Happy Mothers Day!

There was this contest at IndianMomConnect and we had to put a topic on
Mere Maa ke haath ka khana. i send in my entry and I won.

Yipeeeeeeeeeeee

For details chk this link
http://www.indianmomsconnect.com/2013/05/12/happy-mothers-day/

Happy Birthday to me

Birthdays have always been special to me.
Away from family it feels good to share it with all of you - special friends.
Loved the personalized jewellery box to the hand made card to the personal gifts.
Glad you all could came to share my day. I will always cherish these wonderful moments.
The day ended with my little one singing "Happy Birthday to you Amma princess" (I did not miss my dad this time, Ritvik made sure of that)..


Now the details follows. We have a very large group at the apartment we stay. Few of my friends were moving back to India for good and one had bought their own house and was shifting out,so I decided to do a birthday /farewell type  party.
Normally I would think one month in advance about what dress to purchase etc, this time it was what to cook.
Finally I decided to make Pineapple upside Down Cake/Veg Pizza (from scratch)/Spring Rolls/Paneer Puff and Bhel.

I made the cake and the pizza dough on Thu(2nd May).
Morning of 3rd called home and worked from home , in the middle of that made Pizza sauce and steamed the veggies for spring roll.
At 3 I closed my laptop took bath and then made the paneer puff and friend the spring rolls.
Then by 4:30 I but the first pizza to bake. I had a friend N come over who helped in rolling the pizza , by 5 G and R came home and then we cleaned the house and also cut onions and tomatoes for bhel mix(mix and chutneys were readymade)
Finally at 6:30 I cut the cake and send the boys out, my friends had stated coming by that time. Once everyone was home we eat and then played some very interesting games. Finally they gave me a very beautiful personalized jewelley box with my name , we took lots of pictures, laughed a lot and had a good end to a beautiful day.

Dream India

Education has been a very important aspect in our home. My dad had made it clear early on that even though he had 2 daughters, both of them would be educated well. It was then our responsibility to get good jobs and sustain well without being financially dependent on anyone. I have seen my cousins drop out of college and then doing some job with meagre pays which does nothing to support them and their family.

I strongly believe in educating kids so that we build a new India, a confident nation whose youth is empowered with education and which will, find its rightful lofty place in this world

2006: In those days I was working in an IT company at Borivali, Mumbai. On Week-ends I would mostly  travel home to Pune or else would stay over. On asking friends what they did for week-ends one of them mentioned she went to the nearby slum to teach kids.
I love kids and I just loved the whole idea of teaching them, so the next Saturday I met her at the bus-stop and we went together to the slums.
She has been going regularly and the kids ran out to greet us with all smiles. There were about 20 of them all from ages 6-10.
We started teaching the class together and the expressions on their face was one of pure joy. They just soaked all the information we were giving. In between the class,  raised hands would ask curious questions. After class they came and surronded me and asked a lot of inquisitive questions which was a joy to answer. All in all I had loads of fun. I did go for a month or two until I got an onsite assignment and had to move abroad.

Dream India started by Varun Rangarajan with three volunteers has now grown to three hundred and  has centers in Chennai and Pune alongside Mumbai.
For more details you can visit the website
http://www.dreamindia2020.org/


It is my dream that when I go back to India I will be part of a NGO and spend my time in teaching kids but for now I cherish the moments I had with DreamIndia.

This post is written for IndiBlogger to blog about a social cause you are passionate about.
over here at IndiBlogger and in collabration with ISB iDiya

Happy 5th Wedding Anniversary

Together we turn 5, hoping for many more years of togetherness.
This picture seems apt this year as I got a diamond ring as a gift.

IndiFiction Workshop Edition 5

A murder story that gives you the goosebumps and at the same time makes you laugh! Interesting eh!
This was the plot for the 5th Edition of the exercise for the IndiFiction Workshop.
A murder story including characters that need to be one 50-something & two 20-somethings. Of the three characters, one need not be straight (a homosexual or a lesbian... choice is left to the writer). You have the freedom to choose all three males or even all three females. One must be tech-savvy and one needs to be impulsive.
The plot is accrediated to Arvind Passey. Conceptualized by two popular bloggers TF and C. Suresh, Indifiction is a workshop for writers interested in fiction. 

My entry can be accessed here .

This is my first entry to the IndiFiction Workshop. 

The Rainbow Story

So I have already mentioned about the Rainbow story here
http://myendeavours.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-different-perspective.html

Last Saturday we had invited friends over for dinner and hence Friday evening we had to go shopping.
We picked lil Ritvik from day-care and I told him we are going to bank and then to Rainbow (our supermarket) to get veggies.
It was a bright sunny day and when we reached the bank he asked, Amma, where is rainbow?
I replied, No No this is bank, after this we will go to Rainbow.
He looked up at the sky and asks "Why no rainbow up there, Amma"?
And since I wanted to explain to him how a rainbow is formed but not in a very scientific way I told him that
"Rainbows are formed only when we have rains and sunshine together"

Now he knows that Rainbow has seven colors because that is a game we play, repeating rainbow color, so the next question automatically is, "How the colors, Amma"?
"So baby, when the sunlight touches the raindrops it forms seven beautiful colors
(V-iolet
I-ndigo
B-lue
G-renn
Y-ellow
O-range
R-ed)
in the sky, which we see as rainbow".

He nodded his head in understanding and we stepped inside the bank.

This is written in response to Tulika's My Science Story Blogfest 

First Birthday Card

First birthday card I made for a dear friend on her birthday. Loved the pink over the yellow. Colour really pops out. It was beautiful and glad she liked it too.

Note: My design is highly inspired from a very talented designer. Do visit her blogs at http://eenzybeenzy.blogspot.com/. She has made some lovely cards