New place; New people

Feeling like blogging after long time.
Life has taken totally different turn and had given me really different experiences.
I have never ever thought that I will develop patience and tolerance in my character.
But I am really happy for that.
I have lost my two fathers ( Dad and Father-in-Law ) within 3 years; I had to move homes, places and even countries in the last 1 year.
I realized that we take many things for granted and we never realize the importance of them.
When I had most of the things in life, I didn't realize the importance of them.
But after I shifted to Australia, I really really realized the importance and values that life wants to teach us.
I realized the importance of one dollar, importance of having a rental house, importance of your privacy, importance of earning your own money, importance of having time with children and importance of being aggressive and sometimes importance of keeping quiet in a conversation.
I met many people who had inconsistent thoughts and activities, who tried to impose their views of life on me, who wanted to help me genuinely and many many characters.
In all these, I was able to survive only because of the support and love that was provided by my husband and daughter ( Without her knowledge ).
I think that God wanted to test our rapport, thats why all these happened.
Wanted to write many things. Starting with this.
Many more to go.
Have a Happy Week end ( Yes. I work till Thursday only ).

Being Vegan in India

I wanted to try vegan diet for some days.
Today is my 55th day as Vegan.
I just wanted to try for a month and leave it. Strangely, I started liking it.

Difficulties:

Honestly speaking, I didn't face much difficulties in following this diet.
I had been following vegetarian diet for more  than 12 years.
Basically I am allergic to Milk smell.
The things I had to avoid was Curd, butter, Cheese and Ghee.
We can strike off Cheese and Butter, as I don't have any space for them in my day to day cooking. My family's way of cooking will not have Cheese and Butter for many generations.
So, Curd and Ghee were the main targets.
I told people that I don't like to have curd now. It was acceptable.
But when it comes to sweets made using Ghee, I had to explain that I am following Vegan.
Though I am not fond of sweets, colleagues in office will bring one or the other sweets and insist you to have them. I successfully avoided them.

How it helped me

Why I started liking this diet?
I could not eat any unhealthy or junk food items.
Sweets, Bakery snacks, Pizza and many items got off from my food list.
I felt very happy.
I got a good habit 'Mindful Eating'.
I found out that most of the south Indian foods are already 'Vegan'.
I started exploring traditional snacks and healthy food.
I just started avoiding animal products. Now for some days, I am not taking 'White Sugar' and 'White flour\Maida\All Purpose Flour'. This helps me to be fit and healthier even more.

I just started this diet without any intention. But now, I want to follow for some more days and explore this completely.

Let me see how it goes :-)

With Love,
Vaanadhi

Happy New Year 2018

I wish you very happy new year.

Instead of wishing, I have learnt to observe what the year wants to teach us. But still we can't go without planning. So I making my plans and destiny will make its own plans.

Here's my plans for the next one year.

My main focus areas:

1. Settling down with a job in Sydney, Australia.
2. Continue to follow healthy diet and exercise plan.
3. Good Financial planning and follow up in budget.
4. Develop good relationships.
5. Learn to avoid things which hurts unnecessarily

Plans:

1. Make a daily ritual in diet and exercise.
2. Make a daily expense notebook and calculate.
3. Practice to be silent in unwanted conversations.
4. Read many books.
5. Do a course in Early childhood education.

With Love,
Vaanadhi

Year 2017 Review

Year 2017 has been a learning year for me personally.
Main thing which I learnt is 'Things can go out of your control even if you plan'

When I look back my resolutions of 2017, I have a slight pain in my heart.

First one was 'Do Better at work' - I completely stopped working due to tension in personal life and have resigned my current job, January 10, 2018 is my last working day in my present organization.

Reading and Writing - I could read some books and could not write anything.

Travel - I could not travel much, but we managed to visit new places in Karnataka.

I achieved my relationship resolution, that is what I believe.

Gardening - I had to vacate the house where we stayed and  half of my plants were adopted by one of my friends, It is really painful to give away your plants. I do not know in the near-by future whether I will be able to start a garden.

Good Things Happened : 

* My brother's family got confirmation that they are expecting baby in 2018.
* We got family permanent residential visa to stay and work in Australia, which was a plan in our life.
* We started constructing a house in native, which is in finishing stage; this was a dream in our life.
* I learnt what a minimalist life style is and started practicing minimalist lifestyle. I understood that I am more interested in minimalist life structure. It makes e happy.
* I have formed good exercise and yoga routine.

Bad Things Happened:

* My husband's father has been diagnosed with Cancer and he is counting his days. Life of each person at home is like hell.
* We both resigned our jobs.
* We had to take off our daughter from her favorite school.
* We could not travel to Australia even after getting Visa.
* There was misunderstanding with my sister-in-law ( It helped me to understand that we both are totally different and It is better to stay in distance )

On last day of 2017, My husband said, 'Every year will have good and bad things, Don't blame the time.' I agreed.

Be Happy To Be A Woman!!

Two weeks back, I was into management training.

'Women In Management' was the training name.

It was really interesting.

They used the 'Strengths Finder' method and encouraged each and everyone of us to find our own strengths and develop them to shine in life.

I have never had a thought to manage people, I hate it at work.

But still the ideas given in the training was really good.

At last, the trainer made us to write our own poem about the things we learnt in training.

Oh.. We were capable of writing a kind of poem..

Here's ours..

Becoming a leader is not impossible

Try and make yourself that capable

5 AM people, we were the one

Got to know, we are not alone

Don't leave before you leave

For you don't have any clue

Be brave and have fun 

After all it is all your life, Be a winner in the long run !!!

Isn't it interesting? Please say so.. :-)

I got a chance to meet women in higher management in our firm and they shared the work-life related issues. Now I realize that most of the women are struggling to bring their children up, and I am not alone in this. This gives me more interest to come back for work daily.

Just a chitchat

Have a Happy Weekend ( One more day is there.. But still )

With Love,

Vaanadhi

Happy New Year 2017 !!!

'What is the new year resolution?'
'I don't make resolution this year.'
'Why?'
'Because I always break resolutions'
'Resolutions are to break only na'

This conversation I heard yesterday.

Actually resolutions are not meant to be broken.
And it is not that you have to take resolutions on the New Year's day.
But we can have a fresh start.
And if you stay in a city like Bangalore, the new year sense automatically comes and spreads to your heart, at least to me it had happened.
Even though, I am not a party-lover, we still celebrated at home.

And here goes.. My plans for this year..

1. Do better at work :- Actually studying ( not reading ) well and performing well at work have never been my resolutions in any years. Because I used to work for my salary and I will have that satisfaction. But last year, due to personal stress, I couldn't concentrate much on work. That gave still more stress. Hence, I have planned to do better performance this year. I should give as much inputs as possible.

2. Reading and Writing :- I should read various types of books, apart from historical novels and love stories. And I should start writing more as well, on various topics.

3. Travel :- As I had mentioned in many posts, I love visiting new places, but I hate travelling ( If I have a machine which will take me to the place that I think, in a minute, will be wonderful ). I would love to visit historical pilgrimages and artistic places. At least two places, I should visit this year.

4. Relationship :- I should not hurt people and should not ignore loved ones ( not annoying ones ).

5. Gardening :- I should grow more and more plants. Try to grow some.. The pleasure is immense :-)

Apart from these, I have a simple resolution as well. It is a family resolution. After getting back to home from work, We should use our cell phones like 'land-line' phones. Whenever we have to make\receive calls only, we should go near to it. Let me tell you next year by this time, how it worked :-)

Wishing you a great and wonderful year ahead!!!

Love,
Vaanadhi.

The YEAR 2016

Year 2016, was the first new year which I came across without my dad.
It took this whole year for me to recover from his death. And I am still recovering.
I encountered My first birthday without him, his first birthday without him, My wedding day without him, His wedding day without him and many more like these.
These are some things that I have never thought that will happen in my life.
It is really difficult for a girl like me, who will be clinging to dad always.
Many days, I have gone through depression.
I should be thankful to My husband and brother for helping me to recover from this disaster.
And I should be really thankful to my little wonder, for the wonders she does in my life, without her knowledge. Whatever she does, it makes me happy.
I had a job change for no reason.
Got new friends. Encountered new environment and managers.
This year had taught me many things.
I had really understood how important every relationship is.
And why we should think before hurting anyone by talk.
I could not read as much books as I wanted to read.
I could not travel as many places as I wanted to.
This has been a great and unforgettable year in my life.

Once in a while, we need to think about the happenings in life.

Be grateful what you have in life. Especially people.

With Love,
Vaanadhi

P.S. I could not post this on the last day of 2016, even though I wanted to.