Photos of holi event with bhangra and indian dances...photos of ramanavami at the temple procession...
both were wonderful..
cant even believe it is almost end of april..
time is racing and Iam racing with time...
work and volunteering has kept me busy....
I come home exhausted from work...lots of drug screens to develop as usual...interesting but busy tiring days at work.
Other than work being team leader for community service for a big group at work, working on immigration related problems with another, then volunteer activities at temple or here and there keeps me tired and busy..
specially with this economy, we all need to do good and do as much as we can for our communities..
People often tell me I have so much energy that it is inspiring..they say I have honest passion, great organization skills and can influence anyone with just my straight talk.. but reality is most people dont realise my body is not that strong, reality is Iam weak and half the days I have some body complaint or the other, have very little energy, being a girl with girls troubles doesnot help but I think it is the enthu and desire to do something good to community and may be my dads genes that keeps pushing me..
It is in my family, my dad did so much good for the society that if I can achieve even 1/4th of what my dad did to community I will be happy...I hope I get a hubby too who feels the same way about doing good to the world..I hope I can adopt 5-6 orphan children and hope I will energy enough to keep doing this..
I realised this week it is so hard to inspire and get volunteer from Indian community, it made me think as to how many of us indians really spend time to volunteer, most of us live such self centred lives..I hope it changes and I can change people to spare time for something other than for themselves or their families.
finally today I got done with a big volunteer event I organised to cleanup a local park..it went really well today after lot of effort..thanks to all my indian volunteers...2 girls and 13 guys volunteered and did an amazing job.God bless them all who volunteered. specially people with families and small children who still spared time to volunteer..Being single helps, though I wonder sometimes if I had a hubby and children how much of volunteering I can do..
These days I barely have time to cook, clean and catch up at home. I gave up socialising otherwise totally, as I dont get that much time for friends or partying lately.. this year I have given up on a lot of friendships which are artificial, friends who just like to party , gossip and have fun and dont want to do anything else. And I am making time for
I cook at home and eat at home most of the days and hardly eat out, dont have energy or time to eat out..when I get time I read, write, catch up with chores at home and watch movies at home or listen to music at home..
I cook at home and eat at home most of the days and hardly eat out, dont have energy or time to eat out..when I get time I read, write, catch up with chores at home and watch movies at home or listen to music at home..
my body is exhausted but I cannot take vacation though I have a lot of vacation...lots of other personal busines stuff to take care of too...barely have time for anything these days...
writing group activities are also keeping me busy..every week I have a collegues novel to critique..Iam also actively working on finishing my first novel and writing my second novel..
finally finished mailing letters to senators, Governor, first ladyand got responses back from some regarding problems with green card issues..so many causes to fight..thanks to the senators who responded , god bless them too..
books Iam reading right now..
Almost finished Golden afternoon by Kaye which was one boring biography.
Reading Obamas book Audacity of Hope which is another interesting obamas book to read..
Also reading Alvin Tofflers " The revolutionary wealth"
books I have to pick up from the library tomorrow and books I will be reading next week..
Hari kunzrus my revolutions.
Jhumpa lahiris new collection of short stories
book on how schools are run in US -
the last book about schools will hopefully help me to do my vicepresident of our educational organisation in India better, I almost forget about that job of mine often..there is so much to do..
when people ask me why Iam not looking for guys actively I tell them I just have no energy for that...If a guy is ready to walk with me in the path I choose to walk and joins me in all the activities I do it is ok, otherwise I have no energy or time to just walk on a unknown path or fall in love....
I realise now a days more often I can never be this prettily dressed barbie doll pleasing guys.. when some guys family asked me if my family can contact them , I had to tell them honestly that Iam not from a typical indian girls family...I look for matches for myself, I have to fix and make arrangements for my wedding all by myself, I have responsiblity of taking care of my family like a boy, Iam this girl who takes 5 minutes to dress up always fighting for one cause or another and that is me...
anyways...
movies I watched..
yuva- madhavan,surya,siddarth maniratnam movie..excellent.
u me and hum - watched first 30 minutes of the movie , got bored and walked out..
Dhamaal- Arsad warsi, sanjay dutt, rishikesh mukherjee fun movie, first indian movie I watched with no herione, no songs..fun and good despite that.
some good food I made at home last few days
1.Indian spicy pizza - recipe - pillsberry pizza dough- make it into a flat roti, heat oven to 400 and bake it for 10min, then add pizza sauce + priya tomato pickle+ priya mango pickle+ maggi hot and spice sauce+ taco spicy sauce. then add grated pinapple,bell pepper, onion, tomatoes, cilantro then add a layer of shredded cheese, bake for 15 minutes or so.
makes one tasty indian pizza, cilantro adds a unique flavor.
2. Mango daal - Take yellow daal+ cut fresh green mango+ hari mirchi. cook them in pressure cooker. take a vessel heat oil, add jeera, mustard seeds, hing a lot of hing, karipatta, tumeric, lal mirch powder . after they fry add pressure cooked daal with mashed green mango and mashed hari mirchi. cook for 5 minutes.
makes one spicy mango daal.
3. Tomato daal
4 Idli - Gits idli, and home made chutneys.
what else..
elections are keeping me interested. Indiana is gaining importance..lets see who wins..may the best unselfish candidate win this race..
Hardly listened to any good music online..Iam so so non-romantic and moody these days, life is dull and boring with too much work , volunteering and meetings or worries..so not much music for me...
Cant even believe may is almost here..
so much to do...so may be less blogging..
