I mean com’on

Throwback to beautiful yooki

We have been masterchefing with yooki

Caramelized peach in olive oil, sugar, a pinch of pink salt and lemon - with mint leaves to cool it down.


Turkish egg improv
-Boil egg
-In yoghurt add minced garlic, red chilli powder, salt, coriander and whisk
-In a pan take some good amount of butter, add chilli flakes- wait for it just get smoky (the one in pic got too Smokey)

Assemble :
Yoghurt base
Boiled eggs on top
And butter drizzle
Every bite should have all 3

Some wisdom

On being good:

"Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you."


On choosing enthusiasm:
A simple rule for life that rarely fails:

Optimize for enthusiasm. Make as many choices as you can that leave you feeling energetic and interested. Pay attention to when you have the urge to pursue or participate in something and do more of it."

"There is an enormous difference between working hard on something that is a grind and working hard on something that comes easily to you.

Exceptional results almost exclusively happen when you work hard on an area where you have some natural aptitude. Play to your strengths."

Also yooki and i went for a date and ate a croissant... Yooki has been packing for HK

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

Found the high res

Lost the original photo but Instagram to rescue

Genz Alice

Yooki at brew matcha launch

Can we talk about

How crazy u have become about matcha after attending the breee matcha launch

What’s on the back of your mind it’s important

Papa and nana's birthday 2025

Preggo with prithvi

Papa is off to Hk

And starting a new job 🥰

Last day of grade 3

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

I have been seeing videos of Juno this morning - esp from her first month. So full of life so full of wonder and then came across a write up on the author of above book.

I know it's hard. The world is on fire. Metaphorically, and figuratively. However, it has always been on fire. There has never been a single author that had the immense luxury of writing at a time of absolute peace.

And so, choosing this work, you are entering a lineage of despair. And it's up to you to turn the sentence into a medium from which we can understand each other and make something new out of this.

It's so much easier to market rage than care. Gentleness and openness are so squishy and squirmy! It reminds me of the cloying Pass It On ad campaign, whose aim is to "promote good values." This sort of shit makes me want to punch "good values" in the face, and with good reason. Everyone knows these ads are vacuous, ineffective shit. They only endure because billionaires have wild ideas about absolution. By contrast, you can tap into someone's insecurities with astonishing ease.  In his interview with the New York Times Magazine, Vuong points to the American obsession with dynamic stories of change, of heroes and anti-heroes, of happy endings and character evolution. But "American life is often very static," he says. "You drive the same car, people live in the same apartment, but it doesn't mean their lives are worthless." Most of our lives are that way, too. Apart from a few seismic events, we live our lives and live our lives and live our lives and keep living them, usually without the promise of glory or recognition. "I've been interested in this idea of kindness without hope"

Beach diaries

Happy First Birthday Prithivi

You Still Fit in My Hands

You still fit in my hands,
Like a seashell from the shore.
I can hold you,
Speak to you,
Hear all your adventures
When I put my ear to you.

You tell me all the gibberish that
I understand and don't understand at the same time.
Inside this big world is now a beautiful tiny world—
That is only ours.
Yours and mine.


I feel so happy that I got a baby boy doll.
Little girls all over the world don't know
How beautiful it is to have you.
They have been told that only little baby girls can be dolls—
You can make their hair and dress them up,
But how nice it would be if they could see that we can have them in
Baby Boy edition too.
If we can press his hands, his cheeks,
Hold and caress his chubby feet...
The mischief and the shyness are the same,
The instinct to hug me when you hear a loud voice—
That's the same.
The vulnerability and beauty are the same,
And I hope the boys grow up to be the same.
How nice it would be if our boys and girls knew
That as babies they were exactly the same—
So, so lovable, so fragile and adventurous, so full of hope and promise.


You are a few days away from being 1,
And your mama can still hug you tight and hold you close.
And you fit anywhere I try to fit you—
My lap, my palms, my chest, my pockets.

And as you turn one,
You laugh and show me—
"Mama, guess what? I can grow too."
And gradually you will grow bigger and bigger,
Like you have drunk the magic potion
From Alice in Wonderland—
'Cause this world is a wonderland for you too.

And I will let you grow,
But I will hold you tight too.
And even if you become a giant,
And I become very small, like an ant,
I will say, "Hey, guess what?
You still fit in my hand. You still fit in my lap."
Because I will have all of mine to always offer you.


One day, you will spread
All over the world.
You will go to many forests and fantasy lands,
You will unlock the world's mysteries,
And become so big that I might just become a speck.
Maybe you will end up in a galaxy many, many light years away.

There is a planet there—T12381...
Maybe you will visit that planet,
Either as a traveller, or as a warrior,
Or best still, as a writer.
Maybe you will be lost there for a few days.

Remember, even there,
You will find all of me—
Holding you, embracing you,
Protecting you and whispering,
"You still fit in my hands.
You still fit in my heart
You still fit in my forever!"

Yooki 💕

Who is becoming 1. Yr old

Commitment

Commitment is a portal inwards. Through commitment, we meet ourselves more deeply. The thing we are committing to—whether a place to live, a romantic relationship, a job, a big decision, or anything else that requires us to forego a set of intangible options for a singular tangible one—is nothing more than a canvas for us to create a deeper commitment to ourselves through.

the novelty of commitment

I've noticed that most people who struggle with commitment seem to think that it represents the death of novelty, optionality, and expansiveness. That when you commit, you stop trying new things—you cease to explore. But the secret about commitment is: it offers everything that optionality promises, but with more depth and dimension. When we commit to something, we allow ourselves to surrender and feel safe within our commitment. Through commitment, we expand deeper into our feelings, because we are given a container to relax into, to fill entirely, that lets us explore ourselves with more vigour and curiosity.

Commitment simply refines the spectrum of novelty we experience. When we refuse to commit to anything, our life ends up being a giant swirl of chaos, options, and loose ends. So much so that we hardly enjoy these new experiences, because we're not fully present for them. We're always preoccupied with the next one, with how we are going to land on our feet when we thrust ourselves from this moment into a new pocket of stimulation. The lack of stability bred through the constant pursuit of optionality ends up being a distraction from the 'benefits' we looked to novelty for in the first place. It's easy to think that through novelty, we get to know ourselves deeper. Which is true—to a point. There are only so many layers within ourselves that we can access by existing in a constantly changing, never stable internal world. Through novelty, we gain breadth. We notice how we react in different situations, what we are like when experiencing new people, places, things. But through commitment, we gain depth. We notice what happens when we need to sit with something, even when it's making us uncomfortable. We notice how we act when we want to escape ourselves, but remain tethered to our commitment. Or in other words, through commitment, we deepen inwards. This is the entire aim of commitment: to sink into something, to let yourself fully surrender. When we refuse to do this, we end up contracting our ability to be at ease within ourselves. By avoiding commitment, we end up in a state of self-avoidance.

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

The kids are alright

One way to stand out is to look for pockets of low competition. 

Wake up early—less traffic, fewer people. 

Go deeper or narrower in your field—less noise, more space.

People are drawn to where it is crowded. Look for the quiet spaces inside your areas of interest. Excellence often hides at the edges."

A week before prithvis first birthday

Junki yooki

Happy 9th birthday Yooki

 Your birthday began with nana blowing balloons and decorating the house.
This is the first party where we ordered sushis for everyone. You watched Kiki's Delivery Service and tehn we came up for cake cutting and papa ordered enough chinese for 100 people for 15 girls party so we have been eating chinese everyday.

“Some of the world’s best love stories are between mothers and their daughters.”

Happy 9 my sweetest child. You are such a joyful, kind, calm, thoughtful, sensitive, emotional child with dense inner world. I love how you have this year pushed yourself in sports (basketball) and outdone so many milestones. You are the best big sister any brother could ask for, best little sister and doggie could ask (u stil call yourself middle child), you are indeed a best friend any girl could ask. But for me you are the best daughter any mother could ask. You are all my prayers answered in the most delicate and beautiful way, all the magic of this world contained in one tiny heart. 

You have shown so much strength this year and held me and your father strong after losing our sister juno. You  made room for your brother in our inner world without a shade of jealousy- so many times just asking me to hold your hand from far away when I would sleep with the baby. 

I worry so much you are too giving for this world and yet I see you so content and happy with your act of giving. No wonder God also gives you in abundance. 

 Your sense of rightness and sincerity makes me very proud. I love your sense of empathy for all people including animals. You always watches everyone’s back even when they are not there- won’t even let me crack harmless  jokes saying “mumma it’s not the right thing to do”. You are always really really before time (and I thought I was the before time person).

I love your patience, love how you can spend hours on a problem, either maths, or playing flute, or drawing, or clay things or any craft.. even now you have been making clay and painting it for past 3 hours. Quietest 9th birthday girl. 

People like you make the best teammates when they grow up and become the strong spine of the team. And people like you are capable of making this world a better place in the best possible way. Happy Birthday. 

A day before turning 9

Doing maths

Quotes - Since its birthday month

The secret to winning is learning how to lose. That is, learning to bounce back from failure and disappointment—undeterred—and continuing to steadily march toward your potential. Your response to failure determines your capacity for success.

Writer and scholar C.S. Lewis reminds us that what looks best is when we stop worrying about looking good and start focusing on doing our best:

"The sword glitters not because the swordsman set out to make it glitter but because he is fighting for his life and therefore moving it very quickly."

"The secret to success is retaining your child-like qualities."

Discipline is destiny:
In the ancient world, virtue was comprised of four key components: Courage, Temperance, Justice, and Wisdom.  Books by Ryan Holiday.

The book provides a deep understanding that self-discipline is not something that just happens to us; it is something we cultivate. And being disciplined is something we prove by the life we lead. Ryan explains how self-discipline must be observed physically, embodied mentally, and rendered magisterially when our moment comes. When we say that self-discipline saves us, part of what it saves us from is ourselves. It is through discipline that not only are all things possible, but also that all things are enhanced.

Here are two important lessons from the book:

1) Attack the Dawn:
In Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, we hear the most powerful man in the world trying to convince himself to get out of bed at dawn when the lower part of himself wants desperately to stay. "Is this what I was created for?" he asks of his reluctance. "To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?"

Yes, it is nicer under there. But is that what we were born for? To feel nice? That's how you're going to spend the gift of life, the gift of this present moment that you will never have again? "Don't you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can?" he said to himself but also to us. "And you're not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren't you running to do what your nature demands?"

Yet here we are, thousands of years later, still hitting the snooze button on our alarms. Here we are, wasting the most productive hours of the day, choosing to reject these moments before the interruptions, before the distractions, before the rest of the gets up and going too. Passing on the opportunity to gather our flowering potential while it's freshest, still shining with morning dew. Be up and doing. While you're fresh. While you can. Grab that hour before daylight. Grab that hour before traffic. Grab it while no one is looking, while everyone else is still sleep.

When you have trouble waking up, when you find it hard, remind yourself of who you come from, remind yourself of the tradition, remind yourself of what is at stake. Think of how lucky you are. Be glad to be awake (because it's better than the alternative, which we'll all greet one day). Feel the joy of being able to do what you love. Cherish the time. But most of all, use it.

2) Tolerant with Others, Strict with Yourself:
The only person you get to truly hard on is you. It will take every ounce of your self-control to enforce that – not because it's hard to be hard on yourself, but because it's so hard to let people get away with things you'd never allow in yourself. To let them do things you know are bad for them, to let them slack off when you see so much more in them.

But you have to. Because their life is not in your control. Because you'll burn yourself out if you can't get to a place where you live and let live. Credit them for trying. Credit them for context. Forgive. Forget. Help them get better, if they're open to the help. Not everyone has trained like you have. Not everyone has the knowledge you have. Not everyone has the willpower or the commitment you have. Not everyone signed up for this kind of life either! Which is why you need to be tolerant, even generous with people. Anything else is unfair. It's also counterproductive.

We're on our own journey and, yes, it is a strict and difficult one. But we understand that others are on their own path, doing the best they can, making the most of what they have been given. It's not our place to judge. It is our place to cheer them on and accept them.

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