I am feeling really homesick today. Usually when I feel homesick, it’s
primarily either I am missing home or home-cooked food. And today it is
home-cooked food that I am really craving for. Whether it is summer or winters,
I am perpetually hungry and worst part is I do not like my own cooking even a
bit! It is not that I am bad at cooking! Honestly my food is no match mum’s
magic or Kaipunyam as we would say in Malayalam.
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To make matters worse, just this morning I was feeling miserable thinking
how far I am from home, have been away from home for over a decade and just
then I smell something really fragrant being cooked in my neighbour’s house. It
looks like they have invited friends over and I am suspecting they are up to cooking
and eating something scrumptious. My living room and kitchen is filled with
aroma over-flowing from their kitchen into ours. I am sure you can imagine how
it must be adding on to my grief.
All that aroma is making super-nostalgic and hungry simultaneously. I know
I am sounding really absurd but that's how emotional I have got all thanks to my
neighbour. Food makes me feel real good because it reminds me of my childhood.
But when I am deprived of mum’s food it feels more like being tranquilised with
misery, which have a powerful, mood-altering influence on me.
Such misery can stoop me to unbelievably low levels of irrationality,
for instance I am currently wondering if I could just call the police and ask
them to arrest my neighbours for enticing me. That’s a far-fetched idea and I
know the law wouldn't even have a provision for such a thing. However I am sure
of one thing, the constitution would have been much different if I were
entrusted with the law making responsibilities.
I understand how you're feeling at the moment. Living in the hostel since the past two years, I get pretty homesick too and when I taste the food from my friends tiffin boxes, I feel even worse :P
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad to be back home for summer vacations.
Sakshi - happy indulgence !! I hope you enjoy your vacations thoroughly and make lots of food memories this vacation
DeleteSo sad! You are absolutely right Sangeetha, these things really annoy us. May be government officials can come up with some strong rules against these people so that we can live in peace ;-) :-D
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely !! So that means I am not completely insane in thinking like this ? :D
DeleteCalling the police and getting your neighbours' arrested? Cool idea! :D
ReplyDeleteI can totally relate with you. Eating frankies, pizzas in college is amazing, but nothing can beat mumma's Chicken Pesto Pasta, Veggie Delight pizza, and Chinese Bhel Noodle Franky!
My mum made a 'mango curry' yesterday. And my elder sister, who had tasted the same dish prepared by my granny said, 'It's not as good as granny's"
That's the thing about mummy ka khaana. It cannot be replicated, however hard you try. :)
You've just made me hungry for mom's pizza, and she's travelling right now! Mithila - Expecto Patronum!
DeleteMithila - i want mango curry .. my mum-in-law had made a huge batch of Mango n prawns curry, i tried replicating it, was a super let down :(
DeleteWhat other laws would you have implemented if you were entrusted with the responsibility Sangeeta?
ReplyDeleteAnyone using the words like "fat or skinny", "dark or fair" should be arrested too in my opinion, i hate stereotyping .. I have more ideas if the govt is interested
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