its been almost 10 months in my cooking career.
the subject of my blog might be deceiving to u, ok let me make it clear in the starting itself. you might be thinking what could be these lessons learned ...ummmm...like
how much water you should put in wheat while you make chapati's/breads...or
how to make round chapati or proper way to cook chapati...or
how much chilli..salt...spices etc etc you should put while you make vegetable...and blah blah blah
well chill out......the lessons which i have learned arent transient, but everlasting, nonfading which every one of us might have experienced but may have given a cursory thought that time
This is for all Mom's : during my good/bad cooking days, i have learned, how difficult it is for a mother to provide a versatility in everyday menu, if sometime there is less salt, or more chilli or absence of spices, how we mood off and forgets the hard work behind the preparation. should we really behave like that, even we are also not perfect in our job. Even we, infact everyone needs motivation in our job, like mother needs appreciation when the food is fantastic or lil sad :) sometimes lil critic (though in a good sense).
I learned, what you can say experienced when sometime my chapati/bread's takes some country map, when i have no choice but to make maggi, when i have to go to hawker centre and purchase vegetables and decide the menu for a week or when i burn or cut my hand.
I strongly believe everyone should get their due credit, should keep their cool and from time to time motivate ur peer to get out of sometimes so called monotonous life :)
love u Mom :)
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
My Craziest Fantasy ....
well, everyone have various kinds of fantasies. like what they want to be and what they don't want to be. simply its to be or not to be. similarly everyone has right to think , to broaden his horizon to let the inlet of thoughts flow. may be in this exercise, sometime you met one of your wildest/craziest fantasy.
today i was thinking of my days when i was a child, crazy for cricket, TV, then i went to school then college, then suddenly something stopped me, in these past pictures, i recalled one fantasy which i thought when i was may be 15-16yr old. i dont know how would this sound to you, but believe me i was pretty serious and dedicated that time and was really looking forward to convert this fantasy into reality. i dont know what is the best way to explain it. ok let me try:
it was vacations, may be summer vacations. As ususal watching TV, doing some holidays homework and planning for some cricket match in the evening. for the first time in my life, i sit and heard patiently one full lesson of Bhagavad Gita and i find my inclination towards these things. i started watching Asa ram bapu etc (thats the only name i remember) satsang with my GrandMother. and thought that these guys are doing such a good work, in a way earning points in god diary. suddenly A thought flowed into my mind that why shdn't i pussue this field not for lifetime though. you wont believe but i decided that to earn some points in god diary, i'll take this field for an year and i'll repeat same lines what these ppl say, though in a different manner. i'd started learning some lines these sant mahatama speak and attract audience. I thought i'd take some religious/bhakti books from my grandmom and will just repeatedly speak in my daily avtar and will get accolades from crowd :)
and after 1 year, i'd pursue my professional career. and continue it.
now when i think of that day, i just laugh on myself. wow, what a weird infact what a crazy fantasy anyone can think of.
now see where i am now. its been almost 2.5 years since i graduated and stepped into corporate life and continuing......
I am sure its not that crazy, but surely its one of my crazy moment in my life.
today i was thinking of my days when i was a child, crazy for cricket, TV, then i went to school then college, then suddenly something stopped me, in these past pictures, i recalled one fantasy which i thought when i was may be 15-16yr old. i dont know how would this sound to you, but believe me i was pretty serious and dedicated that time and was really looking forward to convert this fantasy into reality. i dont know what is the best way to explain it. ok let me try:
it was vacations, may be summer vacations. As ususal watching TV, doing some holidays homework and planning for some cricket match in the evening. for the first time in my life, i sit and heard patiently one full lesson of Bhagavad Gita and i find my inclination towards these things. i started watching Asa ram bapu etc (thats the only name i remember) satsang with my GrandMother. and thought that these guys are doing such a good work, in a way earning points in god diary. suddenly A thought flowed into my mind that why shdn't i pussue this field not for lifetime though. you wont believe but i decided that to earn some points in god diary, i'll take this field for an year and i'll repeat same lines what these ppl say, though in a different manner. i'd started learning some lines these sant mahatama speak and attract audience. I thought i'd take some religious/bhakti books from my grandmom and will just repeatedly speak in my daily avtar and will get accolades from crowd :)
and after 1 year, i'd pursue my professional career. and continue it.
now when i think of that day, i just laugh on myself. wow, what a weird infact what a crazy fantasy anyone can think of.
now see where i am now. its been almost 2.5 years since i graduated and stepped into corporate life and continuing......
I am sure its not that crazy, but surely its one of my crazy moment in my life.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Another season of weekly starts :)
heya,
After a long time, i have thought to write, to pen down umpteen things, lets c how much i can recollect and make it interesting enuf to get ur attention till last :)
the weeklies had became the part of my Monday morning tea, can say a selfish act, to remain in touch with you and in a way feel like 'home away from home' with your replies. And now with the merger of ST network, it seems m thr, just near u, just look behind :) can see all happenings on intranet, can share bulky things instead of waiting anxiously to show u when i'll cm.
This time i found an amazing way to abate my Nostalgia. i remained glued to my Lappi and watched 6 movies in 6 days, nowadays wait with great alacrity for Roadies6.0, some daily soaps (dont tell any1 huh...nanana i wont tell which daily soaps) to get upload. i think now i can write a book on ' 101 ways to abate homesickness' .....lol
On weekdays time flee like anything, every work may it be small or big, i just postpone it to weekends :) , and on weekend, what i do.... complete my sleep.,just made a record, today i woke up at 2.30 in the afternoon, around 12.5 hrs neendia :). whenever i get up late in the morning, you know what is the excuse i make to myself "abhi to India me 12 hi baje honge (-02.30hrs) " :)
i am missing 'dilli di sardi'. here its like room temp climate thruout d yr. presently its monsoon out here. Finally after some 10 months we are going for outing next month, so getting into convivial mood. last week we had a christmas/new year party and as always me hapless guy got nothing in luckydraw :( . why me, why why why? there was ipod, nano, cam so many tempting gifts :(
i'd like to share small anecdote with u guys. when i was coming back to SGP, i planned to go to gym thrice a week and swimming in remaining 2 days on weekdays. but as i spent 1 week after i came back, i just abridged 1 day from gym and swimming, so gym 2 days and swimming 1 day,now its being 6 weeks here, have been to gym 1 day per week, and swimming is not even in picture. so gym 1 day and swimming duck/null/anda (0), also thought to jog every day in morning, but not even a single day i went for it. but u shd appreciate that, when i sleep i still fix a alarm to jog in morning :) though not following from last 5 weeks, may be 1 day....
I watched 2 much awaited movies of dis yr, dostana and RNBDJ, in theatre, though they were uploaded the same day but was worthed to spent S$13-14 to get some fresh air out of my confined place.
my fingers are still typing (tak tak tak), i can see it has already shaped into some project report :), so will give some break now.
hoping to catch up with u all thru this start of 2nd season of my weekly.
take care of yourself.
tab tak ke liye:
hum hai rahi pyar ke, phir milenge, chalte chalte.....hadeepa :)
After a long time, i have thought to write, to pen down umpteen things, lets c how much i can recollect and make it interesting enuf to get ur attention till last :)
the weeklies had became the part of my Monday morning tea, can say a selfish act, to remain in touch with you and in a way feel like 'home away from home' with your replies. And now with the merger of ST network, it seems m thr, just near u, just look behind :) can see all happenings on intranet, can share bulky things instead of waiting anxiously to show u when i'll cm.
This time i found an amazing way to abate my Nostalgia. i remained glued to my Lappi and watched 6 movies in 6 days, nowadays wait with great alacrity for Roadies6.0, some daily soaps (dont tell any1 huh...nanana i wont tell which daily soaps) to get upload. i think now i can write a book on ' 101 ways to abate homesickness' .....lol
On weekdays time flee like anything, every work may it be small or big, i just postpone it to weekends :) , and on weekend, what i do.... complete my sleep.,just made a record, today i woke up at 2.30 in the afternoon, around 12.5 hrs neendia :). whenever i get up late in the morning, you know what is the excuse i make to myself "abhi to India me 12 hi baje honge (-02.30hrs) " :)
i am missing 'dilli di sardi'. here its like room temp climate thruout d yr. presently its monsoon out here. Finally after some 10 months we are going for outing next month, so getting into convivial mood. last week we had a christmas/new year party and as always me hapless guy got nothing in luckydraw :( . why me, why why why? there was ipod, nano, cam so many tempting gifts :(
i'd like to share small anecdote with u guys. when i was coming back to SGP, i planned to go to gym thrice a week and swimming in remaining 2 days on weekdays. but as i spent 1 week after i came back, i just abridged 1 day from gym and swimming, so gym 2 days and swimming 1 day,now its being 6 weeks here, have been to gym 1 day per week, and swimming is not even in picture. so gym 1 day and swimming duck/null/anda (0), also thought to jog every day in morning, but not even a single day i went for it. but u shd appreciate that, when i sleep i still fix a alarm to jog in morning :) though not following from last 5 weeks, may be 1 day....
I watched 2 much awaited movies of dis yr, dostana and RNBDJ, in theatre, though they were uploaded the same day but was worthed to spent S$13-14 to get some fresh air out of my confined place.
my fingers are still typing (tak tak tak), i can see it has already shaped into some project report :), so will give some break now.
hoping to catch up with u all thru this start of 2nd season of my weekly.
take care of yourself.
tab tak ke liye:
hum hai rahi pyar ke, phir milenge, chalte chalte.....hadeepa :)
Monday, October 13, 2008
Week 25 -> Met King Khan this weekend
Hi All,
Hope u r fine , m doing good.
Just a very short weekly from my side this week.
Majorly, i'll focus on Zee carnival held yesterday (Sunday). I met SHAHRUKH KHAN, in singapore, well Man seriously he doesnt look 43 years old. he spoke few dialogues from his movies like bazzigar and DON and did a performance on DDLJ song. Apart from that, Sanjeev Kapoor (Khana khazan), Aditya narayan, Iqbal khan, kirti and sharad(TV Actors) and Raja hasan, Poonam (Saregamapa Singers) and last but not the least beautiful Annie (who sung 'Mahiya' from Awarapan) were also there. Raja sung 5-6 songs, wow, great singer man, trust me.
will send u pics n videos soon.
Apart from that I saw Hello, ok type movie, though i can recall what will be next in the movie, coz i have read One night at call centre novel.
Take care
cheers!!!
Hope u r fine , m doing good.
Just a very short weekly from my side this week.
Majorly, i'll focus on Zee carnival held yesterday (Sunday). I met SHAHRUKH KHAN, in singapore, well Man seriously he doesnt look 43 years old. he spoke few dialogues from his movies like bazzigar and DON and did a performance on DDLJ song. Apart from that, Sanjeev Kapoor (Khana khazan), Aditya narayan, Iqbal khan, kirti and sharad(TV Actors) and Raja hasan, Poonam (Saregamapa Singers) and last but not the least beautiful Annie (who sung 'Mahiya' from Awarapan) were also there. Raja sung 5-6 songs, wow, great singer man, trust me.
will send u pics n videos soon.
Apart from that I saw Hello, ok type movie, though i can recall what will be next in the movie, coz i have read One night at call centre novel.
Take care
cheers!!!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
week23 -> Witnessed Live Formula1
Heya,
How r u?????
I am good. Well This week, i have lot to say. Ok first clr all the boring part :p
On weekdays, Office work continued, preparing for a demo session this week for our product and cooking as usual continued. So jaldi se aate h weekend par :)
Well on saturday, I went to Little India and had dinner with guys who are freaky about F1, they specifically came to Singapore to witness once in lifetime event i.e. F1-> get set go.. i got to know some rules and found it very fascinating and then i thought, ppl coming from India, europe etc just to witness F1 at night, and me who is in singapore, not going, so i planned on sunday to atleast touch the race tracks :)
Sunday, whole singapore was zooming with cars, that deafening sound, it ws like 20 bullets are fired by Ak-47, zoom-zoom-zoom.
I was lucky enough to catch the F1 in front of my eyes and without paying the heavy ticket price :) it was like whole singapore has come to witness this event. i cant even listen a single word from my cell till 500m from race track, whole MRT station was echoeing with zipping cars. wow, the chamakti dhamakti cars, Mers, red bulls, ferrari, toyota, renault, force India etc. Never in my lifetime i have ever watched F1 on TV, but now i think i'll start following :). Pics are already uploaded on orkut.
On the other front, 4 weeks left to my Bharat Darshan :) ............ Here I comeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Happy Gandhi jayanti in adavance, meri chutti nahi h us din :((((( but yes 1st october is holiday :)
cheers!!!!
tc
AJ :)
How r u?????
I am good. Well This week, i have lot to say. Ok first clr all the boring part :p
On weekdays, Office work continued, preparing for a demo session this week for our product and cooking as usual continued. So jaldi se aate h weekend par :)
Well on saturday, I went to Little India and had dinner with guys who are freaky about F1, they specifically came to Singapore to witness once in lifetime event i.e. F1-> get set go.. i got to know some rules and found it very fascinating and then i thought, ppl coming from India, europe etc just to witness F1 at night, and me who is in singapore, not going, so i planned on sunday to atleast touch the race tracks :)
Sunday, whole singapore was zooming with cars, that deafening sound, it ws like 20 bullets are fired by Ak-47, zoom-zoom-zoom.
I was lucky enough to catch the F1 in front of my eyes and without paying the heavy ticket price :) it was like whole singapore has come to witness this event. i cant even listen a single word from my cell till 500m from race track, whole MRT station was echoeing with zipping cars. wow, the chamakti dhamakti cars, Mers, red bulls, ferrari, toyota, renault, force India etc. Never in my lifetime i have ever watched F1 on TV, but now i think i'll start following :). Pics are already uploaded on orkut.
On the other front, 4 weeks left to my Bharat Darshan :) ............ Here I comeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Happy Gandhi jayanti in adavance, meri chutti nahi h us din :((((( but yes 1st october is holiday :)
cheers!!!!
tc
AJ :)
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Week22 -> 5 weeks left
hello guys,
How are you? I am fine and doing good.
last week went fine. Almost now september is gonna end and festival season gonna start with boom-bang. now Almost less than 5 week left for my "bharat darshan" :) Already goosebumps started, excited but at the same time look this thing from diff purview as well that in no time this 2 weeks time will elapsed n i'll be back here again with homesickness :( but that part of life and as said show must go on.
wekkdays, office work kept me busy as usual. now i have almost made a habit or can say m addicted to watch latest movie either good or bad on weekends. This weekend i saw 2 movie, chamku (pathetic) and welcome to sajjanpur (ok-ok), but i watched comedy circus season 2 episodes on youtube, wow it was fun. lots of new jokes and good time pass.
My PL went to china for 2 weeks, so its party time, kidding, well this weekend, first time in history, F1 race at night is to be held in singapore on 28-30sep. "door-2 desh se log aa rahe h :)" Apart from that i booked zee carnival show tickets to be held in singapore on 11-12 Oct, heard SRK is coming in that show, n some sa-re-ga-ma singers (mauli, raja hasan etc), hope it will be worth watchable.
yesterday i end up "3 mistakes of my life by Chetan Bhagat", first i thought i'll finish 50 pages today, but jab mood bna to fir kya, finally end up reading full book, it was a good read but 5.sm1 is much better. one thing to be noted in this book is that Chetan Bhagat mentions he lives in SINGAPORE, thats kool, hope to meet him here.
Well, thats all fom my side.
hope to catch up with u all soon
Take care,
cheers!!!
AJ
How are you? I am fine and doing good.
last week went fine. Almost now september is gonna end and festival season gonna start with boom-bang. now Almost less than 5 week left for my "bharat darshan" :) Already goosebumps started, excited but at the same time look this thing from diff purview as well that in no time this 2 weeks time will elapsed n i'll be back here again with homesickness :( but that part of life and as said show must go on.
wekkdays, office work kept me busy as usual. now i have almost made a habit or can say m addicted to watch latest movie either good or bad on weekends. This weekend i saw 2 movie, chamku (pathetic) and welcome to sajjanpur (ok-ok), but i watched comedy circus season 2 episodes on youtube, wow it was fun. lots of new jokes and good time pass.
My PL went to china for 2 weeks, so its party time, kidding, well this weekend, first time in history, F1 race at night is to be held in singapore on 28-30sep. "door-2 desh se log aa rahe h :)" Apart from that i booked zee carnival show tickets to be held in singapore on 11-12 Oct, heard SRK is coming in that show, n some sa-re-ga-ma singers (mauli, raja hasan etc), hope it will be worth watchable.
yesterday i end up "3 mistakes of my life by Chetan Bhagat", first i thought i'll finish 50 pages today, but jab mood bna to fir kya, finally end up reading full book, it was a good read but 5.sm1 is much better. one thing to be noted in this book is that Chetan Bhagat mentions he lives in SINGAPORE, thats kool, hope to meet him here.
Well, thats all fom my side.
hope to catch up with u all soon
Take care,
cheers!!!
AJ
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Week 20 -> Time is running
Hi Guys,
How are you? I am fine and doing good. Hope u r well too.
As subject of this week weekly says " Time is running", Infact running very fast, one of the reason could be that now i no longer wait for weekends, on weekdays, office consumes most of the time, when i enter Home, i am almost enervated, but then talking @ home n frnds ( i ean u) make me feel refresh for few hours, which is very much needed at that time, so just want to thank u for being thr.
This week was as ususal, hectic @ office front, again a release which kept me glued to my seat almost all the time :)
Cooking as usual continued, u knw, its going to be 5 months @ Singapore and i have not cooked Rice, made Daliya and khichdi once, once of the reason is that i only have rice during lunch so i avoid during dinner and khichdi and Daliya might take some time to cook, though i am not sure, may be i'll get some help from u, how to cook, will add in my recipe book (ST guys remember that Recipe book :p)
But i am good in making chapatis :p, ohhh saas bahu and gharelu baatein kafi ho gayi, let me diverge the topic.
Now i think i am getting very addicted to my schedules, almost every weekend I have 1 maggi and Bhel (but bhelMuri khatam ho gayi :( )
then chokolate ( though this is very tasty addiction), but change adds spice, so i think i have to look for some other alternative also.
uffo, ye khane peena to ajkal mere mail ka hissa (bole to left hand) ban gya h.
On weekends, i saw three movies :) Hattrick
Mumbai meri jaan, C Kompany and A wednesday->(on sunday), good time pass, I will vote for A wednesday out of these 3 , if u have not seen any1 of these. Awesome performance by NShah and Anupam kher and then some very good Laughter challenge 4 videos.
Guys, that Sugandha Mishra is awesome, she can do mimic of singers, lovely.
So this was my digest for this week.
hope to hear from you.
Cheers!!!
take care
How are you? I am fine and doing good. Hope u r well too.
As subject of this week weekly says " Time is running", Infact running very fast, one of the reason could be that now i no longer wait for weekends, on weekdays, office consumes most of the time, when i enter Home, i am almost enervated, but then talking @ home n frnds ( i ean u) make me feel refresh for few hours, which is very much needed at that time, so just want to thank u for being thr.
This week was as ususal, hectic @ office front, again a release which kept me glued to my seat almost all the time :)
Cooking as usual continued, u knw, its going to be 5 months @ Singapore and i have not cooked Rice, made Daliya and khichdi once, once of the reason is that i only have rice during lunch so i avoid during dinner and khichdi and Daliya might take some time to cook, though i am not sure, may be i'll get some help from u, how to cook, will add in my recipe book (ST guys remember that Recipe book :p)
But i am good in making chapatis :p, ohhh saas bahu and gharelu baatein kafi ho gayi, let me diverge the topic.
Now i think i am getting very addicted to my schedules, almost every weekend I have 1 maggi and Bhel (but bhelMuri khatam ho gayi :( )
then chokolate ( though this is very tasty addiction), but change adds spice, so i think i have to look for some other alternative also.
uffo, ye khane peena to ajkal mere mail ka hissa (bole to left hand) ban gya h.
On weekends, i saw three movies :) Hattrick
Mumbai meri jaan, C Kompany and A wednesday->(on sunday), good time pass, I will vote for A wednesday out of these 3 , if u have not seen any1 of these. Awesome performance by NShah and Anupam kher and then some very good Laughter challenge 4 videos.
Guys, that Sugandha Mishra is awesome, she can do mimic of singers, lovely.
So this was my digest for this week.
hope to hear from you.
Cheers!!!
take care
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