All posts in August 2016

Reading…Reading….Reading! For me, life is nothing without reading. The first love of my life after my family is reading. Every spare minute I get, I grab a book, newspaper, magazine…..anything I can lay my hands on. Having something to read or being surrounded by interesting reading material is sort of heaven for me. I read…

One of my all-time favorite recipes is banana bread. My mom makes this frequently and it tastes amazing. Hope you enjoy! Ingredients: 3-4 mashed bananas 1/3 cup melted butter 3/4 cup sugar 1 egg (beaten) 1 tsp vanilla 1 tbsp espresso (optional) 1 tsp baking soda 1 pinch of salt 1 1/2 cup flour 1…

I remember my first trip to Niagara Falls. We went on the Skywheel, a Ferris wheel that goes high in the sky, right next to Niagara Falls. We were about to board the Skywheel at night to see the falls. We had heard that there were lights at Niagara Falls during the night and we…

Cold is the air The trees are bare The night is dark But there is a hidden spark Bleak is the day The clouds are gray All hope seems to be lost But there is more than just frost Know where to search You’ll find hope’s perch Just know that even in the darkest of…

At the International Sikh Youth Symposium (see my previous article), I had the chance to listen to Vishavjit Singh, otherwise known as Sikh Captain America. Born in Washington D.C, Vishavjit Singh grew up in a Sikh family, learning English and Punjabi as his first languages. From the outside they looked like a regular Sikh family…

This weekend, I traveled to Pittsburgh, PA for the International Sikh Youth Symposium. The Sikh Youth Symposium is a speech competition. The participants are asked to read a book and answer 3 questions based off of the book. The questions must be answered in speech format and the speech must fit into the allotted time.…

A couple of weeks ago I attended a photography camp. Before this camp, I had never really thought of photography as something more than just taking photos. But at the camp I realized that the world of photography is so much more than a simple photo. First things first, what is photography? The dictionary definition…