Flossy Ideas, Meetups and Views
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How do you spend your time during the lockout days at home?
For me, I’m really, really busy from dawn to evening – working on things which I think matter, de-clutter, reading, updating the Pages, helping in the kitchen, spending time in the garden, practicing bread making, also candle making, and more…
This year a lady suggested me about Marie Kondo, a de-clutter evangelist. Based on her suggestion, I watched couple of her videos on YouTube. After watching few, I got into a de-clutter spree, only to stall half-way through. My typical self got over and I went back to ignoring the pile of things collecting in the corners of the house.
Now the question is, how to build consistency of act over everything?
How to deliberately do tiny acts of de-clutter?
This is how my present lies. I hope to slowly discard and bring order to my house and garden. I’ll share pics as soon as the project shows a visible order.
See you in a Orderly way!
P.S – Today, I kept the unused UPS for discarding. Small step indeed, a sure step towards a cleaner home. Also, I used a torch light to see the expiry date of Murivenna Kottakkal ( Ayurvedic Oil for Aches). The expiry date was showing 2018. Riddance to it.
I love green spaces. Thankfully, in the concrete city of Bangalore, I’ve a little green yard that’s on the side of the house. It’s a peaceful corner where there’s a mango tree, few aloe plants and ferns. Often, I take terrarium and kokedama class in this space.
This space has been the party zone on many occasions. Mostly we had barbecue grill and booze in this space.
Every One Needs a Space
What’s your nooky corner where you love to hang around? Is it the balcony space or a room with a view or are you the kind who finds everything green around you?
Kunnukuzhy ( R C Junction ) , is a popular junction in the heart of Trivandrum city. This is where I’ve spent the best part -the most creative and the wasted part of my life.
My great grandfathers and their offsprings were one of the earlier inhabitants of this locality. The earlier generation has its roots in these localities and many of our ancestral properties spread around this pin code #695037. At one time, probably in the 60’s or 70’s, my relatives had many houses here, but as years went by, due to necessity they sold it. with it, we lost very beautiful houses and the address.
Old name for Kunnukuzhy
Kunnukuzhy was earlier called as “Pakouttuvilla” (not spelled right). I’m not sure how and why it was called as “Pakouttuvilla”. As for the name Kunnukuzhy, I think it was coined due to its peculiar terrain (ups and down).
Old life in Kunnukuzhi
Treading back to the old life, Kunnukuzhi holds many tales. I remember old folks say about a place near the current AKG center used to be the waste dump yard for scavengers. I also head that many Anglo Indian Community lived in Kunnukuzhi locality and old timers tell that in the evenings, passers could hear the English songs from their Gramophones.
Well, time has moved forward, many Anglo Indians moved to western shores, the scavengers too were made redundant with changes in sanitation.
There is another junction with a name Gas house junction. I think that building is long gone and how it has the Hassan Marikar Hall.
Facilities, landmarks in and around Kunnkuzhy junction, as I see it
This post is dull without pics of these places. Gimme more time for pics to be uploaded. Next time I visit Trivandrum, I’ll capture the essence of Kunnukuzhy. Let me hope that my pics will bring back the myriad life around different hot spots in Kunnukuzhy where I had many a fleeting moments.
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