A recipe that refuses to go right January 26, 2012
Posted by Jeena in Behaviors, Food.Tags: cooking, dhokla, maiden effort, recipe
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It’s an Indian snack that isn’t a complicated recipe. There are mixes aplenty in the supermarkets from MTR and other brands. But I figure that making food from the basic ingredients is healthier than the mixes – especially when there is a lot of negative publicity these days in the media about adulteration of many foodstuffs.
The dhokla is a healthy snack – it’s cooked by steaming in a pressure cooker or a steamer. The first time I tried it, (more…)
Oh no! January 20, 2012
Posted by Jeena in Behaviors, People, work.Tags: facebook, humor, relationships
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One of my work mates doesn’t fall in the average Indian women’s height range of 5′ 1″ to 5′ 4″. She stands out unusually at 5′ 8″ especially when accompanied by us (we’re about 5′ 4″).
One guy on the floor started noticing her as he is quite tall himself at 6′ (again the average height of an Indian male is quite low). He got into a habit of looking out for her in the mornings or during lunch breaks as he sat in front of his computer. He thought he fancied her.
He started searching for her in Facebook. He went through the friends lists… his friends (more…)
A professional sleeper January 5, 2012
Posted by Jeena in Behaviors.Tags: alarm, college times, drool, family, humor, night, sleep, snooze
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I am an ugly sleeper – my mouth is open, my eyes are half-shut and I drool sometimes. I’ve scared a few girls in the boarding school dormitory when they’ve walked past my bed in the dark. Honestly, even I would be scared if I saw my half-shut eyes with just the whites glowing in the dark. (more…)
Am I not pretty? December 31, 2011
Posted by Jeena in Bangalore, Behaviors, Environment.Tags: humor, pictures
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She was standing next to the car, in the shade when we got back to the parked car….
Who’s your superhero December 31, 2011
Posted by Jeena in Behaviors, Comics, movies, People.Tags: batman, buffy, cable, marvel, spidermand, superman, tv, vampire
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Marvel comics introduced me to Spiderman, Superman, Captain America and Batman. The rest of those superheros, I couldn’t keep up because of the limited availability of the comics in my childhood. (I do admire those comic book collectors who show up in Beauty and the Geek and wouldn’t mind borrowing from them).
Then those tapes of Superman movies came out (with Christopher Reeve) (more…)
Kaleidoscope, View Master and Dolls December 29, 2011
Posted by Jeena in Behaviors.Tags: 3D, Childhood, dolls, kaleidoscope, lego, toys, view master
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I am the younger of two kids and we’ve had our share of childhood fights our parents have had to referee. Of course, being the younger one, I never got the benefit of the doubt – they said that I was the instigator. There’s only a year and half difference between the two of us and he was a toddler when I was born. My mum likes to say that he was protective then, so how could he start a fight with me as we grew older.
He took care of his toys and if anything got broken (more…)
What have you been upto this year? December 28, 2011
Posted by Jeena in Behaviors, People.Tags: 2012, high, lows, new year, swimming, water
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If I’d like to compare it to the rest of the incidents happening all over the world this year, my events would pale by comparison. Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, more earthquakes, droughts! That’s the world! There have been a lot of highs and a lot of lows in our lives too. I’d like to think that we’ve come through the lows making us the stronger for it.
The one high is that I’ve overcome my fear (more…)
A short fun ride in a 3-wheeler … make that 2 December 15, 2011
Posted by Jeena in Bangalore, Behaviors, Food, Office, People.Tags: auto ride, humor, kyra restaurant, lunh
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There was a farewell lunch at work. The restaurant was only 1.5 km away but we were already weak with hunger. The rickshaws were ready to come for an exorbitant charge and there were 5 of us women, so we would need 2. One chap agreed to take us the short distance for a fair amount. Then he noticed the other two women with us waiting for another rick. Smartly (at the time), he offered his vehicle to ferry all five of us for the cost of taking 2 autos!
Woo-hoo … the new Ho-ho-ho December 14, 2011
Posted by Jeena in Bangalore, Behaviors, Festivities, Songs.Tags: carols, christmas season, christmas star, Christmas Tree, singing
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I’m pretty excited about the Xmas coming up. The only sign of it being the merry season is the shops with the tinsel hanging all over! Last weekend, DH got the tree out. Out came the cover storing the lights and ornaments. One hour later and the tree is in its glory!
I celebrated that with taking pics and sharing it with mates at work. Next what? I need a star to hang outside! It’s in the ‘we’ll get around to doing it’ list.
But we didn’t need the guiding light to bring in the carol singers after all. Our house-owner called up and said that their merry band will be dropping by! It was not at all like the revelry in Kerala where their intention is to get money for the booze!!! Total strangers (except our landlord) came into our home and sang along to the guitar, quite enthusiastically!
DH, not knowing the lyrics, volunteered as the cameraman of this adhoc event!! What fun this evening turned out to be. For once, a festivity is not remembered by the foods we have gorged ourselves on! I just wished we could serve them a bit of wine and brandy-soaked-fruit-cake to make the singers merrier! Tralala-tralala-la-la-la-la
