Monday evenings are usually with Amitesh. And then once in a while Anusuya joins in. I do not know why – whenever it is the three of us, there is way too much mirth and laughter that goes around. Add any one more person or subtract any one person – and it is never the same.
Drinking sambuca might have something to do with it 🙂
Somewhat emboldened by the one mile run yesterday and day before, tried to stretch myself and did a two mile run today. Still kept the run slow. Was able to finish out without the calf muscle pain coming back.
I have to isolate the cause for the original injury – whether it was the quick buildup of miles in September or the new shoe I was trying. (For now, I am using an old pair of shoes).
As I mentioned last night, I learnt about “ambigram”s while reading a book by Alex Bellos. For our purpose, we can say an ambigram is a calligraphic writing such that when you hold the paper upside down, you get the same writing!
That is quite an achievement! I looked up the internet and found some free ambigram generators. I am trying to learn how to write an ambigram of my own name.
It does get your mind to think in a different way when you are practicing every stroke. Basically, you have to think how that stroke will look when you hold it upside down and is it going to build up the other letter you need to build up. (The letter that is as far from the end as is the one you are writing from the beginning). So while writing my first “R”, I have to do it in a way that if I turn it upside down, it should look like the last letter “y” and I have to draw the exact opposite of how I wrote “R” in the end to write “y”.
You will see that after half an hour of trying, my output is still amateurish. You can even spot the mistake I made in the last letter. I also realized that I need to get a thicker nib from the calligraphic pen set than I did this morning.
