Nostalgia

I become nostalgic whenever I listen to the song Mile Sur Mera Tumhara. As kids, my brother and I would be hooked to the DD-1 whenever this song was on TV - mostly after Hindi news and before commencement of English news. A simple line - My tune merged with your tune becomes our tune, sung in 14 different languages, performed by various artists, is truly exceptional. With no access to Cable Television, DD-1 was the sole source of entertainment, common for kids who grew up in 90s.

After joining engineering, with so many other things happening in life(losing my interest in watching TV :P), I almost forgot about this song completely. On a lazy day in Samsung, I remembered it all of a sudden, thanks to Youtube, I was able to listen and recount the sweet memories associated with this song. Now a days, I have again started listening to this song just like how I used to as a kid :). Today, when I was listening it sometime back, I could visualize everything that used to happen at my sweet home 16 years ago :)

Nine colorful nights

My much awaited festival is back :). I have always enjoyed Navaratri/Dasara as a kid partly because of the long vacation in schools. I always arranged my dolls in a unique pattern at my sweet home then with inputs from my cute brother. I probably became interested in this after seeing my dance teacher arrange the dolls in one of the rooms in her house. The arrangement would occupy nearly three-fourth of the room which used to mesmerize me as a kid.

But even today, the doll arrangement drives me crazy. With little resources here, I managed to arrange two steps. Though it looks crude, I am happy. I will post a few pictures of the same in my next post. Waiting for all your comments now :P

Unanswered questions

Do all questions have answers? I feel few of my questions are unanswerable. If I try to sit and think answering them, eventually forgetting my question :P... So, I was wondering whether or not others too have such unanswered questions in them. Again, I have no answer!!! My basic question - why people are so biased? Let me make it more clear. Why are people more partial toward some and neglect others? This may be in schools, colleges, families, among friends etc. Teachers in the school are more partial towards children from affluent background. In families, some members are always neglected(i better stop at this ;)). Friends often ill-treat those hailing from humble background. So everything boils down to money. But again, why is money the deciding factor? I have never been able to answer this. Teachers don't value the abilities in children from simple families. Friends try to belittle the ones with less spending abilities. In families, the one with the humble background is always taken granted for. When will this bias stop??

I want to dance :)

Yesterday, we had been to a temple a nearby. To my surprise, I saw a few girls dressed up in classical dance attire. I was too thrilled to see them and we decided to watch their performance for sometime. Well, it was a Kuchipudi performance. Frankly I was watching a Kuchipudi performance live for the first time though I had watched it on television. Well, I have very little knowledge about Kuchipudi. Still, given a song that is set to dancing steps, I feel like tapping my feet. If only I could dance to a Bharatanatyam song for at least 5 minutes on stage. I somehow miss my practice sessions now.

Sailors on the same boat!!!

I have been communicating a lot with my newly found friends these days... No doubt,

it feels really good to talk with somebody who falls under the same age group. But talking to one

who is in the same phase as I am feels even better. I have been regularly in touch with two girls who

are recently married and who stay close to my place. I must mention, "lucky me" since the friends I am in

touch with think similar as I do and remind me of my Samsung friends unlike a few I had in the past

who are never worth mentioning on my posts, something that would spoil the intent of my blog.

Well, I was just comparing how life has changed since the days of graduation. I had few too good

pals at my work place who were experiencing the same things that I was, like enjoying the money earned,

shopping during the weekends, undergoing the pressure in the families in their search for suitor etc... Now the situation is quite different. My friends(new ones), and I are experiencing the similar things at

home - applying to universities or already studying, trying out new recipes, waiting to talk to moms and

keep them updated... :)

Be it the former or the latter, I have enjoyed being with sailors in my boat. It feels good to

talk to them and be happy or convinced that, there are people like me :)

Salt or sugar??

I remember as a kid, studying a chapter in the English book on what is the sweeter - sugar or salt? However, sweet in that sense meant something that is more necessary in the food. Today, I had similar situation at home. I wanted to prepare some cake today. Well, it was a pineapple eggless cake. The cake looked good in the oven too. Then came the crucial tasting/testing time.

The cake was quite salty and bitter... inspite of adding proper amount of sugar!!!!! Unfortunately all odds were against me. Perhaps this was my first ever disaster in the kitchen. It has been nearly 6 months since I started cooking on my own and I had never faced such odd situation in kitchen.

While adding butter to prepare the cake batter, I didn't realize it was salted butter which was the sole reason for making the cakes salty. Furthermore, the pineapple too was inclement which made my cake bitter instead of making it better given it's flavor. Sugar practically played no role!!!

Anyway, at the end, I received my dosage of funny comments from my husband. My next post will hopefully be the success story of my cakes :)

Happy days :)

It was in the mid-July that I embarked my journey as a software engineer at Samsung Electronics in Bangalore while lasted just 1.5 years... The first day of my corporate life is still fresh in my memory. We were the first batch probably who were hired through campus placements with the number of girls mounting to nearly 50!!!. A big number for a Korean organization. As it happens everywhere, we were divided into groups and had some team activities. But what was more remarkable was that, the first set of my group-mates became very close friends(something I never had). I met a bunch of people who have helped me, assisted me and viceversa :)... I met one of mt closest friends in life who had faced similar situations as I had..We were sailing in the same boat. It was nice to see one of my friends'(who had lived in all small towns before coming to THE PLACE in India) changing opinion about metropolitan girls, another girl singing and stunning us with her god-gifted voice who apparently was a reality show winner, etc...

Now that I am no more associated with the organization, I just get some updates about them. But still my friends are so close to my heart... With those sweet memories, I should probably try my hands penning a book :P