Thoughts...

It has been around one and a half months here in the US now. Lots of stuff happening here and work also is getting along, picking up pace rapidly in the last week.
It has been fun here on most occasions and time is just flying. I can still recollect my arrival here and the things that happened in the first few days of life here in the US.
I had some great experiences here, so today i thought ill pen down my thoughts...
I had a great time in the holidays of Christmas. I have an uncle here in Cincinnati whom i contacted and he invited me to his house for Christmas. I spent the whole day there and felt really at home. had lot of fun and talk. I did not expect so much of love and happiness and so much fun in their house. It was just a great feeling. They too were happy to have one of their relatives come to their house in the US.
Then one of my relatives in New Jersy invited me to his house but i could not make it there due to want of leaves, but this relative or uncle gave me the feeling of so much happiness and a bit of odd feeling that i cannot explain...
This uncle called me on Chirstmas to wish me and enquire about me and stuff... spoke for quite some time and i wished him too. I had got so much into the fun of being in my uncles house that I did not think of this uncle and wish him and his family. He himself called me to wish me... This time i felt that odd feeling and sort of guilt. Then I made it a point to speak to him again a couple of times and just chat with him.
I being living in India, due to lot of living outside my home, have lost touch of the festivals apart from the major ones and do not remember the dates on which some festivals fall. My mom does the reminding about the festivals and tells me to do some puja or prayers during my stay away from home. This time too my mom reminded me but i knew it and did some sort of prayers... but I never expected my uncle here in the US to celebrate the festivals so well. He bought some MTR pongal and had it on Makar Sankranti i believe. I did not get such an idea but wow i again felt am I loosing some of my culture by living away from home???
This time again i had no words when my uncle told me about his festival celebrations.
I had been to an airforce museum, the Cincinnati zoo and did some time pass in our apartment complex as well. These places were good time pass and some good stuff where also there to see.
I have had a lot of cooking in the last 1 month and I really admit it is tough to cook on a daily basis. I wonder how my mom cooks daily at home... doesnt she get bored????
I aksed her that and she burst laughing...
It has been very cold here in Mason, Cincinnati from Jan onwards... I never wondered that i would walk effortlessly in temperatures of 0C to -5 C. Then there is the temperatures of -10C or -15C which i experienced in the last few days. Well it is cold but you have to get on with it...
It is sooo sunny and bright and yet it is -15C. Surprised? dont be. Thats how it is some times here. The hands and the face cannot bear the cold once it get below -5C but the body surely is getting used to it.
Im trying to keep fit by going to the gym and hoping to keep myself healthy and fit...
I am really missing my mom's food so I have been a very regular visitor to the restaurent named 'Ammas kitchen'. Well it atleast reminds me of my moms food. I relish the food there but it keeps me going for some more time and inspires me to cook much better food myself.

I have learn a few lessons here as well, which is only going to make me a better person...

Also I today completed 3 Years in Infosys. It is making me feel great and it in a way brings back the memories of all the fun that I keep having in this great company. I am just hoping this keeps getting better and I keep meeting great friends and people like the ones I have met in this journey of 3 years...
Not to forget, I hope I keep learning new things and enhance myself as a person in the coming years...