Spicyandhra

Ive fallen out of the habit of cooking daily and taking photographs, writing since I was on a holiday. Its become very difficult to get into routine as there is so much to catch up at the blogging world and Work and Friends. Juggling your time and keeping priorities straight is always a difficult task but I am ready to start a new saga of cooking now!!

Nick kindly tagged me sometime in August just when I was going on holiday for the Fantastic Four –Meme and I am hopeful that this Meme will jumpstart my battery which was dormant these 3 weeks. Straight back to business,
Five Areas, Four points each for this new Meme:

Four places I have lived:
1. Visakhapatnam
2. Guntur
3. Hyderabad
4. Ipswich in UK

Four favourite books:
1. Fountainhead
2. Da Vinci Code
3. Pride & Prejudice
4. The Prodigal daughter

Four favourite movies:
1. Schindler’s List
2. A Beautiful Mind
3. Ben Hur
4. Piano

Four favourite places I’ve holidayed
1. Highlands in Scotland
2. Dorset, Devon, Somerset and Isle of Wight (all together !!)
3. Paris
4. India

Four favourite bloggers to tag
1. Sailu @ Sailusfood
2. Meeta @ Whats for Lunch Honey?
3. Sig @ Live to Eat
4. Nandita @ Saffron Trail

Girls a simply Meme to play along!!! Join in if u can!!

Btw a small peek into my green blog project getting ready to visit my dear friend Deepz who’s hosting this summer

Tomatoes are still in green so waiting for them to ripe so that I can quickly send it over to the amazing Green Blog Project!!

As my plane touched down in Hyderabad, my exhilaration was clearly visible on my face. Whenever I travel, particularly to India every year, I have in the very back of my mind an incredible hunch, a tingling nous that you are going to meet up all the loved ones. Never have I imagined that this trip will be an amazing one for Noel as well as language had always been a barrier for him, we tried teaching him our local language, Telugu but he always finds it hard to understand let alone say a word, we were quite worried that he might get bored but what an amazing time he had!!

Its always so depressing to leave and come back to a home called home but u’r heart always knows where u’r home exactly is!! Miss you all in India and hope u all know how I wish the very minute I board a flight back from India to go back to the family and wonder why we are staying so far from everyone and does visiting them once a year is really justified?? As we both come from large families who are so closely amalgamated, time is always less never more to visit and meet everyone and they were very pleased to hear the latest news from us and share their own stories with obvious pride and pleasure. We had little time but could squeeze a trip to Bangalore this time to visit my brother and sis in law. What a remarkable makeover to once called a green city which is now Asia’s fastest growing cosmopolitan city. My Brother, Vijay Koti a Project Manager @ INFOSYS took us to the much talked company which is ruling the IT world now. The great influence of international connections is on full display here in India.It is inspiring to see the impact of India not only on the other side of the planet to to see in our own cities.

To learn about the successes of our country as leaders in business and in their communities is great fun. India inherited many things from the British. One of them is a system of governance driven by federal and state bureaucracies. But if the British brought bureaucracy to the subcontinent, it was the Indians who raised it to an entirely different level of complexity. What a transformation!!!!

We were completely dumbfounded at the pace of things are happening in the concrete jungle. The thing that caught my immediate attention was in the midst of all these innovations and renovations in Infosys, was pretty amazed to see an organic garden with wonderful plants, trees around which immediately grabbed my attention. Here are some of the pictures we took at Bangalore and Guntur.

All in all, had fabulous time in india and Back to Work today. Everything looks the same, nothing changed at work front!!! So give me week to settle down and I am set to start a new era of food blogging again!!