My Rainbow Smoothie Cake: Alphabate Soup

Eating healthy doesn’t mean eating tasteless food or घास फूस! There are innumerable creative recipes that you can invent in your mind right away and cook them up in your kitchen. Once you are aware of health and nutrition benefits of any particular fruit, vegetable or other edible item, you can simply blend the best of them together to prepare a mouthwatering dish. Today, I will talk about my all-time favorite- Rainbow Smoothie Cake. I call it VIBGYOR jelly cake too…

Get ready to prepare heavenly, fully raw and luscious smoothie cake! This seven layered cake, dipped in exotic chocolate sauce and energizing flavors of healthy fruits would fill your mouth with ecstasy of rich taste-A cake, where there are no added preservatives and no added colors!

Take a square shaped bowl/dish made of glass. To enhance look and feel of the cake, it is important that each layer looks neatly through the glassware! So, make sure that the square bowl is made of superb quality gloss and has transparency equivalent to waters of unexplored beaches.

Now, let’s start filling the colors of taste, flavor and joy from bottom to top of the square glass bowl.

RED: Neatly place bowl full of red Kashmiri cherry at the very bottom of glass bowl. Put the whole cherries, it would be a lot of fun in rolling your lips to blow out the stones when you relish the cake.

ORANGE: Put fresh figs in a blender, don’t forget to add two spoonfuls of honey and little bit of cardamom powered. Trust me, the flavor of honey and cardamom will drive you crazy when it will melt inside your mouth.

YELLOW: Blend freshly sliced mango with fresh curd. The smooth paste should remain thick so that it stays right above the thick (almost solid) fig-honey base.

GREEN: Slice kiwis neatly and place these slices right after mango-yogurt smoothie…Ah! How I love the design of kiwi slices! They are surely going to add an impact to our rainbow smoothie cake J

BLUE: Who doesn’t love blueberries? They have awesome taste and flavor! Anything named smoothie, cannot be completed without them! Add 2 spoonfuls of fresh milk cream to a bowlful of blueberries and blend them nicely! Your gorgeous jelly mixture is ready to be layered upon mango smoothie.

INDIGO: Black plums are strong and it is better to add nothing that might reduce their stubborn taste. So, we would rather make plain, concentrated smoothie of black plums and place it right above the milky blend of blueberries.

VIOLET: Purple grapes would finish up the topmost layer of our yummy jelly cake. Place the grapes on the topmost layer! Finest arrangement of these little violet balls will add gorgeousness to cake’s appearance from the top!

GARNISHING: The cake is ready and now its time to garnish it. Pick a bowl full of your favorite dry fruits, add some gorgeous chocolate sauce, sprinkle some nuts and pour some honey too.

Recommended: Put the cake bowl in refrigerator for 15 minutes, so that it is all chilled and ready to tantalize your taste buds.

Now you are all set to serve and taste the jelly cake. Nicely organized in a gorgeous square dish made of beautiful glass, all the seven layers of rainbow jelly cake look amazingly delicious.

Since the cake is so beautifullly imagined and has a colorful presentation to offer, its important to choose the most suitable glassware for it. For me, nothing can be better suitable than a grand range of glassware from Borosil. 

PS: If you are too fond of Borosil's test tubes and the chemistry lab nostalgia is powerful enough to drag you back in school days, no problem! You can experiment trail of this particular dish in a test tube!

This post is my official entry under My Beautiful Food Contest organized by Indiblogger in association with Borosil

Checkout the amazing Borosil products here and add some gloss and shine to your kitchen, dining and creative recipes of course.

Bringing fantasies to life with my SuperPowered smartphone

यात्रीगन कृपया ध्यान दे... आपके (Actually मेरे) सपनो को साकार करने वाले जादूयी Smartphone कि दुनिया में ले जाने वाला ये दूसरा और आखिरी Chapter है...अगर  आपने पहला chapter नही पढ़ा है तो यहां अपने Computer के पालतू चूहे (mouse) का इस्तेमाल करते हुए क्लिक कर सकते है...यहां Click Here

CAUTION!! Don't click anywhere for translating above paragraph! 

Super Powered Smartphone and funky fantasies

As you know I have talked about all the awesome SuperPowers I want to be present in my smartphone to turn my lifestyle better....Actually near to perfect...So in this post, I would rather talk about all the SuperPowers that might help me turn my dreams into reality, through a smartphone...Ready? J

I dream a lot...While awake, while asleep...I just do it all the time. The dreams with wide open eyes are constructive and goal oriented, which obviously require honest and equal efforts for their fulfillment. But, the dreams that are woven beneath closed eyelashes are little bit different, they are abstract...There are no constructive rules working behind them! So, they definitely have nothing to do with HardWork...They just need a magic wand to be completed. Well, that gives me a clear reason to dream of having SuperPowers that can do the needful!

SuperPower fantasy#1: Wireless integration of smartphone with my brain's dreamweaver app

Believe it or not, I see wonderful dreams. They are no less than the most adventurous flicks I have ever seen. Sometimes they are much better than those flicks...No, I am not flaunting...It happens...You don't believe me? Okay let's read about few of the latest dreams I have seen J

Dream#1- I jumped from a 90 feet cliff... No I am not kidding and swam midst of four crocodiles. Comeone! Don't call me फेकू yaa.. After all, it was just a dream, sheer imagination...But, you have to admit, it's interesting!

Dream#2- I was riding a bicycle in the air and travelling towards moon. How? Well the bicycle had parachute attached to it...A SPECIAL PARACHUTE that takes you upwards...उड़न खटोला समझ लो...Happy? Convinced?

Dream#3- I was traveling in a SPECIAL (mind you) special plane, which halts on every bus stand in the city so that यात्रीगन ahem passengers can get out and use the basic amenities...मूलभूत सुवीधाये such as सुलभ शौचलय and जल प्याऊ etc, available on Indian Bus Stands only J

Well, that's a hell of interesting content that deserves live recording and that's what I need a smartphone for. I need it so that I can make a library of all these ऊट पटांग dreams and enjoy their premier whenever I wish to. So, here's the wishlist for my Super Powered smartphone :)

Live recording of my dreams while I wander through a sound sleep, I want the magical smartphone to capture all the abstract images I see in my dreams. And, when I wake up, I wish to see all the recording in AVI or MOV format. 

Archives of all the dreams I see while sleeping, so that I can enjoy the show, whenever I wish to and show it to my friends and you guys too. थोड़ी समाज सेवा कर लेने में क्या बुराई है? There's no harm in doing little social service...right?

The Nightmares! Well, I need the records of darker side of my imaginations too! It will at least help me feel GOOD about all the POSTIVE things I have in my life. Imagine how interesting it would be when a smartphone would be able to turn me positive and optimistic. 

SuperPower fantasy#2: Smartphone that can migrate me to Cartoon World with its SuperPowers

Okay, this one is simple and doesn't involve any of my efforts, not even dreaming. I want a SuperPowered smartphone, which can safely take me to Cartoon World. I really really have been fan of cute cartoon characters. Whenever I used to see my favorite cartoon show during childhood days, I have had this fantasy of entering to their world, playing with them, talking to them and enjoying to the fullest. 

I am sure, a super smartphone will help me to enter to the world of my true childhood friends, who still make me feel that LIFE IS EASY J

That's all....Am I asking for too much?

This is my second post under ASUS-In Search of Incredibles Contest organized by Indiblogger in association with ASUS. 

To know more about ZenFone ASUS by click here! Not certainly an imaginative smartphone I have talked about above, but the features explain that this phone is loaded with wonderful features that can be named MAGICAL! See its one of the wonderful features here:

Psst..! It can do low light photography so beautifully!

Go checkout Zenfone, Its Intel Inside!

An Updated Lifestyle via Smartphone with Superpowers!

Okie! Why do we need SuperPowers? To spice-up our struggle-filled life? To achieve or do what we can't in our normal lives? To get better than others (दुनियादारी है भाई!)

These desires are motivational force, which empower us to think, imagine and create wonders! Considering that SuperPowers don't exist or there's no 'thing' called Magic would be ABSOLUTELY WRONG!

A perfect combination of science & technology and boundless imaginations of human brain is bringing miraculous range of SuperPowers for mankind. The world is a platform and showmanship of vivid creations by humans is simply brilliant. So, one should never give up imagining! In this twenty first century, technology and innovative ideas have turned weirdest of imaginations into reality!

So, यूँ के जब हम से पूछ ही लिया गया है (when I have been asked) to Give your phone a superpower and tell us how it would help you see what others can't see and do what others can't do! So let's begin!!!

Declaimer: I won't ask for out of the world things when it comes to empower my smartphone with super power! I would rather ask for sweet little magical upgradations to make my lifestyle perfect J

'Mix n Match' with my outfit- THE रंगरेज फ़ोन :

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Girls are stung by STYLEBEE. What you don't believe me? Oh Please! They match everything from head to toe! In fact, I bet, if the contrast thing didn't exist in a woman's mind, you would often see ladies with black outfit wandering with black lip color and black nail-polish on! Are you kidding me!                                                   वैसे...आपकी जानकारी के लिए बता दूँ , Just for your kind information, I am a girl too. Not too obsessed to wear बाल्टी भर के मेकअप Bucket full of makeup, but obsessed enough to carry a smartphone matching exactly with my outfit.

So, the first SuperPower that I want to be present in my smartphone would be-Its ability to change the back panel color and internal color theme automatically according to my outfit.

Confused! Eh! Let me make it easy for you. I want my super power phone to turn its back panel black, when I am wearing Black outfit, Green when I am wearing my favorite green outfit, then orange, yellow, blue and the list goes on....

PS: The phone would change its color the moment I touch it for the first time, after putting my outfit on. And yes, if the outfit is multicolored, the phone has to change its back panel and inner theme to multicolor...in short, an exact replica of the outfit I am wearing. 

She's asleep, call back later:

However, putting the phone on SILENT MODE is a good idea so far to keep people from disturbing my sleep. But, hey, who would want to stick to this OLD SCHOOL idea when you have a phone loaded with magical Superpowers J

So, whenever somebody will call me while I am asleep, My super awesome smartphone would tell following things to the caller in its sweet Interactive Voice:

"Hey Dude, Listen, she's asleep and it would be better if you call her up in the morning"

and this,

""""""अगर तुम्हे अँगरेजी नही आती तो हिन्दी में सुनो...बच्ची सो रही है, सुबह फ़ोन करना ""

Or May be this*, 

"इतने रात को फ़ोन किया जनाब, आपके घर में मच्छर मारने वाली कोइल खत्म हो गयी लगता है...क्योंकि इतनी रात को तो सिर्फ़ 4 ही किस्म के लोग जागते है...उल्लू, बीमार, चौकीदार और मच्छर मार"

* This one would officially be for those, who suffer hormonal imbalance late at night and try to call their female friends! Whatever!

PS: And yes, it would be excellent if the smarty device is smart enough to read caller's name from the screen and call him/her out by his/her name...Ahh! It would be so much of fun!

Opps! That's me, sleeping tight while my super phone handles all the troubles
Yes! That's me...I wear a flower on my hair while sleeping! ANY Problem?
Image Source: www.picturespk.com

A phone that can do Music Therapy-सा रे गा मा पा:

Music is the best medicine! It lets you cry out loud when you are depressed, lets you feel like flying, when you are high and heals your brain every time you listen to your favorite numbers! But hey! Sometimes, we are too busy to notice that what music do we like. Music is being sidelined by our hectic schedules. Ignored and unnoticed track plays in the background, while we are busy typing our blogposts or office emails! Huh!

So, I want my superpower device to understand how important music it and use the magic tools to let me enjoy every tune of it like I used to do when I was a teenager. I have overgrown the passion for listening to music...I don't want this to happen. If I get a chance to have a phone with certain superpowers, I would definitely want one of them to be MUSIC POWER. 

Power to help me feel music again...Feel the pain of sad numbers, enjoy depth of meaningful songs and flow with the tunes and live every bit of it. Because I know, the day I will be able to do this, My life will be back on the track!

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Enough for the day! That is all of MAGIC I need to lift up my lifestyle. But Yes, I do need magic to turn my fantasies into Truth...And here is the BUCKET LIST u-oh बाल्टी सूची of SUPERPOWERS that I need in my smartphone to do the needful...नही समझे? Offoh! Read the Second post here!

PS: I would like to sincerely thank Indiblogger and ASUS from bringing this wonderful opportunity, where I could steal some time from routine rush and look into the imaginations sprouting in my dream world. Cheers to you people! J

This post is my official entry under ASUS-In Search of Incredibles Contest organized by Indiblogger in association with ASUS. 

To know more about ZenFone ASUS by click here! Not certainly an imaginative smartphone I have talked about above, but the features explain that this phone is loaded with wonderful features that can be named MAGICAL! 

Psst! Don't miss checking out the features of Zenfone, after all, Its Intel Inside! And it can do low light photography!!!

                             

Okay Bye

Connecting Through Car Connect: Review

Post an update on general social networking platform for your dream car and you will get a cocktail of responses! Mostly tasteless! Wanna know how? Let’s take up some उदाहरणs

Does that not make you crave for a neat and clean platform, which is exclusively made for discussing cars? Of course, a place, where you can discuss about your existing and dream cars, without bothering to answer questions like, अब्बे इत्ते पैसे कहाँ से आए तेरे पास? बेटे ज्यादा Fast and Furious ना बनो! and a lot more! 

See, every time, when people talk about cars, they don't mean to just buy them! They do it because they are passionate about such wonderful vehicles. They understand importance of revolution, which a  car or car trip can bring into someone's life. Therefore! discussing about cars and car trips is not sin! Let's do it on http://www.carconnect.in/ हाँ हाँ भगवान ने तुम्हारी सुन ली....! Now you can talk about cars and share your views about anything related to these amazing vehicles with likeminded people (ahem ahem people with समरुचि)!

I got to know about this wonderful car socializing platform through my favorite blogging network- Indiblogger! I tried it out and here's the review to help you know more about it :)

Let's

Login through Facebook, Easy! J J J

If you are truely a car lover and want to discuss about it, join this platform in one easy step. No need to enter your email, fill your details and go through that boring tunnel of registration. Just click on login through facebook and there you are! 

PS: Psst! It also saves you from the headache of checking your email and clicking on the registration link and blah! You know what I am saying!

Connect with existing social media friends available on Car Connect  J J J

You can easily trust on a new platform, when you see some of your social network friends present there already! It is wonderful to find a lounge, where you can discuss your car specific interests with your existing social media friends!

See, I found friends there! 

Review as many cars as you want J

You might not own every car under the sun, but you can learn more about them and share your review about them too. Car Connect gives you all the freedom to write your genuine reviews and get your friends and readers to interact with you about the same.

PS: All the reviews are approved by team Car Connect, thus no reason to worry about any spamming or unwanted content! Cool no?

Share unlimited trip experiences J

If you are bitten by travel bug, you have got a wonderful platform to talk about all your car trip experiences. Join the platform to talk about your road trips in your car!

Read car reviews and experiences J

Do I really need to explain that you get to read a lot of meaningful and authentic car reviews and car trip experiences here! कमाल करते हो! 

Share photos & Videos with your experiences J

Flip through your photo and video libraries to share the experiences of your car trip in visual manner. Isn't it interesting to connect with people in interactive manner?

And yes, there's something interesting on Car Connect! You get to enjoy earning some points like Bronze, Silver, Gold... Can you see at the right side of above picture, I've got bronze point L

Commenting through Disqus, Are you kidding me? L L L

That means, if you have logged in to Car Connect, then also, you will have to log in to Disqus using any of your Gmail, Facebook or Twitter credentials for commenting. However, many bloggers including me are familiar with disqus and have their accounts registered to it, so for them it is easy and simple. But still, I personally believe that if there was simple built-in integration for commenting (without requirement of separate), it would have encouraged more conversations and discussions over car and car trips. I sincerely believe that this wonderful platform will look into this matter and make this unique social hub even better. 

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One the whole, this platform is quick to register, easy to browse and fun to use. I ardently look forward to some new and more interactive commenting integrations to be introduced on this platform! Meanwhile, I am up for sharing my thoughts about my favorite cars and car trip experiences on this exclusive platform.

This post is written for Experience Car Connect contest organized by Indiblogger in association with www.carconnect.in/ .

The Darker Side

Elegantly dressed in a salwar kurta, she walks out of sweets shop, holding a big box of freshly prepared laddoos. It’s a special day as she has to participate in a traditional prayer that takes place in her home once in a year. She’s carrying those laddoos as sacrament for the worship. As she stops at the signal, waiting it to be green for the pedestrians, she casually looks around and what catches her attention is an old man, almost 70 years old, sitting across the road, at traffic single corner. As far as her eyes can capture, he is shivering, waving his hand straight towards her and begging for food.

She feels a strong urge of bringing a 50 rupees note and hand it over to him. And here she invites an internal conflict, her kind mind and of course kinder heart start arguing over the matter.

“He needs food, not money, can’t you see it” heart begins.

“I know, but I have no food to offer, if I give him money, he can go somewhere and buy something to eat” mind explains

“Do you really think he can walk a step without eating something? And yes, you have the laddoos” heart’s got a valid point here.

“You know that these laddoos are for sacrament and they needed to be offered to God first, then we can distribute them amongst people” mind isn’t wrong either.

“Well and hell, I didn’t know you hold such strong superstitious notions” heart yells.

Mind is surely taken aback by caustic yet true remarks of heart.

Out of this conflict and almost near to a conclusion she thinks to herself, “Yes, why can’t I give half of the laddoos to this old man and consider that God has accepted them as holy sacrament.”

With this very often internal conflict (she names it ‘Manthan’), she has forgotten that ‘Light for walkers’ has turned green three times till now. It’s the time to rush and reach to that signal, where the old man is sitting, constantly waving his trembling hands in air.

With a heart filled with kindness, she carefully hands over the box of laddoos to the man, keeping 2 pieces with her for worship ceremony. The old man accepts it delightfully, smiles and suddenly a wave of strange emotion runs through his face, leaving him smiling like a rapacious being.

Before she could find out what he’s saying, he begins, “You are right, I starve, but I don’t starve for food, I starve for something else. Would you feed me with that? Let’s find and place and sleep with me and then my starving will fade away”

The girl’s body is stunned as thousands of pointy needles are sewing her skin. She feels suffocated and a strong emotion of hatred flushes through her nerves. Is this really happening to her? A 70 year old man, eve teasing her or worst, sexually and mentally harassing her? IS this for real!

She turns back to walk away, confused, broken and deeply hurt. Crushing the remaining 2 pieces of laddoos through her sweating palm, she walks hastily across the road, without noticing the pedestrian signal. People honk and yell at her. Perhaps no one knows what she’s going through.

Despite of being a strong city girl, her eyes shed enough tears to block her vision. Careless to wipe them away, she keeps on walking towards her destination, numb yet juggling with thoughts flooding through her mind.

She barely remembers when she reached home, what excuses she gave to her family for not bringing laddoos and not to mention she skipped pooja session. Sitting in one corner of her room, she fights to get rid of the glimpses of unfortunate thing happened to her this morning.

She listens to loud music, so that she could block the old filthy man’s sick voice from penetrating her head. Nothing works. She closes her eyes and asks God, why did He make her feel this bad about life? A man who’s near about his grandfather’s age says such shit and just because she showed some kindness? Was God unhappy that she gave sacrament laddoos and punished her? No, God can’t be that implacable…

She thinks to herself she could have kicked the old man hard. She could have got him arrested. Why did she walk away as a coward? May be she didn’t expect such lecherousness from a man starving to death.

The conflict leads her to hate almost every man in this world. Yes, she’s right, every man has such filthy mentality about women and takes the female for granted all the time. It’s so humiliating. She bursts into tears and feels sorry for every girl, who has suffered everlasting pain for such kind of mental harassment.

She is on the verge of beginning to hate every man around her, but then she thinks of her father, who has been hero for her life. The man, who worked hard his entire life, so that his daughter could achieve her dreams without feeling an inch of trouble. The man, who taught her the best manners and right ways to live in this world and of course the man, who made her feel that being his daughter, was the biggest she has ever given to him.

She feels healed.

Now, she thinks of her elder brother. The strongest part of her life! The one, who has always believed in her and let go all of her silly and serious mistakes; the young man, who has taught her to be independent and chase her dreams no matter what; the man, who extends his right hand towards her every RakshaBandhan and promises that he will protect has against all evil no matter what.

Now, she’s feeling much better!

And then she thinks of all the male members she knows. The ones, she works with, the ones she studied with and the ones she interacts with through different means of communications. All the men, who truly believe that every woman deserves respect, care and right to equality, are now floating in front of her eyes.

She could see countless names and faces scrolling through her mind, which she can trust, whom she could feel good about and of course the ones, who represent brighter side of men.

Now it seems that the drivel of negative thoughts is being wiped away from the inner light she possesses. She feels fine now. She has no complaints from God and that filthy old man either.

She closes her eyes, joins her hands together and prays “Dear Lord, please protect every innocent brain from being harassed, let you positive light heal all the ailed minds. Forgive that old man for whatever he said or done today. Help me to forgive him as its really challenging for me. Heal his filthy brain because only you can do it”

Like the old & famous proverb says, "There’s always another side of the Coin"

My Statement on State.com: Reviewing a global opinion sharing platform

Well, the moment you begin to think, "My opinion doesn't matter anymore, for anyone under this heartless blue sky", wait...Wait because your opinion matters...Ask state.com about it and you'll know the rest! After all, it is the global opinion network.

Since I was privileged enough to be invited for trying this awesome opinion sharing platform and share how did I feel about it, here I am with a bundle of things to tell...

That's where I started...

Looks nice and simple huh! But, it wasn't that simple for a normal human mind, which has turned habitual towards well beaten style of social network. So, when I signed up using one of my social networking credentials, a lot of nicely arranged categories hit the confusion cords of my mind. 

A sensible social media addict* (ahem ahem routine user, lets say) would feel little uncomfortable when neatly arranged and category based system is offered to him/her. Same thing happened with me. Before signing up for STATE, the idea was to write any random thing as my status update on my social media handle and wait for people to like, comment or express their views about the same! But, this global platform has provided dedicated areas to state your opinion about, without any confusion and you will be able to make your voice reach to the people of similar interest.

How thoughtful, but this organized setup confused me for a moment and I couldn't figure out which category to choose. Finally, I managed to pick a few and tuned into the world of opinions.

I somehow managed to take control over my dancing brain and continued with the exploration and reviewing process...And, Here goes my state.com profile. 

When you tune into your preferred category, you are free to state an opinion and clicking the left hand side icon on the opinion will help you to choose suitable adjectives or terms of mention in comment or statement...Its easy and fun! Plus, no need to look for adjectives via online dictionary :p

So, without wasting any time further, let's begin with the review process. And yes, I am gonna use the traditional method o reviewing-The Pros & Cons list. It is easy and convincing technique amongst all...SO let's do it: 

State.com Pros	State.com Cons
Freedom of Expression: The platform lets you share your opinion on any specific matter/topic to a massive scale of audience, without having them in your Followers/Friends list.  PS: You can use text, pictures and links to state your opinion.	No cons! What? Do you want me to write that state.com doesn’t require usage of any hashtag thing…! Come on! Should this really come under cons? PS: कुछ सीखो (Learn something) Its not necessary to have cons every time!
Categorization: Multiple categories and sub categories are available for you to choose and start stating your opinion.	Too much of categorization and still you find something is missing. You are bound to fit your topic under any of given categories or subcategories… And mostly every unique and creative opinion is likely to go under MISCELLANEOUS section! PS: Categorization part has a large scope of betterment and more categories should be introduced.
Ease to Express: You cannot deny this, stating any opinion is simple and easy. Its just click and go thing!	Do you still want me to write something under this section…? Well! Shut up!
Socialize smart: It lets you connect with your existing connections through your login medium. Also, you can connect the account with twitter as well!	However, being a global opinion platform, sometimes you feel little uncomfortable to see posts by unknown people. For example, if you are exploring foods category on state.com, you will find trending updated by people, who have tuned into this category. For some people, who are limited till their social network friend circle, it is little difficult to adjust with such stuff.
The Idea is to start a brilliant conversation with people of similar interest and make new friends!	Friendship has no consequences and well if it does, friends themselves will conquer it.

Since, it is a global opinion sharing platform, so it’s common to find miscellaneous topics and opinions floating around. Some of them I couldn't relate to because they came from a different cultural, social or political background. I was rather busy in searching for some trending opinions from India. However, people, who are interested in exploring knowledge about different cultures around the globe, would find this thing really interesting.

Conclusion says that State.com is a lot different than number of popular social networking platforms available on the web! But as a user, I just hope MISCELLANEOUS category section is elaborated into various other categories in creative manner. 

I have just started and I hope that things will get better as I keep exploring this wonderful network and meet like-minded people. My favorite opinion on state.com:

And yes, Thank you Blogadda.com for shortlisting me for State Your Opinion, Connect to the World, activity.

Know more about state.com here:

Inspired to save trees :)

Okay, I am little late to write about my role model thing…But, still I am here with my post…Thanks to a very famous saying “Its better late than never” Hah! What a relief!

Who’s my role model? Hmmm… Daddy! Brother! Mom, my Best Friend…Actually my entire extended family teaches me to do good every day. But talking about my own family for all the good they have taught me…won’t that be narcissism? I mean come on! Everyone is lucky enough to have a wonderful family and friend circle to guide them… So, I better decided to not act partial by giving all good grades to my own family members and write about some people who don’t have any blood or heart-to-heart relationship with me…but still inspire me to do good and be a better person every day!

As I sometimes manage to go out for morning walk, I am totally amazed to see this old man, who walks slowly, stands by every tree coming his way and hugs it gently. I have seen him every time I manage to go to the park early in the morning and he is always there, sharing love and hugs with trees. He is never late, he never misses the routine.

I remember when for the first time I was told that trees are live like human beings. They just don’t move…but they breathe like us. They are made for betterment of humans and its because of trees that we can breathe in fresh air…I was amazed when I heard all this for the first time but now it is so beautiful seeing someone really believing it. Trees are alive and they live for us…don’t they deserve our love? Don’t they deserve love, care and at least a hug every day?

This amazing old man gives beautiful message to everyone walking across the park. Some notice it, some don’t…But how does it matter as long as the trees are getting their daily dose of love and hugs.
I have never hurt environment and trees in any manner. But, never took out extra time to care for them either. Now that I have got a role model, who every day teaches me to take out some moments of leisure and spend them with trees and plants; I am all set to do this.

PS: I have no plans to hug trees as of now, but I do have plans to show love and care towards them by watering them and planting a few new :)

I am writing about #MyRoleModel as a part of the activity by Gillette India in association withBlogAdda.com.

What? Google @ 99

What, Google’s on sale!

Driving across the road, when I glanced at something unbelievable to eyes, I was heartbroken.  The little counter by the road read-“Google @ 99”.

Why would Google do this…Sob Sob! My email Ids are there, my blogs are there and guess what I had also started using Google Plus.

Wait, but why Google would sell itself with such cheap auction and that too by the road? I understand that big companies do see a downfall, but like this? Selling itself for just 99 Indian Rupees and that too on a ठेला?
But, as soon as I came out of the shock and widened my eyeballs to really find out the additional…I noticed a bunch of Goggles arranged neatly on the ठेला.

Psheww! So the guy who owned that ठेला surely meant Goggles @ 99 & 199 Rs. Wow… I just hope Google Officials didn’t get to see this, otherwise some of them must have had instant heart attack!

Kanna Keep Calm, Girls do watch IPL Cricket, any problem?

Disclaimer: Girls do like watching Cricket! And, if you don’t agree with me, close your eyes and sit calm in front of the screen, without moving an inch…cuz I just want to punch hard… straight into your nose! Don’t bother, I have programmed this blogpost smartly that an automatic घूसा punch will flow freely from your computer screen and do the needful!

Ouch! Did that hurt? No worries, you have the right to take revenge….So what are you waiting for…Punch your laptop screen back…even harder! :p

Oaky, enough of boxing, back to cricket now!

IPL…India Premier League! Classy isn’t it. The name itself sounds royal enough to capture anyone’s attention!

Anyways, I have been watching IPL since first season and interestingly I have also been answering many people around that why I watch it. Being a girl, who watches IPL has been a crazily challenging journey till date. Well, take a look at this season’s highlights:

When my bestie pours down her salon & spa sort of suggestions at me,  “Baby, you are a girl and girls don’t watch cricket… Behave like a girl at least once for God’s sake! And yes Stop Behaving like A tom Boy…I HATE WHEN YOU STICK TO CRICKET!”

I answer-Well, this conveys a clear message to me, MY HUSBAND* Will Love ME… (* if I marry a male :p)

The awkward moment when my female colleagues ask me, “Why would you watch an IPL match?”

And I answer, Because I Loooove it when bowlers spit on the bowl and rub it along their thighs! Whatever!

When my nagging neighbour’s nerd daughter nudges  every time, “Do you really think watching an IPL match makes you cool or Stud or Dude…”

And I never miss a chance of throwing unnecessary attitude at her AND SAY, “It does, so what!”

And the killer challenge hits back, when my Mom says, “Hand over the remote I need to watch my favourite serials… Don’t you know Sanchi is pregnant and Ballika Vadhu is going through a crucial phase…!” I mean wow… Moms want you to skip a live match because her favourite characters from the daily soaps are dealing with maternity issues. Hah! Moms I tell you…

And I silently follow the orders… Handling over the remote to her, I switch to Starsports.com cuz, #KannaKeepCalm, Watch Pepsi IPL on StarSports.com!

When you take an out of the box endeavour, technology is certainly a life saver. Watching my favourite matches online has been a blessing for me and Yuhu…What I love about starsports.com is:

• They serve you everything hot about IPL matches on the main platter, yes, their home page…Easily accessible and fun to watch.
• When you want to watch highlights, they’ve got option of INFOGRAFIX, which lets you watch edifying extract of the match with classy visual effects…Entertainment doubled!
• Can you afford to miss instant score updates when its about CRICKET! Of course no! And Starsports.com knows it well… Its amazing to get the fastest score board updates right here right now!
• Grab the finest corner in your room, keep calm and enjoy watching the deferred live (slight aka few minutes of delay from live) IPL match. What else can you ask for?
• Scrolling through ZIPCLIPS to get quick video updates of major match points recorded in real time is amazing fun!
• And, the way it gives me freedom to catch the match whenever I miss it on TV :)

Let's find out some of the craziest things I have done to watch IPL.

The Madness that begins with every IPL season is brilliant. You just don't want to miss the thrill at any cost. But, there are people in your family, who believe that there are other things more important than watching the opening match of IPL.

My Madness: Underneath the Bed

April 16, Wednesday. I was super excited to watch the madness of match to be held between KKR and Mumbai Indians. As I planned to park myself on the comfy couch, my Dad reminds me to go swimming. Wait! Can't he just let the swimming thing go for a day? 

"I thought I would take rest for today and carry on from tomorrow Dad"

"But, you said you loved swimming and it was fun"

I loved IPL opening match more than anything...will somebody explain this to him, for me...

"Um..Ah... I do...I just thought to relax today and give myself a break"

"You joined yesterday only and today you want a break...Just for watching a match?"

Huh! There was no point of arguing, specially when you had chosen to go swimming everyday and pushed your Daddy to pay the fee for swimming classes.

But, you cannot afford to miss the opening match either...That's where you be proud of your quirky brain... 

I walked outside to show my Dad that I was getting ready for swimming classes. Used Mommy's mobile to ring on his mobile, which was plugged in at the charging point. As he walked out to pick up the phone, I tiptoed in the room and adjusted myself underneath the bed, with a comfy pillow and my popcorn tub.

After few uncomfortable encounters with the floor and legs of Mommy hanging down from the bed, I managed to feel comfortable and enjoyed the IPL thrill to the core. 

Pros of the madness: I didn't miss the match, what else could I ask for?

Cons of the madness: I couldn't enjoy munching the crunchy pop corns. Just to keep my underneath the bed mission secret, I soaked the pop corns in my mouth and killed their crunch. It felt like I was eating cotton balls :( eyuuuk!

But, the madness was worth it. 

This post is a part of Cricket Just Got Better Activity by Starsports.com in association with BlogAdda.com

He, Me and तबेला

Imagine how would you feel, when you dream of your favourite music sensation and in that dream he is asking you to lend him 50 rupees? And worst part of the dream is that you are more concerned about the chances of getting that money back, you lent rather than taking an autograph from him.

Sounds cheesy right! But, it happened with me. First and foremost, let me declare that I won’t disclose name of that superstar, who came into my dream. (As you all know, I just want to keep away from media rumours and Page3 News…Uh-Oh!) So, I will name him Supesta throughout this post.


If anyone would ask you that what would be your dream sequence, any dreamy lady would think of Switzerland, London, Paris, Italy or at least Malaysia; And, I really didn’t understand what made me dream of a stable. Anyways, ignore the buffaloes that I noticed there, they didn’t matter much. Since I had no idea what I was doing in a stable full of livestock, I rushed to walk out and suddenly noticed my Supesta walking towards me.

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Fish! I was so embarrassed to meet him like this! He has travelled the entire world for concerts and making new music videos and I got to meet him in that bloody तबेला (Stable)! Life is so unfair. I was cursing life for being so mean and suddenly an odd thought entered my mind…

“What if he sees me standing by this तबेला and decides himself that I work here! Oh no, my life will be finished..Grrrrrr!”

I knew that तबेला did not belong to me. I also had no clue how did I reach there and why! So, I took a deep breath and decided to explain my situation to my Supesta, who was still walking slowly towards me or may be the तबेला.

Breathe in…Breathe out…Ufffff! Okay, my over creative brain started to weave a confession that I was innocent and had no direct or indirect relationship with तबेला. Meanwhile, heart kept poking its nose in mind’s matters.

“Psst, just tell him I am crazy about him” It was heart obviously.


“”Just shut up and let me think” Mind under pressure!

“You are so selfish and you always think of social status. Love is blind. Love doesn’t care about money and status. And remember you cunning brain, I beat for Supesta, not for you” Heart never stops arguing..ever! Does it?

“Arrggghh…Let me think…” Before mind could complete its sentence, prepare a तबेला confession or successfully shut the heart up, Supesta had interrupted.

“Excuse me…” It was Supesta. Exotic enough to make my heart sink and brain go crazy!

But, dreams are illusions and illusions are temporary. Next moment, the castle of exotic dreams was perished by a nonsense dialogue that so called Supesta uttered, “बहन जी 50 का छुट्टा मिलेगा; Sis, do you have 50 rupees change?”

What! That moron just asked me for 50 rupees change! I mean he is a super star music sensation? Wow! Recession has treated everyone equal. Before, I could complete my economic analysis, I was interrupted again.

“Please check your pockets, I need to give it to Rickshaw” It was him again!

“What a shame!. He is a superstar and he travels in a Rickshaw and that too by borrowing money from a gorgeous looking girl (standing in तबेला) and worst, he called me a बहन जी”

But still, he had been my favourite so long (till that moment of course) so I checked in my pockets. I was still worried that I would be embarrassed if there was no money in my wallet. His bright luck, I found 100 Rupees कड़क नोट! I extended the money towards him with pride and he grabbed it without gratitude.

Without saying Thankyou or anything, he ran towards the rickshaw, sat on it and flew away! What! I just lost 100 rupees to a person, who used to be my favourite singing sensation just a few moments ago.

Now what I worried about was my 100 rupees. He asked for 50 and I gave me 100….How stupid I am. Moron!

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And suddenly a voice over played in the background, I turned in astonishment and was overwhelmed to see a buffalo uttering, “Investments are subject to market risk…Read the scheme related documents carefully before…..”

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Arrggghh!! Aaaaa!!! I jumped in shock! It took me an hour to realise I have been going through a weird dream! Some investment news played on the TV managed to sneak into my brain at the right moment and merged with the dream.

Ah! What a beautiful thing Brain is!