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w days back when i was stepping out of our red car wearing a chic scarf and a winter jacket that visual from my dream from a couple of years back came flooding back to my memory the moment was just as i had seen in my dreams my hair was secured with black bobby pins just like it had been in my dreams it was unimaginable it was surreal did i attract this is my life coming back to winter i like winter because it lets me dress up lets me wear nice jackets and scarves and look all prim and proper but it does bring along a lot of discomfort outdoors feel chilly all the time like cold needles pricking you you can t wait to get back to the warmth of your car or your home wellington is nasty for its winds and there is nothing more dreadful than winter winds combined which happens a lot here for my liking the sun peeps out really late and is very quick to call it a day its dark when we walk to work and it is dark when we walk back home and that can get really depressing sorry more dreadful than winter winds is winter winds rains did i mention that winter is early this year and portions of south island are already covered in a thick blanket of snow and wellington has already started flirting with 2 degrees and 1 degree it doesn t really snow here but it did a couple of years ago and took the entire nation by surprise i have never really seen snow falling wish that could come true this winter i better go create that visual in my mind like now share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading standard posted by zinalbhadra posted on may 19 2014 posted under food for though comments 4 comments simple days is there anybody who feels extremely sad about the fact that people won t use ink pens any more as a child who loved a good pen over a good doll it aches my heart to see that its cheap and ubiquitous replacement the ball point pen is flourishing where as the good ol humble ink pen known to be a writer s best friend may well be on the verge of total disappearance a calligrapher would vouch for an ink pen over a ball point day any day i wonder if the kids today even know what an ink pen is and what it looks like i wonder if they will know what a pen is in few years let alone an ink pen every darn thing is becoming digital these days does anyone else feel as disinterested as i do talking on phones i find it really difficult to stay focussed on the phone conversation i can t hold up a conversation on phone longer than a minute or two my mind starts wandering before i know even leading to embarrassment sometimes because i am only hearing not listening try as i might i can t and ever since moving to new zealand i have hardly made any outgoing calls or received any incoming calls either i am connected to my world through skype and whats app and the need to make calls apart from family sometimes has become almost non existent thankfully tcg and i are also not those people who want to be connected on the phone all the time and be updated about everything the other person is doing while s he is away thank god for that i couldn t have put up with a husband who calls 100 times a day there are better things to do does anyone feel the pressure while shopping because there are way too many options to choose from these days thanks to consumerism whether you are selecting milk or a packet of chips or toothpaste or shampoo or even toilet paper for that matter there are way too many options for your little brain to consider it is mind boggling and no matter what you choose you always end up wishing you had chosen the other life was simple when we had lesser options does anyone else feel it is alright to go on hours without looking at your mobile phones i have been increasingly leaving my phone back when we step out and i actually like it it feels nice to give your full attention to the person you are with and share a warm conversation as opposed to staring at your mobile screen when the other person is talking to you it also feels nice to be at a dinner table where everyone is actually enjoying each other s company rather than being engrossed in their phones it feels nice to be in a real world rather than a virtual world does anyone feel that the mindless clicking of photographs we do on our mobile phones or digital cameras is actually annoying we click pictures till we run out of memory then we copy all the data to our laptops and create more space on our phones for newer pictures we have 1000s of digital pictures but hardly any physical photos to hold on to like back in the days anymore how often do we revisit these several thousand pictures back in the days we clicked pictures only on special occasions and had them all developed and preserved in small albums we clicked fewer pictures but we still had memories to hold on to now we only have clutter and no time to sort that clutter i feel when you go click click click all the time you end up having pictures agreed but you also end up losing that moment sometimes i just wish things could be simple once again share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading standard posted by zinalbhadra posted on april 29 2014 posted under family food for though new zealand diaries things i am grateful for comments 3 comments my affair with the kitchen my affair with the kitchen started at a young age i was what 14 girls in my family were initiated into cooking early because good girls must know to cook i remember feeling a bit revolted and the feminist in me feeling agitated because no such rule applied to the brother unfair my mind screamed but i took the plunge nonetheless barring a few episodes where my feminist conscience made its presence known i was hardly complaining i may have taken refuge under gender equality debates a few times but truth be told i was ok with it i mean i was always a foodie and even as a child i had a good sense of taste age 4 onwards i was the guinea pig of the house always being asked to have a bit of taste and check if the seasoning needed any adjustment all of 4 i remember commenting at my newly wed chachi s rotis they are not round enough when it came to food i was tough to please and my sense of taste was only too well developed for my age i wasn t a fat kid just like that i knew my food well always teetering about in the kitchen observing keenly how things were done asking questions passing comments and just being a hindrance in the small kitchen basically little did i know back then that one day i will be very thankful for being initiated in to cooking at a very young age things i am grateful for reason 26 i grew up in a family full of master chefs and it s only natural that some of that talent has made its way into my dna the benefit of starting young is that you have the basics sorted long before your peers begin to start experimenting with using a pressure cooker that was done and dealt with in my case and long out of my way i discovered my love for cooking long before i got married taking the responsibility of cooking everyday and enjoying every bit of it has nothing to do with my marriage if anything my marriage and my move to new zealand has only given me more opportunities and more time to experiment with cooking things that i didn t even consider hitherto and oh boy has it been wonderful or what i began experimenting with different kinds of cuisines different kinds of dishes different kinds of spices and ingredients a few years back and there is no looking back now if i had any doubts about how dearly i loved cooking they have been put to rest post my move to new zealand in fact i now have access to a whole new variety of exotic veggies and fruits that were not found back home too easily and if they were they were exorbitantly priced i have been asked several times how i make time to cook healthy fresh meals everyday with myriad of other household responsibilities no domestic help and a full time job to boot well it s definitely not a garden of roses but we always make time for things we love to do don t we and tcg the designated dishwasher preferred garlic peeler and chopper and all in one handyman cum sous chef in this house where i am the boss willingly helps out with all the odd jobs including peeling of potatoes and to top it all he is not picky and not choosy about his food ever willing to experiment and always appreciative and encouraging now who doesn t like that you know that you are really passionate about food and cooking when you don t tire watching zillion food shows that are aired currently when you start looking up for recipes or end up watching video tutorials of new recipes when you are online when you start planning your meals for the whole week well in advance when you are constantly thinking about which item in the pantry needs to be replenished when you subscribe to hundreds of food blogs when you sneak time in between your work day to check out a few recipes when your start feeling excited about your weekly trip to the supermarket or worse when you start thinking about cooking even in bed being vegetarians there are only a couple of options to choose from at various restaurants here in wellington we end up burning a big hole in our pockets and returning home feeling slightly cheated and underwhelmed and this my friends has turned out to be a perfect premise to cook at home all the time even on anniversaries and special occasions and a big well equipped kitchen which is every cook s prerogative just makes it that much simpler to cook at home would you believe if i said that our eating out is limited to one meal every couple of months the satisfaction that you get when your dish turns out to be perfect is unparalleled and when tcg changes in to his track pants and big ol t shirt after a big hearty meal i know it is worth it it feels so good it works out to be quite a lot cheaper not to mention healthier too to eat at home and bumps up our savings substantially i have been working in nz for almost a year now and almost everyone here eats out or eats take outs at lunch i can happily say that i haven t done that even once to this day i always cook a little extra the previous day for both our lunches i have thought about having a food blog quite a few times i could probably do better that quite a lot of food bloggers out there who only worry about clicking pretty pictures but there are two things that keep me back 1 i don t necessarily use exact measurements most of what i cook is intuitive and measurements are based on what feels correct to eyes and touch and taste 2 i enjoy cooking too much to be bothered about stopping every once in a while washing hands drying them up clicking instagram worthy pictures and finding another couple of hours editing them some day perhaps if my handyman cum sous chef decides to triple up as my photographer who knows share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading standard posted by zinalbhadra posted on april 14 2014 posted under new zealand diaries random the cool guy tcg comments 15 comments making choices the day you get your permanent residency is a very important day in an immigrant s life today is that important day in tcg s life and mine thank you this means that we get to live in new zealand for as long as we like without having to worry about our visas anymore it means that every time we go overseas and come back to new zealand we don t have to stand in the long common queue for international visitors we get to line up the kiwi queue which is smaller and faster of the two queues cheap thrills i know i am silly that way it means that god forbid if we lose our jobs we don t have to pack our bags and go home it means we know which direction our life will be moving in at least for now it means that the uncertainty hanging over our heads is laid to rest and we can focus on having small to medium term goals and achieving them one at a time until it is time once again to do some serious long term thinking like where we eventually want to live new zealand india or elsewhere whether we want to buy our home here or in india whether we want to raise our child when that happens in a foreign land or homeland but for now we are happy the dream we were after for so many months has finally come true and it has put a lot of things in to perspective we have some clarity now and we are no longer insecure about immediate future it means i will have better job prospects and i can perhaps hope to get a job of my choosing it also means having to decide whether we want to continue living in wellington or move to auckland tcg and i have been toying with this idea for a while now we haven t been able to come to much of a conclusion you already know wellington is a cute little compact city with the best of both world it has the glitzy city charm with its quaint cafes and popular clubs as well as the laid back country side to it it is big enough to find all modern world pleasures and small enough to reach anywhere within measured time auckland on the other side is the biggest city in new zealand with the third of the country s population living there it is highly metropolitan and home to all the cultures of the world it s faster and glitzier and offers little more opportunities to do things on weekends tcg has lived in auckland for over two years already has a thriving social circle which sadly we don t in wellington and knows the place too well i have never lived there and knowing my love for big cities a part of me aches to give that city a shot we would earn slightly better than we do in wellington but that would be set off against higher rents and added costs of living living in auckland will also mean accepting that traffic jams will be a part of our lives once again and we might not be lucky enough to stay close enough to work like we do in wellington which in turn would mean spending an extra hour or two commuting at the cost of missing workouts but if we manage to find good jobs and a right place to live it would mean a better way of life and oh yes it would mean saying bye bye to cold harsh and windy wellington weather auckland is way warmer the reason we can t decide is tcg has a hi profile job here in wellington i on the other hand started at the bottom and am making my way upwards slowly my current employment contract ends in a couple of months i have been working here for a year and have hopefully gained enough kiwi experience to get a slightly more interesting job there is a good chance that i find something of my interest in the very same organisation by the time my existing contract ends am i prepared to forgo a year s efforts and start everything afresh yet again in auckland and would tcg find an equally satisfactory job he quite enjoys his present job we keep going in circles without making any headway we are tempted but we don t want to make 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