Visit to Beautiful Norway

My Cooking Adventures

I always loved cooking, but somehow when in India I could not explore it much because of my erratic work hours. I used to make elaborate lunch on weekend though.. But that was again limited to few weekends in a month.. Now here in Poland, with office hours limited to only 8 hours😊(Yeah only 8 hours) I have again started to cook more.. Few pics of my cooking explorations.. Pics are from cell so quality is not that great.. First home made Pav Hara Bhara Kebab Navratan Korma Cajun Spiced Potato.. BBQ Style My First Whole Wheat Bread Whole Wheat Nankhatai Baked Sabudana Wada Mendu Vada(Could not get shape though.. Were very tasty) Veg Kofta Khichu Carrot Handvo Misal Pav(Even Pav were Home made with Whole Wheat Flour) Pani Puri

Things I miss being out of India

Well, it's been almost a year since I moved out of India. We moved to Poland a year back to explore new opportunities and most importantly, to travel around Europe. I was always fascinated by Bollywood especially Yash Raj Movies - DDLJ. It was my dream to visit Switzerland. I had never been out of India before and in just last one year we traveled so many countries of Europe- Czech Republic, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium and Austria. Best part of staying and working in Europe is work life balance which I craved like anything when I was working in India. My job had very erratic hours, few months I even worked at a stretch on all weekends, no offs. Now, I am back to my daily Yoga practice here in one of the beautiful parks next to my home. My inlaws moved with us here and we are enjoying a family life here too like in India. Life seems just perfect, no pollution, no honking, no noise, good roads, clean environment, fresh air etc. But still the Indian in me feels inco...

Happiness

Happiness is a state of your mind and not the state of luxuries of your life. Everyone thinks once I get "this" I will be happy.. It starts from getting good grades in school, getting admission in best degree college, best job, big fat salary, big houses, best car etc. Even in relationships people attach happiness or being complete with getting married. I too had my good days and bad days in my life.. But I feel that so far I have learned to be happy with whatever I have or whatever I dont have.. As soon as you know someone from outside you find that their life is perfect and beautiful.. When you go little closer you get to know real problems of their life. How is it possible that almost everyone on this earth has problems/issues.. Listening to other people's problems has made me realize importance of my happiness(state of my mind). From my maid to a close friend who has all luxuries and is multi millionaire everyone has issues.. Stop expecting from your lives.. And sta...

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