for a day, I:
1. Jump on the trampoline every once in a while for 5 minutes.
2. Drink an extra cup of tea.
3. Eat left-over dal dhokli for lunch, and plan to revamp left-over rice into masala bhaat for dinner. Or better still eat only fruits. I finally order in Chinese Chopsuey. Sinful. And actually quite yucky. And something Dhanno and Teja would never let me order. Because they don't like it.
4. Load more music into my iTunes library and spend chunks of time entering track names, album names, artist names, genre, my rating details.
5. Look at the photos on my desktop. Mostly shot by Teja.
6. Join up Bloglines and add feeds of some of my favourite blogs. Until I get fed up of so much organizing.
7.Clean the Mack with disinfectant. Even the tangle of wires at the back.
8. Watch part of a Jeetendra-Babita film. Aulad (1968). All about lost sons. Achala Sachdev always seems to play a mother who is very vulnerable, needs a lot of attention, and yet someone who can be very selfish, very much into doing the socially right thing. Someone very real. Was it only the roles she got, or something she brings to them? I watch her closely, the way she sits, looks down, looks up. The way her sari is draped. She seems like someone I know. Like a lot of people I know.
9. Almost fight with Teja over the phone. About something very silly. Then decide it is too silly. Call back pretending I did not almost fight.
10. Queue up a whole lot of old Hindi films on our Bigflix account. Since Teja is not around to laugh at me.
11. Watch almost all of 'Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai' (1961). Until Dhanno comes in and makes me pack up. The chemistry between Dev Anand and Asha Parekh is great, specially in the song 'Yeh Aankeh Uff Yu Ma'. * Sizzling. Makes you want to fall in love again. Dev Anand was 38 when he did the film, but I can discern no difference in his look from his earlier films. Asha Parekh was a sweet 19.
12. Oh yes, did a bit of writing too.
* Deepuvel's YouTube homepage also has some of the other songs from the film. Worth a watch.
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yess! I love that song, i love the way it's shot and the way everything seems. I need to watch that film again - haven't since long ago days of VHS rental in the summer hols
That's a long list, Banno. And you managed to write too?
Looks like you had a very busy day, indeed! Nearly two movies and writing.
Achala Sachdev looks like someone I know, as well! Must be her acting. In The Householder she looks like she knows knitting, too. :-)
I have been ordering in Chinese, too. :-)
I'm with Teja and Dhanno on the Chinese food, but other than that it sounds like a perfect day spent puttering.
I'm jealous of the trampoline.
Sounds like a great day.
Love your header picture.
Something for you on my blog, Banno.
That's a lot packed into one day! That would be my list of options, but, I would end up doing maybe 3 of them during the day, and suddenly by evening, I would panic that none of my things for the day got done, and then sit up to do all of it till 4am, and then, before I know it, I'm snoring!! :-D
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