Fill Yourself Up- Corinne Rodrigues As I sit reading a romance novel, nibbling on peanuts, my thoughts start to wander to all the things I could be doing during this time. It seems like I’m wasting my time on something frivolous when I could be doing so much more – like settling cupboards, responding to important emails, or even planning more posts on my blog. The more I think about this, the guiltier I feel. Then I tell my ‘parent‘…
Yes! we are turning two!! And I’m bringing in my blogiversary celebrations this year with a big bang. This announcement is tad late, but believe you me I was having a whale of a time, most of the day, today at the Delhi Times Literary Festival. I know I should have scheduled this post, but I’m still working my way towards getting more organised with my blogging. Hopefully the coming year, will bring in some redemption. Amen to that! 🙂…
“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau Yes, I have been awol from my blog for way too long. What on earth is awol? Absent without leave. You might be wondering what’s eating into my love for blogging. Well, a few things. Here in India we manage to find ample time to engage in our passion, work and hobbies, if we have good helping hands…
Guess what’s top of my mind these days? No prizes for guessing it is indeed the simple act of mindfulness. Thanks to a wonderful blogger friend, Shinjini a.k.a Modern Gypsy’s forthright long challenge on Instagram called The Mindful Break , I’ve suddenly been awakened from my reverie of “mindless” living, to one of mindfulness. Having said that, I’ve not been living “mindlessly” forever. The last few months have been a roller coaster ride and I have forgotten what it feels like to…
Are you caught up in the break-neck scramble of life? Is your life whizzing by in a jiffy, and your to-do list mounting, and cluttering your life further? Are there five different things you planned to do last week, but ended up doing just one or two, or none? Can’t slow down? Don’t worry, you ain’t alone in this. I’m in the same boat as you. And now as the month-long festive season is upon us, it’s going to be…
ten things i Am grateful for on monday How did your Monday morning start? Is it Moan-day or Monday for you? Did you wake up with a spring on your feet, or did you bemoan the beginning of another choc-a-block week? Did you enjoy your coffee looking out of the window, and kiss the children a happy good-bye, as they left for school? Or was it a morning of frayed nerves with the alarm not ringing, and your…
Things You May Want to Know About The New Terminal 2, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi: MondayMusing #MondayBlogs New Delhi airport has a brand new terminal: Terminal 2. A few of my friends who are traveling from outside India during this long weekend have been asking, where exactly is this terminal and what is it all about. I got to experience it first hand yesterday morning. So here ‘s my two annas: cents if you please; on T2. Terminal…
What could possibly have prompted someone to write this powerful quote: “Faith Can Move Mountains” ? The origin of this supremely motivating quote is from the holy Bible. It was recorded in the 1582 Rheims Bible, in Matthew XXI 21, as: “If you shall have faith, and stagger not, … and if you shall say to this mountain, throw thy self into the sea, it shall be done.” “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you,…
A quarter of a brand new year is over; almost. Yet, it seemed the shortest month of the year, was the longest. Simple ironies of life, you see. February reared its wicked head at me in more ways than one. But instead of bludgeoning it with the defeatist question, “Why me?” I looked it straight in the eye and said, “Try me!”