3 a.m on a winter morning...

Background: My last few FB status updates

... In case, any of you wake up in the small hours of the day and wonder what you can do, perhaps this blog could serve as a reference guide (?)...like a 'how-to-stay-sane-and-connected-to-the world-anytime-of-the-day..(err..actually)-night'

3:45 a.m
I have got my news updates about the WikiLeaks founder, the luckiest city in the world (when did they rob that status from Chennai?), all the iPhone knockouts and downloaded God Willing and the Creek don't rise. I so looooove this guy...no, I mean his music. And in the process of listening to his interview on Soundcheck Uncut I have learned a new word, that till a few minutes ago, didn't know existed:

'troubadour'...did you know?

4:30 a.m
A few notes on the guitar and I could hear my kids squirm in bed. Thereby project 'create music' abandoned immediately :( And that makes me regard  Ray LaMontagne even more!
and ...
confirms that all that I make with my guitar is noise :((  (some food for thought there!)

4:45 a.m
Thought of calling my friends in India, but that would add to the current noise in the household, which is, the sound of my fingers frantically typing in this space.

5:00 a.m
If you are also restricted by silent activities, then perhaps some yoga with the sound of silence? A great way to detox (mentally) and be charged to drive others mental the rest of the day?!? I just finished 10 rounds Surya namaskars (without Surya :) followed by Pranayama and Sudharshan Kriya....I feel all set to take the world by storm (only if day would break sooner than I can last)

5:30 a.m:
It has been great keeping company with the night watchers, street sweepers and flame keepers. I've downed, a liter of water (which I should have done last evening to expel the caffeine from my system, but I didn't and so I am here blogging)

(Why am I yawning now?)


Moral of the day/night:

1. If you are drinking coffee as a way of fighting sleep, go slow.
2. Its never a lonely planet on Facebook

Good Morning (to those in Germany and other geographies to the west of Germany)

Much Love,

Yours  Nocturnally,
Uma

I am...

the owner of the sphere
the seven stars and the solar year
Caesar's hand and Plato's brain
of Lord Christ's heart and Shakespeare's strain

I am tempted indeed...but the truth stares me hard in the face so, here's more (the truth) about me!

I am 5 feet 5 inches of attitude - mostly positive, is a sum of my decade long experience as an expat in different parts of the world, the books I read, the people I meet and the conversations I have had (besides work and family). My hometown is Chennai, India and my current adopted home (and the 4th) is: Cologne, Germany. Except that both cities have names beginning with C, there's really nothing else in common. To put it differently, my childhood never prepared me for the demands of my adult life, esp in Germany - weather, language, traffic rules, food et al. And to me, the best part about not being prepared is that, you see things with an open mind - uncluttered by someone else's viewpoint. That just makes it so much easier to learn and eventually adapt (after a bit of whining) to every new situation that life unrolls!

When I am not working or parenting, I am usually musing about things that catch my fancy, things that drive me nuts and those that keep me sane. I love to read and I'm curious about the world, its history and people from different cultural backgrounds. As much as I love to read, I love to write. When I am not doing any of these or the banal things that adulthood demands, I am usually sipping tea or binging on desserts or running a treadmill or learning to play the guitar. Also, I am a yoga freak! I rely on my breathing exercise and Asanas as a source of energy renewal and a way to reclaim peace and sanity in this ever so maddening world!

Aum...

I also blog at Random Thoughts of a Barefoot Executive But this one,
Piquant, Ponderous (and sometimes) Deviant! is more personal and informal.