Another birthday

I write this taking a 5-minute break from editing the Lead Story for this issue of our magazine.
The highlights of the day are:

• It is my brother's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Kochumon. May you continue to have a dream run in life.
• I had a glimpse of actress Revathi at the Lifestyle Homecentre showroom while buying window curtains. She looked pretty young for her age (must be at least 40, considering that she was a star performer some 15-20 years back in Malayalam and Tamil films), maybe it was the make-up. V said her cameraman (movie) husband was there too but I didnt see him. She looks nicer than in the movies - she was never great in the looks department but she was great in the histrionics dept. and did some class movies.
• Living in a city believed to be the lifeline of the South Indian - at least Malayalam and Tamil - movie industry, I havent sighted enough reel artistes. Only actresses Hema Malini, Gautami, KPAC Lalita, Sukumari and Meera Jasmine, actor Srinivasan (at a hospital) and Janardhanan, and the great director Adoor Gopalakrishnan. I have seen more TV serial artistes at the railway station when they come to Chennai for shootings than elsewhere in the city.
• My sugar and cholesterol levels are not looking pretty good, going by the reports from last week's tests. The latter especially is cause for concern - I dunno if it is stress-induced or it is my constitution. Guess I need to get up early morning and take a 20-minute walk everyday.