My experiments with leading a simple and green life...

In my attempts to go green, have been doing the following for weeks now:

1. Handwashing clothes, including baby's cloth diapers. Seemed like crazy and challenging, now it is fun. Line drying also saves electricity. My new motto : 'Never waste a heat wave' :)

2. No to disposable diapers and an 'Almost no' to wipes..Kawaii diapers are a godsend so are Imse Vimse flushable liners

3. No to plastics, atleast in teh form of bowls and spoons and kitchen utensils..Been trying to take a silver spoon to work for my lunch. Somehow cant bring myself to pack lunch everyday. Should even try that

4. Grocery and produce bags - just ordered. Hopefully an end to that as well

5. Decomposable trash bags - next in line

All in all, I just long for the good old days, when everything was simple and reusable and green, without we even realizing that!

Will document more of the revamping and regrouping in my life..The idea is to get back to the good old days without becoming obselete! Quite a challenge!

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Limits of patience

I am a very patient human being when it comes to watching Tamil cinema. I can watch, and watch again, stupid movies without batting an eyelid. I would grit my teeth  when I see clichés or when the hero advises the heroine on how to dress and how women cannot become angry or some crap like that. Yet I would watch the movie with an assumed patience. (disc: This is certainly not to say that are tamil movies are crap as I have watched many really good movies and may God increase the tribes of the makers of such movies).

So far, I have jumped out of the theatre half way (or even before) through a movie only in 3 instances. The first was kannukul nilavu, the second was Aegan and the third movie that joined this special list of mine recently is Modhi Vilayadu. All I can say about these flicks is ‘Yappa….Mudiladaaa Saami’!

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Mindless consumerism

Is killing our people. Why do people need every possible gizmo and gadget and that too at the cheapest possible price? This Black Friday and the mad rush associated with it drives me nuts. Couple of years back I witnessed many people (esp. desis) camping(!) all night in front of Best Buy to buy a laptop at a deal price and I felt disgusted.

Well, I guess I must be an archaic woman !

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Saddened …

My day today started with an email that informed me that one of my most respected seniors from school days has quit her job to become a full time home maker. One of the most brilliant girls that I have ever come across, she had always been an inspiration to me. Knowing her, I am sure that it was her own choice to leave her job. But excuse me, mere homemaking is not for such great minds, but for us lesser mortals (who, by the way, happily pack bags and leave to work leaving behind our unclean homes and understanding husbands).

At the risk of sounding politically incorrect, I want to quote from the book / movie Shawshank Redemption - “Some birds are not meant to be caged”. Well, certainly not this one!

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To my readers (if any)

I am still alive, just a bit lazy to open my laptop and key in a few words. I am back (in case you were happy thinking otherwise) !!

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Bliss

This is what I felt in my heart when I heard this song of Annamacharya sung by Priya sisters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_q4-_yJv5M

P.S. : Can someone who knows Telugu help me understand what ‘hari pundari kaaksha’ means? My telugu knowledge is so good that I have even translated such literary masterpieces as ‘Johnny Johnny Yes Papa’ into telugu (‘Swami Swami, Emi naana? :)). Still such simple poems like annamacharya kritis are always tricky for me :)

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