I am thankful for..

My parents celebrated their 70th Wedding Anniversary last month!! May God bless them with good health and a wonderful life together!! They are an inspiration to me, my siblings and many more ...

New exciting milestones in my kids' life - May they keep their heads up and stay strong.

US Dept of Justice video on SIKHS

Here's an excellent awareness and educational tool about the Sikhs since 911. Since it's original release in January 2007, it has been shown to nearly 65,000 law enforcement personnel in US. However, quite recently it has been approved and posted by the U.S. Dept. of Justice on their website to make it official for public viewing.

Video link: http://www.usdoj.gov/crs/video/ocg-video.htm
Description about the same: http://www.sikhnn.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=571&newlang=eng

Kindly forward it to anyone who may benefit from this.

Visit to England

I was in England for about 2 weeks recently. It was nice to walk around Southhall though it was raining all the time. Plenty of Indians there... it was just like I have stepped onto a street in Jalandhar ... The difference being that I saw lots of older Sikhs with turbans -in Jalandhar you don't see SIKHS with TURBANS. Jalandhar has become a melting pot of UP bhaiyas, Biharis, muslims, Punjabis - no turbans in sight! Traffic is choatic and gets bottled at the major intersections.. Dusty, polluted and dirty city now ......... WHAT A SHAME . I also visited the newest Gurdwara in Southhall.

Visited a friend in Birmingham.. she took me to SoHo road. Went to the Gurdwara there.. liked it a lot. I saw quite a few elderly men and women there - it seems they walk to the Gurdwara.
I did not do any shopping in England. I thought everything was expensive.

Drove around small villages - loved it!

Took a day trip to Venice - flew from Stansted - roundtrip costed me 60 pounds! I am planning on doing these kinds of day trips to other european countries when I visit England again.

Empty nest again...

Somedays I feel restless and today is one of those days...
How do mothers survive who have spent a good part of their life with their kids. Now its empty nest syndrome again.. .. its been for a while and I had pretty much settled myself to "keeping myself involved" in various social activities, volunteering and surfing the net. Come summer- kids came home for a week or fortnight and then left for their summer internship and class. I feel their absence all over again...
I know I can handle it , I am mature.

Spring vacation to Dubai