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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 bik...

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 plu...

Link to Week 4 April 6 Monday Was happy to start the week. Let me confess - I am a workaholic. Any time I take a vacation ( I hardly take one or two max in a year ) - I feel restless, count the days I can get back to the routine - where I sit in front of my mac.  Yesterday (Sunday) I was a bit edgy. Post lunch we saw Uri - there was a good dose of patriotism but somehow the outlook of the world has changed. The virus does not differentiate between a Pakistani or an Indian. We are all in this together. Wish humans realise this and we put all our energies in fighting the virus for now, and later after winning the war - instead of going back to our old ( current ) ways - focus on space exploration or making this world a better place - less pollution, more greenery, more movies and art and literature and take humanity up a notch. So come Monday, I dived right into work and was happy to start the week. Tuesday This is my routine : Morning I kept alarm at 4:45 AM. Open my phone to check ...

Link to Week 3 March 30 Monday Right now at home we are not thinking of Coronavirus. How do we manage Dengue is in top of our mind. Achu had severe pain in his thighs and calf muscle. He did not sleep properly in the night. I had woken up at 1:00 am to give him his mid-night dose. One of the tablets is to be given every 6 hours.   Post lunch, I take Achu for the 2nd blood test, and platelet count has dropped to 77k. Before doing the test, we met the doctor and she says if it falls below 80k you get admitted. This spooks me. This clinic in our layout has been there for more than 10+ years, but does not have a good reputation. I think they are pulling a fast one? I go to the Chemist I typically get medicine from for some practical advise. She tells, till the platelet count drops below 25k you are fine. Do not get admitted. Just water and pomegranate juice. That’s all is needed for treating Dengue.And even if you are getting admitted, go to a bigger hospital. Not this clinic. I go aro...

Link to Week 2 Week 3 - March 23rd Chaos begins. Karnataka Govt by mistake or by plan - leaks the list of 15,000 passengers who had travelled via International Airport. Immediately everyone starts searching for their Apartment name in the list. 2 from our Apartment Complex are found. And fun starts. A stinker message is posted in the forum - there are 2 people and they did not disclose. This is not right. One of them is coming to the terrace to do yoga in the mornings. That apartment’s other members are seen going out. Their maid and cook have gone and worked. Their garbage is being put out.This is wrong. Take it seriously. This is big. Blah blah blah.  The association washes its hands off - they did not disclose to us. I had to step in to put the records straight. Because one of the 2 apartments in the list - one of us was ours. San had returned from Dubai on March 13th. That time they did not tell anything about quarantine. But she thankfully decided t...