soccer...

Everyone around me talk about soccer only these days. Whenever two people meet, they talk only about soccer, soccer and soccer only.
It seems like they breathe soccer. I am not able to develop an interest in these things too.

I used to watch cricket and tennis when I was a child. I remember I started watching soccer as a small child. When I could only understand a goal as a winning sign. Then later when I started to read, I could enjoy tennis and cricket as well. During the course of time, I wanted and enjoyed playing Chess for some time. Don't know when I lost the interest in all these. Nowadays I don't watch any sports or games. I want to play tennis. But I don't know why I am not taking the initiative to start that too, nevertheless there is a beautiful tennis court in our new building.

what are my favourite things?

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,
brown paper packages tied up with strings,
these are a few of my favourite things.

Yes. These are definitely, except whiskers on kittens. I don't like kittens much,but I like puppies.


Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes,
snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,
silver white winters that melt into springs,
these are a few of my favourite things.

I miss snowy winter. It is not snowing here. :(

When the dog bites, when the bee stings,
when I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favourite things,
and then I don't feel so bad.

hmmm...no I don't do that. I don't remember my favourite things when I am sad and that's not making me happy.
This is the sign that I am getting old....

I wanted to draw and paint. But I don't do that. I do listening to music at least. But that's not enough in this horrible winter. Watching TV would definitely be boring, if you are going to do only that. Luckily I am not doing that either. I like to write blogs. But these days I don't have the patience to write in Malayalam. I am a bit homesick. I miss my good friends too.

When you are away from your roots, when you are away from your loved ones, you should be really bold enough to survive the boredom I think. Today when I write these things I am really sad about a week-end I wasted. From Monday onwards, I long for a weekend. But when it becomes Friday, I am lazy and sit idle doing nothing. And at the end of Sunday, I realise how smartly I have wasted two days and feel sad. This is really bad. I have to do something to prevent this. I am planning to do things , but which are simply not happening for some reason. I think my plans are very abstract. You have to go into further details. Then only it will happen.

Anyway, again a new week. Have a good week to everyone. :)

freezing....

I feel like marooned this winter. It's not snowing..but it's either raining cats n dogs or freezing cold.
I am unable to do anything even though I plan to do many things. I increase the thermostat to maximum and it's severely drying out my skin. Cold or dry, both ways feeling terrible.

To make matters worse, I found a cavity in one of my molars which is really disturbing me or rather I really disturb it..
I floss three times daily these days...whenever I eat something, I feel like something has gotten into the cavity as well.

I am scared to go to a dentist also..I wish I were a dentist so that I can fill the cavity myself..I would have even dared to do the procedure myself if I found out some simple demo in youtube..

One good thing I have done to make me feel better is watching Prince of Persia...it has taken me a few years back in my study room...one of the first computer games I used to play when I was a child.. I liked the movie...It kept me thinking about the magical sands of time the whole night..If I get an opportunity to use that once, do I want to undo something from my life? I can find out many things from the world history...but from my life, I don't know..
But I can't find anything which would have been better in some other way...so one very good thing I realized is "No regrets about my life" .. At last a good thing to be happy about :)

flu? !!! no no

Feeling so so tired today. I can't even concentrate on my work. Flu is on air. At least one person in my office is taking leave every single day.
I am trying to change something in the framework. Tweaking framework is always a head ache.

I don't like writing blogs from office. But today to distract my mind, have to do something different. It's new job..Just completing two months
only. Taking leaves may not be appropriate in the initial days. But my hands are paining. I have got a splitting headache and I feel bit cold too. Am I getting flue?

As shmabu prays, God, pls I don't want flu now. A long weekend is coming. Met service says saturday is gonna be a sunny day. I don't want to catch flu now.

Follow your dream...

They say "live simple..live your dream!!!"

You have to do the things which you love to do. You have to do those things which you think of when you wake up in the morning itself.
What I am passionate about..I really don't have an answer for this. The things I am passionate about varry from time to time I think.
Do I have a real dream for which I live for..I don't know..

There was a time I remember I didn't have any dreams. Once my friend asked me what is your biggest dream. I answered " I don't have a dream"
to a person who dropped out studies to follow his dream to be an entrepreneur. I never had the courage to dream like that.
I never believed in luck, but only in hard work. I believed that hard work will be paid off and hence I followed my duties conscientiously. Nobody taught me the other way around. Now in the bigger world I see things other way. I have always been taught that "Knowledge is the important thing in your life". But now I see, hear, and read that dreams are the important things in your life. What you set is what is you get. Dream what you want. Follow your dream.

Do you forget things?

There was a time I used to wonder how can somebody forget something.
I really didn't know how this can happen. I was always thinking that it's an excuse only and it is an impossible phenomenon. I am talking about the good old childhood days.

Now I know this is a truth and we sometimes forget some things. When you are busy in life, you forget some things. And the tendency to become absent-minded is also getting increased.

Fascinating Cook Books!

I don't remember when I started reading cook books. I guess it aroused from my voracious reading of cooking blogs. Nowadays, whenever I go to library, I take some book from the cooking section.
At present I am reading "Lord Krishna's Cuisine". It's about Indian Veg cooking. The book was stacked up in the basement reserve of the library and I had to wait a couple of days to get it. What lured me was the captivating name of the book. Having started reading it, I felt it was just a normal cook book. I was more interested in knowing what Lord Krishna used to eat.

I was more fascinated by two other cook books I recently read. "Everyday Indian" by Bal Arneson and "Monsoon Diary: A Memoir With Recipes" by Shoba Narayan. Monsoon Diary is more of a biography, beautifully told through the tales of Indian recipes. I enjoyed the book very much. The book portrays the author's life journey. It started from her infancy, proceeded through her childhood ,studies and married life. At the end of each chapter, there is a mouth watering recipe. I liked the way, it was presented.

"Everyday Indian" by Bal Arneson gives you 100 fast and healthy recipes. Apart from my husband, this is the book that created a passion for cooking in me. After reading this book, I started to use grape seed oil for cooking. Grape seed oil is rich in omega 6, contains vitamin C & E and most importantly it is not filling my apartment with the strong burning odour of oil. More than everything, the book is truly motivating. It talks about the importance of eating a healthy diet and tries to create a passion of cooking in the readers.

2012

Is it going to end? I am not sure.

Anyway I liked the movie, though I went with mixed feelings. I feel it's a realistic movie, even though it received a lot of criticism. Of course, I don't have the back up of knowledge to talk about the catastrophe theoretically. I don't know anything about Mayan Calender and prophecies as well.But I believe, the movie portrays something which can happen.

Some of my friends laughed at me when I said I liked the movie. They say, it's a movie for children. My nephew, 7 year old Shambhu believes this is going to happen on 2012. He is making a list of ToDos and Not ToDos. He has prepared a huge list of psp games to be played and movies to be watched. In the list of Not ToDos, he is having a big consolation of not getting married also. I don't know what made him think marriage as a big burden. I remember my niece also said(9 year old) once that she will never get married. When I asked why, she said she doesn't want to have children. I did not try to ask again why. Anyway Shambhu's lists made the family laughed a lot. :)

I read some where about some teenagers writing to NASA Director saying that they are going to commit suicide before the year 2012, since they can't see the end. This trend is not good, if the movie results in such thoughts also.


In short, I enjoyed the movie.But I don't want to believe that it's going to happen.:)