If I own my house.

I love the house I live in. It is a rented house and we have been staying here for about 18 years. It is spacious enough for us. The only small room is the kitchen and it is old fashioned too. I wish the kitchen was bigger and modern. Other than that I have no problems with this house.

The other day, i was walking on the terrace and i thought, may be the owner would agree to sell this upper portion to us. then we could make the changes that we like. i am not sure the owner would do that. but no harm in dreaming, isn't' it?

Going on a holiday

I am going on a Kerala tour with my sister. She is arriving here in two days along with her son. He will stay here till we leave for the tour. Then he will go back to his job. May be he wants to make sure his mom is really going on a tour.

We are going for a week. Two years back we went to Rajasthan and it was a great time. I am looking forward to have good time now too. It will be good to be away from the routine life for some time.

We would be happy to spend time with each other. We have already seem most of the places we will be visiting. we visited them long back when our parents took us on a south India tour. I remember most of it. I have been planning to visit those places again but somehow it never happened so far.

After that I am planning to get busy with the new site I have started.
I feel very positively about this new site. The other two are doing
good and I can leave them to earn on their own.

Working from home again and enjoying.

I have again got used to working from home only. Of course I have been doing that for the last almost 20 years. But in between 3 years I went out for a part time job of teaching at the college. It was ok while it lasted. It was an experience that I wanted to have.  Now after that experience I feel it is better to work for yourself. I love being self employed. I am sure I will not go again to work for somebody else.

While I was working at the college, I used to work with my websites too. And also my home tuition. All this in addition to the usual housework and cooking etc. I also used to miss the freedom of working from home.Though I liked being busy all the time, I missed not getting any time to read. Now I read regularly. I have already completed a few books. 

We also get more time to go out after sasha goes to school. I like the lazy mornings. After sending sasha to school, I spend an hour or two at the computer. First checking how much I have earned and then reading mail or working at my websites.

Life is Good!

Gave up my teaching job.

Last year, When the college shifted place and I had to travel double the distance than before, I decided I would give it a year and see how it works. We were three going together from this area and shared an auto. While coming back, we were only two. It was ok.

Now, I have decided I am not going this year. I do not like the long commute. Earlier, while teaching from home, I have got used to not spending any time and money for getting to work. Students came to me. So I think I will just continue that.

I also have my websites to work at and that I enjoy. I plan to work more on them.

I know I will also miss going out three days a week. Working from home means I don't need to dress up to go out which has it's advantages and disadvantages.

Meditation - Introductury talk and I joined.

I saw the ad in the local evening newspaper about this active meditation from osho center. I called up to find the details. He said that the workshop was for 6 days and for an hour everyday. The fee was reasonable and there was going to be an introductory talk on Sunday morning. I decided to go for the introductory talk and then decide.

When I went there, there were two other people there, a boy and another lady. I was the third and the last one to arrive.

He explained to us what we will be doing during the mediation. The instructions would be given at the beginning of each session and the meditations would be done with music.

There would be one morning session and all other sessions would be in the evening between 6.30 to 7.30 pm. It is a suitable time for me. The session would get over by 7.40pm(including the instructions) he said.

I needed to reschedule my evening classes at home and that was not a problem. So I said I would join. The boy said he can not join because he was working and studying and the time did not suit him. The foreigner lady too went off when he said that the fee for foreigner was more.

So I was the only one left and so I said that though I was interested in joining, I didn’t want to do it alone. He said there were another two foreigners who were already doing a yoga and pranayama course and would be doing these meditations too with us. That was fine for me and I filled the form and paid.

Meditation and Me

I have been feeling that I need to do meditation but did not know how. I have tried a few times and end up not doing anything. That is, I just sit there thinking about something. And I don’t think that is meditation.

Meditation does not happen easily for me. I have to work at it and I think that just is not the right thing to do if you have to work at it. I have tried to read a few books and articles about meditation but no use.

I have already done the art of living basic course and it does help me. I have been doing sudarshan kriya for the last few years. Though not so regularly recently.

I want to learn to do meditation and was wondering how to do it.

I also need some regular physical activity. The exercises I do are not enough. I used to go for walks regularly. But many times it becomes impossible to do that.
In the morning I have my kitchen work to send daughter to school and then I have to go to college. In the evening, I have my classes at home and by the time I finish, it is seven and already dark outside. So I can’t go.

I thought I would walk in the mornings more, during summer holidays as there is no school but that has not happened.

In addition to that when it is possible to go I feel lazy to do that. So with all this I don’t get enough physical activity. Add to that that I spend most of the time sitting.

Sitting in front of the computer has become more and more common time pass. I sit down when I am teaching at home. Only in college, I teach standing as I like to look at all the students when I am explaining things.

I have been looking to join a group somewhere where I can do some physical activity, I have not been able to do thing alone. But I have not been able to find any group here near my home.

So when I saw the ad for the active meditations workshop in the local paper, I was happy. Frankly speaking, I don't know what is really active meditation. But I do want to learn meditation. So I thought I would take a look.

Even before calling the number given, I decided I would join and see.

After Two years and a new parttime job.

It is more than two years since I wrote in this blog. Two more batches have passed since then. In the meantime I also started a part time job of teaching french at a college. I teach french for a Tourism course.

For them a foreign language learning is compulsory for the first year, that is the first two semester.

We have just completed the 2nd year for the 2nd batch.

Next year, they are supposed to shift place. The new place is supposed to be far. I wonder what I would do?