Shopping & Independence..

Had been thinking of going to the mall on my own for sometime.. knew i would spend money if i went there,but dnt care much today.... sometimes u just get desperate n there is no better mood lifter than shopping...

So i went to the mall with my friend who helped me with the info for using the public transportation,bless her... was quite easy.. and there i was in the Natick mall at 10:15 am! Never have I been so desperate to just get out of the house and be on my own... Picked up a pretzel for breakfast.. love aunt annie's pretzels... and then started my tour of the mall...

Got into Forever 21 shop.. i like this shop coz of there style n decent prizes...
took my own sweet time n tried on lots of tee's n shorts.. ended up buying one shorts n a tee... apparently am fat to fit in even in the "L" sized tee's too at this store...
Grrr... watever... i know i have become too lazy n need to work out n get into shape..
but am as lazy as Garfield....

hen i wandered off into the payless shop.. one more store which meets my requirements of a great store... great stuff at reasonable prizes.. went around looking for shoes for my Cinderella sized feet.. I hate it!
A sweet sales girl with small feet too understood my problem n helped me out...
And i picked up a graet pair of shoes and as i was getting it billed.. she said u can buy one more pair n get 50% off... I was worried,i dnt want to spend too much money so i said no.. den she gave me some great suggestion... n back i went for the 2nd pair of shoes... And after some search got a lovely pair of sandals... but was confused to buy them as they were already on discount on costed only 10$.. but guess what she gave me 50% discount of the already discounted sandals.. I was so HAPPY!!!

This sort of thing would never happen in India... I got 2 great of shoes worth 40$ just for 25$. how cool is that... I love USA for the shopping... Back in India its so much more expensive....

Caught the return bus home.. I felt so independent,felt like old days again....
I hope i get my work permit soon... So that i can work,be independent and shop on my own...!

There is so much more i want to do on my own..
Amen.

lonely...

Coming to US has been a challenge... Coming on L2 visa,the dependent visa is just an understatement of the the word "dependent"..
Many indian girls who are stay at home wives or who have never worked may eanjoy the change in scenario,but for people like me who may not have been big shots but atleast had a life apart from marriage,the dependency factor is just too much to ask....

Its been 4 months and am frustrated to the point of craziness... On top of that a husband who has little time for me..be it weekdays of weekends...

Its hard when ur lonely with the person u supposedly wanted to be with the most...
Love,marriage,feelings everything is so so over rated... weather it is a love marriage or an arranged marriage... some people just get lost in themselves....

One of my friend once said... its not love but just dependency between two people..
am starting to think he was right...

Rain Rain..!!!

Its been pouring here in Framingham since the last 2 days n it feels really nice... It feels like Bangalore weather,the sound of rain when u sleep and the coolness... :)

I decided to make something nice for the evening.. Onion pakoras was on my mind.. I am not a great cook nor a bad one either so once in a while it surprises me when some of them come out really well... And today was one of those days... The onions pakoras were delish!!!

N for the drink,i am not much of a hot drinks person i like only cold drink like iced tea or cold coffee... N recently i have taking an instant liking to green tea coz of its supposedly immense benefits,weight loss being one of them... hehheee..

So made some iced green tea for myself and enjoyed the pakoras...
check out the photos!

Confused and certainly disappointed...

At different stages of out lives we wish for different things... N when we do get few of those things do we really appreciate them to the max or in my opinion most of us just cnt of so many "social" obligations...

Got married 6 months back... My life has got restricted in so,so many ways...
Instead of getting more i felt i was getting less out of life... For girls its a "BIG PAIN" to just get uprooted from the only home they have ever known n just move into a new house.. And as one of my friend once said - just because it happens to every girl doesn't make the pain any less..
N then ur social life comes to a complete stop,why cause there are just too many obligations... the perspective of your family,career,friends absolutely takes on a lesser meaning than before..

It has to change,things have to get better for us... N i have decided i will try to change my situation as much as possible.. by hook or by crook.. :P

Life is just too short for us girls to miss out on our friends n fun too..

Random pictures

Have been absent from the blog for sometime deliberately..
Wasn't feeling very good about anything and things havn't improved to say the least...
Just felt the urge to vent out my feeling or rather frustration in particular so back to the writing pad...

Posting some random pictures takes over the last 2 months....

Need Hope...

All our dreams seems to be crumbling slowly and feeling really sad... We had counted on things getting better this year but they only seem to be getting worse....
Really scared to think what lies ahead now...

I am scared of being pointed fingers at too... Sooner or later it will boil down to me and they will blame me...
Hope god shows us a way n help us rebuild our dreams...
Amen.

Cn't get enough!

I love watching some the American TV series,i am not much of a "Friends" fan thought i was introduced to the TV series through it... I know a lot a people just LOVE LOVE IT..

But i did love the X Files,Desperate Housewives,How i Met your Mother,CSI,I shouldn't be Alive etc...
I knew about the Sex and the City series from a long time but had not really watched it... Though i had watched the movies "Sex and the City" and througly enjoyed it... Then i decided to download all the 6 seasons and watch it.... N should i say i have been just hooked to my laptop since i started watching it... I just love it!!

I am really sad that i am seeing the few last episodes of the last season i have...
Cnt wait to see the movie sequel too..

Cherry Blossoms!!!!

Yippeee...! This weekend I will be part of the beautiful "Cherry Blossom" festival in Washington D C...

I came across the beautiful cherry blossom trees about 2 years ago,when i received a forward at work with the most amazing cherry blossom tree's pictures scattered across Japan... The pictures were so beautiful that i immediately called the one Japanese friend i had and asked her if it was really so spectacular in Japan...
N then she told me all about the "cherry blossoms",about how they bloom only for 3 weeks and that it was really as beautiful to look at as in the pictures.... Haa at that moment i had thought i would never be able to see it cause the window of opportunity was so small... U have to be in japan in that short duration of 3 weeks to be able to enjoy it.... But what i dnt know at that time is that i would be seeing the same thing in the US of A instead of Japan and makes me MORE than happy.... :)

One of my other flowery wishes is to visit Kashmir to see its beautiful Tulip gardens...

I am just posting a picture which i googled to get an idea of how it was going to be in DC this weekend and it looks very promising...!

Will post my pictures too when i get back..

Cakes,cakes N Cakes!

I am not a person with a sweet tooth but the few things which i like,i really do relish them....

One of those things is "THE" Pineapple cake from Sweet Chariot.... I was so fond of this cake that whenever i used to eat this cake,i would try to eat it as slowly as possible layer by layer... This cake was a very sweet part of my childhood n it still is....

During my childhood baking was not really a thing folks did at home.. U just have your local bakery where u go n buy all your goodies.. even now not many people bake until and unless u really like to bake or u r Christians to whom i think baking comes naturally... I know a Christian Aunty who makes lovely cakes....

Well i have always liked to bake,started my early experiments with baking in my childhood without the oven... :) I had seen this crazy stuff,where u use an cooker to bake the cake keeping the cooker half filled with sand and had tried it too...
The results were not so bad and had "baked" my first cake... It was Strawberry flavored with a lot of nuts... :) Heyy its a not so weird choice for a kid...

Then a few years back we got the OTG ie the Oven-Toaster-Griller thingy in which i used to bake a simple cake once in a blue moon cause i wasn't really satisfied with the results.. I felt i should have a micro wave oven.. but i dnt...

Anyway now here in US to my delight,i found out that every house has aaahaa,no not a microwave but a proper oven just to be used for baking all your goodies... Cakes,bread,cookies,brownies etc etc...

But my interest still remains in baking simple n nice cakes... Like maybe the Plain cake,coffee cake,carrot cake etc... the simple ones...

And yes i have started my baking journey here with mastering the simple sponge cake!
Its delicious and i love it! :)

Looking forward to baking more cakes and spreading a little joy around!

Comfort Food...

I had been to this great Italian restaurant called Olive Garden a few days back...

It was my first experience with authentic Italian food and as i was glancing through the menu,i wanted to try out so many of the dishes on the menu but was not sure if i would end up eating any of it if dnt like it.. As i am kinda finicky about my food...

N just like that my hubby ordered the Italian platter which had varieties of the food i wanted to taste which took off the pressure for me to order anything that i had not eaten before.. Aaah what a relief!

N as so so usual of me,i went back to ordering of my favorite food,the Pizza...!!!
But at least this time i had the authentic one... But it did not have the usual tomato base,which usually all pizza's have i wonder why... But no complaints as it was DELICIOUS!!!

The thing about pizza is,its my COMFORT FOOD... It does to me what chocolate does to other people.. feeds my soul!

Back in India also it used be that one thing i used to crave about whenever i was low or even when i was in the best of moods... I just love pizza..!
N here in US most of the times the only thing i eat when i go out is pizza...
No need for me to be finicky here!

A Day Late...

I created my blog yesterday and am a day behind in writing my fIRsT post...

Aaah blame it on the sudden attack of virus which managed to keep me in bed for the rest of the day....

I had created a blog few years back but just couldn't get myself to write much...
Hopefully this time it will be better....

I have got all the time in the world and maybe writing about whatever little i do will make me feel better...

Especially when am writing the post,eating a nice piece of cake..! :)