phoola huva ajwain poori me cooking in my kitchen...every poori that I made this ugadi weekend poora phul gaya tha..I was ghee happy...never thought I will be smiling one day totally happy just looking at poori..probably its the career woman in me feeling totally content and happy having cooked a good meal..its funny but cooking totally relaxes me...after a long way at work, coming home and cooking my evening meal totally relaxes me dont even know why..playing with recipes, masalas probably...
recipe for a good ajwain poori
mix roti ata with milk, ajwain seeds and a lil bit of oil.
then fry them in oil..
with milk there I think poori are soft and poora phul jate hi..
eat poori with daal makani, alu besan sabji ( oil, jeera, mustard seeds, tumeric, fry onions, add boiled alu, then basan in liquid cook) and yogurt ( with salt and achar mixed with yogurt) or yogurt cucumber raita..
anyways..finally ugadi, telugu new year was here..here in US this time temple celebrated new year on sunday while in India it is monday...so confusing..
It was nice ugadi at the temple..
they did panchang sravan..it was interesting..they tell u what the year will be like.. based on ur birthstar and raasi u can know how good the year will be, if there will be profit or loss, which planet should u worship that year...interesting..
they had supergood food too at the temple..I met some people I knew from work..one of them said my speech the other day at work was excellent..so strange people seem to still remember only that about me..
it was a nice morning today on the whole..nothing beats a peaceful morning at the temple surrounded by prayers and god...
I finally finished reading obama book " Dreams of my father" some 450 pages book..it was a fantastic read..I never saw anyone have such a unique diverse life..white mother, white grandparents, african father who met him just once when he was 10 yrs old leaving him with lots of step brothers and sisters in africa, Indonesian step father, Indonesian step sister..that is obamas family..the whole book is about discovering his family, figuring out his own identity..confusing youth trying to decide between black and white heritage..trying out drugs to everything..living with grandparents most of his life away from parents with no proper mentors and inspiration , yet the man obama turns his life around..graduates from harvard, works for downtrodden in chicago..best part about the book is how he is open to races and tries to find a family for himself making his step sisters, step brothers, everyone come into his fold..it is amazing..
he finally learns about his mystery father through all his distant family relations in US and kenya and puts all of them together finally into one story..it was obamas journey to discover his father who left him when he was 2 yrs old..at the end u will see obama has no bitterness but tears for his father when he truly discovers his fathers hard journey..this is a book so full of experiences and life that is hard to believe that this is the story of just one man spreading through different continents and countries..what a amazing man obama is just by the nature of his birth..
The book is his discovery of his own roots..he goes to kenya and writes about those unique experiences..this man turns his life around..starts with nothing and makes and gets everything at the end..true inspiration..
Obama is also a loner most of his life like me trying to find himself and I kinda see his point and can relate to him..I can see some similarities in his life versus mine..since my dad passed away I started understanding how important it is to have a complete family..and Iam also trying to put pieces together always trying to make a family for myself...trying hard to still have something complete as a family though I know for myself too it is never the same without a father..that way obama inspires me..I like his definition of family..
obama writes in his book "what is family? is it a genetic chain, parents and offspring, people like me? or is it a social construct, an economic unit, optimal for child rearing and division of labor? or is it something lese entirely, a store of shared memories, say an ambit of love? a reach across void"
great book dont miss reading this book..If u are voting, u should read the book all the more..even otherwise it is an inspiring interesting book which will help u understand the racial system in america..a true education for me.
Movie I watched this weekend..
Happy Days a telugu movie by a young director sekhar kammula..watch it..it is bubbly teenage movie..so neat so real about engineering college students life..there is some strange honesty about this movie.. it feels real..good friends, their friendships, their college crushes ,combined studies..it was totally youthful supercute fun realistic movie etc., there is no moral or anything in this movie..light hearted really happy days kind of movie..makes me want to go back to college and be there...feel young, carefree, happy....I dont know when I was in college I always studied hard..too bad..
books Iam reading right now
Golden afternoon - mm kaye.. far pavilion author..that was a good novel to read..
surviving the slaughter - marie omatusu - still reading that..slowly..
Revolutionary wealth - Alvin Toffler
songs I listened to Iam still addicted to race song pehli nazar, I have to admit..
what else..
week looks busy at work..
body is tired, most weekend I kept sleeping dont even know why..may be I was just tired..so hopefully my body recovered with all that sleep..ear ache,sore throat it never seems to end.. I need vacation sometime soon..wishful thinking..
so much to do as usual...
