India trip

Today I am gonna embark on my first ever journey alone with my son.Its exciting as well as scary at the same time.The fact that in all the entire journey time is well over 15 hours is also scary to think about.But on the brighter side it takes me to India and also I am always striving for independence and it cant get more independent than this ..so good luck to me ..

In india these are a few things I am looking forward to ..Truck loads of relatives, hot and sticky climate ,loads and loads of food ,mosquito and of course relaxing in between.I intend to write as often as possible from there as I have the resources available to take care of him and that is probably the only me time I am gonna get ..

I am also looking forward to keeping a positive outlook towards things and to enjoy things whatever the circumstances may be ..

so heres to hopefully a safe journey and lots of interesting anecdotes...

using hands to eat

I was so amused by a fellow Indians frustration 's of the westerners disrespect of his use of hands to eat food and how he questioned them back by asking how is wiping your ass more hygienic either .
I have always ate with hands and the only way I truly enjoy Indian food is if I use my hands .The idea as per the ayurveda and things is that every sense of yours must be involved in eating to completely enjoy the food.Hence the hands for touch , nose to smell the food, eyes to see it and of course the final taste.. Much like wine tasting this is an art in itself .

I believe that each culture is unique and none need to though of as being superior to another ..Each must be treated with respect and appreciated for its uniqueness...

Sachin ...

My blog or life wont be complete without the mention of the greatest man I have known ... Sachin...

Humble ,honest ,successful ... One man for whom I have cried for , fought about , laughed about ...

I saw his 100th 100 program and after so many years I felt  that rush and happiness when I saw the interview ... 

I recollect a few incidence during my peak admiration stage ...During school days I was crazy fan of sachin my whole school knew about it ,up to the point that people did not dare tell me if sachin got out ..I remember going to the temple and doing rounds just so he hits a century ..But today life has taken over and I dont see cricket as much ..But I still used to watch when Sachin here and there .. But when he retired .. I  did too from cricket ...

Superdrug Vitamin E skin care

I have  been liberally using the Vitamin E

Vitamin E all body lotion

Search for the best potty

My son has been getting ready to be potty train in the last few days and I have been trying out a lot of potty's ...

I tried the chair potty first ,he found sitting on it quiete hard .. And it left him with a sore bum ...
Next was the small poundland potty. In this he cried cause it led his legs becoming numb ..

Finally after loads of search I brought the car potty seat from argos for 14 pounds .. I was worried that this too could end in disaster but my excitement he loved the sponge car seat ,the smsll button which made the car sound kept him occupied. The seat fits perfectly , easy to assemble and clean ...

Behold !! Today my son pooped in toilet and I cant imagine how happy I am.. Its funny how when you become a mom how such silly things become important milestones in life ...

Grazer

I have been quite keen to shed away all the weight I have recently gained .Surprising for me ,I never gained weight due to pregnancy but I gained weight due to the careless grazing I did after that . I realised how my entire body has changed as a result f my deliery.Before I was a person who no matter what I ate ,it never showed on my body and today even going near a food makes me fat !!

I was analyzing my own food diary and I came to realise that the actual quantity of food consumed during meals were well witin limits but it was all the food I grazed in between meals especially while cooking that made me fat.
This also made me realise how our ancestors had given a brilliant solution to this problem.They said that food must always be first presented to god and then only consumed,this ensured that while cooking in the fear of god there would be no grazing at all..Brilliant they were , werent they ??