Holidays are coming and my mind flies to home

Hello my dear reader, welcome back to my corner.
Since the date I have opened this blog, it has become a small corner of my heart, where I can be free, free with my thoughts (because I share it to my readers ) and free of my emotions.
Today my mood is nostalgic and I just have gone back to home (I mean with mind). As we see the autumn is almost finished and here it comes December with winter mood and of course Holidays.
Christmas holidays are the most expected and favorite time for me started from my childhood.
The colors, the lights, candles and gifts, everything seems so magical. Its kind of fairytale for me, and even if I am not child anymore. I still believe in magic of christmas night and of course in New Year too. Though this would be my fourth years of new year and christmas celebration here in India, however I can not adopt myself with the way it is done here. I do decoration of my home, try to make an environment where I will be able to feel the "smell" of new year, but unfortunately it's not the same. Four years I am telling to myself that "its ok, I will do the same as we were doing in Armenia" but whatever I will not do, as much hard I will not try I will not have the same feeling as I had it in Armenia.
May be this is the effect of motherland?
This is one of the hardiest time when I really want to be back at my home... my sweet home.
 Where my mother will make an armenian "gata" and the smell will creep out from building,

from other side she will be making armenian grape leaves Dolma (the tastiest dish which one can have).

There I will do my home decoration, make christmas cookies, cakes, salads, run to the market to buy new christmas balls, gifts

 and be extremely tired but not sleepy and wait till last bell will ring and champagne glasses will make a cheers, and I will drink my glass of champagne with a beautiful desire in my mind and smile in my face.

This would be my most wanted and enjoyed christmas and new year celebration.
By living far from my country I understood one thing, it doesnt matter how long you will live in abroad, you will never become a citizen of different nation by heart. We have come this world with one nationality and will go with one in heart, doesn't matter how many countries we will travel, how many Green and OCI cards we will hold, by heart we will stay with nationality which we have born .

May be I like India, as every country this country also has its own positive and negative aspects. But just only one duduk song is enough to bring tears on my eyes. Just one world about Armenia, and my mind will fly back to the broken roads of my small city Martuni, and even though it's not the best country to live,  whatever... it's my country.
Out of Armenia I always have a feeling, that I am here temporary and one day I will definitely be back.
The misfortune of Armenian nation is that we are not happy in our country, but we are not happy even in abroad.
When we grow up we want to explore the world, go everywhere, see everything. it seems the world is so beautiful. And yeah it is, but the best place always stay our home, the home where our parents live and where our childhood has passed.
Notting can be compared with the peace and harmony, with the energy, which hearth offers.


Appreciate your time with your parents at home

Who is the good person?

Hello my reader, welcome back to my blog. Since I live in India I don't feel so much difference when weather changes. Ether it's summer or autumn or winter, everything looks like the same.
By growing up in the country where every season had a huge difference on environment, here in India I can feel only hot summer. But this year I dont really know whats wrong (or may be right) with me, I felt the november as a real autumn. I have became sentimental, mopish, started to spend my time on reading a book, and to think about life, human relation,what's going on around us.
Yesterday I was thinking  what it means to be a good person?
When I was child, my parents use to tell me, that whatever I will become in my life, first of all I have to be a good person.
In that age  "Being a good person" I could understand being like my parents. As we know for children their parents are their ideals, and I was not an exception.
When I grew up, I realise its not exactly like this. However it doesn't mean my parents are not good people, no, not at all, its opposite, they are too good for society, that its not really good for them.

Since the date I have started a little bit understand about this life, I am stuck in one question "how to be a good person for others and for yourself as well".First of all its really hard to be a good person (I mean for everyone).
I hope my reader will understand my point. "Being a good person"is a very huge and global question, because for someone we can be good, and for others not so.

When we were kids, our parents keep saying "do not lie, do not murder or harm, do respect people, always tell the truth, be honest, be faithful to your friends, be happy with what you have..."
Now I am asking a question to myself, "the fact, that I am not killing a human, but I do eat a meat of killed animal, does it give me the right to say that I am a good person? or all the standards are taken just for human?" Complicated, isn't it?

Now lets come to the telling a truth. How we can tell the truth everyone? And its not even telling the truth, sometime  I just want to be silent about some topics, because its too personal, or its something about which I don't want to talk. However some people does not understand your silence, they will keep asking, by avoiding your behavior of changing the topic. They will ask it in direct and non direct way, they will torture your psychology by asking questions in so many different ways till you will finally lost your mind and tell everything whatever they want to hear. But even when you lost your mind, remember do not tell everything regarding your personal life  (so here it comes, I am not a good person, since I may not give full information).
Everyone lies in this world, people do it in every second. If there is no one dies because of our lie it doesnt mean that it's not a guilt. But how to be? Do we suppose to tell whole the truth about our lives whoever will ask us?
So this is why I said its hard to be a good person, because you always need to keep a balance.

If you have the courage to observe yourself, your motivations and actions you will find it to be true.

In other way being a good person means to have a pure heart, the heart which loves unconditionally (here I can 100% say my heart is really pure).
While growing up we can experience a different human emotions, but our task is to achieve a maturity and let destructive feeling to go, and experience a deep love.
We all have to understand, in the depths of our heart, our soul wants to be a good, because it's the only way to achieve lasting happiness.
Ideally, we strive to be good, out of empathy and compassion, but if that's not enough, look at this way: every positive action we take creates overall better world.

After all, being a good person means different things to different people, it all depends on who you ask.
Am I really good person if I don't keel someone, I don't hurt, I don't steal, I am not jealous, I do help people as much as I can, I do share as much as it's possible, I never cheat my family, I do care about nature and animals, but the same time I can not leave my habit of non vegetarian food, I am honest with the people but the same time I choose with whom to be???
I don't know if I am a good or bad, but I am just like this, a human with my positive and negative characteristics, but at least trying to be good the way I understand and according moral values.
And finally

Let's be good to each other, and make this world better place to live

Thanksgiving...when its hard to be thankful

Hello my reader, welcome back to my blog.
Yesterday half of the world was celebrating Thanksgiving, which has made me to overthink about many periods of  my life.
Today I am going to talk not about this day exactly but generally what is it Thanksgiving? and why it's so hard to be thankful?
Its a day, to consider all the ways we have been blessed, to be grateful to the God for our families, our homes, our health, our peace and our love.
If you are reading this, you are probably one of us, and have lot to be thankful.
So why it's hard to stay on conscious way of gratefulness about everything good in our life's.
People are struggling from loneliness, addiction, illness, depression, divorce, infertility, injustice death.Life can seem so hard.And in such perioud of time, pain is too much that we are unable to see the positive light around us.We are humans, and we can not be gratful and complaining at same time.We will react to the signal which is more dominating. And most of the cases it's the negative one.

If I will speak about myself, frankly said I never feel "boring" because, when one problem is just finished and I want to be relax, another problem definitely follows me.And the funniest reality is that now I am so much used for such lifestyle that nothing surprises me anymore.
 I dont know if this happens with everyone or I am the only "blessed" person in this world, but I know problems have made me stronger than I was before. This "fights"never ends, and most probably this is the life (what I think).
In the beginning of my "mature" life, when I have started to realize how this world is moving, I use to think that why God send us too much of struggles. And in the small corner of my heart, I kept one question: "is there really God exist?" By growing up in the religious family, I was so scared to even think about it, that during the fight between my thoughts and my feeling I came to the point that we have to be Grateful to the God not just by counting our blessing, but also surrendering our struggles too.

Later, I have open one ideology for me." the hardest thing is to keep trust on God, when you are in worst period of your life". Its really too hard. The inner power which makes us to believe that "Yes God exist and he will not leave me alone", the same power gives us weapons to come over the problems.
For such times we are challenged to be more than just Thankful. We need to trust as well, trust to God and yourself.
 Its a inner power which makes you believe that the thing which you are struggling for and you probably don't have in your life is something which you can achieve. You are a weak but the same time too strong. Its a time when the "promise" of being thankful makes you to realise that you are the one who can handle with all the problems, and the faith to the God grows with your struggle. You believe your God will not leave you.You do not have a right to stop, because you have been thankful, and now you have to struggle till the time you will reach to your goal and be really gratful..
Its seems kind of complicated and hard (results of my overthinking 😃😃 ).

Life does not always go the way we expect it, but it goes the way is right.This all struggles are all small parts of a big picture, which is far more beautiful and lovely than we could ever dream of it.

Gratitude is not my natural disposition, it takes time and effort to remind myself about the reasons I have to be grateful.
And today I am grateful to the God for what I have in my life, and even for the struggles through which I have gone, since those have given me unexchangeable experience and wisdom to appreciate the "temporary" moments of happiness and the power to keep going.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, wish you all wonderful weekends 

Cake cream 1

Hello my dear readers I hope you all are fine.

Last weeks I was not so active in my blog, because I was very very very sick.But thanks to God I am well now and can share with you beautiful posts.There are lot of topics about which I would like to write, however time is limited, and works are too much.When you live with family responsibility goes very high.

You have to find balance between your work and family. That is why we, women are comprehensive creatures of God. 

Now lets come back to our today topic, and here I will be sharing with you one very nice recipe of cake cream.

If you remember I have already shared one cake recipe (http://liancho2016.blogspot.in/search/label/Sponge%20Cake) where I have mentioned that the cream recipes I will be sharing later. And as you understood the day has came. 

This recipe, is not too much for decoration, instead you can use it between layers, or just for simple design. Ok so here we go.

We need:

1. 1 cup of milk
2. 1 cup of sugar 
3. 3 tablespoon of flour 
4. 300 grams of unsalted white butter
5. vanilla

We mix milk, sugar and flour together and put on the low flame to boil.

Till the time, you keep mixing it with spoon. We need to do this process all the time till we switch off the flame. Why we need it? Because first we need to dissolve the sugar and flour and the mixture comes homogeneous, and later when it starts to boil we need to mix it just to avoid sticking downside of the pan. 

Boiling process takes 3-4 minutes maximum. Than switch off the flame and leave it to cool down.

In another bowl we whisk the butter till it becomes soft.

Than we can start adding the boiled milk (if its already cool), but with small portions (here I use my favorite coffee cup).

Add it then mix it, continue the process till whole  milk will be added to the butter.

In the end you need to add few drops of vanilla.

As you see the cream is very fluffy, very light and yummmyyyyyy......

So here I did my simple decoration. 

For those who wants to make decoration with this cream, I will advise to take the butter quantity little more, around 400 gram. In this case you will have little dense mixture, which you can put inside the icing bag( or how it's called piping bag) keep in freezer for few minutes (not more than 5) and do your decoration.

Wish you all wonderful sunday with your families

Supermoon...how it happens

Hello my dear readers. Today we all have seen very impressive sight: the most spectacular supermoon since 1948, appearing 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than usual.
A supermoon is a coincidence of full moon, with the closest approach the moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk, as seen from Earth. The "supermoon" is not an astrological term, the scientific name is perigee-syzygy.
The opposite phenomenon (micromoon) called apogee-syzygy.

Today, the gap between Moon and Earth is close to its shortest point- distance of  221,525 miles or 356 510 km, while next time like this it will appear on November 25, 2034(356, 446 km). The closest supermoon of the century will occur on December 6, 2052 (356,425 km).
When the moon is near the Earth it can lead to higher tides and greater variations the tides.
As we know, moon is the Earth's only natural satellite. It's a 4.6 billion years old and was found between 30-50 million years after solar system was formed.
The moon is smaller than the Earth. It's about the same size as Pluto.A new moon occurs every 29,5 days, and it's "disappears" when it is between Earth and the Sun.
When the moon is opposite the sun we see fullmoon,

in between we see crescent moon, as only some reflected sunlight is seen.

First man who has walked on the moon was Neil Armstrong in 1969.
Though only 12 people had ever walked on the moon, but billion of people can every night watch that mysterious "creature" of Galaxy.
 And today, as never before we have a great change to enjoy this beautiful sight and try to capture as many photos as possible, since not everyday we can be witness of such phenomenon.

Wish you all happy and creative photo shooting 

Face Mask for Winter (Honey with Oats)

Hello my dear readers, it has been long I have not written any post for my beauty section, even though I am so sick that was unable to write any post during those days.Weather has been changed in India and many of the people have health problems, including myself.

 So today finally I have decided to move on,  (even though I am unable to speak because of my throat pain, but at least can write) and write about one face mask, which I have tried few days ago.
This mask is very good for winter season, since it has all the vitamins and ingredients to give our face smooth and healthy complexion.
For this we need:

1. One tablespoon of oats (here I have made  a powder of oats, which is more better)
2. honey (it can be little less than one tablespoon, because when honey is more than required, after applying to the skin it melts, because of skin temperature, and falls from the skin).Just make sure the quantity of honey is enough to make a past from the mixture.

Apply it on the clean face (it's better after hot shower, when pores are open and skin is clean), leave it for 20 minutes and then wash it with cold water, after sometime apply nourishing  cream (optional).

Its better to do this process before sleep, because during the sleep our skin gets better relax and natural moisture. 

About healthy benefits of honey I have written in my previous posts, however with few words I can say that honey has a lot of antioxidants, which slow down aging process, it has enzyme which clears the pores, and also nutrients, which nourish, cleanse and hydrate the skin.

Oats  have an important role to play in skin care. Oats has been used since 2000 BC, from Egyptians, Arabs, later on from Romans and Greeks for their skin beauty.

Oat is a natural remedy for treating acne, it contains beta-glucan which moisturize the skin and removes the deed layers.

Oats has anti-inflammatory properties which is good for every kind of skin. And specially good for dry and itchy skin.Oats contains natural cleanser called saponins, which removes the dirt and oil from the pores without irritation .Oat is also known for its lightening effect and as well as improving skin tone and texture.  

Oat protects the skin from chemical and from skin conditions like eczema and rashes.

So that is why we use oats in our mask, because it has so many benefits for skin.

Hope you will try this mask and will your comment below.

Stay beautiful 

Apple Pie

Hello my dear reader, today we are going to make an apple pie with my sister recipe. Let me say, I have not tried it yet, but once I will try it I will share my photos as well. Ok so, its time to start.For that we need:

1. 5 egg yolk 
2. 1 cup of sugar
3. 100 gram butter 
4. 2 tablespoon of yogurt 
5. 1 teaspoon of soda 
6. 1 tablespoon of vinegar 
7. floor 
8. apple 

So lets start.
First we mix egg yolks with sugar till it will become fluffy and white.

Mix soda with vinegar and then add it in to yogurt and add all this to the egg and sugar mixture.

Then add a butter and knead it well and start adding flour till it will become a non sticky dough.
Divide the dough in to two balls (big and small).
In one bowl mix peeled and cutted apple with little sugar.
Open the big part of the dough with rolling pin, and then shift it to the pan (preheated) and put the apples on the top of it.
Then garnish the top with second part of the dough.
Cook it under 180 C around 20 minutes ( don't forget to preheat the oven).

When the pie is ready put the sugar powder one the top.
Hope you will like this easy recipe, will try it and leave your comments.


Have a happy appetite

Delhi... the city of opportunities or diseases

 Hello my dear readers, today I want to write about one topic which is very actual and very serious problem for present time in India and specially in Delhi. Unfortunately or fortunately I do live in capital city of India, in New Delhi. Frankly said I don't know really is it God blessing to me, that I am living here or opposite. In some points it's a good opportunity to develop myself, my career  and be a socialised and try to make an environment around me similar to my motherland, since here the life is active, cultural and social events are everywhere, all the embassies  are located here, therefore presence of different culture is more perceptible here, than in small towns.From one side it's good, because here we can find imported products, or even goods which have been newly manufactured.

Another point is that, here we have number of job opportunities. Good chance to grow your career. Many youngsters earn good money from multinational companies. I feel very happy to see how this city is growing. How metro stations are increasing by number. Day by day I can feel the growth of economy in this country, and I can see that in near future India will become one of the powerful countries in this world (and its like this even now).

However everything lost its meaning, when you are supposed to close your apartment's doors and   windows all the time, due to high air pollution, when you are unable to sleep whole night because of allergy, cough, and there is no medicine helps you anymore. And here it comes a question: " Do I want my babies to grow up in this country? Is this the future which I want to see for my generation? Will the economic growth save me and my family from upcoming ecological disaster? " I dont think so.

Day by day the fear about future becomes more and more, and it's normal, it's human instinct, because I want to save my family my friends and of course my own life. I don't want to see someone struggling because of illness, but unfortunately due to this condition and circumstances, it would be  unavoidable. Pollution has covered all this beautiful land in that level, that beauty is not visible anymore, rubbish is everywhere, and even the places where everything seems beautiful we can not enjoy due to air pollution.
This is the major problem for this country, because here we have every kind  of pollution : water, air, environmental.

I don't know which one to say. And I don't see any real action against it. Everyone polluting the environment with their own way, but waiting government to find a solution.
Dear people, dear government this is not a one person duty, this is a duty for whole nation, only government can not change something till your mentality and behavior will not be changed. Try to understand, open your eyes, this is going to be catastrophe, it's going to be disaster, do not hide yourself, do not ignore, start it from your own self. Keeping your own house clean and making environment dirty doesn't give you high social status, even if you have two MBA or PhD degrees, it does not have any value if you are destroying your own country, the country where your children should live and grow up.
Its time to take step, and instead of blaming each other, I hope soon the government also will understand the importance and danger of this problem, and will change some rules, at least to decrease the level of pollution.
Dear people when it comes Diwali, let's decrease fireworks, few minutes of enjoyment can lead to number of diseases, because of toxic poisons released by firecrackers.

Let's make not one day, but everyday festival, by  living in beautiful and clean country. Let's keep our surrounding areas clean, because this country is your country, and your country is your home.

P.S This year, in Diwali night we (I with my family ),  have not done any single fireworks, and this was a wake up call to my society, and I am happy that at least few of my neighbors, followed to my instance. 


Wish you all happy weekends.