It is deliriously hot today and in the kitchen where I cooked it got so extremely hot I found it hard to stand.
I was sweating, I was swearing, I was seared within that hot furnace.
It was excruciating and the fire alarms went off
Scaring everyone in the house
And all I did was make 3 paranthas but the open window didn't do much to expel that smoke and I was in no mood to turn on that horrible sounding smoke neutraliser and lo!
Anyway
I am sitting in front of a fan with sheru in my arms and life feels better .
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Twistday
Already Tuesday and day after I begin a small bout of vacation that the French love and is a part of their culture.
Usually their vacations extend anywhere from 10 days to 3 weeks (August being the holiday time) and it's a part of French system to have 35 days of paid vacation, no matter the job! It's very much a part of their relaxation routine and though I'd have loved a longer vacay cuz I need a holiday, this 5 day long out of the house and into the south of France road trip is going to do me good.
Holidays! Finally!
I am going to eat and eat
Usually their vacations extend anywhere from 10 days to 3 weeks (August being the holiday time) and it's a part of French system to have 35 days of paid vacation, no matter the job! It's very much a part of their relaxation routine and though I'd have loved a longer vacay cuz I need a holiday, this 5 day long out of the house and into the south of France road trip is going to do me good.
Holidays! Finally!
I am going to eat and eat
Monday, 29 July 2024
Mundane
Monday
I hate you
And I have been annoyed
Ever since my passport renewal visit
I wait
For a mail from consulate
To ask me for documents I didn't provide
As they weren't required nor mentioned
As they've never been required for passport renewal in my almost 3 decades of owning a passport!
And at this point they feel so moot in life
But yet.
Here we are
These kind of paperwork related things
Stress me out
I hate you
And I have been annoyed
Ever since my passport renewal visit
I wait
For a mail from consulate
To ask me for documents I didn't provide
As they weren't required nor mentioned
As they've never been required for passport renewal in my almost 3 decades of owning a passport!
And at this point they feel so moot in life
But yet.
Here we are
These kind of paperwork related things
Stress me out
Saturday, 27 July 2024
So angry
That I have been in a horrid mood since yesterday would be an understatement not least because ever since the passport renewal appointment and the stupid company outsourced as middle men instead of directly going to consulate have successfully irritated me to a level I feel is utterly unjustified.
For starters I needn't feel so angry but I am
What's the point of asking for documents that are not needed and not mentioned in the roster of documents required for passport renewal?
How can something so simple that got done within a week in Shanghai (cuz I sent the passport directly to the consulate as there were no middlemen ) become such a mess here?
Everything is about money. They started with cribbing about my passport photo and urged me to get a new one clicked in the Photo Booth for 10euro, okay!
Then they started asking for documents I didn't have.
Well, I don't have them I said cuz it's not mentioned .
Then they made me write an application that I don't have these documents and that the absence of said documents should be overlooked.
I don't understand what's going on?!
Then they said if the said documents are still required I should send them vial e mail!!
What??! But if these documents are so important why aren't they mentioned in the long list of required documents on the website and literally everywhere?
The company in question that I'm hating on is VFS. It's a bane for foreign travellers and anyone who wishes to get a visa inadvertently ends up locking horns with them and they make life miserable.
I hate coming in contact with them.
They're like an STD
I've had a long standing issue with them and each time I come in their vicinity they fuck my mood so gloriously it haunts me for weeks.
They're a fucking trauma center.
Ask anyone who's had to travel abroad and go through VFS! They'll tell you.
To hell with vfs.
I hope you all burn in hell.
For starters I needn't feel so angry but I am
What's the point of asking for documents that are not needed and not mentioned in the roster of documents required for passport renewal?
How can something so simple that got done within a week in Shanghai (cuz I sent the passport directly to the consulate as there were no middlemen ) become such a mess here?
Everything is about money. They started with cribbing about my passport photo and urged me to get a new one clicked in the Photo Booth for 10euro, okay!
Then they started asking for documents I didn't have.
Well, I don't have them I said cuz it's not mentioned .
Then they made me write an application that I don't have these documents and that the absence of said documents should be overlooked.
I don't understand what's going on?!
Then they said if the said documents are still required I should send them vial e mail!!
What??! But if these documents are so important why aren't they mentioned in the long list of required documents on the website and literally everywhere?
The company in question that I'm hating on is VFS. It's a bane for foreign travellers and anyone who wishes to get a visa inadvertently ends up locking horns with them and they make life miserable.
I hate coming in contact with them.
They're like an STD
I've had a long standing issue with them and each time I come in their vicinity they fuck my mood so gloriously it haunts me for weeks.
They're a fucking trauma center.
Ask anyone who's had to travel abroad and go through VFS! They'll tell you.
To hell with vfs.
I hope you all burn in hell.
Friday, 26 July 2024
Ah then
Who me?
Awake at 5:30 because I have to leave for Paris and since today is a special case I am leaving early so that I can avoid or figure out around issues that will most assuredly crop up .
Awake at 5:30 because I have to leave for Paris and since today is a special case I am leaving early so that I can avoid or figure out around issues that will most assuredly crop up .
Thursday, 25 July 2024
Oh life
Tomorrow
Is Olympics opening ceremony
And an appointment for me to get my passport renewed.
The problem is that both the above mentioned are happening in Paris, and they exist in the vicinity of each other, that is along the seine river.
It's a no go zone tomorrow and I wonder if I can get my work done.
This is going to be an adventure of sorts
Is Olympics opening ceremony
And an appointment for me to get my passport renewed.
The problem is that both the above mentioned are happening in Paris, and they exist in the vicinity of each other, that is along the seine river.
It's a no go zone tomorrow and I wonder if I can get my work done.
This is going to be an adventure of sorts
This morning
Just saying
Boba is kind of a racist take on how Asian pronounce 'bubble' :)
It's a Taiwanese invention and what started as tapioca 'bubble' because of Asian prononciation turned to what the west refers as 'boba' :)
—..—..—
Now that people are back, the addition of extra furniture like human to the house and my growing resentment towards the said furniture is back as well.
How does one keep living with someone they're not exactly fond of but only tolerate.
Is that how my cats feel?
Boba is kind of a racist take on how Asian pronounce 'bubble' :)
It's a Taiwanese invention and what started as tapioca 'bubble' because of Asian prononciation turned to what the west refers as 'boba' :)
—..—..—
Now that people are back, the addition of extra furniture like human to the house and my growing resentment towards the said furniture is back as well.
How does one keep living with someone they're not exactly fond of but only tolerate.
Is that how my cats feel?
Stuff
That my head still ricochets with the headache from yesterday says a lot about the magnitude of my migraine.
I am functioning today but not as merrily.
The workout couldn't happen cuz there are mild vibrations and a light thrum which I don't want to disturb.
Today I filmed a bit, wrote a small script and decided what all needs to be done .
I think it'll be fun.
The next vlog is called 'a day in my life with 6 cats' why not?
What do you think?
I am functioning today but not as merrily.
The workout couldn't happen cuz there are mild vibrations and a light thrum which I don't want to disturb.
Today I filmed a bit, wrote a small script and decided what all needs to be done .
I think it'll be fun.
The next vlog is called 'a day in my life with 6 cats' why not?
What do you think?
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
Flowers
Delicious artichokes for dinner last night. I have some lovely people living around me .
Im exchange I gave a packet of delicious Taiwanese dried mangoes.
Barter lives on.
Head hurt
Who me?
Reeling from the effects of a migraine that engulfed my last evening sometime after 8.
It came like a tsunami and I couldn't find a corner to breathe.
My head thumped and I cried and sometime around 2 in the morning when the sleep I pretended would fix the headache tore away in dissolving flakes of nausea, I walked to the medicine cabinet and downed a dicloflenac.
A migraine after more than a month, and I'd been feeling special, feeling happy, feeling right that somehow I'd evaded this problem for more than a month and lo, it came not only knocking but crashing into my life.
It was among the more severely and bizarrely painful migraines I've had in a while.
A humbling experience.
Reeling from the effects of a migraine that engulfed my last evening sometime after 8.
It came like a tsunami and I couldn't find a corner to breathe.
My head thumped and I cried and sometime around 2 in the morning when the sleep I pretended would fix the headache tore away in dissolving flakes of nausea, I walked to the medicine cabinet and downed a dicloflenac.
A migraine after more than a month, and I'd been feeling special, feeling happy, feeling right that somehow I'd evaded this problem for more than a month and lo, it came not only knocking but crashing into my life.
It was among the more severely and bizarrely painful migraines I've had in a while.
A humbling experience.
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
And so it goes
Who me? 
Mr hair is full of hair mask
And I am making idli's for lunch because why not?!
Monday, 22 July 2024
Whoah
Who me?
Eaten a slice of a brownie my brother was kind enough to whip up and send via people.
No one knows they're peddling
Hahahaha
But seriously
This is so different from what I've been having.
It's a bit denser
Slows down the clock.
Deliciously numbing
Eaten a slice of a brownie my brother was kind enough to whip up and send via people.
No one knows they're peddling
Hahahaha
But seriously
This is so different from what I've been having.
It's a bit denser
Slows down the clock.
Deliciously numbing
Cries in bird
So much for protecting birds yesterday when this morning Gogi brought in a bird clutched between his teeth as a gift for people.
It was not pretty.
The bird died.
It was still warm .
I am angry with these felines
It was not pretty.
The bird died.
It was still warm .
I am angry with these felines
Thursday, 18 July 2024
.
Is this a strange sensation I feel
It's painful
Am I falling in love
This is silly
I'm being silly
I feel anxious
Dizzy and angry
I don't want this and yet I do because it's warm. I want it to wash over me
I want to drown in it
I want to not stop feeling it
And yet it makes me empty
This has to end
It's a phase surely
It can't last
Once I'm back to life as I know
I want to feel this for a while
It's painful
Am I falling in love
This is silly
I'm being silly
I feel anxious
Dizzy and angry
I don't want this and yet I do because it's warm. I want it to wash over me
I want to drown in it
I want to not stop feeling it
And yet it makes me empty
This has to end
It's a phase surely
It can't last
Once I'm back to life as I know
I want to feel this for a while
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