Happy Monday! I had a lovely 6 day visit from my friend and, as you no doubt noticed, basically stopped blogging during that time in order to host/socialize. But now I am BACK!
Here is where you ask me anything from “what day is Jawan releasing?” to “how are you planning to see Jawan?” Just keep swinging back here all week as you think of new questions!
Now, question for you! My friend who visited can’t stand winters (grew up in CA). Personally, besides my SAD, I love winters! It’s cozy and pretty and I don’t mind layering up to go outside. If only the sun was out more, I’d be a happy camper. Way happier than during a super hot spell. How about you? Summer or winter?
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Do you ever watch a film and feel overwhelmed?
I watched Agni Natchathiram and Awaara this past week and both of the movies have left me feeling both emotionally alive/overwhelmed. Both the films had something interesting to say about nature vs nurture. Though the latter chose a more serious approach to it and actively criticises the hypocritical ideas society advocates while the first dances more around the idea. This doesn’t just apply to these more traditionally ‘brilliant’ (doesn’t mean they aren’t brilliant just more advocated by society that films like these are more deserving of brilliance than others). I somehow felt the same way when I watched Imtiaz Ali’s Love Aaj Kal (2009) and Laila Majnu (2018). There was this visceral emotional response to the themes and frames in the film which I felt so connected to. Especially for the former, which I know is one of his least popular works; I resonated deeply with the second half of the story of these 2 perfect individuals struggling to be happy in what society told them was happiness. I don’t know I was just really happy to feel something about a movie in a more physical way than I have for the past few months.
Also I prefer winter infinitely if I do not have to go out. It’s so nice and cozy while I am very susceptible to dehydration so summers are not my favourite. My birthday is also during winter so there may be personal bias there.
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Oh, I absolutely feel overwhelmed by films! The one that jumps out at me is Mirzya. It is so visually rich, it just swept me away, even though the story wasn’t anything I could relate to.
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I hope you had a nice visit!
I think the season preferences are going to be related to where you live and if you are an indoor our outdoor person. I’m an outdoor person, taught at a forest preschool, love car camping with family and backpacking alone, truly enjoy hiking, sometimes even enjoy running, and I like to swim in natural bodies of water. I like backcountry skiing and I like ice skating on frozen ponds but where I live my ability to do so is totally dependent on fickle weather. If it snows before it freezes I can’t get to the ponds. If it doesn’t snow enough I can’t ski, and if it snows too much I can’t park anywhere to ski. (In 8 years it has snowed enough to ski outside my front door exactly twice). So I choose summer, when it gets over 102 my family can escape to the mountains or jump in rivers and ponds. Also, I currently sub and my husband is a teacher, so summer is our family time. I also associate summer with health because in the winter we’re always sick.
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I’ve been thinking about this! Our lake house is sooooooooooo lovely in the summer, but I prefer the city in the winter. Just because the streets are plowed!!! Unless it is really really bad, I can always get out of the house, walk through the parks (also shoveled by the city), see other folks walking around.
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I think cities at Christmas time are really something special. I’ve heard references to “A Country Christmas”, but really sledding and shovelling your driveway have nothing on the shared joy that so many people together can create. Pre-pandemic, San Francisco, even without snow, was something to behold around Christmas. All the lights, and as you said, people walking around, happy. I can only imagine that with snow it would be truly magical.
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Summer all the way!!!!!!!! Guess I can only live in California in the US – for my climate preferences and my skin color and gender 😝
How long should be the letter I write to SRK? One of the mumbai fan club persons said he could get my letter to SRK but i guess I have to be comfortable with what if it doesn’t reach / gets read.
I just bought a book by the celebrity dietician and fitness coach – Rujuta Diwekar and 12 week fitness project and starting to apply it to help recover my health and energy. Right now just this week and then I’ll resume when I come back from holiday. So question is – have you or anyone here had to deal with long term chronic illness – how did you incrementally invest in getting better? I feel like I’m on an endless journey and it gets better in such tiny increments with a lot of effort but if I don’t do anything it slides back quickly
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Ooooo, tricky! I think the letter should be as long as it needs to be to say what you want to say. Maybe that’s just “thank you, you changed my life”. Maybe that’s 10 pages explaining specifically what SRK means to you. So long as you think about him actually reading it and what you would want him to know, that’s gonna be the right length. Oh, and hand written. DEFINITELY hand written. It’s so much more meaningful that way.
The closest I have come to a chronic illness is migraines. And with those, I was able to learn to live with them by learning to listen to my body. If I start to feel bad, do what I need to do to feel better, don’t just ignore it. Ultimately that just made me sicker longer. The other thing I have learned with chronic illness is that it’s okay to expect medicine to fix it. Sometimes that medicine doesn’t exist yet, and that’s really sucky, but if there is ANYTHING out there that is capable of making you feel better, that your doctor suggests, give it a shot. I just changed my hormone pills after a series of bad migraine episodes. Didn’t even occur to me to do that, but the doctor offered, I said yes I would try, and it’s helped.
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I bought letter paper and plan to write my letter while I’m on the plane!
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Any tips for getting through a 15 hour flight in economy? (First leg of 22 hour+ journey overall)
Have you booked your Jawan tickets?
How did you meet your friend that lives in California?
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15 hour flight for me, I always book exit row. But then, I’m tall, so being able to stretch out my legs is the most important thing. I justify by saying it’s a medical necessity. Other flight tips, noise canceling head phones. I never use them in “real life” because they don’t actually muffle things that much. But they do a GREAT job of blocking the ambient roar of the airplane noises which makes it easier to focus on whatever you are watching/listening to/reading. And final tip, download a ton of stuff to watch on your phone. I still read on flights sometimes, but in terms of being so absorbed into it that I forget I am on a flight, something to watch is the way to go.
I have not booked my Jawan tickets! I’m still trying to figure out Thursday versus Friday. If I could take Thursday off, I’d see it then, but this week is crazy so I just don’t know if it is possible. I’ll probably wait until all the showtimes are listed and figure out what I can make work.
I met my CA friend through Indian film! Before I started the blog, I was working on a masters thesis about Indian film fans and she agreed to be interviewed, and we really hit it off. And have been super close friends ever since.
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I am not tall so I did book myself an aisle seat and also bought a lounge pass in Doha because after 15 hours I don’t think I can go wandering in the airport looking for food and rest. I also learned that Amazon prime limits how much you can download to your device so I guess I’ll need to download on multiple devices.
I bought britbox subscription because I guess I can keep watching British crime on the flight?
So true about noise cancellation headphones. So useful in planes
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I would recommend getting compression socks. My feet often get swollen in long hour flights making my leg feel very tired for days and the shoes feeling exceptionally tight. This would be my no.1 flight tip to be honest as flights are tiring no matter what you do.
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I’ll have to try this. I always have to remember to wear cozy slip-ons or easy tie shoes (not my hiking boots for example) otherwise my feet are killing me at the end of the flight. Plus easier to take off at security as needed. I’ll try the socks sometime and see if that helps too. I bet they will.
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Thank you. I have some for my legs from having surgery last year. I’ll dig them out for my flight!
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Try to drink two liters of waters during your flight. I feel so much better when I do this.
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Yes I try to drink a LOT of water. It seems to help with the jet lag too. Hope I can keep it up. I haven’t done long haul for a while now
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I think I hate the Jawan stylist. Love SRK, hate the clothes.
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Yeah clothes are not the best, but I’m loving that he’s laughing and enjoying himself in the song. Also the more I see of Nayan, the more I’m getting excited to see her in the movie. She’s giving off a very confident, take-charge energy that SRK hasn’t played off of in ages, kinda reminds me of Rani.
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The women do look good, and the choreography is fun. It would be even more fun if everyone was naked and then the clothing would not distract me!
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Genevieve! That threesome scene in Made in Heaven is corrupting you!
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I dislike those baggy pants so much too. Bad clothes getting in the way of enjoying choreography.
More on the sunglasses I think SRK’s eyesight may have regressed (age) and he prefers I wear sunglasses rather than glasses? 🧐
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