Fat to thin

No words! 

Why?

Weather mania

From complaining about heat this afternoon to turning down the fan because it's cool now. This weather is not yet to the point when it's full blown summers as such but it's getting there.
Afternoons are hot and evenings get cool and because it's the rainy season right now the weather keeps fluctuating.

My point is that I need to turn on the ac during workouts.

plating business

 It's the oddest things sometimes that can get on your nerves.

Today it was plating!

I had made a spicy South Indian style seafood roast and rice and by the heavens, it took me four different plates to get it almost right and even now I don't know if I'm very happy with the results. 

I'll know it once I start editing those pics but it got on my nerves how I spent almost 2 hours just trying to figure out the plating for it.

It's a tedious process this, clicking pictures and wanting them exactly the way they've turned up in your head because translating your imagination on a table is tricky. I shifted between 4 different plates today and my kitchen was a mess I tell you by the time I was finished.

Right then.

Today had gone whooshing past and it's time for dinner prep already.

Ugh!!

head issues

 Somewhere between clicking pictures and feeding my cats, I found myself realizing that a headache was thumping its existence in my temples. Being a bit of a headache veteran I can tell which ache is happening due to my carelessness regarding my neck and which is a migraine and this headache had a massive potential to become a full-blown migraine, the kind that makes me want to regret existing.

I let it stay where it was to assess it a bit more and finally after finishing with the pics, cleaning the kitchen post-photography aftermath I made a small cup of tea and popped in a mild pill that I had been prescribed regarding my sports/exercise-related headaches. I hope it gets better with this or else Ima have to pull out a heavy hitter by night if this medicine isn't enough to take care of it.

The reason for today's ailment is pretty evident. It's hot. HOT! and I did a pretty strenuous workout in this heat. A fan alone wasn't enough and I have a history of exertion headaches. I remember my sports teacher always keeping a couple mild non-steroid anti-inflammatory medicines on him on those exceedingly hot days when I used to practice for high jumps and relays for hours before a sports meet. It doesn't happen as often now because I have learned to keep myself plenty hydrated and understood its mechanisms, but there are some rare days when I do get it. Today has been that day. Doesn't feel great. 

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My steps 6k
My hair unwashed
My tee yellow

Whut

Who me?
Busy!!!
I have pics to click, things to do and I am running out of time. But I will be here! I promise

And Monday

Dead. 

Today was a strength and conditioning workout which included strength with a cardio and a balance move. 

ABC x3 times over. 7 circuits in total.

It was a toaster. Yes it was. 

This isn’t happening

I am
Not happy!

Just got back home after spending all morning and afternoon looking at houses and why is it so difficult to get what you want?!!
The best houses I saw today were only mildly better than my current one, in compounds that were not as good, and the really nice compounds that I saw with the most fantastic amenities and gyms and indoor air conditioned basketball and badminton courts and swimming pools didn't have the kind of houses I wanted and the places which met both the criteria that is the house was good and the compound was excellent were in high rises where my cats wouldn't be happy because they won't be able to go downstairs.
Is there no win win?

I returned home feeling dejected and saw how beautifully situated this compound where I currently live is. Well connected to all the important places. Bus terminals, subway stations and easily accessible areas nearby.
The compound itself extremely silent because it doesn't have too many houses and isn't crammed with people, lots of trees and overall serenity because of its distance from highways and its strategic location which is around a bend and almost hidden.
All I want is something similar but better.
Is that too difficult to ask?

Beeyahh

Just goes on to show how packaging trumps my senses.

And now

Things as they stand

Who me?
Just crawled back into the house after being out since 10 in the morning.
I've been out for more than 6 hours and traversed across two suburbs before coming to the conclusion that house hunting is a task suited for people with lesser anxiety.
I have issues I have demands and I have too many requirements.
I am fussy and I don't want to settle for anything lesser than what I want.
I want what I want and it's fucking impossible to get it unless you're in a dreamland of your own making.
But okay!
Phew!
Now some tea and a night about town is what I need to shake off my annoyance and exhaustion because tomorrow will be pretty much the same.
I have arranged meetings with two different agents, looking for two different places in different parts of the city and here is hoping I find something I like because I'm in no rush. There's no deadline. I'm in a good and happy place but right now looking at how things are happening in this compound I wish to live and find a better spot. House hunting is one of the most difficult parts of being an adult and it needs be taken slowly because it takes a while to find that exact place which your heart immediately tells you to live in.
It will happen. But I don't know how soon.

Ufo

Falafels in question 

Sweet darling

Is this ain't the cutest cupcake you ever saw. 

Ah

Today isn't for pizza but falafels. 

And here is my newest acquisition. A cast iron grill pan which I am a absolutely besotted with at the moment. 

Thorny

I don't have a thing for cacti or succulents but I liked how stereotypically cactus like these were shaped. 

Whaaaa

1305 calories! 

I read as I eat a buttery croissant with my morning tea. 

Morning food

This morning I'd packed lunch for people to make is especially alluring because of how lackluster the insides were that is salad stuffed with some hummus in a sandwich with thick yogurt dressing. Of course it needed better packaging than the usual because salad sandwich is just not it especially when that's the only option for someone with dietary constraints. 

I mean come on! 

It's Friday. I'm going through the ugh specials and cramped and annoyed and waking up in the morning isn't something I'm ready to face. So here it is. Whatever I can jeuje up without wanting to kill somebody. 

Bake stuff

We might have a problem 

Chored

Seeing how workout is not on the horizon for me today and that the housekeeper is going to be home soon and I'm not hungry enough for lunch yet, perhaps today will be dedicated to rearranging a couple of kitchen cabinets, namely ones that house my baking equipment because the state of those cabinets is chaotic, not least because my oven is the most used kitchen appliance and I am constantly pulling and pushing trays, moulds and other bakeware out of the cabinets without actually looking at it.
All this arrhythmic motion has created something of a turmoil with all the dishes in that particular cabinet and now everything is a jumble of 'let's not even go there'
I shall now sit and sort out everything.

Thursday

Morning and I receive a packet of Taiwanese snacks very kindly sent over by my friends from Taiwan. 

Miss es

Darling
I cannot stop thinking of you. It's a constant dull ache that won't stop no matter how much I try to distract myself with interesting things that seem mundane to the alternative that is being in a daze of your memories, in a maze of your words, in a haze of your voice.

And now

Mango lick lolly 

No milk 

Meh

Sometime after 5 in the evening my day became a daze of activities because I had to be out and about for some work and it was raining (still is) and I found myself cramping in the middle of a hectic run around.
Arghhhh!!!!

Now nursing a small cup of wine because I am not in the mood for anything save relaxing and a few sips of wine will help me get there.

Ugh!!

muzak

My newest favourite car song, especially in this weather this song hits just right every time I accelerate.

 

Lunch love

I forgot to put my lunch pic.

It's a sandwich made with bread from yesterday with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and tuna with a side of roasted peppers, some baked potato wedges and roasted asparagus along with a bowl of yogurt with some fruits. (Not pictured) 

I know this looks like a lot but it's only vegetables and I had more of these in the next serving. The vegetables I mean, not the sandwich. 

Noodle arms

Dead! Many times over 

Weather kiss

Today is colossal in its weather awesomeness.
Overcast, cool, breezy with no rains yet.
Comes to mind our monsoon weather in August when everyday is splendidly cool with rains not letting up for days, bedazzling trees and other green vegetation with strands of pearlescent drops of drizzle that stays a constant.

I love the shine such days impart. The absolute calmness resonating through leaves of waving green trees that mark a different season, a new beginning each day.

Wednesday

Could be that I was too exhausted or maybe that I just needed sleep but I slept like the dead.
No cat could wake me up in fact no chores could get in the way of my sleep either because I woke up rather late, almost after 8 in the AM and a whole lot of things which I usually intend to accomplish by then were left unattended.
I cooked no lunch or breakfast and here I sit, sipping on tea, a little late but that's how it is and chomping on toast.
The bread from yesterday came out fantastic.
I will make a sandwich today and put pictures.

Workout today is upper body strength and the house is dark with little light from an overcast rainy world.

Right then!
To my cuppa

:/:

That time of night
When I stare at the ceiling
and think of you

Bread tonight

My sesame seed loaf. 

All the info

Say one thing about today say I have only just got time to finally sit down.
Having finally prepared dinner I am on my last leg with no energy left in me to even eat.
The only time I actually sat down proper was for lunch after which I was preparing for photographs, clicking pictures, making bread, taking out garbage second time today, dinner prep and finally dinner.
Also my extreme exhaustion might be due that time of the month which hasn't happened yet but is bound to soon.
Okay!
Dinner now.

Tuesday!!

Who me? 

Dead with exhaustion

And you? 

Then today

Lunch today is a gigantic salad with all the vegetables and a mound of tuna. There were croutons too and I ate a whole lot of it and now I'm full and craving coffee. 

Today is going to be difficult and tight with lots to do. 

Let's see how we can cope up! 

Let's go Tuesday 

You dare stare

The Princess isn't pleased. 

56 minutes

And done! 

It was taxing, it was exhausting. It was rejuvenating. 

Today is here

Morning and it's warm.
Sunny even.
Today is for this and that like a Tuesday that it is and I am spending the day at home, working, clicking, editing and staying in for today.
Some friends have made plans for foot massage and I have turned it down like most plans that happen on weekdays and it's fine, I don't care about my foot getting massaged.

Workout is a weighted intense cardio after which I want to eat a salad. Something about today deserves a salad and nothing besides, moreover ever since I discovered the joys of adding mangoes to a salad, I don't want to look back at the usual salads I ever made.
Like what's a salad without a sweet mango and spicy dressing?

Also today I am baking a cake and bread because both those things are needed and I am out of baked goods at the moment.

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An update on the audiobook sinister magic. It seems to be going well. It's non cumbersome to listen, easy on the ears because the narrator is pretty good, the story line is not complicated and there ain't any complexity of either ideas or mysteries of the plot that need unnerving discoveries .
Al in all a good palette cleanser.
Once it's finished I will pick up the second mistborn book and I am also going to start a new paper book.
So that's about that.

Now some tea, some fruits, some sweat.

Unfertilized

Eggs eggs eggs. 

Today has been long

Have I had a day or have I had a day?
Phew!!
Just got back in the house after having left it at 12:30.
I was out for 4 hours.
Doing what?
Miscellaneous things
Giving myself 10 minutes to collect myself with a tall glass of iced water because it was hot out today and I spent majority of today walking walking and exploring and walking .

The thing is when you're with a friend who shares with you similar hobbies of looking at aisles of sauces and interesting food items, who prefers shopping groceries more than shoes; spending time with that person ain't a chore but a delight.
It's the adult enjoyment equivalent of theme park where the joyrides are finding speciality food items and calling out to each other upon coming across ostrich eggs.

Lunch was ecstatic too. I had something called 'escargots' which is a fancy word for snails and the ones I had were drenched in olive oil with garlic and breadcrumbs.
Also had some soup and a small desserts washed down with excellent coffee after which we went on an excursion around the area on foot because that place is rife with small speciality food shops that offer everything from imported Indian mangoes to Ethiopian spices and it takes a small lifetime to visit shop to shop and look, see and buy.

The only downside to such excursions is that it is exhausting.
From leaving almost empty handed from the house to coming back saddled with nearly 5 kilos of things and walking around almost 3 kms as the weight on shoulders steadily increases with the increment of stuff courtesy insatiable greed and curiosity can be tiring and it doesn't end there because once I got back I was greeted by 4 very hungry cats.
I have only just got some time to carve a few words after which I get thrown into my evening chores after unpacking and arranging all the stuff I've bought.
I mean I look at my huge bag and wonder what on earth?
Why do I have so many packets of almond milk?
I also have lots of filleted and cleaned river fish and shrimps along with crushed and canned Italian tomatoes and a large bouquet of daisies and aromatic candles.
Like what on earth even.

And done

Crushing it Monday and dying in the process. 

45 minutes no interval cardio. The only time I took a 20 second break was when I could go on no longer. 

It worked and killed me. 

Today I am going out to meet a friend over lunch. Why people do this on weekdays? 

Hope

Madame darling with her bow and all. 

Monday calmness

Monday morning tea and small toasts. 

This one is made from the same high hydration dough and you can see the holes in structure that I was talking about. 

It's a small focaccia I'd baked from the leftover dough and every bit as chewy and delicious. 

And scene

That I've been busy since morning and got back to the comforts of my house just now would not be an understatement because I have been out and about since exactly 11:20.
The weather was supposed to be a bit of bracing moisture in the air but it's raining like the monsoons and even though appropriately attired for the rains what with rain boots and all I came back home somewhat drenched.
Most of today included walking around a whole lot with an umbrella that couldn't withstand most of the wet gale as I bounded hither and tither.
Lunch was an insipid meal in a very popular restaurant frequented by foreigners who have dead taste buds.
Anyhows I'm back and just made myself a delicious pour over because I wish to spend the rest of the day feeling cozy and away from damp.

Sunday! Let me laze.

Watchful

I might have not made a ruckus but I did get into some sort of a little discussion with the people at Cartier regarding why and how the fuck does a watch that cost me as much as a car would have issues within this century.
Granted it's old but it's not old enough and somehow perhaps I got to them because this morning I received a call informing me that my watch needs a complete servicing and before I could tell them that they can keep the damn watch they informed me that they'd want to do it as a complementary service including battery change and what not.
Well well well. How things start looking up.
Thank you I told them and now I feel a little better. Of course it will be 3-4 weeks before I get the watch back hit you know what? I don't mind. Not at all.

Superwhat

Came across a Henry Caville bust. 

What do you think? 

Looks pretty lifelike no? 

Arghhhh

No Casio watch of mine has stopped working to this date, and here I am, in a Cartier repair centre with my watch that has stopped working, not because of its batteries but its movement and I'm seething because there's waiting!! What does that go to show?? How many people in Shanghai are suffering from similar Cartier watch issues? So Calle elixirs brand. 

Don't buy Cartier watches or even their jewelry because their bracelets are no good either..the 'love trinity' latch keeps coming undone and it has to get repaired too. 

I am upset!! 

In fact I'm so angry I left home wearing two watches. 

The bad one on my left and good working one on my right cuz I am angry. 

Today is not happening. 

Dreams and reality

Dreamt that I was decapitating people, shrinking their heads and eating them.
What kind of dream is that?
Woke up with a start and found difficulty sleeping back again.
Also got into a fight with people at 4:30 because I asked him to open the door for the cat who was noisily meowing and he flat out refused.
I told him to 'fuck of' that very moment as I opened the door for my cat and added a few choice cuss words that weren't exactly that hour appropriate.
Today is going to be a cold day in my casa.

And also

And salad to go with 

And so then

Holes as promised. The crustiest pizza bottom ever! 

Holes aloud

A high hydration dough. 

This kind of dough though tricky to pull off yields one of my favourite crust and insides. 

It's crusty in a crackling sort of way and the bread is full of air pockets as they appear in this image .

Once completed I shall put a picture of it. 

Granted I have only ever used such a dough for making breads and never for pizza but me can try and be hopeful, right? 

Here's hoping. 

NO

Every day we inch a little more towards darkness.

Youtube nonchalantly threw this video at me in the recommendations by a channel called 'fantasy feeder' 

It's about how to get fat or gain weight if you're into that morbid feederism kink and I cannot believe how straight to the point and matter-of-fact it was. Why did I think it might be sarcastic? The narrator or whoever it was recommending ways to get fat was extremely courteous and most serious about what she said. 

Is this actually real? This is happening!!

I don't understand. Yes, yes I get it kinks but wtf!!

Please watch and tell. 

 

garbage wars

 Here are the premises:

Someone discarded a rather old, almost ancient looking wooden chest in the garbage, almost derelict with some drawer hinges falling off and what not and another resident spotted it. She decided to haul it for herself to refurbish it with some of her own DIY plans to give that wooden chest a new look and life for her house, except the garbage caretaker refused to give it to her for free.

He told her that she'd have to buy it from him.

'Why?' she asked. "it's garbage' she said adding that it doesn't belong to anyone and that she can take what she pleased from the garbage, except the caretaker didn't relent.

This small conflict slowly burgeoned into a discussion and shouting match of sorts and now it has developed into two factions. 

One sides with the woman who believes that garbage is garbage and that no one is allowed to make a sale on that garbage and the other faction is people who have been buying discarded furniture from this garbage area for a nominal fee from the caretaker who believes that caretaker should be allowed to supplement his meagre income with whatever little he makes from these sales.

There's a full-on blowout war right now and I am enjoying it from my balcony. 

I was quite intrigued to know about this new economics that's been happening right under my nose and a friend of mine who sides with the faction that believes in paying for this furniture has informed me that she often takes things for a small fee from the garbage area. 

What? I'd asked her and I was astonished to know that a beautiful mahogany almirah in her house was actually procured from this area, ditto for a tall rack that serves as sleeping space for her cats 

 These were items in perfectly good condition discarded by some residents who had revamped their house and bought new furniture and wanted out with the old and so they'd kept these things in the garbage space and my friend happened to chance upon them and now she has new furniture for barely 1/100th the cost and she thinks it's a great bargain.

No skin off my nose in paying them some money for great furniture she said. 

Why would anyone have an issue with giving some money for it was beyond her, except the faction which believes garbage is garbage and belongs to no one especially since the caretaker has not bought it, he has no rights to make sale on it.

Wow!

Never did I think I'd live to see the day when people fought over so-called garbage.

This is most interesting. 

Friiiiday

Friday already!
How did it get here so fast?
I love my large mug of deliciously spiced tea and today promises to be a bit of everything.
I have some typing to do and then there's drawing.
Also I'm making a high hydration dough today.
I can talk more about it later .
But right now!
Tea, journaling and workout.

Ugh

I had posted my lunch pics and just because they were three images it's not going to get posted!!
I miss the blogger app

Pink drinks

Say one thing about smoothies say I can't have enough of them 

Today for starts

Morning and the weather is absolutely gorgeous!
Cold and overcast and ideal for Thursday when I don't click pictures and get little work done as the housekeeper has an atrocious timing for interrupting me wherever I sit. But I'm not complaining, merely mentioning .

It rained a lot yesterday but I still managed to click pictures and I am glad that I did when I did because moments after the rain got quite boisterous in its intensity and my entire balcony was wet.

Today is going to be s massive lower body strength workout which will include some newer exercises to target hamstrings and calves differently and they will also test my balance.

Also today I am going to be starting with the basics of a new drawing and I hope to draw during days and times when I'm not clicking pics or editing.
It's a lot of things to manage and I will try as long as I can make it.
There's no pressure to succeed and I'm not going to make my life difficult for it.

Right then!
To the weights.

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Flavour of the day

Evening tea 

stuff and things

 Victory!!

I finally have the second Mistborn book 'wall of ascension' read by Michael Kramer. Not that I didn't like the graphic audio drama format, it was great but I'd rather prefer the narrator proper spoken by a single person because somehow audio dramas have added sound effects and it distracts me.

Also downloaded 'the obelisk gate' which is the second book of the broken earth trilogy and where I needed to find a fix yesterday I suddenly have an excess which to me is always a good thing. I love having options, backups, multiples of things. 

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In other news, I'm clicking pictures for my recipe today and lo! it begins to rains and the world is a dark place. Makes me a bit mad this downour and off seasonal mood swings but how do I change that?

Just gonna wait for it to get better no. Here's hoping I can do it today.

Ah lunch

Lunch today is coleslaw with a couple pieces of homemade toast, some baked fries on the side and an omelette of sorts on the side. 

I know it looks like a lot and it's a lot but really it's not much when you get down to it. 

Phew

A little death with almost an hour long cardio kickboxing. 

Some listens

'Sinister magic' written by Lindsay Buroker is an audiobook YouTube recommended to me after I wrote about mistborn finishing and looking forward to the next fix.

The thumbnail mentioned it's an urban fantasy!

Like Dresden I thought and since it's not too long, only about 9 hours I thought why not?
I'm guessing it'll take that much time for my files to download because the seeders are few and so I began listening and it didn't disappoint.
One hour into the book and it seems interesting in a fast paced adventure kind of way which doesn't need much interaction of your grey cells with the happenings.
The protagonist is a half elven woman who hunts down 'magical beings' that commit murders and so far so good.
I like that unlike Dresden who takes pains to describe every woman's legs and bosom the protagonist in this case is a no nonsense warrior who usually only describes her quarry and her magical beings and charms that assist her.

I'm still to reach the point where the plot thickens and what not but as far as books of this genre go, which weirdly involved dragons and cellphones, Jeep's and magical swords I'd say it's not so bad.

Also serves as a great contrast to my late night reads which are a lot of academic papers written by Indian researchers on various topics pertaining to our core cultural issues.

All in all not bad I'd say.

You and I

That time of night
when nothing feels right
I retreat to the tiny universe
with two celestial bodies

Pfft

I'd hang an albatross around your neck
And not bother listening to your laments

-^

My sheets blue
My curtains drawn
My Tuesday ending

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His snores infiltrate my reverie
I'm no murderer
But I sure as fuck can become one

Tis that time

Night
And the tiny fan whirrs
night comes
the volume of everything is lowered
in silent moments like these
When the world feels toned-down
I hear footsteps nearby
Conversations and laughter
Lighter clicks and closing car doors
A vehicle in the distance
people still living their lives outside
Not everyone is home
Snug in bed
Waiting for sleep
Tryin to catch dreams
In a reservoir
Entirely inappropriate flooded by thoughts
And memories that night brings

Fin

The first mistborn book 'the final empire' is fishier and it almost feels like it's the end of the book.
No cliffhangers, no nothing. Looks like a happy ending.
The se kind book is still downloading along with a lot of other ones.
I need to find another fix.

Sniff

Today's scent 

scents from open window and work done

 Who me?

Just finished typing a whole lot. Still needs a bit more cleaning and finessing before I send it to my graphic designer but that's it for today. It will have to be done tomorrow. About ten minutes worth of work but no can do.

The cats need feeding and I need to start thinking about dinner. 

my neighbours have already started preparing their meals and it's not even 5 yet.

I mean early is one thing but this is practically tea time, not that they care for such things because they're done with their dinner by 5 and are out doing their exercises at 6. 

I mean what!!

 

cats are odd

 How my cats adore freshly laundered clothes to sleep on.

They love it as much as I hate for them to plonk their fat asses on my just washed dried clothing, still warm from the drier.

It's almost like they're waiting for me to bring out the laundry.

Lunch hearts

Lunch today is a salad with some blueberries and some pan roasted fish on the side. 

Cardio and abs

And death 

Rituals on the daily

My mornings are awash with frantic chores.
Starting with taking out the garbage to arranging dried utensils from last night, organizing furniture which is usually in a disarray from the night before that includes fluffing cushions, cleaning table tops, putting away charging cables and remote controls, straightening the throws and other fluffy little things that cats use to sleep or play on, spruce up the dining table that tends to collect things overnight, making the bed and finally cleaning the house.

Usually I clean the lounge which includes a quick dusting, brooming/vacuuming, mopping on the daily without fail even if I give just a cursory clean to the other rooms because lounge is the most widely used space in the house, but on days when I know the other rooms have got their share of activities I go through the same drill in those rooms as well.
Bathrooms are cleaned every alternate day and usually I clean mine before I get into the shower.

All these activities I described above take upwards of an hour after which I sit down for my time when I drink water, tea, have something to eat before finally plunging on with the day.
Usually this time is complemented with some soothing music.
Mostly it's Hindustani Classical because it somehow purges the house of spent energies sanctifying my surroundings with calmness and reanimating the day for whatever it holds with a dignified air that reflects through the daily cleanse.
While I take care of the house physically, my daily morning music cares for it spiritually.

Little darling

Morning routine 

Yawn

Tonight I wanna sleep soon (sooner than usual) and I want to sleep a lot not least because the last two night my sleep has been no more than a few hours only and I don't want that happening.
I don't like going through my day on such little sleep because my days are energetic, they're full of activities and because I have 4 cats with reckless attitudes towards a clean home and none follow a meal timetable anymore.
Some come and go as they please, sometime eating three meals because they eat it each time I feed a cat who'd not been fed .
I'm running, sometimes gasping for air on the mat, furiously cooking, clicking, editing, typing and I need sleep to stumble through my day a bit more elegantly.
So tonight!
I shall sleep long and deadish.

Broken jardin

That time of night
When I try to ignite
a flame frozen
which I pretend burns bright
when I show it cold light

Lost gone

Nighttime and today went by in a daze of something or the other.
Serves you right Monday!
But now we gotta deal with Tuesday.
It doesn't get better.

Lunch bliss

Lunch is a deadly delicious spin on Caesar salad which it really isn't but it's choke full of vegetables, eggs and some buckwheat noodles with some mangoes and sprouted moong beans doused with a dressing so damn delicious I never thought it would come out this way. Everything is sprinkled with a smattering of Parmesan and I know it's a big salad but really it isn't much when you start eating it.

Exercise updates

It's Monday which ordinarily means intense cardio but I'm starting this week with upper body strength because my heel feels a bit tender and is making my knee achy.
But that's fine.
An hour long upper body is just what the doctor ordered.
If anything I'm sure it'll get me sweating even though the weather is quite cool today.

After lunch I have some errands to run and have to be off to a place somewhat far from home.
Here's hoping things get done in time and I'm home by evening because damn! Who likes working on Monday?!

Coolness

gorgeous weather

quiet cats

sizzling memories

New stuff

Castlevania season 4 is out and I that is what I binge watch right now!

And now

Who me? 

About to be out and about

And you? 

Mint mint mint

Mint julep in question 

Today feels like

That pivotal moment in 'Great Gatsby' before everything happens. 

I don't know if you've read the book, but there's a scene in which all the important characters are gathered in a small airless room, during the peak of summers in the heart of an area characterised with growing industrialisation. Noisy with sounds of a wedding nearby exaggerated with stifling heat and growing resentment and griminess between them, the characters are talking loudly, nervously in oppressive heat drinking iced mint julep. 

Today feels exactly like that. Hot, suffocating and utterly airless. I need me some mint. 

Lunch now

Lunch today is egg salan with pulao. 

If there ever was such a thing as gelding the lily then this would be it. 

Not my preparation but Saturday special nonetheless. 

It's creamy, dreamy and something different than what I'd usually prepare or eat. 

Why weather why?

Well, whaddya know!! 

It's hot and humid and there's rain forecast.

The thing with humidity is that it feels stifling to a point where fans help little. Add to it the heat outside and warmth permeating inside the house. 

I think I'll have to clean and start my AC soon. 

Long post and shenanigans

The weather forecast had failed to make any mention of rains last evening while I sat in a nearby brewery, sampling their oatmeal stout with hints of caramel and chocolate.
Not bad, I'd exclaimed as I chomped down on some nacho's and Sichuan style fried chicken when suddenly there was the unmistakable roar of thunder followed by a lightening the proportions of gods taking flash selfies and there was a downpour so sudden that all diners sitting outside came running back inside the brewery.
Some brave ones kept sitting under an awning and all of us looked a bit flabbergasted, muttering in hushed tones about not carrying umbrellas because there was no forecast.
I, however had an umbrella which is a tiny one always tucked in the recesses of my bag and so there was no stressing out.
I kept at my drinks and snacks and just as sudden as the rains had appeared they disappeared.
Right then I thought and called for a taxi to return home, except it suddenly stared drizzling again and there were no taxis.
The app said that the taxi waiting time is 86 minutes and so it was decided that we could take bicycles, for home was a mere 3 kms and cycling would be easy.
Okay!
Except one of us (me) was a little more than buzzed and it took me almost five minutes to find the stand.
The idea of taking a bicycle was abandoned.
The rains had almost stopped and it was decided to walk a bit to wear off the buzz and then maybe take a bicycle.
Okay!
Five minutes into the walk the skies tore up and downpour again.
My umbrella helped as much as it could but it wasn't enough to keep two people dry under lashings of waterfalls .
There were many a similar idiots like us who were running sans umbrella, some were drenched, some walked nonchalantly because how much wetter can one get and some tried to hold their jackets over their head.
We were among the fortunate ones.
When the house was only a km away and the rains had subsided it took me not a minute to spot a couple bicycles and it was then decided that we would ride our cycles on the sidewalk because somehow my giggling uncontrollably while getting wet was a mighty giveaway.
Somehow home found us.
Peeling away clothes and washing away makeup I died in bed knowing nothing else.

This morning has thusly been spent cleaning my leather shoes and bag from last night and showing them some sun.
My dress is wet and perhaps a bit filthy too and that'll need separate care and I don't know for some reason I'm not mad at yesterday.

It was quite fun!

Look how they fall

Guess who got caught in a thunderstorm with just one umbrella between 2 people? 

Lined

The indomitable feline flick 

That escalated

Just going for a very simple no makeup look!! 

And here we are. 

rat a tat catspaw

Do you smell a rat?

I could never

for all that is cat

In my house,

four of them!

Two small

one medium

one slightly fat

yes they're all tabby

No, none is shabby

not only do they self groom

I comb them

wash them

clean them

and wipe

and constantly hold a broom

for there is fur

soft and cotton-like

fluffing about the house

collecting in corners

settling in drawers

on my bed

in my blouse 

and they're hungry

always!

emptying their bowls

filling black holes

inside of them

can I touch, may I pet

could I be so bold

to linger around 

their judgemental stare

and try to hold

their furry little body 

while they threaten to disembody

showing their claws

their teeth and their snarl

tacitly I  walk away

leaving them to their mood

quietly in the kitchen

silently preparing their food

and then I hear a purr

a soft body against my foot

a little paw on my leg

a gentle head bump

yes my darlings

I know you love me

and you know that I do 

it's just us my babies

me and all of you

fleur

 Also, those flowers were carnations. 

Yikes

 Dear gods. It's past 5 in the PM and I have only just finished my work. Where did the day go?

I have more work before I get on with other things in life that is having some tea..yes I'm gonna drink some tea and then get dressed but before that work!! 

Friday day

 Saw a bunch of people both kids and adults make cute remarks and virtually fawning over the cuteness of some cat downstairs. 

Strained my head a bit the window to see they were clicking pics of a cat lounging like Cleopatra. Strained further to see a red bow on the little darling. It was my Hope. I am still smiling.

Humid like the tropics

Another bout of small death. 

Full body cardio with weights 

Din din

Dinner is lasagna because Thursday 

WTF

Kelsier has been killed.
I am upset.
I don't want to cook.

He better not be dead though!! Or I'll be really angry.

Bodywash

Taobao decided to throw this darkly pretty bottle of body wash at me. 

I don't even know what brand or fragrance this is but I want it.