3rd Trimester And My Notes

1)If anybody ask me which trimester you enjoyed most, then my answer will be 3^rd trimester 2) Any girl who is going to enter in motherhood phase, she must stay with her own mother during pregnancy, coz only your mom can understand what actually you are feeling, my mom is my best friend, that’s why I came to her in my 3^rd trimester 3)In this trimester, I did lots of shopping but this time only for my little bundle of joy and that too a online shopping4) Trust me, there is nothing like shopping for your baby in this world 5) Online shopping websites like, www.firstcry.com, www.hoopos.com, www.yapaa.com, www.babyoye.com are good for all those early needs for your baby 6)I started enjoying those sweet belly talks7) Just one thing I was upset about, that my hubby wasn’t here with me, due to some work, but soon he will join us 8) Though the nights were difficult with all those side turnings and all but I forget everything when my baby moves 9)I hate heart-burns which makes me awake late night, but they give me some more time to think about the arrival of a baby 10) Mom and Dad are eagerly waiting for you my baby come soon….. 

2nd Trimester and My Notes

1)As soon my 2nd trimester started, I was down with, 'there's nothing wearable in my wardrobe' syndrome 2) Everyday I used to ask my hubby, 'baby m I showing?' and he simply smiles and say ,'yes dear' 3) I started practicing  pranayam and meditation regularly 4) more veges, fruits and tender coconut water added in to my diet 5) I have never been on daily 8 glass of water routine but pregnancy made me to stick on it 6)Things were getting more exciting as the time passes 7) After a long time I was near to meet my parents and my loving friends and I was more excited than them, how they will react after seeing me 8) I was glowing like never before, my skin looked so radiant all thanks to those pregnancy hormones 9) Away from all the stupid myths I was exploring my maternity world and enjoying it fully...all thanks to those pregnancy journals and manuals...seriously God is amazing!

1st Trimester and My Notes

My 1st trimester experiences

1) The day when I came to know about my pregnancy I was so excited 2) amazed to know that I have already completed a month when went to see the Gyno for the first time 3) A single live fetus is seen in the utero, this sentence almost brought tears in my eye when I read my 1^st USG report 4) 1^st trimester was a mixture of anxiety, excitement, confusion etc 5) Daily preparing diet chart was interesting task to do 6) Tender coconut water, apple and a book titled as “What to expect when you are expecting” became my best friends 7) I always looked for fresh air due to lil bit of nausea, which was usually in the evening time 8) felt so good when I was treated like a kid by my husby J

Sep 2012 and I'm entering in to a new phase of my life

I Welcome Myself To The Mom's World

This September will bring a bliss to my world....after nine months of nurturing a small bundle of joy in my womb, Me & my Husband we both are waiting to welcome our very first child in to this world. The Journey was awesome, and full of excitement, amusement and with lots of exclamation marks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I really want to share my experience of nine months  here (just 10 days are left for my 9th month to get over). 

Pregnancy brings a lot of changes in a woman's life, as the months passes by I have also grown so far,  which is very important for a mother. I have reached the level of maturity as my baby grows up in there.I'm happy with life and waiting for my next inning to start. 

Praise To Raise Your Energy

Do you believe when people praise you, admire you or appreciate you is actually boost up the positive energy in you which was suppressed by negative thoughts.

Sometimes  my mind filled up with many thoughts most are negative, "what the hell I'm doing in this world" like thoughts dodge in my upper part of the head. I don't feel like to talk to anybody, don't feel like to do work..simply lying down on the bed and struggling with the bad thoughts.All of a sudden, a phone call comes, with a empty urge I picked it up and found my sweetheart hubby's voice at the other end,"What happen dear why are you so upset, you shouldn't be like this, you are my happiness, you have changed my world,I know this is difficult for both of us to live apart, but we have to do this...this is just a passing phase baby...come on cheer up...you know how brave you are, I have been telling others that see my wife is just the best, she never complaints about anything, she deals with the situation well. So please cheer up now".

These words entered in to blood circulating system and started circulating along with the blood....it works like a magic and I'm rejuvenated and filled with a positive energy all over again. 

So sometimes we need such booster doses of positive energy, no matter from where, it can be from your loved ones, any music which touches your soul, old pictures, spiritual attachments etc. This is what I learned today. 

Paneer Stuffed fried Idlis with red chili sauce

From North to south, from East to west, India has got variety of taste. North Indian cuisine is famous for stuffing, gravies and lots of makhan and ghee, In South use of spices and rice moderation recipes can be seen, West Indian cuisines filled with lots of roasting, frying and all those tadkas, whereas in East India simplicity is the key included steaming and frying with different kind of sauces. Curiosity deepens here, what if we mingle all these cuisine making techniques from different zones and you never know what taste you will get. That's what I did here. I took idli from south, filled it with punjabi paneer stuffing, fried it like they did in gujrat, and serve it with red-hot chili sauce from east.And see what I got.

Fusion dish : a perfect blend of North South East West India. 

Paneer Stuffed Fried Idlis with red-chili sauce

Ingredients for Idli:

Rice idli batter

150 gm Cottage cheese

1 fine chopped onion

2 fine chopped green chili

Salt as per taste

Cumin powder half table spoon

Red chili powder half table spoon

Black pepper powder half table spoon

Oil for deep frying the idlis

Green chili, coriander leaf, cheese for garnishing.

Method:

Mash the cheese in a bowl, add onion, green chilies, salt, cumin powder, red chili powder, black pepper powder and mix well.This will be a filling for the idlis.

Grease the Idli steaming mold tray with little amount of oil and pour half spoon of idli batter in it.

Add  paneer filling in the middle of poured batter.

Pour some more amount of batter over the filling so that it covers completely.

After filling all the tray in the same manner, put it in a idli steaming vessel.

Keep it for 10-15 mins.

After that take out all the idlis from mould.

Now heat up the oil in a deep frying pan, fry all the idlis till golden brown.

Idlis are ready to serve, cut in to pieces or keep them as it is as per your choice.

Garnish them with green chilies, coriander leafs and paneer pieces.

You can also serve it with hot samber.

Paneer Stuffed Fried Idlis tastes real yummy and it includes the complete flavor from North-South-East-West India. it can be a awesome snack for parties. 

Ingredients for Red chili sauce:

100 gm of garlic cloves

25 dried red chilies

1 tbs sugar

1 cup malt vinegar 

2 tbs refined oil

salt as per taste

Method:

Peel off garlic cloves

Soak red chilies in vinegar from 1 hour

Now grind all the ingredients together in a mixer

Make a fine paste.

red chili sauce is ready to serve.

Enjoy!!!!!

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Can any one name this bird...my father spotted him and clicked some nice poses.

Story of Sunny

Long time ago in Germany, my ancestors were bred to prey small animals like rabbits,badgers etc. they were specially given isolated genes to scent and chase. People love them, feed them well. Time has flew like a feather, now people pet us for the sake of love of foreign dog's breed, they cuddle us, treat like a soft toy...yes we look cute that's why I think...but nobody know that..we never wanted to be like this, sometimes things become helpless for the creatures like me in big cities...but who understand my situation.

My name is Sunny...I'm a cute dog of Dachshund breed.I live in a small city of Madhya Pradesh name Gwalior. My owners brought me when I was too small....smaller than m today. Earlier I was happy to come here...I got my own family, and the kids loved me too...they play with me, cuddle me, feed me...but as I grown up, slowly slowly they started ignoring my needs, now they don't have time to play with me, Every morning   I m left on the terrace alone, they won't take me for a walk...I m left alone alone n alone.




I feel very sad and helpless when they left me alone on terrace...I can't go back down to them as the door is also shut, I keep on striking the door loudly with the bark...but nobody listens. and also my bad luck...like other dogs I can't jump high to climb over the wall and escape through the adjacent terrace door as my legs are too short.

One day I have listen my owner was talking to one of his neighbor...to help him and find someone who can adopt me. I felt bad, n sad...what I have done, what is my mistake...you guys  are only not taking care of me.
But I kept myself is reconsidering mode...may be there is someone out there who can adopt me and love me unconditionally, may be there is someone who can understand me, my feeling. But when that someone will come  n how????...m afraid because once my owner handle me to his son's autoriksha-wala. But he handle me back to my owner.

Friends this is my sad story...is there anyone who can adopt me and let me out from this space. Please help me if you think i need a better place and home and owner.

P.S: yes this is the sad story of sunny lives in my neighborhood....and his owner asked us to find someone to adopt me....if anyone want to help or adopt him..you can contact me or mail me. But situation is we live in Gwalior city, so I hope we find someone from this city only.

At last sunny has been adopted....I don't know the exact details but now day sI don't see him around...it feels like he has been adopted.....may God Bless him.
            

Indian Bloggers League- Battle Of Blogs

Pals know what's hot this season....Yes same like IPL, IBL season-1 is going on these days, last month I got an E-mail invitation from an stranger, to participate in Indian Bloggers league. I accepted it and today I'm a proud member of one of the IBL team...No IBL didn't follow the player buying system, this was open to all. Well I wanted to describe it in less words here, and posting a link of  IBL website where you can get more information.
http://www.indianbloggersleague.com/

Same like IPL.....IBL also contain 8 regional Teams [Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad,Kolkata ,Bangaluru, Pune, Chennai, Patna]


Well my team name is..."The Amdavadi Tadka"  Team-Ahmedabad

IBL is already started from 1st of July 2012 and we are handling a 1st round...which contain various topics on which each team member will write a exclusive blog post. Then IBL judges will decide the best out of them. Likewise there are other rounds too.

We have already shooted out our 1st Exclusive blog post entry under 'short story' genre. Below is the link to it you can read it and share your views here.

http://www.wherethoughtsarewords.com/2012/07/my-dilemma-pain-of-loss-or-deceit.html

These are the 17 members of our team (Including me ;-))

1) Name:   Vishal Kataria (Captain)
    Blog:: Vishipedia

2) Name: Vishal Dahiya

    Blog: Vishal Dahiya Photography

3) Name: Disha Bhatt

    Blog: Where Thoughts are Word$

4) Name: Rohan Vidyarthi

    Blog: Citysleepers

5) Name: Nikhil Poddar

    Blog: The Nikiller

6) Name: Ghazala Hossain

    Blog: A BLIND DATE

7) Name: Punit Dubey

    Blog: Ghumakkar's Diary

8) Name: Sumukh Bansal

    Blog: Gifts Of Silence

9) Name: Vinita Bahl

    Blog: Blogwati G

10) Name: Arun Bhat

      Blog: India Travel Blogs

11) Name: Rama Moondra

      Blog: Reflections of Solitude 

12) Name: Simran Kaur

      Blog: My Friendship

13) Name: Abhimanyu Manna

      Blog: Soul Pepper

14) Name: Devashri Birari

      Blog: TECHNOFUMES

15) Name: Sandeep Nair

      Blog: SandySpeak

16) Name: Akansha
      Blog: From My Chopping Board

17) Name: Sonali Desai (Reserve)
      Blog: Spectrum of Life

IBL is already started from 1st of July 2012 and we are handling a 1st round...which contain various topics on which each team member will write a exclusive blog post. Then IBL judges will decide the best out of them. Likewise there are other rounds too.


We have already shooted out our 1st Exclusive blog post entry under 'short story' genre. Below is the link to it you can read it and share your views here.


http://www.wherethoughtsarewords.com/2012/07/my-dilemma-pain-of-loss-or-deceit.html

Favorite Track-3

This is another song which I love to listen anytime...Voiced by Udit Narayan Music by A.R Rehman

Bharma Mirchi

One day my Mom came up with this lovely looking green bharma mirchi (chili). She made a cut in to it and overloaded it with chatpata (spicy) filling and gave me to microwave it, while doing the microwaving.....oh! my my....it smells so so so so good...that I can't express

Here you can see in the pic how delicious it looks

Ingredients:

6-7 big green chilis (achar wali mirchi)

2 large spoons of gram flour.

Ajwine (carom seed) half table spoon

Dry mango powder half spoon

Salt as per taste

  Method:

• Roast gram flour in a pan without any oil or ghee
• add one by one ajwine, salt, dry mango powder in it.
• After sometime sprinkle a little water and mix well.
• put off the flam and keep the vessel aside and allow it to cool.
• Make a cut in chili without parting it in to half (see in the pic) 
• fill all the chilies by the gram flour mix.
• Now grease all the chilies with some oil and put them in a microwave for at least 5-6 min
• Let it be cool and serve it with daal chawal, kari chawal...etc etc

PEPSI

Till now we all have drink Pepsi...but today I'll tel you how to eat pepsi

Believe me it's yummmmmmyyyyyyyy....those who like Indian chaat this pepsi is a must try

Mouth watering isn't it!!!!!

Ingredients:

6-8 Gol gappas

Sonth chutney

beaten curd

boiled potato, cut in to pieces 

red chili powder

salt

cumin powder

Method:

• Take all the gol gappas in a plate and put potato pieces in all the gappas 
• Pour beaten curd on all the gappas
• now add sonth over 
• Sprinkle salt, cumin powder,red chili powder over and serve

Loki Damas

It's a tasty, an appetizing snack, which can be eaten with your normal, Daal-chawal in lunch. I have never thought loki (bottle gourd) can be eaten in such a amazing manner.

Ingrdients:

1 medium size Loki (bottle gourd)

Gram flour half bowl

Ajwain (carom seed) half table spoon

Red chili powder as per taste

Salt as per taste

Garam masala

Water

Method:

• Take a gram flour and add ajwain, red chili powder,salt, garam masala
• Now by adding little water make a light paste of it.
• Now peel off the Loki and cut in to round pieces.
• Dip loki pieces in to gram flour paste
• Heat up the oil in a pan for deep frying, add loki pieces in oil and deep fry it.
• Take them out on kitchen towel and let it cool n serve.

Gadgets for Time-pass actually killing my quality of Time-pass

Last month there was a contest of writing a blog on a topic like ‘write about how internet is fun on your phone’, at first I wanted to express my view on it, but when I sat to write, I literally didn’t get anything out from my brain over this topic...because the reason was simple, I can’t find any fun while accessing net via a phone…I never excited about it…for me it’s just a medium to approach what I may be missing while m away from my social networks.

Few weeks ago we got a new tab for my mother, I was exploring it and making it easier for the use of mother. While doing the setting on android os for hours….oh! My God my brain got drained completely. First of all m not a technical person but after spending years on computer…I got the skill pretty good, But sometime I really get frustrated while doing the stuff. When I got comfy with Windows, now this android thing came in my way. Though it is easy to operate, but still very confusing for me….I thought Android is for time-pass, but actually it’s killing my quality of time (but I like angry birds…no doubt) and that too on tablet…it’s really frustrating touching that 7’ inch screen repeatedly by your finger. So for me tab is defiantly not a happening gadget , I thought of buying it earlier for me but now…it’s a big No No! I’m happy with my laptop/desktop with windows os.

Now days you go anywhere, you can see 90% of the people stick to their phone doing blah blah things. I hate this, this digital world is not for me…I love nature and real things. But unfortunately we all are depended on this very digital world. What to do L. Why not…we can do…. we can try to stay away from this digital world for a while, give it a day, hours and explore the real world around you. Simple J

PS: Those who are seeking reviews on Micromax Funbook…..so people it’s a good deal with 7’ inch LCD…have a nice time-pass.

Congratulation to this blog on completing 5000.......views

I'm celebrating 5000 views of my blog today............thanks to all the readers for visiting my blog....though sometimes I also visited my own blog

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Wordless Friday.....

Meet our kitty...her name is Angel, we call her Angii in short....everyday she comes n sleep for hours at my house's stairs

Little bundle of Happiness

The Life itself holds the fact of happy living.....I believe...happiness is such a little bundle...whenever you seek for it you can find it under your bed, inside your table drawer, your collector box etc etc etc. If you really wanna look for it, you definitely will find it.

One week ago, I came to my parental home, 

back to my childhood, my own room, 

my belongings, my parents, my pets, 

every corner of the house welcomed me...

life is so beautiful here. I opened my dressing table drawer 

and I found my little bundle of happiness in there, 

my bed side drawer still keeps my dairy, 

old books and all those things which I left secretly. 

My wardrobe still filled with a rack of my old clothes

It's door still hanged my old bags

It feels like amazing n nostalgic

a beautiful feeling which I can't express properly.

I love being here, back in my cove, back in my old memories.  

Today in evening snack

This is my another favorite snack, which I can have any hour of a day...because of two reason, 1) I love idlis, 2) I love snack...so mix them both and make out something very tasty.

Fried Idlis......

Ingredients:

Steamed Idlies 6

Butter 2 spoons

Mustard seeds 1 spoon

Black pepper powder

Salt as per taste 

Coriander chopped leafs 2 spoons

Method:

• Take a pan, heat it and add 2 spoons of butter in it.
• Cut the steamed idlies in to four pieces of each.
• Add a spoon of mustard seeds in a pan, let it pop.
• Now add the idlies, stir well.
• Now sprinkle some black pepper powder and salt.
• Mix well and place it in a serving bowl, garnish with chopped coriander leafs and serve.