Day 43: Breathe in, Breathe out!

The day started off with me dropping a humongous metallic plate on to my toes.

I had wanted the husband to practice yoga with me, and to make space for the both of us in the study room, I lifted up a chair and shifted it outside. In the process, the base of the chair which was a huge and heavy metallic plate, unexpectedly came off and unceremoniously dropped on to my toes.

For a few moments I saw all kinds of stars. The pain was incredible and I could see my big toe transform into an unhealthy shade of purplish blue. 

I wanted to scream and cry from the throbbing pain but instead, I breathed through it. 

One of the things you learn in yoga is the art of breathing in and out through muscles, limbs, tendons that are tight and uncomfortable. So I used the same technique - and took long, full breaths and imagined them to move on to that poor smashed toe, to rejuvenate them. 

After a while, even though the pain continued to throb and the purplish hue of the toe looked just as ugly, I no longer wanted to shout to cry out. The breathing technique seemed to have worked and I told myself that I will follow this technique to get myself out of all sorts of painful situations from now on. 

I proceeded to practice yoga - even though making variations to the routine to ensure I do not put unnecessary strain on the damaged toe. Later, I went for dubbing where I had a good catch up conversation with the cast and a bit of dub work done. Then it was time for one last family outing before my trip to London tomorrow - so the husband, my dad, Madam and I went off to Marina Bay Sands for dinner. We ate at TWG which served surprisingly good food for just a tea place. 

A day that started off with a painful morning, ended up being a rather fulfilling one by the end of it. I continued to breathe deeply in and out, and sent out a little prayer of gratitude. 

457 more to go. 

Days 39 - 42 : Four Reasons, Four Days

It was a rather crazy week. Firstly because as part of the innovation team, bulk of my work for the year is cramped into this quarter of the year and May will be choke blocked with meetings, meeting and more meetings that I have the good fortune of leading. And I had to prepare for all of it before my upcoming business trip to London. Secondly, the film team is going to be here in a week's time and there was much prework and coordination to be done. On top, I have Madam who is more and more acting like my grandmother and dictates much of what I do these days.

Anyway that is my long winded explanation on why am clubbing entries right now. I actually have no recollection of what happened which day either but I definitely have four reasons to be happy about - so am just going to state them and imagine that they were spread across the four days.

1) So yes, work was crazy busy - but I had a few really good meetings which were initially expected to be pretty tough. So there was some progress, I got my team to be excited over a few things, and overall things seem to be progressing in the right direction, so it was all good!

2) I think we are finally at 99.5% of locking the background score of the film. And I know how the 0.5% can be fixed, so that is good too.

3) I finally managed to spend some time with my dad who is in town when we went to the National Gallery where he and I explored a few of the many galleries, while the husband played with Madam in the Art Education Centre with its colourful painted jungles. True, we didn't do too much exploration because soon we got a call saying Madam had different ideas as always, but at least we made good use of the little we did have and enjoyed the various historic photographs, sculptures, some really good paintings and other exhibits.

4)  We finally fixed all the logistics and prework for the film before everyone gets here in a weeks' time. Only a week more for the work to start and in another week, I would have the completed film. This is really the most exciting part of the journey and I. can. NOT. wait!

458 more to go. 

Day 38 : Happy Kid

My dad arrived this morning for a short visit. And along with him also arrived a carton of mangoes fresh and directly from the orchard, bananas, banana chips, jackfruit chips, jalebis, mysore paks,the books that I had ordered through Flipkart and were delivered to our place in Kerala, my mom's preparation of prawn pickle and tender mango pickle, a top that I had given for alteration, a collection of medicines, a repaired mixer and even a safety valve for a pressure cooker. My mom was the mastermind behind a lot of these items and my dad was the faithful transporter.

I can safely say that am their happy kid for the day.

462 more to go. 

Day 37: The Gang

With all the travel that's been going on, I had hardly been meeting up with my friends - or The Gang, as I call them.

One of them invited all of us over for a housewarming party, so I could finally meet up with everyone, including couple of the moms (who are easily two of the most lovely ladies I know!) who were around as well.

We spent a few awesome hours over great conversation, many laughs and good food. Madam too was in her best behaviour throughout much to everyone's, including our, amusement.

As we left, I once again felt so very grateful for this bunch who has been with us through thick and thin. I couldn't wish for a better group of besties!

On our way back home, I told Madam that she did a wonderful job with her behaviour and that all the aunties thought she was such a good girl, to which she promptly asked, "How about all the uncles?".

463 more to go. 

Day 36: Eka Uvacha

Or in other words, Madam Eka said...

[As we were about to go out and I asked her to hurry up]
"Wait Mummy, first breathe in and breathe out."

[As I hugged her and said I loved her]
"I know you love me Mummy, but right now am playing with play doh."

[As she sang, in her usual manner, making up sentences with rhyming words]
"Everyone has a wife, who we take care all our life."

[As I asked if she knew the difference between fast and slow]
"Potty comes slow, susu comes fast".

OK then. 

Day 35 : 70%!

As of today, I have completed 70% of the subtitling work for the film. It's a pretty big deal. And I feel immensely productive! Now for the remaining 30%.

465 more to go. 

Day 34: All the Baddhas!

Thanks to an online yoga class by Candace, I just discovered that I can do a few yoga poses involving "Baddhas" or "Binds".

The first one is Baddha Parsvakonasana or the Side Angle Bound Pose - I had tried this before and had just about managed to do it. I was stiff especially on the right side. But today I realized that this is coming a lot easier than before! So that's a check!

The second one is Baddha Ardha Matsyendrasana or the Bound Half Lord of the Fish (I just LOVE that name! I makes me feel all Lord-y!) - I had done various versions of Matyendrasana before as this is a pretty common pose in the classes, and probably had attempted the "bound" version as well but this is the first time I felt completely at ease with it. 

So there, yet another great day with Yoga! 

466 more to go.