Gyan....Its all Relative:-)

Well, are you ready to brace yourself with some Gyan! If so, go on and read:-) The Theory of Relativity dawned on us this weekend!

Our calls to my bro in India are usually long and hilariously gyan filled;-) I totally look forward to them, to find what we r going to discuss on each time we talk! One of us end up discussing some new found(by us genius ofcourse) mgmt theory or philosophy! As we were talking this weekend about why everyone is in a race and what is everyone after all the time.....bang came out this truth that everything is relative in this world! Oh, what a realisation....wish we could be aware of this all the time...alas, it does not happen so!

Someone we were talking to the other day too told us the very same thing! Every person has some problem to tackle which in his/her perview is huge. We end up thinking that the rest of the world (the circles we know) is happy and has everything they need and we are the deprived souls....whilst, the rest of the world thinks the same about us....ha ha ha...the birth of the gyan....."everything is relative". What you think you may not have which someone else is previledged to have might be applicable to the other person too!

About an hour back, me & bala set out for an after dinner stroll wondering if there would be anyone at all we would come across at this hour. We observed that so many people were out taking a walk and enjoying the cool breeze. To this I said, " do not close your eyes and think the world is dark...open and see for real" ....LOL....too much gyan for a simple observation;-) Well, have a gyan filled week ahead....!

to hell with....

this is so not done....truly upset and makes me wonder and question my faith every time...why does life have to be so brutal only to those who are really lovely and nice...after all they are only asking for more love and kindness in their lives...not money or fame...why do things just not go right for those right people.....

Foooodddd!

Wow...Fooodddd! It never fails to tempt anyone in the world i guess..:-) One evening a couple of weeks back, i just happened to upload a chat i prepared on FB and the kind of response I had to that post was simply surprising. In a couple of days, i uploaded something else that i tried in my kitchen and that too had a similar response and for the next pic too...this made me think, why not i take my food blog more serious.

I was telling Bala, Food never fails to kindle interest....so many responses for a simple dish? What i started on his encouragement as a simple blog of the different dishes i try in my kitchen, is now taking a different shape! I have had more hits to my page in the last two weeks, than I have had in the last 8 months...All credit goes to FB! Good job there!

Now, am looking at it more sincerely and am going to be using FB to promote my page! I know, it sounds a little too much and also know that the initial responses will die down eventually. However, am sure if i continue to post, more people will take me seriously....once i have more interesting recipes in all sections, i will go ahead and create a page in FB! Sounds interesting Foodie:-)!

Sore Hands

Wonder how tailors across the world work round the year with needle and thread...! I do have a fancy for sewing and love to do needle work. Have been working on a cross stitch kit sent by my dear friend since the last two days and i should say typing all day is better to sewing all day....makes ur fingers go really sore...:-(

FAD

Facebook Addiction....I realised that off late I am glued to FB way too much! Its like this...I log into FB at the very first opportunity in the morning...and then check all msgs and notifications...logically i need to logout once this is done, jus like i logout of yahoo or gmail...but NOOO...i don't!

I remain logged in to FB for no reason....well, now i hv some reason...i play wordscrapper and chesspro (don't mistake me for a PRO....am not even close to being a beginner ;-)) but this good old friend insisted that I try a hand....poor soul, must be thinking why in the world she pepped me into the game...:-)

Whenever i read articles on FB addiction, I used to wonder how can someone be so glued but i realise now that u get drawn into it unnoticed...! It had literally made me a couch potato...i stay put in the same corner of the couch with the laptop besides me and not knowing what am looking for in that blue page...&*! I hardly stepped out of home , can understand during winter, but not during mid-summer....staying indoors jus to keep gazing at a blank screen?! So much so, that I had even been postponing vacuuming the carpet. Its not like I live in a sprawling mansion which will take days on end to be cleaned and dusted. Hardly any carpet area...just 10 steps in any direction...u have covered the length and breadth of the house!

So now, am making a conscious effort to limit the FB time! Experimenting with my culinary skills, re-looking at my arts & crafts and ofcourse writing these blogs. Ok, now, what next...log out of blogger annnnnndddddd jus a quick little check of FB...?! :-) ha ha ha

Thayir sadham and vadu mangai!

ooooohhhhhh...even as i type, it is soooooooo mouth watering...just about nothing can beat this combo....last night after our yummy chat dinner of pani puri and dahi puri...(ofcourse made by me except for the store bought puri's) .....there was this overwhelming desire to have some curd rice to quench the heat of the chat.....wow...nothing can be more gratifying i guess.....the taste of the fresh curd with pickled tender mangoes......hhhhmmmm...am up for it anytime....even if the world wants to call me a "thayir sadham"...i don't care;-)

Build your bear!

Yesterday I had been to the mall with my neighbor and her kids....going with kids deftly teaches u a lot of patience...lol! Best about the outing was I ventured into lots of stores which i usually never bother to give as much as a glance...! One such was this "build your bear workshop"...yes thats the name of the shop...funny ain't it and good enough to draw attention of the kids...

we are involuntarily drawn into the store by the 6 yr old with us....and i found its a world of its own...WOW...really needs to be appreciated for its unique concept and the amount of thought that has gone into designing the store and the stuffs...you can build a bear from scratch and come out of the store graduating it from college...ha ha ...yes, believe it or not the store has everything...name it and there it is!

Choose the kind of bear(soft/hard)...the outter clothing and color, the stuffing, the designs on the bear and the sound he needs to make....and it does'nt end there....how could u bear for your Bear to be just bear...he needs to be dressed...and there it is...the finest of T's, pants, shorts, caps/hats, shoes, socks, sandals, slippers...u name it...and if it is a She Bear and there it is ...all accessories to adorn every part of her body....infact there r cars and bikes on which u can place ur bear ...and these cars have seat belts too....oh my...thats the limit for me.........Wooohhh....I was simply blown away by this store...ofcourse everything comes at a cost...So, before u think of visiting this store with ur Kid....make sure ur wallet is stuffed...:-)

i need some FUN!

I need a break....cannot endure this silence any longer....there is no more sound in the house other than the keyboard clicking from my laptop, the mouse click by my husband at his desk and the swirling sound from the dish washer.....oh come on...this is not how a home should be at 9 in the night....and worst of all....i open the window for some noise outside and ....ssssssshhhhhhhh...dead pan silence there too.....oh please....is there a kind of self imposed curfew that befalls everyone that sets foot in this free nation....USA

today has been particularly a very very boring and home sick day for me...what with one of my best cousin, with whom i grew up and whom i have played with like my barbie doll...dressing him up in my frocks and adorning him with my accessories....tieing the knot back home in Chennai...me sitting here, with my thoughts moving back and forth on how much fun am missing sitting so many miles away....I hate abroad life only for this one reason....we need to miss out on all the functions, weddings and festivities...

so bored tackling the boredom all day...I had been looking forward to the evening expecting Bala to get back home at his usual time...so we can go for a swim at the pool as we had planned....and bingo...someone heard my plans and to liven up my already sparkling day...it starts raining from nowhere....there is a knock at the door and am i surprised anymore.....nooooo...its my sweet neigbor with her kids...obviously she too is bored handling the 2 kids all day....our hubby's car pool and i get the news they r going to be home late due to some meeting....

OK....i enjoy with the kids....and there they come a little after 7.....now what....Bala is hungry already and wants to hv an early dinner....cool.....but am not hungry?!.......he is done with dinner by 7.30pm while i update him on all the chennai news and abt the Janvasam (spoke to dad to gather some wedding vambu..;-)) and then.....he takes his laptop out and goes to the comp desk....and begins working again.....is'nt this like the perfect day.....wow....how much better can it get

I give him a huge stare reminding him that its not even 1 hour since he got back from work and he is already working again....like getting back home is like some kind of a lunch break?!! ok...i know its no use giving such gyan....so, i sit in the couch brooding over the silence...eat my dinner in silence after an hour...load the dishes and get back to my comp not knowing what to do....and there it is this BLOG....born out of my boredom....lol:-)

So called GOD....who r u?!

more and more i try to find an answer to who is GOD and where he is...the more i feel convinced...i have been living in fantasy abt the Supreme powers existence all my life.....! Have been listening/watching the live telecast of the consecration celebrations of Dakshina Pandurangam happening at Govindapuram, TN since morning....but i no more feel the pull and devotion i used to feel a few months back...

hey, am i becoming an atheist or hv i already become one....i think yes...how am i going to take this forward ...let me wait and watch