Saturday, again :)

Hi, all (whoever you all are!)

So it's Saturday again and I find myself wanting to blog. Or perhaps Saturday's are the only day I even GET to blog and reflect on what's gone on during the week. My week's are so busy and packed-full of my normal routine: 9-5 internship; gym; dinner; sleep. Ai-yo...I have harshly been introduced to the woes of real life after formal education. Thank God I have at least some time before this is my actual life haha. But anyways...on to brighter things!

Just realized it's actually been TWO weeks since I blogged. This is because last weekend we had family visiting from upstate New York. It was my mom's oldest sister & her family that came down. They were the third sibling of my mom's to immigrate to America. My mom sponsored her two younger brothers first, since they were the youngest and then she went in order by her older siblings. She wanted the younger ones to be able to take full advantage of this country while they still could. But anyhow, it was my aunt (Tai Maushi), my uncle (Silu Uncle), and my 3 cousins: Marilyn, Blossom & Vivian! It was so GREAT to have them here with us...it made me wish that everyone lived right around here, so that we could go visit and see each other whenever we felt like it. I wish it could still be like that between our family & Anil uncle's too. :'(

Oh goodness why does it seem like all I have to talk about is depressing things? Lol even when I tried to write about happy family visits, I always seem to end on a sad note. BUT NO...must. fight. the sadness.

MY COUSIN JUST GOT HER MEDICAL DEGREE!!!! Yes, I now officially have my very first cousin that I am SUUUUPER proud of :) Dr. Abha Anil Kadam, MD! Yay! I'm sure the next cousin that I'll be SUPER proud of is Veena :) She'll be Veena Kadam, PharmD in about 2 more years! Of course, I will be proud of all of my cousins no matter what they do; but you know it's different when they get professional degrees and stuff. Hopefully I will end up as such: Arina Kadam, PharmD, MPH, DrPH :) :) haha maybe that's a little bit too over-achiever of me, but alas I can dream big, can't I?

I am watching CID (sort of like an Indian version of CSI) on SonyTV (Indian TV Channel) right now, and I really want to know what happens in the end. So I'm gonna stop blogging right now haha :) Til next time!!!

Lazy Saturday

Oh how I love me a lazy Saturday.

Besides doing painstaking grad school research stuff, I've been reading!! Yes, reading for fun, that is :) RIght now I'm reading Juan de Recacoechea's novel entitled American Visa. Apparently it's his most famous novel or the best novel he's written or something like that. I haven't gotten that far, but what I have read is awesome so far. I just finished reading another novel, of my very most favorite genre in the whole world -- MYSTERY novels! It was a Victoria Thompson gaslight novel - the Gaslight series is a wonderful thing! Definitely has all the characteristics that I enjoy in mystery reads. The one I read was Murder on Lenox Hill. EXCELLENT read. I need to start building a library of my favorite Mystery novels. I can read them in one sitting. I don't know why I got into mysteries in the first place. I remember writing my very own mystery when I was in 3rd grade; I was in the writing club in elementary school that met after school.

My earliest recollection of my interest in mysteries is Scooby Doo, obviously. I was TOTALLY completely into that show. I used to watch it like it was a series; no lie! Me and my best friend Sonia used to literally CALL each other if one of us missed the show that had played that night. And of course this was in the 90s and these were all re-runs of the originals which had aired in the 70s. But yes, we used to then update each other on what happened and such. The best part is that we were SO serious. Hahaha. Looking back it's hilarious! Then I remember my mom getting me a TON of different books from the library, and one day she picked up an Encyclopedia Brown book for me from the children's section. That was the official starting point I think. I read every single one of the Encyclopedia Brown books, and sometimes used to even guess the outcomes correctly. It was just thrilling to my little 7 year old self. That time in 3rd grade when I wrote my own mystery was probably the first time that I realized I was actually good at writing and other people thought so too. Our writing club supervisor thought my story was so clever! Definitely boosted me for a few weeks haha :)

Okay that was definitely a walk down memory lane. I feel like most of my blog posts will be things along this line. I like looking back into retrospect and seeing how the things that I do now and my interests now were shaped by my past.

Going back to my book now. Saturday's are the best days of the week!

First Post!

So I have NO idea what I'll be blogging about here, but basically it'll be whatever's on my mind or what I've been thinking about recently. Nothing in specific, so it'll just be my opinions and interesting things that I see/hear! Looking forward to seeing what this blog will blossom into! It's only going up from here!

I will start officially posting tomorrow - since this is my first day and all, I want to keep it short & sweet :)