General Elections 2014.Looming over the horizon is one of the most important responsibilities of every citizen holding a voter ID card.We , the citizens of today are the lucky ones.We are witnesses to a change.We are witnessing India and Indians change.Till a few years ago we never really had a choice. Voting meant choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea . Either way was a recipe for a disaster. The country and the people were treated as someone's personal fiefdom and many a fortunes made.I say this with great disdain...
Sunday, 29 December 2013
Thursday, 26 December 2013
Its that time of the year again...The time where one must begin to count ones blessings.For me,this time is special...Its time to plan Sweet Child's birthday that comes up just as the new year begins. Its time to remember the birth pains and the moment of joy as I first held him in my arms. That tiny bundle of joy is going to turn 14 soon .Certainly not tiny anymore , that bundle is quite painful very often. But all that pain notwithstanding, the love just deepens.And the desire to do ever more for him and shower all my blessings on him is overwhelming...
Wednesday, 25 December 2013
The Gingerbread Man is ubiquitous...Every blogger is overdoing the Christmas fever and the Christmas cookies.And sweet child has been pestering me to let go of the red pen and the answer sheets and bake...The whole wheat is just to add some extra goodness into my gingerbread cookies. No molasses available off the shelf in Jalandhar so honey was the only recourse . And brown sugar is at least 5 km away from my house...Jaggery or Gur (we used...
Monday, 16 December 2013
Christmas has certainly come early here. What with the unhappy ,foliage full diet that I am on, I was just craving for some soul satisfying, alcohol drenched, sweet stuff. I have had enough of beetroot and lettuce and apples for now...Real calorie dense and sweet Christmasey kind of cake.One unfinished bottle of red wine and a bowl full of cashew nuts and raisins was all it took . We did munch through a lot of the macerated raisins so had to substitute...
Monday, 2 December 2013
Sun shine and a lazy winter Sunday morning...The prospect of three holidays-today being the first after a hard days work...its been three weeks for head banging, back breaking, throat scratching organisational miracle that all 800 children got on and off the stage without breaking their teeth or bones...Two holidays are small compensation, but compensation nonetheless...Lazy hazy day today...Watching the parrots and pigeons and squirrels fight over...
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Baby did a BAD,BAD thing...Baby just wanted to look at the competition...In technicolour...Baby who...Me!Baby just wore a new pair of contact lenses...Green!And all appears hazy green for the moment.All appears not so great...but the minute Baby sees this sign...Baby becomes happy!Very happy...Cheers to the guys at Indiblogger!I wasn't inspired to write for the Dabur blog competitions...despite the fact that I work around a truckload of truck size...
Sunday, 24 November 2013
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Complications. Totally non existent here. I have never made a cake without any whipping or whisking or stuff before,but a cake that is ready in just three steps. ..WOW!This is one of those. Surprise. .almost like a pathaka...A small bomb. .cracker. .For those of you of the non Indian variety...A patakha will be one small burst of the wow factor. ..In North India good food, pretty girls, great jokes and of course the diwali crackers amongst...
Sunday, 10 November 2013
Listen well while I tell you a story...Of a boy and a girl in the spring...How a first flower burst into glory...And so shown the platinum bands of love...Love.And marriage.It's been almost 20 years.That long.But our platinum day of love came much before we were married.Hubby dear and I have known each since December 1993 when we were naive and gauche and young...He was just starting out on his military career and I was getting an education in university....
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Smart phones and smart women.Indispensable in today's world.No one can live without either a smart woman or in today's high pressure city life-a smart phone.I'm a recent convertee...It's been two months, and I really don't know how I managed without my smart phone . In fact I'm ruing the fact that I settled for a small phone. My smart phone should have been bigger.But then ,that kind of draws attention to the carrier of the phone.The women...
Saturday, 2 November 2013
Mera dil, Meri Dilli.My city...and I ♥ Delhi.I may not have been born in Delhi,but in all senses, I was born here. finished school,college,got an education,found my calling and my job and fell in love in this city.I have awesome memories here.This is the city I call home.The parents live here .I learnt to drive here and know the roads of Delhi better than I know any other place. Love the markets and the food here.Every time I come to Delhi, the happiness...
Sunday, 27 October 2013
I belong to the era when mobile phones just invaded normal life.I belong to the era when women were relatively free and safe in Delhi.No I am not as old as Sheila Dixit,but I am not a gauche, young teenager any more.I remember a time when travelling in DTC buses was the norm and Auto Rickshaw drivers were a little more trust worthy. The roads may have been less crowded ,but they were safer.I remember a time when incoming calls cost 64rs a minute.When...
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