Spices

A Month since the New Year... !!?

These days my mind and thoughts are increasingly occupied with stuff like Dow Jones theory, MACD, moving average crossovers, Elliott wave theory, RSI etc. Did you know that graph paper comes in two varieties ? Arithmetic and semi-logarithmic. What is worrisome is not the extremely dry nature of these things; its that I think I secretly enjoy it !!

So there its out. Now you know.

Also the formation of my latest conspiracy theory : People from the MoF are on the payroll of some of the FII biggies. Wait and watch as this situation develops / gets blown out of the water.

I’ve also re-opened my studies on Synchronicity, and in turn they have opened themselves to me. The blog : The Plum Pudding incident is being updated and when it has adequate plums in the mix I shall keep you informed. [ Update : 25 Nov 2011, this blog has been merged with the main blog and no more exists as a separate one .]

Still haven’t been able / inclined to go out and shoot anything fresh. My mind has been dulled with some meds I’m taking for my cough and asthma. The weather too is not helping, as its changing from cool to cloudy to warm and back.
Then again, maybe that’s just an excuse…. I’m just being creatively lazy.

Dreamland

Earlier this morning, driving on our way to Shamirpet, just me and the kids.

Just as we are passing the crowds coming out from Sunday service near secbad club, I'm thinking about the previous night and my readings on the Sephiroth and Malkuth and thinking to myself how fickle minded I could be.

At that exact moment Alisha says " Can we be two things papa ? I want to be a doctor and a teacher."

Meanwhile at the exact moment DREAMLAND by Bruce Hornsby is playing on the car stereo, with these exact lines :

Wake up tomorrow maybe you'll find

Darkness gone from your mind

Want you to be what you want to be

Don't want you ever hurt like me

Smiling through the saddest times ...

And I further reflect about Archangel Sandalphon, and how he is associated with prayer, and heavenly song.


Spooky Rating 8/10

Flashbacks

I watched the movie WAR OF THE WORLDS last night, and it brought back a flood of memories.

I remember watching the earlier version the first time around 1978-79 or thereabouts, while about 7 yrs old in Pune. It creeped me out then and it creeped me out now.

I think it was the serpentine things that come looking around for human survivors.

Flashback to age 7-8 again, and I had a high fever one night in the Infirmary, and a nightmare which involved me being a stadium surrounded by a grill with plants etc, which are creepers vines that have reached out and eaten my acomplices who were with me but a few minutes ago.

That dream I remember to this day, and it still freaks me out !!

Strangely, around the same time [ present day ] some creepy ad film maker has used the similar concept for CHANTILLI wines where thre grape vines reach out and suck up a rooster alive.
[ Loves food as much as you... ]

Creepy and spooky !

Rating 7/10

The Times...

Yesterday as we were coming back from school, Armaan and Alisha were in the back seat; Bob Dylan playing on the Stereo, the track was The Times They are A-changin'.


......."Come mothers and fathersThroughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand...."

And that EXACT moment Armaan pipes up saying “Papa change this. I don’t like this song.”

And Alisha says “ Yeah me too”.

And the song continued…. “Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command”….


Rating 6/10

Sankranti 2008

Sanjeevaiah park on Sunday 14th Jan morning for SANKRANTI, had us flying a [ Chinese ] kite, quite a good one, but too many others wanted to ladau page. So we brought it back down. This was Armaan’s first kite flying experience, and he seemed to like it.

A day earlier and the school had put out the list of new admissions. So Armaan will be joining Nursery in the same school as Alisha. Term starts on 6th June 2007. And he’s been looking forward to going to “big school”. Infact sometimes when I go to pick up Alisha I’ve been taking him along, and he’s quite familiar with the place and her classmates now.

My creative urge seems to have taken a back seat, and I haven’t shot anything for over a month now. The last batch was some still-life studio work which I shall put up hopefully later today.

We watched the Hindi movie GURU last night at the IMAX, and I would recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.

Meanwhile L’OREAL Paris has been trying to sell me some shampoo with : “LIGHT REFLECTIING BOOSTER TECHNOLOGY” which they assure me will reflect light upto 85% more and have a “Cashmere Touch”.

They tell me I’m worth it, so I guess its alright and I’ll go buy some today.

The Week that was. 1st to 7th Jan 2007

... And a Happy New Year to you too !!

As I mentioned earlier, the Bidanis from the plains of Delhi and the Bedouin Anands from Dubai came to Hyderabad to find new meaning and purpose for the New Year 2007.

The long and short of it is - Rishi and Alisha are now more of a deadly combination than ever. Shiv and Seerat are preparing for their teenage years ahead. Sachit and his babies are still inseparable [ stuffed pillows he’s had since an infant ] and Armaan is friend of all the world and is game for just about anything.

During this time we have stretched the little flat at No 3 Methodist Colony, as well as the Wagon-R. We now know what both are capable of [ or not ]. Which by the way, reminds me that I should be phoning the Limca book of records or something for this :

RM Dhawan 80Kg, Sanjay 85 Kg, Dilip 75 Kg, Seema 65 Kg, Anju 65 Kg, Deepa 60 Kg, Seerat 50 Kg, Shiv 40 Kg, Sachit 20 Kg, Rishi 20 Kg, Alisha 15 Kg, Armaan 10 Kg, and yours truly 75 Kgs at the wheel.

7 adults 2 teenagers and 4 kids = 13 people [ 661 Kgs ] in the Wagon R !!

We kicked off the evening with PINACOLADAS for all at home, followed by some Moet & Chandon Champagne.

Then off to the Taj, where we rocked the pants off the place and what would otherwise have been a prim and proper sit-down buffet, had us playing Goan Mandos [ Seema carried CDs from Goa ], and who else should be on the keyboards than Sebastian !

The week flashed by in a blur of Biryanis, Rose wine, BIBINCA, laughter, crying, nose-bleeds, Macchar Fry, late nights and even later mornings. And as the Mob Bosses in Chicago would say, we “hit the mattresses”.

Oh yes, I also saw a lot of Salar Jung’s stuff he collected round the house [ 3 floors each with 2 wings of amazing stuff ]. His jewels we couldn’t see, and when they go back to Delhi in Feb, looks like that’s where we’ll have to go to see them.
[ ha ha…….. very funny… I can see you laughing when I said “his jewels” ]

Alisha turned 5 years old yesterday 6th Jan, but we’d already celebrated on the 2nd, with Princess cake, balloons, bungee jump and all.

Looks like we’re going to have a Great Year ahead !!…….. see you next week.