I know I am writing very late about Holi. I know it got over at 8th March and I am writing about it on 20th March. Now, I am not giving any excuses. I am just telling the reason why I didn't write the post long ago. First thing, I had exam stress. I had English Language exam right after Holi and I had to prepare for it. There was so much excitement the day before Holi and I had Hindi on 8th. So, I couldn't enjoy at all. Second thing, I forgot. I forgot that the blog is there not only for writing stories but also to put what I have experienced here and there. Third thing, all my friends wanted to see the blog that I was sitting and making it better by appearance. I forgot that the real beauty of the blog is its posts. Though lets forget all that and let me tell you all how I celebrated Holi.
This time, on Holi, there was a fairly less crowd than it is every year. Though, there were people to play with. This time we didn't play Girls vs Boys. It had become old. We played just like that, putting water on each other and colour. Coming close and blasting water balloons. They caught me everywhere!
We had two new friends who were playing their first Holi in the Apartment. So, we made a new rule. Whoever is new to the Apartment and it is his first Holi there, he will go into the tub. So we took Manogna and Pratima and put them in the tub. Then, one boy called Jeet proposed that everyone should go inside the tub and they are not going to leave anyone, how much ever they run away from them. Everyone went into the tub, but, I didn't want to go. I was running here and there, with these people chasing me. At last they caught me and even I gave up. I was dumped in the tub, made to sit down and everyone started putting colour all over my head and then water. I washed myself up in the tub and got out. That was really shocking. I persist so much that if people say that they are never going to give in, they give in. But, I think Jeet has a mind like mine and all the boys follow him.
We really had a lot of fun on Holi. I came down at twelve o' clock and went home at two. There was no place on our body which didn't have colour. When I put shampoo on my head to take out the colour, I had to be under the shower for five minutes continuous as there was so much colour on my head. After some time, I had finished studying and was listening to songs through the earphone. When I took them out, there was colour at the sided of the earphones! That indicated that there was still colour in my ear and I immediately went and washed off all the other colour.
I have never experienced so much fun in Holi before. This was the very best Holi ever!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Young Archaeologists
The story, Young Archaeologists and the parts, which will soon appear on the blog, is a novel. So, please dont mind the starting of the stories.
Friday, March 9, 2012
My First Experience in the Kitchen
It was all very perfect. Mother used to make food for us and dessert. The whole family liked food made from her hand. As soon as she called us for lunch or dinner, we would run to the dining table.
Suddenly, everything turned around. I grew up and landed in Singapore. I didn't know how to do anything.
I went in the kitchen and saw what eatables were kept there. In fact, I was surrounded with utensils. I went to a nearby hypermarket and bought the stuff my mother used to buy and kept it in the places my mother used to keep. I started to think what can I make. I thought that Maggi was the best thing for a tired out person like me.
I followed the instructions on the packet. I put water to boil and started watching TV. When I came back, a lot of water had boiled away. I put the Maggi into the water and started stirring it for the Maggi to get soft.
I became impatient and put the flavouring before the Maggi could become soft. Coming in contact with water, the flavouring started to form lumps. I managed to break away a lot of lumps, though after that also there were many.
When I put it in the bowl, it looked so gooey and sticky that I didn't feel like eating it. But when I ate it, it wasn't so bad. In fact, it was much better than the normal Maggi. Now I came to know the meaning of the proverb "Beauty is only skin deep."
This was my first experience in the kitchen. Now I know how to cook like that which can be consumed!!!
Suddenly, everything turned around. I grew up and landed in Singapore. I didn't know how to do anything.
I went in the kitchen and saw what eatables were kept there. In fact, I was surrounded with utensils. I went to a nearby hypermarket and bought the stuff my mother used to buy and kept it in the places my mother used to keep. I started to think what can I make. I thought that Maggi was the best thing for a tired out person like me.
I followed the instructions on the packet. I put water to boil and started watching TV. When I came back, a lot of water had boiled away. I put the Maggi into the water and started stirring it for the Maggi to get soft.
I became impatient and put the flavouring before the Maggi could become soft. Coming in contact with water, the flavouring started to form lumps. I managed to break away a lot of lumps, though after that also there were many.
When I put it in the bowl, it looked so gooey and sticky that I didn't feel like eating it. But when I ate it, it wasn't so bad. In fact, it was much better than the normal Maggi. Now I came to know the meaning of the proverb "Beauty is only skin deep."
This was my first experience in the kitchen. Now I know how to cook like that which can be consumed!!!
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Young Archaeologists
Suddenly, my head started spinning around by itself. I was stunned. I was also getting dizzy by the minute. I tried to stop my head from rotating, but it started rotating much faster. I started shouting, "Stop, please stop. I beg you, stop." I started crying and thought that I was going to faint. As suddenly as it had started, the spinning stopped. I got up and vomited in the toilet. I thought it was a dream and pinched myself to see if I was correct. Alas, it wasn't a dream. I vomited again and, this time, blood came out of my mouth.
I was alone at home. No one was there for a month as they had gone out. I tried to call my mom, but she wasn't picking up the phone. I get tensed very fast, and I got tensed right now. I didn't know what to do. I looked around to see if there is someone is hiding here. Suddenly, I dropped flat on the ground. I started breathing fast. My body and my head stiffened. I moved my eyes here and there to see if any one was there. As soon as my body and face loosened, I got up and ran to my neighbour's house. My neighbour's son opened the door. I rudely ran inside and sat on their sofa. I asked Josh to get some water for me.
I was surprised that he did not comment on my rudeness. He just got me water and sat opposite me.
After I drank some water, I apologised to him and told him what had happened. He didn't look surprised at all. I asked him, " Why are you sitting like nothing happened? Aren't you shocked?"
"I am not shocked about what happened because it happened to me also. I am shocked because it happened to you also.
Now it was my turn to be shocked. He said, "I think it is some old force which is doing this to us and whoever it does this to, has to go and expose this force to the whole world."
"Josh, please be practical. Just because you want to become an archaeologist doesn't mean that everything unusual thing which happens has a archaeological meaning, OK. Now lets see. Our heads started rotating almost at the same time. We vomited twice and the second time we vomited, blood came out of our mouth. What can this mean? Its not going anywhere."
We were sitting and thinking for the next few hours, but got no where. Josh was getting new ideas like, some old aliens were here long ago and our ancestors had seen them and killed them. Everyone knows that aliens cannot be killed and they need some three or four billion years to come alive again. They come alive again and find us and want to torture us. I was always rolling my eyes on this. I tried to concentrate but was not able to.
Then, again, something unusual happened. I started walking against my will. I tried to stop myself. Josh tried to stop me. But that only made the walking faster. I was banging into things and when the walking stopped, I had bruises all over my thighs.
After it stopped for me, it started for Josh. The ditto same thing which happened to me. I was dumbfounded. After the thing stopped, (I am calling it thing because I don't know what to call it.) a voice spoke. It was ancient language and I couldn't understand a thing. The voice was heavy and old, and angry.
On that, Josh didn't let me here anything. He was singing and dancing telling that he was right. By the time, I had shouted shut up, the voice had gone. I stamped my foot and thought what to do. That moment a piece of paper fell on the floor. It was, again, ancient script. I told Josh that I was going to an archaeologist to find out was written on the paper. He told me even he wanted to come. So, I took him to the archaeologist with me.
We found a very good archaeologist, but his fees was high. Thank God, I had my pocket money. His fees was high that I had to give all my pocket money. He took the paper, saw through it and asked us, " Aren't you both small to be going around with this paper? This paper is way too important."
Josh said, "What is so important in this paper? Its just a paper with something written on it." I nudged Josh to keep quiet because the archaeologist was getting annoyed and I didn't want to waste my pocket money. I told Josh, "Let him speak - and then to the archaeologist, "Sir, what's your name?"
"Rob."
"So, Mr. Rob can you please tell us what is written on this paper?" He didn't reply. He just kept on looking at the paper.
After half an hour he spoke. I told Josh to keep his pen and paper ready. When Rob spoke, he said this, "This paper should be with the family of the Rais'. I really don't know what are you doing with this paper."
When he said this, I immediately looked towards Josh. I call myself Rocky but my real name is Rima Rai. Josh calls himself Josh but his real name is Aryan Rai.
We both said together, "I am a Rai."
"What is your name?" Rob asked Josh.
"Josh."
I say, "His real name is Aryan Rai." Rob stares at Josh. He asks, "What? I am sure this is not my family. Its hers."
Rob asks me y name. I tell, "Rocky." At this Rob looks confused.
"Are you a guy or a girl?"
"A girl."
"Then why do you have a guy's name?"
"Because I don't like being a girl." Rob is about to say something, but Josh interrupts him and tells, "Her real name is Rima Rai.." At this, Rob looks shocked. He stares at both of us. We both ask him, "What?"
"You both are family." We both look at each other and say together, "Impossible."
"Why?"
I said, "Because we have no relations."
"I don't think your family have told you about their relation."
Josh said, "When we have no relation what will they tell." Rob again looked at the sheet of paper and said, "You both are siblings. Twins. Rima you are old by thirty seconds."
I never answer if anyone calls me Rima. I like the name Rocky better. I got this name when some guys mistook me for a guy and called me Rocky. I liked that name and took it.
Josh answered, "Why did she had to be old?! Why can't I be old?"
I told, "Shut up!"
Rob now says, "You both Rais' have to go around the world and get these unusual things. Not things which are popular in the country. Things which you will not find anywhere. You are suppose to go to the mentioned countries -
I said, "Oh! no! From where would we get the money?"
Josh said, "You care about the money? What will we tell our parents when they return? That we had gone to save the world?"
At this, Rob said, "Not save the world, but save yourself."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that there are these aliens who are going to come and kill you both."
"Why?"
"Because you both, in your past life, killed all of them when they landed on earth."
"So, why will they give us a way to escape?"
"They are not giving you a way to escape, but the Gods are."
"How?"
"They always do. Its like a test."
"Why couldn't anyone else take the test? Why only me?" Josh complained.
I told, "Be happy. You are getting a chance to go on an adventure."
"I don't want to go on an adventure."
"You have very different thinking from the boys."
"Are you saying that I am a girl?"
"Indirectly."
"You -
"Now stop fighting you both!" said Rob and we both fell quiet. He continued, "The countries are Paris, Tokyo, Holland, Florida, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, California, Melbourne, Sydney Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Singapore."
We both said together, "What? It will take a lot of money and will it take at least one year to find these unusual things."
"And you need to go with a celebrity and an archaeologist." We both heaved a sigh of relief on hearing this. We both thought that the celebrity will pay for us.
"Which celebrity should we take and which archaeologist?"
"Relax. I know a celebrity and take me with you."
"Yes. That is a good idea. But, which celebrity do you know?"
"The great Shah Jahan Khan!"
"Who is that?"
"The great beggar!"
"He is not a celebrity."
"Fine. Then who?"
"What about, Aamir Khan?"
"Who is going to call him? No." said Josh.
"Then you only tell who."
"Fine. Selena Gomez."
"No. We need an Indian so that we can go with him from the first and he does not need to waste a penny."
"Fine. What about... Shaan?"
"No. He does not sing many songs now a days and he does not get money."
"Dude he does need money that is why he does not sing songs."
"Fine."
Now Rob said, "OK. Decided. I'll call his manager."
"Now?"
"Yes." He calls the manager and said, to us that we had to go tomorrow sharp at ten o' clock at Lido Mall over lunch. That was OK with us. So, it was Josh, Rob, Shaan and me going to save Josh and my lives.
The next day, I was at Lido Mall at nine o' clock. I feared that if I was late, we will not be able to take Shaan with us. For one hour, I went window shopping everywhere. I don't think there wasn't a place I didn't see. At ten o' clock sharp I went to the best restaurant in the Mall and sat there waiting. Soon, I saw Rob and Josh coming by. I called them to my place and we sat talking there.
After, fifteen minutes, Shaan came and we started talking about all this. He agreed to our request and told that we didnt need to pay him back. He would only pay for all the expenses on the world tour. Josh and I heaved a sigh of relief thinking that we didnt need to tell our paarents anything about it.
Soon all four of us will be going on a world tour to save the lives of two teenagers.This would, surely, be an unique world tour.
I was alone at home. No one was there for a month as they had gone out. I tried to call my mom, but she wasn't picking up the phone. I get tensed very fast, and I got tensed right now. I didn't know what to do. I looked around to see if there is someone is hiding here. Suddenly, I dropped flat on the ground. I started breathing fast. My body and my head stiffened. I moved my eyes here and there to see if any one was there. As soon as my body and face loosened, I got up and ran to my neighbour's house. My neighbour's son opened the door. I rudely ran inside and sat on their sofa. I asked Josh to get some water for me.
I was surprised that he did not comment on my rudeness. He just got me water and sat opposite me.
After I drank some water, I apologised to him and told him what had happened. He didn't look surprised at all. I asked him, " Why are you sitting like nothing happened? Aren't you shocked?"
"I am not shocked about what happened because it happened to me also. I am shocked because it happened to you also.
Now it was my turn to be shocked. He said, "I think it is some old force which is doing this to us and whoever it does this to, has to go and expose this force to the whole world."
"Josh, please be practical. Just because you want to become an archaeologist doesn't mean that everything unusual thing which happens has a archaeological meaning, OK. Now lets see. Our heads started rotating almost at the same time. We vomited twice and the second time we vomited, blood came out of our mouth. What can this mean? Its not going anywhere."
We were sitting and thinking for the next few hours, but got no where. Josh was getting new ideas like, some old aliens were here long ago and our ancestors had seen them and killed them. Everyone knows that aliens cannot be killed and they need some three or four billion years to come alive again. They come alive again and find us and want to torture us. I was always rolling my eyes on this. I tried to concentrate but was not able to.
Then, again, something unusual happened. I started walking against my will. I tried to stop myself. Josh tried to stop me. But that only made the walking faster. I was banging into things and when the walking stopped, I had bruises all over my thighs.
After it stopped for me, it started for Josh. The ditto same thing which happened to me. I was dumbfounded. After the thing stopped, (I am calling it thing because I don't know what to call it.) a voice spoke. It was ancient language and I couldn't understand a thing. The voice was heavy and old, and angry.
On that, Josh didn't let me here anything. He was singing and dancing telling that he was right. By the time, I had shouted shut up, the voice had gone. I stamped my foot and thought what to do. That moment a piece of paper fell on the floor. It was, again, ancient script. I told Josh that I was going to an archaeologist to find out was written on the paper. He told me even he wanted to come. So, I took him to the archaeologist with me.
We found a very good archaeologist, but his fees was high. Thank God, I had my pocket money. His fees was high that I had to give all my pocket money. He took the paper, saw through it and asked us, " Aren't you both small to be going around with this paper? This paper is way too important."
Josh said, "What is so important in this paper? Its just a paper with something written on it." I nudged Josh to keep quiet because the archaeologist was getting annoyed and I didn't want to waste my pocket money. I told Josh, "Let him speak - and then to the archaeologist, "Sir, what's your name?"
"Rob."
"So, Mr. Rob can you please tell us what is written on this paper?" He didn't reply. He just kept on looking at the paper.
After half an hour he spoke. I told Josh to keep his pen and paper ready. When Rob spoke, he said this, "This paper should be with the family of the Rais'. I really don't know what are you doing with this paper."
When he said this, I immediately looked towards Josh. I call myself Rocky but my real name is Rima Rai. Josh calls himself Josh but his real name is Aryan Rai.
We both said together, "I am a Rai."
"What is your name?" Rob asked Josh.
"Josh."
I say, "His real name is Aryan Rai." Rob stares at Josh. He asks, "What? I am sure this is not my family. Its hers."
Rob asks me y name. I tell, "Rocky." At this Rob looks confused.
"Are you a guy or a girl?"
"A girl."
"Then why do you have a guy's name?"
"Because I don't like being a girl." Rob is about to say something, but Josh interrupts him and tells, "Her real name is Rima Rai.." At this, Rob looks shocked. He stares at both of us. We both ask him, "What?"
"You both are family." We both look at each other and say together, "Impossible."
"Why?"
I said, "Because we have no relations."
"I don't think your family have told you about their relation."
Josh said, "When we have no relation what will they tell." Rob again looked at the sheet of paper and said, "You both are siblings. Twins. Rima you are old by thirty seconds."
I never answer if anyone calls me Rima. I like the name Rocky better. I got this name when some guys mistook me for a guy and called me Rocky. I liked that name and took it.
Josh answered, "Why did she had to be old?! Why can't I be old?"
I told, "Shut up!"
Rob now says, "You both Rais' have to go around the world and get these unusual things. Not things which are popular in the country. Things which you will not find anywhere. You are suppose to go to the mentioned countries -
I said, "Oh! no! From where would we get the money?"
Josh said, "You care about the money? What will we tell our parents when they return? That we had gone to save the world?"
At this, Rob said, "Not save the world, but save yourself."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that there are these aliens who are going to come and kill you both."
"Why?"
"Because you both, in your past life, killed all of them when they landed on earth."
"So, why will they give us a way to escape?"
"They are not giving you a way to escape, but the Gods are."
"How?"
"They always do. Its like a test."
"Why couldn't anyone else take the test? Why only me?" Josh complained.
I told, "Be happy. You are getting a chance to go on an adventure."
"I don't want to go on an adventure."
"You have very different thinking from the boys."
"Are you saying that I am a girl?"
"Indirectly."
"You -
"Now stop fighting you both!" said Rob and we both fell quiet. He continued, "The countries are Paris, Tokyo, Holland, Florida, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, California, Melbourne, Sydney Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Singapore."
We both said together, "What? It will take a lot of money and will it take at least one year to find these unusual things."
"And you need to go with a celebrity and an archaeologist." We both heaved a sigh of relief on hearing this. We both thought that the celebrity will pay for us.
"Which celebrity should we take and which archaeologist?"
"Relax. I know a celebrity and take me with you."
"Yes. That is a good idea. But, which celebrity do you know?"
"The great Shah Jahan Khan!"
"Who is that?"
"The great beggar!"
"He is not a celebrity."
"Fine. Then who?"
"What about, Aamir Khan?"
"Who is going to call him? No." said Josh.
"Then you only tell who."
"Fine. Selena Gomez."
"No. We need an Indian so that we can go with him from the first and he does not need to waste a penny."
"Fine. What about... Shaan?"
"No. He does not sing many songs now a days and he does not get money."
"Dude he does need money that is why he does not sing songs."
"Fine."
Now Rob said, "OK. Decided. I'll call his manager."
"Now?"
"Yes." He calls the manager and said, to us that we had to go tomorrow sharp at ten o' clock at Lido Mall over lunch. That was OK with us. So, it was Josh, Rob, Shaan and me going to save Josh and my lives.
The next day, I was at Lido Mall at nine o' clock. I feared that if I was late, we will not be able to take Shaan with us. For one hour, I went window shopping everywhere. I don't think there wasn't a place I didn't see. At ten o' clock sharp I went to the best restaurant in the Mall and sat there waiting. Soon, I saw Rob and Josh coming by. I called them to my place and we sat talking there.
After, fifteen minutes, Shaan came and we started talking about all this. He agreed to our request and told that we didnt need to pay him back. He would only pay for all the expenses on the world tour. Josh and I heaved a sigh of relief thinking that we didnt need to tell our paarents anything about it.
Soon all four of us will be going on a world tour to save the lives of two teenagers.This would, surely, be an unique world tour.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Cucumber Cottage Cheese Sandwiches
Today, everyone had to go somewhere out. As my exams have come, I stayed back. My mother didn't ask the cook to cook dinner today because she thought everyone will be going out. When I told her that I will not be going out she told me that there was no dinner and I will have to adjust it with soup only today. I can never do that. After everyone went, I took this Tarla Dalal book and made these sandwiches called cucumber cottage cheese sandwiches. I didn't have cottage cheese and that is why I had to manage with cheese slices. I had to great them. I couldn't do that and I just made pieces and put in the measuring jar. I peeled the cucumber and grated it. I had to take out all the extra juice and I put it in the strainer. Half the cucumber fell out. I had to take it and clean the place up. I didn't even find my mixing bowl and I put everything in the measuring jar. I needed green chutney for this and we did not have that. I just mixed up the cheese slices and cucumber and put on two bread slices and ate it. The rest, I ate it like that. I must admit, it was the yummiest dinner I have ever had. I felt like making more and eating. But, I cant. I have to study for my exam on monday and for the other exams like maths and chemistry. I should suggest for you all to try the recipe out.
1 cucumber
1 cup grated cottage cheese
1 tablespoon green chutney
8 bread slices
1 cucumber
1 cup grated cottage cheese
1 tablespoon green chutney
8 bread slices
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