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 I strongly believe in outsourcing. If a task can be done effectively by someone else at a reasonable price then I am up for it. So when I was in Pune , the cooking job was outsourced to Geeta bai my maid. When I was back from work all the food used to be laid out on the table. This does not mean I did not know how to cook. I am glad I was not amongst those girls who learn cooking only after marriage. I always knew cooking right from when I was a teen but you see I don’t use my skill set unless it is really required! This is a quality which most of the lazy people possess. And it was really required when we moved to US. I was pregnant at that time, was not working and had lots of free time. I also had strong food cravings. Every night after I closed my eyes in bed all the food items like pav bhaji, dosa, sizzler, noodles used to dance in front of my eyes. This gave me that extra encouragement to cook. As I mentioned earlier I used to cook since I was a teen. It was not a very ela

It is said that driving a car is very easy in the US. May be it is, but for someone like me who has spend almost 10-12 years driving in India , no let me correct driving in Pune it is a Herculean task . I was never a great driver in Pune either but I followed all the rules. Don’t be surprised there are some unwritten rules in Pune which everyone has to follow. For eg : At an intersection, a car can come from any direction so you have to be vigilant     People, especially those huge trucks will change lanes without an indicator so you need to have a sixth sense , understand the psychology of the driver and then drive accordingly.    Even on a 10 ft road people will drive Innovas or Scorpios with no space left for other cars. It is your skill to pass through that narrow lane without scratching the big vehicle.   At a red signal , people may or may not stop depending on the urgency with which they have to reach somewhere, so if you are standing at a red signal and the car be