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Zig Zag Road...a house that Dickens would write about.

The bend of the road where you see, don't see, almost see - what comes later... that's what life is. 

Carter Road - the sort of unexpected clearing you spot when stars align.

Joggers Park - rainy, stormy, drenched with nostalgia. Plenty beat up now...but something about this sings.

What makes and will always make Pali Hill special - the unexpected splendour it will hide in plain sight. This place is such a sonnet.

Woke up really early in the morning. The weather was lovely. Went for a walk and it was so luscious and cool that it felt as if Monday had started off on a weekend.  When you walk up Pali Hill and you first see Carter's, it looks like a mirage at certain times of the day - early morning in the rains or around 4:30 pm in the winters or just as the sun is setting during summers. It looks like fallen gold coins that glint through thick foliage. 

I often feel that Carter's is for the love of the sun and Bandstand is for the mood of the moon. And when you walk or travel from one part to the other, you are skirting along the curves of the yin and yang. 

I saw a couple of really sweet birds - a black and white bird with cobalt-blue arrow smudge on its tail, a brown bird with a widish beak that gurgled like a water bird. 

Returned home and began the day. Some tumult at work. Didn't get as much done as I would have liked. Will work longer tomorrow. 

Saw an interesting video by Sid Warrier, a neurologist I had started following because of a project - but now follow him routinely. He has an interesting video on why scrolling actually exhaust us in the long run and how it causes brain rot. (Scrolling aimlessly results in a dopamine loop and demands an emotional investment that we may not even be aware we are making.) He recommended a couple of interesting ways one could tackle this. One of them is to seek out information out of curiosity instead of consuming whatever the algorithm throws your way. The other method is something I had tried out (not knowing it is neurologist-recommended)- that you create something out of the material you have watched or consumed. So if you binged a Netflix series, write an Instagram post about it or create a podcast out of it. He said something interesting - that when you create something, it is a rebellion against this conditioning of a dopamine quick-fix quagmire. (When I had an Instagram account, I used to at least write a short paragraph on the Netflix series that I watched.) Now I write about it on my blog.

Actually, this blog has helped me in so many ways. I have written it solo for nearly two decades. I've written it in defiance of a couple of notions - that I can't do anything long-term, that you only write something when there's something big or interesting to write about, that I can only be motivated to write when I am getting paid for it. (To be honest, I have gotten some non e-learning work because of the blog but that wasn't the intention.)

Anyway, maybe I will make myself some tea and see if I can work a little.