Chiffonesque

Today I did the suryanamaskar 15 times at 11:30 p.m. to the music of Rockstar. Specifically 'Naadaan Parindey'. What a song. Source: www.pexels.com I will be busy until mid next-month so I think I will stick to 15 for a bit.  

From www.pexels.com Stuff that has been happening: 1. Attended a beautiful summer wedding. It was open-air, they had pretty ice-lollies with chunks of fruits frozen in, wooden tables, lovely centrepieces, and a young, happy couple. So nice! 2. I really liked what I wore - a red halter blouse and a white and black polka-dot sari with a deep, red pallu. 3. No suryanamaskars have happened over the weekend. Also, rice was had. 4. Spent a lot of time at Malaka Spice, Koregaon Park. It was so hot. It was pretty, though. A tiny green butterfly fluttered, long bamboo shoots, teeny bird-house hanging somewhere. But they ought to make this outside area more comfortable. 5. Am going to have a very rushed week.

12 suryanamaskars today - at 11:30 p.m. Not bad. I'd also done 3 rounds in the morning which I'm not counting. A bunch of us are working on a script. Today a friend of mine introduced me to another filmmaker who took a look at the script and said a few things that were, let's say, not very encouraging. I think I came home a little upset and that's how I got the energy to do the yoga. (In context, anger is an important thing.) Then I made some pasta - something really simple. Boiled some in hot water to which oil and salt had been added. Then I drained it, added a chunk of butter on it, some chilli flakes and mixed herbs and mixed it. So, there were carbohydrates at night - which I intend to cut out eventually. Sunday, I've made plans with friends to meet at Peter Donuts and work on the script. We will hopefully do that. Feedback comes. Then you go on. Rather - still you go on.  

ref: www.pexels.com Today the following things made me happy: 1. Doing 11 suryanamaskars. 2. Eating very dainty and tasty red velvet cupcakes from Love, Sugar, Dough. 3. Brainstorming on a very interesting project. 4. Finding my thin, white cotton top to pair with printed, pink palazzos. 5. Being gifted 'Zoya Factor' by Anuja Chauhan by a pal at work.  

Did not do any suryanamaskars yesterday. Instead went out for dinner with a friend and had a cheesy ramen with loads of garlic. Finished off with a hazelnut cappuccino. I really do like Peter Donuts even though it's expensive for a cafe. Then I came home and since I can't sleep early, I pottered around auntil 4. I got really hungry then so I ate a large bowlful of spinach daal and dahlia . I also had two large cups of chocolate horlicks with water. (I certainly prefer it to milk.) This morning, I did 10 suryanamaskars but I felt very heavy. I should find out a way to not eat so much that late.

By the end of this year, 31st December 2015, I will be able to do 100 Suryanamaskars. Today I did 5. That's the aim.

For the writer's meet-up, this time round, we had to write a conversation between our current 'us' to our 10-year old self. I wrote a letter instead. However, since I write a lot of stuff long-hand, I wrote mine out on a paper and I doodled a few elements on it. Now I'd like to represent all this on the screen so that I can put it up on the blog. I was thinking of doodling on paper, scanning it and putting it up but blogger can't take really large images. A friend of mine suggested that I do it in a series and make the sheet long. At the meet-up, someone suggested that I use some kind of an HTML page where you make a visual thesaurus. I don't know how to do it by myself and I am not sure how to embed pictures in there. If anyone has any ideas on what I can do, could you please share your inputs in the comments section? Thank you.  

1. I was given a butterscotch cornetto which I enjoyed so much. 2. Did 5 rounds of yoga in the morning. 3. Really liked the dalia pulao that the cook had made today. We'd added in a lot of the left-over veggies like brinjals, fenugreek leaves ( methi), soyabean chunks, onions, and tomatoes. 4. Wore a slightly clingy white and brown striped top with a rather snug pair of pants. It looked nice. I think I am on my way to getting into shape. 5. Went to Crossword and had a sandwich at Moshe's. Tasty stuff.

Some good things that happened today: 1. I had to finish creating something called a Detailed Content Outline for a course we are designing at work. Managed to do that. 2. Had momos and tea with a friend. 3. Watched an episode of Shark Tank. I love Shark Tank! I love how they usually just ask four or five questions and suss out the potential of a business. 4. Looked nice. Face looked kind of lean. 5. Stayed away from rice.

From www.pexels.com   Maybe it isn't prejudice. Maybe it is pattern recognition. 

It was a beautiful day today. It was overcast in the evening, around 5, and the lavender blooms were lavender with full passion. They almost seemed to be reflecting individual purple glows around them. Then tonight I visited my pal. I'll call her Rose. Rose lives in a beautiful area. There's a huge expanse of open land in front of her sweet little flat. She stays in a tiny building that is much smaller compared to the taller, swankier constructions around. Lazy dogs sometimes frolic in front of her yellow gate. There's a little vegetable store somewhere down the road. It may be a few seconds from the main road but it's like her building got handed over this sweet bucolic patch of the universe. From the outside, you see the Tibetan flags outside the kitchen window, muted and wispy against the light. I walked up the flight of stairs to her place. From the landing of the first floor, I could see a martini-shaped tree. Rose's home is wholesome, in a sense. It r...

Sunday Gotsy rinsed the dishes early in the morning. So early, in fact, that the moon still shone outside. It peeped through the large guava tree and sweated moonshine in the humid dawn. His father would soon wake up and ask for his oats and jaggery. To this, he would add a quarter spoon of cinnamon powder. Then he would sneeze twice before slurping the whole bowl. Finally, he would belch and sleep off again. His father was ninety-seven years old and this routine had been a gift he’d given himself when he turned seventy. Gotsy turned seventy today. He wondered what gift he should give himself. “Happy birthday, Gotsy”, came his father’s gruff voice as he sat down at the table. “You remembered?” Gotsy was surprised. He laid out the large blue cereal bowl, the mint green spoon and the yellow jar of honey. If old age is the coming of the second childhood, Gotsy and dad certainly had the cutlery for it. “Well, I had it written on my calendar.” “Which you haven’t change...

Add caption Source of image: www.picjumbo.com  It was a good day today. Finished a little work, made some headway with the deadline-laced writing, used a strong citrusy shampoo that made me sing in its essence of tangy healthy freshness. Walked to Inorbit to meet a friend. My wet air drying in the humid breeze. Early evening traffic. Hawkers with pretty sandals already lining the footpath. Met a friend for coffee. He's raising his beautiful daughter on his farm. She' turning out to be a lovely artist. Loves to sketch. And be by herself. We had coffee and he dropped me home. I had noodles and now I feel like dozing off - one more summer day braided to the other ones this season.

Source: www.pexels.com It comes like a pang for a midnight snack Thoughts of early days of abundance It stays on like a smile that may have beguiled Were it not for the frozen face Or the iron mask.

Ill so in Bombay. Things have been good so far. Life at home usually is. Realized that some friendships are going to be very very hard to maintain and so decided to let go of one of them. There is a very painful memory attached to it. Maybe it was being low energy, but it felt like there was a lot of energy required at just pushing aside that memory to just be calm with that person. Also, opened up comments now even though they are being moderated. Some of the anonymous commenters with their diarrheatic ugliness are writing in. :-) (So, you still kept coming, yes?) I think about that girl who claimed to be my friend and look up to me or whatever else and then went on to paste anonymous comments - I wonder if it was her who commented on my family or not but then, when people feel really ugly about themselves, the rottenness takes many forms. To me, she has become the poster-child of all the anonymous commenters out there - those souls who want to belong to the cool tribe. They ...

New things I did today: 1. Collaboratively wrote a script. Today we collectively finished the first draft. 2. Drove to Law College Road. Usually I just take a rick. 3. Parked on a slope and took a U-turn on this narrow stretch while returning. 4. Played chess after ages. Some of these unsettled me but I think, they helped me some.

Woke up to opening the door t the cook and the cleaning lady. Neither knew it was my birthday. Then the car cleaner came. He also didn't know that it was my birthday. Then came the phone call from Ma who of course knew it was my birthday because she had something to do with it. With every passing year, Ma becomes more and more convinced that I will step into some glory where THIS year, I will win the Booker or get a party ticket (which is a very scary thought) or have loads o ... f money or rule the world or clean the cupboard. Then I had tea and sat in the terrace. Spoke to my lovely friends in Bombay whose light and laughter have cadenced my past. The sun shone, pigeons fluttered, some yellow flowers dusted off trees to land on the roofs of cars. None of those behaved any differently based on the fact that it was my birthday. My aching tooth did not care at all and made its presence felt very persistently. Fell asleep. Warmed some food for lunch. Read some Murakami. Dozed off a...