Hooked to the Tube!

....and why not(Shameless and Jobless, My husband calls me)....am watching my all time fav sitcom 'Friends'as I am typing this. Hooked on is the right word to use as I am hooked on to the show only for a while until something better comes along.

So Im kinda done with my House Obsession for now...moving on....Im waiting to watch the new much talked about comedy series Outsourced on NBC , Thursdays at 9:30 Pacific. This serial features a call center in India. I think im going to love it...watching so many Indians in an American sitcom....the trailers look very promising, hoping the real deal is as good.

The other one is Wipe Out on ABC on Tuesdays at 8:00...infact that starts in another 10 minutes, so I better get done with this blog soon. Its a Game show,Apparently this is the third season, don't know how I missed the first two. Anyways it involves Contestants participating in various hurdles to win a prize money...Don't know if you remember , but it looks like a remake of the popular Japanese game show...don't remember the name, but I was a huge fan of that show.

One of my favorite as a kid was the crystal maze...I loved the four zones and the theme of the game show...I always pictured myself playing all those games...Would love to see it again after all these years....until then, three cheers to the Idiot box and the couch potato in me!

Nandi Yoga

I started my Yoga Practice with them in my Second month and my decision to do so could not have come at a better time.

When going through a list of teachers and institutes for Prenatal Yoga classes, I had one thing on my mind , the place/teacher/institute should not be very commercial and classroom like.....and though there are many places and people that teach Yoga much closer to home, I did my research and chose Nandi in San Mateo. Yoga today is more like a Fashion statement, a couple of my friends think it is 'cool' and done in order to lose weight and stay slim and because of this thought process, Yoga is highly commercialized today. I never looked at Yoga as a slimming mechanism....Yes, it can help you keep fit, as you age, it can help you maintain your flexibility, but more than anything the peace and relaxation helps you focus and stay calm.

When my doctor asked me to describe my lifestyle ,what I said shocked me...." well I love Junk Food, a couch potato who doesn't even step out for a 20-30 minute walk in the day"...the Doc was sure not happy, given my parents physical condition, she wanted me to take my life and health a little seriously and I totally agree with her. So earlier on in my pregnancy I decided to join a Yoga Class, that was the only way I was going to get some form of exercise.

What I like about Nandi is their extremely dedicated and passionate group of teachers and their Yoga-As a way of Life Approach than the routine mechanical exercise Approach. One of my earlier favorites was Talei, who held prenatal classes on Wednesday evenings. She lights four candles on all the four corners, some light music, dims the light and then as she starts her practice...she says 'aaah' loudly every now and then as a way of releasing any built up tension.She made us do the same thing for every exhalation. It felt really good. Talei is however not in town and I might not see her during my term.

My current favorite is Nancy, who amazingly has a blissful look on her face all the time. She makes sure to ask you how you are feeling every time she bumps into you. She starts her practice by reading a verse out of a book...something that she read the other day, had a very strong impact on me...I forgot to ask her about the book and who wrote it...but it goes something like this " when it comes to pain and pleasure, pain teaches you a lot in life which will help you going forward and hence it is your friend"...She was also the other day telling us how she was walking on the sidewalk and tripped, she could have hurt her foot real bad if not for her flexibility which she got from her dedicated yoga practice.

Most of these teachers also believe in old school birthing processes , where birthing is treated as the most natural instinct known to man kind which involves very little medical intervention. Well each delivery is unique and I'm hoping that I can experience it too with as little medical intervention. I might continue my yoga practice with them even after the delivery if I can. Well for now I hope i can keep going until my delivery.

In the beginning I had a hard time with some postures, but today I seem to do them a little less effortlessly and I feel like I have started focusing on my breath which helps me ignore the pain in some poses. The Key is to breath in and out loud and let the movement flow with every breath, which I believe I can do better today. At the end of the class, after all that stretching it feels good to shut my eyes, my senses and go into deep trance' shavasan', when I open my eyes and come back to the mat, I feel very refreshed.

Thank You Nandi!

New Hope!... New Beginning!

Like everything else I think my blog needed a new makeover to get me started again. My hubby is like "whatever happened, wheres the blogger? "....Its just that sometimes theres an overflow of thoughts , good and bad and I forget that now I have a place to pen them down. Would I share my deepest of feelings and thoughts on this blog, I don't know, but then I never did have a Diary. My teachers tried hard to get me into the habit of keeping one, but I refused...My life and my feelings have always been like an open book and those closest to me can exactly read what is in it and those who do not like what they read, I truly don't care...and so I decided to blog instead of keep a Diary.

One of the things that I haven't been very open about on the social networking sites is that I am Pregnant, All of 7 months now. I have spoken a lot about it with my close pals but have not written about it yet.

This year started off with the Good news, around Jan 5th or 6th is when I found out I was pregnant , I was about 4 n half weeks then, and there was a life growing within me...may be it is my dad I thought, actually everyone said that. The very first time I saw this life was when I was 6 and half weeks pregnant and later at 8 and half weeks, it was a baby human. When the doctor showed me the heart beat, I kept staring at it wondering at the way of life, the most Crucial Organ in a Human Body... the Heart..With it starts life and with it ends Life....I wondered, one day My dad too came to this world the same way with a beating heart and on October 7th, the same heart stopped beating and took him away from all of us. I looked at the small Baby and thought where one life ends the other begins...then again may be it is the same person, My dad coming back to me...All Over!!!...and I smiled.

My pregnancy so far (touch wood) has been really good. There really hasn't been too much to complain about, Thanks to God. I have eaten whatever I felt like eating , I have done whatever I wanted to do, so I must say I have had a very good time, thanks to a supportive partner.

On my 20th week Ultrasound my Husband and I found out that we are going to have a Baby Girl!!!..We went to the Ultrasound telling ourselves, Boy or Girl, it dint matter, we just want to make sure the Baby is healthy and growing right. My husband already seems very possessive about his daughter...ha ha..."Ask me" I tell him narrating all my stories with Dad.

Well now after finding out the Sex, we have to think of a name. Why?....knowing Sandesh and me, We will sit on it till the end , and later when the Baby is out, we will fight, laugh, fight and land up keeping a name that both of us don't like....that is why , we need to at least think of a few names ahead of time. I, the one with a lot of time at hand, have a small list of names that I like, Sandesh hasn't quite approved of any and so I'm waiting....some of the names that I have liked

Naisha- New Hope, Special

Ela- Earth

Aarna- Goddess Lakshmi

Lakhi- Goddess Laksmi

Aaliya- Highest Social Standing

Well these are just some of the names that I have liked. Now waiting for Sandesh to give me his list.

My due date is on September 12th and both of us and our families are waiting to Welcome this New Member to our Small Family..Sandesh, me, the twin Uncles,the Great Gran mom the Granmas and the Gran Pas in Heaven:)