Author: Rhea

I just saw the movie “Now you see me -part 2.” Again.  The Movie really came together for me in the end… when Mark Rafalo , who plays Dylan , the central character and Morgan Freeman who plays Thaddeus Bradley, Dylan’s fathers partner, after a cat and mouse chase – meet in the end.. The whole movie starting from Part 1 is about Dylan avenging his fathers death, when a final act of escaping the Iron chest goes wrong, and Dylan believes that Thaddeus is responsible for it since the two were rivals. Dylan spends 30 years of his life planning a revenge…

I went for a meeting yesterday. After a long while an ‘in-person’ meeting. The client was an old one, although it had been a while since I had engaged with them. There were a few hiccups leading to this that had thrown me off, to say the least. And I know when I am not centred I cannot tune in. I reached the place on time, and sure enough the meeting got “moved” by 20 minutes. Instead of feeling more miserable I decided to walk outside in the sun. It always makes me feel better. It did briefly cross my…

Sept 15th was Engineers day. My friend Savvy sent me a funny video and that is how I learnt there is such a thing. As I began to research many things memories and emotions surfaced. Why do we celebrate Engineers Day? It is celebrated as tribute to the Indian engineer and Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Viswesvaraya (popularly known as Sir MV) on September 15th. I wondered how come I have never heard of it? Engineers have had such a bad rap. And I feel they have such a unidimensional caricature of being left brained, logical alluding that they have mostly no…

Many years ago, I had gone on a school friends reunion to lavassa. It was monsoon season and it was drizzling. We decided to go up a mountain (a bit of an exaggeration really it was more a biggish hill) . There were nine of us. We were going up and I was towards the end of the line with another chivalrous friend to keep company . I was as usual clicking pictures and hence lagging. At one turn almost hidden on the curve I saw a beautiful wild gorgeous pink flower. It was nothing like I had seen before.…

Four years ago, When my dad passed away I was distraught. One day, I had gone to the a nearby market and was returning in a rickshaw. And Suddenly I had the image of Ganpati flash in my mind. I was not much of a Ganesh believer at that time. I remember I had to ask the Rickshaw fellow to stop, suddenly. I was taken aback. I looked around I was in front of some stalls that were preparing Ganpati Idols The ten days Ganesh festival was still 3 weeks away. I went inside and almost of it own volition…

I have been a bit under the weather, the weather has been strange grey. I was feeling cold and I rubbed my hands and feet. We do it automatically . To produce some warmth. And I thought of ‘Friction’ The second this word is uttered it brings up connotations like rough, resistance, unpleasant, discomfort etc  even to the word. And so of course we avoid it, atleast try to – we would prefer things to be ‘smooth’. I remember during my engineering days, we used to use rough files to smooth pieces of metal. I have always loved the “Applied”…

Last few months, I have had a strange and changing relationship with the Sun. I have always loved being in the Sun, infact I used to go for my runs in the afternoon. Many years ago, I used to be an ardent ‘Sun worshipper’ and as a practice did sun gazing, which increasingly went upto 15 -20 minutes at a time. It was a supposedly spontaneous practice, meaning no one told me to do it, I did not research -it just happened. And I followed. For the three years that I did do it, my life style, body mind changed.…

I had a difficult time with my beliefs yesterday. Some of them were self-contradictory. The stress of holding them was a lot. Self-contradictory beliefs went something like this – I believe children should be given free will –free will comes with a cost that is not always clear. What do I do? – Decision making is often hinged on Beliefs and hence they become Important. In simple everyday stuff, like I believe in my Vegetable vendor, so I don’t have to stress with decisions about quality money etc. I believe that drivers know their job so I don’t have to…

I am excited about what will show up. It’s after all 42. The answer to everything in the Universe. (Courtesy Douglas- Adams of Hitchhiker guide to the Galaxy) I went to meet a lady yesterday, her house was cozy and dimly lit, and when I came out into the afternoon sun I had to blink. The sudden light made my eyes water. This made me think about this phenomenon of Light and Darkness. A not so pleasant memory wafts in. As a child I used to be afraid of darkrooms. In school, as a form of punishment, we were put…

Yesterday was such a Beautifully glorious day. The Sky was this perfect shade of blue all through the day. Including the evening skies. Something was Magical about it. I am suddenly reminded of three things. Yesterday was the completion of 40 days of my 100 day experiment. Yesterday was the start of Mount Mary Fair. Yesterday I remembered as a child I used to draw pages after pages of three things. An eagle, a Unicorn and the Mount Marys church Steeple- which I can now literally see from my window right now. This was a Miracle. I had never dreamt,…