People cross our path for a reason…

We don’t meet people by accident, they are meant to cross our path for a reason…

It’s always said books are the best friend, teacher and so are the best friends who themselves are a library to us. Healthy discussions are worth than reading a book.

Once I got a psychological book gifted by one of my friends. But then my friend had insisted me observing people is worth than reading a book. Yet reading and observing have equal importance.

Observing actually gives the meaning of some  people come for a reason,  some for a season and some for life time.

People who come for a reason either give us memories or lessons which are equally important. Memories are blessing and so are the lessons 🙂

Some people come with a reason and stay for life time. They are the one who guide us, trust us, motivate us, smile with us, celebrates our victory. One who has such one friend are the blessed one.:-)

Few people come with a reason for a season. They are the one who laugh at you and not along with you. As per my observance it’s not their strength.  It just shows there inferiority complex which they try to hide by the mock. Once you are away from such negativity the reason of a season is over. But yet some people come with a reason for a season and spread the endless positivity 😍 ☺ ☺

People come for a reason to give memories or lesson.

People come for a season for advantage or are the one who are blessing in disguise.  ☺ ☺

And others are the one who stay for life time as blessing and our strength.

But yes….

Some People come for a reason.

Some for reason.

And some for life time ☺ ☺

READING IS DREAMING WITH OPEN EYES…

Almost book lovers would agree for READING IS DREAMING WITH OPEN EYES. Reading books was something which i developed because of my Dad. He has plenty of book collection. But none of them are fiction 😛  Does’nt matter for me. All i want is book to read. I could figure out some books which I felt interesting. One of them was related to Reiki (Japanese healing technique). Books are always the best friends. One more book which I remember is THINKING FAST AND SLOW. I remember this book which was gifted to me around four years back. I was back from Bangalore, feeling bored and was searching for any good books online and sudden door bell rings. It was a gift. I was exited 🙂 🙂 As i unwrapped it was a book. I still remember I was happy, tears rolled down. That was something special. Such friend and books are always special in life.

Luckily I get time after office hours as my traveling time is cut down as I have got transferred to my native. One of my friend suggested Sudeep Nagarkar’s books are good. I considered his suggestion and ordered YOU’RE TRENDING IN MY DREAMS. I had not read any of his books. There was pre-order for his book, 15-20 days to deliver the book??? Hmm then I googled about the author. The fame he has amongst the youth made me much more eager the read the book. The day I received the book 🙂 🙂 OMG i was exited. I decided to finish reading and then go to bed. Four friends…. four lives…. one decision., every page i read developed curiosity to go to next page. The author has written so real, simple that we could visualize it happening. I just fell for his writing. I wanted to read all other books too. i ordered. Few things left unsaid And that the way we met were interesting Story of Aditya and Riya. I just enjoyed the two books. The only sad part was Adi lost Riya or vice-versa too. I wish all his his books have happy ending as YOU’RE TRENDING IN MY DREAMS. Enjoying the world through an authors eye. 🙂 🙂 wish to read more and more books as such 🙂 🙂

IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE TO GO ANY ROAD WILL TAKE YOU THERE

I often include this saying as it suits me to certain extent. After my SSLC I was sure about opting Science(PCMB). Later I wanted to be a doctor and never an engineer. Yet I am an engineer  by qualification. Then I worked in an MNC.. And I was happy that M not a banker as my dad wanted.

🙂 Later I had to quit my job and become a banker… And yessss this month I would be completing two years in banking industry..

These twists really don’t mean that i am unhappy with life.. Life is too short to conquere. I really understood how hard life is after joining bank.. I was happy working in an MNC in a AC room. But never saw the real world. Bank made me realise that life is really hard. We get to speak to minimum 100 people a day. Poor, needy, uneducated, educated, humble, arrogant, young, aged, requesting, demanding.. Variety of people. Bank really showed me the real world. Educated people are the one who can lead happy life despite of hurdles in life but I pity on those aged, uneducated people. Government has started many programmes to such needy.. I wish may the right, the needy gets the right help out of it..

Sometimes due to heavy transactions and croud I feel why the hell M in this field.. But at the same time I feel content when people recognize us and thank for service rendered. Specially when aged people are happy it feels heaven..

Last but not the least life long dealing with accounts,advances, deposits kinda difficult.. Chalte rehene ka naam zindagi hai. I would love to see different phases of life. A new different world again.. Lets see how long will I stick to public sector..

Milk Halwa

Ingredients:

Milk                          : 2 Cup

Sugar                        : 1/2 cup

Cardamom powder: 1/2 tsp

Ghee                         : 1 tbsp

Lemon                      : 1 tbsp

Preparation:

1. Bring the milk to boil and curdle it by adding the lemon juice.

2. Keep on stirring until the volume is reduced to half.

3. Keep stirring as you add sugar. (Don’t stop stirring as it might stick to the pan)

4. 2 minutes after adding sugar, add ghee and cardamom Powder.

5. Keep on stirring until the ghee separates.

6. Remove from the heat and garnish with any dry fruits.

Milk halwa is ready to serve.

Serve it either hot or cold.

To serve it cold: Remove from the heat and spread it on the greased plate and cut them to your desired shapes and garnish with dry fruits.

Dill parantha / Dill Puri

Level of preparation – Medium

 

Ingredients

• Finely chopped Dill leaves – 1 small bunch (or any other herbs of your choice such as Fenugreek/Spinach)
• Whole Wheat Flour – 2 cups
• Coriander Leaves -¼ cup
• Chillies  – 2 to 4
• Cumin Seeds – 1 tspn
• Turmeric powder – 1/4th tspn
• Medium sized onion – 1
• Salt to taste
• Oil/ghee (as  required)

Procedure

• Grind the coriander leaves, green chillies and onion to a fine paste.
• In a large bowl add wheat flour, the fine paste prepared, dill, cumin seeds, turmeric powder, 1 tbsp oil and Mix well.
• Gradually add water and knead it to make smooth dough. The dough should be to the consistency of chapathi dough.
• Now keep the dough in a closed container for half an hour.

After half an hour the dough is ready for the preparation

• Now divide the dough to equal sized small balls and roll them to give a circular shape.
• Cook the paranthas on pan with ghee/oil.
• The parathas are done, when both the sides turn golden brown.

 

 

Serve dill paratha with butter/ghee/curd/chutney/pickle.

• To make dill puris, make small balls of the dough and roll them to small puris and deep fry in oil to golden brown.

 

Enjoy the Dill paratha/ Dill Puri

Is life all about compromise…………

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”― Lewis Carroll

What is life?

Life is what you make of it. Life is about learning new things every single day. Life is seeing things in a different perspective. Life is beautiful and it is up to you to make it that way.

If you strip it down, life is about making choices. Our life is filled with millions of choices. If you never made a choice, you would have to stay in one place and which gives the feeling that life has stopped treating you well. Talking to someone is a choice. Stating your opinion is a choice. Apologizing is a choice. Thinking about something is a choice. Life involves thousands of choices every day some of which we do automatically as habit. And what is compromise ? is it required? If yes, why? Usually many a times people ask this question to themselves. And still we hesitate to make it as a choice as it might hurt our ego.

Compromise – Need for a life?

We all say that one should never compromise in life, but in the first place what is a compromise and when do we need to compromise in life. When two close people are strong willed, there will be problems, reaching a compromise and taking decisions will be tough in that relationship. It is a fact that reaching compromise in a relationship is one stumbling block that most of the people face.

To make it up in life, compromise is a must to be worthwhile. Usually for most of us the toughest task is to compromise with others. But in most of the situations compromise works as a life saver. Because, it is “better to bend then to break.”

Life is never perfect. Life is what we make out of it. We might have something planned and when it comes crashing down on us we are forced to make new plans. Thus we do have no option than to compromise to a very great extent to make things work for us. The best way to move ahead in life in any possibilities is to compromise and be prepared for any situation without letting any failures bring you down. In such situation the saying “When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.” holds good.

Compromise is not about giving up but about doing things in different way and hoping to see the possibility of a better outcome. Compromise is like finding a common ground where you have to have a balance in your life to be able to move ahead in life. Compromise is something we all eventually have to discover as one of the pillars. It not only works to reach or goal/aim but also binds us with all the relationship.

Compromise is a game of life. One can never live alone in a society, so when you have to live with others there has to be a certain amount of give and take, so true that one has to make the best of it. Adjustment and compromise in life is the same for everybody. As long as it is things will be balanced up. So one can safely say that life is one big compromise for all….. But still it is an illusion for many of us that “is life all about compromise?”

Some Quotes About Life

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” 
― Oscar Wilde

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” 
― Dr. Seuss

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” 
― Mae West

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” 
― Albert Einstein

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” 
― George Bernard Shaw

“Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.” 
― John Wayne

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” 
―Stephen Chbosku, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.” 
― Amy Tan

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.”
― Earl Nightingale

“Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
― Hans Christian Anderson

“A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.”
―Chin Ning Chu

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
― Buddha

“People know you for what you’ve done, not for what you plan to do.”
― Unknown

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
― Josh Billings

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your life is what your thoughts make it.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

Awesome gift by my friend.

“A friend is one who knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
― William Shakespeare

We all love hanging out with our friends. As children it was play time, then extra curricular activities, going to the movies, the mall, then it was weekend parties in college.
All of this was great. We miss all this once we are done with our college life. And then the contact just remains through phone calls, social networking.

Recently I was on a conference call with my friends ( X colleagues of my first job).
Since I am new to WordPress one of my friends asked if there were any new posts by me. My reply was, nothing great going in life 🙂 so no topic to write on. 🙂

Today I have something to share in my blog. It’s been said that books are the best friends and I love to spend time with books.

Since two days I spent most of the time to search if there were any new books released. After going throgh the summary I din’t like any of the books I found online. In such situitation we usually remember our friends and I did so. But din’t bother to contact thinking I would find it myself.

I heard the door bell ring. There was a parcel from flipkart. As per my knowledge I had not orderd anything from flipkart in recent days. I then opened the door. For my surprise it was a gift parcel. I was curious. As I unwrapped the gift I was overwhelmed and tears rolled down my cheeks. 🙂 🙂
OH MY GOD it was a book. “Thinking, fast and slow” .

Your friend can read your thoughts and tell what exactly you mean. He/she knows you better than yourself……… 🙂
It was a gift parcel from the same friend whom I thought I would contact for the help.

Friends are the best part of life.

Thank you all for your wonderful birthday wishes

Hello Friends, thank you so much for making my birthday special with all your wishes! it means a lot!

This year thought would be a normal birthday as everyone are busy with there professional life. Tried recalling college days when we used to be awake till mid-night so that we would be the first person to wish our dear ones. Miss those days…. And suddenly my phone rings, one of my best friends to be the first person to wish and her next question was I am the first one to wish right? 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 These wishes and questions makes you feel special on your special day.

The day started off as it usually does. My special day stated with visiting temple and offering prayers, which an Indian usually prefers and specially on his birthday.

Your birthday would be incomplete without your favorite birthday cake and expected gift 😉   Yes, I was very happy with the chocolate cake and a Cinderella Doll. 😀 🙂 Doll????????   Seems to be kiddish. But, that gift made my day……:) 🙂   Thanks to my Bro.

Thanks to all my friends for your wishes. Special thanks to all unexpected calls and Facebook posts.

Th@nK YoU @lL FoR ThE WoNdErFuL B!RtHd@Y Wi$hEs

This birthday may be simple but was ‘simply’ amazing!

Loving Mother… :)

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy – Spanish proverb

MOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂

In life, we generally come across various forms of relationships like Father-son, husband-wife, brother-sister, love, friendship etc….. but the most dearest and hearty relation is of a mother and her child. The relationship of a mother and a child carries deep emotions and feelings within it and it is always nurtured by love, affection and care.

A mother is who cannot restrain tears from trickling down their cheeks when they hold their babies for the first time in their arms. Mother is someone who loves unconditionally and places the needs of her children above her own, and not only with words, but also actions.

Mother is the one who gives birth to the child, bought him up, support him when he need someone the most, guide him in taking right decisions, stand against crowd and favors her child if he is right, always there with him in his each and every happy and sad moments, but never expect anything in return. The most respectful and adorable person on this earth is “Mother“. Even if you fight with her, argue with her, pour you anger on her; she will forgive you for everything with a gentle smile on her face.

Is there any relationship better than this relation where there is no ego, no fears, no hard feelings, just the feeling of love and affection? The bond of mother and child is purest and holy.

She is the Gem. Love you mom.

Dedicated to all the mothers in the world… 🙂

Readers please don’t wait for long now and don’t hesitate, go to her and give a hug and tell her “Mother you are next to GOD, thanks for everything you have done for me. You are the best person on this whole earth and I really mean it, you have serve your whole life for us and you deserve the best of everything. I love you mother”

Life is beautiful!!! Live it !!! :-)

A Nice Article about Love
-by Swami Vivekananda

I once had a friend who grew to be very close to me.

Once when we were sitting at the edge of a swimming pool, she filled the palm of her hand with some water and held it before me, and said this: “You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love.”

This was how I saw it: As long as you keep your hand caringly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers round it and try to posses it, it will spill through the first cracks it finds.

This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love…they try to posses it, they demand, they expect… and just like the water spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you .

For love is meant to be free, you cannot change its nature. If there are people you love, allow them to be free beings.

“Give and don’t expect.
Advise, but don’t order.
Ask, but never demand.”

It might sound simple, but it is a lesson that may take a lifetime to truly practice. It is the secret to true love. To truly practice it, you must sincerely feel no expectations from those who you love, and yet an unconditional caring.”

Passing thought… Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take; but by the moments that take our breath away…..

Life is beautiful!!!  Live it !!!

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live. – Swami Vivekananda