1. Spent about 30 minutes helping and observing the irrigation system which has pipes, joints and sprinklers. Two motors of different power with one of them having an auto-cut makes sprinklers throw water off to 10-15 feet.
2. Prior to that had lunch.
3. Prior to that spent about twenty minutes sowing coriander seeds in lines adjacent to onion beds.
4. Spent an hour scrapping grass and throwing garbage.
5. About forty five minutes spent on collecting stray polybags, wrappers and pouches which were burnt at two distinct places.
6. Played Free Rice quiz on freerice.com.
7. Pasted labels on almirahs.
8. Published three posts on WordPress including this one. Yesterday I almost finished working on the almirah number 11 anticlockwise. Today I begin with the number 12. It has been a productive day.
Sprinklers and pipes for kitchen garden: Gandhi Smarak Nidhi Chhatarpur Madhya Pradesh
2. Couldn’t bypass conversation of Nachiketa with Yama. The lure of Brahmavidya. I read about it in a book when I was six years old. The word Moksha means liberation. I later developed a vocabulary with at least 40 words for the concept of enlightenment or awakening. Did a guest post on James Harbeck’s blog on the same. The book “Tales From Upanishads,” has been written by Shri Shankar Dattatreya Dev and translated by Shrimati Shakuntala Pathak.
3. Came across Belgian author Matter link’s play Shab-e-taar or Dark Night. The book has been translated by Premchand. The standard preface in Urdu has been rendered beautifully with glossary of terms in the footnote. I clearly recall getting this book issued in the last iteration of registration. I enjoyed it a bit. Premchand was master of Hindu as well as Urdu prose.
4. Another dark night ends. It’s the truth realm. I know the way in and out of it. I had a brief discussion with the librarian as we sat outside his naturopathy clinic. It’s the dawn of the gods as per the Hindu calender.
1. For no bitter history. The network engineer’s instagram handle becomes invisible for me. This note is to keep memory. Maybe she would be back maybe not. The WordPress site is still there if you need to read that NaPoWrMo post or Point Zero.
2. After Nandita and others it’s for the first time that network engineer has become invisible for me. I merely made three comments on two posts. I don’t consider myself to be the cause. Direct or indirect.
1. I began walking systematically again in 2019. I could run a bit last year. The performance is not bad from the viewpoint of that build-up personally for me.
Bib
2. Registered 13 titles in library. The bruises on feet are due to slippers alien to them. Also need to buy new slippers.
1. It took 80 minutes to register 30 titles today. Came across letters by Osho to his patron mother. This book I brought here with a Urdu dictionary. They are in the third almirah clockwise. Udainiya ji and ATM slips mystery is buried in them. Also came across a treatise comparing Premchand with Gorky. By Shachiraani Gurtoo.
2. Completed reading 51 pages of ‘Aditi and other deities in Veda’ by M. P. Pandit. Asked a few questions to lady weeding in the field to get a clearer picture about her life story.
3. It took about twenty five minutes to weed out 80 mustard and carrot grass plants. Strangely: in the row of carrots , potatoes and parsnip –carrot grass and mustard plants were weeds. I tasted some of the mustard leaves. They had oily taste as well as pungent acrid influence on tongue which was beetroot’s effect on throat. I had never tasted a beetroot without its being chopped in form of salad dressing before. I would advise against it to anyone going forward.
4. An hour to sweep and collect garbage, burn it and scrap grass after the meeting. Though they asked for dustbin- they put it outside- they didn’t use it. In effect: they behaved like school kids littering here, tither and yonder. It was also the case with journalists last week. The notice board ‘don’t litter’ or Gandhi’s glasses in ‘Clean India Survey’ can’t bear fruits until we lack discipline. I am supposed to buy two arecanuts which would be enjoyed with tobacco by some family member or the other.
5. Didn’t go to Deendayal Rasoi today. Instead took a nap for half an hour inside library before began working. Couldn’t play free rice either. Watching monkeys was a nice experience. Went to have couple of samose in Sunday market.
1. A bird on a banyan tree dropped a half eaten guava. Guava dropping down from banyan menu. Menu yakeen nai Honda. Hondacity cityride identity typical crisis.
2. Jaggery in January. Gerrymandering. The old man shows me a miracle woodapple. It’s small in size yet ripe.
Ripe elephant apple, money apple, woodapple
3. It took us 27 minutes to complete turning in Shivansh compost preparation method today as there were only four people.
1. Had carrot halwa with librarian and naturopath to celebrate the birthday of the naturopath. A four planet stellium in Sagittarius is the actual cause of his being fond of Osho who had a five planet stellium in it. A Virgo. Atmakaraka Saturn in Sagittarius.
2. Uprooted some carrot grass plants from field. The word ‘Nidai’ means weeding. Took many pictures. Internet and earphones acted up dramatically.
3. Had some giant spinach leaves to eat. Narrated Popeye the sailor man to those present.
4. Trip to a field and hospital. First time in elevator in hospital.
5. Another interview with sportspersons. What is the English name for Malkhamb gymnastics. Mal masa and Malkhambha.
6. Registered 22 titles in library. Looked into horoscope of three people. Attended candle protest.
1. Walked 80 minutes and played vocabulary jams on vocabulary.com. Walking without bag on back is easier. It is possible to complete marathon by using walk and run approach in turns. One of the challenges is to wake up in time on the day of marathon. My heels have cracks and toes have injuries and bruises because of excessive walking. But it’s not new. Time can’t heal timeless wounds.
2. Received 1123124 ranks but not in that order. Moon wasn’t visible today.
Number 9-9Evening
3. I own all the images. Though it used to be useless. Who owns what and for how long, yadda yadda.
4. PC and Stephen were missing today. Vimal Rajendran, Yang and another guy whose name is difficult to spell played well.
5. Got shaved. Had to borrow ten rupees. Returned 5 rupees that i had borrowed from the PUBG guy. The game got banned but memories are enough to run a mobile restaurant for youth!
6. We had some discussion in library. I didn’t know it rained in New Delhi. The clouds increased temperature here.
7. Made 100 rupees as a freelancer towards a job which was not completed. Learned to use Paytm. The call which was supposed to last 20 minutes took 2 hours 20 minutes. In 2011 i published a half-baked treatise named ‘A Cookbook For Genius’ on a freelancing site which gave me 25 coins. Then i had a full time job in Cognizant Technology Solutions and yet i couldn’t earn as a freelancer. People from Nigeria and other African countries quoted such low prices that they were immediately hired. I was new. I don’t know how long i can continue but once i am out of this pit i would never be able to forget how deeply entrenched i had become here because of these ancient relationships. You think they’re resolved but complexes keep coming to surface until your identity gets completely changed or you become all-in-all.
Dancing light of grace 