The first now will later be last...

Spoke to an old friend this morning on the way to work and he said that he had started writing a blog - that reminded me that I had started one too...in the dim and distant past! A few quick searches and whoa! there I was ...back at RRM!!! And lo and behold, no one seemed to have missed me...that's the beauty of writing an annonymous blog....there's no pressure to write because no one is following you and so you can go at your own pace. Having said that, 1 post in 2 years is a trifle slow but then what's a couple of years in a lifetime...I think one realises that as one gets older (and wiser??? not so sure!) and has seen how careers meander and as Bob D put it brilliantly, 'the first one now will later be last'. Indians are crazy about their careers and career advancement...what work level is so and so at and which batch is he...it all evens out at the end...
Saw the Indian hockey team sweat to draw with the South Africans and it made me wonder how it has come to pass that we are getting beaten by nations that have absolutely no history of playing the sport. I think the problem is that we have a bunch of old foggies at the helm of hockey who haven't realised that the game has changed totally...it's all about speed, stamina and power (yeah, it's all about getting penalty corners and then getting one hulk to bash the ball in!)...Hero Honda can keep saying 'Phir se dil do hockey ko' but the fact is that no kids are playing hockey and it's a brand whose time has past...the times they are a changin'
This is the year to run the half marathon...I think if I don't do it this year, I'll never do it...be too old for it...tho' I know an ex-boss of mine who ran the London marathon at 48 and he was a guy who smoked like a chimney and looked like a guy for whom the very act of moving his arm to bring a cigee to his lips, was exercise enough! So it can be done...but I want to do the half in less than 2 hours....so have started running a couple of times a week and it's coming along nicely...ran 10km in 57 min last weekend which was great as a start, far better than I ever thought I could...
I like the idea of typing out thoughts without spending too much time moderating...the thought that no one is going to read it also helps;-) Nobody is judging be here...hopefully I'll be back soon, certainly not a 2 year hiatus this time...