Yes we did it!!

We  are World champions!!!!! ooooh hoooooo!!!!

30th March 2011 and 2nd April 2011 are the days I can never forget in my life. Such a wonderful feeling, that we are world Champions, we have beaten Australia (3 times world champs) in quarter finals and Pakistan (a team with extra ordinary bowling line) in semis. It was the proudest moment for each and every Indian. What a game!! truly exciting and breathtaking.

Each and every team member performed excellently (except Sreeshanth). My family members are great fans of Sachin Tendulkar. We all were praying just for the sake of him, we wanted to see him lift that beautiful trophy. I enjoyed the match more and more because my parents came from Hyderabad to Bangalore on visit. They were present for both the exciting matches. Those two days are memorable days in our life.

  

The whole nation salutes you guyz!! Jai hind.

~ Vrinda. 

Capcicum Masala Curry

Hi frenz,

I’ve been posting recipe of sweets so thought of posting some thing different spicy and delicious curry. Then I remembered my favorite Capcicum Masala curry, this is very easy to make and very delicious too. This tastes best with chapathi, pulka and rice too.

 

Ingredients:

Capcicum – 250g (chopped in to small pieces)

Onions – 2

Chillies – 2

Mustard seeds (half spoon)

Cumin seeds (half spoon)

Turmeric powder – ½ spoon

Garam Masala – ½ spoon

Chilly powder – 1 spoon

Ginger garlic paste – 1 spoon

Bhuna chana powder – 3 to 4 spoons

Salt – 1 spoon

Coriander leaves

Grated dry coconut

Procedure:

1. Heat oil in pan, fry mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds for a minute.
2. When they splutter add chopped onions, chilies and turmeric powder in it.
3. Add ginger garlic paste and fry until they turn brown.
4. Now add capcicum and fry it for 15 mins in medium flame.
5. Once it is fried well add chilly powder, coriander powder and salt in it.
6. After 2 mins add Bhuna chana powder, Garam Masala and mix it well.
7. Once you find the whole thing mixed well just add grated dry coconut and let it be on the flame for just 1 min.  
8. Garnish it with chopped coriander leaves.

(you can't find coconut in this pic as I forgot to add it :D)

Bhuna chana Powder preparation:

 Take split chick peas roast them on medium flame for 3 mins and cool it. Later put it in mixer along with 1 spoon salt, fenugreek seeds and 3 flakes of garlic.  Make it in to fine powder, take it in to bowl then add 2 spoons of chilly powder and mix it well. You can store this for 1 year too, it can be added in all the fried dishes for taste. 

If you make it exactly as I said, you can make very delicious Masala Capcicum curry. Try this and share your experience ….

Cheers,

Vrinda. 

Blue

This week entry Live every moment theme is Blue.


Vrinda.

T is for Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is referred to solar time at royal observatory in Greenwich, London. I’ve been to this place in the year 2008 on my B’day. This pic is little blurred, as I cropped it and made some changes for a better view of this clock. 

Greenwich clock with  standard measurements down there.

There is a meridian line where you can at a time be on 2 different poles of earth (North Pole and South Pole).

If you are in UK and never visited this place, then please go and visit it. If you are visiting UK then don't miss this place. It's fun to be here, esp for kids. This post is posted at Alphabe- Thursday.

Cheers,

Vrinda.

S is for Sky Scraper

When ever I hear this word one thing comes in to my mind immediately is, the New York City. Apart from being my favorite place, this place has also added some beautiful memories in to my diary. I can never forget the Friday evenings I spent in that city. Sometimes with my friends (most of the time by myself) we used to walk down the street just like that. Have fun talking on the roads, looking at the people from different nations, eating food what not? 

One Penn Plaza

 I used to work at Manhattan (heart of the city) in One Penn plaza. It is 54 storied building,  shares the same street with Empire state building.  It was fun working in a desi company, but surrounded mostly by Mexicans. They are very friendly people though, very sweet and believe me most of the girls are damn gorgeous.

 Macys was adjacent to my work place, I used to get in that tall 9 storied building and spend some hours walking around the displays. I have bought many gifts for my parents and my husband (then my boy friend) from this mall. As my office was in the 15th floor, this building was quiet visible from my desk place. So I was always updated with the events taking place there.

    

It is fun being surrounded by so many people. I know many say it’s crowded, busy centre, jam-packed with people etc etc. But I can assure you it is much fun than walking in desert feeling deserted by the whole world.

I met many nice people in this city who have become my friends for lifetime. I also learnt the value of time and money after staying here. The city teaches you many lessons which are surely helpful in your life.      

 One place I couldn't visit in New York is Statue of Liberty. Yeah I know that is not the place to be missed. Next time when I go there I will surely visit it. 

Fav places in NY are 42nd street, Cold stone Ice cream Parlor, Time square, Wall street, Macys, Cafe 34 (pizza corner), Subway located at 52nd street, WTC, Brooklyn bridge.
This is posted at Alphabe- Thursday.

     

Cheers,

Vrinda.

PS: This post is dedicated to all my frenz whom I met in NY. 

Conversations (1)

She: How is the home?

He: It’s nice, 2 bedroom apartment. In fact far better than all those previous houses I’ve seen till date.

She: Is it! Then tell me clearly how it looks.

He:  2BHK

She: How about Bathrooms?

He: Both the bathrooms are western, one has geyser too.

She: You must be excited then why you sound so dull?

He: I’m bit disappointed about flooring, its mosaic flooring. You know I prefer marble flooring.

She: Hmm… just flooring na... Its ok we can adjust. But tell me about the kitchen.

He: Everything is good in kitchen. The house is very good, I guess we can’t find better house than this in Bangalore in such a short span. 

She: I know, but tell me about ….

He: Heyy...I’m tired now. I will call you tomorrow and let you know more.

She: OK bye… J

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Next Day 

He: Heyy wassup??

She: Hi… I was waiting for your call.

He: Yeah tell me…

She: You tell me… How is the house?

He: It’s gud. But I’m only disappointed about its locality.

She: Why what happened, is it located in a slum!!??  

He: No no….It’s not located in slum. But the area is kind of not so posh locality like you were expecting.

She: I didn’t ask you to find a home in poshhhhh... locality, all I asked is to find in a decent locality

He: Ok! lemme put like this, it is not located in a very decent locality.

She: First you were telling that all you were worried about is flooring, now about locality. What else you gonna tell me later L

He: Don’t worry that is all. Just flooring and locality, that’s it.

She: Ok. How big is the kitchen?

He: Errr....kitchen is small. Heyy there is a very big balcony, forgot to tell you. It covers the whole length of the house.

She: Balcony! Nice, I can have a small garden there.

He:  Do what ever you want. 

She: Now tell me how are the Bedrooms?

He: ofooo!! You are asking about kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms….You are not asking me about the main thing. RENT!

She: Yeah tell me how much?

He: $&#@ Per month (frowned), plus 10 months rent in advance and 1 month rent to broker. 

She: Come on you must have saved some amount, pay it from that. What’s the big deal?

He: Yeah, your mom has given me 10 crores dowry. I saved it in swiss bank, now I will pay it from that.

She: Heyy…why are you pulling my mom in to this?? She has given my hand in yours, you are lucky to get wife like me, as precious as Gold.

He: Yeah I know. I’ve been looking for 50kgs Gold, where as I got 70kgs. Really I’m very lucky.   

to be contd.....

Cheers,

Vrinda.

Book Review: 'I too had a love story'

Author: Ravinder Singh

Aah this is my first book review. I just finished reading this book and immediately thought to write a review on it. 

'I too had a love story' is a true love story of Ravinder singh. He happened to fall in love with a girl named Kushi, whose profile he found in shaadi.com. In no time he was deeply, madly and truly in love with her just by communicating with her through phone. He gets a chance to meet her and spend the most beautiful hour of his life before leaving to US for an onsite trip. After returning their parents fix their engagement on Feb 14^th the Valentines Day. Just two days before their engagement she meets with an accident.

What will happen to his shonamoni? 

Will she get back from the hospital safely?    

If so, then why is this book named as ‘I too had a love story’?

What will be the ending of this beautiful tale?  

 The story is told in a very simple and neat manner. The flow is so smooth that you never know when you started reading it and when you finished it. The time flies while reading this book (I was about to finish this book in one night, but again my granny intervened and made me put down the book and go to sleep). The first half of the book goes very nicely, I was connecting my love story to it throughout (I guess this would be the case with most of the readers).Few incidents like, Ravin being desperate to see the girl with whom he is madly in love (I was going through the same when I was returning from US after 2 years being away from my boy friend). The phone calls at nights, gifts and surprises are which audience can easily connect it with. Where as in the second half not completely but most of the part was predictable. It might be because I was thinking too much while reading this book. The end of the story though it is tragic and really heart touching. While I’ve been to Ravin’s website I could see many praising him for being such a wonderful boy friend. In contrast, to popular opinion I will say that Khushi is a great lover who has made such an impact on Ravin. She gave him tremendous amount of love which has given a ray of hope for his future.     

All I would say that if you are in love, then this is a book you must read. I have a feeling that this book cannot make much market in the international arena. I guess I’m being too liberal at rating it :P.

Rate: 3/5

Cheers,

Vrinda.