Subha Learns to Cook :)

Im just learning to cook post my marriage.I always relished this dish of rice+mysore dal which my MIL cooks.Since my hubby n FIL too like this receipe I made up my mind to learn this over the weekend & asked my MIL to instruct me as I cooked.She being the Mt.Everest of patience guided me extermely well..how I wish she could teach me driving :p
since I have a highly volatile memory I decided to jot things down in this blog so that I can refer it in the future...

Ingredients

1)Rice-3 cups
2)Mysore Dal-1 cup
3)Onion-3 big ones
4)Pudina-a handful
5)Curry Leaves-a handful
6)Green chilly-4
7)Oil-5 table spoons
8)Ghee-1 table spoon
9)Bay leaves-2
10)Garlic
11)Ginger (grated)
12)cardomon
13)elaichi
14)crystal salt -4 tea spoons
15)Cashew nuts

First of all wash the rice & dal just once & drain the water out completely.Pour some oil in the cooker & add the cashew nuts bay leaves,cardomon,elaichi.After about a minute add the grated ginger & the garlic,keep frying for about 2 mintutes.Now add the Sliced onion & keep frying till the onion turns slight brown.Now add the slited green chilly,pudina leaves,curry leaves & crystal salt & mix well.
Keeping mixing well so that things dont get burnt at the bottom of the cooker.Now add the rice+dal & mix them well slowly.Leave for about a minute till you hear/see the rice sputter a little bit at the bottom.Now add about 8 cups of water (3/4 full in the glass).Stir the contents well.cover the cooker and leave it till the steam comes out which would take about 5minutes.Now place the weight over the cooker & allow it to cook till the whistle blows once or for about 15-20 minutes.Allow for a standing time of about 5 minutes.Open the cooker & transfer the contents to the Casserol....Serve it with curds,cucumber,onion,tomato,chat masala raitha...

Well Im planning to cook the same on Jan24 or Jan 25 or Jan 26 08 when my MIL is gonna go to Kancheepuram & I have to cook for my hubby :p...Poor San...:p

Subha learns to cook
But not from a book

Made a note of every point
From her MIL words of anoint

Hopes to cook someday
with least or zero dismay

Her MIL being an angel
Subha has no problem to gel

Sooner she would cook the best
For her love & the rest

Missing my Maa :(

It was around 7.30amish this morning when I woke up with a start.I was supposed to call my mom & wish her a happy & safe journey.With great desperation to listen to her voice & praying that she hadnt left I scrolled down my contact list & called home.
Thank god my mom answered!!!I felt really really good & my mom too was expecting a call from me & she too was hoping that she'd able to talk to me before she leaves.She would be returning back on Friday night after her Om Shakthi temple visiting.MOM I LOVE YOU & MISS YOU ALOT:( :(


My dear mom not in station
Looks like a fiction

Waiting for her call
To stop my tear fall

Missing her to the core
From greater depths like a bore

Used to wrap her saree around a pillow
And shed tears like a weeping willow

Want her to return soon
To make me glow like moon

Hubby's compliment

Now that I had just mentioned in my earlier post that San said I looked like a "Mallu Kutty",I couldnt stop myself from writing this :)


Today San called me Mallu Kutty
As I was recollecting unix login to Putty

His compliments are quite rare
False in them are never there

Appreciates people who are punctual
which makes up his beauty actual

Loves his Santro & Indigo
Critics of it will face a blow

Keeps the face of an angry kitten
Which leaves me all smitten

Vodafone Saree Day :) :)

It was a Saree day in our Vodafone Project & I wrote this mail to the team mates of Vodafone-germany(the team Im in).Thanks to my maid Ganga,she was the lady behind my well draped saree :) btw San said I looked like a Mallu Kutty ;) ;)

Hey Ladies

Thanks for keeping up the zeal & being in saree.Hoping for many more days to prove our togetherness..

Ladies in saree
Made the Vodafone floor look merry

For guys it was a surprise
& for ladies sleeping hours compromise

Madhuri clad in blue
Gave the look of Bharathiya nari true

Meeta in Green
Was our silent queen

Shwetha in brown with red jewel
Looked all set for school farewell

Veena in a bright yellow
with her cute smile & hello

Sreedevi in green & orange
With her talks of different range

Nandini in maroon and black
Looked like a teacher ready to wack

Rekha in green with shine
Made her daughter say "mom ur mine"

Aparna in blue n maroon
was draped well like a cocoon

Now its me Subashini in pink & white
who is always in Sanjeev's sight ;)

Alas Deexha was the odd one out
Lets all gang up to give her tailor a blow shout

-Love
Subashini D

An exciting Sunday Evening

My dad & my father-in-law were always aganist flying kites..they did have a reason though .They felt we guys wud climb up trees or lamp posts & wud land up hurting ourselves.
Having worked in government organizations or whtever be the reason they shared almost the same mentality in terms of out door games.My hubby would peek-a-boo with his cousin Karthik during his childhood days & was upto all sorts of mischief.
Never did my bro nor I flew a kite during our childhood since we had our granny who was dad's spy...Now that we are married & all settled I rekindled my hubby about the idea of flying kite & he spontaneosly brought 3 kites of differnt colours.Post our lunch Praveen,Jaggu Uncle,my hubby & I were all up at the terrace which was neatly laid by mosaic tiles & there were began our stunts...

It was a sunday evening
There comes San all grinning

There was a kite in his hand
Which made me say "Your my lovely husbaaand"

The sky was bright and hot
And San asked me to get rice from the pot

As Jaggu uncle instructed
The kite's accessories were all constructed

Praveen elevated it from the neighbouring house
Being unnoticed like a mouse

As Sanju tried his skills in soaring
Praveen's cell kept roaring

The kite rose high in style
and I was admiring my San mean while

I held the thread with great caution
Hurting my finger by its fast motion

The kite flew to a great height
And It was out of everyone's sight

Finally we walked down
Like the Heros of the tinsel town

Alas I love flying kite
Which makes us all feel lite....

Waiting for hubby

I wrote this poem sometime post my dinner while I was waiting for my hubby to return home from work...

san the don
is now with 2 horns

wed to a beauty
whom he calls cutie

takes care of her like a father
which can be denied by none other

she makes excellent tea
trying to prove her culinery beauty

she now waits for the don to return home
to make her feel living in rome...

Married for a month :)

Im married for a month now!!!Feels great being a wife & daughter-in-law.
It was around the sametime last month when I felt I was an integral part of another new family.The mixed feeling of immense joy of being wed,apprehension of leaving my parents,nervous about having to adapt to a new environment,satisfaction of marrying my love after all the courtship..all & much more emotions poured in when Sanjeev tied the sacred yellow thread around my neck..
Since our marriage began in a typical arranged channel & then we fell in love we had ample time to know each other & also each other's family.
Exactly one month ago I was in the marriage hall in a deep red silk saree looking at my parents & bro running around settling things & with a deep sense of satisfaction & happiness.
My hubby was with me & I was nervous wondering the way everything happened in just a fraction of a second.
Looks like I just passed out of school..college..1st job..2ndjob..3rd job..met Sanjeev..he proposed..the courtship..Sanjeev leaving to US..betrothal..wedding shopping..an ultra grand reception..early morning wedding..Sanjeev's hurt finger..bombay sightseein..juhu beach..our honeymoon to switerland..lost in the streets of Luzerne...Mt titlis..cablecars..interlaken..snowfall..schillthron..somtimes yummmy n some yucky food...
back home..Indian food..farewall at home..dad,mom & I weeping..inlaws & hubby comforting & hugging..Back to work..Praveen(Sanjeev's cousin)'s engagement...My viral fever..Chitra's wedding(Sanjeev's sister)..Chitra's farewell...
All good things are happening so quickly at the flash of a lightening..leaves me wondering if Im awake or if its all a dream..

Was just talking to my collegue about Luzern & how Sanjeev & I got lost in the streets & found our way back using the luzern city map.
The best was the snowfall at Interlaken..I had never seen a snowfall all my life & it was just a couple of days before we wound up our honeymoon that the snowfall had just begun..
It was just amazingly beautiful & I ran across the streets like a kid having my husband run behind me.. :) :) Poor hubby was more like my father advising me to keep myself warm while I preferred enjoying the extremely cold & healthy weather...

The security checks at the airport which beeped everytime I was being checked..The flight take off..landing..immigration checks..The cuckoo clock shopping..choclocates shopping..shopping gifts for our respective families..the buffet breakfast of the egg scramble,bacons,raspberry,orange juice,milk.....hmmmmm..how can I forget the Icecream I had at the Jungfraujoch where we were freezing at -4 deg Centi..City Tour of Geneva..City tour of Zurich..the Mexican food..the COOPS..the days being extermely short..life coming to an end by 5.30 6pm..the Intercity Trains..SBB counters..Starbucks..McDonalds..the Indians we encountered..

Guess this was the most thrilling & exciting month I have been through since I ever realised myself.
Hoping for many more exciting months to come in the future with happier events occuring...

OOPS how can I ever forget the most thrilling evening Sanjeev & I spend at Interlaken in a CASINO..1st time I had been to a Casino & boyy it was exciting..learnt to play the most simple game when our conscious pricked us for the CHFs' we spent..We spent close to 8CHF learning to play since almost all the games where in French or German.Finally we managed to get a waitress/bar tender who spoke English & then we tried our luck on gambling...

Ahem Ahem!!

Which HP Kid Are You?

My rants,nothing new in my history actually!!

OK, I've been staring at this screen for over 10 mins now trying to organize my thoughts. I give up & finally decide to rant!!
To attend a training session when u have loads of documention work assigned is the worst nightmare.I personally feel training is essentially a congregation of jobless and temporarily out-of-work people getting together in an effort to squeeze the last remaining juices out of their decomposing brains. These people can actually go out bowling, or go and get drunk, or go home and lie on their bed watching TV and munching chips and still get their monthly salaries. But instead you'll find them all in the ice-cold conference room, one guy sleeping, another biting his nails-lost in some other dimension, and another fiddling with his pen or sms'ing the person on the other side of the table. In between all this excitement, the leader of the pack will be going on with his talk, muchly satisfied that his life finally has a purpose.
Whenever my manager asks me to "Prepare a document" for the work I've done, my whole world crashes around me. I think writing a document is equal to bonded labour. I'm quite convinced that each time a manager asks his subordinate to prepare a "document", he's thinking, "Suffer, suffer you nasty little prick.. The manager derives the same kind of sadistic pleasure a twisted serial killer derives out of his sins .
Well I seem to have an issue with everything around me,guess that how I am or its a manufacuring defect or rather on an optimistic note issues keep me entertained!!