thane effect on my house

just in front of my house , a jumbo tree fell and broke my window.

that's my broken sunshade

b'day special

yesterday was like a flash back time in life. I just can’t express how happy I was. How does it feel, when you meet almost all your school friends on your birthday?. All the childhood events come like a flash in your memory.

I was luck as one of my friends got married yesterday and all my friends who are in india made it for the wedding. Best part was everyone remembered it’s my b’day.

Where ever I went, school or college , I always had another person celebrating their b’day with me. It was Ms.D at school and ,Ms. N at college.

At home, my darling hubby bought black forest cake. As I was lazy and feeling sleepy at night, it was decided the cake will be cut in morning. How funny it is? I went open the door when my husband came back from office and he handed me the cake cover. because of this ulcer problem, i didn't even taste the cake. So there was no surprise. But ya he got me a gold mango shaped pendant, studded with kemp stone. So, I spared him.

Thanks to Ms.R, who decided on have her wedding reception on my b’day. Made it my day after so many years.

yes, i can stand.

Aval Oru Thodar Kathai (English: She's a Never Ending Story)

It started with a stomach ache. It was confirmed that I was pregnant. Within two months, faced a spotting with abortion threat. read here. Later after seven months, had to travel back home as dad had a heart attack. Then I got admitted twice for false labor. This time scan report read my baby had Splenomegaly. After a month, went into actual labor. Though it was normal delivery, baby fell sick. Days in NICU is yet another story.

Then things were good for few days. Then again the sleepless nights started putting both me and my mom in trouble. People asked me to be on strict and right on my diet. But , hunger during the lactating period!!! I ended up eating samosa’s , poori, mixture, tamarind rice, etc etc. end of the day, I had gastritis and got admitted in hospital. Thought it was just a day. But I started getting stomach pain in the middle of nights constantly and was getting admitted in night and got discharged as I had feed my baby. This repeated for two weeks. Finally one of the senior doctors advised me to take a scan and endoscopy.

Scan report said that I had gall stones. Its called multiple Cholelithiasis . And had to go to Chennai, empty stomach to get endoscopy done. That’s worst thing I say. I had vomiting sensation throughout the day. It was detected that I had reflex gastritis, my food pipe, stomach and duodenum all three were infected.

I just can’t say the trouble I went through. I can’t eat as my stomach is infected. But if I don’t eat, I develop gastritis. To ensure gastritis reduces, my gall bladder has to produce bile. Because of the stone it’s not able to produce proper bile. I ended up with low Blood pressure and low immunity. Got typhoid. Again was admitted in hospital for a week. my husband and father had to bring baby to hospital when ever i need to feed her. she wont sleep without me next to her. faced a real hell. my ward was next to pediatric ward.when ever i see a baby cry, i couldn't stop crying. it was very first time i was away from my daughter.

Now I am little better. I have started taking homeopathy medicines. Have to wait and see the developments. Poor baby got really affected. Couldn’t feed her, as I was hospitalized. She was given cow’s milk, farex. Baby stared getting diarrhea and diaper rashes and cold. It’s like all problem in world has come to me and my family. Its not even a week, when I have not visited hospital. Hope at least next year would be a good year for me. A healthy and prosperous year.

even now i get pain once in a while. have to got hospital get and IV injection done. and then it gets set after a hour or two. baby has become insecure that i might leave her again. so, she doesn't leave me at all. i am forced to take leave now. hope there will be an end to this story.

grow up bachu

i tried to keep pillows around my daughter, so that she doesnt crawl, but she started siting. i tried to put her in walker, so that i can do my work peacefully, but she is moving all around the house and pulling everything in her reach..
my mom says," grow up bachu.. only then you can take care of her. think ahead of her".
is it possible to think ahead of 6 months old daughter? she is so unpredictable!!!!. she keeps me on my toes every minute.

bread jamun

cooking. has become my time pass now a days.

i had prminsed earlier to post on bread jamun. so here is the recipe and picture of it.

ingredients:

6 bread slices
sugar 1 cup
oil for deep fry
water as required
cardamom( optional)

process:






take 6 bread slices in a bowl , add adequate water and make it to a dough. then roll then into small balls.keep them aside.



take a kadai, add oil and deep fry them in oil,t ill it become golden brown. take another bowl add sugar and water , make it to a syrup.then put these balls in sugar syrup. for flavor you can add a cardamom. eat after refrigerating it.

note: the ball will not completely absorb the sugar syrup. it would taste like a mild sweet.

which doll do i look at??

you definitely need a daughter

when i look at designs and variety of dress, i feel u need a daughter to dress up. so,here a sample. it has two thread at back. and one loop at top of the dress. so, every time i make my daughter wear it, i need to think of different styles to tie it. :)

Avalaki upittu

Reading RS blog reminds me of my Bangalore days.

I am missing avalaki upittu (poha). I was lucky to work in an office which was in heart of the city. It was surrounded by good eatery places. I became a food freak after going there. It used to be like ,breakfast at juice junction, lunch at nandhini , evening snacks at chocolate house or natural ice-cream parlor and dinner at casapicola or garuda mall food court.

Weekday:

What a wonderful life I had. Get up at 8.30 in the morning. Reach office before 9.30 as I had to punch in. it’s not the I get up late, it’s all because of the climate and bathroom timings in the PG( paying guest house). I used to hate the food at PG. so; I always ate outside and still managed without putting on weight. All most all weekdays I spent in office and reading books in evening. Yes, I found a library nearby, paid some 1000rs as advance caution deposit and never collected back as I never returned the last book, which I have not read till now. J. Yes, it’s great me, who can do such things also. Night time I was forced to see few tv serials . Oh my god, I don’t remember those names of serials now.

At times, we take time and go for shopping during lunch hours during some sale. We are smart, we do take our boss with us, so we don’t get scolding’s if we are late.

Friday:

Weekends were fun. I used to go for movies. Weekend starts by Friday evening itself. We check out all theaters and movies. Friday used to be movie nights. I come home late and get scolding. If we don’t get movie tickets, we end up eating in pizza hut or KFC in brigade road. Its not that we go for watching movies, its just that we can be without eating those lovely pop corn.

Saturday:

Saturday would be window shopping in Garuda mall. Garuda mall is a nice place where you can check out on brands. Shopper stop, soch, west side and fab india were my favorite places. I almost bought kurta each month for at least a year in fab India. I was a freak then. Actually if allowed I would buy now also. Once I had to pay for my window shopping. My super enthusiastic friend Ms .B went on seeing saree’s at soch. She made the fellow show almost all the saree ’s in shelf. He didn’t allow us without buying them. And I was forced to buy one. Here is the saree. That was I first time I spent so much on a saree. I spent a four digit amount for stitching the blouse.

In between I joined art class. I attended few classes and bunked them as I didn’t have company.

Sunday:

it’s a bindas carefree day. I used to get up really late. Then take leisure bath. At times we call the beautician to house. Then, half a day goes in waiting for my turn for waxing or haircut. Later in the evening we( pg mates) go to big bazaar to find out what’s new in market , eat or drink the samples of the new product like maggie pasta or horlicks new flavor there.

I really enjoyed my pre-wedding days. That I too I was in a happening city. Office treat, team lunch ,Shopping, attending exhibitions or expo’s , museums, parks and what not. In fact we also had girls night outs.

Wait for another post on girls night out.. J

note: i forgot to write about capsicum bajji at gandhi bazzar and pani puri at commercial street.

ohi akum burrrrrr

yup these are the sounds used by my daughter to threaten her toys.. she even started hitting them. may be she will break them next month.

Monochrome:

Did u people ever notice most of the advertisements have monochrome in them. If the product has blue colour, then the artist also wears blue dress in blue background. I don’t understand who introduced this concept. But I know that it is done intentionally. I had a chance to meet Mr. Prahlad Kakkar. he said that for Rin adv they went in search of saree with same blue border and bindi of same colour.

So here are few advt.

Here, the yellow shade of vatika is used for dress clour for model

Same dress pattern of model

Red t-shirt of model

Yellow colour of maggi for the model

Red used as focus in the background

Mom and kis wear same colour dress ok. J

Matching matching

Blue cllour for walls

Green and yellow. Direct deptiction of lemon

so, check out for these.. :)

logo for winner

this is the logo which will be given to anybody winning the contest conducted by me..
so.RS copy the logo and add to ur blog.

weekend cooking

i made vegetable rava idili and cutlet.. so enjoy seeing the pics :). dont ask me for the recipe.. i just added what i got in my hand and put my creativity in it.. :).