Maven Mee

E arly in the morning my phone starts ringing. From my deep sleep, I silenced the call. But my friend was persistent. After the 3rd ring, I looked at the phone and recognized by childhood friend is calling. I was very excited. Our call lasted for 2 hours. It was so much to fun to remember the old days. She was my bench partner in 10th grade. Actually we have been classmates from kindergarten till 10 grade. Last we talked that was 3.5 years ago, and she remembered my words that “you can call me anytime”. Everyone has their own definition about busyness, I call that their own business.   Before marriage I was a free bird, after marriage too 🤗 . All my friends became busy after their marriage, so I thought I would also be very busy after marriage. But actually it is not like that. You can manage time for job, hubby, hobbies and friends. Even after a child, I still have free time (actually this blog was started after I had a child). It is a decision of each person if they want to tak...

 

Beautiful sunset at Santa Cruz, California.

It  is almost Sunday and I am still writing my second  blog. And then I thought why my laptop doesn’t know my language. That is Marathi. The way my mind works I think in marathi and brain translates in english. Even for Hindi (my another second language) this happens.   My husband’s first language is Hindi. And all the time my brain does that. The stories of communication mishap between us range from simple comedy to major misunderstanding issues.  I was born in Maharashtra, a state of India where people speak marathi. But after marriage I came to USA 🇺🇸 . It was a big change for me. Language changed from marathi to English. I am communicating with people on day to day basis with my second language. Any time I meet another person who knows marathi, I just automatically switch to marathi. It is so much easier and genuine for me to speak in marathi.  I can not express myself in my second language. It feels like artificial to me. English comes from my brain...

In my recent visit to The Cheesecake Factory, I ordered     Spicy Chicken Chipotle Pasta. You can see it in the picture below how beautifully it is done and it tasted delicious too.     And of course the dessert after the meal was my favorite The Original(cheese cake) topped with glazed fresh strawberries. Spicy Chicken Chipotle Pasta Ingredients :  Penne Pasta, Honey Glazed Chicken,Asparagus, Red and Yellow Peppers, Peas,Garlic and Onion in a Spicy Chipotle Parmesan Cream Sauce The original ( cheese cake)

For everyone Monday is like first day of weekdays..working day..school day..!! For me it’s my Sunday  ☀️ ..!! Ya totally I do rest on Monday. After weekend everyone should have one more day off for rest..just relax..no worries..!! We do lots of activities on weekends and work on weekdays so Monday should be our official Sunday. I don’t know about others  🤓  but it’s mine. So I chose to publish my first blog on “Monday”  on my “Sunday”..! I lived and worked in India for many years, and I never knew what a "weekend" was. In fact, the concept of a Saturday off was completely foreign to me. After I graduated from college, I got a job at Zensar Technologies, a software and services company. I was assigned to the services department, and I never got a Saturday off. I was grateful that I had Sunday off, but I was envious of the software engineers who got Saturdays off. Now that I live in the United States, I see that people take work-life balance very seriously. In India,...