Virtual Slap from me

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car, society

I guess most of us love speeding, it gives us a thrill, it is indeed adventurous but dont u think there has to be a limit to everything???

What do u do when people decide to speed in a place where kids are playing, people decide to speed in residential complexes?

Go read here what happened to our sweet Krish yesterday and how the bastard reacted one confronted

I have seen this happening in our complex also, inspite of the fact that there are speed limits out on every street of our layout but still people go and speed…

What Kiran experienced was a close call and thank god krish is fine… But gosh look at the reaction of this moron…

Here he is Mr. Gaurav Chopra, if i would have met u in person I would have probably slapped u hard but because I cant do I give u virtual slap on behalf of all us mothers and fathers….

Like my nephew says “Shame Shame Puppy shame on guarav” actually u are not even worth that. I am ashamed that we have people like u who don’t care about a kid’s life

the cursed tag

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tag

Afaque has threatened his readers to do this tag and I most certainly don’t want my blog cursed.. so here goes the tag…

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
Nopes… My uncle liked the name so he kept and quite a irony he never calls by my name

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
Well I cry at the drop of a hat… last time was well this morning seeing oscars

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
No No No, most of the time I am writing in a hurry and hence its bad i have been heard so many times saying that please forgive my handwriting… its specially embarrassing on the white board… if this was the only criterion I would have been a doctor 🙂

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
Lunch is usually veg but I love fish and prawns in general, don’t eat mutton and chicken is just ok…

5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
Yup a darling little son, most of u know him by his blog

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
Ya I guess… may be may be may be may be not

7. DO YOU USE SARCASM?
Occasionally when I am pissed…

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
Yes

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
Been there done that

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL
Wheat

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
I wear footwear without laces usually but when I do wear by sneakers I don’t… too lazy for that

12. IF YOU WERE TO PICK YOU OWN FIRST NAME, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
I love my name, no i hate it but still would keep it

13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
HCF and don’t tell me u don’t know what’s that

14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
Smile… actually my reaction to a person depends a lot on how they smile… a fake smile is a sure put off

15. RED OR PINK?
Red

16. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF
My weight…

17. WHOM DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
Grandmom

18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO COMPLETE THIS LIST?
Ya would love to read those interesting things

19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?
I am wearing a green color suit today coupled with silver and brown footwear

21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
Jai ho…

22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
Black or Red

23. FAVORITE SMELLS?
Wet mud smell after the first rain, petrol smell, coffee, cookies being baked… I can go on and on

24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
My son’s nanny to check on my son

25. HOW DO YOU KNOW THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU
Well, what else than the best discovery of my life, the blogosphere 🙂
(this is afaque’s answer but I loved it and the answer is the same so keeping it :):))

26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
I dont really enjoy sports too much but I have to pick one it’ll be Cricket….

27. HAIR COLOR?
Dark Brown with highlights of red currently 🙂 I keep changing that so often though… my birth my hair color was jet black have totally ruined it now but

28. EYE COLOR?
Dark Brown.

29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
No.

30. FAVORITE FOODS?
Kadhi chawal, fish tikka and ice creams

31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
Happy endings anytime

32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
Delhi 6

33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
Green

34. SUMMER OR WINTER
winter, I hate summers, cant stand the heat… i crib in blore heat too 🙂

35. HUGS OR KISSES
Both why should one choose???? Not fair

37. DESCRIBE YOUR PENCIL CUP
The usual boring black netted corporate thing given by company in office and at home its a lovely piece sis picked up from Pondicherry

38. FAVORITE ARTIST(s)?
Many Many

39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?
34 Bubblegum and Candies by our very own PS

40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
No mouse pad… though I have been wanting to get one from GK with my son’s pic on it… oh ya I know my life revolves around him right now 🙂

41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?
Casino Royale… Daniel Craig is so hot

42. FAVORITE SOUND(S).
The giggling of a child so pure…

43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?
Beatles…

44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?
I have seen the world in my dreams.. in reality been to Malaysia

45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?
Being me is special right…

46. WHERE WERE U BORN?
dilli hai mastano ki dilli dilli

47. FAVORITE PIECE OF JEWELRY?
Bangles… funky, round any shape any color…

48. HOW DID YOU MEET YOUR SPOUSE/SIGNIFICANT OTHER?
oh ya u caught me on this one…we met on Shaadi.com and the rest is history

49. FAVORITE SONG?
Just too many currently its anything from nusrat and delhi 6

50. Favorite Musical?
Sound of Music… never seen a live musical show though

I tag the following and just like Afaque I will curse ur blogs if u dont do this… well if I pass a tag I pass the curse too isn’t it?
Hitch Writer aka Dhiren
My namesake Monika,ansh
Mama – Mia aka abha
the one and only IHM
she surely does write at doiwrite, nm
one who never fails to bring a smile on my face roop
another namesake dont get it we share the nick name chandu 🙂
the girl with a lovely name Iya

PS: this is my third post in the day and this is when I have loads of work to finish, something’s wrong with me…

Jai Ho

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india, movie

How much ever I have cribbed about Slumdog not being as good as the hype I have a tear in my eye today when I hear Jai ho and I am indeed playing it loops on my laptop…

It feels good that Rahman has brought two oscars home

And my my the surprise was the Smile Pinki grabbing best short documentary, with that I couldnt control and the tear just rolled down the cheek…

And then did u see this pic… Can anything get cuter than this


I am just imagining the delight of these kids…. worth a million dollar isnt it and two of the kids actually are from the Mumbai slums…

Jai Ho indeed….

PS: Pics courtesy High Heel Confidential

Yeh Dilli hai mere yaar

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movie, personal, review

Yeh Dilli Hai Mere Yaar, Bas Ishq Mohabbat Pyaar
Basti Hai Mastano Ki Dilli Dilli, Gali Hai Deewano Ki Dilli 6…
Bolo Bolo Milo Se Dilli Dilli, Bolo Bolo Milo Se Dilli 6
Basti Hai Mastano Ki Dilli Dilli, Gali Hai Deewano Ki Dilli 6

Oh I am feeling so nostalgic… feels like going back to home right away…

I saw Delhi 6 yesterday night and fell in love with it, the movie hardly has a story if u ask me but still says so much… the delhi attitude, the small nuisances… the way old delhi is shown…

Oh I loved it all…

Ok I agree its not as good as RDB but the movies like RDB happen once in a lifetime and I think a comparison would be totally unfair…

If u have anything to do with Delhi, u’ll realise how good the movie is… Delhi is the hero of the movie and ya the kala bandar too 🙂

I also loved the way the movie weaved in Ramayana and ramlila in between, the relevant chapters running thru the movie… it made it so relevant to the current times…

Loved the way the social issues like communalism etc are just weaved in… the way hindus and muslims co-exist lovingly and then one word from someone the riots start and then suddenly they become friends again… this exactly is delhi my friend…

And hey did I mention that there was one more reason to be nostalgic… Me and N went for this movie on our bike after ages… Oh man… I love it…. resting the head on his shoulder, hugging him from behind, hair flying away, cold wind blowing into my face… I so miss our long, aimless, destination less bike rides… I want them back

Contest

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recipe

Yesterday I was working from home and about lunch time I realized that there is nothing really left from the previous night so will have to think something about lunch…

I went to the kitchen and saw that mil had made toor dal but somehow didnt feel like eating dal-chawal, I looked around the kitchen, raided the fridge and then decided that there is nothing interesting that can be made quickly and hence grudgingly proceeded to make the standard tomato rice

Somewhere in the middle I lost my mind and started putting whatever I wanted to 🙂 and surprisingly the rice came out really well… hubby also liked it quite a bit and when he asked me what it is, I told him what I had done and I dont have any name and guess what he said… ask ur blogger friends, they’ll give it a name 😉

So folks, here’s the recipe and like those TV programmers its name the rec contest 🙂

Ingredients
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp urad dal
1 tsp channa dal
handful curry leaves
2 dry red chillies
2 slit green chillies
1 big onion chopped
2 medium tomatoes chopped
2 bowl cooked rice
1 tsp chopped jalapenos
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp mixed dried herbs (i used rosemary, oregano, basil and thyme)
1 tsp tabasco
1 tbsp tomato ketchup
2 tsp oil (i used refined but in retrospect olive oil would be better)

Method
Heat oil and add mustard seeds and let them splutter
add urad dal, channa dal, dry red chillies and curry leaves and fry for 2 mins
add onion and green chillies and fry till brown
(This is where I changed my mind)
Add mixed herbs and jalapenos and fry for 1 min
add the tomatoes and fry for 3-4 mins
all teh vinegar and all the sauces
fry for 4 mins
add the rice and fry for 3 mins on low flame

and enjoy the fusion dish 🙂 🙂

Give me a name guys….

Superwoman

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fun

I saw this at D and thought of trying my hand too

Superwoman Monika… Muattalik I am coming…

Add on guys

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fun

The crazy family that we are….hubby,sis and urs truly started translating movie names… dont ask me how it started… dont even ask me for the logic…

mighty heart – chappad phad ke dil
slumdog millionare – gali ka kutta bana crorepati
Hancock – haan murga
there’s something abt marry – meera ke baare main kuch tou hai
luck by chance – tukam lagam kismat lagam (can also be used for slumdog millionare)
men in black – kaala jaanwar
astronaut -kissan bhaiya banee antrakish yaatri
dilwale dulhaniya le jaayenge -men with mighty heart grab the bride
Bheja Fry – Mind Masala
Aaja Nachle – Move ur ass baby
Conair – Beiman Hawa

Guys add more,lets see the funny side of u working 🙂

Random Things : A Tag

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tag

I have been tagged by multiple people to do this on facebook as well as by Goofy Mumma and dearest Ritu 🙂 on my blog… so here it is… this was cross posted on Facebook too, the bloggers who I have tagged there can choose to do it wherever they want Facebook or blog… ur call just let me know 😉

Here are the rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

1. I cant sleep without reading something, lullaby for me have been books for as long as I can remember
2. I have virtually lived for only ice-creams for 9 months ya i guessed it right during my pregnancy
3. I am addicted to my morning cup of tea cant open my eyes without it
4. I love cooking and innovation in cooking, I never make the same dish the same way twice hence I can never write a cookbook or a cooking blog
5. I am very very very bad at names… I’ll remember the person so many incidents and story related to him/her but the name will just not come
6. Till I was some 10 or so I didnt use to walk on the road straight, I was always jumping or walking in a dancing mode
7. I love kadhi chawal can eat it anytime and any no of times
8. Also out of 9 months of my pregnancy I was on bed rest for 6 and during that time I used to read on a average on book a day so that makes it approx 6*30 = 180 books… wow!!
9. I am a compulsive shopper… cannot survive a week without shopping… I absolutely have to buy something even if its as small as a bindi packet, a pair of junk earing or even a rubber band
10.I worry to the level of obsession about my little one being sexually abused may it is something to do with what happened in my childhood
11. I was in awe of Rajiv Gandhi, I strongly believe that if he was there India would have been in much different and better shape
12. I have an OCD of washing hands, I wash my hands atleast 20 times a day and always carry a hand sanitizer in my purse
13. I am perfect target of the cosmetic ads, if something’s newly launched I have to try it… I might just dump it after two weeks though
14. I love buying shoes and more than that I think its a necessity for me to buy shoes, no pair has ever lasted in my feet more than 6 months
15. I love rains… and love getting drenched
16. I really miss my grandma a lot a still talk to her in my dreams, she passed away 6 years ago
17. I am a huge huge Calvin and Hobbes fan, I own the complete Calvin and Hobbes collection
18.How much ever eerie it does sound, I get a same dream every year on my birthday… A dream in which I am running running and then falling into a well. Never tried to figure out what it really means and signifies. I guess I dont want to or may be dont have the guts too
19.I can not stand any violence on children, not even a small slap. I think children need to be dealt with a lot of love
20.I have always wanted to adopt a daughter dont know whether will be able to do it or not
21. I love just lying on my back on the terrace or the grass and watching clouds take various shapes… teddy bear, stars, apple anything. I make the most amusing shapes out of it
22. I love driving and along with hubby I have done Delhi to Bangalore by road 3 years back
23. am a perfect example of a sine wave when it comes to weight, going up and down all the time. I have clothes of atleast 4 sizes in my wardrobe at any given time all of which I am able to wear in the same month 🙂
24. I have always wanted to change my career and turn into a full time Organic Farmer, I am currently trying some organic farming in my backyard
25. Its my dream to go for a world tour in my mobile home after I retire and ya I want to retire at 40… gosh I have so less time left

Oops 25 is a lot… i thought this will be easy but I took a long time to finish it

Apart from the people I have tagged in Facebook, I tag each one of u who reads this… please do it and leave and comment, I want to know more about u

Tell me Tell me

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Feminism, personal, pink chaddi

why does weekend fly away so fast?

The weekend was a blast… Valentines day was well spent raising a toast to PPC and celebrating the first victory of Women Power 🙂 🙂

And yesterday was fun too with lots of good cooking and a potluck dinner

But why why why does the weekend fly away so fast???

PS: Ps has posted a very interesting exercise here, I had fun doing it and got a lot of insight in my life… do check it out

Solution

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fun, traffic

One of my nice friend K send me this as my solution to traffic woes, have a look at it, its amazing

Ok now let me suggest this to N as a valentines gift… what say guys?