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My latest fascination is Cocktails and Dappankuthu songs. Yeah Yeah! I know they are worlds apart but don't ask me for any reasons!  My ipod is full of dappankuthu songs and ever since I tasted the ' Singapore Sling ' a couple of weeks back, I have this huge craze to start mixing cocktails.. As soon as I get the chance and money, I am going in for a bartending course, come what may!! But for starters, how would Jal-Jeera mixed with an equal amount of Vodka poured over crushed ice and decorated with a sprig of mint leaves with salt on the rim of the glass taste?? 

Where oh where was this book all these years? Oh... I can't believe I found it so freakin' late in my life.  But then now better late than never!!  Can't wait to watch the second part of the movie. The first part was awesome. I am sure the second is going to be even better. :-) Next week ... Before that I have to finish the 3rd and the 4th parts of the book.....  Phew!  I haven't been hooked onto a series like this since Harry Potter!! 

We just got back home after watching ' Kurbaan '. We had heard good reviews about it, the trailers looked promising and Saif being one of the actors, I was really keen to watch it. Good idea about the movie watching, you might think! I thought so too until we actually started went to watch it.  No, this is not about how good the movie is or what the story is or even what kind of a review I am going to give it. I would have been able to give it a good review had I been able to watch it properly with some amount of concentration that I normally pay to a movie. Leave alone concentration, I just could not enjoy the movie.  Have you ever gone to a movie that looked and sounded promising and entertaining only to have not enjoyed because of the audience reactions? I have! A lot of times! And more often than not, I have put up with it because some time or the other I have done it myself. Screamed for horror movies, laughed out loud for comedies, passed comments for movies that w...

Do you like street food? You know, like the roadside paani-puri stalls, the hawkers selling samosas, local tea stalls where they give you the tea in dirty tea glasses? Ah! I thought so! I like them too ... They taste really yummy!!! My exposure to street food began when I moved to Hyderabad for work. The flat that I was staying at earlier with my friends from college was in a lane that was filled with cheap and local food stalls where you get everything ranging from rotis to chicken to the ever-famous hyderabadi dum biriyani. Hyderabad has a lot of places where you can enjoy a great meal at reasonable dirt-cheap prices and the quality of the food will not be compromised upon either. But apart from that, for the street food that I am talking about, when and if you visit Hyderabad, do check out these places!  I guarantee that you will like it.  Now this list of places or eateries are not just street food or local delicacies. They are places that serve great FOOD.  ...

Oh! I forgot to mention which performances in particular I like, in the last post.  Here goes! And yeah, these dances are ones that will stay evergreen forever for me! I have my own reasons for liking these performances and they might not be conventional but they are all related to dance.  --> Shobhana's dance performance in "Manichitrathazhu - Oru Murai Vanthu Parthaya." --> Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey's final dance performance in "Dirty Dancing - I've had the time of my life!" --> Hrithik Roshan's dance for the title song of "Dhoom 2" --> Madhuri's dance for the title song in "Aaja Nachle" --> Aishwarya Rai's performance in "Bunty Aur Babli - Kajra Re" --> The scene from "Salangayoli" where Kamal Hassan dances in front of his daughter in different dance forms criticizing a performance she gave! --> Prabhu Deva's dance in the hall of the house where...

There are only very few things that can get me as enthused as a great dance performance. My friends who know me well enough can vouch for this. For me, nothing else is as exciting as a stunning outstanding performance. It fills me up with this kind of excitement that anything else does not come this close.  There are of course a lot of performances for me that stand out from the rest, both in cinema and in other programmes that I've watched. Whether its any dance programme or dance competition on television, a good performance can leave me filled with high energy for the next couple of hours and an upbeat mood. And some of the dancers who participate are truly mind-blowing.  There's this dance show on sony television that's being telecast - Dance Premier League or DPL as its known. Six teams. Dance matches. Two big judges. Just another usual dance competition based on the format of the IPL. But there's this one team that truly stands out from the rest - The Wester...

You know... for the past 2-3 days I have had this urge to do a tag! I was obsessed to say the least! I browsed through a lot of people's blogs to find out that one tag that I really really HAD to do.  And then I found this.  :-) Any surprises that it's related to reading... Lol... I was so thrilled when I saw this!  So here goes, without much further ado, finally I am doing a tag... yippee! (yes! I get excited at small things!) Do you remember how you developed a love for reading? I wish I could be all smart and say that, I knew I had a taste for it when I picked up my first book... But nope.  The answer to this would be I don't know, rather I don't remember how I developed a taste or love or passion for reading. All I know is that ever since I was really young, I have been reading!  What are some books you read as a child? Hmm.. When I was a kid I used to read Tinkle, Chandamama, Champak, Gokulam etc. My  great-aunt then gifted me a ha...

Okie it's been a long time since I did something like this. And 'something like this' translates to starting a book and finishing it in a couple of hours.  So yeah! I did that - Just finished a James Patterson book, 'Fourth of July' in the span of 2.5 hours. Phew! Right, admitted its not a great book, actually its just an okay book, but then I did finish it! :D I actually like James Patterson's books. But only those that he authors all by himself. None of the co-authoring books and this one that I finished now was a book that was co-authored.  But his books like 'Kiss the girls' and ' Along came a spider' are all truly good reads! Check them out sometime! And as for me...  I am onto my next book - 'The Six Suspects' - Vikas Swarup . Yes! The same guy who wrote 'Q & A' now known as 'Slumdog Millionaire'. I quite enjoyed reading 'Slumdog Millionaire'. I hope the same can be said for this one...

Why oh why did Ritesh Deshmukh have to go and do a film like 'Aladin' ? He was one actor that I had high hopes for in the industry. Really! Don't believe me?? Watch his comic timing in  movies like 'Masti' and 'Hey Babyyy' and his acting in movies like 'Naach' and 'Bluffmaster'... You'll see what I mean!!! And then he goes and spoils his own rise to stardom albeit in a small way by doing a movie like this. Why?  Phew! PS: Btw, I watched the movie about 2 weeks back. I just recovered from it now to blog about it! Phew!

Okie, I have been reading about this 55-fiction thing for a long time now on my friends' blogs here and here . I did not understand it at first, because I thought it was only about the word count. Apparently not! Wikipedia here says there are a whole lot of criteria for this sort of writing style.  Well, ever since I read about it, I have been wanting to try it.  And now that I have written one, I don't know if it satisfies all the criteria... Here's my entry :- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- She placed her hand on mine. I gave a shrug to shake it off.   Two minutes later, she did it again! I glared.   Public place, was this the way to behave?   She took my hand and started playing with the fingers, unmindful.   I glanced around nervous.   But, then, well! She was a cute little baby! ---------------------------------------------------...

Yes!! My other blog - Odds and Ends...Bits and Pieces.. has been imported here into this one! Thanks to suggestions from certain friends! :D Love u guys!  Do keep reading! And leave suggestions and comments whenever I do something crazy like this! :)

A friend of mine closed down her blog last week sometime. And she was someone whose blogs I was addicted to. Her writing style apart, she had a great way of connecting with her readers. Hers was one of the blogs that I started reading when I was blog-hopping while I had nothing better to do in office and hers was the blog that I turned to when I needed a pick-me-up or just something to smile about. Of course she does not know that :-)  So while it did not come across as a complete shock that she was planning to close down her blog, it left me with mixed feelings. I have thought about doing the same thing more often than not... and I have even written about it here and here . But I never really had the courage or the guts to close down my blog! The maximum extent I went to was to stop blogging for a while and then get back to it!  I find it so frustrating that some people have it so easy! Really! Like they can blog about anything, in whichever way they want, unmindf...

Question for the day... Do I import my posts from the other blog that I have - Odds and Ends...Bits and Pieces here into this one or should I just leave it the way it is... Help required!!

Imagine this scene! Heavy rains lashing outside, you are back from an outing, thoroughly drenched. You get back home and after drying yourself, mix a hot cup of coffee, the way you like it and sit by the window watching the rain pelting down. Your fingers curl around the mug of hot coffee and you draw a sip from it, letting the hotness burn your tongue but at the same time relishing the bitter-sweet taste. :-) Phew! I miss home. I miss filter coffee. Sigh! I have been a coffee addict for as long as I can remember. Of course people who know me now will shake their heads and say there she goes lying on her blog! But no! I swear! I love coffee. But it has to be made in the right way. Then it’s a pleasure to drink. I was initiated into coffee by my grand mom in Coimbatore. When we were little kids, she used to give me and my cousins something called ‘drop coffee’. This was like the original coffee except the amount of coffee in it is not more than a couple of drops since we...

Okie… This is the official announcement!!! Hear! Hear! This is to let you know that my other blog – or rather one of my other blogs – Knitted Yarn has been closed down. I have imported the posts here into this blog. I started that blog in the hope that I would have a lot to write and I can put my creative writing to test. But suffice to say, after 19 posts there, I have been hit by a hard case of a block. I am unable to write anything that can even remotely be called CREATIVE. So well, I have closed down the blog and from now on whatever creative writing happens will happen here. And anyways, I think I created one too many blogs as a friend very nicely pointed out today morning when I was chatting with him. I told him I have changed my blog’s template and asked him to check and give his opinion and he was like - WHICH OF YOUR BLOGS DO I CHECK? :P and that my friends was a reality check. Yes Rat , I am talking about you (and am still waiting for a blog en...

Okie ... So its just another day. Nothing much to do, No place to go, No one to meet and I am sick of applying to all the random jobs in the world.  And then I do what I like to do best when I am online - Reading through others' blogs. Second best in that list is blogging.  So like I said, I was browsing through blogs and then links from those blogs to some other blogs and sites etc etc and I came across this ...  http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-10-commandments-of-facebook/ Hilarious is an understatement. :-) Check it out for yourself.

A brand-new template... Some tweaks... A few more links... Lo Presto!! A new look :-)