✘ #032 - Have 6 Packs In 6 Months

Today is 01-Jul-2018. And it has been 6 months down the line for the year 2018. 6 more to go. With the kind of exercise goals I had in the past - This looks impossible. That's right. The goal is to have -

6 Packs In 6 Months

So, when you meet me on the first day of the year 2019, do say "Hi" to the 6 packs as well. I know, this is a very difficult ask/task. But 6 months is a good amount of time. I do realise that it is not just hard work involved herein but a lot of smart work and science as well.

So I am going to read a lot about it. And do a lot to make it happen. Lets see how this pans out. All the best bro ... Amen.

Games To Play With Your 3 Year Old Daughters

Here is a quick list of games you can play with your 3-year old daughters -

1. Timed puzzles - Make them sit against each other. Give them a set of puzzles of equal difficulty and time their race to solving the puzzles.
2. Aim for the basket - Get small bean bags and a basket. Make them throw the bean bags and aim for the basket from a distance.
3. Catch catch - Can be played with a ball or balloon. Make them throw it at each other. Record the rallies and make them break their own records.
4. Yoga or gym exercise - They are amazingly flexible and have great stamina at this stage. Do Shilpa Shetty or Bipasha Basu exercise.
5. Read books - Get a wonderful set of books and read with them in the library with all the action, sound and a great deal of drama.
6. Race to the finish line - Make a clearly demarcated starting and ask them to race towards you on go. The one clapping you first wins. 

Rules Of Marram Chautti

Introduction

• This is a multi player game which can be played among 3 or more players
• It should be played in an open ground with some demarcated boundary within people can easily run and duck

What you need?

• A tennis ball or a soft ball that is not very hard
• Running sport shoes for every player
• A nice open glass/sand playground

Initial Setup

• The game is played between two teams - Marram and Chautti
• Initially, one person is selected in the Marram team and rest of the players are in Chautti
• Players can run anywhere within the demarcated open area

Game Rules

• The ball is giving to one person in the Marram team
• The people in the Marram team can throw the ball at people in the Chautti team and people in the Chautti team are required to escape
• If the ball hits anybody in the Chautti team they switch the team and join Marram immediately
• There is a restriction for Marram team - If you are holding the ball you cannot walk/run/jog.
• You can only throw the ball at Chautti team member or pass the ball to another Marram team player
• The game ends when all the players of Chautti team have joined Marram team

Let the game begin!

Discovering Six New Spells For Harry Potter

Here is a list of six new spells to help Harry Potter get the much needed edge in the fight against - "You Know Who?" The spells are supported with their respective signs as well. The spells have been specially crafted by Nav (with help from Maddy). Feel free to ask any queries and Nav will be happy to revert as soon as possible.

• celeriter movebitur => The spell helps you move a person or an object - super fast

• et invisibilia => This is a very interesting spell that allows a person or an object go invisible

• et potio magicae => A spell much like a secret ingredient helps you make the magic potions

• ostende somnium => This spell helps you create an illusion or show a dream

• partum duplici exemplari => The spell make a complete duplicate of a person or magical object

• super vires adepto => This spell gives you super strength

Rules Of AM Sqaure

Introduction

• AM Square is essentially a memory game!
• The person who has maximum pairs (of cards) in the end - wins.
• It is a two player game and can be completed in 30 minutes. 

What you need?

• A deck of standard playing 52-cards
• Two players
• Very good memory to win

Intial Setup

• Shuffle the cards nicely
• Spread all the cards on the table face down

Game Rules

• The person who did not spread the cards gets the first turn
• He or She can pick any card, turn its face up so that it is clearly visible to the other person and then required to put the card back - face down
• Next, the other player is allowed to pick any card if the first person gives up his/her turn
• On every person's turn - he/she is allowed to pick one card and after picking one card, he/she can immediately pick another to make a pair
• A pair can only be made between same color (spade with clover and diamond with hearts) and same rank (king with king and five with five)
• Few examples of pairs are as follows -
• ace of hearts and ace of diamond
• nine of spade and nine of clover
• king of diamond and king of hearts
• If you attempt to make a pair (act of picking up the second card in your turn), you are either rewarded or penalized depending on a successful or failed attempt respectively
• If successful in making a pair, you get another turn. If failed in making a pair, you get penalized by giving up an existing pair you made to the other person. 
• The person with most pairs in the end wins.

Let the game begin!!

Land of Smiles

I am just back from a week long holiday in Thailand and this was a perfectly timed holiday. There were a lot of things going on for me at the job, career, hobby, personal, family, health and spiritual front and I desperately wanted a break.

Thailand is also known as the land of smiles, not only because of its natural beauty and historical riches, but also because of the country's friendly people and fascinating culture. You can always smile - come what may! I was introduced to the concept right when I landed Bangkok and the idea kept on reinforcing itself over the journey.

Here is how the concept of always smiling was introduced - After a overnight delayed flight from Mumbai to Bangkok, with two infants, one wife and some cold and cough, I reached our next hurdle - Thailand immigration. After painstakingly filling the immigration form for all four of us (while Shikha managed kids) I was told that I had filled an outdated set of forms given to us by our travel agent. So it took me almost an hour to fill the forms and then I handed it over to the sweet girl who curiously asked me - "Why are you crying? Come on! You have come to Thailand!" And I just replied that it was the cold. But she reminded me with a wink - "Well! You can still smile."

I will remember that instant for that sentence hit home. No matter what happens, you can still smile and it costs nothing. Seems like people in Thailand have this ingrained in their culture. It's not that they don't feel pain or sorrow or get frustrated or angered, but the bottomline is - they still smile. In Fact they have different kind of smiles to address each situation. Here is a non-exhaustive list -

• The smile of hopelessness. The situation is so bleak, you've got nothing better to do but offer a pathetic smile. Example: You've just been mugged, had your passport and money stolen, and your Embassy won't bother making a phone call on your behalf except at super expensive direct dial rates.
• The polite smile. Example: You've just met four strangers who are sure to bore you to tears with stories about the size of corn ears, but you have to smile, shake their hands, and say it was great to meet them.
• The nervous apologetic smile. Example: You took the responsibility of taking care of the kids and your baby had a fall from while sleeping when you were playing xbox. And she ended up narrating the whole incident to her mom.
• The forced smile. Example: The corrupt and evil mayor of town wins the next major election. Your parents are good friends of this crook, so you have to attend his victory party to congratulate him.
• The smile of diffusion. To get past embarrassing and awkward situations. Example: You've just been elected the new corrupt mayor of your town, and your 20-yr old daughter emerges drunken and nude at your congratulatory dinner to call you a crook.
• The inappropriate hidden smile. You want to smile but it's inappropriate to do so. Example: Your cruel live-in mother-in-law just died, and your wife is in tears.  You feel like you got a new lease on life but you can't act glad about the news in front of her.
• The victory smile. Example: You are spiderman and you just beat green goblin - hands down.
• The admiration smile. Example: You are part of an evil terrorist cell and your leader has just suggested what everyone feels is a brilliant plan to blow up an entire country of innocent people.
• The happy smile. The smile you expect to see on someone's face in light of good news. Example: You have just approached two dream women at a bar, boldly suggested a threesome, and they both agreed to it!
• The evil smile. Example: You managed to sell your second hand car at twice the rate you bought it for. 
• The attitude smile. When you have the attitude you're right and everyone else is wrong. Example: You knew Donald Trump will win the US elections and made the prediction weeks ago. Well, what are the odds?
• The mocking smile. Example: You are imitating and enacting your wife not knowing that she is standing right behind you.
• The sad smile. You're feeling tremendously sad but must cover it up. Example: India lost a cricket match to Australia and you are invited the victory dinner by the Australian team.

Isn't it a wonderful way to live? Having a smile for every occasion. This is one piece of culture that I would definitely like to borrow and instill in myself and people around me. For you know what - smiles are highly contagious.

😉