One night at airport!

So I am all excited to fly to my home land for diwali, Baking, frying and splurging to enjoy the festival of lights and sweets. Yes, Kerala is not sort of a place where Diwali is celebrated 'dhoom dhaam', as diwali is mostly said to be a north Indian festival or except Kerala type of festival, though we do have the fireworks and crackers at home, and some traditional snacks and sweets.

Diwali was always fun with my husband's family, and always looked forward to spend diwali time with them. The reason is growing up as we were 2 girls, our achan made sure none of the crackers are bought at home and we were just getting the so called 'poothiri', which has a stick we can hold and we used to twirl it. Those days we did enjoy that too, as that was the only option available. Amma used to prepare sweets of Kerala style and there would be non veg for sure, which was another attraction. Other than these I don't have much fond memories about it.

I had the real excitement of diwali after our wedding or after I have started my career.  Now I am having friends from different places, I am getting to know the wide variety of culture and festivals, and trying not to miss any one of it and enjoy to the peak of it. I am a person always welcoming positive things, so whatever brings happiness and togetherness, we shouldn't miss. My husband's family have a male domination (population wise) ;) in our generation and the girls (only 2) also were brought up in that way that they don't care about anything. I was all surprised to see girls dealing with crackers the first time I saw, as till that age me and my sister was having the experience twirling the poothiri alone ;)  These guys brings all the types of fireworks, even they would have brought bombs if those were allowed :)

I am more attached to his cousins than he himself to them, so it was real fun and I never missed any such occasions with them. I remember, the first diwali at his home was so noisy, they started with usual stuffs as in my home and then with rockets, chain crackers and all. I was carrying Gauthu, 2 months then, and I was wondering my baby would jump out hearing this noise. Gauthu's movements started at a very early stage, so if it was 3 months or so, he would have been dancing in this noise. Because every check up my doctor used to tell me, your baby is going to be a football player. Seems he was so restless (like his dad ;) ) and wanted to come out to the world soon ;)

So coming back to my actual story here, I went a long while with Diwali memories. So this time too I am very much looking forward for the diwali at his home from the time he told he and his cousins have bought a ton of them. Also I am so excited about the family time, to see my parents and sissy (& family) and to cook and feed my dear ones till my mind feels satisfied and dress up in diwali dress and flowers. This time I have another plan to make bengali sweets for diwali , so its like doing everything that I was controlling here for sometime. Because of all these I was very impatient while booking for the flight and I just wanted to get a ticket confirmed whatever the time be. It is festive season and options were very few or ticket rate very huge. So finally, I am here as it is a late night flight, the night in airport, not able to sleep and doing stuffs that can keep me occupied.

As usual my favorite passtime is talking, I don't find any one to be victim of my talkamania here at this time and thought, blog is my only go to place for now. The airport is very crowded like a normal hour and I am enjoying my sandwich and yogurt, counting each minute in the clock.


Selfie mania and foodieess :)

 

The Heart - Brain Mapping!

I still remember the way the concept of Heart-Brain mapping has caught my mind. The name sounds to be so medical to you guys, but reading through it will make you understand it is as simple as any other feeling of mine :P  So this caught my dreams late night and I was so disturbed to continue my sleep and my thoughts went back to find more about this. Now people would be thinking, this girl doesn't sleep! All her posts are sort of late night dreams blocking her sleep. Haha, yeah! I am so much addicted to sleep, but sort of Insomniac too! Now it sounds to be like Enrique's track :P

So let me tell you, the Heart - Brain mapping is everything to do with a persons mental ability to memorize things. Sounds crazy isn't it. Yes I too felt I am going crazy of multiple thought processes in my mind and because of my stressful work. But giving a close look at it, I could see that there is something which these two has to do in memorizing things. 

I went to a flashback of memories of myself and every person I closely know. So what makes people to remember something. We know growing up what all we learned, do we memorize all? No, but somethings, which can be so irrelevant to others, we still remember. The smell of the first rain gives us the memory of a special feeling, some weather conditions drives us back to a long lost memory. 

I did scrutinizing and could find there is a strong relation with heart and brain which helps us remember things. Brain wont forget those things that Heart wants to hold on to. That can be partially correct, because there are two types of memories, one is forced one and other is voluntary ones. 

My topic here is mainly on the voluntary ones. I still remember, the next day of this dream I was explaining this to one of my friends, and he laughed at me and said, crazy stuffs you have every time in your head. I too laughed with him, but given him a promise that I will do a thesis on it.  Now, I don't see a far possibility of doing a thesis about it, but later on in my life I want to go back on my thoughts about this, and found it would be good to pen down here. So my friend, you laughed at me and it challenged me somewhat. I am always up for challenges, sometimes I have a bad habit of go dare to do anything in the sake of challenge, don't ever challenge this Libra! Its another big topic in my list, which I will write someday later :)

Coming back to our topic, the main reason for this thought is, how people remember their loved one's birthdays. It was such a simple thought which made me think through this.  And I found the reason to be the heart. Our loved ones are said to have a special position in Heart chambers. each chamber would have their name written and safely locked so that one wont go and vitiate others :P. Jokes apart, the truth is we have different chambers and different position assigned to each of our close ones. So basically our heart has a RAM, prioritization algorithm and schedulers which manages all. So about birthdays, the heart would send impulse to brain to remember the days of each of the person holding in its chambers. The reason behind is the Heart wants to cherish the memories of all its cell members and their special days and needs to reiterate through it on their special days. 

Do you know giving a gift or wishing a close one is a way we think we are doing for making the other person happy. But I feel it a different way, and I think that's true with everyone. Why do we want to make the other person happy, why do we want them to feel special? implicitly we are gaining happiness through that. So we are bound to do things that makes us happy, and our heart satisfied. So more than making the other person happy, its your happiness that makes you take a step to wish your loved one. Is that true love? Seeing them happy is a way to make me happy? Yes, sort of. To clarify, don't narrow your thoughts when I say true love. True love is there is every relation which has honesty and caring.

I know you guys would be still thinking, what madness is this. Some people of my line of thought would understand this madness though :) Lets see, if I am in anytime going ahead with the thesis of this subject, if someone so crazy like me accepts this subject for a research, I can come back with a proof and attach that with this post :)

So now friends, those who likes to dream and are romantic like me, give it a thought, really heart controls the brain to remember things right? And the reason why all that algebra and calculus is far pushed away from our brain and the first things with our loved ones even the slightest conversations, are still reiterated over the mind, just like yesterday :D