The best kind of Christmas

The best kind of christmas is a christmas at home! After living away from home for three years it was so good to be back home during my favourite season and month of the year. I decorated the christmas tree with my mum like we always used to, baked cakes and helped with all the cooking, and just to be present at home with my family this season itself is a gift by itself.

December is the time my home looks the best. My mum who (according to me, and a couple of other credible sources) is one hell of an interior decorator, should be given credit on this aspect. Her choice of home decor is impeccable. I’m always amazed when she finds the perfect …anything that just attributes to the whole idea of our home. And what about all those books!? You ain’t seen nothing yet! There’s plenty more all over the house… whenever I ask my dad roughly how many books he owns, he always says “5000… guess more”, he said that to me when I was 6 or 7, and he still says that. I’m 22 now. It must’ve doubled from then, at least, I feel. They add their own charm.. everything just fits.

Towards Christmas, along with making sure there’s wine and cakes around, one other thing my mum usually always incorporates is a traditional roast, a recipe handed down to her by my grandmother, and ohgoodgod, this roast (see image) according to me is the best roast I’ve ever had that I can remember! So, so good. I could not stop praising her!

Now, some more details, with a touch of the holiday spirit:

I hope everyone’s had an amazing Christmas and may you all have a wonderful life ahead!

This is my last post of the year, and as always, I end by saying how grateful I am for everything in my life, and for this year… let’s all have an amazing 2015 now! Peaaaace.

My summer update!

Helllooooo! it’s been such a long time since I’ve posted ANYTHING on my blog, it’s my summer vacation going on and I was involved in a lot of travelling… most of the time no internet or just lousy net connection, but now that I’m home, I felt the need to blog as I missed it, terribly. :]

The best thing about this summer was the fact that I got to come home after 6 long months! To see my family, some really close friends and a whole lot of cousins. I’ve visited Chennai to see my aunt after she got into an accident, and then spent a lovely 2 weeks in Bangalore with a cousin and her family, kids- babies really, great time and I had a few friends to meet there as well. This cousin of mine is a fashion designer and it was really cool to be taken to her production unit every now and then and see the kind of work she does, not to mention the thought that maybe someday my life would be running along those same lines. So much stress yet great fun and definitely rewarding. My 20th birthday this year was spent in Bangalore. Not bad at all ;]

So, it’s just been about 2 months (almost) of pure vacation. Not a very sunny summer in the parts of India that I was at this year though. Still being from here most of us die for the awesome monsoon. This was the summer where I turned 20, I got to know some bit about how to look after a baby (haha), watching cartoons again and playing all kinds of games with a sweet, naughty 4 year old, went completely crazy running around in proper rain with my friends, ate soo much good food!, spend quality time with family in ages, and so much more! Oh and  of course, no vacation goes well without a good amount spent shopping. =D

Pictures, pictures!

This is Kovalam. It was crazy heavy wind and rain that day, heavy in the sense it almost knocked us down! But we enjoyed! These pictures were clicked from the lighthouse there. If you haven’t already, visit Kerala and stay at Kovalam, it’s just about the best we offer! :] Once I get better pictures and of their best hotels I promise a proper post just on that.

A group of friends and me, again in kovalam, =D

My Lil cutie cousins! Clicked on my birthday. :]

  I hope everybody had a neat summer! It’s almost time to get back to college [work] life now. Almost. That’s about another 7 days. 1 week. Second year shouldn’t be a drag….really…