Am trying to get back to yoga more regularly (and by that I mean, at least twice a week) and today I got some incentive for that! After seemingly cracking the bow pose, standing bow pose, cobra pose and rabbit pose, today I cracked the Awkward Pose Part 1 (the posture comes in three phases - one is sitting half way, one is standing on toes and the last one is sitting all the way down on the toes and I cracked the first part of it). The instructor said "Good one, Shilpa!"
If I crack the remaining two parts of it, I could have claimed to be able to do the Awkward Pose properly but this is still some achievement. So there...Yay!!!!
618 more to go.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Day 381: Good Sunday
A few things made the day quite pleasant!
a) Waking up to a breakfast prepared by the boys - the hubby had woken up earlier than me to find the editor making Burji (scrambled eggs) for breakfast! The editor apparently had not slept the whole night. After working on the edit until 6 am, I went off to bed but the editor went for his Sunday morning prayers at the church. He then returned back and decided to cook! Oh well...nobody was complaining! So as the editor made his delicious burji, the hubby got quite inspired himself and put together toast and sandwich. So all I had to do was wake up and eat! Perfect Sunday morning I say!
b) Work on the edit continued slowly but steadily. We are close to completing 50% now!
c) Met up with a few of the Mausams team for dinner. It was a chance for them and the editor to meet each other. It was a very fun evening and I thoroughly enjoyed myself! We spoke about films, how we crossed each other's paths to be the Mausams team that we are today etc. etc. which was all fun stuff!
d) And I must mention this - I also got to eat one of the best chicken dishes ever - the corriander from Fifth Season! I have been to this restaurant several times and can't believe that I had missed out on this beauty for this long! It was SO freaking good!
So yes, it was a grand day and a grand weekend!
619 more to go.
a) Waking up to a breakfast prepared by the boys - the hubby had woken up earlier than me to find the editor making Burji (scrambled eggs) for breakfast! The editor apparently had not slept the whole night. After working on the edit until 6 am, I went off to bed but the editor went for his Sunday morning prayers at the church. He then returned back and decided to cook! Oh well...nobody was complaining! So as the editor made his delicious burji, the hubby got quite inspired himself and put together toast and sandwich. So all I had to do was wake up and eat! Perfect Sunday morning I say!
b) Work on the edit continued slowly but steadily. We are close to completing 50% now!
c) Met up with a few of the Mausams team for dinner. It was a chance for them and the editor to meet each other. It was a very fun evening and I thoroughly enjoyed myself! We spoke about films, how we crossed each other's paths to be the Mausams team that we are today etc. etc. which was all fun stuff!
d) And I must mention this - I also got to eat one of the best chicken dishes ever - the corriander from Fifth Season! I have been to this restaurant several times and can't believe that I had missed out on this beauty for this long! It was SO freaking good!
So yes, it was a grand day and a grand weekend!
619 more to go.
Day 380: High Voltage Editing
4 December, 2010
I call this High Voltage Editing because that's all the editor and I had been doing the whole day! We took just one break for dinner and the rest of the day was spent on editing alone. Snipping a few microseconds here, extending a few microseconds there, for hours at end! The progress was slow in terms of the timeline completed because we were completely revamping a few scenes but both of us are very satisfied with whatever we have done so far! The film is really falling into place!
620 more to go.
I call this High Voltage Editing because that's all the editor and I had been doing the whole day! We took just one break for dinner and the rest of the day was spent on editing alone. Snipping a few microseconds here, extending a few microseconds there, for hours at end! The progress was slow in terms of the timeline completed because we were completely revamping a few scenes but both of us are very satisfied with whatever we have done so far! The film is really falling into place!
620 more to go.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Day 379: The Editor Arrives!
3 December, 2010
Like I have mentioned here, my editor had agreed to come to Singapore all the way from Mumbai just to just work on the film!
And he arrived today morning! Bringing with him a collection of about 8-10 books on films and film making for me as a gift! There was one on a photographic journey through Bollywood, a visual edition of the Namesake with pictures from the movie and one on getting character make up done (which the hubby remarked that I am in dire need of myself). There was also a cook book (which again, according to my hubby am in dire need of) and even a special Mumbai photographic diary for 2011, since am a planning freak! How sweet is that?!
After I was done with my office work, we sat down to edit Mausams. The last and final edit.
Am loving the journey on this last leg. It is a totally different feel to sit with the editor and work on the film than trying to use online chat or do the reference edits yourself! This way it is a lot easier to communicate on what I want and also to understand his thinking behind each of the cuts. With my study room set up with his laptop, my iMac and LCD screen and also the numerous hard disks that we are using, it actually looks like a real studio and I actually feel like a real director!
By the time it was 2 am, we had 25% of the final cut for Mausams.
621 more to go.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Day 378: Mausams Website!!!
3 December, 2010
Today saw the launch of the Mausams website!!
It has months of my planning, concept and design work and I am so so so happy to see it all come together finally!! My website developer and photographer have done a really great job and HUGE thanks to them! :)
So without much further ado, here is www.mausams.com
622 more to go.
Day 377: NZ Planning Begins!
1 December, 2010
A few months ago, the hubby and I booked our flight tickets to New Zealand for next Feb. It was to be our proper holiday together after 1.5 years! We had not even taken a short getaway the whole of 2010 together, so this is obviously much looked forward to!
After the flight bookings were made, we got completely busy with our lives and had not gotten back to planning anything further. Obviously, NZ is a huge country and we should have a better idea of what to do there to maximize our time.
Over the last weekend we decided that the hubby, due to his limited planning skills, will do all the planning for the North Island where we would be spending 3 days while I, being the expert planner, will take up the job of planning for South island where would be spending 6-7 days.
So today, I did just that. After a few hours of research I have come up with a nice, detailed itinerary. I already know the routes we would take, the places where we can stay, the must-see sights etc. and felt really good about a job well done. (May I also add that the hubby's North Island itinerary is still untouched?)
After hours of looking at Kiwi landscapes, half of me is already in New Zealand! Ah!
623 more to go.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Day 376: Provoking the Thought!
30 November, 2010
You know how you sometimes sit with a friend and talk for hours about life, where it takes us, what would really make us happy, how to achieve that happiness, what will happen if that doesn't come, how we are going to take the future in our hands etc. etc.? I absolutely love those conversations. Like, a lot!
After any such conversation, it is as if your whole brain gets reorganized and clicks in its proper placements. You feel like, "Yes... everything is so clear now. My world is gonna change from tomorrow." Sure, the next day the brain clicks again and reorganizes itself to it previous position but then that doesn't matter because for as long as it lasted, it would have felt awesome!
I am not in a particularly confused state of mind currently to seek clarity or anything like that, but it still felt good when the husband and I met up with a friend and had one of these really long, thought provoking conversations! I somehow ended up feeling super intellectual with all the wisdom I was flinging in every direction (could also have been the effect of the Mojito). I was very close to literally patting my back.
Long story short, I went home a happy, content person. Smiles!
624 more to go.
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