Me and my World

Deepavali represents victory of good over bad! Hope you all had a good Deepavali with friends and family!! 'Deepavali' this is how we call it down south. All festivals take me back to my childhood days. We will we woken up at 4am on Deepavali. After that very early morning bath and new dress, comes the bursting of crackers before we eat breakfast. For the sake of tradition and belief, we would all burn a kambithiri . Kambithiri is the long thin stick kind-of fireworks that you hold in your hand. Anycase, we would hurry up to breakfast after bursting the required firecrackers. My grandfather would insist in eating his breakfast before the sunrise, and that would be before 6:30am. So what was for breakfast? Dosai and ukkarai . Just to think, amma and mami would toil in the kitchen from early dawn making these dosai for about 20 people. And believe me, we never ate a few dosai , and especially since it comes with Ukkarai , we would goble-up 5-6 dosai in no time! There is ofcou...

I passed my Prelim exam and oral...It was an experience I will never repeat. Writing exams for one whole month and then waiting for a oral that was never getting scheduled and then 3 months after my exam.. was a torture! But I passed. The 2 days after my orals I spent with my friends, cooking and eating, and playing... The whole past week has been kind of busy with work and class, and come Monday the schedule will continue to be busy with exams for my TA class.. So this weekend, no just today, I decided to let go.. and how? with my friend Alka, who visited me all the way from Clearlake.. We had long talks, celebrated our togetherness with dinner and lunch.. watched a movie..funny movie.. shopped.. and said our goodbyes and finally she decided to come back soon! What a peaceful day... Now to celebrate the last weeks, I decided to bake... Eggless Banana cake...this is an original recipe, with ingredients that I have at home. It's still baking and must be done by the time I finis...