What’s your question ?

Writing after a long time. These days have been so busy taking care of tungli . 

I had this viral message on my what’s app saying - ask me any question before 2017 ends and I shall honestly reply to it . I am not a person sending forward messages but this one was a good one . 

I sent it to all my contacts via what’s app and I was left only with one question which was - WHY don’t you post your pictures in Facebook or what’s app ? WHY no status updates from you ? 

It’s been years since we saw you and don’t know what’s happening with your life . 

My answer was I am like you all . I do take pictures in my

phones ,camera and I do go out and enjoy like everybody . It’s just that I don’t let know where I go, what I buy, what I do , what I eat what so ever . 

In one way I was shocked with people’s response and in an other way was happy that I don’t let know the world what I do . I think I don’t like letting  people know everything and additional to it people who want to see me would meet me and have some good time . 

Life is beautiful and personal at times .

I believe in eating the food when it’s hot and not taking pictures of it and waste the good time . Like vice in everything I do . 

What do you think about this ? 

What’s your question to me before 2017 ends ? 

My dad

You got a friend in me
When the road looks rough and you are miles and miles from your nice warm bed
You just remember what your old dad said
You have got a friend in me ...
You got troubles
I got them too .
There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you
We stick together and see it through
Cause you got a friend in me
Some others would be bigger , smarter and stronger than I am too
But non of them would ever love you the way I do , its me and you girl
As I grow old our friendship will never die

It's our destiny
You got a friend in me !!

My quotes

Hello everybody !

These days are absolutely beautiful taking care of tungli at home. I don't go out much hence I don't get many things to write . The complete day is filled with tungli and I thought I should definitely do something at least after she is asleep. 

Everyday before I go to bed , I mean a hour sleep I decided to write a quote . Something is better than nothing . 

Here are few of my quotes , hope you all liked it .Post in what you feel about this idea and your views

Which quote did you like the most ?

PS- MN stands for my name . 

Tungli 👀

She is a girl
Who loves silence
She stares at the curtain ,
Moving in the wind
She laughs at the flowers
On a pillow cover

She loves her colorful/ blanket
Which her mom stitched
She holds the legs
Of her ladybird toy
She loves the rain drops
Dripping from the terrace

She loves the pigeons
Dancing in the balcony
She loves everything
Which is orange in color
She loves the orange elephant too

She shouts when the
Birds fly high in the sky
She loves people
Talking to her
She laughs when
She feels sleepy
She is always a lucky charm
And she is Tungli !

What ?

What ?

I knew the Mother's Day for a long time but yesterday out of my busy schedule I saw few  Father's Day update . 

Well , I am someone who doesn't celebrate Valentine's Day because I believe everyday is filled with love . I don't think there is exception for mother/ father/ sister/ mil/sil day . 

Dude, a day can't give you anything . A day is a day and who so ever cannot be changed . It's like the tap policy . Can't be changed . 

Stay happy with the family God has blessed you with . 

The world knows who is your who ?

And even if the world doesn't , it should no way bother . 

Let relations and love stay within you .

Hope I make a little sense . 

Post in your views . 

Learn and move on !

A single incident in your life teaches you many things , in one way it's good . If you are supposed to learn you have to . 

So this morning , I decided to write for all the ill feeling people . Never loose yourself in the flow of others . Remember , life is only once and you don't get the same people around you again .People might upset you in many ways , don't loose yourself. Never keep thinking on what happened , life has to move on . When it comes to life everybody gets selfish and you are not supposed to expect your opinions to happen . Stay true , live life ! 

Love , peace & rock ! 

*April 28 *

Happy to let know that we are blessed with a baby girl !


I guess I should be starting a parenting blog soon :)

In our hearts !

Sitting in the high dependency unit this is what i have to post now . A note that I wrote three years ago . Naveen is yet to reach and please keep us in your prayers always !

Before you were born 

We carried you in our heart

Before you were named 

We named you miracle

Before we saw you 

We knew you would be brave and brilliant 

Before we wanted to see you grow 

We made you a pilot 

Before we fed you 

We made healthy food for you 

Before we slept with you 

We had you next to us

Before you were born 

We had lots to buy for you

Before you were born 

We knew you will never let us sleep

Before you were born 

We knew you would look beautiful

Before everything that happened 

We knew you will be 

The best that could ever happen to us!

God will bless you with a miracle too one day
Then you will know the depth of love we have for you baby !!
And we will always love you ❤️

Our special vishu

Vishu is a festival celebrated in India especially in kerela. These days all the kids stay out for different reasons and few don't get to celebrate festivals and have a proper lunch .
I believe- if you are able to celebrate few things in your life you are blessed . You got to be happy for what you have today .

So, this is the vishu kani which I kept at my home . It's special because I have kept whatever my baby likes , my painting and for our orange pie sitting inside my tummy ! The peachy head should have loved seeing all the fruits and lamps . Next-year, I guess I won't get time to arrange a huge one like this . Probably I will get it done while the small one is sleeping :)

I celebrate all festivals , doesn't matter where I come from !!

Baby elephant

This morning I decided to stay home because I got some programs to watch in the television and Naveen has taken a day off so thought of torturing him in Skype :)

Meantime, was thinking what to do ?All of a sudden those childhood days popped in my head and I started thinking how would my house look like in few days with our baby ! Don't know whether its a boy or girl .. surprise !!!

I decided to do some finger painting which I would be teaching our kid . I should try it before I teach right ?? So took some paints and did  finger painting on a canvas and that happened to be an elephant !! The elephant sitting inside my tummy was rolling la la la... Might be its reading some Sunday newspaper and watching what am I doing ??? Who knows !!!!

Hope you all liked the baby 🐘

 Post in your views

What are we fighting with ?

Every living being in this world has a past , memories and imaginations .

So , do we remember our past ? Yes . Do we imagine if it was all good , how nice ? Yes . Do we have good and bad memories ? Yes .

Are we fighting with the past , memories or our own imaginations ? Don't know !

We are never fighting with our past . Nobody can fight with the past and that's why it's called ,the past .We are actually fighting with the memories and imaginations that we have inside our head.Whether you fight with good ones or bad ones is upto you . I would say always fight with good memories and imagine good things in your life .

You need not pay anything to fight the good  . Be happy that you have 6 senses and make use of it .

You are blessed !

Make the past 'THE PAST'

Staircase wall !

This is an xxl painting that I did .It took a very long time . I managed to frame it and bring it back home . It has four hooks at the back as it's very heavy .

Planning to paint few more pictures until my health permits .

When our baby is born I am sure I will say ' u are an artistic one ' :) see you did all these sitting inside my tummy ( switching on the bulb) !!!

Hope you all liked it , I took this picture from the frame shop itself before packing !

Reality in paper !

Few of the reality  in a piece of paper ! I know it's funny but yea need to do something sitting at home right !y

Passion or Envy ?

What is the difference between envy and passion  ? Something that hit my head today while eating idly and coconut chutney.

Envy exists because someone seems to have or you assume that they have something more than you, and you feel less than them. Envy can exist only if there is someone else better than you. If you are here by yourself, envy cannot happen.

So it means for envy an other person is needed !

But passion  is not like that. Passion  can happen even if there is no one .

Passion can be anything .You can draw passionately, you can read passionately, you can do your gardening passionately, you can cook passionately, or you can just walk passionately.It is just that you have deep sense of involvement.


Whatever is in touch with you right now, you are deeply passionate with that.  Even if no one was here, you can live in great passion .But if no one is here, you cannot live enviously. You need someone to cause that for you – you need help!

Live passionately !

Jasmine love everyday !

Most of the things I do now was learnt when I was a kid . I remember when I visit India on my vacations we had a big farm with so many trees and flowering plants . One among them were jasmine . Oh the love for jasmine is still there ! I used to pluck those 10-15 flowers and tie it in a thread . Not so good but yea I try to bring it together everyday , that's how I learnt to tie the flowers . I remember , before tiring flowers my mother used to make paper flowers and give it to me . I sit and keep practicing .

What a great mother she has been !

Now, When I visit India I make sure someone brings me jasmine everyday . I found a lady in chennai who comes everyday at 3 pm and shouts Amma poo !!!! I go down and buy it . She keeps shouting until she sees me .

During tea time I sit in a cushioned chair and get the flowers together !

So , at any cost I make sure until I am in India I have the Jasmine everyday . I know I won't get it once I leave this place .

Making the best memories in my life !

If my mom would have not taught me the small things in life I would have not known all these beautiful things in my life !!

This is a picture of the Jasmine I tied . I love doing it with a green thread , rather than white .

Strength

Strength always causes
Confusion and fear in others.

Why is she strong ?
Where does she get it from ?
Where is she taking it ?
Where is she going to use it ?

And nobody knows what she will bring up to this world ! 

She !

Don't teach a kid what's life ! Teach them the survival skills and they will survive as u did ! The survival skills as well , he has his own ideas.

The only way to bring them up as a good human is by showing them enormous love . Remember, anything and everything can be learnt from you .They will learn life by themselves ! ! Life is only once !

They must be taught how to think , not what to think.

Love - kids- peace 

Only leaves

Gardening is always interesting . It doesn't mean you need a big space for it , with the little space you have do try planting few . When you see the plant growing it's so much of happiness you feel within .

Today I decided to buy two small plants n got the betel leaf and thulasi . It's said they are auspicious ( I believe it to an extent, not much)
No matter what plant it is ,never let it dry , water it everyday before brushing your teeth:)

Here is the picture of thulasi and betel leaf plant .
Hoping to see it grow everyday !

Thulasi

Betel leaf

Black pen

Drawing an idol takes so much of interest on that particular day . It has to be perfect or at least good to see . I normally don't draw pictures of idols . Today in between of drinking orange juice and eating pomegranate this is what I drew with the Reynolds refill pen that I had . I drew this having shiva, tiger and a bull in my head . I guess I have included the required on this picture ! Hope you liked it . 

Green!

With these birds I am completing the cloth painting session  . I have started doing some crochet now . I remember making hair bands when I was small , nothing more than a hairband .
What I am stitching now ??
That's a surprise !!!!

Let me know your guess ...

Dance with love !

Beautiful  paintings to hang in my new house where we all will be staying together with the orange pie :)
So this is a painting that I completed this morning . A painting done on a black velvet cloth with five different shades .
Hope you all liked it !

Food for you

A man who loves food will love everything in you . Cooking for people who love eating and if they appreciate it is a real treat , because I know people who don't appreciate food . I love cooking and I feel making good food for others is a blessing .
So today, at my aunts  house I cooked vegetable rice and a curd salad for 7 people . I am used to cook for 2-4 people maximum . This is the first time I cooked for a group of people and I loved the experience
So this is what I made ! Did you like it ?

Pink

So when Naveen came this time , it was a great occasion for lifetime and he got me some poster colors and this is the first painting that I did . As I always say when a flower blooms hopes do !! 

Name it !

As I am not going out much , few things that I do are reading , drawing and some art works . Then I eat and sleep and do a bit of gardening . Hence you got to manage with my art for few more days :) because I don't like writing book reviews ! Hope you all liked this sketch too !

Would like to know few names for this sketch.

Change !

If you want your life to CHANGE drastically, YOU will need to drastically.

Change your habits.
Change your friends.
Change your daily routine.
Change the way you entertain yourself.
Change what you're obsessed about.
Change who you listen to.

Change before it's too late.  

Shining mother !

When I woke up early and there was no current at home this is what I did !

Rainy night !

Whenever me and Naveen visit India we have a habit of sitting in the balcony after dinner looking at the sky , stars, the empty roads and enjoying the breeze . Most of the time we would buy ice creams and store it in the fridge so that we enjoy eating it sitting in the balcony . We put our mobiles on charge and move out .

So one day we decided to eat some pistas instead of ice cream and I collected all those shells because we had a lovely conversation on that particular day !

After so many months with those shells this is what I ended up making . Planning to frame this and hang it on the wall .

That was a rainy night with no current and so many mosquitoes ;)

Pongal doodle

I really don't want to write what pongal is . A Google search would answer I thought .

I couldn't manage to draw a rangoli this year , the best way I found is to do one in my drawing book . A doodle with the complete pongal feelings ! Drawing the bull took some time indeed . It was a great pongal for me with yellow pongal, sweet pongal and vadai . Hope you all had great time too .

Here is my doodle !

Get set go !

And this is how I wanted to throw 2016 out of my life ! !

Leaf lady !

When I visit India I get to see all types of insects cockroach, lizards, housefly,snakes, worms, spider what not ?

But this time there is something new and that's a grasshopper . I think it's a sofa hopper :) every evening she visits me and somehow gets into my room . I have no clue from where it comes .
Looks absolutely stunning in green and when I told no one believed . I took a selfie with her ( not posting it ) .

Here is a pic of her !

Why does she come everyday ? What do you think ?

2017

New year is always an excitement . When I was small it was all about new dress and home made yummy food which my mom cooks . Even now I make sure on new year I wear a new dress , prepare delicious food with a sweet and prayers at home . This is a must!
As days pass by and I grow older I feel resolutions are no good, roaming around is not for me , calling everybody and wishing , no ! Spending money on whatever I see no !

Now all that I think is to be more patient , talk less , spend for what is required in my life , eat healthy and sleep peacefully . Might be I am too young but that's still fine .

You all are in my prayers , stay blessed !

Happy new year to you all .