Print and frame (yooki with nana)

Lasting help comes from within

"While fixing and saving and trying to rescue is futile, radical self-care is quantum, and it radiates out from you into the atmosphere like a little fresh air. It's a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, "Well, isn't she full of herself," just smile obliquely like Mona Lisa and make both of you a nice cup of tea. Being full of affection for one's goofy, self-centered, cranky, annoying self is home." 

Some great life observations - esp on life being a paradox, our inside selves being outside time and space and her basic operating principles for sensitive types - and above all knowing that lasting help only comes from within.

https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_lamott_12_truths_i_learned_from_life_and_writing?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Bengali poha

- wash & Soak poha (say a little more than a fistful)
- chop an inch of ginger very finely
- one green chillie (or not for Yookstar)
- one aloo diced small
- in the kadhai take a teaspoon of ghee
- add kala jeera once the ghee warms
- add ginger, chillie and aloo
- once the aloo turns golden brown, add the soaked poha.
- add namak & sugar as per taste
- toss it all and take it off flame

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Filmmaking is all about —

"Filmmaking is all about orchestrating an accident"

It's a very unique art form that way!
Anyways if you get a chance read - "into the spiderverse" script. You will learn so much about formatting like a professional.

It is nice to learn those. But my suggestion is - formatting shld be done before submitting to anyone. When you are writing yourself, you should optimize for a mental state that is ideal for you to get max ideas and completely surrender yourself to the moment.

Writing is Rewriting. So may be 6-7 drafts before you reach the "first shareble draft" and last 1 and 2 drsfrs shld be focussed in formatting and comfort of reading.

Remember story, a lacking emotion, character underdevelopment cannot be fixed in either treatment or direction or in post.

So writing is *the most* important step. Also trust your own honest feedback to yourself. Trust your intuition.

Mumbai nasik drive -

You me nani asim juno saurabh drove from mumbau to nasik and took a break at starbucks in the highway !!

Unicorn uki

Reading with papa

Its not me but your papa

Who gives you bath every morning before school.

When baby gets a scolding

Happy holidays 2019

Yooki

One thing you have genetically inherited from me is giving people multiple identities. you were calling me "tafiti" (ref:moana) and "big bad mouse" (ref:gruffalo) but now that Christmas is here I am being called "reindeer". Example use - "reindeer i want to do susu."🎄🤶 😘

I was tired so i slept and woke up with u

Nitigya Character Sketch cargo

Character Sketch Nitigya Sahastrabuddhe:

If you are ever stuck in the morning traffic of a busy city street, in one of the bikes you will see a man, now on the other side of 40, with his helmet on, a black office bag and with a lunch box tied to his scooter, heading to his work. He has been doing it since before he got married and now his kids are preparing for GRE.

Though his struggle and stability is launchpad for his kids and his colleagues, he particularly doesn't aspire for anything as such. The society, however, needs these people – these pillar of strengths – though these pillars themselves might feel that they are stuck at the job but they have been feeling that for so long that they have now have even forgotten to feel that. It's too late to even restart a hobby. And they are too good to ever protest.

Nitigya is one such person. Every morning he comes to his desk, sees the list of Cargo arriving in Pushpak 634 A – one of the 1000s of spaceships and he makes sure they arrive and are successfully transitioned to the next level in the spaceship. He is not a star but his work and precision and dedication is immaculate.

Maybe his kids don't know what a hero their dad is but that's because Nitigya himself doesn't know it either. His wife complains about not having time or not going out for a vacation, and almost gives up on him and being a college teacher herself, goes for camps with college kids and he doesn't seem to mind that nor she doesn't seem to mind it anymore.

Nitigya is one of these uncelebrated heroes, a round peg in a round hole and people too humble to realize their own worth and we can only love them unconditionally because their simplicity is what we all aspire for but fail to notice.

In the film, though Prahastha and Yuvishka are in a spaceship, along with a Nitigya (in the monitor), they feel like a family living together and managing these complicated machinery.

Prahastha character sketch or early cargos

Up in the space, he remembers the early days, there were issues of gravity, issues of cold. Bad transmissions – sometimes cargo would come in parts and sometimes the extraction machine would break down leading to the cargo staying with him for days, invading his privacy and mildly irritating him while they waited for machines to be fixed.

75 years, so many cargos – he found all of them unique and all of them similar at the same time. Some would talk about regrets, some about life lessons, some would softly cry and some would break into hysterical uncontrollable laughter.

Some would pretend to be dead even when healed and some would be too scared to even move an inch.

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Character Sketch Prahastha

 

It would be almost impossible to get into the mind of a man who for most part of his life has lived alone. But let's try.

 

Prahastha, was not like that - not living with the ghosts of real life or his past.

 

Prahastha grew up in a lower middle-class family where there were fights for money and there was a need to do well in life, to get out and make a better life for oneself. 

Much before realizing all that -  as a 8 year old kid he was the naughtiest of all doing silly pranks– like once he had rung the bell of school too early and later gone back to wipe his fingerprints worried that school would employ a detective to catch him or another time he sent a fake love letter to neighbouring uncle and created a stir in his dull domestic household. He was one of the kids to get his powers early – his was being able to raise objects up in the air and initially he would use it to help aunties on higher balconies when they would want to buy vegetables from the street vendor and had earned free laddoos and kisses from them in equal amount.

 

All this banter came to a premature end when Prahastha lost his father. His mother a science teacher (in those times, education wasn't stressed on too much and very few kids even cared to study till 10^th) brought him up alone and he helped her run her makeshift classes, science fairs and developed a bent of mind for science.

However, given his powers, he was best suited for army and he enrolled for the airforce. This was a tough time in the Rakshas world that was divided in tribes and each tribe would be fighting with another. Almost tired of their own fightings and with intervention from other factions, they decided to sign the Rakshas Manushya Peace Treaty and some peace prevailed. As part of the peace treaty, initially there were older rakshas who enrolled in book keeping of human souls but their work was hacky, involved transportation of cargoes and they used complicated faulty machinery to get their job done. Most of the rakshas died of shocks from these machines. Inspite of lots of protests from the conservatives, the bookkeeping continued as it became the primary source of revenue for the cash starved government.

 

However at the same time Prahastha was recruited for an unknown secret mission. His training with airforce along with educated background  (they said "a scientific bent of mind") was instrumental in that. He lost his mother somewhere here too and a new training would probably have given him a new lease of life so he agreed to the mission.

In the training center, he met Mandakini – a beautiful quirky psychic – she and her collleagues were also being trained for this unknown mission and it was the most beautiful part of Prahastha's life. Finding his anchor and finding the love of his life.

The psychics however in few months were removed from the training (seems like it was miscalculated that psychic would be needed for the given mission) and Mandakini along with her colleague joined a college. However, it was a moment of heart break for her, not just being away from Prahastha but also nomore a being a part of a mission that has now gathered national attention. For her – she went from being a potential national hero to a muted and restless college teacher.

As part of the training, Prahastha was then sent away for 6 months to the north pole. There conditions were simulated that were similar to space and he had to survive alone for 6 months. There were studies not only on his body but also on his mind  tests to know - if he could survive the absolute isolation.

And so he did. And it was announced that he was one of the first 6 astronauts to go up in the space. When he came back with the announcement, Mandakini got caught in one of the examinations she needed to give for her job and didn't come to see him.

This and also 100 other confusing thoughts, ego, insecurity - made him not reachout to her later when he could.

 

We still remember the last meeting though (it was also the first after 8 months). He was in quarantine before the launch wearing a facemask that doctors wear during operations. And there she was ushered in and could only see him through a glass and he reached out to touch her but only managed to touch the glass.

 

And then he left – Prahastha was one of the few people who will define the boundaries of what a rakshas could do – a pioneer – a person who would be studied in textbooks for generations to come. And in 75 years, he would be granted a retirement. And he could spent the remaining 100-125 years of his life back in planet in complete bliss.

 

 

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Up in the space, he remembers the early days, there were issues of gravity, issues of cold. Bad transmissions – sometimes cargo would come in parts and sometimes the extraction machine would break down leading to the cargo staying with him for days, invading his privacy and mildly irritating him while they waited for machines to be fixed.

75 years, so many cargos – he found all of them unique and all of them similar at the same time. Some would talk about regrets, some about life lessons, some would softly cry and some would break into hysterical uncontrollable laughter.

Some would pretend to be dead even when healed and some would be too scared to even move an inch.

Every new case helped him write his thesis – now multiple textbooks and he perfected the process. Sometimes he would get a big cheque from anonymous donors or silly requests from advertising agency to talk about their toothpaste.

He would get 1000s and 1000s of fan mails, people would dress like him in Halloween and discussion would be held speculating what he does.

 

All these years he lived alone, aware of his aura illuminating many lives, and yet had stopped caring about it – he turned into a loner, a man who developed OCD for his things, a fixed way of doing things , and today finally he will be having a companion.

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"'Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.' "

Saurabh yooki

Christmas vibes

Yooki acting like juno

Just drop it (whatsapp wisdom)

One of your grand aunts shared it and i felt you shld read


*Just Drop*

Once a Crow, holding on to a piece of meat was flying to find a place to sit & eat.

However, an Eagle started chasing it. The crow was anxious and was flying higher and higher, yet the eagle was after the poor crow.

Just then "Garuda" saw the plight and pain in the eyes of the crow.

Garuda being the bird of wisdom spoke "Oh my friend!! That eagle is not after you to kill you!! It is after that piece of meat that you are holding in your beak. Just drop it and see what will happen".

The crow followed the advice of Garuda and dropped the piece of meat, and there you go, the eagle flew towards the falling meat.

Garuda smiled and said "The Pain is only till you hold on to it. *Just Drop* it".

The crow bowed and said "I dropped this piece of meat, now, I can fly even higher".

Vegan Lemon tendercake with blueberry compôte recipe - BBC Food

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/lemon_tendercake_with_52994


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