India Trip, Day 21: mehendi

November 3 (Sat) - Day 21:  mehendi
 
Didn't have enough time on sinjaara to put mehendi for myself after applying on saasuji's hands, and had time to put mehendi only on the back of my hand yesterday ... so I finally applied my karwa chauth mehendi on my palm today.

mehendi on the back of my hand, yesterday...

India Trip, Day 20: karwa chauth

November 2 (Fri) - Day 20:  karwa chauth

Morning:

Today is Karwa Chauth, the Indian festival celebrated by wives once a year to pray for long lives of their husband.  We fast all day while cooking good food and avoiding the temptation to eat any of that good food.  We can eat fruits, drink fruit juices and tea, but cannot eat anything that has grains or anything with salt.  We do the puja (worship) in the evening and only then have our dinner.  Nope, there is no festival for husbands to fast and pray for long lives of their wife. Not fair, I know.

India Trip, Day 19: sinjaara

November 1 (Thu) - Day 19:  sinjaara

Tomorrow is Karwa Chauth and I miss Texas suddenly.  Last year until I was in Texas, a group of women got together on the day before the festival (which is called sinjaara).  We applied mehendi on each other's hand, brought a snack pot luck, talked about our husband, cracked jokes, and planned what we'd all wear for the festival the next day.

But here...

India Trip, Day 18: ice cream loveeeee

October 31 (Wed) - Day 18:  ice cream loveeeee

We are buying a tub of ice cream almost once every other week.  All these Indianish flavors with kesar (saffron), pista (pistachio), and badaam (almond) that I loveeeeeee.  And the butterscotch ice cream in India that I am completely in loveeeeeeee with.  Custard Apple flavor is "in", this season, but I didn't quite like the ice cream form of it as much as I loveeeeed the custard apple shake.

This ice cream and "chaat" hangout place nearby called Temptations is spoiling me big time.  I am especially in loveeeeee with their Dry Fruit Temptation flavor.  Got 1 tub of Lychee and 1 tub of Dry Fruit Temptation ice cream today evening.

Ohhhh, just can't get enough of the ice cream loveeeeeee here.  Slurp.
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India Trip, Day 17: relaxing

October 30 (Tue) - Day 17:  relaxing

It is a pleasant afternoon in Hyderabad today.  The city is slowly approaching winters at a snail's speed.  While I am chilling out on the swing in our verandah, chit-chatting with nanand and saasuji.

There are very few such relaxing and peaceful moments in India.  Again, I fail to understand how other women in India manage their time.  But for me, especially before the wedding preparation and hullabaloo begins, I am going to cherish these relaxing moments while I can.
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