Together

Beautiful times and beautiful people make beautiful memories. Though, there are many memorable moments including our family holidays, birthdays and anniversaries. However, worth mentioning the memorable day is when I had put up a stall at #TheGreatFoodShow. It was a really  memorable day, because my entire family, including my husband and in laws and helped me put up a great show.
Being a mother of a 10 month old, I am always short on time and have my attention devided at all times. However, I must say that a week before we had started to make preparations and my husband took care of the little one single handedly and gave me enough time to prepare for the event.
The day was really special, firstly because all of us were together and secondly, it was a great weather day. Thanks to Housing.com  that I get to share the experience as a family here and just another cooking experience. We had an elaborate menu with the 'Delhi cuisine' theme. The menu included 'Chandni Chowk Ki Tikki', 'Fresh Rose Kulfi' and 'Refreshing Ginger Lemon Iced Tea'. The entire family got together to work on it. My aunt did the frying of the 'tikkis' and my cousins got busy making the iced tea. My husband and I spent time interacting with the visitors and making them taste the Kulfi, while our daughter was being taken care of by my father-in-law.
Along with being a hobby and passion being followed that day, I think it was a great family picnic. Even though it was not a perfect show put up, we all goofed up little but everybody's energy towards a common goal of making the event success was delightful and really heartening. Apart from the immediate family, great support was shown by our distant family and friends by coming over and appreciating the efforts. We missed our little dog, Milo there, who is a very important part of our lives. I wish all places allowed pets.
I always personally feel, that if we want to have success at work, we need to bring up a happy family too successfully. Most important resource is not money and our tangible assets but it is the peace of  mind and unconditional love and support from the near ones. After the birth of my daughter and her increasing dependence on me, I used to keep wondering, if I will ever be able to work again. However, looking at the family support, it gave me the strength and confidence to start work again and follow my passion of cooking.
Optimism is I guess the first step to a successful career and I am glad that I have already taken the first step. I would like to conclude by saying that we need to create a balance in our work and personal lives. None of the two is more important, rather both of them are equally important and interdependent. 

Start A New Life- Meet The New Housing

I believe in starting a new life everyday. However, I started my new life by moving out of my marriage and getting married to the person I was meant to be with. Apart from absolutely no interaction with my ex husband, I had no complaints with the marriage. I had a great house, two dogs and was running a bakery very successfully. One day I discovered that the man I was living with was at the last stage of a mental disorder called schizophrenia. Even though I did not give up on the marriage at once, after a lot of attempt to make him alright I quit the marriage, on being convinced that the disease was incurable.
Going back to our story, it is as colourful and inspirational as 'Meet the New Housing' and the brilliance further demonstrated through this video.



Moksh and I were supposed to get married in 2009, when he came to Delhi and refused to get married to me. No reasons asked and no reasons giving. It was not the marriage that pinched me but cancelling my admission in a foreign university and most of the marriage shopping already done, pinched me the most. That is when I got married to another man and got separate for obvious reasons.  Meanwhile, Moksh too got married to someone else and got separated as his marriage too did not work.
After I returned to my parents house, I was given full support emotionally and even monetarily. My comfort was taken care of well by them even though I can imagine how shattered they must be on this misadventure in life. This is when I decided to #StartANewLife. I joined an NGO and started working there. At this time, while I was already struggling with my emotions, the upset life and the court dates, I encountered a terrible boss too. I still managed to survive in the job for 3 months and quit the job too after being extremely fed up of it. The very next day Moksh came to our house, while travelling to Dehradun for his court hearings. At this time, my father came up with the idea of me setting up his office in Delhi. Very reluctantly I cam with my brother to Mumbai to understand his work and starting afresh in Delhi. During this course of time, he floated the idea of being together again. It did not come as a shock but as a surprise and the doubt of something being fishy, that why now? No decision was taken at this time, but after his several visits to Delhi and after our divorces came through we decided to ties the knot and start a new life.
Now we are together, with a lovely daughter and working towards owning our house. Hopefully through The New Housing

Look Up Stories- Housing and optimism

'Be optimistic' is what everybody has been telling us since childhood. Day in and day out, we live in hope of certain things changing, happening and somethings we adjust with. The most important of all is to have an optimistic outlook. 

Owning a house brings in the optimism, the reason being once we own the house, we are sorted on the major possesion and necessity in life. After owning the house we can concentrate on the other things in our life like family, work, friends and of course our hobbies. However, it may sound simple, but owning a house is not a days work, it might take years together. The New Housing.com promises to take care of the real estate and we do not have to wait for the next 10 years to fulfil our dreams. 

Remember the master card advertisement? "There are somethings money can't buy, but for everything else there is master card". I had seen this ad as a child but till today it has an impact.

Let us concentrate and make time for things that need our personal touch and not just the money. Our jobs define our job responsibility but we need to define our responsibilities towards our family ourselves.

We surely do not wish to gift only toys to our children while they grow up. We need to gift them a secure future. Owning a house is bound to bring a smile to your family's face today and after many years.

My story of optimism is the birth of my daughter. The day she was born, I made a promise to myself that my child will never have to worry about the basic necessities in life but concentrate on her studies and build a healthy life and relations for herself. Both me and my husband, have started working towards it. We buy gold coins and have even started saving for a house. Being optimistic is not just a term to be followed, working on the future automatically brings the feeling of optimism in our hearts. 

The way she responds to our conversations and the way she is growing by learning several things herself and showing signs of being independent brings joy to us. Gone are the days, when daughters were only supposed to be taught house work, given basic education and got her married. Today even the girls wish to own a house, be independent and at par with the men in the society.

I would urge everybody, to take up the initiative of owning a house seriously and bring a smile to your family's face. The feeling of being secure is the best gift we can give to anybody. Our family definitely deserves that gift.