Eka-Pada Bakasana peanut haircut

I practiced today, in the threshold of Third Series, researching Eka-Pada Bakasana. Arjuna says, "lower right knee, place it on the axle." What is the axle? The armpit?

Yesterday I met with my Mandarin teacher and we practiced a lot of terms used in business. I later negotiated in Chinese for a good price on a new custom made winter coat at a tailor shop. Where I lost my Chinese a bit was ordering food. I saw an advert for hot peanut milk tea. I went to the counter and could only remember huashang, the word for peanut. The employee finished my sentence with bing?, which is ice cream. I agreed, although I felt it was not hot tea and decided to accept whatever. There is an emotional component to communicating in another language and my emotions where flabergasted by the confusion of noise around me. It was strange to eat ice cream on a very cold day. It was delicious, though. Later, I went back to the advert and read the chinese characters for peanut milk tea and felt next time I should be able to say that in Chinese without hesitation.

Yesterday I had a haircut done by a hairless hairdresser. Who coined that phrase? Skippetty, in her experience in the Indian consulate in Amsterdam, while getting a visa to study yoga in Mysore, India. The visa administrator asked another applicant, "You're a hairdresser? But you have no hair!" I only get haircuts every six months, since they cut too short here. So as usual, I studied my list of phrases and reviewed them with my language coach before going to the hair styling salon. There, I began by saying, "I recognize you. Don't cut it too short." I then proceeded to explain I wanted it cut with scissors, and I did not want it cut too short, did he understand? He nodded. I then showed him pictures of me in my ideal haircut, in my iTouch. I said, in Chinese, "I want my hair in this style. Do not cut it too short." The result? A short haircut that if I had not otherwise given instructions, but be a head with hardly any hair on it. haha.