"If you are worried about falling off the bike ,you'd never get on"-said cycling Legend Lance Edward Armstrong
Friends I could still remember the days that learned to ride bicycle,when my brother let go off the back of the bicycle ,I straightaway plunged the bicycle into a famous canal in my area and even sparing a old lady on the way.But When I had the control over bicycle,I got a sense of complete freedom,great achievement,accomplishment and and a feeling of promotion into big kids.These are some of my memorable moments with bicycle.But Why Bicycle is the need of the hour?For this I am going to give you three reasons that proves bicycle is the need of the hour and they are shortly abbreviated as GET.
Lets begin with First reason ie G in the GET means Good health.
I thought about it when I was riding my bike-said Albert Einstein on his theory of relativity.Yes friends I do have similar experiences with my bicycle.During campus recruitment I couldn't clear the interviews of first three companies,consequently I was totally depressed and in the bottom of the world.I didn't want to attend any other interviews.But the ride which I took day before the fourth interview lifted me up,relieved me from depression and clear the interview so easily.This effect is proved by one of the researches also and it states that the working conditions of cycling activates the neurotransmitters such as serotonin,epinephrine and endorphin which battles the sadness and stress.It gives the rider the knowledge of being well and relieves him from the pain.We have other obvious health benefits from cycling.what are those.Those are
1.Reduced risk of coronary heart diseases
2.Reduces overweight and obesity
3.It is the prescribed medication by doctors for diabetes patients
We have seen the first reason,lets move on the next reason.ie E in GET stands for Environmental effect.What is the cost of rice today?what is the cost of vegetables?whats is the cost of thur dhall ?It is all high,not reachable by normal person.why is the increase on cost of basic food materials?
The so called Environmental Effect and climatic change which actually reduced the productivity of the land.Moreover An international level conference is to be conducted on DEC 7 in Copenhagen with more than 143 countries participating in it to discuss how to control this climatic change.However by taking this little step of commuting work or school through cycle will give a positive impact on this climatic change.By reducing carbon di oxide emission ,the cycle can be declared as coolant of global warming.For example consider this,If everyone who lives within 8km of their workplace where to commute using bicycle at least one day in a week could save million tons of global warming pollution in an year which is equivalent to taking millions of cars off the road.
We have seen two reasons and last reason T in GET stands for Time benefit.To illustrate this, we are going to have two conversation- one happening between wife and husband and another between mother and son.First one Wife :calls up"Darling can you come home early I miss you so much"
Husband:No honey I am caught up in traffic jam,I cant come early.The second conversation Mother:son cant look after your health properly?you are so weak.
Son:No mom,I don't have time to look after those things and I am caught in this traffic jam,talk to u later.what was happening?This is the situation that is happening to me ,you and everyone of us today.It happens at every part of the world.Why?Because of traffic congestion.More importantly I could big luxurious cars traveling with only one passengers ,a major contributor to this congestion.Because of this , even the Emergency vehicles such as Fire Engine,Ambulance are not able to reach the destination in time.Friends Bicycle commute will definitely save your time that you spent on the roads and also on the fitness clubs.Few of my friends argued that motor bikes are faster than bicycle,for those who believe in that I am going to highlight the test drive carried out by a daily Bangalore mirror.It is done on important roads of the Bangalore,let me give the results of one of the roads.Hosur Road-Dairy circle to Madivala check post ,Distance :1.5kms,Test drive started at:5.50 pm:Time taken by respective vehicles are given below
Cycle:7:00 minutes
Car:12:05 minutes
Motor Bike:10:45 minutes
Walk:18:23 minutes
so the results are so obvious that the bicycle commute saves your time.
Finally I could like to quote Mahatma Gandhi 's words
"Be the change you want to see"
So If want to see the change in your health,environment and time and need to get G-Good Health and E-Environmental Benefit and T-Time Benefit what we need to do?
"GO GET YOUR BICYCLES NOW"
Friday, December 11, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
My Icebreaker Speech
Hi,
This is my First blog and I am going to share my Icebreaker speech which tells something about me in this blog
What is a Peace?What does Peace mean?It is a state where we are free of anxieties,worries and outside problems.What does it give us?It gives us happiness.Where do we feel peace?In Temple,or may be with friends in beach,park,or may be in home with our family.But there is a city which is so peaceful will give us much needed happiness.can you guess which city is that?
It is peaceful Pondicherry.
Yes Fellow Toastmaster and distinguished guests, I was born in the peaceful city Pondicherry on March 6 1985. I am the second and last son to my parents. My father is a hardworking Flower Merchant and my mother, a dedicated worker for women and child welfare department.
I had done my schooling in one of the expensive schools in my city, even though my family was a middle class one. But I realized this fact only at my final sage of schooling. All through my school days, I had been a notorious student. When I was in 4th std, my teacher was trying to beat me for the mistake I did. I caught my teacher’s hand and replied, don’t ever try this again. I was so ignorant didnt know it was big mistake.which even claimed to dismiss me from my school but my mother requested to take me back to the school.
I was always playful kid during my school days, with a little seriousness to studies. The seriousness always came exactly before the exams. I had cleared all my exams on the spur of the moment, with an enormous urge from my parents. But I somehow love mathematics, even if I fail in all other subject I manage to score centum in math.I love to play cricket, even 24X7 hours.Apart from Cricket, I love listening music and I am a great fan of AR Rahman. The Hindustani music often mesmerizes me. I was obsessed to Hindustani music after listening music albums of Prem Joshua.
I am fond of indulging in adventurous activities. We had a coconut tree in between my house and neighboring one. I used the coconut tree branches to swing from my house terrace to the neighboring one like a monkey. One day the branch gave away from the tree when I was swinging. I fell in between the two houses into a bathroom breaking away its terracotta roof. My head was bleeding heavily, but I didn’t cry. Do you know why? Because the pain seemed less to me compared to my mother’s reaction. My mother’s frightening look and sounds from her biting teeth, no one would dare to face her when she is angry.
I have mind refreshing connection with cycling. Whenever I was disturbed, confused, demotivated, and sad I used to go for a ride in my bicycle. Didn’t know where I am heading just pedaling through the roads. After a ride, I always felt refreshed, motivated, enlightened. Even Now I use my bicycle to commute office.
I was so playful, careless until I heard about my father’s Life. How he struggled to improve his family condition single handedly after his father’s death when he was 10 year old. His Life inspired me a lot; I was also wanted to do something to improve my family condition. And I wanted to give my father rest in his profession and started helping in flower garland business. But my father didn’t want me to suffer like him; he wanted me to become a doctor. I tried hard to bag admission in government medical colleges but I got only in private colleges which will still add the debits to the existing one. I didn’t want to join it. Then I took engineering, which I felt will get me a job soon after my course completion. I was an average student in my engineering. But I am very sure that I will get a software job. I got my first offer from HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD even before the course completion.
In my college days, I was part of a group called MISSION SUDARSH-aspirant to innovate new technical product. Only after joining the group, I had the awareness about vision, goal. We all wanted to start a technical product company, a global one. But we failed to achieve our goals due to lack of skills, Family financial condition. So every one joined a software company which we thought will relieve everyone from financial crisis and will give us the lacking skills a technical one as well as professional. But we are sure will join soon to achieve our goal.
After working in this team, I love to take up management role. A good buiding needs a good foundation and I thought the MBA course will be a good foundation for management building. I wanted to be an accomplished manager. A good communicator need not be manager, but a good manager needs to be a good communicator. My Communication is one of the factors which demotivates me in many situations. I wanted to improve it desperately, came to know about Toastmasters’ movement through my friend Deepak. I attended my first meeting in Chennai as a guest; at the end of the meeting I can feel a drastic increase in my confidence level. I am here to improve communication skills and leadership skills, and I am sure Bangalore toastmasters will help me in achieving my goals.
Finally Iwould like to quote some part of Steve Jobs speech in stanford University
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
This is my First blog and I am going to share my Icebreaker speech which tells something about me in this blog
What is a Peace?What does Peace mean?It is a state where we are free of anxieties,worries and outside problems.What does it give us?It gives us happiness.Where do we feel peace?In Temple,or may be with friends in beach,park,or may be in home with our family.But there is a city which is so peaceful will give us much needed happiness.can you guess which city is that?
It is peaceful Pondicherry.
Yes Fellow Toastmaster and distinguished guests, I was born in the peaceful city Pondicherry on March 6 1985. I am the second and last son to my parents. My father is a hardworking Flower Merchant and my mother, a dedicated worker for women and child welfare department.
I had done my schooling in one of the expensive schools in my city, even though my family was a middle class one. But I realized this fact only at my final sage of schooling. All through my school days, I had been a notorious student. When I was in 4th std, my teacher was trying to beat me for the mistake I did. I caught my teacher’s hand and replied, don’t ever try this again. I was so ignorant didnt know it was big mistake.which even claimed to dismiss me from my school but my mother requested to take me back to the school.
I was always playful kid during my school days, with a little seriousness to studies. The seriousness always came exactly before the exams. I had cleared all my exams on the spur of the moment, with an enormous urge from my parents. But I somehow love mathematics, even if I fail in all other subject I manage to score centum in math.I love to play cricket, even 24X7 hours.Apart from Cricket, I love listening music and I am a great fan of AR Rahman. The Hindustani music often mesmerizes me. I was obsessed to Hindustani music after listening music albums of Prem Joshua.
I am fond of indulging in adventurous activities. We had a coconut tree in between my house and neighboring one. I used the coconut tree branches to swing from my house terrace to the neighboring one like a monkey. One day the branch gave away from the tree when I was swinging. I fell in between the two houses into a bathroom breaking away its terracotta roof. My head was bleeding heavily, but I didn’t cry. Do you know why? Because the pain seemed less to me compared to my mother’s reaction. My mother’s frightening look and sounds from her biting teeth, no one would dare to face her when she is angry.
I have mind refreshing connection with cycling. Whenever I was disturbed, confused, demotivated, and sad I used to go for a ride in my bicycle. Didn’t know where I am heading just pedaling through the roads. After a ride, I always felt refreshed, motivated, enlightened. Even Now I use my bicycle to commute office.
I was so playful, careless until I heard about my father’s Life. How he struggled to improve his family condition single handedly after his father’s death when he was 10 year old. His Life inspired me a lot; I was also wanted to do something to improve my family condition. And I wanted to give my father rest in his profession and started helping in flower garland business. But my father didn’t want me to suffer like him; he wanted me to become a doctor. I tried hard to bag admission in government medical colleges but I got only in private colleges which will still add the debits to the existing one. I didn’t want to join it. Then I took engineering, which I felt will get me a job soon after my course completion. I was an average student in my engineering. But I am very sure that I will get a software job. I got my first offer from HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD even before the course completion.
In my college days, I was part of a group called MISSION SUDARSH-aspirant to innovate new technical product. Only after joining the group, I had the awareness about vision, goal. We all wanted to start a technical product company, a global one. But we failed to achieve our goals due to lack of skills, Family financial condition. So every one joined a software company which we thought will relieve everyone from financial crisis and will give us the lacking skills a technical one as well as professional. But we are sure will join soon to achieve our goal.
After working in this team, I love to take up management role. A good buiding needs a good foundation and I thought the MBA course will be a good foundation for management building. I wanted to be an accomplished manager. A good communicator need not be manager, but a good manager needs to be a good communicator. My Communication is one of the factors which demotivates me in many situations. I wanted to improve it desperately, came to know about Toastmasters’ movement through my friend Deepak. I attended my first meeting in Chennai as a guest; at the end of the meeting I can feel a drastic increase in my confidence level. I am here to improve communication skills and leadership skills, and I am sure Bangalore toastmasters will help me in achieving my goals.
Finally Iwould like to quote some part of Steve Jobs speech in stanford University
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
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