Valentine's date with New Balance @BallzRadio

Hi Guys,

It was a valentine's week and I was missing my wife a lot. There has been nothing I was doing other than work and I was feeling very bored. The valentine's day fell on Friday and my office celebrated the achiever's day where many a people got certificate for the job well done. We didn't got the same so it was demotivating to an extent but they covered it with a cup cake which were delicious.

I reached home around five and went on to drink a cup of tea. I checked my twitter and saw people posting snaps of reaching the venue and showcasing their new NEW BALANCE 980 FRESH FOAM shoes. I too tweeted many a times asking about the venue earlier but didn't got any response and that day admin was working a lot so I got a response at 535pm after the event got started at 5pm. I asked them if I can come and they said yeah. I searched the place and it was very near to my home. I went there and lost way as it was not the place I knew so asked someone in Woodmeads mall security which guided me to the right location. I entered the @BallzRadio office premises and parked my car. They said that the last group left just now and I need to catch up with them. I immediately ran after them and what a run!

 Oracle was not the sponsor :-P

It was a lot of fun and the @UrbanFitSA team really made it more awesome with their exercises and humour. We need to keep tweeting and as you all know I have done bachelors in tweeting business so I kept myself on it. I was doing some exercises on my way catching up the enthusiastic people but they were awesomely fast and fit. 

Aquavita was our mineral water drinking partner for the run.

It was time to salute all those who came all the way on this day of Valentine’s for making them bathe in sweat and sand. To my surprise, I was the winner of the tweeter contest and got my brand new NBshoes of my size. John Walland was the chief guest of the fun run and he presented all the people with awesome goodies. It was another story that everyone else got it too and they got @BallzRadio goodies on top of it which I missed somehow being a first prize winner. 

This is Mr. John Walland

My new New Balance Fresh Foam 980 shoes

After the meet admin of Twitter handle of the brand came to me and congratulated me on my win and said she wanted me to win with my hilarious and witty tweets. I realized that this was my first ever run after I started working in an IT company. Though I considered myself fully fit but regular run really makes you active and brimming with energy to take on office work with ease. I really thank New Balance and Ballz Radio for the FRESH FOAM 980 running shoes. The target that day I had in my mind was to run 5kms for a weekend racing event with my employer and later on that in another blog post.

Cheers!!!

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All photographs are taken using HTC ONE phone

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Apollo - Modern Healthcare touching lives

Hi Guys!

Health and taking care of the same has been an important part of our life. We can only fully enjoy our lives if we are fully physically fit, not suffering from any kind of viral, infection or respiratory diseases. Health care has become a big business with hotel like hospitals have opened all across India. They do charge you high but then Corporate guys doesn't seems to bother as they have heavy insurance stuff packed in their compensation packages. It's just like calling the hospital for appointment and you reach just 10 min before the stipulated time and you will be free in maximum 30 min. All bills will be cashless charged directly to the Insurance companies.

Indian Healthcare has seen a lot of change and is one of the most advanced in the world. I have seen the NHS in London, where even if you are suffering from Viral, the appointment you get will be of next week as government Doctors are very less, but same can be said about our Indian Government run medical centers. Here though Doctors and antibiotics are just a shop away.

Good infrastructure has been set up by big Corporates of Healthcare Industry in big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata etc. Now you know and have various options to venture if you are not satisfied with one Doctor. The big Corporates too have large LED displays showing Doctors name with photograph on their buildings, which I have seen here in Gurgaon just last week. They higher great Doctors in their panel and many of these hospitals works only on the goodwill of these panel members.

Healthcare in India has several aspects based on the type of medicines provided e.g. Allopathy, Ayurvedic, Homeopathic and others working in unison across all sects of Indian population. But whichever suits you, you will find a whole new experience developed for you by the big Corporates. Now you don't need to think that Homeopathy will not cure you if you are getting medicines from a road side small shop as you can go and enjoy AC environment of Dr. Bakson's and pay the heavy price too. Ayurvedic has been popular as the interest of Yoga arose in people motivated by Baba Ramdev and his Kapal Bhati, Alom Vilom and other pranayams and yoga exercises. He is the one who really taught people easy kriyas so that they could follow some of them at their leisure daily in the morning and evening.

It's changing India and everyone is conscious about his/her health. People have adopted great shoes to run and iphone/android phones are helping them see how much they have run today! This is one of the best methods to keep yourself fit without going to any gym. 

Healthcare via hospitals is the last choice and we won't regret the services rendered to us at the end of the discharge date! Bills will be long but considering having health insurance you will be happy! 

Cheers!   

More information can be found out at the link -

http://www.apollohospitals.com/cutting-edge.php  

Apollo Hospitals has consistently led game-changing developments in healthcare. It has always brought to people the latest innovations in key medical specialties on par with the West. Be it preventive health check-ups, robotic surgeries or transplants, Apollo Hospitals has always believed in the sheer joy of living a stress-free life without having to worry about health.

  

This blog is my entry to the Indiblogger Contest by Apollo Hospitals - Touching Lives!