Neela Nirmaladagasadi Nischintanagiha Chandira...

 I had not realised that it had been so long since I wrote. What with my becoming a product owner, life has not been easy. But one can say I asked for it and I definitely did. So I'm going to plough on. 

Anyway, what made me write today is that I went to the balcony to fetch something and looked up at an amazingly beautiful sky. The moon is bright but there are also a good number of stars twinkling around. Add a soothingly cool breeze and my (strained) eyes literally watered staring at the beauty of it all.

Life has been hectic ironically with the advent of AI in our worklife. Right now we're cooking up the gains not having been given much choice and to be honest, the pressure to adopt quickly quickly quickly is killing the happiness for the much-needed support it's supposed to bring to our lives. 

Right now what I need is a magic wand to make people understand banking. So few of the people around me really appreciate and understand the nuances of calculations and accounting that every small change looks like a dangerous stunt in the hands of the wrong people. Some days are utterly frustrating but on others, some newbees shine and make me very happy and proud. Life is like that. 

ಆರಂಕುಶವಿಟ್ಟೊಡಂ…

I’m a forever fangirl of Western Ghats. I can gape at miles and miles of the flora and not be tired of it and daydream of exploring the origin of every single stream flowing down there. I know there are more beautiful places in this world but me, I own that place and that place owns me. 

12 Angry Men

One of the challenges that I have these days is to find something for Anu to watch along with me on Netflix or Prime. She’s almost thirteen now and is not easy to please. The movie shouldn’t have song and dance or overtly mushy elements, no cuss words or melodrama. And she doesn’t even let me give up on finding such a thing. “Aayi, let’s watch something together” gets me back on the Netflix train. So when I found 12 Angry Men on YouTube (a very clean print), I knew she would like it. She did and I was glad that she understood all the small things without my aid. Only she waas disappointed that she couldn’t see the kid released by the court.

Fingernails

 I love Riz Ahmed, all over again. 

The Wrong Side

Last night, our neighbour caught hold of P in the corridor and said she had to discuss something important. It seems she had wanted to tell me for long but somehow missed it. The problem was with our shoe rack. It was placed in the wrong side of the passage and was a deterrent for Goddess Lakshmi to enter the house. 

P told us and Anu looked at me. I told her my salary had only increased ever since. It tickled her and she said let's go tell her that and get her all confused. 

We changed the position anyway, just so that we didn't have to hear about it again. 

There and Back Again

I went out with L today. It was a temple visit and greeting people with Sai Ram is not my cup of tea but I can bear it if I want to. I wanted to beat the routine and L and V are my most preferred company anyway. It was nice but L likes my company too and she wants me to accompany her somewhere else next week. I told her I would let her know. Because P's first reaction when I told him was that I should remember I had a family. It made me angry though I had predicted it. I wonder why I don't simply not-care. What browny points am I looking to score? 

By the End of the Day

Necessity is the mother of stoicism.