Mild rays of morning sun sneaks through my window and shyly touches my face...I wake to the world of reality from my deep slumber...The yellow color clock opposite to my bed tickles the time as 6.00am...
I put a knot on my ruffling hair and march towards the wash basin...With brush on my mouth I wander my thoughts to the day's activities...What to prepare for breakfast, lunch and dinner...At times I go wild with my thinking and plan the menu for the consecutive days too !lol...
Then I gently open my refrigerator and with all caution I take a milk packet out of it :)I am still at a loss to understand the difference between blue packet milk and green packet milk which my MIL says...With no concern on the colors of milk packet ,I pick one at random...
I gently cut the packet and pour the contents on a vessel and place it on the gas stove...Simultaneously my hand grabs one more vessel with water and places it on the stove...I place the coffee filter exactly on its vessel and add coffee powder(coffee+ chicory) to it...I wait for the water to reach its boiling point. With holder's support I pour it on the coffee filter...It is fun to hear the tok tok sound from the filter...
Meanwhile milk overflows from the vessel and only then I realize the situation…I switch off the stove and clean it(The overflow of milk from the vessel happens every day )...Finally I pour the remaining milk into my tumbler, add a spoon of sugar with the decoction from the coffee filter...I stir the coffee well and check the color to be as dark brown else I pour some more decoction and stir it again...huh the aroma is something which I long always for!!!
With coffee in my hand I rush to my balcony...I comfortably sit on my chair and forget all my day's activities and enter into a different world...There comes an yelling from my hubby ,only then I realize how fast time flies…As usual I rush to complete my other chores to reach office on time
P.S Tried my hand on something different in this post. Figure what?
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Eternal Gift
Wrote this poem for Valentine's day contest and here I post it...Here you go with ma poem
People flooded all around me
But my eyes were busy sieving
For someone so special in ma life
All I got in return was disappointment
The moment you appeared in the crowd
A bright Colgate smile lit my face
Call it a magnetic effect or whatever
Love at first sight did hit me
I got drenched in the world of dreamland
With thoughts lingering only about you
Then came the D day of my life
When I graduated to the status Missus
Tussle is what I create everyday
A smile is what you give in return
Barb is what I throw often
But you accept me the way I am
You are my mentor and a pal
Who point me when I am wrong
You encourage me for my every good deed
Which acts as my strength
You brought a drastic change in me
Which made me to realize my horizon
What else I need to ask God
When I am already gifted with a lovely person
People flooded all around me
But my eyes were busy sieving
For someone so special in ma life
All I got in return was disappointment
The moment you appeared in the crowd
A bright Colgate smile lit my face
Call it a magnetic effect or whatever
Love at first sight did hit me
I got drenched in the world of dreamland
With thoughts lingering only about you
Then came the D day of my life
When I graduated to the status Missus
Tussle is what I create everyday
A smile is what you give in return
Barb is what I throw often
But you accept me the way I am
You are my mentor and a pal
Who point me when I am wrong
You encourage me for my every good deed
Which acts as my strength
You brought a drastic change in me
Which made me to realize my horizon
What else I need to ask God
When I am already gifted with a lovely person
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Whatz in ma mind?
I have lots more to pull out from ma mind...So here I come with yet another set of random ramblings!
1.My mom ,dad and now hubby (also joined the list )are taking more pains to make me to write more...They wanted me to improve my writing skills.They wanted me to improve my vocabulary.They wanted me to write a book(A very big dream I say)...These 3 people always ask me to blog more...Whenever I say I am running outta ideas or posts,they come up with suggestions and help me out.Word thank you will never do justice to all the encouragement they provide to me.I vow I will seriously put forth my efforts to improve my writing...Writing a book is something a herculean task at this moment but still why not try sometime at the later stage of my life...
2.There were days when I told myself "itz been eons since I tasted maggi".These days I say "Oh god when will I stop eating maggi"...Every day I eat maggi despite knowing the wax content in it which is very much injurious to health.Received several threats from ma frnds to stop eating it...I need to head their words!
3.Whatever I eat I still long for vathakozhambu and thayir sadam with maavadu...Vathakozhambu made with rich tamarine content is what I always look for.Also it is one easy dish which you can make in a very short span of time.with maavadu as side dish what else I can say about it...It is nothing but a pure bliss.Long live the founder of vathakozhambu.
4.Itz been 3 months since I landed in chennai but still I very easily get confused with roads and lanes.There are n no of ways to reach my home :( whichever route you take you can definitely reach my home.So each day I take new routes which ultimately makes me confused and as usual I call my husband at unearthly hours for directions.Sigh!
5.Itz been eons since I saw sun set and sun raise.I have never enjoyed the beauty of sun which sneak through the clouds and raise in its full form nor have enjoyed the soothing nature of sun set...I work in shifts and that is the reason.I wish I work in normal general timings to witness nature's beauty :)
6.for no reasons I have gained so much love for London city.I wish to travel there to enjoy the scenic beauty of river Thames.Would love to enjoy the beauty of London through London's eye.Already longing to see Agatha's long running play (Mouse trap) oh and I have loads and loads to speak when it comes to London.what am I looking for?An opportunity to visit London..bhooo hoo...
7.After a long time,I have resumed my reading habit.Bugged my hubby and got a book "Go kiss the world"...You can expect a review on it pretty soon :) I hope so :)
8.I always protect my novels like my treasure.I lend my books to all but always worry if I see strains in the book though I scribble a lot in my novels...I will come up with a post about my favourite books soon :)
Thatz all for now.Will come up with something soon :)
1.My mom ,dad and now hubby (also joined the list )are taking more pains to make me to write more...They wanted me to improve my writing skills.They wanted me to improve my vocabulary.They wanted me to write a book(A very big dream I say)...These 3 people always ask me to blog more...Whenever I say I am running outta ideas or posts,they come up with suggestions and help me out.Word thank you will never do justice to all the encouragement they provide to me.I vow I will seriously put forth my efforts to improve my writing...Writing a book is something a herculean task at this moment but still why not try sometime at the later stage of my life...
2.There were days when I told myself "itz been eons since I tasted maggi".These days I say "Oh god when will I stop eating maggi"...Every day I eat maggi despite knowing the wax content in it which is very much injurious to health.Received several threats from ma frnds to stop eating it...I need to head their words!
3.Whatever I eat I still long for vathakozhambu and thayir sadam with maavadu...Vathakozhambu made with rich tamarine content is what I always look for.Also it is one easy dish which you can make in a very short span of time.with maavadu as side dish what else I can say about it...It is nothing but a pure bliss.Long live the founder of vathakozhambu.
4.Itz been 3 months since I landed in chennai but still I very easily get confused with roads and lanes.There are n no of ways to reach my home :( whichever route you take you can definitely reach my home.So each day I take new routes which ultimately makes me confused and as usual I call my husband at unearthly hours for directions.Sigh!
5.Itz been eons since I saw sun set and sun raise.I have never enjoyed the beauty of sun which sneak through the clouds and raise in its full form nor have enjoyed the soothing nature of sun set...I work in shifts and that is the reason.I wish I work in normal general timings to witness nature's beauty :)
6.for no reasons I have gained so much love for London city.I wish to travel there to enjoy the scenic beauty of river Thames.Would love to enjoy the beauty of London through London's eye.Already longing to see Agatha's long running play (Mouse trap) oh and I have loads and loads to speak when it comes to London.what am I looking for?An opportunity to visit London..bhooo hoo...
7.After a long time,I have resumed my reading habit.Bugged my hubby and got a book "Go kiss the world"...You can expect a review on it pretty soon :) I hope so :)
8.I always protect my novels like my treasure.I lend my books to all but always worry if I see strains in the book though I scribble a lot in my novels...I will come up with a post about my favourite books soon :)
Thatz all for now.Will come up with something soon :)
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Poem from my stash
I wrote this poem when I was in blunt mood.It was in my stash.Here it goes
Lying on the bed
I mull over my thoughts
The pain of my struggles
Are too strong with deep scars
I always feel to be a victim
For things that I am not subjected
Whom to blame for the game?
Is it the Murphy?or the poor Me?
I shift my thoughts to others
Whew!That also disappoints me
People fight,hurt and kill others
Literally with mere words as weapon
I wish to be free from devastation
With love and affection all around
Life is too short to blame and fight
Understand let us forget and forgive
Lying on the bed
I mull over my thoughts
The pain of my struggles
Are too strong with deep scars
I always feel to be a victim
For things that I am not subjected
Whom to blame for the game?
Is it the Murphy?or the poor Me?
I shift my thoughts to others
Whew!That also disappoints me
People fight,hurt and kill others
Literally with mere words as weapon
I wish to be free from devastation
With love and affection all around
Life is too short to blame and fight
Understand let us forget and forgive
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
A dinner to be remembered
When Hari mama called and invited my hubby and me for a dinner on the new year day, we were so excited. Who on earth will ignore such an invite from a person whom we admire the most?So we were all set and on new year day evening my hubby and I visited mama's place.
He is a person who adheres to the saying "work is worship"...A busiest person who is always entangled with work around the clock. He was very kind enough to spend his time with us despite his busy schedule...
Janani and Athai gave us good company, which made us so comfortable and I felt as if I was at my own home...Discussions with Janani about movies,actors,food...god it was so so so nice...Athai is simply sweet with her lovely words!
Dinner was waiting at the table with sumptuous menus. Menus included Poori and Kezhangu,Fried Rice,Bisibelabaat,curd rice,crispy chips,pickle...Did I forget something?Yes yes the milk paiyasam which athai made...It was toooooo good!and anyone who hates paiyasam will definitely not have the heart to say "no" for Athai's paiyasam...
Our stomach did not have the room to gobble such lovely dishes...We were then gifted with Pant shirt and a salwar,2 diaries,a book (365 days of inspiration by Napoleon Hill) and a bag full of snacks...We were literally struggling hard to carry the gifts back to home...We got asirvadam from mama and athai along with thirupathi laddu...
After this dinner...Both(My hubby and I learnt a lot).Below are some few out of it.
1.Learn the meaning of hospitality from them.
2.Humility.I see it in Hari mam.
3.Work is worship.Money is not important but still you need it to lead a life.So be dedicated to your work.
4.Miles to go in the field of culinary. After the dinner my hubby says "Ask tips from Usha Athai before you cook fried rice". yes Athai is a great cook and no doubt.
5.Be what you are and always try to forgive others the same way you do it yourself.
The lesson learnt are tremendous .I am sure the word "Thank you" will be so cliched. Spending time with someone whom you respect is something which everyone of us long and glad that we got one. Thanks a lot mama for everything and we always look forward for ur advice/motivation/inspiration and many more in the years to come.
He is a person who adheres to the saying "work is worship"...A busiest person who is always entangled with work around the clock. He was very kind enough to spend his time with us despite his busy schedule...
Janani and Athai gave us good company, which made us so comfortable and I felt as if I was at my own home...Discussions with Janani about movies,actors,food...god it was so so so nice...Athai is simply sweet with her lovely words!
Dinner was waiting at the table with sumptuous menus. Menus included Poori and Kezhangu,Fried Rice,Bisibelabaat,curd rice,crispy chips,pickle...Did I forget something?Yes yes the milk paiyasam which athai made...It was toooooo good!and anyone who hates paiyasam will definitely not have the heart to say "no" for Athai's paiyasam...
Our stomach did not have the room to gobble such lovely dishes...We were then gifted with Pant shirt and a salwar,2 diaries,a book (365 days of inspiration by Napoleon Hill) and a bag full of snacks...We were literally struggling hard to carry the gifts back to home...We got asirvadam from mama and athai along with thirupathi laddu...
After this dinner...Both(My hubby and I learnt a lot).Below are some few out of it.
1.Learn the meaning of hospitality from them.
2.Humility.I see it in Hari mam.
3.Work is worship.Money is not important but still you need it to lead a life.So be dedicated to your work.
4.Miles to go in the field of culinary. After the dinner my hubby says "Ask tips from Usha Athai before you cook fried rice". yes Athai is a great cook and no doubt.
5.Be what you are and always try to forgive others the same way you do it yourself.
The lesson learnt are tremendous .I am sure the word "Thank you" will be so cliched. Spending time with someone whom you respect is something which everyone of us long and glad that we got one. Thanks a lot mama for everything and we always look forward for ur advice/motivation/inspiration and many more in the years to come.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
The saga of my soup
It was raining cats and dogs...Being so much sensitive to cold my hands started to shiver...I con't even withstand chennai's weather wonder how on earth I will manage my stay at Kashmir. Well I do not want to diverge...were was I...oh yes I was shivering and my tooth started to dance to the tunes of thunder...disguised myself in full hand salwar+shawl and I felt it was relieving me to an extent...
My hunger pangs was longing for something hot and crispy...Same with my hubby too...Mother-in-law was busy in the kitchen...Only later I came to know she was busy preparing vegetable soup for all of us...She dishes out varieties in a jiffy...There I was standing near the chef and was keenly observing the method of preparation...She boiled all the veggies(Bells Pepper, Carrot, Beans, Cauliflower and Tomato) on the pressure cooker...Finally made a fine paste out of the boiled veggies in a mixture with water..Filtered it and removed the coarse texture....On a medium flame she placed a heavy bottomed vessel with the veggie essence(the one obtained after filtering)...Stirred it for few minutes...On the completing note she mixed corn flour to the veggie essence and added required salt..stirred again for a minute or two and switched the stove off...you may want to know my part in the soup making right?...Hold on...I was seriously observing the whole process...Tough job I say! She served the soup hot with fried crispy breads floating on the top of the soup..The soup came out pretty well and we were longing for more...It is a complete bliss to enjoy the rainy day with your bowl of soup...pure bliss I say!
So the consecutive weekend We(Ma hubby and I) visited my mom's place. Proudly and ostentatiously I was all mouth telling that I had learnt a new recipe vegetable soup..My father was travelling that day to a function...I told him to wait for few minutes to taste my vegetable soup before he leaves for the function...told my bro that I am going to make delicious soup...My hubby was all set to taste the yummy soup...
I added Bells pepper, Carrots, Beans, Ginger and Tomato ...boiled the veggies....made it as fine paste and was searching for a filter...To my dismay I did not get the right one but managed to remove the coarse texture...Placed the essence on a thick bottomed vessel..stirred it for a while and added corn flour paste with salt and again stirred it and switched it off...I was so much confident of my preparation and so I prepared the soup for some 15people...
My hubby and bro were already waiting to taste it...phew my father was waiting to taste it but I never seem to complete and so he left for the function...I handed the bowls of soup to two of the scapegoats...one being my hubby and the other being my bro...Bro took the first spoon of the soup and he never opened his mouth...If you think he was spellbound about my preparation friend you are totally wrong he was dumbstruck with my not-so-good work...Then he commented my soup as a cough syrup and never dared to taste it for the second time...poor hubby did not say a word and was struggling with his bowl...Being good natured that I am ,I understood his situation and magnanimously asked him not to taste further...During the meantime my bro started to advertise the quality of the soup which I prepared...No one dared to taste it and so I am...ROFL...the entire content of the soup on the vessel was left untouched...After a round of research I understood that I added carrot and ginger as the predominant ingredient which spoiled the taste...
Now when I spell the word soup, my hubby pleads me not to speak of it anymore...From then on he started to share my soup making skills to every other person on earth...sigh...I do not dare to try the soup again...secondly now you should understand how good I am when it comes to observation...
The word soup brings a churning effect in my stomach...oh It was all because of my preparation...I need to closely observe my MIL when she prepares soup for the next time...I was in a soup because of my soup preparation.
My hunger pangs was longing for something hot and crispy...Same with my hubby too...Mother-in-law was busy in the kitchen...Only later I came to know she was busy preparing vegetable soup for all of us...She dishes out varieties in a jiffy...There I was standing near the chef and was keenly observing the method of preparation...She boiled all the veggies(Bells Pepper, Carrot, Beans, Cauliflower and Tomato) on the pressure cooker...Finally made a fine paste out of the boiled veggies in a mixture with water..Filtered it and removed the coarse texture....On a medium flame she placed a heavy bottomed vessel with the veggie essence(the one obtained after filtering)...Stirred it for few minutes...On the completing note she mixed corn flour to the veggie essence and added required salt..stirred again for a minute or two and switched the stove off...you may want to know my part in the soup making right?...Hold on...I was seriously observing the whole process...Tough job I say! She served the soup hot with fried crispy breads floating on the top of the soup..The soup came out pretty well and we were longing for more...It is a complete bliss to enjoy the rainy day with your bowl of soup...pure bliss I say!
So the consecutive weekend We(Ma hubby and I) visited my mom's place. Proudly and ostentatiously I was all mouth telling that I had learnt a new recipe vegetable soup..My father was travelling that day to a function...I told him to wait for few minutes to taste my vegetable soup before he leaves for the function...told my bro that I am going to make delicious soup...My hubby was all set to taste the yummy soup...
I added Bells pepper, Carrots, Beans, Ginger and Tomato ...boiled the veggies....made it as fine paste and was searching for a filter...To my dismay I did not get the right one but managed to remove the coarse texture...Placed the essence on a thick bottomed vessel..stirred it for a while and added corn flour paste with salt and again stirred it and switched it off...I was so much confident of my preparation and so I prepared the soup for some 15people...
My hubby and bro were already waiting to taste it...phew my father was waiting to taste it but I never seem to complete and so he left for the function...I handed the bowls of soup to two of the scapegoats...one being my hubby and the other being my bro...Bro took the first spoon of the soup and he never opened his mouth...If you think he was spellbound about my preparation friend you are totally wrong he was dumbstruck with my not-so-good work...Then he commented my soup as a cough syrup and never dared to taste it for the second time...poor hubby did not say a word and was struggling with his bowl...Being good natured that I am ,I understood his situation and magnanimously asked him not to taste further...During the meantime my bro started to advertise the quality of the soup which I prepared...No one dared to taste it and so I am...ROFL...the entire content of the soup on the vessel was left untouched...After a round of research I understood that I added carrot and ginger as the predominant ingredient which spoiled the taste...
Now when I spell the word soup, my hubby pleads me not to speak of it anymore...From then on he started to share my soup making skills to every other person on earth...sigh...I do not dare to try the soup again...secondly now you should understand how good I am when it comes to observation...
The word soup brings a churning effect in my stomach...oh It was all because of my preparation...I need to closely observe my MIL when she prepares soup for the next time...I was in a soup because of my soup preparation.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Scary night
It's been sometime that I was away from writing/blogging/commenting...I just wanted to come back and just drafted this small story within minutes!Please let me know your comments :)
It was pitch dark and the sky was engulfed with dark clouds.The moon shone with its lovely beauty.Stars dangled and was playing hide and seek with the dark clouds.She was all alone with just a candle as her company.The pitch dark surrounding scared her a lot.Thunder bolted with its cacophony and harsh wind blew which not only disheveled her hair but also killed her company...Her body started to tremble and the air was filled with jitters.She started to move out from the place but her legs were so weak because of her ailment from the fever...Her memories went back and retrived stories narrated by her granny..Phew all the stories were relating to ghost which created extra scariness...Started as a cute little drop the rain started to fall on the earth with its sudden madness.Her body started to shiver and her face went pale.Her eyes were apple red and was searching for something or someone.All her fear vanished within a jiffy when the power came back and bright light splashed on her face.
It was pitch dark and the sky was engulfed with dark clouds.The moon shone with its lovely beauty.Stars dangled and was playing hide and seek with the dark clouds.She was all alone with just a candle as her company.The pitch dark surrounding scared her a lot.Thunder bolted with its cacophony and harsh wind blew which not only disheveled her hair but also killed her company...Her body started to tremble and the air was filled with jitters.She started to move out from the place but her legs were so weak because of her ailment from the fever...Her memories went back and retrived stories narrated by her granny..Phew all the stories were relating to ghost which created extra scariness...Started as a cute little drop the rain started to fall on the earth with its sudden madness.Her body started to shiver and her face went pale.Her eyes were apple red and was searching for something or someone.All her fear vanished within a jiffy when the power came back and bright light splashed on her face.
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