7 August, 2011
This Sunday was an awesome one for several reasons! I think I will do a list (it's been a while!)...
a) One more super fun rehearsal with the IOK cast. This time I too got to rehearse for my own role, which was strenuous (because I play this super loud annoying woman, which is oh-so-different from the usual calm and peace loving me!) but a quite exciting!
b) Two mallu-movie watching (Urumi and Anwar) back to back - I can't say I fell in love with either of them but am a Prithviraj (the hero in both the films) fan, so there were no complaints as long as I could get to watch him and also listen to a lot of Malayalam for a few hours!
c) Yoga, that too with the hubby! Haven't been to yoga with him in ages, so this was great!
d) Dinner with hubby post yoga, over some good conversation at Brotzeit and the discovery of the super yummy "spaetzle" and radler!
e) Supper with the hubby past midnight when he had a sudden unreasonable craving for food. I couldn't believe that he managed to pull me along that late on a Sunday night for supper outside, and he says that he couldn't believe that I actually obliged! Well, obviously I was in a good mood.
All in all, a very nice sunday!
373 more to go.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Day 626: IOK Photoshoot!
6 August, 2011
What a fun, fun, fun day!!! It was the IOK Photoshoot! Completely enjoyed it!
Actually IOK didn't really need a photoshoot because after all it is just a tiny little short film. But I thought a photoshoot would be a good exercise to get the "looks" of the characters right and also to get my actors, some of them new, familiar with camera and crew etc.
So early in the morning all of us gathered at our red-walled shaw tower carpark and clicked away about a few thousand pictures! This time, since I am part of the cast, the rest of the gang had a lot of fun ordering me around vs. the usual me ordering them around!
What was also exciting was that this time we even had multiple camera men, about 5-6 cameras going around, few extra flashes and even a proper light reflector! Wah! All thanks to my wonderful bunch of friends who dragged along their other friends, making it one big fat photoshoot!
374 more to go.
What a fun, fun, fun day!!! It was the IOK Photoshoot! Completely enjoyed it!
Actually IOK didn't really need a photoshoot because after all it is just a tiny little short film. But I thought a photoshoot would be a good exercise to get the "looks" of the characters right and also to get my actors, some of them new, familiar with camera and crew etc.
So early in the morning all of us gathered at our red-walled shaw tower carpark and clicked away about a few thousand pictures! This time, since I am part of the cast, the rest of the gang had a lot of fun ordering me around vs. the usual me ordering them around!
What was also exciting was that this time we even had multiple camera men, about 5-6 cameras going around, few extra flashes and even a proper light reflector! Wah! All thanks to my wonderful bunch of friends who dragged along their other friends, making it one big fat photoshoot!
374 more to go.
Day 625: Pampered Working Day!
5 August, 2010
Just as I was about to settle in at work this morning, I got a call from the boss who suggested that the team go to her house for a working session. After all it was end of the week and she is quite a host anyway.
So four of us made our way to her house.
Now what you need to know is my manager and family shares the house with her sister and family and in turn has pretty much a HUGE palace of a house by Singapore standards to accommodate the two families. I had been to her place once before for a very short visit but today we got a proper tour. After gaping at everything we saw for close to half an hour, we settled down for lunch. We were served with a very elaborate meal which already perked up my day considerably.
Then we got down to work and as we progressed, hot masala tea and awesome snacks (like mini idlis, vadas and samosas) kept flowing in. All of us felt SO pampered. Wouldn't have realized that great food makes work so much easier to do! Ah! Bliss!
In short, it was a very enjoyable, terrific pampered working day! I like!
375 more to go.
Just as I was about to settle in at work this morning, I got a call from the boss who suggested that the team go to her house for a working session. After all it was end of the week and she is quite a host anyway.
So four of us made our way to her house.
Now what you need to know is my manager and family shares the house with her sister and family and in turn has pretty much a HUGE palace of a house by Singapore standards to accommodate the two families. I had been to her place once before for a very short visit but today we got a proper tour. After gaping at everything we saw for close to half an hour, we settled down for lunch. We were served with a very elaborate meal which already perked up my day considerably.
Then we got down to work and as we progressed, hot masala tea and awesome snacks (like mini idlis, vadas and samosas) kept flowing in. All of us felt SO pampered. Wouldn't have realized that great food makes work so much easier to do! Ah! Bliss!
In short, it was a very enjoyable, terrific pampered working day! I like!
375 more to go.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Day 624: Styling!
4 July, 2011
I am having an AWESOME time, thanks to the "styling" work I am doing for IOK! Basically, we are to have a photoshoot this weekend and my aim was to get my cast to look like the characters they are about to play. Which means getting them to have the right hairstyles, wear the right accessories, costumes etc.
Over the last two days, I received quite a few of pictures from the cast, in different costumes and styling and I had been going through them, making my selections, sometimes asking for revisions, getting another bunch of pictures for that, and at the end, finalizing the complete styling of each cast member.
My cast now looks exactly the way I wanted and are completely ready for the shoot! Ah, such an awesomely satisfying job!
376 more to go.
I am having an AWESOME time, thanks to the "styling" work I am doing for IOK! Basically, we are to have a photoshoot this weekend and my aim was to get my cast to look like the characters they are about to play. Which means getting them to have the right hairstyles, wear the right accessories, costumes etc.
Over the last two days, I received quite a few of pictures from the cast, in different costumes and styling and I had been going through them, making my selections, sometimes asking for revisions, getting another bunch of pictures for that, and at the end, finalizing the complete styling of each cast member.
My cast now looks exactly the way I wanted and are completely ready for the shoot! Ah, such an awesomely satisfying job!
376 more to go.
Day 623: Rain!
3 August, 2011
I had written a couple of times here before about how walking in the rain had been the highlight of the day. Today too, it was the same! After a very long day at work, I got a chance to do this once again! But just with one small difference. This time the hubby too was accompanying!
It all happened because both of us were late to get back from work, after which the only option for dinner was at the nearby 24-hour food court. But it was pouring cats and dogs. So we huddled under one umbrella and made our way there.
It was very windy, cold and completely AWESOME!
People who are infinitely more talented than me have expressed the beauty of rain and how awesome it makes one feel, a million times. So am not gonna compete with them.
But once again, the rain (and the hubby who accompanied, of course) made the day beautiful!
377 more to go.
I had written a couple of times here before about how walking in the rain had been the highlight of the day. Today too, it was the same! After a very long day at work, I got a chance to do this once again! But just with one small difference. This time the hubby too was accompanying!
It all happened because both of us were late to get back from work, after which the only option for dinner was at the nearby 24-hour food court. But it was pouring cats and dogs. So we huddled under one umbrella and made our way there.
It was very windy, cold and completely AWESOME!
People who are infinitely more talented than me have expressed the beauty of rain and how awesome it makes one feel, a million times. So am not gonna compete with them.
But once again, the rain (and the hubby who accompanied, of course) made the day beautiful!
377 more to go.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Day 622: Heartbroken Alcoholic to a Happy Optimist!
2 August, 2011
It was one of the worst days at work historically. I wouldn't go into the details why but needless to say it left me in the depths of the dumps.
I skipped yoga and played the heartbroken alcoholic by going to Brotzeit by myself, and ordering a Bailey's on the rocks (yeah yeah... before all the smarty pants out there say this is not really "alcohol", I would like to stress that it indeed is, at least to me). As if the alcohol in itself wasn't bad enough, I topped it with a huge bowl of potato wedges. Over that sinful snack, I sipped my drink and decided that the world was indeed one shitty place.
But it's interesting how quickly such a perspective changes.
After that very moody act, I met up with the hubby for dinner, over which I poured out my never ending complaints. Things didn't perk up yet but just as we were leaving from dinner I heard my name being called.
I turned around and saw my friend from Junior College! I hadn't met her in about a decade now, in fact we just found each other on Facebook a few months ago, so needless to say it was a big surprise! We exchanged a few pleasantries and into the third sentence of the conversation, she said, "Oh, I must tell you that your blog is my highlight! I love reading it! I find the whole idea so adorable and makes me feel like, OK... there is someone else also who is aging the way I am!" (OK then!)
That immediately, like very much IMMEDIATELY, cheered me up!
She proceeded to ask me about Mausams, the current Malayalam short film I am working on etc. She was obviously very up-to-date with all of it thanks to the blog (or in her own words, she has been "silently stalking" me) and I felt really good chatting with her.
I told her that I am very happy she told me this because this is surely the highlight of my day!
It was like, on one hand it was such a notoriously horrendous day but on the other hand, something pleasant like this happens and you are immediately cheered up! TIt was like someone knocked on my head and said, "Hello.. life ain't that bad after all!" and I believed that person, just like that!
Ah the workings of the Almighty!
So there. I swung right from a heartbroken alcoholic to a happy optimist!
378 more to go.
It was one of the worst days at work historically. I wouldn't go into the details why but needless to say it left me in the depths of the dumps.
I skipped yoga and played the heartbroken alcoholic by going to Brotzeit by myself, and ordering a Bailey's on the rocks (yeah yeah... before all the smarty pants out there say this is not really "alcohol", I would like to stress that it indeed is, at least to me). As if the alcohol in itself wasn't bad enough, I topped it with a huge bowl of potato wedges. Over that sinful snack, I sipped my drink and decided that the world was indeed one shitty place.
But it's interesting how quickly such a perspective changes.
After that very moody act, I met up with the hubby for dinner, over which I poured out my never ending complaints. Things didn't perk up yet but just as we were leaving from dinner I heard my name being called.
I turned around and saw my friend from Junior College! I hadn't met her in about a decade now, in fact we just found each other on Facebook a few months ago, so needless to say it was a big surprise! We exchanged a few pleasantries and into the third sentence of the conversation, she said, "Oh, I must tell you that your blog is my highlight! I love reading it! I find the whole idea so adorable and makes me feel like, OK... there is someone else also who is aging the way I am!" (OK then!)
That immediately, like very much IMMEDIATELY, cheered me up!
She proceeded to ask me about Mausams, the current Malayalam short film I am working on etc. She was obviously very up-to-date with all of it thanks to the blog (or in her own words, she has been "silently stalking" me) and I felt really good chatting with her.
I told her that I am very happy she told me this because this is surely the highlight of my day!
It was like, on one hand it was such a notoriously horrendous day but on the other hand, something pleasant like this happens and you are immediately cheered up! TIt was like someone knocked on my head and said, "Hello.. life ain't that bad after all!" and I believed that person, just like that!
Ah the workings of the Almighty!
So there. I swung right from a heartbroken alcoholic to a happy optimist!
378 more to go.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Day 621: Paper, Scissors & Cellotape!
1 August, 2011
When in school, I used to enjoy my handicrafts classes. I used to love cutting, pasting, sewing etc.! There is always a sense of satisfaction once the project is done and you see the end product! However I had not done any "handicraft" in the last several years but now and then I used to get the chance to make props for my plays or films, which I quite enjoy.
We have an upcoming photoshoot for IOK and I need a very simple placard, of a certain dimension and thickness, for it. Given that I did not really have time to go shopping for it before the photoshoot, I decided to make a mock one with whatever materials I had at home. So I dug out an old sketch book of reasonable size, tore off a few pages, put them together to achieve the dimension and the thickness of the placard that I needed. This required a good 30 minutes of my time spent on working with paper, scissors and cellotape.
At the end of my efforts, I felt so good! The end product was strictly average in looks but is functional, and more importantly, it felt so good to be working on even such a small thing! To spend some time sitting on the floor, measuring and snipping papers, pasting them this way and that, was therapeutic! This would most certainly not qualify as "handicraft", but I still got a ton of satisfaction from it!
It is fascinating how much joy even paper, scissors and cellotape can sometimes give!
379 more to go.
When in school, I used to enjoy my handicrafts classes. I used to love cutting, pasting, sewing etc.! There is always a sense of satisfaction once the project is done and you see the end product! However I had not done any "handicraft" in the last several years but now and then I used to get the chance to make props for my plays or films, which I quite enjoy.
We have an upcoming photoshoot for IOK and I need a very simple placard, of a certain dimension and thickness, for it. Given that I did not really have time to go shopping for it before the photoshoot, I decided to make a mock one with whatever materials I had at home. So I dug out an old sketch book of reasonable size, tore off a few pages, put them together to achieve the dimension and the thickness of the placard that I needed. This required a good 30 minutes of my time spent on working with paper, scissors and cellotape.
At the end of my efforts, I felt so good! The end product was strictly average in looks but is functional, and more importantly, it felt so good to be working on even such a small thing! To spend some time sitting on the floor, measuring and snipping papers, pasting them this way and that, was therapeutic! This would most certainly not qualify as "handicraft", but I still got a ton of satisfaction from it!
It is fascinating how much joy even paper, scissors and cellotape can sometimes give!
379 more to go.
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