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Elixir of life
As I strolled around the lake not far from my house on an afternoon, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the alarming shortage of water that plagues the Lower Mainland. It made me ponder the significance of something we often take for granted – the availability of running water when we turn on the tap. What if one day it just stops? How would we survive? We continue to live our comfortable lives because – when we turn on the tap and we have running water… what if that water ran out? How would we survive? Water, sustains all forms of existence on our planet. Yet, despite its abundance covering…
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A matter of convenience
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Love Thyself
Summer is upon us, and I’m sure we are all flocking outside our houses. I must say, I love staying indoors, but I too am venturing outside to embrace all that nature has to offer in British Columbia. As I navigate through the summer, exploring BC, I have been taking pictures here and there of nature. While capturing the beauty of nature, I don’t often include myself in the frame. I’ve always struggled with my relationship with a camera, as it never really saw me the way I saw myself. What I saw in the mirror didn’t match what the camera captured. I found more flaws in the pictures than…
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Fashion Diaries
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What is a goal?
We know we can get something done but – do we truly take the time to define what that ‘something’ is? I want to take a minute to talk about – what makes something a goal? We all walk with ideas and thoughts of what we want to get done in our lives. Be it as simple as getting laundry done (I love the fresh scent of laundry – this is on my mind frequently 😊) or something big like preparing for a marathon (this is never on my mind). Either way, it is important to define that ‘something’. If you don’t articulate it, how do know what you are…
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Gettin’ it done!
It has been a while. Hello again 😊 We all prioritize based on what we can get done. So, in the last 4 years since my last blog post, I’ve made a lot of decisions, prioritized, and accomplished what I set out to accomplish. Along the way I had to put certain things on hold (including posting blog entries) prioritizing other things. I might make blog posting easy, but it does require a lot of my thinking powers to pull my thoughts together. I look at my life’s tasks as projects in my mind that I’m always planning and executing. Some of these are small and simple and some of…
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Here’s an idea!
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Whose got it?
Story time – When I was in grade 1 I participated in a Hindi Story Telling competition at my school. It was a tale about a sparrow, she brought food for her family everyday until she got swindled by a pigeon. The pigeon stole the sparrow’s food. The sparrow knew how to keep the food safe; but the pigeon didn’t. When the pigeon came home one day all his food was gone. He didn’t know how to get more food so he went back to the sparrow to say sorry and ask for her help. When the sparrow saw he was starving the sparrow decided to help him. The sparrow…
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A matter of convenience
Back in 2006 I watched, An Inconvenient Truth . The movie helped me understand how our world is interconnected. It resonated with me; but didn’t really fully grasp the meaning of the word ‘convenience’ in the context of climate change. Fast forward some 15 years later and as someone who has gotten slightly older and (don’t laugh, I’d like to believe) wiser, I recently saw the sequel to that movie – An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. I can now say I understand the significance of the word ‘convenience’. If life was a cartoon, a light bulb that would have gone on above my head after I finished watching…
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Elixir of life
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Saucy life
Most Indian people have the idea that if you are trying to eat healthy and you are going vegan – the food is going to be boiled, steamed and extremely bland and nothing but dal and vegetables. If I went with that conventional idea, I wouldn’t have been able sustain a vegan diet for more than a week. I would have had a mental rebellion against myself and gone back to unhealthy foods as a revolution against myself. (Viva la pizzas!). My taste buds are different from most of the people around me: they hail from India, with a little bit of a Middle eastern kick and are surrounded by…
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Breaking up is hard to do
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Breaking up is hard to do
When I was starting off on my weight loss journey, I knew two things: (1) I had to let go of certain foods (2) I had to change my lifestyle. I have been a dessert lover my whole life. I could polish off any cake in one night and not regret it. For a McCain’s Deep and Delicious cake, I would start with one log type of slice on one end, then go to a 2nd log, then 3rd log, then the logs would turn into rectangles and soon enough I would end on the other end. Sometimes it could all go down in an hour. Yeah… I had a…
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Saucy life
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Contradictions!
I’ve never really been much of an extrovert (especially online). I’ve been an online lurker but never really had any motivation to post anything (Kudos to you who do it). Starting this blogging journey and revealing myself online is a big step for my kind. There is contradiction in my life that I haven’t quite reconciled yet – I have presented myself extrovert at many occasions and later I’ve had to explain that I’m generally very quiet. I can be chatty with anyone and I’m not shy about it. I’ll strike up a conversation – no problem. But what I don’t show is that it takes a lot of energy…
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Waking up to adulthood
Saying that I got along with my father would be a lie. Despite our clashing personalities he gave me everything and anything I wanted. He sheltered his family while spoiling us endlessly. We just had to ask him for something and he would make it happen. When he passed away, I was catapulted from living a life as a princess into life as an adult in reality. I usually don’t think about the time he passed away, but sometimes my mind wanders in that direction. I hadn’t been married long when he passed away. I was still trying to figure out how to be a wife and live life as…
