Bananarana

Ramblings...

* Tuesday afternoon... balmy weather outside.. not working under usual crazy pressure (might have something to do with the fact that both my bosses are out of town)..
I think a lot of problems at the workplace (and elsewhere) come from people being boxed into confined spaces where, thanks to the general mechanism of airconditioning, you not only breathe in recycled air exhaled by other people, but also their issues....hmmm...

* I went to Rajasthan for the first time in my life Sunday before last. The landscape is so stark and barren but the colours the locals wear are incredible... overcompensation, you think? Even the elderly.. walked past this ooold man, in a pristine white dhoti and kurta and a blood red turban wrapped around his head. There are absolutely no muted shades anywhere!! And royalty just hangs in the air... It was a page out of The Far Pavillions. Can't wait to go back....

* I'm going back to the hills for Round 2 of Operation Restoration.... I'm starting to enjoy this. Especially the fact that I'm doing this on my own steam, with no help from the rest of my family. I never considered myself to have a green thumb, but funnily enough, I'm dying to go back and see how the flowers we planted are doing.. and what else I can do to spruce up the garden... When I was little and staying at this house with my mum, we had a gardener, who worked magic.. and it's only now I realise how much work went into a perfectly colour co-ordinated and manicured garden... a 100 points to Giriyabhai!! I miss him....

* I love looking into people's homes. Especially at night, when the lights are on inside and you can see them move about, doing householdy things. And even more so when I'm on a train or a bus and you can look in for a fraction of a second. I like to imagine what their lives might be like. As psychotic as it may sound, it comforts me...

* I get homesick ever so often.. not for a place or city.. but for a time when I was around 9 years old. Make sense? I miss the people I had in my life then...

*And I miss not having to worry about taxes..

posted by Bananarana @ 3:25 AM