Sunday, August 26, 2012

Lone"ILL"ness

History repeats again...

I thought I forgot how hard  it was to leave home and come to US....think of it the initial excitement of staying independent, going to grad school, learning the new life style soon dies down and you are back to being home sick.. it was almost a year by the time I found LSU Home away from Home... may be because I met the "right" kind of people..which I thought would never happen at LSU :-)...

Always was sure moving to San Jose would be a cake walk but was proved so wrong!!! Leaving LSU was as painful as leaving home! And never did I think San Jose will be heard to settle down but once AGAIN I am proved wrong... True I have my brother, friends I have know forever! good Indian food , work to keep me busy... but somewhere deep down the loneliness of a new place is engulfing me... Sometime I think I am asking for too much... there is nothing that could have been better than moving to a city like San Jose...dono if I will ever feel San Jose HOME!!!

I wish I do :-)

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Gone are the days.....

Give me some sunshine...give me some rain...give me some another chance I wanna grow up once again...

Well that's the theme for this blog...after been overly pampered, taken care of and being loved all my life, I am in the transition phase of giving it all back. Yeah true, and how rude of me to crib about it! But who would ever want to be in the giving side after been in the accepting side for so looooooooooooooong!

High time I realize gone are the days................... though I am exaggerating this a bit too much it is still "painful" to compromise on these luxuries in life.............



Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Life's Journey can be Exotic! :-)

I was a TV addict once upon a time. I have browsed through so many channels and so many TV shows. My usual favorites were related to food, be it cooking, food fests around the world, special delicacies of a city or just a renowned eat out shop!

One of those days, I had seen a Garlic Food fest on AXN. I was initially shocked, then curious and finally interested in it. I still remember Garlic Ice Cream and had a questions "Will I ever get to taste it?!" That was like centuries ago and soon time engulfed that memory!

Well, the story fast forwarded to last Saturday when I visited Gileroy (30 mi from SJC) and attended the "Gileroy Garlic Fest". I could not believe I was actually eating THE garlic ice cream. Yes, its one of those times when you just do a recap of where to where you have been in your life's journey. It is true that career progression, wealth accumulation or family growth measures one's life's journey. Nevertheless certain experiences which you thought would never become real definitely  makes life's journey exotic. It could be as small as listening to the sound of water rather than hearing it out all the time or just standing in line for the garlic ice cream and realizing your question is answered!!!

My friends and I hogged on the garlic french fries, garlic bread, garlic ice cream ( plain, roasted almond, pistachio and chocolate ), garlic dark/milk chocolate bars. I must agree after a few minutes I was sick of the Garlic :-D.

Now come to think of it, I still have this wish of trying the Makkan (Butter) served in a Matka (Mud Pottery) in Lucknow. Only God knows if I will ever get to go there and taste.......