Come On! Come On…! COME ON…!!!

FIRST IN THE WORLD…!!! Oh boy, YESSSSS…!!!

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Man, let me breathe first…!

Here I am, after driving more than 800 laps in the Tatuus FA01 Car on Tor Poznan Race Track in Poland. So many hot laps – I climbed n climbed n climbed… And yes, I am the World Number 1. I hot lapped this circuit in 1.25.687 beating the second fastest driver by almost 3/10ths of the seconds…!
Yesss…!

Here’s a video of the hotlap attached.

Also, you can verify this on the following link – RSR Live Timing Tor Poznan Tatuus FA01

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Did I tell you that anything on wheels runs through my veins? Yesss…!

It is a relief to be tested negative. Now they say that I’ll have natural antibody protection for at least an year.
One thing I did not mention is that I had lost my smell and taste since Day 5. I noticed it on Day 7 though. I have not got it back yet. It feels funny not to have any taste and smell. They say that average time to return both is 31 days. Everything is ‘they say’ now, because this is a novel experience.

I have started my workouts. I took it very slow on Monday. I was lifting at 30% of my capacity, it felt like I am working at 60% of my capacity. But boy, it felt good. It felt really really good. I was craving for that animalistic energy, and it tasted the best.
On Wednesday, I increased my lifting to 50% of my capacity. It felt more and more good. But I found out that I am not yet recovered on par. Those 50% felt like 75%. Rehabilitation will take time and I need to take it slowly. Muscles are there, and they are pushing and pumping, but I am more concerned about the heart rate. I am not letting it go beyond 160bpms currently. I can still lift a 150kg Deadlift with my muscles, but I do not want to risk it with my lungs till rehabilitation. If an ‘Asymptomatic and mild’ case feels these effects, I am more concerned about hospitalized and serious cases. I salute to the human race for being so resilient and so powerful.

(Stupid girl there, she misspelled my surname. Also, notice my address, I’d given a duplicate one. Why? They are forcefully quarantining here. I hid for first 3 days in my home yaar.)

Yay Yay Yay…! Negative…! I am a Corona Warrior now. Thank God, I did not become a Corona Martyr… /relieved face/ Covid-19 succumbed many people man, and I still say that I am a lucky one.

I have got my schedule back on track. Today, I’ll introduce workouts, slowly. I’ve already raised my meditations to 50 mins daily mark. You’ll ask me 50 mins for meditation!? Oh boy, yesss…! It gives me the most meaning out of this transitory life. To be true, we are transitory, this life is endless. You start to pickup things you would never ever know. It is unexplainable! I shouldn’t explain it too.

In the eve, this monster will wake up…! Boy, I am feeling expanded…!

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Here, A song released in 1999, which I had heard on the radio in Pune and I did not know which song was that, and I found it later 2-3 years ago. This is a beauty.
L’Amour Toujours – Gigi D’Agostino

Boy, this is really weird! Some nights, I feel as if there is a telepathy going on. I just can’t interpret that telepathy. I know, we are scientific rational people, but Man, this is unexplainable! I literally feel that someone is remembering, and this is not as a thought in my mind or anything; it is hard to explain, but I can feel it like a touch!

This may be the weirdest post of my site, but today, I donno why, I wanted to share this with you guys. I’ve even woken up at deep nights because of these. And no, these are not nightmares, I know how they are. This feeling is very different.

Anyhow, I won’t shake it off. Just wanted to share.

I am out of it, I guess. Because nothing is there. Still, I’ll give an RT-PCR test on May 5.

If anyone asks me what advice will I give to my 20 year old self – I have a few things in my mind.
Don’t hold back. Give everything. Throw yourself. Dive. Don’t be afraid of dying, live. Live for the present. Nothing matters. Future? There is no future which you could hold onto. Don’t think that you are not old enough, don’t think that you’ll do anything when you grow up, don’t postpone beautiful things for the future. Reveal your vices, embrace your deepest darkness. Why? Why is that the few things you think are the vices but after some occasion they would become sacred? No, nothing is a vice or merit. Whatever you crave, it is the sacred.

A secret – those things you think are sacred, you think that you should hold on to them for some future special occasion – understand that everything you crave is sacred the moment you want them, even if they are the vilest things. No future special occasion is worth it if they are held back for some unknown future. Who knows, the future may not come. And who knows, if you embrace those vices (or sacred things), the future may stand on your side.

Because you too know that you don’t have a regret for the things you did – but you regret for the things you held back.

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Here’s a beauty – Narcotica by AKA AKA
This builds up, and builds up, and builds up, and flows after 3:50. But don’t jump directly to 3:50, listen, listen from start. Let it build up.

Zero Cold, Zero Cough, Zero Body ache. I must tell you, I rolled two 6s. I am a lucky one.

I haven’t tested my strength, although I am dying to lift weights. No, I won’t touch them till May 10. Discipline is the most important quality one can have. And you all know that, when I’d start lifting, I wouldn’t back off.

They say that after 10th day, you become ineffective to spread the virus. This will be a relief tomorrow. I’ve been taking a lot of care not to let anyone get infected because of me.

What matters when you are not at the heights, but when you are at your lowest? The Attitude. I remember, 2012, I was infected with some kind of stupid pus filled bad luck. My mouth & my throat were infected with pus filled disgusting boils. I was not able to speak anything. I had not eaten for 28 days. 3 days were so critical that I would have died. Before that, my father had made my life a hell. I used to be so afraid of him that I’d hide in the kitchen when he used to come from his clinic. I was a 21-22 year old boy who was doing nothing, afraid (not of the death, but of father), facing death, who had not eaten a single bite for 28 days. In that time, I smiled. I never complained. I never raised my voice. Contentment is the word that define me of that time. This Rupesh, not well read, not well educated, not well earned – this Rupesh, who was nothing, smiled at that time.

That Rupesh has come a long way from there. A bit read, a little bit educated, a little earned – boy, he still has that contentment inside.

I never forget. I never. I may forget dates and birthdays and anniversaries, but I never forget the moments – good or bad – I never forget. I never forget that I was denied what I deserved and I never forget that I have been showered with a lot of torrential luck…

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Pulse, blood oxygen, this, and that – everything is normal. I only wish you guys be safe and sound.

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This – Take Me Higher by BLR, NBLM
I don’t listen to the songs with lyrics. Even if there is a lyrics, I don’t f***ing care for it. All I want is the music. This song has one of the best music drops you’ll ever listen. The lyrics is cool too.

No packed and runny nose today. I still have a light cold, but it is 20% of yesterday only.

When I traced my contact, I found that I did not contract the coronavirus from the function. No-one other than him and me came positive. Also, a whole week went by to get me positive, my first symptoms came yesterday.

The thing I want to mention today is blood oxygen saturation. In Covid-19, one tend to go in a situation called ‘silent hypoxia’ where you don’t notice that your blood oxygen level is decreasing and suddenly, you fall away.

Get one of those oximeters from the market. They are fairly accurate with an error rate of 2%. If your oxygen saturation is above 94% (or 92%) you may rest at home. But if your oxygen level drops to 88%-90%, it is the clear sign of a failing lung function. And mind this, 88%-90% is not the borderline, it is FAILED. Once the oxygen level hits, 88%-90%, it takes only 2 hours to drop it to 70%-75%, which is fatal. So if your oxygen level drops to 88%-90% get yourself a hospital bed with oxygen, or atleast get yourself an oxygen cylinder at home.
88%-90% is serious.

Pulse – normal
Blood Oxygen Level – 98%_99%
Symptoms change –
Cold at 20% of yesterday.
No Body Aches, neither in sleep, nor now.
No lightheadedness today.

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How did I find N’to?
This Song – Petite by N’to.

God, I was Awestruck when I had listened to this the first time. I felt that I am on a beautiful beach feeling the waves sliding underneath my feet with the sand dissolving tingling my soles.
Ohh beaches, I am missing them…!

Today, I woke up with a packed and runny nose. I get this severe cold every year for a week. I am not denying the coronavirus, I think coronavirus is amplifying my runny nose. Along with the runny nose, I was lightheaded. A few aches in the muscles. It is the sign of inflammation. The fight is going on inside my body.

(Here’s a 36g dark coffee in front of me.)

I follow Milind Soman for fitness inspiration. He had caught coronavirus a few days back. He did not do any exercise apart from light walks for 14 days. There seems to be a risk of blood clotting if we exercise while covid-19 positive. I have suspended my workouts too. Yes, it is boring (insanely boring) not to do the workouts, but what to do!? I’ll resume it after May 10.

Pulse – Normal
Blood Oxygen Level – 98%_99%
Symptoms change –
Packed and runny nose the whole night.
Body Ache while in the sleep (Level 3 out of 10). Now nothing.
Lightheaded while in the sleep. Now nothing.

Truth to be told, I crave for the rough roads. Come on Coronavirus, don’t fight, BECOME ME…!

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Here’s a masterpiece – Blind Birds by N’to

Good Morning.
I’ve had a wonderful sleep tonight.

We all know what to do to not to have Covid-19 – like washing hands, using masks, using sanitizers etc. But what to do when you are infected with it!? Ain’t this funny!?

Here’s what to do. Be responsible – Quarantine yourself. Because for the next 17 days, you are not you; you have become the Coronavirus itself. Any single person infected because of you is your own recklessness. You are responsible for infecting any other person. And also, if you take care, you are responsible for not infecting anyone as well.

I still think that I am a lucky bastard not to get hit severely by the coronavirus. If you are gambling the dices, anything can happen – I am lucky to roll two 6s, but not everyone does.

Pulse – normal, Blood Oxygen – 98%-99%.
Current Symptoms – none.
Symptoms change – none.

This Friday, I gave an RT-PCR test. The same Friday, I deadlifted more than 150kg. My heartbeats were normal. They peaked at 186bpm (I peak 200bpm sometimes). Also, I am on a cut (means I am eating less than my daily requirements – to maintain the abs, you have to do these things every 6 months or so 😉).

Yesterday, my results came. I have tested positive for Covid-19.

We’ve had a function on 9th April. As a precautionary measure, I gave the test. I had to give the test this late because one of the guys from the function came positive, and sadly, he is no more. I had no symptoms, neither I have any now. My pulse is normal. My blood oxygen level is 98%-99%.

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If you think that I don’t have any symptoms because I put a lot of effort in workout, cardio, or yoga – I don’t know if it is true or not. Fitness makes you resilient, but it is not a gate-keeper for the viruses. Reality is horrifying guys. The second wave is much larger than the first one.

Be aware of the reality, be on your guard, take way more care, and keep on RADIATING.