100 Happy Days: Day 16 Unhappy today

Happiness is ‘Living the life of gratitude’.

 Not everyday is a happy day, a perfect day, unhappiness comes too, and today is one such day. I am not happy today. When things don’t go our way, there are problems too. It could be health or emotional, social or financial, not all days are same. But that is life. It has many curves that pass through bright and dark days. Today I spend the whole day at home because I had a major fall and was not able to move. Knee is hurt and swollen, pain is intense but what should I complain about? If I complain about my pain what can anybody do? People may sympathize but they cannot share my pain, it is the cross I must carry alone. Happiness and problems play an alternating game, pain follows pleasure and vice versa. Because of pain we appreciate pleasure and learn to value it. We must be grateful that it is not here to stay. This too shall pass.

This is part of life and we must accept things as they come because living the life of gratitude is healing energy.

 So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World

100 Happy Days: Day 15 Basking in Sun

Happiness is ‘merging with nature’.

Mumbai is the city of noise, pollution and population. But there are some pockets of open spaces that are converted into parks. These are the places where one can experience some moments of silence in the company of nature. The sun filters through the trees throwing the lacy shadows on the ground, there is a sweet fragrance of flowers and plants, birds chirp with joy creating a musical moods, butterflies spread happiness, fluttering their wings carelessly.

It’s a pure bliss to walk through the dirt path and explore the inner solitude.

 So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World

100 Happy Days: Day 14 Winning a Contest

Happiness is ‘Winning a contest’.

Such Joy in getting appreciation for the work we do. Times literary carnival was held in the month of December 2013 and I was glad that it happened in my Suburb of Bandra. I enjoyed 3-day Litfest attending different talk shows of the famous writers and got inspired to write. The carnival didn’t end just there, after the event, there were many contests held on their FB page. I submitted my feedback on the event and I am happy to be the winner of contest ‘Most Enjoyable Event’

 So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World

100 Happy Days: Day 13 Chopping Veggies

Happiness is ‘Chopping vegetables the way you wish’.

Chopping Vegetables is a skill and an enjoyable activity. I can never understand why people depend on helpers to do this task. Some even dump their veggies into the food processor to get the quick results. Okay, I agree, I do that too sometimes. But chopping vegetables is an art. The act of slicing through the soft flesh with sharp knife, and getting the sweet fragrance of the veggies is a pure joy.

There are different ways to chop vegetables. When you wish to make Chinese fried rice, veggies should be chopped very fine and slant wise. When cooking for noodles, it needs to be chopped lengthwise. For biryani it is in big square pieces, and in curry, you can just dump it whole after slicing off the ends.

With carving knife, we can give good shapes and make artistic visual presentations on salads. There is art everywhere that only chef understands. Chopping veggies is the extension of cooking because only the chef knows what taste will emerge from the veggies chopped in a certain way. If done wrong, there are chances of veggies half cooked or overcooked and soggy.

Chopping veggies is an art that I love as much as the art of cooking itself.

So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World

100 Happy Days: Day 12 Heritage Buildings

Happiness is ‘Enjoying the artistic aspect of heritage architecture’.

Mumbai has changed its skyline over the years. Old buildings have been under the hammer of redevelopment. High rise buildings with swimming pool, Gym and walking path in the open space is a norm today. Although there is artistic architecture in some of the new buildings too, it cannot compete with the heritage buildings that were built 100 years ago. They have a beauty of their own. Sometimes I go to the narrow lanes in the suburbs of Bandra to admire those petit, cute, one story buildings that have an artistic façade.

That is a feast to my eyes.

So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World