The Christmas trees are everywhere, in homes, hotels, malls, shops; all are artificial trees, but each one is unique and pretty. The possibilities in terms decor are endless and the sheer creativity involved in making them a stand out is brilliant and never fails to amaze. The Taj West End at Bangalore has some spectacular…
Tag: Musings
Tête-à-tête 🚗 (guest post)
Not sure if it’s calculated or a mere coincidence but they do select the least expected spots as the catchment areas; it can be just around an unsuspecting curve, two streets away from the popular watering holes in the locality in the late evenings and even right at the bottom of an empty overbridge where…
1️⃣ December: Tree Day🎄
No sun today; it’s cloudy, grey and a windy morning here in Bangalore; has all the signs of a lazy day ahead. Quoting Jim Rohn here “Either you run the day or the day runs you!” It is a special day though, the beginning of a new month and the first task of December is…
New & Blue 🌬
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” Karen Lamb I am back to working full-time now and in a new niche. Starting over anew, after a sabbatical is a roller-coaster experience. The opportunity was godsend; and I am grateful for it. But it’s no cakewalk; the learning curve is steep; stumbling…
Rain green 🌧🌿
The wetland adjacent to the Kasavanahalli lake had become terra firma under the heat of the summer sun in April. With the rain in May, the earth happily lapped up the water and eventually the enclosed area started to flood. The rains birthed new life into the land and the place is awash in green👇….
Selling my car @Cars24.com 🚙
The choice of the vendor was by chance but it was a good experience. I managed the sale from Bangalore, the vehicle was at my parent’s place in Kottayam, Kerala and there was also some pending paperwork from the financier at Kochi, Kerala. But it all came through without having to travel from Bangalore to…
POTD: Catching a sunrise 🌅
” A humourist once said the most difficult problem in life was getting out of a warm bed into a cold room. And he had a point. The longer you lie there and think how unpleasant it will be to get up, the more difficult it becomes. Even in such a simple operation as this,…
Making Tidying Up an Event 🧺
The popular choice of the first Japanese author for many people would be Haruki Murakami; but for me, I first picked up the small book by the Zen Buddhist monk Shoukei Matsumoto “A Monk’s Guide to a Clean House and Mind” 👉Adding meaning to daily chores (Buddhist approach) 🧹 as a window of motivation for…
Tabebuia time in Bangalore 🌸🌸
It’s Tulip time in Netherlands, Cherry Blossom in Japan and Tabebuia in Bangalore 💮💮 “From the first weeks of January when the silk cottons and the tecomas and jacarandas start putting out their flowers, Bangalore can count on eight to nine months of spectacular flowers as each species does its bit, until the season ends with a…
Revisiting favourites 🍝
It’s the weekend before Valentine’s Day; some shop windows display red balloons and heart shaped cut outs to mark the occasion; for him and her 🎈. We ventured to Church Street to see if we can sell some old books at the second hand bookshop. Their quoted price was very low and no cash offered;…
POTD: Spider Lily 🕸
Second month into the year; the days are getting hotter while the nights are still cool in Bangalore. The cyclical changes that happen year round have become familiar and hence we can look forward to the days with happy expectations. And when we look out for the familiar we begin to notice the new things…
Perspectives 🌅
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anais Nin, writer 31 Jan 2022, my maternal grandmother passed away; she was ninety six. She is safe with God. Among the many fond memories and qualities of my grandparents that I admire and cherish, their unpretentious and simple lifestyle stands out….
Framing a new scene 🪟
My apartment has sliding aluminium frames for the windows; and here I wake up to wooden window frames that open to the outside and are latched in place so that the wind doesn’t bang them shut. The scenery outside is different and so is the frame 🪟; I am at my parents home in Kerala…
January: Reset and relish 🧁
It’s almost all dried fruits and nuts and less cake; it’s sweet, rich and the last of our plum cake from Anns Bakery, Kottayam, Kerala for this year 🍰. Their Christmas cakes comes in a pretty round tin box with five layers of wrapping – the outermost is a coloured (blue/green) cellophane cover you unwrap,…
To new Beginnings 🥂
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” Carl Sandburg, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author My planner has a quote for each day; they are cliches but still…
✈️ home for the holidays…✨
Bangalore airport can rival any mall in the city during the holiday season🎄. The queue outside the departure terminal was thick and long; will we make it to the departure gate on time !? 24 Dec, we arrived at the airport by 7:30 am, our Indigo flight to Kochi was at 9:30 am. We joined…
Tinsel time 🎄☃️
It’s December 🔔 finally !! A month long looked forward to and now that we are finally here, everyone is approaching the coming holidays with trepidation – to travel or stay put !? 😊….in light of the new virus variant. Decisions, decisions ! For us one decision has already been made, no new Christmas decorations…
Stumbling into Baking (Choosing an oven) 🍰
I bought a heart shaped cake tin from Le Creuset. It looked very cute and they were having a discount sale (a perfect example of an impulse purchase 😛). It is 26 cm lengthwise and now to put that to use, I needed to buy an oven. Till date I have not owned an oven…
A New November 🔆
The fairy lights are out ! The apartment complex is decorated with multi-coloured string lights wound spiralling the lamp posts and tree trunks; also twined along the hedges lining the entrances; we are ready for Diwali 🪔. And the best part is they remain for the whole of November and December till the New Year….
A week in pics 🍛
The days are bright and sunny; not too hot and it rains sometimes late in the evening and at night. So pleasant weather in Bangalore. My pink pathumani poov (10 O’ clock flower) is the prettiest and brightest looking life around the house. It makes me happy ! We had guests over for lunch on…
Miles and smiles 
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