"Dead as a rat"

 Well, it is actually a dead rat, found on the stairs between 12th and 13th floor. 

Yes, but what is it doing this high up?

I have seen one other, at ground floor but that more likely living area for such a pest.

Hmm I live on 14th floor, I better make sure the door is closed.

😳😲😷

Small kids, big backpacks

 I have seen many kids walking around with friends and/or parents and carrying a humongous backpack. Everytime I have wondered 'what the heck', why do they need such big thingy on the back, whats in it?!?!

Now I know, it is a cricket bag with legprotection in it, similar as a goaly in icehockey. Yupp, thats the simple answer to my wondering ... end of blog post.

Cheers!!!

🙏🙏🙏

Finally, I got new shoes

 Third time lucky, I got my new brown nice ’office’ shoes.

They are not the perfect pair but pretty good fit and price.

The sole is little thicker and rigid as I want them to be, the tarmac here in India is good in some places but mostly you are really better off with a pair of hiking shoes

😆😆😆

Nice with a recycleable bag not even a print on it.

Pretty OK I would say.

Good fat sole for the Indian gravel roads 😜

I think the box is for some other brand 😂😂😂

I was in the Bata store and shoes are Bata.

Price???

Shoes: 2999:- 

Socks: 399:- 

SEK: 428kr

.. and the longest receipt ever 😳

Sunny powerwalk pictures

 It got sunny this Friday so I took a powerwalk in the sunshine. Super nice and about 28 degrees.

I just love these big trees  

Shades from the great big trees

‘Palm’ tree?!?!

Green ‘vegetables’ everywhere 

Shades for the eyes needed

Friday hmm what to do

 Nothing planned this weekend, just regulare exercise, buy those brown leather shoes that failed last weekend and hopefully get some sun shine and a tan as it should be pretty ok weather this weekend.

First of all, lets start with work at office until lunch time, so about 4 hours.

Coffe at office, great weather this morning, only 23 degrees celcius.

Weeknd: Blinding lights

Crazy stared at in the elevator

 Today (Monday, May23) in the elevator, was worse stared down I have received this trip. It has happened before during other trips when I have been here in Bangalore. It has also happened this trip as well but not as brutal as this one 

👀👀👀

This guy could not stop staring at me for 3-4 floors in the elevator, up and down and up and down and ...
I did not say anything or even looked at him but I could see him in the reflection of the doors, as doors are made of steel, as can be seen behind me in the picture below.

I do feel as I look, super tired eyes, but not that tired in mind or physically.
This was not the reason for the guy's staring, as he dis not look in my eyes.

I just let him do it and perhaps he learned something about how to dress when in office.

👊😂👊

I messed up … twice in a row

Ooh my … I really messed up and I did it twice in row, but now I know why it happened and it will not happen again.

😇😎😊

I bought some dried chilies and tried to ground some of  them to a chilie powder

But failed, twice. 

Everywhere!

The big chilies, was not an issue to pick up from ... everywhere, it was all the small seeds that was launched all over the kitchen and into the living area as well. 

😆😂😅

What happened?
Well due to the chilies are long and dried they pushed up the lid and centrifuged out of the can.

Solution: hold down the lid.

🙏🙏🙏

Uuh euh … tired …

💩 So tired this morning, a little headache, no energy, I don’t want to …

💩😩😫😨

But after doing my morning exercise, shower and breakfast I feel like a King.

💪👑💪

No worries!

Just do it!

Keep going!

Attack the day!

So remember Mats(and you readers), your mind is stronger than your emotions!

Keep it going and you will reach your goal-destination!!!

🙏🙏🙏

☝ Update: I also did a powerwalk and jogged up to 20th floor this early evening. This was not planned at all but I got the urge to get the old 'pump' to beat hard and long.
💖💖💖

This must be blogged

 Yes, I tried some else in my exercise and I hope it will not back fire on me with some issues with knees or hips or whatever an old man can get from doing exercise as an amateur.

I have set a goal, to make a video about the trash and dirt here in the nearby area and this morning I was out and about doing it. So, to smack two flies in one stroke, I did my powerwalk and filming at the same go. But, to cover a little bit longer stretch of area I actually started jogging 😮, I been holding back myself from doing this as I have an old knee injury that I've afraid could turn into an issue again.

I so happy I tried to jog and so far so good, I could feel the knee a little bit but nothing serious. I really hope the injury will resurface in a couple of days.

First picture, this is my daily goal, to fill all the rings on my Apple watch. I usually can do this.

👍👍👍

This is of course very encouraging to see, even thou it is blurry 😃

'Perfect Week (Exercise)'

Ended my exercise as usual at the top of the world or at least on the 20th floor.

1-2 people in the pool.

 ... and I also jogged up the stairs again.

👊👌👍💪

Pretty clear morning, not so much smog and air did not taste or smell anything.

 

One mission - one failure

 Perhaps not a failure but my mission did not go the way that I planned. I am happy anyways as it turned out to be a good shopping round at Phoenix mall after all.

My shopping mission was to only buy a pair of nice brown formal leather shoes for office and 'party'. It did not happen and thou I tried a lot of shoes, none of them really fancied me. The shoes that was really nice also had a nice(great, large) price tag attached to them as well and as I already had spent some money on 2 pair of trousers I got a bit cheap. 

😇😂😌

I got Two pair of nice formal trouser instead.

Grey with texture

Store is 'Pantaloons'

Solid black colour, simple and kinda formal.

’Kinda formal’ for office, except the ultra slim style which is questionable.

😎😎😎

Cheers to all of you, my friends!!!

🙏🙏🙏

Coconut goodies

I ordered some coconut water and coconut milk in bulk so I do not need to search for it the local store and 'drag it' home 😏😇

... it of course a bit cheaper as well.

 

The coconut water I blend with some more cold water in a big bottle and also some Apple Cider Vineager.

The coconut milk I mostly used for my 'overnight' oats, which are delicious when adding some Indian flavor(species) to it, such as different 'masalas'.

🙏🙏🙏

Views from office

 I took some picture from 7th floor at the office, as the sun actually was shining. It is pre-monsoon season so it mostly cloudy these days and only about 24 degress celsius during daytime.

Zoomed in to see the big powerlines/power station in the distance.

Same as first picture, not zoomed in

Main gate at ABB towards my apartment complex

Construction of new building, across the street, I do not know what company that will move in.

My apartment complex in the distance,  to the right.

Main gate again

No cars yet in the parking lot, there is a garage in the office building as well so perhaps at the moment it is not full yet.

2 nights in a row

 2 nights strike I have been awake in the middle of the night and could not directly get back to sleep.

⏾💤😴🛌

Fortunately I fell asleep after 1 maybe 1 1/2 hours but wakes at 6:30 is 30 min to late for me to be able to comfortably do my morning routine

1. wake up (6am)
2. toilet stuff
3. make a cup of coffee 🍶
4. start exercise - 30min 💪💪💪
5. take a shower - 10min 🚿🚿🚿
6. eat breakfast - 15min 🍲🍲🍲
7. brush teeth
8. put on business clothes
9. walk to office (7:40am)
   

Cheers from India to the World!

Sleep well tonight!

🙏🙏🙏

Powerwalk

 Powerwalk(Thursday 19May) before the thunderstorm, cap and rain jacket I had with me today(Wednesday)

⛈🌧🌩

20th floor 👍👍👍

As usual I walk up to 20th floor as the last stretch of the powerwalk. This time I actually did a ’jogging’ session up the stairs. It went pretty ok. 👍👌👋

🙏🙏🙏

Nice to be back in the game

 Yes, 30 min of exercise this morning and 40 min powerwalk this afternoon so nice to be back in the game again. After 4 days of rest, it was actually very easy to start exercising again, no problem. 

👊💪👊

It was also too easy to do nothing and eat crap 

😂😁😃

Lets go already!!!

I hoped for no rain but …

Monsoon season is here, wow what a rainfall

I ended up at 20th floor again as usual.

Back in the game - Airbourne