Day 992: A Pedicure?!

Yup, it's very evident. The pregnancy is definitely getting my feminine hormones all active. First it was all that shopping that I couldn't seem to get enough of, and today I got myself a pedicure!

A freaking pedicure!

In case you are wondering what's so great about it or why it's a big deal, well... I have had a pedicure only once in my lifetime before - that was for my wedding more than 5 years ago!

So there.

Sure, I spoiled the newly done pedicure within a couple of hours when I did my yoga and applied weight on my toes in a few postures, which kinda reminded me why I am not fit for these beautification processes....but still, I loved the experience of getting my feet pampered and having pretty, painted toes as long as they lasted!

8 more to go.

Day 991: A Lovely Birthday Dinner!

It was the hubby's partner's wife's birthday and we were invited to be part of their lovely celebration at The Lighthouse in Fullerton. There was only one another couple also present, so it was a nice, cozy dinner.

Over some yummy Italian dinner, I had the most amazing time! The conversation was great, the venue was great, the view was the great, the food was great, the tiramisu was great and the people I was with were the best!

It was the perfect evening!

9 more to go.

Day 990: A Perfect "Friendship Day"!

It was apparently Friendship Day - as per the large number of status updates on Facebook. I usually don't care much about these "Days" - Friendship day, Valentine's day, Fathers day, Mother's day etc. because...well, what's the point?

So when I saw the flurry of Friendship day messages doing their rounds on Facebook, I didn't really pay much attention to them.

But then it turned out to be a day totally about friends! Starting with lunch, the hubby and I spent the entire day with our closest friends (the same gang from college days). Lunch, tea, movie and dinner - we did them all together.

So the so-called Friendship Day did end up being all about the friends after all! And I had the most awesome time with them!

10 more to go.

Day 989: A Day With The Hubby!

This Saturday was all about the hubby.

He was away in India the last weekend and the next few weekends we are gonna be rather busy with friends in Bali, parents in town etc. So we decided to spend the day together and max out the quality time.

After our customary brunch at Lakshmi Narasimhan, we decided to do some shopping. Together we went around Novena Square and hung out in the shops there for about 2 hours or so. The initial objective was for me to buy some stuff for Bali but the hubby ended up shopping 5 times as much as I did! Oh well.

Then we got back home and decided to watch the Olympics. India's Saina Nehwal was playing for the Bronze medal in Badminton. About a few minutes into the game, the hubby decided that it was my presence in the room that was making her under-perform and asked me to kindly exit. After adequately rolling my eyes, I did exit and decided to use the time to wrap up his birthday gift and do up the finishing touches.

So in a securely locked study room, I did just that.

Soon the hubby came knocking on the door, wondering what I was up to (FYI, Saina won the match, so he decided that my presence will not do much harm anymore).

Upon discovering that I was working on his gift, he told me that I didn't have to wait until the 15th (his birthday) to give him his gift and that he was more than happy to take a look at it now.

I actually didn't mind that because like I said, the next few days are going to be crazy busy, so I might as well use this time when we are left to ourselves, to pass him his gift.

So with much drama and build up, I got him to close his eyes and come into the study room. I made him sit on the floor and then open his eyes.

He opened his eyes, looked around and realized that I had not prepared 1 gift for him but a pile of 10 gifts! The idea was that I will give him 12 gifts in total (2 to follow on the birthday itself), one for each month of the year.

The look on his face when he saw the pile, was priceless! All those hours of shopping and wrapping were completely worth it!

The next half an hour so was spent on him unwrapping the gifts, reading the messages I had written on each of them, posing for photos etc. etc. It was super fun!

Hubby with his gifts!

Post that wonderful gift-time, we went to our usual hangout place Al Afrose, the hawker centre, and had dinner.

An entire day spent together, and a very fun day at that!

11 more to go. 

Day 988: Janushirasana - Check!

Got yet another yoga pose right today!

It was the Janushirasana or Head to Knee pose. 

I used to get it right prior to pregnancy and by "getting it right" I mean, I could manage to lock my knees in the posture. But post pregnancy that was not possible.... until today!

I couldn't hold it for long but only for a few seconds, but any progress is good progress, so yay!

12 more to go. 

Day 987: Yet Another Farewell!

The last year has seen a lot of my close friends shifting to other countries for work, studies etc.

And now, one more is leaving for the US on a new job.

So together with a couple of mutual friends, we had a farewell lunch of sorts with her.

This friend has been a strong supporter of all that I've done in the past, be it my theatre venture, or Mausams or just my life in general.

She was my assistant director on my production Kathaah in 2008 and since then we've been pretty thick. She couldn't be a full time crew member of Mausams because of other commitments, but when I really needed her help badly - say, during my biggest shoot with a 100-odd cast in an external rented venue or for publicity during screenings in Singapore, she was the one I could rely on. And she was phenomenal at whatever she did!

Not just the projects that we've done together, but even otherwise, our wavelengths matched perfectly. We had the exact same views on everything - be it marriage, family, kids, career, feminism, creative pursuits etc. etc.

Farewells suck but only because what we had was so special. It's been a privilege to know and work with her and have her around all this while.

And I enjoyed the lunch having that much needed final session of catch-up before she leaves!

Till we meet in some part of the world again!

13 more to go. 

Day 986: It's August!

Yup, it is indeed August!

August, when it's my birthday!

August, when it's the hubby's birthday!

August, when it's my mom's birthday!

August, when it's the parents' wedding anniversary!

August, when my parents are gonna be in town for 2 weeks for all the celebrations!

August, when I will be travelling to Bali with my 10-member strong friends group!

August, when I finally turn 30 and this blog comes to an end!

August, August, August!

That's the kinda upbeat feeling I had through the day! I was super excited and very, very happy that the month is really here!

Which is kinda nice because it means the last almost 1000 days have been successful in making me feel good about turning 30!

In my very first post on this blog, I had written about how more often than not, I have seen my friends and colleagues feeling really blue about turning 30. Because it kinda feels like half time. And I had started this blog to ensure that I don't feel the same. I had decided that I will keep track of what would make each day beautiful so that at the end of it, when 30 is right around the corner, I continue to feel awesome!

And I am feeling awesome, albeit it being half time, which means it worked! Super duper happy about that!

So here I welcome August with open arms!

14 more to go.