Hibernating!

Blogging has been on hibernation mode for quite a while now, not that there wasn't anything to blog, but its nothing other than sheer laziness and aversion to the virtual world lately. But then there have been a few things which I would like to share and of course have it as look back write up for some time later in life :) I will try to post all of it soon, but on top of the list before my memory fails it all is a restaurant/food review in and around London which I have immensely enjoyed and would be worth penning down :) As a trailer below are the ones on which I plan to write

1. Cafe momo

2. Mamma Mia

3. Jimmy spice

4. Roshni's

5. Princi

6. Sakura

7. Wagamana

8. Nandos

9. Cafe Des Amis

10. Ca 'pucchino

11. Cosmo

Will update the rest as and when I remember :) Adios for now..

Love struck

love the way you smile and the happiness it makes me feel
love the depth in your eyes and the trust it brings along to bare my soul
love the way you look at me and the butterflies it gives me still
love the way you laugh and the worries it takes away
love that you love me which makes me feel so blessed
love everything about you which makes me miss you more and more
your happiness is mine forever and ever....

Wrote this after a really long time and it made me be a dreamer again where everything is just about perfect. Of course the above is a censored version :p I love the sense of freedom writing gives.


Signing of on a dreamy note, adiós :)

The chef in me

At times I dream that I am this perfect chef making yummy things and enjoying the same with family or friends.  Most of the times in an effort to make it all perfect,  the dish turns out to be quite bad. One such disaster today was 'Thayir Bread' on the lines of Thayir(Curd) Vada.

If not for the bit of extra salt, extra spice and a tad(really! :p) bit too less curd the dish would have been purrfect. Sigh! There goes my dream, like the Concorde never to take off again.

Every other day(ok almost) I religiously log into blogger with the hope of writing something interesting, but have not been able to. I wonder how some bloggers manage to write religiously, I'm in awe especially of some of the cooking blogs where nice photographs are put up, extensive descriptions are given on how to make a dish taste better, and the blogs have been existant for years! What keeps them going? Is it a regular fan following, faithful readership, loads of comments? Maybe its what they enjoy doing day in and day out. Would it wither away with time? For some its a few days maybe in these cases it would take years, but probably it would some day or maybe not.

I hate the times when my mind thinks too much like now about unnecessary things. There is a lingering why for everything around me, like why am I even writing this post, so I shalt hit the publish button even before I decide to delete this post like many others :p

sunshine

What I love about this part of the world is getting to experience the changes in weather. Of course there is the summer to winter change back home, however the spring, autumn, snowy winters were left to imaginations and confined to geography textbooks :)

Spring is back again here with little yellow and purple flowers on the meadows, sunshine glistening through tinted windows, chirping of birds, joy, laughter, tiny bits of greenery on the trees, colours all around, smiling faces, everything and everyone seems to be doing their own happy 'welcome spring' dance :) I'm loving it! :)

Swimming: Part 02

It has been a while updating the swim section due to several factors :) However, completed 5 classes now and yeah I can claim I can swim without any swimming aids now! :) Here is swim lesson 2. 3, 4 and 5 will soon follow.
Before you begin this class, make sure to repeat class one sections quickly, especially the kicking and breathing. Apart from the drills in class one; there was only one new drill this class. We graduated to float boards swimming aids from woggles. Here are the steps.
Step 1: Hold the float board at the farther end from you with both your palms. Now extend your hands above your head, hands by the sides of the respective ears. The same position while lying down in water and you are parallel to the bottom of the pool.
Step 2: The float board keeps you on the surface. So now start kicking your legs. Concentrate on the kick, it should originate from your hips, and your knee and ankles are kept loose as you kick.
Step 3: When you have to breathe, lift you head above the water and grasp a breath through your mouth. Breathe out inside the water from your mouth by blowing bubbles.
Step 4: When you do step 3, you will notice that you lose your balance. This is quite natural. This is the reason you should NOT lift your head while swimming the complete stroke. So for now this imbalance is fine.
Step 5: You need to balance in water, engage your core abdomen muscles but sucking in your tummy. This helps a lot in maintaining balance. Don’t forget to kick and breathe.
Step 6: Put all the above steps together and practice, practice practice :)

Amazed, Shocked, wtf !!

The title of this post is exactly how I feel about myself at the moment. Why? Because I have a long list of  to-do things from the past one week(some of it for more than that) and I haven't done even one of it till now! No I'm not procrastinating, because every time I think I will do it 'now' and when that 'now' time arrives I would have forgotten about it only to be reminded of it again at a later point of time. And at that precise later point of time the time would not be suitable and the saga continues. I thought of all the things I had to do when I left office today evening and in fact almost resolved to do it, and was supposed to do it the moment I got home, but no, me being me I forgot for the nth time again.

Chandra give yourself a break! Atleast for this blog's sake move your *** and do it!