BAKING..!!!

If your thinking that this is inspired by JULIE & JULIA and i'm suddenly starting a countdown in an attempt to complete all the recipes from the book "MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING" then i'm sorry to disappoint you people... this was just a one time fun attempt.. hehe

So D,N and i decided we wanted to bake a cake and learn how to make the cheesecake that N makes...its finger licking good... hehe.... well this was actually suppose to happen yesterday but then i kinda got busy... so when D was dropping me home today we suddenly decided to actually finish the task we had set for ourselves.. and after writing the Spanish test (which i might add was pretty simple but a test all the same.. hehe), we needed something to refresh us.. so we got all the ingredients and then picked N up again and reached my place... my place because i have the oven... so we take out all the ingredients and N asks me where the fresh cream is... see thats why people write down the grocery list because you tend to forget things... so we go back and get the cream... now we have everything ...phew!!!!! lets begin...

We decided to put the cake for baking and in the mean while we can make the cheesecake because it just need refrigeration... so the batter is ready... i oven is preheated at 180 C... and then WHOOOOSH... the electricity is gone.... the is an f*****g power cut... if i look at the positive side, its good it happened before we put the cake to bake otherwise our cake would've gotten spoilt....on the bad side , how in the bloody hell are we suppose to bake without an oven... ???? .. well there wasn't much to be done so we just left the batter in the mold...

We proceeded on to the cheesecake thinking okay here we require no electronic items... and thats when N says but we need to puree the fruit and crush the biscuits in the grinding machine... we looked at each others faces...!!!

i asked N, "how the hell did people cook when there were no grinder??

N said," there were no cheesecakes then... " hahahaha....

Anyway we weren't giving up soo soon... N sat with the mortar and pestle and crushed the biscuits with hand while i pureed the mango with hand by squeezin the shit out of it... hehehe... back to the old means... and we realized okay we are not that dependent on the machines but all this that took us half hour would have gotten over with in 15 mins with a grinder and some electricity... hehe

So right now the Cheesecake is siting in the fridge cooling and the cake batter is still waiting for the power to come back on... i just hope i don't eat away the raw batter.. its kinda yummy... :D

and Laptop battery also dying so thats it for now... :)

ADIOS...:)

WEDDINGS...!!!

Here, in India wedding are really funny events. If your wondering why i say that... well its simple really..
and before i say anything else people, please understand that i love these wedding as much as i hate them.. after all i'm a part of this culture. whatever i'm saying down here is just an opinion, not pointing fingers at anyone. i love the whole works and someday my wedding will also be the big Indian wedding and i'l also b the tired bride... hehe... so i'm not judging anyone here.
 
According to me the day people get married is suppose to be about the two people who are essentially the bride and the groom. but somehow they are the two people who enjoy this day the least. the bride is all decked up with ghaghra (skirts) which weigh like 1 or 2 kgs at times( i'm not kidding by the way) and then the jewelry .. it's like the bride is mannequin of some jewelry store.. i mean does she really need all that 'decoration'?? Isn't beauty skin deep.??? and the groom, poor guy is so busy attending to relatives, picking people from the airport and talking people shopping that he doesn't really get the time to relax before his big day...even on his big day he is pretty tired..


I'm gonna take a break here.... gotta go for a wedding..:D will come back and continue...:D (9:15 pm)


okay its 1:23 am now.. i'm back from the wedding.. well i was back at 12 am only but its now that i've finally gotten around to completing this post.so here goes..


yes the groom is more tired than any one else. and then comes the big day. you know nothing in the wedding right from the venue to the date to the food is of the choice of the bride and the groom. the venue is decided based on where people can be accommodated and of course the social standing of the family. the date is either set depending upon the shubh muhurat ( astrologically good dates) or when the venue maybe available..:D okay i should probably not say this here but hey ever think about the poor girl who isn't able to enjoy her wedding or her honeymoon because no one asked her if those days were good for her.. sheesh..... and the food .. ahh.. the food is always about what the people would think is good, its not about the groom liking paneer khofta or the bride liking the double ka meetha... oh nooo.. its all about the guests... its a wedding for god sakes, its not the opening of a restaurant where the customers preference matter more..


the best part is still yet to come.. we hardly ever attend a wedding because we actually wanna be a part of the couple's happy day.. WE attend these weddings for the food.. oh the yummy food... well i partly do the same.. and that is why i've decided that i'm actually gonna invite very few people.. why bother with the rest when all they want is food.. hahahaha.... the poor JUST married couple sit on the stage, the center of attraction with every one staring at them and all they do is stand and click pictures with every random person. now i really don't know the need for that either. as if i need a picture with my mom's sister's son's wife's family friend... do i even know the guy?? hell no.. but picture hell yeah.... 


and by the time this whole charade ends its almost 2 in the night and the couple is only thinking of sleeping, and this on their first night together ... poor things... and its not like they get to go on the honeymoon soon after... nope... there are times when these poor couples don't leave for a honeymoon for weeks.. oh and yea there is the whole no honeymoon part too.. so what i fail to understand here is how the hell is this a celebration for the couple, they get nothing... except the whole spending life together n forever n all that...


so for me Indian weddings are all drama though i love the getting dress up and going for the wedding bit hehe.... oh and the yummy food.. so keep the weddings going people.. :D


good night from me now.. have another wedding to go to this weekend.. :)

OLD FRIENDS!!!

When your in school, you don't really think you can ever loose contact with someone you meet every day. You never think of losing contact with the boy who was siting next to you in the school bus for years or the girl whom you called your closest friend or the guy who sat in front of you in class for 2 years sharing his notes with you.  you never stop to wonder because you are so sure that these people are your good friends and you'll be talking to them your whole life. but like always life has its own plans for you.

One day school gets over, you move on with your life and the people who were your 'good friends' also move along. the first month or even year, you talk regularly and then as the years go by you delay the phone calls because your busy with something else, no more mails or calls. one fine day you wake up and start counting back to the years that came between your friendship and you think of calling up your friends and catching up. but at exactly that moment you remember something more important and say to yourself," oh! i'l call him later its been years so whats a few more minutes or hours". and then you forget.  but what you don't really know is life is waiting for the right moment to push those friends back into your life. because when you least expect it they do come back into your life and it is then you wonder why the f*** had we stopped talking...

The best part about this is that once you start talking after the years of not being in contact you see more clearly the difference between the kid who sat beside you in the school bus and the man who is siting beside you then talking about life and environmental engineering... or the guy who wrote cheesy poems to the writer who is busy publishing his first book. or the girl who made you run behind her bf to the woman who has learnt to  live life on her own... and you feel proud of the people they have become, you feel great that after all these years you can just resume your friendship from where you left it off without being awkward or uneasy. and just like that your back to sharing joking and just enjoying the easy time spent talking and chilling with them. 

Maybe thats why friendship is such a funny relationship. even after years of silence all you need is one memory or joke to crack you up, to have you hi-fying and just laughing. and even though school friends or rather childhood friends may not always be your best buddies they always hold a special place in your heart because it is with them that you have memories that can be rivaled by none. they are the people who accept you as a nobody and don't treat you any different even after you become a somebody.

AND THEN I REALIZED....

Now that college is over, people are leaving to get on with life. And since a friend of mine leaves for her new job training program this week we met yesterday night to chill and just hang out.

We had dinner on a chinese Bandi (a roadside eatery) and had late night ice cream. Once back home we played board games, yeah i know sounds a little weird as this age bu it was fun and we laughed our guts out the whole night. finally called it a night at maybe 5 am. mostly because by then most of us were yawning and couldn't keep our eyes open even if it was a matter of life and death...

But see the funny part is yet to come. every other time that we've all just slept over at someone's, the next day was all about lazing around. waking up the next morning at 10 - 11.. having breakfast.. siting around the table and catching up on the previous night's craziness, etc, etc...

But today morning was Different. one of us got up at 7am and rushed to work. then next left at 8 and when i finally roused myself completely from sleep at 8:30ish, there were just 3 of us in the room.But see, the thing wasn't that all of us left seperately or woke up early. it was just how fast we went from "having fun" at night to "going back to work" in the morning. it was when i woke up this morning that i realized that my life of relaxation and leisure is coming to an end. very soon every day will be like this. it will not matter what kind of night i had, the next morning i would have to leave from home for work because my boss will not be a nice professor who would grant me a sick leave if i just din't feel like going in that day. i will not just b able to go to work after lunch or after the first hour because i overslept....

What amazes me all the more (umm.. actually it scares me more) is that i really haven't even started that part of my life yet but still i'm being pushed into that environment because of the change that people around me are undergoing. i guess its my time to leave education and college life behind and grow up.....

I'm not afraid of the responsibility this part of life will bring with it but my fear really lies in the fact that i might not be able to control this change because i'm really sure how i'm going to do the whole growing up bit and life seems to be pushing that bit on to me quite a lot now.

Anyway, i'l just ponder over it for the next month while i enjoy the last of my summer vacations..:)GOOD NIGHT...!!!

FOOD!!!

Sooo... thats one of the biggest weaknesses.. FOOD!!! i'm one of those people who actually lives to eat instead of eating to survive... i like food and i like all varieties of food.. and today after a loonnnggg time i got to eat some real good food... n the best part was it was a buffet... eat all you can dude... now that is what i like.. soo all except one of us had actually been to this place before... and we sort of initiated my new friend into the whole eating at the buffet because hey, this place has the bestest ( yeah i know thats not a word but it expresses my feelings) place to have a buffet.. i mean the variety of food is wow.. and of course the desserts.. cant even begin to tell you guys about.... the CHOCOLATE CARAMEL PUDDING... every bite of it was like sinful if that even describes it right.... and then i had some of the BLUEBERRY CHEESECAKE.... see i'm not a fan of blueberry but all i can say is yummmmm.... and the i tried the ROSEMARY MANGO SOUFFLÉ... my friends din't enjoy it much because they kinda tasted the rosemary that was used as garnish on top and that ruined the taste for them.. but i din't bother with the garnish and went straight for the real thing and it was good.. i'm a sucker for soufflés and puddings so according to me that was the best of all the desserts.... and then i came to the JALEBIS .. but by then i was uber full.. like stomach about to explode full.. so just had one bite of it.... wow so i wrote a lot about the food i ate huh.. makes me crave for more of it actually... but even though its hours after i ate all that and more my stomach still feels pretty darn full..

Well now that i finished with my whole food session.. i should tell u guys the reason i got to eat all that too right.. well i met my gang of friends from junior college after almost 4 months and we decided to go for lunch so we could eat and talk... though we did most of our talking after food when we went over to one of the friend's house (she couldn't make it because she was sick like had a cold)... yeah sat for hours just talking.. not really catching up because don't really do the whole catching up bit ... we just spoke about all nonsense.. including a shit test.. which was a rather interesting topic.. im not really going to elaborate on it but it was funny... but the funny part was when one of them told us that they din't like swimming because they got cramps when in the pool.. and actually went on to describe how hard it was to swim will only one leg and two hands because the other leg was cramped.. and that had us in splits... i mean who wouldn't laugh when your friend actually demonstrates what cramped leg looks like ... it reminded us of a frog and that had us laughing all the more... i guess thats what hanging out with friends is all about... had a blast today and can't wait to hang out again because we made some big plans for the coming Wednesday which i know are not going to work out but it was a lot of fun planning the impossible anyway... *lauging*....

anyway people finally i can see the mtv awards.. so i'm going to sign out now and enjoy watching all these hot guys and of course Taylor Lautner.. *sighs*....

Good Night and Sleep Tight people...:)

P.S :Oh and i did make the Spoiler Alert in the under pressure post int capitals for people like my stupid friends.. who read the line after spoiler alert even tho they know what it means and then reprimand me about revealing the end of a movie they haven't watched...

UNDER PRESSURE!!!

Today i learnt a new word... BAÑOS.... n my dearest friend actually badly needed it today.. she was under great pressure.... and everyone knows how people get under pressure.. they go kinda crazy... and hyper... she did too.. hehe.... it was a sight to behold seeing her run por él baños... and the funny thing here is she didn't really need it till we had a means to access it but as soon as we were out of reach she realized how much she needed it.. people are funny at times.. not using when they have and needing when its gone..

Anyway, i watched RAAVAN today... after a long time i watched some movie on the day it released... i'd say it was an average movie.. watchable once.. liked Vikram's and Abhishek's acting and ash was shrill.. man what was wrong with her voice...i anyway shouldn't comment much on her because im prejudiced.. i haven't liked her in any movie since taal.... now th reason i say the movie is watchable once is because of the end...
******SPOILER ALERT******
i like the fact that Abhishek dies and Ash realizes what a bastard her husband(Vikram) is for using her as bait(well almost bait)...***SPOILER ALERT****


yea i know that makes me sound like a sadist and weird person but please im bored with all the song and dance and happy endings... in real life happy endings just don't happen...

Hmmmm... i guess thats it for now.... will post again when something RANDOM happens again..:)

Hasta maś tarde...

Adios..:)

ALEATORIEDAD??

okay.. now for people who think Aleatoriedad is not a meaningless word.. let me tell u its not.. its actually a very meaningful word in Spanish.. it means RANDOMNESS..:P i'm writing this blog for no particular reason u know randomly so its an apt name for my blog. oh an why in Spanish.. well because i just started learning Spanish and thought of showing off a little...not much just a little because i don't know much of Spanish...

if your like looking for serious stuff to read. dude i'm just another person writing just some stuff.. so u won't get much seriousness in my blog... i'm going to be writing RANDOM stuff from my life. and i don't really know how serious that can get. then again im not great writer. i know my English and i have most of my grammar in place and i have an average vocabulary. but see that doesn't under any circumstances mean that my post will be sensible to people... i know my friends will understand but anyone else reading it i don't give any guarantees....if u still wanna read well then who am i to stop you.. read away my friend...:)