Let It Be In The Nachos Way!

Hey! pals.....yes think it in the Nachos way!!!!!

well I'm not going to tell you the recipe of Nachos here, instead I'm going to tell you how this recipe spiced up my life indeed.

Sometimes you don't know how surprisingly things confront you in your life and become your taste. Taste is what you look for every now and then in life but sometimes on the contrary taste might look for you too. I'm sure you might have listed all your unlike-d veges which you have been ignoring since childhood but on the account of infinite reasons you are eating them today.(If things are not like this for you then reconsider it...because nobody is perfect.)

So Refocusing on my Nachos love story here.......

It was the late December of 2008, when I was on kind of vacation. I went to my uncle's place in Noida, U.P. It was a usual day of having fun with cousins and family. we went for the movie "Rab ne bana di jodi" (ok now all Shahrukh lover plz do you mind!). As always I use to have popcorn n coke in the interval and that day was no different, besides this there was one more thing which used to happen every time whenever I went for the movie with my cousins.......

My cousin use to present me the service of this unfamiliar golden brown triangles with sort of dips n sauces, saying, "wanna try"(There's one thing about me which i don't like, I always say No when somebody offers me something...seriously I suffered great losses due to this nasty habit of mine.) This time I gave it try and grabbed a piece of nachos, dipped it into the sauce and show it a way straight to my mouth (for a change you can imagine this act in slow motion.)

And the moment of Eureka!......I have never tasted something like this.....I was so much in to the taste that to feel it once again, when I move my hand to grab one more piece of it...I realize that the generous offers are always limited.
"Nachos!!!!!!!!!!!"

Since then I'm in love with nachos.(Rab ne jodi bana di) and whenever I have gone for a movie I had nachos only.....My husband is also familiar to this taste of mine now and he always buys nachos for me, so what he goes for the combo pack and interested in other things beside nachos in that pack, but he always thinks about me first. I love him.

No matter how boring and unbearable the movie is...I just want the XL pack of nachos to chill me down. The one reason behind disliking Dhobi Ghat movie was zero intermission in the movie. I was waiting for the interval die-heartily only for the nachos. Now I always make sure this thing before going for the movie.

That day i felt it happens same in life too, our source of happiness set timely and we should always look for the right time to appear, but what we will do when that particular time is only escape from the row. We will wait for yet another series of time to come, after all its just a matter of time.

My penchant for Nachos(Happiness) is still on.

My genuine advice : At some hard phases of life, we should have the patience of a saint. That's what my two cents.

The Moment Of Getting Inspired

So here I go....

Whenever you get in to doozy feeling moment when yours eyes shed some happy-tears(or whatever tears), and you feel like something is being filled in you, which lighten up your body and you start flying(No no I'm not talking about Red bull here). your inner voice bellow,"Why I haven't thought in this way...I can do this too....Yes I can."

What you will call it?

The moment of inspiration.......

I don't know how many of you harmonized on this point of mine, but this feeling is very common to me. Since childhood I'm getting inspired by things, people, acts blah blah....The list is so long.

At first I was inspired to became a "Heart surgeon",then a "Microbiologist", then a "Scientist"(On the take of biology course what else you can think to be aspirant off.)..

Oops! I missed out "The Wildlife ranger" how can i forget this one, after the declaration (without knowing the fact that it doesn't happens in India), everyone had poked a fun at me(Thanks to National Geographic channel).

After the decay when I developed a interest in novel reading...I wannabe "the Writer"(Which is still on) then...Actress/Miss World....hey every girl have dreamt to be a actress or Miss world, until she realize her facts and it just becomes a pipe dream.

It's not a long past when I genuinely got inspired by the movie "Julie & Julia".... I can reminisce it very well. Once my husband told me about the movie and tagged it as 'must watch'....then what, I followed it, became fan and i loved it...Two women, one became the inspiration and one got inspired. Such a beautiful movie which not only tells the story of two remarkable women but harbuors a lot of values in it.

Life gives you many rendezvous with some people, act or thing which may directly or indirectly effects you. But point to ponder here is whether inspiration choose you or you choose the inspiration, though the result of both might not be the same, it really effects your life. So inspire someone with something or get inspired.


Genuine advice: whenever you get inspired with someone don't let him/her knows it...coz the beauty of the moment lies in the silence only this's what my two cents.

My 2nd Inner Happiness

Life is what you make it : My Review

For those who haven’t read this book yet.

Its a story of an attractive, smart intellectual, simple girl Ankita who tried hard to live with her parent's conservative beliefs. Who also love to be loved and taken care of her feelings.  She had the fortitude and set her goals in life to reach the zenith of corporate world. In pursuit of her dreams she passes the MBA entrance exam and ensures her selection in the the best business schools in India. This story contains the truth about how life can turn in to a scariest nightmare in a day, when your mind starts playing the games. Same happened with Ankita who very soon found herself struggling in the Mental Hospital room. Her life journey teaches the lesson of internal happiness and values of Love and Friendship.

                                                                                                          

I liked the book very much, well written expressions, simple language and one can easily brush-up his/her vocabulary. I personally like the art of indulging humor in a writing form and Preeti Shenoy…the author is quite good at that. Metaphors she used are another thing which I like while reading the book……like

“If guilt was a stone tied to my ankles, I would have sunk easily to the bottom of the sea. But I wore it easily on my sleeve”.

She further added some light sentences which finely reflects the Indian values…like

“Year of schooling in the system which drilled Indian values in you, like respect for the elderly, was hard to do away with”.

One can easily get introduced to some tradition, customs and also some words of local language of Kerala by reading the first half of the story.

like…..

“Kerala custom, that there should be welcoming lamp at the doorway, to usher the Goddess of wealth and good fortune in”.

Local language words like……

Molle, Appacha, Thatu Kada….etc

Overall this book indeed make a good read, you can complete the book in one sitting also…..though for me it took three days…which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Happy reading!!!!

Sketchbook Update

I tried to make it jokey and it turned out to be hilarious...but I loved it! So thought to post it here... ;-)

My 1st inner happiness

I'm again on a mission. Mission to bring out color art within me...Everyday new art this is how I celebrate my inner happiness.Today is the first day and here is my 1st inner happiness!!!!

Colors give letters to Life

What's with Indian Ghosts!!!

Heard of fairytales…ok, heard of Panchtantra stories…ok, heard of Ghost stories….alright! And what about Indian ghost stories? You might be thinking what wonder push me to put this discrimination of Ghost here. What’s with Indian Ghost! Well they got matchless style…particularly a female ghost. Every woman in India love to wear anklets and this zeal remains after the death also. They give us the feel of their presence in such a melodic way.  All over the haunted places in India, most of them are preoccupied by female ghosts and native people are very sure about their existence as they hear the sound of anklet while they walk down the place.

Anklet sound!…sounds really interesting. This sound arose the level of curiosity in Ghost interested people that they intentionally go for a night stay. With all that skeptic heart they pull themselves from the fear and bravely try to spend whole night in such places to have an experience of that anklet’s jingling. They might hear the jingling or may encounter the reason behind those jingling. Everything is strange but I’m not. Yes I have no courage to put myself knowingly in such situations…I have got many anklets and I love their jingling, I’m satisfied and not interested in how other’s anklet sounds and how old their design is.

Two month ago I have shifted to a small city of West Bengal. This is surrounded by all kind of greeneries and lots of water (it rains heavily here) and my sweet little house also surrounded by such greenery. I find empty snail’s shell every other day in my backyard. Sometimes yellow colored printed small snakes come to swim in the backyard water well. Night and the rainy season give you the piece of music by frogs (well I came from the metro city so these things bother Me.) you can find almost all kind of musical insects here. One evening I was cooking in the kitchen and I herd some digital sound. The sound was very much similar to the sound comes from our cell phone keypad.  It was insect's sound so I named it as the digital insect. I told my husband about my new discovery, he heard the sound and told me ya kind of digital but it is much similar to the anklet’s jingling. His words swirl my sound system and that digital sound appeared no more digital to me. Honestly! It changed to anklet jingling. Yes I was scared because I grew up hearing all those haunted stories of female ghost with their anklet jingling. Then my husband explained me the sound story….some insects produce such kind of sound…so relaxed it’s an insect sound only. Then I searched on net  about those insect and I found all the Cricket family bears such kind of sound and I also got one audio of insect’s sound effect so that you can also listen to it.Click here

Today also psychologically that digital sound is still the anklet‘s jingling to me. But whenever I hear it I say to my husband, “here she comes”. Now I know all the haunted places are also a habitat of such insects too. So people give it a second thought if you have encountered such sounds.

Happy Discovering! 

Folk Inspiration

Traditional Puppets of Rajasthan got a new look.......I bought this pair from Dilli-Haat (New-Delhi). 

And some Heart Inspirations

Homemaker: Not working for salary women

After marrying your prince charming, if you have decided to take the charge and appoint yourself for this full-time-not-paying job. Then the homemaker is the exact word for you.Ya it sounds like and also gives you the feeling of superwoman! No no no please don’t confuse it with the word Housewife. Believe me though the meaning is same but there is dissimilarity between the two words.

Have a Brief look

House-wife: You might have seen your mother, mother-in-law,your aunties or any mid-aged women in your family and relatives .Who worked for 24x7 around the house. Their day starts early and ends late at night dedicatedly. One antique chabi-ka-guchha (key chain) is always dangling to their waist. You can easily get the idea by this list mentioned below.

    The chabi-ka-guchha (key chain) which includes all the keys around the house (store key, main gate key, room key, safe key etc etc.)

    Wake-up at 5’o clock in the morning.

    Take bath, dress up and then straightly in to the Pooja room (prayer room).

    Wake up the family and get them ready for the school, office etc…respectively.

    Prepare breakfast, clean-up the house.

    Get things ready for the lunch.

    Get involved in misc works around the house.

    Get things ready for the dinner.

    Have food only after everyone has downloaded their stomach.

Homemaker: After decay of the 19^th century (approx.) women got open up to the word “Homemaker” in India and they loved to be entitled as the homemaker rather than the house-wife. Homemaker who manages the home, directs the home, it also includes the taste of versatility, dynamic multi tasking skills. You might have seen that ‘Moov’ commercial, in which the lady keeps on saying “Expert kaun” while grabbing the task from her husband’s hand, this very well shows that women also want designation for this full-time-not-paying job .In this professional world….Yes! It’s also to do with the professionalism.

What makes Homemakers different from House-wives.

    They wake-up early, do all the morning chores and involve themselves in workout, yoga, meditation for the fit body.

    Breakfast on the table with everyone.

    Clean-up house, set entire things at right place….yes I’m hinting the things like sofa-cushions, pillows, kid’s toys, tea cups, clothes etc….by knowing the fact that these things will soon leave their right place.

    Will search a new recipe from internet, read lots of lifestyle magazines…how to keep good homes and gardens.

    Lunch on table with everyone.

    Go for some shopping, read books, dance-music, write a blog…do anything which keep themselves lively.

    Replace fresh flowers in the vase.

    Dinner on the table with everyone.                                   

        

Sometimes people asks me what you do? are you working?…and I reply no I'm not working,then they says oh! so you are a house-wife, again I reply no I'm a Homemaker.Yes I loved to be called as, coz I believe there is a life in this word, whereas house-wife give you the negative illustration of women. This gives you the strength to socialize equally with other paid-working women. You can proudly say…yes I’m the Homemaker and I can place cushion at the right place each time I find it on the floor. I can give my husband a fresh pair of socks on his hand every time he asks for it. I can also lure my broods to eat properly by preparing a new recipe everyday and in the last I can blog about my feelings my thoughts with everyone.I have the dynamic skill of multitasking.

This is what My Two Cents!

Akanksha Singh

Have you tried it?

My hubby's friend told me about the different types of Maggie noddles they get in a small eatery in their hostel….I wondered what kind of Maggie(s). Then he told me about the chips Maggie….That filled some excitement in me and forced me to give it a try.

And I prepared my own Lays Maggie noodles.....

How to make it:-

 Lays Chips                +          Maggie noddles

  

                          

Prepare Maggie in a usual style,serve it in a noodles bowl and add some roughly crushed lays chips over it ...that's it!

Enjoy!!!!

Faith and Belief

Is fasting a whole day for long life of the husband is a good practice ? Does a single day makes any difference?Then why not husbands do such practice too? What is your faith and belief? 


Yesterday was the Teej day! Hartalika Teej...yes a one more day in Indian calender.....for wives to show her love towards her beloved husbands and praying for his long and healthy life....in doing so she keeps herself on whole day fasting..no food no water....Praying continue until the next sunrise.

My marriage is now two and half years old and I have been keeping this fast since the first year of our marriage...It feels good that you are doing something for your loving husband...but sometimes I really feel to put this question open in air...does this one day makes any difference?...I'm not questioning the faith coz I have enough faith in God.But I really don't like the idea of keeping yourself on whole day fasting... struggling from headache, weakness...ya I understand that praying gives you the strength but It's really difficult to ignore body energy needs.

I have some other questions too. Which Every 21'st generation women have common questions...Why only wives keeps the fast and not husbands?  Husbands don't wish for the longer life of their wives and keep fast for that purpose? Why every system of belief, ritual, tradition, devotion should be followed by woman, wives,girl for their male partner, son..? 

Well If you ask me ..Honestly I don't believe in fasting for long life concept...whatever be the fact this one day makes any difference.Beside this I will love take a charge of loving my husband 24X7 , serve him with  a healthy food and taking a good care of him....creating a healthy lifestyle for him whole day whole night and also pray to God everyday to keep on giving us plenty of time to be-together.Isn't it enough to be a good wife...

Well different people different cerebration. But still love the spirit of fasting after-all this an another way to show your love.But my way is different.

Take care of yourself

Akanksha Singh

1st September 2011

5 Days Pencil wallpaper challenge!!! DAY-5

Haah!! this is the last day of my challenge and m very happy that I have succeeded in completing my self-made challenge........so here is the last wallpaper drawn by me today....

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5 Days Pencil wallpaper challenge!!! DAY-4

And the Day-4 wallpaper is here....

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5 Days Pencil wallpaper challenge!!! DAY-3

Day-3 Wallpaper...........

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5 Days Pencil wallpaper challenge!!! DAY-2

And the Day-2 Wallpaper is here........

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5 Days Pencil wallpaper challenge!!! DAY-1

I have challenged myself....not a big one but yes of-course mind twister for me. All these continues five days I'll be drawing wallpapers with pencil. Challenging myself in this will help me improving my drawing skill as well as I'll be able to consume my time in some interesting task. I'm happy to announce that Today is the 1st day of my challenge....n here'z the 1st wallpaper drawn by me...

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I was looking for you...

I really don't remember where I kept you, last I saw you at my earlier place, resting on my coffee table...but since I came here at new place, I can't find you, in which box I kept you safe.I have unpacked all the boxes,where are you???

You know well, you are the source of my positive energy, strength to my mind, body and soul....so that I can do well, remain active and distress.See my blog posting from last two months, haven't exceed more than one or two.My brain chimney is about to burst now.I don't know why I need you so much but I only know that I need you this much, so that I can tell world what I feel and what I do. So please answer me....where are you?

I checked my Jewelry box, saw in flower vase, looked inside well in the color paint box. I thought you might be in my drawing books but didn't find you there also, also checked you in my boot's box, boots are fine but you were not there.Tried to search you on net, but it seems you are out of the space.

Looked for you all around the corner but didn't find you.I'm tired now please tel me where are you?
Oh! in hurry-scurry I forget to look for you inside my brain...there you are! hiding under the stack of worries or you were testing me...I know you won't let me alone, my mistake I stop bothering about you so far.

But I really need you dear INSPIRATION!!!!!!!.....n you want to know what I can do when you are with me see this.......

Musing after a decay

Sometimes in life you should take over the dormant phase to analyse where actually you are standing.....phew this philosophical dialog...nobody will dramatically screw his/her well sound life(Plz take it other way well sound social life) for grades and stars....but when you got no switch in hand to keep it on/off its better to sit in dark for a while.

Recently I have shifted home from New-Delhi to Kharagpur/Kgp (West Bengal)....kind of career take for my husband.So I'm here in new place with new people now.Kgp is those kind of place which I have marked as non-happening...it got the longest railway platform and the IIT and we are the part of IIT.

IIT Kgp still got that essence of life where you can lay back without time limitations,no appointments blah blah things...Now days IIT Cafe coffee day is totally in..in my life for two reasons, Firstly it got the air conditioner..which is rarely seen in any houses here and secondly its the only posh sitting layout here(I love to be in luxury)....IIT also got some other regular eating zones too. Local people here are kind of lazy but still good.

Well with this session of musing I also like to express my loyalty towards my Delhi days I spent with such a lovely people out there, each day I'm moving forward with all the memoirs of my friendship with my Delhi gang...yes I got a deep emotional attachment with the place n people there and expect the things are same other side also...m sure about it...People love and miss me...They miss my blog postings and FB activities which really make me valuable. Thanks a lot guys let me tel you that the Farewell card and everything was the achievement for me and really meant a lot.

Best wishes on Friendship day to everybody......Yooooooooo!!!!!!!

Akanksha Singh
5th August 2011

This Time It Happened with Patrick

Every time I logged in to my FB account I have fear of catching some heartbreaking flashing news on my news feed from various animal welfare pages I have liked.First it happened with me when I saw Star:The dog who lived page and today it occur again with the dog name Patrick.

The story of Patrick is mournful...as I read an article about it and it says Patrick was found horribly emaciated in a trash bag lying in garbage chute.Patrick's body was cold and his owner starved him to near death. A maintenance worker cleans out the bin and found him struggling for life.the City of Newark Animal Control was contacted and ACO Arthur Skinner picked up the dog and brought him directly to the Society. The veterinary staff immediately put him on intravenous fluid.His temperature was so low that it did not even register on the thermomenter. He was covered with heating pads and blankets. Society vet tech Gina DeSalvo held the pit bull in her arms -- she soothed him, gave him warmth, comfort and bits of food. From that moment on, he looked up with gratitude in his eyes to all of the staff.

After a brief time at the Society's Newark facility, he was ambulanced to Garden State Veterinary Specialists in Tinton Falls -- a referral hospital with 24 hour emergency care. If he died during that night, we feel he would know that everyone loved and cared about him and treated him gently and lovingly. He amazed everyone at the Society and at Garden State by surviving with the 24 hour emergency care that they rendered. He was given a blood transfusion, a bath -- and even a walk! In honor of the first day of his re-birth, we call him Patrick -- in honor of St. Patrick's Day and we hope he has the luck of the Irish!.

Patrick was found in this condition

After 24hrs of medication

And Patrick today

Today Patrick is recovering so well and look so handsome and cute. Some people are so cruel, they can't feel the pain and suffering of innocent one.God knows everything and they will pay for it for sure.

Every living creature struggle for life untill the last breath.Whenever a human struggling for life in the hospital,docs gives their best to save him.But whenever we saw any animal struggling for life why we just say,"Oh! it's going to die", and move on. Why not to save it's life then.They also want to live.God has giving the right to live to everyone.

Please please from now on-wards if you see any street, petted animal struggling for life, try to save it's life.This is so beautiful feeling when these innocent creature,unable to speak give you warm love with no strings attached.They just want love to live.

I love you Patrick,you are blessed and my best wishes are with you always.

Bye Bye Delhi......

Ah! blogging after a long, Got busy with various activities and didn't get time to write. Well I don't know how to express these "few days left" feeling,After passing stupendous two years in Delhi/NCR, now it's time to leave Delhi...Yes we are moving from here to some other place, as my husband got transferable job so we got to move from place to place.This is my second time I'm moving, first was the time when I moved out from my parent's place after marriage :)

Packing packing and packing.....is going,along the daily life routine.New bed-sheet,my new futura smart cooker,my incomplete sketch,all the seasonal flower's seeds I collected,my lil cute and very tiny cat shaped jewelry box...Have a look.

All the diaries of mine.....everything is packed intentionally to be opened at new place, still many things are left.The countdown has begun and days are passing like anything.It's a very tough job but although it also helps you to sort out things which are useful and old and waste are removed.New things keep coming on and old things goes on lounging in our stores...so it is the best time to purge them... at least we can give it to someone in need of it and your house will become clean and clear :)

I'm excited for the new place, new house...how it will be, how I'll decorate it...blah blah things...but at the same time m worried too.But as my husband says if you get worried then how I will manage things dear, you are my lucky charm ;) so I left all the worries and started packing all the hopes, excitement,happiness for the new place and taking all the memories of Delhi along.

Hopes hopes hopes....
Come and take me to the next shore...
Don't know,how it looks...
I got many things to put...
Whatever...
I will decorate it with my colors,
no-matter if it look smaller...
Coming along with my love there...
So please make everything fair.
Bringing memories of every phase...
please brush the carpet n make some space..
Make our night stary but not dark..
Make our day brighten but not sharp...
So please come hopes...
take me to the next shore.

Wish me a luck pals.....!!!