daffodilsinme

Some things don’t break,they just shift out of focus. I’m still around,but not where I used to be. Your joy reaches me,like sunlight through a crackwarm… and strangely sharp. There are moments,fleeting ones…when your laughter, shared elsewhere,lands like a soft bruise. And yet,I wouldn’t take it back.I wouldn’t trade your lightjust to dim my ache. I don’t wish for what was.I just carry the…

Have you ever regretted exposing your vulnerable side to people, only to later realize they were never meant to see that part of you? I have always been someone who keeps my circle small, not allowing too many people into my life. Not everyone gets to see my vulnerable side—perhaps only a few, the ones I truly feel safe with. Most people see me as someone who is strong, who makes confident…

After a long time! I know. Recently I have been thinking about love and relationships, and the bond that ties them together. It’s quite easy to romanticize love, but don’t you see how fragile it is! It’s intertwined with delicate threads that can fray with misunderstandings, unspoken words, unmet expectations, unresolved conflicts, or even sometimes, it simply breaks! Love seems to be a really…

I have tried meditation, am a great fan of 5-minute meditation cz I know I can’t sit beyond that. My thoughts are louder than my inhale and exhale! I have tried strength training, sports, and running, and it works -really, but… after a point I just feel very monotonous. I need motivational quotes to change into my workout clothes and running shoes! However, swimming isn’t the same for me- It’s…

Well, if you look into my insta page, and my selfies, it’s colorful and bright! Well, I do post because I really love to photograph, or to say collect memories, and I post cz I want it to be out there, so one day when I look back, I could sail the sea of memories. And that’s about my insta page or ‘about me’ from an outsider’s point of view, and often I had heard people say ‘Wow how do you…

Well, I recently discovered this on one of my random scrolling through insta reels. And Voila! Loved this easy and healthy, low carb recipe. Love to mix it up with rice, or sometimes it can be a great fillet for a wrap too!🌯 You will find this recipe at the link below! I love her recipes, its mostly healthy n quick! Do check it out below!…

Well, I really haven’t yet digested the fact that you have gone forever leaving all of us! I don’t feel it! I still feel you have gone for some of your office trips and are very caught up with your work! But, it still brings a lump in my throat, and tears well up! I feel an unfair play! I don’t get an answer to Whys! I have so many things to tell you, but you aren’t around. I assume you are…

Zanskar to Ziro: No stilettos in the Himalayas – Sohini Sen

I don’t know how to describe this book, because it’s not merely a travelogue, it’s much beyond that. I actually felt I was with them on this trip seduced by the vastness and beauty in those snow-capped mountains, experiencing mythology and history, grateful for witnessing the incredible beauty, humbled by the mightiness, and finding happiness in the smallest of things! I must say, I have the…

Veg loaded broken wheat breakfast/ Veg Daliya So, the broken wheat or as we call it Daliya is a quick fix recipe in most of the Indian households if you don’t want to spend so much time on your kitchen grab a broken wheat packet and quickly make it! I told you I wasn’t a great fan of many dishes until during this lockdown, my tastebuds have either upgraded or I started loving many foods which I…

I am writing this in the middle of a heap of overloaded work that I have to finish by the 2nd week of October. Its not that I didn’t know it was coming, but I wasn’t very prepared I guess, cz I was procastinating the whole time! So, even though the deadline hit me with a date, I think my brain processed it as a huge something which wasn’t expecting, but deep down I know that wasn’t true.…

Nutella iced coffee Required: 1 teaspoon instant coffee powder, 2 teaspoon Nutella, few ice cubes, milk(optional), 1.5 glass water Add all of the above in a grinder and make sure it’s well mixed! Add 0.5 glass milk (optional) , I have used instant coffee which has milk powder in it, so I haven’t added any extra milk as such. Pour it in a glass and now sprinkle it with coffee powder and njoy…

Sautéed Puffed Rice +Ginger Mint Lemon Tea Sautéed Puffed Rice is a damn basic thing if you have a packet of Puffed Rice with you. (I know that’s like a lot of carbs but trust me, it makes a good eve snack to crunch on! And you can make it even healthier by adding some chopped cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and boiled chickpeas/ Indian black chicpeask, this one is just basic) Heat some oil in a…

Rice with Lentil-pumkin curry and Raw banana stir fry So, that was my lunch for today. And this is a very special lunch cz these are one of my favs which my mom makes, and back then I used to refer it as ‘yellow curry’ whenever I wanted my mom to make it for me, and she understood what ‘yellow curry’ actually meant. Today I wanted to try this ‘yellow curry’ for myself and now I realised main…

Required: Ginger, Lemon, Mint (of cos!) 1. Keep the required water to boil in a tea pan. 2. Add in crushed ginger (I take 1 inch), add in 1 lemon piece ( I usually cut out a round piece from Lemon) ,and some handful of mint leaves. Let it get infused and feel the aroma till then! 3. Now once the water starts boiling, just add 1/4 teaspoon of tea powder of ur choice, n sugar as per your liking…

Writer’s block

I am currently in thesis writing mode, God! I was really wrong about thesis writing. I always thought the hardest part of your Ph.D. is getting results, you know after lots of trial and error, experimenting and failing and sleepless nights got you to think that once the results are out, you just need to put them into paper. Tbh, it’s not that easy, at least not for me, trust me. After all those…

Sometimes, we think nothing is working out or you don’t feel successful. That moment just ponder over all those things which you accomplished even when things were south and you never thought you could, But you did! You still managed to do those! That is the magic within us. We could accomplish any bloody thing in this entire world if we believe in ourselves. I can accomplish and so can you!…

I had been working on a new research topic. I had a hypothesis in my mind and I was trying to prove that hypothesis. But how much ever I tried, I was only getting the answers or statistical plots which actually proved the opposite. Yet, my stubborn brain didn’t want to give up, and neither did my physical body. I had sleepless nights, overworked brains, dark circles around my eyes and I was…