My mother and chithi warned me that it is not easy and the batter will stick to the kuzhi paniyaram pan. Also asked me to use oil generously. I did and it did come out well without any problem! So Yay to me!!!!

Sorry I don’t have a pic of the finished product b’coz while my left hand was trying to turn on the camera , right hand labokified everything

* Showing off too much

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#the debate

Pooja is going on, I am sitting in the front row with two aunties on either sides.

Aunt1: *At me* You lost so much weight!

Me: *smiling*

Aunt2: No, she looks the same as we saw her last time.

Aunt1: No no, look I can see her collar bones..

Me: *smiling again*

Aunt2: pssst..its just this dress..look at her big dhoppai (belly)

*Smiling AWKWARDLY I changed seat*

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#the million dollar question

Aunt A:- Why don’t you wear a big bindi?

*before I could answer*

Aunt A: You should have worn a saree.. if not for these functions when will you wear?

Me: mmm.. Aunty your saree color is too good, where from? (** an aunty in the making **)

*lame attempt to change the topic but it worked *

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#the million dollar question2

Aunt X:- talking to a married couple* So when is the good news?

Guy:- *with a smile on his face* in two months .

I don’t know if his answer was sarcastic or anything but Aunt X had no more questions

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# Some people cannot accept changes in life

I was wearing this huge earring which is unusual. More than 10 people came and said

People: wow I have never seen you like this, with such big earrings

Me: *I was smiling big time and that’s it people just walked away.. Come on people,Did you forget the next line “You look beautiful” ???Grrrrrrrrr..

Heights is after the function I changed my earrings to normal ones and one aunt came running to me and said “Appaaada, now you look normal”. Poor me

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The whole hall was echoing the same line “Next should be yours, next should be yours”

Mudiyala da saami!

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# THE bulb

One really cool, fundoo cousin came and asked me “Hey Wassup?”

I immediately look up at the ceiling ( all because of the silly college jokes, everytime someone asked me wassup, I used to say “ceiling, sky,fan, tubelight” and giggle.Now I am the tubelight).Immediately realizing my mistake I did some neck exercise+ kathakali dancing and came back to normal and asked her “Heyyy, when did you come” . Worst attempt to cover up the damage no. God knows what she thought about me , she said “OK I will go sit in that row, cya” and left.

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#the photo session

This photographer took five full minutes for each phhoto ok. How can one person do  ‘eeeeeeeeeeeeee’ for five whole minutes? My brushing time itself is just 2 mins. My jaw started paining, but still I managed to keep smiling. At the end did the photo come out nice? NO. I look like posing for “Babu vum Appa vum ” Ad. No wait, My smile looks like Chandler Bing’s photo smile. Argg!

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While I was going through all these problems, you ask where my mother was? She with her friend was sitting in the first row at one corner. These two were making fun of a guy and giggling all the time. And suddenly this person asked for a pen and guess who runs first and gives him the pen?These two “teenage” girls wonly. After sometime I went and called them for lunch, they refused to come.Reason:They want their pen back it seems! And like some telepathy that guy returned the pen immediately.

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I saw this video recently , any volunteers to do this during my wedding ??

<3 when your mother is really angry but understands that you are extremely hungry and waits for you to finish the meal and then scolds you

<3 when your mother calls her sister living in another corner of the country and proudly talks about the rasam you made yesterday

<3 when you feel angry when someone ELSE calls your cousin "motu"

<3 when your cousin refuses to leave you alone even for 5 minutes everytime you visit his place

<3 when your cousin waits ,listens to your continuous cribbing patiently ,consoles you and then shares her biggest news that she is getting engaged

<3 when your friend sleeps on the cement floor without any pillows when you are happily sleeping on her bed with her pillows in HER room

<3 when your friend shouts at you for talking loud on phone when she is sleeping but the minute you go out to talk she calls you back in since it is cold outside

<3 when you walk to the railway station thinking that your 1 year old niece would have forgotten you and you will have to start from beginning to make friendship with her but the little angel shows her 4 bright teeth and jumps on you even before you stretch out your hands

<3 when you run into the kitchen and bring some rice grains as soon as you see a pigeon coming and sitting next to your window

<3 when your neighbour kid who is just 10 months old stands on all four raising his bum above his head and circles the same point endlessly as soon as he sees you coming back from office

<3 when your friend reserves the last bit of paneer just for you and the same friend steals the last paneer saved by you

<3 when it hurts you to watch a small baby sitting on a stranger's lap in a bus looking at her standing mom with tear filled eyes (no crying no howling)

<3 when you wave bye to your best friend whe she leaves town after marriage, you refuse to leave the railway station even after the train is no longer to be seen

<3 when a 16 year old boy puts his hand into a 2 feet deep roadside ditch to help a puppy to get out

<3 when your best friend calls you from other side of the world after a long time and starts the call not with a hello but with an 'I love you'

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
I Corinthians 13:4-8

Happy Valentine’s day!!!
Love you all!!!

Slowly you start forgetting about your worries, your heart gets filled with fresh hope. All your ‘super hero’ cells  wake up with tremendous energy and you go home straight from work and jump into the kitchen and scare your mom.

Me: Amma, What are you doing? You need any help?Shall I do this? Shall I clean that? Shall we make this??

Amma: Please go out and wait. Do not trouble me.That itself is a BIGGGG help.

Me: Oops!! All my energy is getting wasted.

Me: OK, I will stay out.But give me something interesting to eat

Amma: ok. Indha Apple.

Me: agh…Appleee..Noooooo

Amma: Do you want rava upma?

Me: agh..noooo

Amma:Arisi upma (rice upma)?

Me: noooooo

Amma: thayir aval (poha with curd) ?

Me: noooooo

Amma: Vellam pottu aval (sweet poha)?

Me: nooooooooooooo.. I want something interesting!

Amma: hmmm..corn flakes?

Me: NOOOOOOO

Amma: ***getting irritated.. ** chow chow kootu?

Me:

Amma: GO AWAY!!!

Me: ok give me nei chakkarai**!!

Peace restored!!!!!!

**My mother buys butter from shop and makes ghee at home.When we(me+cousins) were kids, whenever amma makes ghee she takes the brown sediment from the ghee vessel and mixes little bit sugar and rice flour. We enjoy and eat it.We call it nei chakkarai.Nei=ghee,chakkarai=sugar.

Amma says as a kid I never troubled her, never asked for anything no tantrums nothing.And all those things which I didn’t do during my childhood, I am doing it now 

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*called one of my good friends*

Me: Hiiiiiiii, Good morning!!!!

Friend: Good morning, monkey!!! Wassup??

Me: Nothing dear . I just wanted to call you last week itself to tell you this but then I could not **giving some really lame reasons here**. Sorry. BELATED BIRTHDAY WISHES!!!!

Friend : hmmmmm…let me think about it (about forgiving me )

Me: **without a pause** Seri ok. While you are thinking about it shall we go and have DBC today (Death By Chocolate) ??

Friend: YES.OKIE!!  **She is such a sweetie na!! **

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Mind voice:-OOH Nothing is good in my life.. I should do something new..hmmmm..ok lets go buy a brand new kajal!!

I read some very good reviews about a kajal brand..All reviews said that its jet black, just one strike and it will stay for more than 5 hours, smudge proof, water resistant blah blah!!

**OK before you come to a conclusion, I don’t wear makeup and I don’t check reviews for kajal and all.. I was not feeling good so did all these things **

Anyway, went to a nearby shop bought the kajal, came home, washed my face. Slowly opened the new kajal and tried applying again and again and again.. Nothing happened!!!!Extra dark, jet black?No nothing happened! Did I buy the wrong stuff? Are my eyes kajal proof? After trying so many times it looked ok in my eyes. Just then my brain decided to recap all the bad things in my life and soon eyes did a “water -resistant” test on my kajal.

Kajal Failed!!!!

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After banging my head on the office computer for 5 hours to resolve a problem, I go to the loo. One girl comes and asks me “Hey, Were you sleeping?”. Now how do I react to this? Generally people ask ‘ hey you look dull are you not well’ something like that na.

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I bought a pack of tea bun .It has 4  and I finished 3 with morning tea, kept one for amma (Yes,I am generous!!) and went to office.Evening when I went back I still saw the bun, asked her why she didn’t have it.She said “You will come back hungry na so kept it for you!” .I finished that one too without a second thought!! I was not in a good mood OK !

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SnS sent me an email asking if I am OK

Me:- I feel like running away to Antartica!!

SnS:- I will also come!!!

I was smiling

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Tharani called me and we talked for sometime.I felt much better after the call.In my last post I didnot even explain what my problem was but all your comments made me feel good.

Thank you so much and I love you!!!

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My latest dream..

I am in a shop and buying Ponds white beauty. Its price is Rs 564. That is it!!!!!

Does this mean anything? I don’t use this product at all. Sigh! Even my dreams are boring now!!

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Me: I am really very angry with you , God!!

God: **silence **

After 12 hours…

Me: I am still angry

God: **silence **

After 24 hours…

Me: I am back Are you angry with me?? I was really worried yesterday, so showed my anger. But I love you OK!

God : ** silence **

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I am feeling better today.I have hopes that things will get better soon.

Please please wish me luck and pray for me!

I went to my hometown, stayed at my relative’s place. It is a very calm place with houses here and there. So frogs, snakes , cows, goats, dogs , rats, lizards are regular visitors !!During the 4 days stay, my mother had to go to her hometown for some work. I did not go as my youngest cousin had come.

One evening, I took some biscuits and kara sev from the kitchen. When I turned back I noticed a frog staring at me . It was giving a “huh I can jump on you any moment, Run for your life!! 1! 2! 3!..” look. I froze for a moment and called my aunt for rescue. She took a broom and slowly moved the frog out of the kitchen. When the frog tried to enter the room, I ran ,came to the hall and did ‘stand up on the bench’ . At that moment I thought the bench in the hall is the safest place on this planet . Now if I think about it I was so stupid. Any frog could easily jump and reach that bench . Anyway I think the frog was equally stupid and went out without checking the bench. I escaped !!(I didnot allow my aunt to open the front door till next day fearing that it would come back)

My mother came back from her hometownthe next day and I explained the whole story with so much hype and drama. For few minutes she did not show any reaction. Then slowly she tells me this

“Yesterday when folding one of the clothes , I saw something falling on the floor.But because of all the things going on at home  and also I was in a hurry na to catch a bus to hometown I failed to notice it. I think I think it was a frogqqq”

Now tell me …tell me who is irresponsible!!!!

We both looked at each other for few seconds without uttering a word and started laughing!!!!

What’s in this post :- Nothing good. Feel free to skip it. I tried so hard to write a happy or a normal post. But things are going wrong in every possible way in my life. So I decided to write down whatever good things I saw/heard/happened to me in the last 4-5 days .

I had gone to my hometown and I thought I would be all happy and cheerful as some of my cousins were also coming. At the last minute every one got engaged with some work and I was the only one going. All my happiness vanished. So many things happened which were not so good.The trip was not a total failure.There were some small/big good things.

* When I reached my relatives place I started feeling lonely. I went to their garden and spent 10 minutes there.The garden had some hibiscus plants and banana trees. My mind relaxed imeediately. When I was young, our house always had a good garden with these type of plants . These plants have the power to calm me down.

* Though  my cousin brothers could not make it, cousin S called me several times in those 4 days and made sure that I was not bored.

*My cousin B who had actually gone out with his friends , took a break for 2 days and stayed with me. It was a surprise. And the happines could not be measured. He came early in the morning, I was sleeping. He started singing songs from ‘nanban’ and I woke up listening to it . Cousins S, B are very close to me

*There is a vacant ground opposite to my uncle’s house. There is one lady around 50 years,she brings her cow and a goat and waits there till they finish their breakfast/lunch/snacks . Since its very hot there she comes and sits at out house. She was telling me about her cow. She had one cow before and it met with an accident and the poor thing struggled for so many days and died one day. I could see how much she loved  her cow/goat.

* When coming back we had to go to another town T to catch bus to come back. On the way to T I asked the conductor where xyz buses stop. He gave me some direction. Once we reached the town , Amma and I got down and started walking. After some 5 minutes the bus conductor shouted “Not that way , this way this way!!”. He made sure that we reached the correct place.

*After a really long time I saw a frog and I managed to escape from it

*I was learning to drive two wheeler with my uncle’s scooty.When I was struggling to take a U -turn, one uncle came from a nearby house and instructed me on how to take U-turn

OK. That’s all I could think of now. Hope things get better soon!

1. Work is hectic

2. My hair is falling like anything.

3. Life is confusing. Why confusing you ask? I visited a doc as I am having excessive hairfall. She did some regular tests and everything seemed to be okay. So she said it is probably due to stress. I thought hair fall is the reason for my stress. But she says stress is causing hairfall. So I am confused.

Before you get worried, I am under control. This is just normal stress that everyone undergoes once in a while.

I recently found this amazing stress buster activity. I will give you a step by step guide.

Things required (in hand):- fresh milk, curd , coriander powder, chilli powder, salt, chaat masala powder , ghee, tawa, gas stove and other general stuff needed for cooking.

Things required (in mind):- “The cause” for your stress – may be an object or person (most likely) , some nice thoughts (like imagining eating softttt paneer or an amazing bar of chocolate)

Now lets start cooking

1. Steal a packet of milk from your fridge.

(why steal?- My mother plans the daily milk requirement and buys 2-3 packets in the morning itself because our fav brand of milk gets over by 10 o clock in the nearby shop. By the time I decide to try this activity, there will be just one packet of milk left over which is actually for my amma’s tea.

Also the words “I am making paneer” scares her out because it means 1 packet of milk and 300 ml of her precious curd will be emptied in the process )

2. Boil the milk and add some curd and make fresh paneer.

3. Now take a knife and start cutting the paneer in all different shapes possible. To help you in this activity , try imaging  “the cause of your stress” . ..chathak chathak chathak… done.

4. Add all the powders mentioned above plus little curd with the paneer and start mixing it slowly. At this time you should be filled only with nice thoughts .Remember home made paneer is very soft .

5. Take a tawa, add some ghee, place all the paneer carefully, shallow fry for few minutes.

Now paneer is ready , add little tomato-chilly ketchup, take a fork and a knife ,again imagine the “cause” and start eating. You will start feeling better!!!!

Have a super duper week!!

Thank you! Thank You! Thank You Deepsi and RM for this Award!!!

The Rules for the Versatile Blogger Award says:
Nominate 15 fellow Bloggers -
Share 7 Random things about yourself -
Thank the Blogger who nominated you
Add the Versatile Blogger Award picture to your Blog Post

Nomination:- All the bloggers I know are already nominated I think, so skipping this part !!

Share 7 random things about yourself :-

1. Whenever I see a person eating on T.V, I feel hungry.

2. I cannot fill ink in a fountain pen.Its always my amma or my friends who do it for me.

3. I get a lot of dreams most of them are weird.Latest one – yesterday a ghost tried to wake me up from my sleep, and the shape of that ghost was like a  “light bulb with a piece of wire attched to it”. And I got SCARED and got up

4. I need encouragement in everything I do. I thank everyone who read my blog and leave a comment here.It means a lot to me.

5. Threading my eyebrows is  really a painful job. I postpone it everytime as much as I can .

6. My favourite actors keep changing with every movie except RAJINI

7. If I am angry or upset with you, it is very very easy to pacify me..I think.

Wishing you all a very very happy weekend!!!

So this baby mouse lost its track and came into our home. But I believe it should have got attracted by the sweet music of my violin and entered our home.

I was in the room with the violin,suddenly I saw something moving fast.First I thought it was just a cockroach. Then after few minutes again that creature ran fast into the kitchen. This time I noticed it was a mouse. I called my amma and she came with a torch and a broom.It was too small and she could not find it. I took the torch and basically rolled on the floor trying to find it.At last I found it sitting close to the cylinder, throwing the torch on my mother I ran away to the hall and did an emergency landing on a chair which was kept ready .

I heard my amma talking to the baby mouse “kannamma, we won’t hurt you, run away the same way you came in. po da kannamma po po po” .Too much no she calls me a donkey/buffalo and a mouse is her KANNAMMA, grrrrrrr.

She lost track of the mouse and said “Ok I think its gone for now, tomorrow I will clean everything once, lets go , sleep now”. I did not agree, living with a mouse? No way. I said I will find it for her.

Gathering all my courage I went into the kitchen, arranged a row of containers in front of me so that mouse cannot attack me directly. Then started rolling on the floor again searching for it. Found it , dropped the torch and did emergency landing again. Amma spoke with all love  and slowly helped the mouse to find its way out!!!!

It took more or less an hour and we both were tired. So no more practice !! we slept off immediately.

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