My Views and Ideas: Life and Parenting

Reports say that United States of America has the highest figures in obesity. It’s apparent that Americans don’t see it as a threat and as a result are not willing to change their life style at all. The outcome can be perilous; perhaps it has already reached to the point where people should start thinking about it seriously. There are numerous reasons for it, for example eating habit, lack of exercise, living style etc are the major reasons. All the above reasons are justifiable .Nnnn --Don’t think I am digressing, just making my point. Eating habit is random, and how can it not be, food here is so cheap and so tempting that it’s hard to resist. It’s a travesty that, there are countries where people are dying because of hunger and poverty and then it is the U.S. ; where people are suffering because of the abundance of food. For instance, consider the factor of life style. Kids learn what ever they see and experience since they are toddlers. I am amazed and want to laugh...

I am not a philosopher to understand the complicated facts of the life ,still some time ,some where in our life we feel like this is the point in the life or this is the fact of life where I have some proficiency to understand things. I do not know whether I am correct or not ,but for me life some times becomes so much complex that we aren’t able to sense what we really need, some times we are so much confused that, life’s greatest luxury, greatest happiness means nothing to us. There are such heartiest relationships, to which you are adhere to, and you even feel very secure in the surrounding of that particular relationship, and at the same time, that closeness, that warmth, that caring sentiment becomes so much significant and important, that your own desires, sentiments get very thinning, very trivial. What drives us to do this? People forget that, they have their own life too, a life that is a precious gift given to any one by God. My argument is, should that importance...

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him. "I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will." Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?" "All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say. The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry. Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?" God said: "When I made the woman she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort. I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children. I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without compla...

Watching cooking shows on television or reading cookery books gives you this sense of un-touch-ability about recipes. Along with it comes the sense where matters of food and taste become “this is how it is” and not “this is why it is so”. All this was true till I found Alton Brown and his book “I am just here for the Food”. Few weeks back I borrowed this book from Tempe public Library. This is a geek’s cooking book, which takes you on a journey through cooking techniques. Basically various ways of applying heat to food stuff. This book is not for recipes, even though there are about 80 or so of them in this book, instead this is a book about technique. You learn why frying is like using a frying pan made out of the same stuff that the evil terminator in terminator 2 was made out of, or why two stapler pins in a microwave are the key to perfectly popped corn. This was an interesting weekend with fair amount of cooking. Started reading Alton brown again, made papad ki sabzi, to which I j...