Welll… i cooked wearing my “king of the Kitchen” t shirt that tanu from Singapore had given me… we had cream of brocoli soup, breadzza, oglio e olio, some mock meat in a pineapple touched gravy, baked potatoes and a superb dessert (if i may say somyself) which Vikram has named Cobletzza! Recipes next year [...]

Tonight, on the Bangalore Ashram, in the serene Grand Hall of Vishalakshi,  around 900 young people on the Winter Break will usher in the New Year in Silence and meditation to the chanting of the Guru Pooja… As Guruji says when the entire world is making noise, the Yogi stays in Silence… Have a wonderful [...]

A lovely lunch, followed by a nap that extended a little longer than it should have meant that Dinesh, Lamba and me arrived at Sentosa Island just a little too late to catch the Dolphin show that i really wanted to see… They have the rare pink dolphins there, but our tardiness, along with a [...]

The fish had given us a fine pedicure and ashokji’s daughters were almost fast asleep, but we didn’t have too much time in Singapore and so much to do… so we dropped the little girls back home, and then headed for the one-stop-shop in Singapore: Mustafa Mustafa must surely be an absolutely unique store… It’s [...]

In the meeting area of the Night Safari at the Singapore Zoo, is a shop that has fish tanks on 3 sides forming its front… and it said “Fish Spa” … Now i was pretty sure this is not where fish go for a massage … But on further inquiry we got to know that [...]

It was 7:00 pm. Time to go to the Singapore Zoo, where the Night Safari happens… Guruji had specifically asked us to go there, and we were not going to miss it! Ashokji was our friend and guide for the evening, he came along with his two adorable daughters… he is one of those boisterous [...]

A quick 2 hour flight from Bali and we were in Changi Airport, Singapore… And Guruji was with us, He had His flight back to India after a few hours, but dinesh and i were stopping over in Singapore. Bhanu didi had a Sahaj course there, and i had never been there… btw, if you [...]

In the wee hours of early early morning of Christmas Day 2008, a brand new, very special little package arrived safe and sound to our darling YES!+ teacher Anjana (and vivek of course)… Both mother and daughter are doing very well and will go home in 3-4 days time. It was a completely natural delivery, [...]

… Then Guruji appeared … There He was, just twenty precious feet away, sitting there …. “Hhmmm…. soooo… tell me… how are you… what shall we discuss??” Two hundred blank minds and faces just stared back at Him – this was the teaching body of South East Asia and we could hardly manage a Jai [...]

A Christmas Day treat for everyone… from the crazy mind of our darling Ivan: Merry Christmas everybody… Jai Gurudeva! love bawa I don’t know – the things we do for our Guru!  Sarah & I recently staggered back to Sydney after a gruelling couple of weeks on some island in the Indian Ocean, Bali I [...]