My Armenia

This is my Armenia. Although it may look small on the map but a great nation lives here - Armenians. We call ourselves Hay [hai] and our land Hayastan. Nowadays Armenia is situated in a small part of the highland called Armenian highland main part of which is now in the territory of Turkey.

Map of the Republic of Armenia

Our language is Armenian- one of the oldest Indo-European languages of the world. Our alphabet is unique. You can never see any letters like this in any language. The alphabet was created by Saint Mesrop Mashtots in 405 AD.

Armenian alphabet

The first sentence in Armenian written down by St. Mesrop after he invented the letters is said to be the opening line of Solomon’s Book of Proverbs:

	Ճանաչել զիմաստութիւն եւ զխրատ, իմանալ զբանս հանճարոյ: «To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding.»
—Book of Proverbs, 1:2.

Main Hindi sikh rahi hoon

Although it's more than two years that my life is tied with India and I highlighted learning Hindi as top priority in my "to do list" , unfortunately due to busy schedule even at week-ends I couldn't do it properly till now. Also I ought to be honest and say that it comes from my laziness too. Anyway in the course of time while having my relationship with my sweetheart mainly in the net, as well as befriending more and more Indian relatives or friends of him, I managed learning some words sometimes even expressions in Hindi. Now with my poor vocabulary I somehow manage to speak to my sweetheart's mother who is the only member in his family not speaking English.  And whenever she asks me to learn Hindi asap, I say "Main thoda-thoda Hindi sikh rahi hoon"- I am learning Hindi little by little.

What we have now is:

Namaste / Namaskar/ Pranam - Greetings

Aap kaise hai? - How are you? (to elders)

Tum kaisi ho? - How are you?

Main thik hoon - I am ok

Main achcha / achchi hoon - I am fine

Achcha means good, fine. For masculine it ends with "a" , in feminine it ends with "i" - achchi hai.

Yeh bahot achcha hai - That's very good !

Mera dill - my heart

Meri zindagi - my life

Pati - husband

Patni / biwi - wife

Diwana/diwani - crazy

Main tumhara diwana hoon - I am crazy for you :)

Kya?  - What ?

Kya kar rahi ho? - what are you doing?

Kya hua ? - What happened? (the most frequently used expression by my sweetheart even when he knows or guesses what actually happened)

Kon hai? - who is that?

Kab? - when

Kahan? - where

Kitna? - how much

Kyon? - why  the reply usually strats with "kyon ki..." - because...

Phool- flower

Din - day

Raat -night

Pani - water

Nimbu pani - lemon water

Aaloo - potatoes

Dost - friend

Zaroor - of course, sure

Bilkul - exactly

Mujhe maloom hai - I know

Phir se - again

Sahi hai - that's right

Jao - go

So jao - go to sleep

And the crown of all the expressions I learnt  is the way I greet my sweetheart's Parents in their own native language - MAITHILI.

Gor lagai chhi - I am touching your feet

There are also many common words in Armenian and Hindi. My next post will be about those words.

A shower to my Tulsi

" Baby, Tulsi Leaves need some water. Give some rain...", said my sweetheart in the morning. 

Indeed, I haven't updated my blog since so long. It's not like I don't have thoughts to share but honestly said I have troubles with doing this. I could have written here like lack of time, being busy here and there, blah, blah, blah...but the real reason is that while being transformed from abstract form into written material my thoughts lose the essence, their real meaning. This has been a real problem to me since school. When we had some topic to write an essay I would speak on it for hours. My teachers would admire my ideas. But when I had to sit down and write all I had discussed the real tragedy used to start. Whatever I wrote seemed to be less than I wanted to express, whatever I expressed was losing it's shine. I always wanted more than had been done.

In the course of time this complex (yes, I do call it a complex) was rectified a bit. Now I am running a blog in my own language -  Armenian. It goes ok though. And now a new challenge with English. The lack of vocabulary in English doesn't give me a chance to write properly to describe my musings. Actually I started this blog for that only- to challenge myself in writing in English. In fact I like writing long. But I got the clue. I will not write long posts. Instead I will start with short posts to train myself. 

Sweetheart I can't promise rain but at least I'll try to shower them :)

More water Sir?

India is really incredible and unpredictable

Tvorozhnik or Cottage cheese pastry

This is one of my favorite pastries since my childhood. Today I decided to have it instead of lunch (Hope my sweetheart is not reading this).


March is the month when you can never be quite sure what the weather is going to be like next day, even after 1-2 hours. I was sitting at my desk admiring the sunny day outside and couldn't wait till lunch time to go out. But when I went out unlike the sun and clear blue sky it was so cold. I bought my Tvorozhniks came back and now I am enjoying them with a cup of tea. So nice ... :)

Tvorozhnik...yummy