Late night movie on weekday!

Discipline is the word that you should never forget if you are working full time which a kiddo at home...

Monday -
A late night movie on Monday night followed by chatting till 4 am could screw up your entire week....I just screwed up mine...

Tuesday-
Got up heavy headed on Tuesday morning...planning to skip office....applied leave also but had to work more than usual hours for some sucking issue.

Wednesday -
I felt drugged the whole day at office....tried to take a small nap at lunch time almost missing a 2:00 pm meeting...it was Rakshabandhan but could not even talk to ma bros properly...then to add up to all there was Wipro cricket match from 4-6...tried to have a peaceful end of the day with Dinner outside...and my noodles came with a FLY on top of it....EEEEEEKS.....had to come home and cook it all again....will never go back to that restaurant again...

Thursday -
Finally headache backache and fever...:-(

Friday -
Just waiting for you to get over...:-(

Feeling Blue..

It’s not a great Day!


Daughter is having fever…has not eaten anything since morning except tid bits…Just a viral nothing serious though as per the Doc.

Had a driving test appointment – Could not clear the drive test.

Even though I have come to a stage in life when what people think and talk about me does not really matter neither do such daily chore type tasks…but still somewhere within the heart failure always pinches no matter how trivial it is :-)

May be it is the way we were brought up !!! Or maybe it is just Monday Blues….:-(

A litti chokha Sunday

Last evening was wonderful...!!!

There was Litti-Chokha, Dahi-vada and Rasmalai for dinner…Freinds were over for dinner(they were actually over for cooking help as well adding up to the fun) and the meal was lovely with candle lights and  Kumar Sanu music in the background…

Mitthu dear asks Mommy dear before going to bed : “Mumma can we have these parties daily…??”

That means she had fun too…  J

Liiti is wheat flour dumpling with filling of spicy Sattu mix…back in my home it was more of sattu paratha than litti….but both have more or less the same taste …

Sattu paratha has been my favorite since childhood and continues to be….This always reminds me how Nani would sit on the kitchen floor with all her ingredients for mixing up sattu masala and I was always available at the kitchen door to do some tasting effort…

Nani was a pro at sattu masala …she had some magic in her hands and we always loved her food more than Mummy…Magic of love…

Once the masala was ready and tasted by almost everybody in the house J the parathas would be made (We call it Makuni in our part of the world) ….the smell of the Makunis filling up the house on chilly winter evenings…

Wish we could relive our lives just once again…aaahhhh

American 'Kaamwali Bai'

I did not want to write this post in the beginning for a simple reason that it is too basic a topic to discuss...

However I could not stop myself and so here it is something as typical as “How to use a Dishwasher"!

I have spent my lifetime in India and the one common thing despite all diversity in the country is the easy availability of household help...we are all so used to it...

Bartan bhanda to kamwali bai hi karti hai....and these ‘bais’ are so versatile!!Apart from being a great household help at a relatively low cost, they form part of drawing room conversations, are status symbols and one of the biggest reasons to set your mood for the day on or off.....we all know how bad a day goes when our ‘kaam wali’ does not turn up....

So when these lazy spoiled Indians come to US, what do they do for their daily chores? Those sophisticated ‘NRI’ ladies (pun intended) who would not even wash a cup in India are now spending quarter of their day doing dishes....chhh...chhh....chhh L  

Uncle Sam is not that bad though J . We do have dishwashers installed in each apartment unit ...so where is the problem?? I talked to a couple of people and here is what they said:

Friend’s wife: We have only glass dishes at home, they might break in DS so we don't use.

Bachelor Friend (spent couple of years in US) : I have never used it in last 5 years...and anyways I use the space for storing utensils...It's better I do the dishes by hand.

Another friend’s wife: My husband told me on Day 1 that DS is not effective, so I never tried it...  

Aunty: I cannot spend that much time arranging the dishes in DS and then taking them out. It is way faster to do them by hand.(I have no comments on this).

 I am not commenting on anybody else's lifestyle but I just want to put forward my point. When there is a machine available for our help in the house then we should at least give it a try.

Have we all not started using Washing Machines finally? And just think if DS was not useful, why it would have been installed in each apartment unit across the country.

Below are the steps to be followed when using this ‘American Bai’.

1.      Use only detergents made for DS. Do not use any other dishwashing liquid howsoever good it is. It i readily available in all small/big stores.

2.      Remove the leftovers from dishes and keep them soaked in the sink after use. Don’t we all do this in India also?

3.      When you are ready to wash utensils, load them in the DS. Make sure the heavy utensils go in the bottom tray.

4.      All utensils should be upside down. Plates should be vertical. Spoons/forks in the holder.

5.      There is a slot in the door for the detergent. Put the detergent there.

6.      There is an option for dry heating. This ensures that post wash, the dishes are dried up with heat.

7.      That's it close the DS and go for a nap.

8.      dhadam dhadam dhadam....depending on the brand the DS cycle will go on for 30-45 minutes…. Don’t worry ur glass wares will not break .

9.      Voila..omg...u come back after a nap and spotless clean sterilized dishes are ready.

To mere dost logon cheezon ka fayeda uthao aur apne naazuk haathon ko kisi aur kaam mein lagao(subject open for imagination ;-) )….

If there are thoughts coming with regards to running cost, it is same as running a washing machine….rest of the calculation can be done….

Would like to hear the other side of the story if any .

PS: Is katha ke sabhi patra kalpanik hain. No offense meant to anybody.