REFRESHING BREAKFAST

One must always ensure that a healthy diet helps one live a
healthy life and a healthy living. And hence a healthy meal is what is most
important for a healthy living. When it comes to food, one must never
compromise, a good food gives one the required nutrients and supplements that
are required by the body. Now, when it comes to starting your day with food, it
the morning Nashta or breakfast which is the first meal of the day. I am sure
you must have all heard about the famous saying which goes like, eat your
breakfast like a rich man and then your lunch like a middle class man and the
last meal which is your dinner must be like that of a beggar. Well there is a
valid and important reason why people say this. The reason is because that is
how our body is programmed and functions in that style. There is no harm is
eating food, but there is a limit and proportion in which our body needs food. One
cannot over do with food, any such thing affects the body badly and disrupts
our schedule, and so we must never compromise on good food.

When it comes to my breakfast I prefer starting my day with
some refreshing food, like fruits and some healthy dry fruits is what I would
prefer my day to start with. I am a milk lover and so all milk products are
always welcome for me, so my ideal breakfast must have a mix of all for sure,
it helps me with the required strength and stamina to keep me on my toes all
day, and lively given my profession. And so I am really looking forward to
enjoy my morning breakfast at Guptaji’s place, which is going to have a proper
mix of all the above that I need to kick start my day.

I am going to Guptaji’s place to have some mouth-watering
strawberry and banana cornflakes, the meal will have a proper proportionate of
fruits along with my favourite milk and of course cornflakes to complete the
nutrients to my breakfast. The main reason why I am so eager and excited to go
to Guptaji’s place is because the breakfast is not too heavy nor is it too
light that will keep me hungry again. At the same time it helps me finish my
breakfast soon, as I don’t need to separately eat fruits, and then milk. It is
a quick meal with all nutrients, required for my body. I am going to relish
this one for sure, with some yum flavour of strawberry and banana. A perfect
start this one is for my day!

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SHOPPING

Happiness is for me shopping, when it comes to that one thing that can make me happy or instantly make me forget all my worries, it is shopping. Well to precisely say the retail therapy never fails, and especially with the female gender, it can never go wrong. So to describe my happiness all I can say is, that shopping it is that brings that smile on my face. Be in times when I want to celebrate or the times when I just need a time out, or a day off, all I think of is shopping. I enjoy shopping to an extent that sometimes I even wonder that the movie, Shopaholic was based upon my life. :-p

Well, jokes apart my mantra of happiness is shopping. Even if it involves shopping for the silliest and pettiest thing, I enjoy it to the core. I love the entire process of going to different shops, giving my eyes the pleasure of witnessing beautiful creations and what best can be the way to appreciate this beauty than just purchasing them. One must learn to appreciate good work, is what I as taught back in school and I truly abide by it, by going on a shopping spree.

So, to tell you more about my shopping love, I am that person who can shop till they drop. Shopping is my ultimate love and rather my first love. From college days to my current working days, shopping has always been by my side. Off late online shopping is the one, which has caught my attention and has got me so attracted to its  charm, that every time I open my phone, I don’t forget to check out the latest deals on the app, and to add an icing to the cake, I almost every time indulge in shopping it. The very concept of online shopping attracts me all the more, because there is a lot of excitement which is attached to the concept. One has to patiently wait for the product to arrive and then when the product arrives it is more a like a surprise gift that has arrived, although you know what the product is, yet there is that spark of excitement attached to it. As the product arrives, there is that excitement and anxiety to see what has come and how the product looks like. And hence I say online shopping has added that new zeal and enthusiasm to my happiness. It gives me that extra dose of happiness at the click of a button, without even going to the malls or shopping centres, one can bring happiness instantly.

Well so here goes my mantra of happiness and this my way of bringing happiness to my life and also happiness to the life of my dear and near ones. (I do consider buying stuff for my dear ones as well, rarely though :-p

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Garnier Fructis Challenge

It reminds me about my friend’s wedding party, I was all decked up, ready for the bash.

Dress check

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But but my hair? I wanted to hide my ugly hair. My frizzy hair. My dull hair. My dry hair.

I hated how my hair ruined my entire look and I hated how my hair looked nothing less than an organic broom.

But then I took the Garnier #HappyHairChallenge and things changed. In a month’s span my hair became manageable and smooth from frizzy and dry. I too was surprised to see the difference in my hair in less than two weeks and at the end of a month, my hair completely changed. Today my hair is a lot smoother than what it was a month ago. It’s a lot more manageable. It’s no more frizzy and no more dry.

My split-ends have reduced considerably or rather I can say that they have all almost vanished. My hair fall has almost disappeared. It feels nothing less than a magic, really.

The use of Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition Shampoo and Conditioner has worked wonders for my hair. It has completely redefined my hair. It has made my hair happy. I am so happy that I took the #HappyHairChallenge and even happier with its results. Thanks Garnier for making my hair look so much better and happier.

TOGETHER

Optimism is the key to good and happy life. Optimism is the essence of a good life. It takes absolutely nothing away if you try to find good in the bad and happiness in sorrow, it would make things a lot easier, trust me. Well it’s obviously not as easy it may seem but with a family like mine it is all seems like a bed of roses. This is about how I am gifted and blessed by god.

It is a saying that your parents are your creator, your god. Not only is my existence because of them but they are also the reason of living to me. They in the true sense are the reason why I am alive, the reason why I am so optimistic and they are my real motivation and my true inspiration.

I was born and breaded in beautiful Spain that was the home to me. I could not have thought of moving out from this place. I absolutely love being there, the NRI tag that I got just added up to all the pleasures and joys of staying there. Like how it is in a Cinderella story, I had all the comforts. I was surrounded by all the best things of the world.

It was till this one fine day when my father decided that he wanted to shift back to our native place, India. This decision he took because he had his old parents to take care of and also a whole business that needed my Dad to be there. I did understand the reason but still at the moment in time, I was hypnotised or rather frozen. I thought that was the end of my so called “good life”. I had grown up with my friends there, I was born and brought up as per the culture there. Not that I didn’t understand why my father had to take this decision but I was very scared.  I was completely shattered. I didn’t know how to react then but all I knew was that it was certain. The decision of moving from this beautiful country was final, my Dad had already taken the call.

 Then we finally moved to India. I was apprehensive but my parents were my strength they told me that as long as we are #together we may not have all but together we have it all. My family are my parents they are my pillar, my strength. They are the ones whom I can fall back on, on whom I can completely rely and to whom I can entrust my all.

They in the true sense are the purpose and inspiration to my living.

Today I am happy that the shift bought so much more to us. We are always together in our good and bad because home is where the heart is.

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Life is about moving on. Life is about finding ways to live. Life is about changing and adapting changes. Life is to constantly grow and to change for the better. Every day is a new beginning. Every minute there is a new learning. What is important is to learn from life. To learn that life is not constant. Life moves on. Time and tide wait for no man. If life has given you failure watch out there will be success following it.

I happened to visit this my Grandmother’s place just recently and what she told me truly motivated me. She said that God is always going to be there for us, no matter what. So of in times of your joy you see four feet- two will be yours and the others will be God’s but in times of your sorrow you might just see two feet. I was puzzled, I wondered why? I wondered why would God leave us alone in time sorrow and be with us in your happiness. To this she replied that those two feet won’t be ours but God’s. God will carry us in his arms during the time of sorrow because it’s the almighty who would stay with us through our thick and thin.

What I learnt was that life is about moving on and with what my Grandmother had to teach me I learnt that no matter what, irrespective of whether others will be there for us not. God will always be our strength. With this thought in my mind, I decided to embark a new beginning or rather #StartANewLife.

I had recently had a break up. I was in a relationship for more than 5 years and this break up wasn’t mutual. I stilled him but he had moved on. I cried every day. I had sleepless nights. I had given up on life. I wondered what could have gone wrong. What could it be that forced him to break a 5 year old relationship? I cursed myself for this. I not only gave up on my friends and secluded myself from the group but also I started to remain locked in my room so that I didn’t have to face my family who would have millions of questions to ask.

But I realized that nobody in our life is going to stay forever. People come and people go and life is just a show. Nothing lasts forever so a five year old relationship ended because maybe somewhere God would have something better planned for me. I have moved on in life. I have moved on from that phase of life where all that mattered was him. I have realized that I am stronger than my sorrows and grief. I have learnt the way of life. I have learnt that life is about moving on and starting a new every time there is a downfall. 

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Dry baby, happy baby

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A child is a mother’s creation is they say, but I believe in the complete opposite. I would rather say, it is a child who gives birth to a mother. Yes, a child is the one who gives birth to a mother and motherhood. A woman is complete they say, when she is a mother. I truly believe in this and now feel immense satisfaction when I go through the same phase in my life. A woman moves through various cycles of life, from being a daughter, to a sister, to being a wife and then ultimately being a mother. Motherhood is the best thing that happens to a woman. A woman is given this gift by god that she gives birth to a child. I personally believe it requires immense strength and will power to bear a child for nine months. Because the child lives through you and vice versa. The nine months that a child lives in the mother’s womb, the child connects to the mother. A child breathes through the mother, it eats, and lives through the mother. And hence I say motherhood is the best thing that happens to a woman and gives birth to a beautiful relationship what they call of a child and parent.

Child finds joy in little and simple things. Like the simplest of things makes a child happy, for instance even a small sweet that somebody gets for a child makes a child very happy. If their favorite poetry is narrated somewhere, they feel a part of it and start to join in. This is not something that a grown up can do. Once when we grow up, we change. We become more world oriented than self - oriented. We start to think about what others have to say and what others will think about our actions.

I remember when I was a kid, I always said that I want to grow up fast but now that I am all grown up I do realize that my life as a kid was a lot better than what it is now. No tension, no worry only happiness and joys in little things. How I wish I could lead such a life even today but well only the little ones are fortunate.
So it is utmost important that now that we are grown up and realize how crucial and how joyful our yester years were, we do the best for the little ones. Right from ensuring that they have their meals on time and to making sure that they sleep well. For them to sleep well, it is important that their diaper remains dry. Well, it is Pampers Baby Dry Pants that takes care of this and ensures dryness both inside and outside for up  to 12 hours. This will keep the baby dry and healthy because a dry baby is a happy baby.

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Be positive

Be positive. Failure is only a stepping stone to success. Don’t give up and what not? How often do we come across these sayings? Looks like everybody in this world has something or the other to teach us. The real question is how many actually mean it, how many actually be positive, how many actually don’t give up and how many can actually take failures?

Well I can say with a lot of pride that I am one such person. I am very optimistic.

Here is my story of optimism-

I have been looking for a change in job since the past one year now. Initially there were no calls and absolutely no interviews. I wondered why? I did everything that I needed to, I updated my resume, put it on the job portals but to my bad luck I used to get no interview calls. People blamed the poor job market.  I thought to myself that I just wanted a change, a better job but there were people who had none. I waited patiently.

Finally after a few months I started getting the much awaited calls, this didn’t happen on its own. It happened after I crossed the limit of the maximum jobs one can apply on naukri.com. Now came the interview rounds. Every time I gave an interview I thought I would get selected and would wait for their call or joining mail but I would end up dejected. I would have given more than 10 interviews in a month but I did not even get selected in one. There was a point in life, where I wanted to give up and said that may be I am not a deserving person enough to get a good Job. A good corporate job, a job in one of those sky scrapper building is what I had always dreamt of and for some reason that dream felt only like dream and I almost felt that it would never turn into reality. I did it all from job portals to meeting new people every day to calling up those references or contacts that I once made and met them only so that I could take help from them one such day, unfortunately nothing seemed to be in my favor. I kept giving interviews and I kept failing at it.

I got calls from few best places and few worst places, I ensured I go for all and try my luck everywhere, only to get more disheartened each time. However once a point, where I had almost given up and that came is when my mother came up to me and reminded me of my own story that had occurred when I was in standard 9^th. I was always bad with mathematics and so I had failed in the subject and was given one chance as a re-attempt case to move to the 10^th standard. I remember then, I had practiced math like crazy and decided I would not give up, for the shame of being behind my friends and also for the fact that I was not so weak in life that one such thing would take me behind or not let me move ahead. She made me recall my words then, I had promised to her that mom, I would not give up on math and I will move ahead. She told me to repeat those words again this time and I said it to her this time again, mom I will not give up. This attitude of mine, let me move ahead even after so many failures, I am today with a job in one of those sky scrapper buildings that I had only dreamt of and in one of the best companies. Thanks to my mother who bought me up with this never dying attitude and filled me with optimism every time I was low.

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APNO KO APNE DUM PE JEENA SIKHAO

It is not about philosophy but the certainty of life which
shows you ups and down and thats how the graph of one’s life is. As a kid I
always use to wonder what my dad did to buy us happiness, the lovely house we
stayed in, the four wheels that made the unruly road goes as smooth as butter.
Until one day when it was battle that my family lost. That was the turning
point in my life when I had to be the roots of my family tree. He has always
nurtured the thought of giving better life every moment. He always thought that
it is one life and we must make it large.

All of us have gone thru some situation in life that has
changed the way it looked, I was not even an adult, not 18 I thought why it
came so early. But my mother was the branch that stood right and let the
flowers blossom my little sisters. My mother guided me in every walk of life
and she is the creator of the woman I am today.

She has made me independent not only financially but also a
decision maker, my father had taken the right decisions which helped us grow
strength to strength. His saving, where there even after he was not around, I
completed my graduation did my further studies today I can support the family I
am a responsible sister a great daughter and above a good person.

This is a learning that life is not how one thinks it to be,
yet another learning of one’s life that no school or college can impart this is
the education given by my parents to make me self-reliant to fall and rise on
my own to make me learn to balance is the art.

Mother is somebody who knows us in and out. She knows what
we want, what we desire and what our basic need is. My mother has been rock
solid for me. She in the true sense is my life support. She knows when I need
her shoulder to cry and her eyes are stern when I need a lesson. She has made
me a self- reliant person. What I am today or rather where I am today is only
and only because of her guidance and mentoring. She in true sense is my guide
and my mentor.

I take this opportunity today to thank my mother today who
has truly believed in apno ko apne dump e jeena sikhao and helped me grow and
become a better and a more self - reliant person.

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