After a long time...

Way back in 2009 life was different all together...reading was my passion..so was cooking...though I still enjoy both a lot but with a family "upgrade" and the new addition - my sweet heart who came in March this year it all has taken a back seat. I read this somewhere that it's not that people don't have time. It's just that they don't manage it properly. With my li'l one turning 7 months old very soon I plan to manage my time properly and take some time out again for the things I so fondly enjoyed.

Cooking, A Passion

I am very fond of cooking. It seems to me a great stress buster, a very relaxing exercise. I cook mostly on weekends. Even on a weekday after returning from office I love to do that if my mother spares me from the pity she has on me as I have spent a "whole" day in office. I feel that its a great art in itself same spices and ingredients mixed in different ways can produce drastically different tastes. But what however remains important to me is to cook with patience and love (for food actually) and not because you have to perform some duty. I am making malai kofta for dinner tonight. I would be sharing some of my tried and tested recipes as well so keep reading.

New Beginnings

In India we have a habit of starting new things in life by remembering God. A new car is taken to a temple first, people get havan performed in their new house, which is called grah pravesh, before starting living in it, first marriage card is offered to Lord Ganesha and the list goes on. My relationship with God is quiet different. Every time I make a new beginning I remember Lord Ganesha and pray to him to be there with me and for me. But I feel myself to be little more blessed than others because often with everything new I start comes a whole bunch of obstacles with which God seems to prepare me for the challenges ahead. I read about something called "Beginners Luck" in The Alchemist. It said every time we do something new in life we feel lucky and it seems to us we are in total control of everything. But At times I feel totally opposite I feel their is a supernatural power who seems to warn me that my decision has not been right or I am about to make a mistake. Also when confronted with a lot of problems but finally achieving my goal I actually feel that I was wrong to have made that choice. This I feel are signs from God and this is how my relationship with him is like.

Motivation

It is always good to make yourself heard, to make your words fall upon the non deaf ears, to make them penetrate the minds of like minded beings and be responded to or oops argued with. Life seems to be hell bent to teach each one of us lessons some of which we have no intentions to learn as i fondly say. The recent ones for me has been to understand  the importance of keeping things to myself, let not my words fall on deaf ears and be echoed out in inappropriate circumstances later. This is first of my initiatives to express myself in a different way with a hope of making my thoughts escape the limited boundaries of my mind into the unlimited and unlisted universe.

More would soon follow...