Of a boy and a girl

Ok so this is a story of a boy and a girl ( well realistically man and woman , but it sounds better that ways ) , so this boy and girl had been married for a while and like most of the marriages their marriage had ups and downs but anyways, this story is not about their marriage, moving on..

Now this girl was the practical sorts , head over heart mostly and the boy was emotional variety . Now in course of her job , the girl had to be in U.S. for some work for three months . So she went and since she had few friends around and she had been to the country before she knew her way around and with work and everything she was having a good time . Also in the meanwhile the boy planned a trip and spent a week with her and they went around a few places spent a good week together and then the boy went back to India to take care of his work.
After 10 days it was the girls birthday , although the girl was cool about being alone on her birthday , the boy insisted she spends her birthday in Newyork ( hour and half away by train - and it was a weekend ) . They discussed how she would spend her birthday - watching a broadway show , which she had never done before and probably get a tattoo done visiting the Met museum and generally spending a night in NY. The hotel booking and everything was taken care by the boy so she gets a nice birthday treat. So on her birthday she left for NY , spent some time in time square  browsing through the street shop, had a quick lunch , took all birthday calls from mom dad uncle aunty cousins and the boy also. Then she went for Mama Mia, ofcorse she had her first broadway theatre experience and such a wonderful show !

Next stop was MET museum just couple of blocks away, as she left the hall she got another call from the boy, to check  about the show and then asking to turn  right , well that was crazy why should she ..he insisted and well she did. And there he was standing right in the middle of time square with a single orchid stem to wish her birthday. Saying she was stupefied will be an understatement , she was laughing crying all at the same time . There was her boy in person to wish her birthday  and to spend just  few hours with. He just spent 3-4 hours with her because he had a return flight next day morning , but that feeling will last her a lifetime ! 

This article is written for Indiblogger contest for British airways 

Square pegs round holes

I usually don't write review about any movie on this blog, and this is not a review per se. Just that I saw two movies recently Queen and Hansee to Phasee and could not stop myself from appreciating all the good things that is happening with 'mainstream' Hindi cinema . Wow what characterisation ! both the movies with such strong female protagonist . Girls from our day today life , while Kangana Ranaut in Queen who goes for her 'honeymoon' alone is so naive to shop for 'massager' a Sex shop for her grandfather but have guts to fight for herself with a roadside thug and a cocky chef and in the end learns to stand for herself while still being her sweet self. It's endearing that this coming to age story doesn't take away the innocence of Rani and she is still herself just a bit more aware . I am more amazed by Pareenti Chopra in HTP. It takes guts to that role.

A 'heroine' who is eccentric, constantly twitching and gulping anti depressants and pees in her saree. Such courage and such finer nuanced performances.

Really hats off to these girl for taking Indian cinema to another level of brilliance and have the courage to try something so extraordinarily different . 

'Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things'

Garlic fried rice

Sometime simple is sooo good , this fried  rice is incredibly simple and full on flavour perfect for an easy weekday lunch . 

You need 

1 leftover bowl of rice ( white / brown)

Garlic minced - 1 teaspoon

Egg - 1 beaten 

Soy sauce -1 small teaspoon 

Tabasco sauce / sriracha sauce - per taste ( optional)

Salt & pepper 

Oil - 1 teaspoon 

Spring onion to garnish 

Heat oil in wok , add minced garlic.

Add beaten egg , scramble for a minute 

Add soy sauce , tobacco sauce salt and pepper.

Mix for 30 seconds , add rice.

Mix well, turn off heat, add chopped spring onion.

Serve hot 

annyeonghaseyo from seoul

Hello from seoul , reached yesterday and enjoyed beauty shopping ( first for me). Today onto more touristy things ....palace etc. 

Skyline of seoul from my hotel room 

Coffee cups

I am in seoul for last 3 days , and while I will do a detailed post on food and shopping in seoul later, let me take a moment to talk about the coffee. People in seoul take their coffee seriously, really seriously . If you thought Americans were crazy about coffee you should check out seoul, there is a Starbucks in 25-30 meter radius no matter where you stand in downtown area. And it's just not about star bucks, there are gazillion home grown shops dotted all across the road

There are coffee shops in rows. 

I have seen people sipping and walking in with one coffee cup into another coffee shop, crazy right ? 

Another really cute thing is how you can collect your order. Since  some of these shops are huge and spread across floors , they give you a e token of sorts , which vibrates and lets you know that your coffee is ready !! Cute no , after we are in cute land ( more on that later)

So if you are planning a trip to seoul, make sure you try as many coffee cups

Chill pill

-15 c in ulaanbatar , you need all help you can get ! 

Love is ...

Time together on the beach ..

Happy Valentine's day ..All you precious