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Week 7 - Coronavirus

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Link to Week 6 Monday - April 20 Evening we play board games. I try to wind up by 7:30 PM. Wednesday I sign up for Flutter course in Udemy - they are having a sale now - all courses are 460Rs or something.. Flutter reminded me of Java Swing days - the UI is constructed with code.  Thursday Hair is becoming unruly. Debating whether to go for a full head shave. Later order a hair trimmer from Amazon for < 500 Rs. Delivery date says May 8th.  San comes up with an idea of a resort for Saturday.  We will check in by 4:00 PM. There will be a welcome drink - mocktails. Then there will be cake and tea. There will be a game. After that there will be veg roll, egg roll and chicken roll. We start planning - kids have something to look forward for the weekend. Friday Friday evening we have a pencil sketching session by Akshay from Dubai. As a budding cartoonist I watch in awe.  I recharge Apple Pencil and plan to revive my Idly cartoon series. [  Idly takes a look at bikers  ] Akshay’s masterpi

Week 6 - Coronavirus

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Link to Week 5 Monday - 13th Mondays are hard for me. Also coming out of a long weekend - it was a bit more stressful. Around 3:00 PM, felt my throat getting sore. Lot of piled up tickets and escalations come to me non stop. But I stumbled upon a happy piece of news. AR Rahman’s 99 Songs got released in Apple Music. I got nostalgic. Whenever AR Rahman’s songs gets released I will go buy the cassette and will listen. At least 3 times - so I get used to it. One has to train one’s ears to listen to AR Rahman’s songs. There are so many layers - and at first hearing it comes all together and difficult to appreciate. I could do 2.5 times on Monday - and by evening my ears had got tuned to 99 songs. The songs are really good. Not at the level of Rockstar or Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya - both were love at first hearing - but definitely top 10 of all time AR Rahman’s. Prithvi’s online classes got cancelled / postponed. Boy is back to enjoying his self.  Monday he apparently hurt his fingers pluckin