WHERE MY MIND STOPS AT 🌹🌼

 

People of all ages from child to old people love flowers. Flowers add an extra beauty to nature. Flowers play an important role in humans' lives as well. Since my childhood when I'm with flowers, they automatically relax my mind. Among the beautiful florals I love roses, jesmines, orchids, carnations, baby roses. They delight my eyes and my heart as well. I love most flowers because of their sweet fragrance. Also I love the flowers without fragrance as well which are colourful and really eye-catching to look at.

I'm gardening some of those flowers. I plant flowers in flower beds and little flower pots. During weekends I spend some time nursing the flower plants. I look after them well. By watering them, by fertilizing them I grow them properly. During these rainy days our plants grow rapidly. Using flowers I like to do simple decorations. While doing those arrangements it makes me happy. Also I love to see the beauty of little insects who come to taste honey daily.

Me and my sister sacrifice flowers to Lord Buddha which are taken from our flower plants. Regularly me and my sister keep a water bowl filled with an arrangement of floating flowers near the entrance of our home. It is a great pleasure for me to see my flower garden every morning. Also I feel very happy when the sweet scent of our flowers comes into our room.

HOW I SPEND TIME LEISURELY 👩‍🍳

 

In my free times mostly I like to stay at home with my family. So I do several activities with my parents and sister. Among those activities I am attracted and interested in baking so much. While I'm baking, I feel like it takes me to another world. During that time I'm completely a relaxed girl. Therefore from this post I'm going to write about how I feel while I'm baking cakes. 

  While I'm preparing and baking cakes I pay my full concentration to it. So that feeling is just like a meditation to me. During this Covid 19 situation I faced a huge trouble, because our oven broke unfortunately. Because of this pandemic situation we didn't go anywhere to repair it. So I found another option to bake cakes without an oven. That is, I learned to bake cakes using a gas cooker. At first I was a little bit confused about whether it would work or not. But after using that option my cake looks and tastes like previous cakes which I made using an oven. Oh! it was a very soft and delicious cake. Till today I baked many cakes in different flavours using our gas cooker.

Another advantage that I gain from baking is, it gives my mind a relaxation. Also it makes me feel better than doing other works. Besides, I love learning about new techniques in baking, using different ingredients and new ideas in baking. I also love how the things that I bake makes my family and friends happy. I like to do experiments with different recipes. I love everything about baking and also I like to do the decoration using icing. I like to watch videos of experts and get new ideas from them also. After tasting any of my baking experiments my family members' and friends' appreciation makes me happy. I can't really describe more about that feeling in words.

INDIAN FESTIVAL I CELEBRATE ANNUALLY 🎆

 

Other than Sri Lankan festivals I like to celebrate some of the Indian cultural festivals as well. Among Indian festivals I celebrated the Holi Festival several times. Holi festival is associated with the story of the mythical character "Holika". Indians called this as the 'festival of colours' as well as the 'festival of unity'. Most of the Indians celebrate this. 

Also they said that the followers of the Vedic Religion celebrate this most colourful festival. They called this as the 'welcome festival for the Spring Season' and also as the 'thanksgiving festival to the good harvest' as well. In Sri Lanka different centers and institutes like Indian Cultural Center, Indian High Commission and other Indian Institutes also celebrate this festival in our country as well.

Using different colours they enjoy celebrating this Holi festival. Indians said that they celebrate this to forget about all the differences such as cast, race, colour, status etc. As I mentioned earlier, our teacher of the institute organizes this festival annually. So we participated in it by wearing white dresses. Firstly we danced according to their Holi celebrating songs. There were plates filled with colourful Holi powder. Some plates were on a table and some were on the ground. Other than that there were huge baskets filled with Holi coloured water also. 

How we celebrated Holi Festival at our Institute

Then we celebrated it by sprinkling the coloured powder and coloured water on each other. At this moment we have to apply the coloured powder to the other person's face before he or she applies. Using large syringes we spray coloured water too. Our white dresses totally turned into multi-coloured dresses after we sprinkled Holi powder. It is an absolutely fun moment for us. Finally we tasted many kinds of Indian cuisines as well. Due to this Covid 19 pandemic situation we missed to celebrate Holi festival in these couple of years. I hope we will get a chance to celebrate Holi next year after our country gets normal.

Holi powder

MARVELOUS BEACH I LOVE TO VISIT 🏖️️

 

Nature has provided us so many valuable and eye-catching places. Each and every country in the world has marvelous places. They add value to their own country. Here I'm going to write about one of my eye-catching places in the Western United States. California includes many glamorous places. Among them Newport Beach is one of my favourite places that I love to visit. 

Newport Beach is situated in Southern California. Foreigners come to see the beauty of nature surrounding this beach and to have a pleasure doing leisure activities. During the day time people love to sunbathe on this beach. Some people visit here to have Ultherapy, body contouring. Some are visiting here and spending their vacations as well.

I prefer to see the incredible view of the night time rather than the beauty of the day time. The reason for that is during the night time Newport sea waves come to the coastline with a bioluminescence light. Because of this, the waves glow in blue colour. This bioluminescence comes from the biochemical emission of light by organisms. The chemical reactions within marine algae and fireflies like organisms give them a sparkle. Because of this reaction night time sea waves are bright and colourful. I can't wait to see this sparkle as well as the beauty of the Newport beach lively. I saw the night view of Newport Beach from photos and videos on the internet. Also if I get an opportunity to visit Newport Beach in California, definitely I will jump in and swim with the bioluminescence. Therefore I'm waiting to have that incredible and amazing experience.

Newport Beach in California 

Sea waves with Bioluminescence sparkle

LITTLE PARROT 🐦

 

It was a rainy day. Around 6.30 in the morning our father went to the place that we reserved for birds and squirrels to give food. Suddenly our father asked us to come outside. So we ran to the garden. Then we saw something in green colour which was laid down near our gate. Oh no! It was a little parrot. It was very small and its wings didn't grow well. Therefore it couldn't fly even. Little parrot was very wet because of the rain. So it was shivering from the cold. Quickly we took that little parrot into our house. Our mother brought a cloth to wipe the parrot. After that she wrapped a towel around the parrot and hugged till it got warm. After a few hours it turned normal. While it was in our mother's hands, me and my sister took a cup of water and rice to feed it. Using a syringe we poured water into its beak and using a toothpick we tried to give rice and fruits. But it didn't know how to eat and drink. We kept it inside an opened cardboard box during the night time. 

Next day morning we took it outside from the box and gave it food and water. After a while it tried to fly inside our home. But it couldn't fly far. That day in the evening we heard a noise of parrots. There were around 5 parrots on trees of our garden and one is on the ground. We thought that parrot was the mother of the little parrot. Slowly we kept the little one in the garden and went to our home. We carefully watched what happened on outside. That mother parrot flied to little one and tried to feed it. Little parrot opened its own mouth and ate happily. After a few minutes the mother parrot screamed and flew away. Meanwhile little parrot tried to fly with its mother, but it couldn't do it. After that again we took it to our home. Again and again we gave fruits to it. Then we kept it inside the box and let it to sleep.

In the morning of the third day we went to see it but it didn't move and didn't open its eyes. After we touched it we felt that its body got so cold. We called our father and told about it. Oh no! our father said "Little parrot is dead now." At that moment we felt sad a lot. We digged a pit and put the little parrot in it. That was a sad situation for all of us.