It is a beautiful Monday again

I have been away from this blog what with all the office work and home work (as if i really did clean my house!) and all. A very dear friend read my blog the other day and told me how she liked the fact that I give so much importance to very mundane events in my life when I blog. So this one if for you Mani.


I love Monday's. Monday is a day for a new beginning, a fresh start. I enjoy reaching office on Monday and being so lost for a minute that I need to go thru the pages of my diary on Monday. I love the fact that each monday I tend to forget something or the other while reaching office - my specs, my ID card, my lunch box and so on (today my wonderful husband reminded me of each of these things before stepping out of the home - I knew there was a divine cause when I married him!). I am very lazy on the weekends, which is one more reason why I am enthusiastic about Mondays. I look forward to meeting my colleagues for a cup of coffee - a refreshing start of the day. I invariably tend to do something new in my To-Do list.

So to start your Monday on a good note, here is a refreshing thought!

My new hobby: paper quilling earrings

I have picked up a new hobby and this time it resembles my choice in jewellery as well. I have a lot of earrings and love all sorts of jewellery. I had read about paper quilling some time back. I recently gifted my niece a paper quilling set for making dolls, and other shapes and toys. I bought one for myself and now today I made my tenth earring.
Sharing some of the pictures here.

White and Green

Fuschia Pink and Orange

Blue and Red

Orange and white

Learning Food Photography

My first passion is food, so much so that I have an entire blog dedicated for my food passion. Naturally I used a lot of pictures for the blog. They are crude and amateur just like me. My cousin Mihir, who is a professional photographer himself is tortured to look at them and since he loves me enough to make me improve upon my skills, he suggested a book - Plate to Pixel. The outcome is that I have just purchased this book and eagerly awaiting its arrival.
I hope this helps my blog a little :) and who knows, this could be another hobby that I can mix with my first love - food. 

Paying tributes

I am watching our listening to a tribute paid to Jagjit Singh on colours channel by his contemporaries and progenies alike. He was a man of melody no doubt. What I am struck with is how difficult is to sit in the audience and.listen to people talk, sing, praise and appriciate your husband who is no more. Glaring cameras who won't leave you for a minute and would give anything for a sign of tear? What it must be to be Chitra Singh right now!