A Blissful Experience of a Foodie

When I was chatting with one of my friend, I got a wonderful nostalgic moment of a blissful experience which I had. Thought of sharing with you.

More than a decade back, when I was working, I attended the "Art of Living" course for a week.  My home was very far from my work place and the course was conducted in a place for which I had to travel even further ahead from my office. So everyday after my work, I attended the course and then reached home by 10.30 or 11.00 pm.  When I started from my work place, my stomach had already started rumbling. The biscuits were peanuts compared to my hunger. So you can guess how hungry I was by the time I reached home .

The batch was a very interesting one with people of different age groups. One day when the tutor was teaching us pranayama (breathing exercise). we were told to feel the breathe in our nostrils while inhaling and exhaling. The course was conducted in a place where lot of residential buildings were housed.  When I was inhaling to achieve my goal of sensing the air going through my nostrils, I had a blissful experience of smelling the wonderful aroma of Dosai (Dosa) which floated in the air and reached my nose. (the air was doing a good job by getting the right aroma to the right nostrils!). Aroma therapy!!! Being hungry, it made me drool and I went gastrnomic. Lost into the dream world of wonderful food spread in front of me making me feel like the gadotkach with the background music of the famous tamizh song from an old film "Mayabazar" in which Gadotkach was shown having a wonderful feast spread in front of him and the lyrics goes thus "Kalyana samayal sadham".

Here is the song for you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDBEDNyhbSc to enjoy seeing the wonderful spread. Though it is a black & white movie, you can still relish the feast shown. The lyrics goes like this :-

kalyaNa samayal saadham
kaai karigaLum pramaadham
andha kaurava prasaadam
idhuvae ennakku pOdhum
ahhahahahahaha...

andhaara bajji angae
sunsaara sojji engae
sandhosham meeri ponga
ahhahahahahaha
idhuvae ennakku thinga

kalyaNa samayal saadham
kaai karigaLum pramaadham
andha kaurava prasaadam
idhuvae ennakku pOdhum
ahhahahahahaha....

puLiyotharaiyin sOru
vegu poruthamaai sambaaru
puri kizhanghu paaru
ahhahahahahaha
idhuvae ennakku joru

kalyaNa samayal saadham
kaai karigaLum pramaadham
andha kaurava prasaadam
idhuvae ennakku pOdhum
ahhahahahahaha....

joraana peNi laddu
suvayana seeni puttu
eraaLamaana thattu
ahhahahahahaha
ini ishtam pOla vettu

kalyaNa samayal saadham
kaai karigaLum pramaadham
andha kaurava prasaadam
idhuvae ennakku pOdhum
ahhahahahahaha..

These thoughts were going in a flash in my mind and suddenly the voice of the tutor echoed in to my ears, "Are you able to feel your breathe?". My foodie mind directed my toungue like a lightening hitting before the thunder and immediately answered breaking the silence "Yes I can realise something more than that". The tutor asked "What is it?", I replied "The wonderful aroma of yummy crispy dosa" and opened my eyes only to become a disappointed gadotkach to see only few heads & the tutor in front of me.

The whole batch burst into laughter & broke the silence with the tutor joining in and I followed them after few seconds (as I was just getting into this realistic world from my foodie world) realising what I said. 

Everyone says you will get a bliss through yoga and ofcourse I had it but in my own foodie way for a day but it is a moment which acted as a stress buster not only to others but also to me and made the 'pranayama' session a memorable one.

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Versatile Blogger Award

I am so thrilled and very happy to receive the "Versatile Blogger" award from Dr. Sonia SV of http://cardsandschoolprojects.blogspot.com.

I became her fan after seeing her creative cards which she does  along with her little daughter. They are awesome! Amazing creativity! I always fall in short of words to compliment their works. The stocking flowers, Beautiful cards, shell art - all her crafts holds her special creatvie spell. Her tutorials are so lovely & crystal clear. She has designed her blog very well with scroll buttons & drop down boxes - very visitor friendly it is.

Dear Sonia, posting after a long time as i was not aware  of  the method  of giving the link back. Thank you so much. A big bear hug to you.

7 things about me :

1. Nature Lover
2. Like books authored by Ruskin Bond, Enid Blyton,Kenneth Anderson, Jim Corbett and Indian writers on topic of my interests.
3. Daily meeting my friends in the Chat room
4. A Foodie
5. A loving daughter, wife and daughter-in-law
6. Happy & content with what I have
7. Praying for the friendship, company & guidance of the almighty always

With the help of my blogger friend, Nityakalyani of Nitya's Knit Quoin @ http://nityakalyani-kalmat.blogspot.com who always stands for help when approached, helped me to give link back and other procedures. She is a very good knitter and comes out with new creative things . She has recently received "Creative Blogger award" for her creative knitting. Thank you so much Nitya Bhen. Your blog is very lively. A big hug to you.

Happiness comes in sharing and giving. So here i am sharing my happiness by passing this lovely award to the versatile bloggers

1.  Viji of Viji's Craft @ http://viji-crafts.blogspot.com. Her jewellery works, decorative crafts, Plastic canvas rangolis, embroidery works sparkles with the dedication & love with which she creates them.
2. srimathibabu  of "Welcome to......Art Home" @ http://artandcraft-artahead.blogspot.com, another creative crafter dealing with different crafts. She does nice crochet works, fabric painting, Tanjore Paintings, Murals and decorative crafts.
3. Divya of Rainbow Arts @ http://www.rainbow-arts.in  - the Quilling Queen. Like the name suggests her blog has variety of of craft works viz., quilling, Cold Porcelain works, Cookery, Paintings, Rangoli and other creative crafts like water fall which has a good finish and she presents them very well in her blog.
4. Aruljothi Karikalan of CREATIVE HALL @ http://creativearul.blogspot.com - for her beautiful crochet works, Mehendi designs, Embroidery, Ceramic works & decorative crafts. 
5. Kasthurirajam of Manika @  http://kasthuriscreations.blogspot.com - Her macrame, sewing, embroidery, glass painting, other decorative crafts are so nice and neat. The tutorials too.

Dear Viji, Srimathibabu, Divya, Aruljothi,

Congratulations! a big hug to you all

To accept the award, link back to the person who gave it to you and Share 7 things about  yourself. If you want to know how to do it, please e-mail me. My best wishes to you all.

Dhwadasa Jyothirlinga Stothram / த்வாதச ஜ்யோதிர்லிங்க ஸ்தோத்ரம்

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ஸ்ரீசைலே மல்லிக்கார்ஜுனம்
உஜ்ஜையின்யாம் மஹாகாளம் 
ஓம்காரம் அமரேஸ்வரம்
பரல்யாம் வைத்த்யநாதம ச
டாகின்யாம் பீம சங்கரம்
சேது பந்தே து ராமேசம்
நாகேசம் தாருகாவனே 
வாரனாஸ்யாம் து விஸ்வேஸ்வம்
த்ரயம்பகம் கௌதமீ தடே
கேதாரம் ஹிமவத் ப்ருஷ்டே
க்ருஷ்மேஸம்  ச சிவாலையே

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Sourashtre somanaatham cha
Sreesaile Mallikaarjunam
Ujjainyaam mahaakalm
omkaaram Amareswaram
Paralyaam Vaidyanaatham cha
daakinyaam beemasankaram
Sethu bande thu raamesam
Naagesam thaarukaavane
vaaranaasyaam thu viswesam
thryambakam gauthami thate
kedharam himavath brushte
grushmesam cha shivaalaye