Yes. Nice illustrations. Some of my American friends are now doing anti-gravity yoga in a strip-mall yoga center. The yoga uses a typical children's hammock that is so common in India - at homes, and in the field where mothers bring their kids, and put them to sleep in a hammock on a shade tree. Check it out:
A semi-Brexit, with just England and Wales leaving the EU, is the solution | Kim Lane Scheppele The Guardian has an interesting column where the author suggests that an easy solution to the UK Brexit conundrum is to let the two NATIONS within the UK that voted to remain within the EU (Scotland and N.Ireland) stay put, and the other two (England and Wales) which voted to leave, Leave. The suggestion was for the UK to stay as is-- i.e., a federation of four independent states-- but only half of those nations leave the EU. When a part of a country is in the EU, the rest of that country can easily get a "partial membership" of sorts -- the kinds of cherry-picked benefits that the UK is now struggling to get from the EU. The Guardian column recommends UK respect the referendum results from the scots and the irish, and then have their version of Brexit in England and Wales. One old grand uncle had always wanted to "remain" within the UK-- and not throw his lot with the newly independent country. Now that England and Wales would be out of the EU, if they opt to join up with India, he'd be happy. India would certainly be able to tack on a couple of more states, with their own weird languages, english and welch, to their union. The Republicans within England and Wales could see a double benefit too: they could get rid of that menagerie in the Buckingham palace. It was never about Europe. Brexit is Britain’s reckoning with itself | Fintan O’Toole
Fretwork was used to describe your woody waffle ? Funny you should bring up Emma. If you had not watched "Lost in Austen" ----about single girl in UK who likes Austen's P&P.... and she does a Haruki Murakami thing by walking through a wall into a parallel universe.--- you must do that. Link:
I bring up the presumptuous Emma more often than the unexceptional Lizzie for the sole reason that I too reckon my men-friends to chase better women and women-friends to claim better men likewise. Somehow, I have unreasonably established that all the cheerful single friends on the planet are to be paired worthwhile, thereafter, am dismissive about the bland suitor introduced each time as a friend’s tentative interest. I don’t know if it’s me or ‘being a friend’ pushy thing. Either way, the Emma blurts — you can do much better. No one is matched approvingly for my eccentric friends. I identify it as ‘Emma syndrome’ in me. But then I concede after initial misgiving on their smitten insistence — whatever happyaying you! Emma’s public-spirited devotion to match up with upward mobility, and some likemindedness, is prevalent in my single cohorts. I will check that “Lost in Austen”. Incidentally reading “Men without women” by Mr Murakami. (I have turned into that obsessed curiouser slyly reading the works of Mr M to investigate why his evangelical fans admire him.)
Ordering dosa from swiggy is nerve-wracking due to exotic flavours .. what paneer, cheese, chicken, egg, mysore, mirchi, buttermilk, and four types of rava. I am confounded. The Yoga also exploded these days into a fad of itemised callisthenics. No more — plain yoga as only a form a specialised yoga is proffered. Did I tell you this? I had a plan to resume yoga for two weeks, so, visited a nearby institute. The miracle-endowed shaman there piped about his teaching of specialised yoga to connect to some astral powers (sourced from Betelgeuse?) and energise mind. I skedaddled from his fraudulent claims in no time with an excuse that I had to attend elsewhere, running late. YouTube is my no-frills tutor now. Anti-gravity , despite the technique, is certainly more grounded than astral projections in contemporary yoga.
Good grief !! Your eccentric friends want your assessment of their choice ?! Emma behaved like Amma in the book. Nobody is good enough for her kids. Some woman (in the Jane Austen society) wrote an alternate conclusion to that book (I cannot find a link now). Emma loses Knightley, and emigrates to Canada. Mind it ! Most of his fans are girls. While the Japanese government is trying to work schemes to prop up their Economic progress -- girls into jobs, more babies etc.., Murakami is working at cross purposes -- having girls dream about alternate universes, and magical mystical lives and not go into the life of wife, mother, daughter-in-law. It is a good thing Murakami is in liberal Japan; in some autocratic regimes, his books would be deemed subversive, and he'd be sitting in jail.
The undervaluation of the suitor by remarker qua undue friend is never based on the merits of the aspirant to compatibly date my friend, but solely based — ‘on virtue of being connected with you, you deserve better for me to feel better about you’. In Murakami’s alt-universe if this friend’s suitor had been my friend then I would similarly have devalued the friend from this universe — nah! He/she not good enough. Isn’t that how depressing friends are supposed to make you feel at times because they over-dramatise their rearing role in that friendship.
That’s the ‘Finest Nevermind’ summation of Murakami I have ever heard. You crack me up too much, girl. (Chuckles!) His predilection for alt-universes filled with tantalising turn of events exceeds that of the silly and ghoulish narratives (ref: Mohabbatein) in Karan Johar’s romcies.
@Amulet Remember the conversation we had on ordering stuff from Amazon Local? This is how it worked for me — create local alt-address for delivery, select pay in cash, and when the item is delivered to your doorstep, just pay in local currency. I found it convenient than setting up and redirecting between currency accounts. I prefer less (digital) hassle!
This is so funny. Poor things, your friends. If someone likes a beef-cake, w/ large affectionate-seeming hands, but lacks a few cards in his deck, as it were, would you discourage her route to happiness ?
