My first blog-hop!

Thanks mfdt for nominating my rather random blog for the blog hop! I am as much excited as surprised by this nomination :)

 So, about me..  I have been blogging for almost 8 years now. Didn't realise that so much time had passed till I actually wrote the last line! My first blog was for a specific period in life - when I was studying. And I promptly discontinued it when I stopped. I jumped from a life of a crazy college goer living in a big city, trying to do something good with myself into a completely different world, in the backwaters of this country, a place where I know noone, still trying to do something good.. failing a little, succeeding a little.. so i decided to document this strange but realistically real world and its happenings too through this blog. Its funny that after almost 7 years of starting this blog, its introduction still holds absolutely true!

Given that I write mainly about things that happen through/during work, I want to keep my anonymity intact. Suffice it to say that I'm a government servant. Ive grown up in different places due to my father's transferable job but I loved the variety it brought to my life. Unlike rest of my family, I have had a fairly cosmopolitan upbringing and I am thankful for that. I had always loved to read and play different sports in the past but not much now. 

 I look at mfdt and have been in awe of her versatility. Her ability to juggle her work her baby and all her hobbies and yet find time to read so voraciously amazes me.. I am pretty much the opposite. Since I started working, I have pretty much dropped all old hobbies and havent picked up any new ones, mainly due to my innate laziness I suppose. My time passes from work to my son to tv.

But yes! How can I forget, the one passion that still lives on is food. I am obsessed. I dont blog about it because this blog has a specific mandate. But I spend a lot of time surfing all these wonderful blogs on food. And watching Masterchef Australia! I started with cooking 4 all seasons  - I have spent many wonderful wonderful days in the kitchen in our jammu home making her biryanis and andhra mutton fry! from here on, i started exploring the world of food through many blogs such as  simplyrecipes.com , foodess.com, smittenkitchen.com, chefinyou.com tarladalal.com, yummytummyaarthi.com and so many more! What I love to do nowadays is surfing for food that my very picky son may like to eat and cooking for him. I think these days, the thing that makes my day is when i come home from a stressful tiring day at work and my son climbs into my lap and says in his cute just-begun-talking way that he wants cake! He associates certain things with certain people. So the first time he ate cake was when I baked one incidentally and ever since he associates cake with me alone. A cake baked by anyone else just isnt cake for him! So, now I keep trying out new things which he will like and associate with me and climb into my lap and ask me for!

Blogging has been a big part of my life because it feel therapeutic to write it all down, its a wonderful way to relive your past.. I still read some of my older posts with nostalgia and blogs are what keeps up my passion for cooking. Since this blog - hop is about passing on the spirit of sharing, I nominate pilani pictures , a blog of a friend turning into an author that I follow and aarthi from yummytummy because even though we dont know each other personally, her's is the blog I'm following religiously these days for her yum south indian food.