Indian Married girl in America

I write on facts and my own experiences, but creativity is something that I stopped a long back. May be I started to live my life on its flow and I am completely satisfied with whatever happening. Since there is nothing dry, I stopped to dream, expect and imagine anything green.  Then comes a contest to check my creativity.  Photo story contest  to write a story on given photo. It was a guy riding a bicycle. My story is also as simple as the photo. My inspiration to the story is Vetri. He once told me his unfulfilled dream for a cycle and that made me to come up with this plot.  Here is my story  Riding through childhood dreams .  This story got many good reviews and won a 2nd prize ( winners ) in the contest. This is the first story after finishing my school. I could even say, this is my first story too.. because, I no more remember the stories that I had written in my school days. 

I got stuck in a deep loneliness, when I was newly married and flew to US with my husband. It was an arranged marriage, so anyone can understand the time it takes to feel companionship with the partner. Due to geographical change and time constraints, I can't be in touch with my beloved family and friends as before. After my husband left to office, the silence inside and outside house are the same. No known people around me. scrolling the news feed of Facebook, made me feel that everybody in the world are so busy with their lives and I got struck up in an island. Then the fear of missing out has come in me. An idle mind is devil's workshop right. The devil in me made me to think too much and ended up doing nothing but to worry and feel useless. . I wished to engage myself in something interesting. Obviously, that was the time, I was learning cooking. So, I put in some more effort and started exploring in my kitchen and came out with different recipes. I started to take pi...

Happy new year to all in advance.  So far, whatever the new year resolutions I have taken, I almost do it properly. Because I set SMART goals. That is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound. I should actually thank my teacher for helping me in setting up this kind of resolutions. It all started in my 5th standard. I take up very small things as my resolution like, I do home works daily, I improve my handwriting, I learn Thirukural daily, I keep my things organised etc. There were few resolutions I give up also... After few years, I understood that whatever resolution I mention as "I can do"... those I am doing, but whatever the resolution I take to give up or anything to change my habit... I am not fulfilling them.  Like, I won't bite my nails, I will stop drinking aerated juices etc... Then I understood, it is easy to pick up a new habit, but very difficult to give up on one. So, these resolutions really taught me this big lesson and so, ...

Diwali in India is a metaphor to sweets and crackers. Here in US, I try my best to match Indian festivals and our customs to be followed as same as we do in India. But Diwali is an exceptional extraordinary festival, thus nothing can match the joy we share in India on Diwali. Diwali 2017 What is Diwali in India? Wake up with crackers alarm, Oil bath, New dress, Hot and spicy non veg breakfast, TV shows especially patti mandram(debate show),  crackers, sharing Diwali greetings and wishes in texts and phone calls, again variety of non veg food for lunch, new movies, crackers and a SOUND sleep with all these memories.  Diwali does not end up in one day, now the auspicious mode turned on the second day, we call it Gowri Nonbu. This is a traditional pooja, when Kalasam will be decorated as Goddess Gowri Amman, homemade adhirasam will be devoted to her, yellow twines will be kept in that pooja, which later will be distributed within family members. This pooja has to be ...

Summer vacation 2017, we took a break on our routine and went on a 4 days bus tour with two kids. Experience on travelling with kids itself requires a different post. So I made it seperate -  Travel experience . Here, I pen down (ha ha type down) about the views of the places through my eyes. Day 1 It was a four days long tour, finalized through take tours. But the service provider was America Asia. We started on saturday morning (16th sep) from home to China town in Uber. From there, a tour bus picked us up to Montrey. From there, we changed to the actual tour bus that take us to the trip. The AC tour bus is cool and had wide windows to see all the beauties on our travel. We started from there around 10 o'clock, took a couple of rest room breaks and a lunch break near a mall and were taken to one of the sight seeing places in tour plan, LONDON BRIDGE ,  Guide gave us a brief note on the place that the bridge was shipped from London to it's current place, thus...

After becoming a mom of two kids, my dream for long drive and trips on werkends were vanished. But cleaning the house, back to back movies, staying awake in late nights, waking up on next day afternoon also bored. I don't want a lazy weekend anymore. I wanted a change. I want some refreshment in the fresh air. Decided!!!!! Beach!!!! Yes, Saturday night, I packed necessaries for a picnic. When U travel with a kid, even for 1hr journey, you need to pack like picnic only. Because, you will not know, what is exactly needed, so the minimum back up for food and cloth is a must. Sunday morning, sharp at 6, we woke up to swipe off the  ⏰. I prepared idly for breakfast and packed it. Me and Vetri had our refreshing beverage coffee. Dressed up the kids and all were ready by 6.30. We headed to Santa Monica Beach but actually with an intention to stop anywhere comfortable before it. The drive to beach was through mountain roads. Traveling in car with windows down and breathing...

My son's Montessori was arranged for their graduation day of the year. Though my son was not going to graduate that year, I was so excited for two reasons. One, it was the first preschool graduation, I was about to watch. second is the primary reason to my excitement: My son Udaya was dancing in that event. I was informed that they were doing dance practice, but I had no idea what Udaya was doing. He did not say anything about the dance practice. I did not find any excitement in him. After seeing   The picture day , I understood that the arrangements would be big and much organised. All students in the school were not more than 6 years, so dance by them in an organised way could not be possible was my perception but, I was proved wrong when almost 95% the kids did a perfect job on  stage. The previous day to the event, I visited school and inquired about his costume and time to reach school etc. I always find the communication from school end was poor, so myself went...