Homemade soup!

I decided to share my ‘secret’ ingredients. It’s easy to make and a perfect appetizer. Just for the cold rainy day.

Tomato Soup (Serves 4):

Ingredients:

Tomato (4)

Ginger garlic paste (1 spoon)

Green Chilies (2)

Milk (1/2 cup)

Directions:

1. Boil the tomato and 250 ml water for 15 min. Peel the skin of the tomatoes.

2. In the blender, add the tomatoes, chilies and the ginger garlic paste and make a fine puree.

3. Again, heat the stuffs from the blender and add ½ cup milk. Bring to a boiling hot. Reduce to a medium flame and heat it for 5 mins.

4. Serve hot. You can add 1 tbsp of butter.

5. You may also serve with toasted potato bread.

Do you have any easy to make recipes?

Try this for a perfect appetizer! Happy Cooking !

No Time Please.

June 27, 2008: a familiar name came on the headlines: Sam Bahadur Manekshaw passed away. I google-ed more to know about Sam and I felt proud that India had produced such a brave man.

Sam Manekshaw was an India Military Officer to hold the highest rank in the army as the Field Marshall. He led the Indian army towards victory in the Indo- Pakistan war in 1971. He was conferred the Padma Vibhushan in 1972 for his unbound service to the country. Sadly, he passed away on June 27, 2008.

While I felt so honored by such fearless men the country had, who gave all the time in their life to safeguard the country, it was really sad to see that other "powerful" men, including the prime minister, the defense minister or the commander did not attended the funeral to pay their last respects to this great person. While the PM is busy negotiating his position on the Nuke deal, I wonder what made the other top ranked officials not attend this homage.

No time? Whatever.

Sad. Isnt it?

Schooling and Education

I am glad I met her. She was just normal, loved to smile and cheer people up, outgoing and nice. Each person has a story to tell. Well, this is Her story. Simple, yet thought provoking.

I knew her parents; they were well educated, successful and extremely hard working. As family, the parents, I am sure, made a lot of sacrifices in their careers, to give their children the best they could. This family was normal, And happy.

The other day I met her at an Indian restaurant, doing menial jobs, most people, who are well off would not bother to do. Not knowing how to react, I just left the place after lunch. After a couple of months, the next time I met her, I could not stop myself from asking why she was doing such trivial chores when she could get a much better part time job, if she needed to. "I hate this job, but my parents want me to do it. ", she said. Surprised, I had to know why. She continued, " Dad says he wanted me to know what life would have been if I didn’t get an education. And also respect each one who here who do these."

I was silent. After I bid good bye, I kept thinking of what she said. Her parents were right.

Mark Twain once said, "Never let your schooling get in the way of your education.” How perfect.

Give it a thought.

1: Each one of us here, we have had such wonderful schooling, but do we know what education of life means?

2: We all are unique. But, schooling (education) and its competitive world wants to make us the same. Won’t you agree?

Do let me know your thoughts on this!

Back with a bang! I have stories to share!!

I had been away for a really long time, but I missed writing, my passion, my strength! In these 6 months of my absence from the blog world, I did open my blog couple of times, but I didn’t feel strongly about anything in particular. Over this phase, I have been comparatively silent, less social, yet, I did meet different genre of people, heard a lot of opinions, participated less, only to learn more. I realize each person I met, had a different story to tell. A story called Their Own. Now, I am not uncovering family mysteries, I am not giving any opinions, I am not going to be judging a person, but I am going to write a different perspective, a different life, some joys and proud moments, some unanswered questions, some struggles, some success, and the other side of the coin, some failures. From the upcoming blogs onwards, I am going to share with you a story, about someone, from my perspective. So each blog I am going to try to make it as different as possible, trying to share with you different opinions and differences in opinions!

Diamonds: A woman's best friend?

T'was about time I saw the movie : Blood Diamond. It undoubtedly was a superb movie, it spoke about the conflicts that arose and the politics involved with respect to the diamond. A must-see movie, I was shocked by the truth the movie spoke. Blood diamond is about how poverty stricken African countries, becomes a country populated by rebels to fund their conflict. The war torn country' rebels abuse human right terribly, most often by murdering and enslaving their own people to mine the diamonds. The movie also dealt with so many powerful social issues from AIDS to civil war to child soldiers to refugees and of course, conflict diamonds. It challenges the viewer to rethink about what they are buying and the movie has definitely tried its opportunity to really make a difference. Truly, Diamonds are forever but so is the pain they can cause.

Birthday in US!

Moods today !

N here I was, celebrated my birthday in US of A. Eggs smashing on my head, face smacking cake and a push into the pool. That's precisely how my day began!! Fun day.

Funny

The clock ticked 12 am in India. 14th Nov is here (here is India) and i sit with my laptop and recollect how i spent last year's bday in India. phone calls, phone calls till wee hours in the morning :)
Today, in the US, wondering, smiling, what does the future have in store for me?:)

Miss home.