Christmas 2023

But nani is not well and in icu.. we still managed to steal a moment…

We featured in ois reel

Attending festivals with mama

Chuki

Random last line for rhyming

Yooki

You and me

My idli baby

Why so cute

dont be afraid to tumble

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."--

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

Only you own the suns the moons and the stars

Young father

Yookis family pic

Janamshtmi

Old performances

Yooki and pineapples

Book club

Elia Kazan on surviving undiminished

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It's to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Elia Kazan

Poem yooki

15 lessons from tory burch

Here are 15 lessons from one of the most formidable CEOs in fashion, Tory Burch:

1. When I think about fashion I think women will never lose that appetite for fashion.

2. I think women want to look beautiful. I think that's an important thing. It is relevant.

3. I've worked in many companies, and I think that, number one, if you are going to have a great environment, you produce great work... If people are happy, that's what's important. Life is short.

4. I never go out during the day without sunglasses.

5. I have always believed in 'less is more' in everything I do, from work to my personal life.

6. I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

7. I love exploring New York and I think that's what is so exciting about it. You find places that you've never heard of or seen before all the time.

8. When I started my company, many people said I shouldn't launch it as a retail concept because it was too big a risk. They told me to launch as a wholesaler to test the waters - because that was the traditional way.

9. When I design a garment or a piece of accessory, the first question I ask myself is, 'Would I wear it?'

10. There are never enough hours in the day.

11. There's a negative connotation to ambitious women, and I think that we should be able to be proud of being ambitious and not shy away from that, if that... is what you want to do. Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, in terms of believing in themselves. There is no need to apologize for being ambitious.

12. There are many things you can do overnight but there is no overnight success.

13. If it doesn't scare you, you're probably not dreaming big enough.

14. Being an entrepreneur isn't just a job title, and it isn't just about starting a company. It's a state of mind. It's about seeing connection others can't, seizing opportunities others won't, and forging new direction that others haven't.

15. We may live in an age of instant messaging, instant gratification, and Instagram, but there is no way to short-circuit the path to success. It takes hard work, tenacity, and patience. Buckle up and know that it's going to be a tremendous amount of work but embrace it.

Films to watch

Poem cafe

Poem 3

Isn't it amazing Poem 1

Isn't it amazing that the Sun the Golden

Also isn't amazing that everything is fun in life.

Isn't it amazing that there are two types of buns (eatable bun and the tying bun)

Also isn't it amazing that there are so many mums

Isn't it amazing that rainbows are Real!

First poem

Poem 3

You And I 

Are Mouana and Maui 

You and I and swimming and swinging

When I am deep in the sea

You come to me 

Like a walking fairy

When you are lost in thoughts 

I goto you like a running girl.

Let the world say everything is hard

I would bring you a drawing if you were sad.

From the poetry prompt on internet)

Yuvishka Poem 2

Should I have a 

lemony pemmy cement temey wehemey yookitey walkety lookity 

Bookety Black Tea. 

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

Poem 3

I see I see I see 

A flower which has powers,

A bird which says a word

I see I see I see

A tree which is talking to the breeze

A house which is talking to the clouds

I see I see I see

An auto, a bus, a car and a truck

And I see I see I see

A unicorn having a corn

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

Poem of Yooki

I see I see I see 

A flower which has powers,

A bird which says a word

I see I see I see

A tree which is talking to the breeze

A house which is talking to the clouds

I see I see I see

An auto, a bus, a car and a truck

And I see I see I see

A unicorn having a corn

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

Your sis juno

Is being operated and you decided to sit outside for her for the whole 4 hrs in mumbai heat.

I am the proudest mother in the world today.

Hello yooki a poem

Travelling with mummy papa is most fun

Some thoughts Yooki Baby

"Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it." -Amy Poehler

Nearly everything awesome takes longer than you think. Get started and don't worry about the clock.

Yookis 7th

Yookis 7th birthday

Yookis 7th birthday

Yookis 7 th birthday

How silly of you Yooki Bai

To forget that
You are the love of my life ❤️

Practice the art of becoming

Yooki mumma

Yooki

And now i will be visiting your dance

Yooki u visited this set remember ok

More safari pics

16 life lessons yooki

1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for "negative capability." We live in a culture where one of the greatest social disgraces is not having an opinion, so we often form our "opinions" based on superficial impressions or the borrowed ideas of others, without investing the time and thought that cultivating true conviction necessitates. We then go around asserting these donned opinions and clinging to them as anchors to our own reality. It's enormously disorienting to simply say, "I don't know." But it's infinitely more rewarding to understand than to be right — even if that means changing your mind about a topic, an ideology, or, above all, yourself.

2. Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone. As Paul Graham observed, "prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you'd like to like." Those extrinsic motivators are fine and can feel life-affirming in the moment, but they ultimately don't make it thrilling to get up in the morning and gratifying to go to sleep at night — and, in fact, they can often distract and detract from the things that do offer those deeper rewards.

3. Be generous. Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.

4. Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken. Most important, sleep. Besides being the greatest creative aphrodisiac, sleep also affects our every waking moment, dictates our social rhythm, and even mediates our negative moods. Be as religious and disciplined about your sleep as you are about your work. We tend to wear our ability to get by on little sleep as some sort of badge of honor that validates our work ethic. But what it really is is a profound failure of self-respect and of priorities. What could possibly be more important than your health and your sanity, from which all else springs?

5. As Maya Angelou famously advised, when people tell you who they are, believe them. Just as important, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don't believe them. You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal about them and absolutely nothing about you.

6. Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings by our efficiency, our earnings, our ability to perform this or that. The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living — for, as Annie Dillard memorably put it, "how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

7. "Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time." This is borrowed from the wise and wonderful Debbie Millman, for it's hard to better capture something so fundamental yet so impatiently overlooked in our culture of immediacy. The myth of the overnight success is just that — a myth — as well as a reminder that our present definition of success needs serious retuning. The flower doesn't go from bud to blossom in one spritely burst and yet, as a culture, we're disinterested in the tedium of the blossoming. But that's where all the real magic unfolds in the making of one's character and destiny.

8. Seek out what magnifies your spirit. Patti Smith, in discussing William Blake and her creative influences, talks about writers and artists who magnified her spirit — it's a beautiful phrase and a beautiful notion. Who are the people, ideas, and books that magnify your spirit? Find them, hold on to them, and visit them often. Use them not only as a remedy once spiritual malaise has already infected your vitality but as a vaccine administered while you are healthy to protect your radiance.

9. Don't be afraid to be an idealist. There is much to be said for our responsibility as creators and consumers of that constant dynamic interaction we call culture — which side of the fault line between catering and creating are we to stand on? The commercial enterprise is conditioning us to believe that the road to success is paved with catering to existing demands — give the people cat GIFs, the narrative goes, because cat GIFs are what the people want. But E.B. White, one of our last great idealists, was eternally right when he asserted half a century ago that the role of the writer is "to lift people up, not lower them down" — a role each of us is called to with increasing urgency, whatever cog we may be in the machinery of society. Supply creates its own demand. Only by consistently supplying it can we hope to increase the demand for the substantive over the superficial — in our individual lives and in the collective dream called culture.

10. Don't just resist cynicism — fight it actively. Fight it in yourself, for this ungainly beast lies dormant in each of us, and counter it in those you love and engage with, by modeling its opposite. Cynicism often masquerades as nobler faculties and dispositions, but is categorically inferior. Unlike that great Rilkean life-expanding doubt, it is a contracting force. Unlike critical thinking, that pillar of reason and necessary counterpart to hope, it is inherently uncreative, unconstructive, and spiritually corrosive. Life, like the universe itself, tolerates no stasis — in the absence of growth, decay usurps the order. Like all forms of destruction, cynicism is infinitely easier and lazier than construction. There is nothing more difficult yet more gratifying in our society than living with sincerity and acting from a place of largehearted, constructive, rational faith in the human spirit, continually bending toward growth and betterment. This remains the most potent antidote to cynicism. Today, especially, it is an act of courage and resistance.

11. A reflection originally offered by way of a wonderful poem about pi: Question your maps and models of the universe, both inner and outer, and continually test them against the raw input of reality. Our maps are still maps, approximating the landscape of truth from the territories of the knowable — incomplete representational models that always leave more to map, more to fathom, because the selfsame forces that made the universe also made the figuring instrument with which we try to comprehend it.

12. Because Year 12 is the year in which I finished writing Figuring (though it emanates from my entire life), and because the sentiment, which appears in the prelude, is the guiding credo to which the rest of the book is a 576-page footnote, I will leave it as it stands: There are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives.

13. In any bond of depth and significance, forgive, forgive, forgive. And then forgive again. The richest relationships are lifeboats, but they are also submarines that descend to the darkest and most disquieting places, to the unfathomed trenches of the soul where our deepest shames and foibles and vulnerabilities live, where we are less than we would like to be. Forgiveness is the alchemy by which the shame transforms into the honor and privilege of being invited into another's darkness and having them witness your own with the undimmed light of love, of sympathy, of nonjudgmental understanding. Forgiveness is the engine of buoyancy that keeps the submarine rising again and again toward the light, so that it may become a lifeboat once more.

14. Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky. Choose it at first consciously, effortfully, pressing against the weight of a world heavy with reasons for sorrow, restless with need for action. Feel the sorrow, take the action, but keep pressing the weight of joy against it all, until it becomes mindless, automated, like gravity pulling the stream down its course; until it becomes an inner law of nature. If Viktor Frankl can exclaim "yes to life, in spite of everything!" — and what an everything he lived through — then so can any one of us amid the rubble of our plans, so trifling by comparison. Joy is not a function of a life free of friction and frustration, but a function of focus — an inner elevation by the fulcrum of choice. So often, it is a matter of attending to what Hermann Hesse called, as the world was about to come unworlded by its first global war, "the little joys"; so often, those are the slender threads of which we weave the lifeline that saves us.

Delight in the age-salted man on the street corner waiting for the light to change, his age-salted dog beside him, each inclined toward the other with the angular subtlety of absolute devotion.

Delight in the little girl zooming past you on her little bicycle, this fierce emissary of the future, rainbow tassels waving from her handlebars and a hundred beaded braids spilling from her golden helmet.

Delight in the snail taking an afternoon to traverse the abyssal crack in the sidewalk for the sake of pasturing on a single blade of grass.

Delight in the tiny new leaf, so shy and so shamelessly lush, unfurling from the crooked stem of the parched geranium.

I think often of this verse from Jane Hirshfield's splendid poem "The Weighing":

So few grains of happiness
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance.

Yes, except we furnish both the grains and the scales. I alone can weigh the blue of my sky, you of yours.

15. Outgrow yourself.

16. Unself. Nothing is more tedious than self-concern — the antipode of wonder.

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

Jungle safari

We saw leopard family tigress wuth ehrx3 cubs, lots of jackals (and your papa went mental thinking of them like cute dogs), peacocks and learned about wildlife conservation.

Grow as a writer

Clown girl ❤️

15 marriage anniversary

Yooki and papa

Papa chilling