My mom is visiting for a month and she arrived this morning. I believe this is her 8th or 9th visit to Singapore but she still behaves as if its her first time. I must say that I am rather amused by her child-like excitement! She is still talking about how pretty the airport is and convenient everything here is.
And as usual, she has also brought my favourite things to eat such as the jam rolls and chocolate pastries (nope, you don't get the exact same thing here in Singapore). She has also got a jumbo pack Parle-G biscuits for her son-in-law who enjoys them with his tea. This, I believe would be available in Singapore but there is no way to convince her that!
So good to have her again in spite of the fact that I am stuffed with jam rolls!
897 more to go.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Day 102: Rehearsals and Fake Calls
Interesting day. It started off fantastically enough with an enthusiastic cast member reaching 2.5 hours earlier than the required time for rehearsals. After about 5 hours of pretty encouraging rehearsals, I was feeling quite good about life.
Then I decided that I wanted to have South Indian food and made my way to Madras Woodlands with hubby. Having eaten a Paper Dosai, Curd Vadai and Veg Cutlet, I felt even better about life.
Then I realized that I have lost my phone. Now, that did cause a dent in my otherwise rosy perception of life. It was rather upseting. After all, it's a waste of money. But in the quest of looking at the brighter side of life, I decided that it is a good thing since now I can buy a new phone. I bought a cheap temporary Samsung phone while waiting for vouchers from Starhub (mobile service provider) that would enable me to get an iPhone at $100 less after a few days.
And this interesting new phone of mine is going to be a key enabler in me skipping awfully boring conversations or meetings. Since I discovered that it has a "fake call" service! Never heard of that before!
Assuming am in the middle of a horrendous discussion I wanna get out of, I can pretend am just looking at the time on the phone or something and set the fake call. After a few minutes, it gives me a fake call, which I can then pick up and pretend that something serious somewhere has happened that requires my urgent attention, thereby putting a fullstop to the dull conversation am in the middle of. Now that my friends, is what I call a useful application! :D
And yes, life is back to being rosy now.
898 more to go.
Then I decided that I wanted to have South Indian food and made my way to Madras Woodlands with hubby. Having eaten a Paper Dosai, Curd Vadai and Veg Cutlet, I felt even better about life.
Then I realized that I have lost my phone. Now, that did cause a dent in my otherwise rosy perception of life. It was rather upseting. After all, it's a waste of money. But in the quest of looking at the brighter side of life, I decided that it is a good thing since now I can buy a new phone. I bought a cheap temporary Samsung phone while waiting for vouchers from Starhub (mobile service provider) that would enable me to get an iPhone at $100 less after a few days.
And this interesting new phone of mine is going to be a key enabler in me skipping awfully boring conversations or meetings. Since I discovered that it has a "fake call" service! Never heard of that before!
Assuming am in the middle of a horrendous discussion I wanna get out of, I can pretend am just looking at the time on the phone or something and set the fake call. After a few minutes, it gives me a fake call, which I can then pick up and pretend that something serious somewhere has happened that requires my urgent attention, thereby putting a fullstop to the dull conversation am in the middle of. Now that my friends, is what I call a useful application! :D
And yes, life is back to being rosy now.
898 more to go.
Day 101: Teaser Poster
My day (or rather, night) continued to rock even after I wrote the 100th post yesterday. But if I am strictly to go by the time, the below happened way past midnight, so I guess it counts as what made Day 101 special. And that is, the teaser poster for my film 'Mausams'!!!
Just when I was about to shut my computer and go to bed yesterday, my photographer for the film's still shoot sent me one of the shots taken during the shoot. This shot was meant to be used for a teaser poster. Once I received that, I felt that I had to work on it and convert it into the poster immediately. So I did just that! Instead of going to bed, I sat back and worked on it. And Lo! We had the First Look Teaser Poster for Mausams! :)
Even after I woke up today, I was very excited about it that I sent it to a lot of my friends. The feedback was encouraging with some ideas on improvement and I felt really good the whole day!
The evening ended with watching the movie 'Karthik Calling Karthik' which I quite liked and I now have an even bigger crush on Farhan Akhtar. One talented genius he is!
All in all, a wonderful Day 101. And now I into my 800s.
899 more to go.
Just when I was about to shut my computer and go to bed yesterday, my photographer for the film's still shoot sent me one of the shots taken during the shoot. This shot was meant to be used for a teaser poster. Once I received that, I felt that I had to work on it and convert it into the poster immediately. So I did just that! Instead of going to bed, I sat back and worked on it. And Lo! We had the First Look Teaser Poster for Mausams! :)
Even after I woke up today, I was very excited about it that I sent it to a lot of my friends. The feedback was encouraging with some ideas on improvement and I felt really good the whole day!
The evening ended with watching the movie 'Karthik Calling Karthik' which I quite liked and I now have an even bigger crush on Farhan Akhtar. One talented genius he is!
All in all, a wonderful Day 101. And now I into my 800s.
899 more to go.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Day 100: 100 Days!
So here I am. 100 days of the blog. This is the next milestone I had set after completing Day 30 or one whole month of keeping at it.
On Day 30, I had went Wooooooohoooooo! That was not just because of the pride I felt in completing 30 days, but as the post states, it was so darn difficult to find something special to write about every single day. For the first few weeks of this journey, I had to consciously hunt for good things to happen for the sake of the blog, leading to rather unnecessary stress. So completing 30 days felt like a humungous achievement.
But today, on day 100, I feel a lot calmer (as you can see from just a single exclamation mark in the title of the post and no woohoos!). That's because I think I don't feel the pressure of having to look for something good to happen anymore. Instead, it has almost become a habit. Sure, I still have shitty days sometimes but I seem to be overcoming them by compensating with small personal victories like my first 10km run or my first 18 lap swim, or getting the cobra pose right, or making progress on different aspects of the film I am making etc.
And I think that is an incredibly useful habit to develop! It keeps me on a high almost all the time and I am very glad that I started on this journey. 900 days is still a long time to go but am not as stressed about it anymore.
Just before I wind up, I must also say that I wanted to make the day extra special than just reach 100 days with the blog. So I bettered my best-ever-18-lap swim with a 20-lap today.
The next milestone will be on Day 250.
900 more to go.
On Day 30, I had went Wooooooohoooooo! That was not just because of the pride I felt in completing 30 days, but as the post states, it was so darn difficult to find something special to write about every single day. For the first few weeks of this journey, I had to consciously hunt for good things to happen for the sake of the blog, leading to rather unnecessary stress. So completing 30 days felt like a humungous achievement.
But today, on day 100, I feel a lot calmer (as you can see from just a single exclamation mark in the title of the post and no woohoos!). That's because I think I don't feel the pressure of having to look for something good to happen anymore. Instead, it has almost become a habit. Sure, I still have shitty days sometimes but I seem to be overcoming them by compensating with small personal victories like my first 10km run or my first 18 lap swim, or getting the cobra pose right, or making progress on different aspects of the film I am making etc.
And I think that is an incredibly useful habit to develop! It keeps me on a high almost all the time and I am very glad that I started on this journey. 900 days is still a long time to go but am not as stressed about it anymore.
Just before I wind up, I must also say that I wanted to make the day extra special than just reach 100 days with the blog. So I bettered my best-ever-18-lap swim with a 20-lap today.
The next milestone will be on Day 250.
900 more to go.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Day 99: Morning Yoga and First Technical Meeting
Yesterday I happily declared on my favourite social networking sites Twitter and Facebook that I am going to go for early morning yoga today. But to be very honest, I had no real plan to do it. I mean, it was like one of those things you want to do but you know you won't really end up doing. So I didn't even bother to set the alarm before going to bed.
However, this morning I automatically woke up at 6:30 and felt incredibly fresh. Fresh enough to not want to go back to bed. That was it then. I had to go for Yoga. And I did!
Yet another historical event - early morning hot yoga. And it wasn't a bad class at all! I could keep up well enough with all the rich, jobless Caucasian women who are regular morning yoga people.
After a long day of productive meetings at work, I finally had the first ever technical crew meeting for the film. I think it stressed me out more than the work meetings but it's all good stress.
All in all, a pretty productive day and here's to many more of such days!
901 more to go.
However, this morning I automatically woke up at 6:30 and felt incredibly fresh. Fresh enough to not want to go back to bed. That was it then. I had to go for Yoga. And I did!
Yet another historical event - early morning hot yoga. And it wasn't a bad class at all! I could keep up well enough with all the rich, jobless Caucasian women who are regular morning yoga people.
After a long day of productive meetings at work, I finally had the first ever technical crew meeting for the film. I think it stressed me out more than the work meetings but it's all good stress.
All in all, a pretty productive day and here's to many more of such days!
901 more to go.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Day 98: Spreading Sushi Joy
It must be already pretty obvious from my blog posts over time that am a food lover. My most recently found favourite is Sushi. Specifically the Golden Catch, California Roll and Cheese Delight from Ichiban Boshi. Once I discover a dish that I absolutely love, I usually want to immediately make sure my hubby experiences the same gastronomic joy since he is a much bigger foodie than I am. And sushi was no exception.
The particular varieties of Sushi I have mentioned above, were introduced to me by a friend at work and today I got an opportuinty to share my discovery with the hubby. He had convinced me that going for yoga was a bad idea (with little effort, I admit) and suggested that we have a good meal instead. So I promptly recommended Ichiban Boshi.
He had a fine meal of Sushi and then later told me that it was totally my fault that he overate.
902 more to go.
The particular varieties of Sushi I have mentioned above, were introduced to me by a friend at work and today I got an opportuinty to share my discovery with the hubby. He had convinced me that going for yoga was a bad idea (with little effort, I admit) and suggested that we have a good meal instead. So I promptly recommended Ichiban Boshi.
He had a fine meal of Sushi and then later told me that it was totally my fault that he overate.
902 more to go.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Day 97: Singing in the Morning
Today I woke up in the morning, like I wake up every Monday morning, expecting myself to feel blue about the whole new work week ahead and quickly come to the conclusion that God was fairly inconsiderate in not giving me rich parents, which would have made it unnecessary for me to go to work on a Monday Morning. However, that didn't happen.
Instead, I woke up and felt an urge to sing. Yup, SING. Nope, I am not a Singer. But still, I wanted to Sing.
So, after getting ready and while waiting for hubby who sually takes MUCH longer than me to get ready, I started to sing some bhajans. For the uninformed, bhajans mean devotional songs in Hindi. Now, don't ask me "Why bhajans?!". I have no clue. But I must say it was a wise choice, since my hubby, who usually has a pretty low opinion of my singing skills, didn't comment on it. I believe he was scared of God's wrath.
So after singing 3-4 bhajans at the top of my voice, I felt really good. In fact, I was feeling pretty much at the top of world for the rest of the day. Not sure whether that was entirely because of early morning bhajans but still starting the day with a song seems to have brightened it up for sure!
903 more to go.
Instead, I woke up and felt an urge to sing. Yup, SING. Nope, I am not a Singer. But still, I wanted to Sing.
So, after getting ready and while waiting for hubby who sually takes MUCH longer than me to get ready, I started to sing some bhajans. For the uninformed, bhajans mean devotional songs in Hindi. Now, don't ask me "Why bhajans?!". I have no clue. But I must say it was a wise choice, since my hubby, who usually has a pretty low opinion of my singing skills, didn't comment on it. I believe he was scared of God's wrath.
So after singing 3-4 bhajans at the top of my voice, I felt really good. In fact, I was feeling pretty much at the top of world for the rest of the day. Not sure whether that was entirely because of early morning bhajans but still starting the day with a song seems to have brightened it up for sure!
903 more to go.
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