categories: Mountain Walking, Training • Tags: Learning, The Mountain Walker, thebengali, Training

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A step at a time

January 1, 2023 by thebengali

Pune, 1 January 2023, 1820 hours: Just returned from a walk along the busy street nearby. I remember the time when that broad concrete road was nothing but a mud path cutting across this part of Baner. Come to think of it, I remember when the main Baner Road was a narrow partially paved, partially mud kind of road hurtling across fields and wild brush towards the Mumbai-Bengaluru highway (which itself was a narrower younger version of its current robust […]

Categories: Learning, Mountain Walking • Tags: existentialism, Pune, Self, thebengali, Training, Walking

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Monthly Archives: January 2023

I can do it; One day at a time

Kimchi, Kheema Mutter and a Cheese Cube

Chilli Con Carne in the name of Trinity

An approach to test the limits of performance

Function, Purpose and Motivation in Fitness Training

A step at a time