My birthday

It was my birthday last Friday (19th June). It was one of the quietest birthdays for me. I remembered my parents and brothers on that day, and wished to eat kheer that my mother prepares even now on our birthdays. Kheer is a traditional South Asian sweet dish made by boiling rice, milk, and sugar, and flavored with raisins, pistachios, and almonds. Sometimes my mother replaces sugar with date-palm jaggery (khejur-patali gur in Bengali language) and the kheer tastes amazing. Last Friday I missed you very much, Ma.

I am thankful that God put the most wonderful husband in the world in my path. I am very happy and thankful for all the joy of having a loving and understanding hubby. Hubby is extremely busy with office work of late. However in spite of his very busy schedule, while returning home on Thursday night (18th June) he bought a few pieces of chocolate cake, strawberry short cake, fresh fruit cake, and Japanese cream puffs (shu cream). He reached home at about 11.20 pm, ate dinner, and fell asleep by 11.45 pm! In fact, while having dinner he had asked me to wake him up at midnight just in case he dozed off. However, he looked so tired that I just did not have the heart to wake him up when the clock struck midnight. Next day when he woke up at 5 am, he was feeling rather bad about it. I told him that the feeling of unity and support is more important than eating the cake exactly at midnight! Finally we had the cake pieces in the evening of 19th June. I like chocolate cake very much. Mmm yummy!

Various kinds of cake pieces

I ate chocolate cake

Hubby ate strawberry short cake

Hubby and I went to Akita city on 20th June and he bought a ‘Hitachi Healthy Chef’ microwave oven from Yamada denki shop as my birthday present. It is a combination of oven and microwave, and has four types of heating methods including steam superheating at 300 degree centigrade, microwave, oven, and grilling. This new microwave oven has no turntable. Operating the new hi-tech microwave oven is taking some getting used to as there are so many options in the control panel! I simply love the superior advanced technology products of Japan. In addition, this microwave oven is eco-friendly. Thanks hubby for a wonderful present. We had to pay some extra money at the shop for disposing off our dear old microwave oven.

Our new microwave oven

Hubby posing with the microwave oven

No turntable in the microwave oven

Tray for grilling

Another year has added to my age. I love every moment of my life with hubby. He is more than enough to make life happy and meaningful.