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Finally Sunday! End of the series of 3 continuous holidays! I see the news on TV today. They are talking on easying the lockdown having few of the sectors being open. Though the number of positive cases is raising, I am not certain how this sudden open of the lockdown would treat the people. One good thing I saw today was the armed forces showing their gratitude to the Corona warriors. The jet planes showering flowers on the doctors and police across other states. It was a treat to watch. Also the navy has lit the entire warships with lights in the dark to appreciate the efforts of the Corona warriors. India has crossed 40K+ positive cases and is very near to the Netherlands in its positive cases though in the Netherlands this virus had kept its leg first. Hopefully, all the IT sector would be working from home for another week or two I believe. Hoping for the positive Monday! This is how my day looked like Breakfast: Akki rotti with cabbage palya Lunch: Fruit salad Dinne...

It was yet another Saturday and the mind is trained to be at home because of lockdown. Lockdown got extended again for two more weeks till the 17th of May. The Corona positive cases are growing higher and in Bangalore it's growing more in numbers too. I m not certain how the kids will be taught this year. It's been more than a month working from home and a few other companies asked their employees to work from home till August. An unseen virus had tied the whole world inside the home. There are debates on the pros and cons of the lockdown vs the economy. What I feel is this year 2020 is successful if you are healthy. Stop cribbing about pay cuts, no bonus, and unpaid holidays. Lets be grateful for the jobs we have so far. Let the dreams, aspirations, and plans be there behind the curtain waiting for the right time. Utilizing this time to sharpen the skill will help in reaping the ripened fruits later. Let's learn new things. Either the new technology, programming language...

Today's is Labor day here and is a holiday! After a long time, I watched a Hindi movie. Thappad was the movie name. The movie theme was good. But I am not sure if our society has reached that extent to divorce her partner for one slap. I had seen similar comments on the Twitter platform when this movie got released. It appears that women face tough situations at home as well as at workplaces and she goes through this turbulence of thoughts balancing family, work, children, and their education. All that womanhood wants at present situation is a pinch of appreciation and an ounce of respect. This is how my day went Breakfast: Uppittu Lunch and Dinner: Ghee rice and chicken curry Meditation: I did attend only 12.30 session today. My brothers were at home in the evening and couldn't make it for the evening session. Read & Write: I couldn't complete this Music: Had many random tracks running Work out: It was more of competition with my brothers on...

Washing machine seemed whispering to the tap with a wicked smile - "Same faded ones" The tap appeared saying  -"once again??" with a wrinkled eyebrows! Detergent was crying "These are already faded - how can I make them fader again?" I looked at the clothes I was dumping to wash They appeared talking "how nice the ones resting in hangers" We are the ones kept lying half folded for easy access! we are picked directly from the string where we will be still drying said the other! They seemed questioning "Why we are being used the whole day??" I am missing the perfume sprinkled cozy partners said the machine! still waiting for the colorful ones to treat them better! I am in awe with the freedom they get beach washed in machine and sun-soaked dance in air to get themselves dry up! Little did they know how lockdown felt!

The day went just right. As its a long weekend Mays 1st being labor day in India, completed all the work for this week. This is how my day looked like Breakfast: Akki rotti with Brinjal Palya Lunch: Akki rotti  with groundnut chutney powder Dinner: Chapathi with cabbage palya Dessert: Choco mouse. Meditation: Couldn't complete both the sessions thought I started attending. I got a call from the office in the noon and in the evening my brothers came home Work out: I did work out for 15 minutes, but not my usual workout which I missed as I had a meeting at 6.30 Music: Did listen to many of the random tracks Read & Write: I started with one of the books from Gaur Gopal Das and wrote a few lines. Cleaning: Sweeping & Wiping the floor and kitchen cleaning with washing the vessels took most of the time. New learning: Did try making choco mouse for the dessert. Loved it :). But one thing I got to understand that I don't have shot glasses at home for these d...

The day was good. It was a rainy day! I started my day pretty early at 4.30 in the morning. It started raining from 5 onwards. Thought of sitting at the balcony but it was all wet. The birds were chirping constantly. Had attended a morning session on a kind of personality development. It was a good one. We do get feedback on our careers at least once in a year. As a human on this earth - do we really think we need to get the feedback from our near and dear once. Just to check if we are being a right human on this earth - don't we think we should be asking the feedback? Softwares would come every now and then with the latest versions and updates. Don't we think as a human we need to reversion ourselves, rebrand ourselves and be our better selves? I did think about this and got feedback from a few very close family members, and felt good to see how positive others feel than myself. There were few things to improve as well, which I will be considering. We tend to take our positi...

It was a good day. Cloudy day and the day was filled with many activities. Many a time we think we are inside the home and are locked down and are not going out these days. But the new positive possibilities are hidden at this time. I am putting myself a few questions. Am I learning anything related to the field of my work? Am I giving my dedicated time to people in my world? Am I doing the things I have been hidden under the carpet many times? There are many more queries inside, are we giving a separate dedicated time for answering each query that we had within. Time to analyze and retrospect our own self. My day looked like this. Breakfast: Veg pullav Lunch: Had the same I made for breakfast as it was pending. Dinner: Chapathi, dum aloo, and pudina chutney. Dessert: Egg pudding Meditation: I did complete only the evening meditation session today. I had an important call at noon so I couldn't attend. Work out: Liking this time now. As I usually take up in the evening p...

Today was a good day! A lot of learning and self-evaluation on many of the things that I have never looked in myself. It was retrospecting mode and finding a newer version of myself.  I did complete many of the pending tasks and did finish most of the pending stuffs. Feel-good factor when I check on each of these pending tasks on their completion. Going good so far. My day looked like below. Breakfast: Akki Rotti and Bendekayi Palya Lunch: Rice and Rasam Dinner: Chapathi with Egg burji.  I didn't click photos today. Meditation: Took both the sessions and they were good Work out: Completed 25 minutes of work out and felt the sweat! Cleaning: Kitchen cleaning, Took care of my plants, and cleaned the pooja unit. New learning: There are lot of new learning on personal development. I need to do a separate write up for this learning.  Music: The girl with so sweet voice - Surya Gayathri. Listened to her songs today. Such a blessed child....

Not a good Sunday! The day went unnoticed! It was not one of my productive days, but huge learning! Few events happen to us to give us direction in life! This lockdown is one such event for all of us to hard stop all the busy life that we had and to retrospect what is we are up to, and what we dreamt off, where we have reached now and what is stopping us. Writing has given me clarity on what I needed. I usually jot down things in my journal. Good that today is Sunday and not a regular working day! My routine today had very less activities that  I had planned. Breakfast: Chapthi with Chicken curry ( The leftover curry from last night) Lunch: Rasam and Rice Dinner: Same as lunch but made curd rice too. Not a sip of any beverage today. I am a big fan of tea. Usually per day I drink tea twice a day. Good for me, no sugar intake :) Meditate: Sat for meditation both the times, I was free and didn't have any work to do but I couldn't proceed with this and had to get up. I n...

Its been a good day. I took a break from few things but spent in a way how I wanted it. This is how my day looked Breakfast: Gojju avalakki Lunch: Mango milkshake Snack: Crispy golden corn Dinner: Akki roti with Kadai Chicken Meditation: I took it only once in the noon. Workout: It was a short 15 minutes work out. Read and Write: I didn't do any of these New learn: Nothing for today Music: Had many chants running in a home in the morning and other Kannada tracks playing in the evening Clean home: I can say deep kitchen cleaning for today.

Finally, its Friday! I needed a break. I like to write things down. I am not sure when I started writing other than academics related stuffs. I do have a notebook from my 8th grade where I had started writing a few poems and left it there. Then again in 11th grade where I had scribbled few and left it. My scribbling in all random books made me lose most of my work. During my college days had written many articles and poems in my personal diary, and I had lost it while shifting. After I started working, I used to type in a few things for someone on their birthday or anniversaries. I thought to give my writing a serious time in 2009. My writings were both in Kannada and in English. in 2014 I made my mind to write at least one story or an article or a poem in a month. My poems and articles were published in Kannada magazines as well. Writing for Times Of India - Write India Contest boosted my confidence and I did continue with my writing without looking back not worrying about the outco...

World Book Day!! Nothing has been good for an avid reader like me. I need to thank my younger self to cultivate the habit of reading. I remember my residential school where we can borrow books from the school library for a week. Me and one of my friends who has the same madness of reading like me used to borrow the books which we both liked. We did exchange books and used to read two books in a week. I still remember how we waited for our turn to get a book has anyone bought a new book. As I remember, I had this interest in books since from 3rd standard when my father got us the Kannada comic book - Balamangala and Champaka. Now that I read autobiographies of achievers, I thank my father for helping me in cultivating that habit in me. I know what I will do when I have time, a book, and a cup of coffee. The coffee mug will get dried up but I will still be glued to my book. I have traveled to many places alone for work. Be it Atlanta, Nashville, Melbourne, or Netherlands I had carried ...

It was a good fruitful day! I completed many other things that I wanted to complete. These days managing both office works and the normal chores at home, you never realize the time for yourself. I started to have my lunch at around 3.30PM, my usual lunch hours would be between 1 to 2. Little change in routine changes the biological cycle itself. The wake-up time got pushed by 2 hours and the traffic hours are taken by the extra sleep, this is the worst enemy to beat. I am beating this from the past two days. Soon after the alarm goes, I started counting five, four, three and two and one I get up no matter what. This is helping me to check many undone things. This is how my day looked Breakfast: Cut fruits, dry fruits, and honey mixed with milk. ( I got call at 7.30 in the morning for an urgent task and it went till 8, and then another call setup from 8 to 9. Couldn't cook anything but made my nutritious breakfast. Lunch: Rice and dal palak Dinner: Chapati with leftover dal...

The days are rolling in a flash. The ongoing office work and the tasks at home without any help is a bit tough to manage. The timings of breakfast and lunch are delayed and the clock is at its own pace. Its been so many days going out, roaming around the hangout places near the office for the evening tea. Its been quite a lot of time meeting my parents and my kid staying away from Bangalore. At least we have video calls to connect and to see the person while talking and can afford calls as everyone has a mobile in his or her hand, just thinking how people connected earlier and how did they just travel without GPS. It feels how tightly we are coupled with our mobile phone. In a touch we do get the grocery delivered, in a click the money gets credited. My grandmother never believed when I explained to her all these when she was alive. At least we have uninterrupted wifi and a mobile to get ourselves entertained without actually using it for its purpose! This is how my day looked. Br...

It's more than a month since we all are working from home. Monday is the first day of the week, most of the calls are being set on this day and I almost had back to back calls even during my lunch hours! I am not able to keep up my task list checked all the time. In between the ongoing office tasks, calls from family members, tea breaks and cooking the meals for the day hardly got time for my tasks today though  I did complete a few of them. This is how my day looked Breakfast: Dosai with groundnut chutney Lunch: Fruits mixed with curd, dry fruits and honey. I did add milk too. It was very good. Dinner: Lemon rice Meditation: I took only one session in the evening at 7.30 as I was busy the whole day Work out: Did complete 20 minutes work out. Read & Write: I couldn't give time for these. I am missing my reading. New learning: I finished my French course in Udemy and got the certificate too. I still need to learn on the conjugation with the verbs and the right...

Sunday began a bit late as I did wake up a little late. The cascading effect of the late start would be felt the entire day's work. By the time you eat your breakfast and watch some random shows in TV, noon would be inviting.  I watched a Telugu movie after a long time. I usually cannot remember the movie names. But this one was HIT :), yeah! that was the movie name. I know all the Telugu movies are hit as my friend from my previous company used to say there will not be any flop movies in that industry. The movie was quite a suspense and a thriller. Ramayana has reached its end. I am on and off with the Mahabharatha retelecast. It was a good day overall. This is how my day went Breakfast: Egg maggie ( effect of starting the day late) Lunch: Rice, Rasam, and omelet Dinner: Akki rotti with capsicum egg stir fry Meditation: Took both the sessions Read & Write: Not much of it, it's a Sunday! ( I was in a relaxing mode, just wondering here and there at home...

It was a lazy day! I was in a relaxing mode, being easier on myself. Its good to be in this mode for a few days after having lengthy productive days. Almost a month being inside the home. Its good to be in-home during this scorching sun out, but need that freedom to go to places, meet and greet people and be social as well. I hope the situation will be back in normal soon. Today was an easier day! Breakfast: Akki rotti with sorekayi playa its bottle guard in English Lunch: Fruit salad (wasn't hungry at all) Snack: Paneer roll with HesrubeLe payasam Dinner: Just a glass of Haldi milk ( closed my nose and gulped. Milk and me are opposites) Meditation: Took this both the times, didn't want to miss on weekends at least. This is the best part of the day. Work Out: It was a nonstop 30 minutes work out, good to feel the sweat and the body feeling sour! Write & Read: Read a few pages from other books. Nothing major in my writing yet. Cleaning: Did clean the balcony ...

Finally my grocery arrived, I am stocked for the next one week. Thanks to those delivery guys who just keeps the package in front of your home and send just a message to collect it. Only a few grocery apps are working now. Few of the apps have stopped onboarding new users. Its been a month I have gone out of my home. Earlier we must have all felt aged, now at least I am getting used to this situation. Friday ends with many more officially calls till 8.30 PM. It feels good to do more of these tasks in less time but we wouldn't realize we were immobile at a place for a prolonged time. Short breaks are indeed needed to stretch ourselves. My day looked like this. Breakfast: Chapathi and Flat beans Palya ( I don't know this vegetable name in English! We call chapparada avrekayi . Need to ask my kid :) ) Lunch: Rice, Rasam, and Rava fish fry Dinner: Lemon rice Meditaion: Did take the evening session as I just had 15 minutes break Write and Read: Nothing much New Learn:...

The peak of the week as most of the deadlines lie towards the end of the week. Most of the time the calls will lead the actual work. It's been a while that I started my day at 4.30am, which was my usual routine. Missing my morning routine of reading an hour and writing at least 30 minutes a day. Never anticipated anytime that a day like this would come where locked up at home and cannot go out for anything. I have been a keen observer! The view my balcony to an empty road, the crowded bakery at the dead-end of the road now dwells the street dogs. The road witnessing restless maids rushing to their jobs, the paperboy, the milkman, the online grocery truck, the people leaving to work, the numerous vehicles and people on the street now is orphaned! I hope the day is sooner for all of us to resume this pause on our commute. This is how my day looked Breakfast: Upma and Kesribath Lunch: Rice and Horse gram sprouts curry Dinner: Chapathi with egg burji Cooking done right! Work...

Hectic day! Never-ending calls!! When we work at the office, we tend to talk to people and clarify the doubts or any issues while talking over a coffee or a formal meeting or over lunch, we wouldn't realize the gravity of these concerns then. But now, being at home physiologically we think we are relaxed because, that's how our brain has been taught. Home is the place to relax and can be homely at home! When we mix the office stuffs along with the tasks that we usually do for home, things get complicated! I started my day 9, the calls from 9.30  and the series started till 2.30. Post lunch again by 3 till 5.30! Phew! Just logged off around 6.15! There is tomorrow to handle it as well. Crazy day, but yet I did few of my tasks apart from these stuffs. Here is the update on my personal tasks Breakfast: Chapthi with Tomato gojju Lunch: Puliyogre ( Thanks to MTR  puliyogare powder, easy- peasy. Just made rice and was thinking what to be done for sambar, realized thi...