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18 Wednesday May 2011

Posted by monikamanchanda in NaBloPoMo

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I am actually confused on how to start this post, how to write what the birthday boy means to me.  Incase you are wondering who, its N’s birthday today. Birthday of a man who made my life complete. Ever felt that feeling where you want to say so much that you don’t get words? That’s the state I am today in. Speechless and wordless I guess not all feelings can be expressed in words.

So this birthday N asked me not to gift with anything and as a obedient wife we have agreed to what he said and not buy him a gift but I was wondering what to do with the money I had in my mind for his gift so I went and shopped for myself Winking smile bought two nice pair of shoes and a top. Now I am all set for the evening party you see. And incase you are still wondering why the no gift funda thats because he took it in advance last month a bicycle worth 2ok *faints* :rollseyes: and post that has spent about 5K for its accessories. Boys will be boys I guess, nothing can change them when it comes to gadgets.

Another way this birthday is different is the fact that the cake has been bought from the market after ages. My damn oven is not working Sad smile I thought of baking it in the microwave but I think I have a huge mental block against it. Smitha I know I know you will say it comes out fine may be its just my mind and nothing else Smile with tongue out so the cake is bought and ready from The French Loaf, the new bakery in town which has absolutely yummilicous stuff and we are waiting for the Ojas to get up to cut it as he has been super excited since yesterday about dada’s birthday.

So people please join me in wishing the older boy in my life a very happy birthday.

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A Mish Mash Birthday

16 Monday Aug 2010

Posted by monikamanchanda in Random thoughts, This and that

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birthday, happiness, life, RIP, sadness, tejaswee Rao

So It was my birthday yesterday…. and the whole day the thing that was running on my mind was how is that you wish yourself a Happy Birthday when all that is running in your mind is a the fact that a  lovely girl so full of promise and a life and girl who wanted to live long and enjoy life 😦  was taken away by God… May her soul rest in peace and May God give IHM and family the strength required to go through this, though right now I am in no mood to trust God. If there was someone like him would this have happened? Life is so f^&king unfair sometimes.

But as the super strong IHM says life has to go on, I also went through my day with the usual celebrations with N and my mom and sis pushing me a little for it. I made a cake for myself (which I forgot to click picture of)… mixed fruit flavour and it came out super… Even I was surprised with the softness of the cake 😉 certainly one of the best I have made. It was polished off when some friends came for lunch today.

And the only part of the day which I was actually looking forward to was “Peepli Live”. N and my sis had booked tickets for the movie for me and N saying she will take care of Ojas while we enjoy the movie and damn just before we were ready to go he started crying and did a huge vomit and with that were drowned my hopes of watching the movie too 😦 He is fine now… slept exactly 20 mins after we were supposed to go and kept on sleeping for the next 3 hrs… life isn’t fair I think is the key take away from this birthday

Night was the family dinner that got planned with my mom, sis, my sister in laws family and also a N’s cousin who was here was US. It was a nice dinner where we all chatted away for glory ( BTW on that note “Taste of Rampur” which is listed as of the best North Indian in Times Food guide of last year sucks… might do a detailed review later but as of now my word is dont waste ur money there).

So all in all it was a decent birthday but somehow it just wasnt the same. It was as if there is a air of sadness all around me. Even if I was laughing it was a laughter from the heart, Tejaswee you will live in our hearts forever. And the next year of my life will be dedicated to u 🙂 Of staying strong and positive just as you were. Isnt it strange that the person who you havent even met once leaves such a lasting impression on you and your life sometimes.

Ok lets end the post in a happy and postive note just how she would have liked… by dedicating a song to myself…. Pari Hoon Main 😉

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Happy Birthday Little Sis

31 Sunday Jan 2010

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Rather Big Little Sis…. My youngest sister turns 25 today but in her mind and in her actions… she refuses to grow up 🙂

Happy Birthday my big little sis… and I am so happy that after ages I am celebrating some birthday with my family right here in delhi

yippe!!!

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Where I secure my place in mommy heaven

10 Thursday Dec 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in fun, recipe

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Isn’t there is this rule that you if you bake a fancy cake for your son you go straight to mommy heaven 😀 well then I have secured my place there he he

I made a train cake for Ojas this time…  and here I present it to u….

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Last time when I asked you guys for some icing recipes in my mind I was wanting to make a car cake but when I searched the internet for some pictures and TMM sent me this link, I got really scared of the shaping involved. This being the first time I was going to try anything so elaborate I was just not getting confidence on looking at those cakes

Then I remembered that she had made a lovely train cake for the munchkin’s first birthday and I told her I might just pick up her idea and generous soul that she is smiled and said go ahead 🙂 thanks avanti  (its a different story that my cake is not half as pretty looking as her’s but I am happy with mine too 😀 )

So with that lead and the icing recpies you lovely guys had sent me… I started out to bake the cake for Ojas….

The bogies and the engine are actually all baked in rectangular break tin’s or tea cake moulds. I bake in total of 5 such cakes and assembled them together.

The engine is Chocolate Temptation (for those of you who asked I have updated the post with the rec) in which I have layered half of the second cake on top of the first to give it the engine look.  There is a ginger bread man sitting as the driver of the bogie on the side and the chimney is half cut ice cream cone filled with gummy bears and on top of that I put the 2 year candle

The three bogies are plain pound cakes with this butter cream icing (which I modified to replace shortening with white butter as the shortening was not really available anywhere near my house and later when A sent me her frosting recipe I realized its the same :D) flavored with Green Apple essence and green color

On the first bogie I put some chocolate rolls as logs, the next one I lined up with gems and wrote Happy Birthday, the next one had Ojas written on it…

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The last one the guard box is the left over half of the chocolate part of what I put over the engine… again there is a ginger bread man sitting there as a guard and the icing is the same as above but an orange flavor.

All the bogies and the engine are joined together with chocolate wafers and the wheels are the coin chocolates.

I would be kidding if I say that oh it was very easy there was a lot of effort that went into it, I baked all the cakes and made the icing ready on Sunday evening and then put together the cake on Sunday afternoon but the end result gave me an amazing amount of satisfaction and ofcourse the place in mommy heaven 🙂 may be next time I will really be brave enough to try the car cake.

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A Day full of surprises

18 Tuesday Aug 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in personal

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bengali food, birthday, cake, cocktails, damro, drunk, friends, oh calcutta, rain, surprise party, wine

33 is a strange age to be, 3 times eleven… two 3’s…. none of the numbers is intersting isnt it? Naaah… I think 30’s rock… I mean seriously… When I entered 30 I was a paranoid  oh my god I am becoming old but I think its a brilliant age to be in… I am having total fun since I have turned 30 🙂

So all you guys out there afraid of the 30’s dont shy away… be happy 🙂 30’s indeed rock!!!

For me birthdays have always been a big thing… the celebrations and the planning starts well in advance and usually we make a trip somewhere outside Bangalore considering its always a holiday its not so difficult too but this time when the swine flu scare on we were in the town and nothing was planned… infact no shopping was done too sigh!!! and for a change I wasnt even cribbing about this…

Then suddenly on thursday N said that I will put leave tommorow and we will go shopping for your birthday and now when a man proposes shopping only a women out of her mind will deny 😉

So the lifestyle store was raided with an Espirit sun glasses, two pairs of footwear, a lot of junk and silver jewelery and yet another handbag… clothes, shoes and handbags never fail to attract me actually all form of shopping doesnt 😉  and this when he had decided that for sometime we will gift each other house furniture on birthdays and anniversary considering its almost 4 years since we have moved into the house and still doing with the old furniture…

After raiding lifestyle we went around the town looking for good furniture and zeroed in on a Sofa cum bed that we had shortlisted about a week ago for our lounge… We were actually very very impressed with Damro, the stuff and the service both were very impressive…

After brilliant retail therapy and a biggggg hole in the pockets we caught an evening show of Kaminey and my word its a brilliant movie… fimply fuperb for those who have feen it and for those who havent (Prats I know I know) its a speaking problem that Shahid has in the movie. Its not a movie in the class of Maqbool and Blue Umberlla but a brilliant watch and I think Shahid has finally arrived with this, he is showing his acting genes and is ol la la yummiliocus specially in Charlie avatar. Read the Great Bong’s Review here, he has said exactly what I want to so better 🙂

We came back home at around 11 pm and N started pretending that he has lot of office work to catch up, I knew he is upto something 😉 U know ur spouses well after 5.5 yrs plus we have always celebrated birthdays at 12…  and at 12, he raised a toast with wine and we drank and drank and drank…. and then the rains god decided to shower us with a kind of rain that I had almost forgotten and those who know me, know my love for rains… so at 1 am inthe night happily drunk on wine I went and got drenched in rain… it was really heavenly…

Woke up to a tea in the bed and kiss on the cheek by Ojas saying happy…. that moment I could have died happily… Can I get better in life? At that particular time I realised that probably the only thing that really matter in life is love… truly nothing else matters… u can deal with absolutely anything if you have people around to you shower you with love… touch wood… Thank You god for your blessings and all my friends and family

And then I made sooji halwa for me birthdays have always been associated with sooji halwa,  since as long as I can remember we would get up on birthdays to the aroma of rawa… and have it first thing in the morning earlier it used to be made by badi mummy (the yummiest halwa I have ever eaten) and then mom. This year though I made it myself and it turned out pretty good too… Mom I miss you…

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I also made some yummy baked omellete for breakfast… ya u guessed right after dieting for 4 weeks food was the focus point

And just after I had finished the breakfast I saw Indy’s lovely alert…thank u indy… muah….

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And then I started sulking a little because N  had not talked about any other plans for the day… no cake and when I asked him about the cake he said come on we are grown ups, cake is for Ojas now not for us…

Anyhow I started getting ready thinking atleast  I can do this much 🙂 and then suddenly N vanished somewhere… I asked everyone and no one seemed to know…I sit down on my laptop and and then suddenly the bell rings and no one opens the door… I got slightly agitated specially because the maid and the mil were both sitting there… nonetheless I walked up and opened and I could see was flowers and ballons and cake and all I could hear is the happy birthday and the surprise shrieks 🙂

Really I dont think I have words to describe how I felt… happy yes very very but a little strange…. It took me a while to digest the whole thing and that it had been very well planned, the food ordered, the drinks planned, everyone collected outside our colony gate and N went and fetched them so that the security doesnt call home… yes yes so much thought 🙂 and everyone in the house, my friends knew about it and the only person who didnt know was me… Thank you guys u really made my day…

One thing is sure surprise parties are fun and make you feel totally blessed and loved…

the ballons for the baby 🙂

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Crafty dear sorry in all this excitement I forgot to take a picture of only the cake but here is one with Ojas put in as a bonus… now u cant crib 🙂

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As if it was not enough there was another surprise lined up… the boys in my life decided to pamper me with a appointment booked at my parlor… wow!!! I was amazed…

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Thanks V for the effort you put in there 🙂 Cheers !!! I couldnt go the same day but went the next day and indulged in 4 hours of pure bliss 🙂

The day was well spent with Chinese food, beer and loads of chit chat… and in the evening after everyone left and I was still trying to count my blessing and letting the whole thing sink in… There came a lovely bouquet of roses all the way from Sharjah, UAE… Goofy you are a darling thanks a ton!!! Immediately followed by the call from Pixie to shower some of her angelic dust upon me… And at this time I actually cried… Love is a very strong and overwhelming feeling…

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The evening me and N decided to have a quiet dinner and went to Oh! Calcutta and I was blown away by the place. We ordered thier Complete Platter and the food was amazing… Actually much more than food I think we enjoyed the service and the cocktails… I had a vodka with aam panna, a combination I had tried for the first time and loved it… N had vodka with tender coconut water something which is my favorite anyways…. the server was serving with the love of a dotting mom, suggesting what dip will go with each starter, keeping each piece with so much love and affection, I only wish I could give food to Ojas with half that love but then he has to be ready to pounce on the food like us too 😉

All in all I think this will surely go down as one of the best birthdays I have ever had…. Thank God and all my friends for this!!!

PS: If u have reached till here thanks for reading, didnt meant this post to be as long as it turned out to be but I think its still nowhere compared to Indy’s and oflate Swaram’s post… gee where do I go to save my life… cant even run from my own blog 🙂

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Wishes and more wishes

02 Sunday Aug 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in blogging, fun

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birthday, friends, friendship day, wishes

Wsihing u all a very very happy friendship day… I have found some amazing friends in our blogsamaj… heres wishing the friendship bonds in the blog samaj just keep growing !!!!

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Also the day today is very special too… Its indy’s birthday!!!

Indy wishing u all the happiness in the world…. May all your dreams come true and may u keep weaving new ones always!!! Hugs and kisses and wishes …

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