Life goes on.....

Hello friends... Hope u all doing well. I tried hard to take some time out and write my next entry but some or other reasons did not allow me to do so.
First of all, I want to pay tribute to all the brave heroes who had fought against terrorists and given their lives fighting with terror during the worst attack on mumbai and on India. This was an incident which really shocked me here sitting far away from my home. I was not myself for atleast two three days after the incident. there was lots of questions in mind, some fear, sadness and lots of anger. I tried a lot to write all my emotions and share with you all but it was hard even to share what you feel in those circumstances. Its about one month to that unfortunate incident and we all seems to back to the business again but make no mistake all the anger, all the emotions are present somewhere inside and I want this to stay for ever so that nobody including our politicans can take our lives for granted. I really do not know what is the solution to all this but I believe that we should all do our bit to fight against it, may be for the people who gives their lives we should try to make our lives wothy enough and meaningfull enough to be saved by those real heroes of ours.

Inspite of this all happened, Life doesn't stop and conitinue to throw challenges at you , challenges which makes you stronger, which make you learn new things, things you never thought you can do. Yes Cooking is the thing I never thought that I can do, but I do it, almost daily I cook and surprisingly I do not cook bad at all. I started from cooking sabji, although I cut my finger badly two times in first two days of my cooking, but as the days going I am doing better at cutting vegetables. I have hard time cutting onions and I tried to find an onion cutter here but no luck so far, and it is the most risky portion of my cooking exercise. For first few days I tried frozen rotis whch you just have to heat up and eat, but then I thought I should also make rotis and believe me I can make them and quite well too. I can say that because I show them to my mom on web cam and she approved it:). so after all this cooking I have a firm belief on the saying "where there's a will, there's a way". If one wants, one can do anything.

Apart from cooking, work is one thing which keeps me busy, we are doing some sample project right now and as it is the first assignment here for us so I want it to be done as efficiently as possible. Work was one of main reasons why I didn't find time to write. But now its almost done and we are in the phase of integration testing and bug fixing, I hope we will carry on with the momentum and deliver the best possible solution.

But its not that we are just working here, we are partying pretty regularly too. We used to organize small party in somebody's flat,party includes drinks, snacks, lots of jokes and small performances and in the end wonderfull dinner, which we used to eat sitting down in the circle and enjoying food made by some of us collectively. Here I want to appreciate the efforts of mainly Puneet, Deependra and Anil as they are mainly involved in the cooking in our parties and cooking for 15 odd people is not easy atall. so all in all these small parties are real fun. I am hoping to be part of lots of them in future.
There was a office party too around Xmas, and we had pizza in the 'Calefornia Pizza Kitchen'. Pizza was not as good to me as we have in India but still I liked it as I was having it after good three months. It made me emotional too for some personal reasons. Anyways, Service in the restaurant was really good, one of the girls who was serving pizza was real sweet, her name was even more sweet she was called 'bong bong'. she was looking like a doll and was behiving pretty nicely. I asked for a ice tea, when I finished it she brought me second, I had it too and then she brought me third, I told that I do not want to have now , and she kind of scolding me sweetly and said 'No no no no,keep silence have one..more..' And after that I could not send it back and had one more. Afterwords I requested her to have a snap with me and she happily agreed. so all in all was good time there.
In second round some of us went to a bar, although I don't drink but I went with all to enjoy and there was a fun time there too. Few of us there showed their capacity to drink and even koreans were amazed to see our(not me, I was the non performer there :))performance level in drinking.

So we are having good time here in korea, we have also started to play cricket in the weekend and having fun playing in temperature below zero.

Before closing the entry I want to wish all of you merry Xmas and very happy new year ahead. And I hope in new year we all do our bit not to forget the happenings in mumbai and the heroes who fought for our lives so that we do not have to see the terrible scenes like in Mumbai ever again any where in the country and in the world. Hoping for peace and happiness for all.

Thank you .. take care.....