25th Birthday - Silver Jubilee

Today is our house's 25th year birthday ... well it has been 25 years since we conducted "Gruhapravesham" (house warming) of our dearest house in Mysore. The day is still fresh in my memory. It was such a beautiful feeling we had as a family ... owning a house .. our very own abode.
Many many special memories attached to this lovely place since that day.

Happy Birthday to my very own haven.

Ring Challenge - Update

Remember the right challenge I had posted last week ? I am happy to confess, I am continuing to close ALL rings for the past 10 days !! Yay !!! That is such an encouraging thought and a milestone in itself ... so far I have never been able to close ALL 3 rings in a single day and now I have achieved this feat for the past 10 days ... I am beyond thrilled.

Keeping my fingers crossed so I can continue with this achievement for many many more days ... hopefully it becomes a habit :)

Songs green in my memory ...

There are so many "Evergreen" songs in Bollywood that it would be hard for me to narrow down my top 10 favorites. (although "Kisi ki muskurahaton pe ho nisar is undoubtedly my Top 1 ... lyrics - such depth, music - top notch, rendition - Mukehs's best)

 Anyways, this post is not about the "Evergreen" top favorites, but those songs which continue to be green ... meaning songs I heard growing up, never were my favorite (if I may add) and yet are etched in my memory for ever.
 The other day I was watching "Zee TV Annu Kapoor led Antakshi" on youtube and some of the songs featured I heard after many many years and yet, I could sing along perfectly not missing a beat. I truly surprised myself.

 For starters, the Antakshari title song, I sang along so well, as though I had been practicing it all these years everyday ... then there were songs like "Noorani Chehrewali ..., Subah Subah jab Khidki khole .. etc" that I sang effortlessly.

I thoroughly enjoyed reminiscing those songs ... 

Ring Challenge

I have embarked on my first ever "Health" related challenge. It is called "Close your Ring" challenge. The point is to close all 3 rings (Move (Red), Exercise (Green) and Stand (blue)) rings on the Apple Watch for the next month. This Closed rings are to be achieved atleast 5-6 times a week. Hubby and I are competing to get the rings closed.
 Yesterday was Day 1 and I was able to close the Green and Red rings. The Blue one was stuck at 75% :( Husband was able to close all 3 rings. Today morning I was talking to my manager and happened to tell her that the blue ring is hard to achieve. She gave me quick tip ... "Move your feet" atleast few mins every hour. You should be able to close it. Yesterday I kept standing almost the entire afternoon working on my raised workstation. Apparently that is not enough .... I need to move around to have my stand ring to account for it.

Well now that I have extra information, I am all geared up to conquer the Blue ring today. I have already completed Green ... red is almost there... and it is only 9:30am. I am hoping I am able to close the Blue one today ...