'Juicy' tip of the day!

When is the last time you thought of you?...

Life is short, stop settling for the ordinary you, be a luscious you!...

If women support one another in life and in all its facets, including the importance of feeling luscious, the world will be a better place.

We women can have a career, a partner, a family to care for, and still nurture and treasure ourselves.

So let youself go and make the most of your life ....

Think luscious, Feel luscious, Be luscious!

Girls remember we are gorgeous and always shall be!

All it takes is to only REDISCOVER ourselves one luscious moment at a time.

Winter is here

Brr! Old Man Winter is sure making his presence known this week, with chilly temperatures and snow in the forecast.I got the kids to bundle up before heading outside this morning as the wind chill has plunged to a -25C. The rest of the week looks much the same with flurries and snow dipping the mercury even further.

We'd better clear the driveway when the snow piles up. Shovelling is real hard work so we've just bought a snow blower and the whole family is quite excited about using it this winter.Winters are beautiful in Canada when everything is covered with a frosty icing of snow and it feels like one has virually walked into a Christmas card.

However, I long for the warm comfort of our South Indian winters.

Ah! The Pleasures of Shopping

With Christmas around the corner, the shopping malls are choc a bloc full of a myriad variety of attractively packaged stuff just waiting to be bought off the shelves. Mind you, the bargains and discounts that are on offer are mind blowing. It is time to get started with thejoy of buying gifts for my loved ones this Christmas. Hey…and how about refurbishing the house too! Wouldn’t it be great to give the home a new make-over before the guests arrive for Christmas? Wicked thought isn’t it? Bet my husband will shudder at the prospect of the huge expenses that this venture would involve! Especially since he has already made bookings for that long promised holiday in sun-drenched Hawaii for the New Year.

Like all women, I love (or is it lust?) shopping, be it window shopping where I can spend hours trying on everything on display, feeling and touching without really buying anything (much to the dismay of the sales-assistant, I’m sure) or the real shopping when I really mean business. I don’t think I will ever get over this passion, for it is a primal desire which gushes forth right from within me, it is a real stress buster and infuses me with a warm glow inside. Something like ‘comfort food’ I guess.

Sales are something I just love. I’m oblivious to the crowds milling around me and I’m literally transported to another world as it were. I guess the thrill of shopping comes from spotting an interesting item, desiring it, finally buying it and then flaunting these objects of desire for the whole world to covet! ‘flaunting’? ‘covet’? …no, no…I’m just kidding. I’m actually not all that bad, you know.
The saddest thing that happened to me yesterday was that I sprained my ankle and the doc has rendered me immobile for at least three weeks. Drat, there goes my biggest shopping extravaganza of the season. I was so bugged.
Ever optimistic as I am, what’s a little sprain, I thought. Nothing is going to deter me from my all consuming desire to shop till I drop. If not on foot on a brick-and-mortar structure, why not online was what I gleefully decided.
Thus started my odyssey with cyber shopping and believe me, I’m hooked. It has opened a whole new universe for me. I went to many popular online shopping sites and browsed around for hours without tiring myself out at all. I previewed products, read reviews and recommendations, I spotted objects of interest, desired them after examining two-dimensional images of them, added them into my shopping cart after of course selecting suitable sizes/colours. I went on adding more and more stuff. No crowds, no walking, no aching feet, just moving and clicking my mouse. Boy, did I get crazy! Thought I’d get the carpal tunnel syndrome at the rate I was clicking.
The greatest thing about online shopping is that when you have a shopping cart full of stuff, and all of a sudden you lose the urge to buy anything, all you have to do is go do something else and come back to your cart later on. You can never do that at a real shopping mall. The harried sales assistant is not likely to forget you in a hurry
When you’re ready to part with your money (which you do not see) after your online selection, all you have to do is to click the ‘check out’ button in your shopping cart. You fill in your particulars, including your credit card number and your correct address (you don’t want the goodies delivered to some very lucky bloke). That’s basically it. However, online shopping doesn’t end here. It provides the convenience of the parcels being delivered home and I’m told you get the feeling of being pleasantly surprised as though somebody has sent you a gift. You momentarily forget that it is you who has dished out the money for them. Lovely feeling, that. Don’t you think?
Out of all the sites on the Web, eBay is my favourite place to surf for millions of exciting stuff from online vendors from around the world. It is easy to search for products, navigate pages and select online finds. The website’s buy-it-now or auction-style purchasing, numerous payment choices (including the simple and secure PayPal) and several shipping options is why I love clicking on this shopping wonder of the World Wide Web. CyberMonday, Fabmall, Rediff, Indiatimes and Sify are also other place worth visiting.

See you later. Got some more stuff to buy which I just remembered!

Zofia we are with you

My heart goes out to Zofia Cisowski the Polish immigrant to Canada whose son Robert Dziekanski was tasered to death at Vancouver airport last month. Poor Robert who didn’t understand English spent more than nine hours at the airport “lost, confused, thirsty and hungry”. The manner in which his life came to a catastrophic end chilled me. Imagine what his mother must be going through. She had been to the airport to receive him but had to leave as she was informed that Robert had not even arrived. The day that was to have been the happiest in her life since she would be meeting her dear son after seven long years turned out to be a terribly tragic one. My heart turned cold when I saw the video of his last moments. The intensity of my feelings might not even be an iota in comparison to the pain Zofia must be going through.
May the Almighty give Zofia the courage to overcome her grief.

Age Calculator

It is so easy to find out a person's age. Just try this on yourself... it is simple arithmetics and it worked for me. Bet it'll work for you too.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat. (more than once but less than 10)
2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
3. Add 5
4. Multiply it by 50
5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757 ...If you haven't, add 1756. 6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
You should have a three digit number.
The first digit of this was your original number (i.e., how many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)
The next two numbers are
YOUR AGE! (Oh yes, it is!!!!!)
This is the only year (2007) it will ever work.

The Beginning

I’m a stay-at-home Mom of two marvellous teenaged kids who are now old enough not to need me mothering them all the time. With a husband who is so caught up with his work and is away from home on his frequent business trips, I have all the time in the world to indulge in the luxury of my childhood pastime of being cocooned in the quiet ecstasy of my dreamy abstractions.

‘Day-dreamer’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland’ were epithets that I had earned as a little girl. Although now I am on the wrong side of forty, I still am an inveterate thinker and am deeply moved by things happening around me. Politics, religion, reading, surfing the net, sports and fitness, travelling, cookery, parenting, health, environment, music and movies, home and gardening, computers, gadgets and gizmos…. just about everything catches my fancy.I had always wanted to pen my musings to share them with everyone but didn’t quite know how to or where to make a beginning.

It was only yesterday, as we were relaxing after dinner that my children hit upon the idea that I start blogging. “BLOGGING? You’ve got to be joking!” I exclaimed nervously. I for one hadn’t done a jot of creative writing ever since I graduated from High school and that seemed like centuries ago. However, backed by encouragement from my dear, supportive husband and coupled by the enthusiastic cheers of the kids, I got down to the task. Thus was born ‘Panoramic Reflections’.

I’m pretty excited about this new venture of mine and eager to set the pages rolling!
Folks, Wish me luck since I’ve never done anything like this before.
Ciao…Until next time.