• Home, new home…

    Finally, I am back to my space… After a phase of uncertainties and confusion, Delhi again…  So from West Delhi, to Gurgaon and now to East Delhi; the city is not leaving me…. I can proudly say, I have the many painful phases of shifting successfully: The tedious house hunting phase – check Moving the stuff…

  • Finally, a successful ‘Fruits and Nuts Cake’…

    My mom makes the best cake in the world! B’days, Christmas or some special guests coming over, our house used to fill with this amazing fragrance of her cake… People have taken the recipe from her and I really don’t know if anyone got success in matching her’s… Its a fruits and nuts cake with…

  • Books in my Kindle…

    For a bookworm like me, getting some new books to my self has always been a joy… But since i moved around cities for research and job, i couldn’t maintain my collection properly… Lost/donated many of my books in the process… Now, i am in the middle of another move… So, I have no other choice…

  • Perseverance!!!

    Perseverance/pəːsɪˈvɪər(ə)ns/noun            persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success Read the following snippet from ADULTERY (Paulo Coelho) few weeks back: A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:“Aren’t you tired of waiting?”“Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals,…

  • Don’t call me a foodie….. I am a culinarian….

    Using the word ‘foodie’ is controversial… mostly because different people have different perspectives regarding that terminology… Most of the times, it’s considered a word to represent someone who overeats… not someone who loves and enjoys food… Even if it’s tagged with people who love food, i cannot call myself a foodie… my love for food…

  • My competitions…

    I love my competitions… I just love them…They make me work harder everyday…They make me take longer strides when I walk…They make me go faster when I run…They make me take risks…They make me go the extra mile…They make me fight for my victories… and make my victories sweeter…Yeah, they make me stronger everyday…

  • Beyond the threshold of no return …

    Originally posted on Melissa on Shuffle: “I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I’ve reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time on what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for overt cynicism, excessive criticism and the…

  • Bit of rain, a good book and a truckload of ideas for writing…

    Summer almost said goodbye… Much awaited monsoon finally giving us occasional appearances… The temperature has come down… there is always a wind or breeze around… What more I can ask for in a place like Delhi/NCR… The weather was perfect again today…. Drizzles in the morning while jogging… Some harmless clouds were around all day……

  • Top 10 favourite books I have read…

    The ‘favourite book list’ is doing its rounds in facebook i got tagged as well… So, i was trying to remember my recent reads… Being a bookworm, it was hard to short-list the ‘favourites’ from a long list of books… Because i had fallen in love with most of the books and authors, especially the classic…

  • Jogged in rain…

    It was 7 am and still dark… I wondered if the clock was showing wrong time…  Got out putting on my run gear only to be in cool drizzle… The condition of roads in a rain was quite bad… so i headed to the park where only a handful of people were walking/jogging… most people do…