Dec 22
Guruji has left the Bangalore Ashram for His Maharashtra tour, from where He will be going on to Germany for Christmas and New Year. The TTC is over, we have 795 more teachers! The Winter Break starts in a few days, preps for it going full swing… we have a busy life 
Dad celebrated his birthday on December 7th, and my sister celebrated her birthday on December 18th… Not much of a birthday for her unfortunately, the twins started their exams on December 18th and Bhuvana started her vacation on December 18th … the perils of being a mother
I have finished learning a new piece on the piano after a very long time… it’s a beautiful waltz by Chopin, i have to figure out the technology to get it onto the blog… have started to learn another waltz now, it’s proving to be quite tough.
Hema from Bangalore cooked up a storm of superb food yesterday for all of us… we had fresh, soft idlis and crisp dosas with 3 types of chutneys and 2 types of mulagapodi (that superb south indian chutney powder), a delicious sambhar and sumptous rasam, along with hot, hot rice and oodles of ghee from the cows in the ashram!
Topped it off with mango ice cream, that we made in our brand new ice cream maker.
Have got a whole slew of new books and movies and wondering which ones to read/watch first… Completed Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series… you can safely skip over a few 100 pages in book 3 where she talks about the werewolf lore without loosing out on the story at all, there is just one reference to the entire thing later on which has hardly any impact on the story… bella as usual puts herself in some sort of danger, and jacob thinks she is trying to be like the “third wife” from the werewolf story… but i think bella is just being bella … the last book was much, much nicer and apart from one unexpected twist wraps up the story pretty well…
Jai Gurudeva!
love
bawa
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Dec 6
December 6th 2009
What a lovely day!
It’s cool, deliciously cool in the Bangalore Ashram, and the skies are clear and blue and sun is shining but not hot … It’s a day when you want to sing and dance for no reason at all… other than that God has allowed you to be part of and witness such exquisite perfection
I read quite a few books in the past few days, what with all the travelling from Bangalore to Chennai to Hyderabad etc (written a post on that … you will get to know the details) … but here are quickie reviews:
1. Holes by Louis Sacher, gifted to me by suparna, its a superb book, past and present of a small town in Texas brilliantly woven together… a pig stealing great grand father, a gypsy curse, a kid falsely accused, and a very dangerous warden of the green lake camp are among the few people you will meet in this really nice story… read it!
2. A Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks, high fantasy, set in the Magic Kingdom of Landover, the 5th or 6th part in this really nice series… It’s all about the daughter of the King going through her teens … There is the wicked vizier type guy, a magic but dilapidated library (quest is to solve why it got in that condition), an evil Lord who just eliminated his last queen and son who wants to get married to our heroine and of course the dragon… Read the entire series, highly recommended for Fantasy fans…
3. Twilight, New Moon the first 2 parts of the teenage vampire love story by Stephenie Meyer, mostly pure mush, but a nice read none the less…
4. Lark light and Star Cross, by Phillip Reeve, set in an alternate universe, but quite similar to ours… utterly forgettable, these books are on the way to the next book fair
Have completely revamped the Western Classical Music workshop and now it’s a full day event… 9:00 am to 7:00 pm, please do it next time we have it, you will love it … Also have put the finishing touches on the Financial Literacy Workshop and now that’s complete along with Mathemagic which is my favourite workshop to teach
Thinking seriously about working on Mathemagic II now… got a few nice movies to watch and am going to complete the Twilight series in the next few days
Last night ate at the Little Italy in Koramangala in Bangalore, great food, but they have reduced portion sizes, and these are quite stingy now and the music totally sucked… i think i will need to remember to carry around my own CDs when i go to eat out
Jai Gurudeva!
love
bawa
Nov 16
16th November 2009
We had a wonderful whirlwind tour of our mastiful Mumbai… in the last 3 weeks, we did 4 YES!+ courses, 2 Sahaj courses, 1 DSN and a YES!+ Huddle (whats that? Well, come and find out the next time we have one)!! More than 700 people were on the courses with us… Meanwhile the other YES!+ teachers in Mumbai were having their own courses too… Ended with a superb talk (if i may say so myself ) at IIT Bombay at the Lecture Theatre which was packed … not a single seat was available! And for the first time, Dinesh and i were official guests of IIT Bombay!
Finished reading Terry Brooks’ A Princess of Landover… cool nice fantasy… a great quickie read.
We are back in our beloved Bangalore and its nice and cold and Guruji is here and everything is fantastic!
Jai Gurudeva!
love
bawa
Nov 3
We have had an interesting week … 500+ young people did the YES!+ course all over Bombay city, and then converged to the Vasind Ashram on Sunday morning for a session with me and dinesh. Mulund, Thana, Dombivli team had managed to get a nice canopied very make shift meditation “hall”… Nice Knowledge, deep meditation and some lovely music by Krishnan …
Listened to Andre Rieu’s Dancing in the Sky CD on the way to Vasind and back from Goregaon … was sooooo nice!
Then came home and watched the DVD… what a fantastic show! Had also picked up Andre Rieu’s Live in Maastricht 3 DVD and watched that too earlier… It was amazing how people who were all over the house, settled down to watch it and soon everyone was enthralled by the show… Andre Rieu brings the bang back into very classical music … And his concerts are so good, its almost impossible not to like them, even if you have never heard a note of classical music earlier…
DSN starts in 2 days…
and, oh yes, someone’s chappals were stolen at Vasind!! I think we are going to have a really rocking Ashram there
Jai Guurdeva!
love
bawa
Oct 29
29th October 2009 (ty suparna)
We are in Mumbai … While Dinesh and i are teaching a YES!+ course in Goregaon, all the other zones of the city are having their own YES!+ courses … around 500 people are doing the course all over Bombay and everyone will come to Vasindh to the ashram on Sunday for a group session…
I finished reading Wings, not the book Wings by Terry Pratchett, which is also pretty good, but another one that i picked up from the children’s section in crossword… Was very nice! don’t remember the name of the author though
Also read 2 States, Chetan Bhagat’s latest offering. His Five point Someone was a fantastic read, then the next two i found utterly boring. With great trepidation i picked up this one (mainly coz it costs only Rs 95) and to my delight, it was really very nice!!! Will post a full review later…
We ate at Tote’s a new restaurant that’s opened up at Mahalaxmi Race Course and people were talking about… it SUCKS! We ordered quite a few things from the menu, in all fairness the mocktail was very good… the rest of the stuff, the portions were minuscule and the prices sky high … v bad indeed! And nothing really tasted good either.
Ate at Pizza hut… that was also a mistake (their standards have fallen dramatically, the amount of cheese on the garlic bread alone was 1/4th of what i remember) but not as expensive a mistake as eating at Tote’s
Jai Gurudeva!
love
bawa
Oct 21
21st Oct 2009
Bawa: Finally finished reading Julie and Julia… Really didn’t like the book so much at all… though there were a few extremely memorable chapters, over all it was a drag… I hope the movie is better. Maybe we will see it when it is released in India later this week… It’s all about this New york chick (Julie) who decides to make 524 extremely french recipes from a the classic (?) recipe book Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child in one years time. She records bit by painful bit of the adventure on her blog…
Also played Ticket to Ride Online and lost miserably 
Put some finishing touches on a few posts and scheduled them …
Dinesh: Caught up with his sleep… i mean his mails and phone calls
Has been reading up on the Rig Veda, Nasadiya Suktam… claims that its fabulous… will need to do an Adv course with him to get the Gyan out
Jai Guurdeva!
love
bawa
Oct 20
Other Interesting Stuff
We made this page on the blog to let you know a little bit about what we have been up to …a sort of an extended Twitter
soooo here goes:
Bawa: Just finished reading Fillets of Plaice by Gerald Durell. Nice book, good timepass read… and in the middle of another book called larklight by phillip reeve, dont like it, but dont dont like it enough to stop reading
Just got back to Bangalore and ma in our rooms at the Ashram feeling all grateful and nice and happy
Dinesh: Played football once in Delhi and once in Mumbai … body aching, but refusing to admit it
Jai Gurudeva!
love
bawa
