Ask a Blogger a Question tag

Sunita from Asaaan tagged me for this where you ask a blogger a question that you'd hesitate to ask in real life. She asks "Did you ever resolve your cookware problem? Which set did you buy?. Just for a lil background here, This is what she was talking about.

So, S, we finally bought neither of the two choices I mentioned in the post coz of course, our dear guy found faults with both of them again ,so I marched into walmart and got the best set that fit my price. And it was this set by T-fal.

Its been good so far , so I am not regretting my decision.

Now, its my turn to tag someone. I ask Shalmalee(isn't it a pretty name?): Did you realise that all the guys were hitting on you and the girls were eyeing Mandar(her husband) when you came to our university for Maroon Vibes?

Background info for y'all: We have a cultural competition at our university every year and the year before the last, Shalmalee and her husband and a few other guys had come to participate. She is very very pretty and has the dreamiest eyes EVER and her husband was very cute in a high school boyish way and we were all hitting on them. As soon as the function ended, we rushed home to look her up on orkut and we see their pictures only to realise that the ONLY cute guy and the ONLY pretty girl in the event were married to EACH OTHER :(

See, I take my tags very seriously. I would probably hesitate for 1.23 microseconds in real life before asking her this question so I've taken full advantage of this tag :).

Diwali and Home

The rangoli I drew :) Obviously, I suck at art :).




Goddess Lakshmi at our home.




Yours truly doing the pooja.



Som and I after the diwali dinner of poori kheer:)


Home Pictures :)

Living Room





table for 2 please :)



Guest Room, Y'all are welcome :)

After a really looooooooooong time!

I am back here after soo long and I am really ashamed of the absence. It wasnt an absence as such, considering that I had this page open all day and havent missed a single update in my blogroll. I have had so many things to write about but they all have brewed themselves to death in my head because I have been too lazy to put them down here.

The previous weekend, as we waited for the laundry to be done at 12 in the night Som asked me why I wasn't writing anything in Tangy Trivia and if he should close my account already(As if he would get out of it alive !!!).

Anyways,Its Diwali, Yay!! Last year, diwali was not so well planned and there was certainly no religious celebration.

Every family has its own traditions and ways of celebrating festivals and while its not necessary for every family to be religious , I think it is important to establish a tradition of our own once we start our family. A festival may just mean good food to some while it may mean a lot of new dresses for others like me but it must mean something for everyone. I guess, the reason each of us look back fondly to all those Diwali's and Dushera's spent at home is that our parents made the effort to celebrate it in their own special way and thus gave us a lot of happy memories.


This year is the first diwali we will celebrate in our new home and I have decided to make it quite special. I have planned to bring in the festival with much fanfare. Traditional clothes, sweets, delicious food,elaborate pooja,diyas, The works. I have downloaded the pooja procedure and and the Lakshmi Mantra and the Lakshmi Ashtothra for the Lakshmi Pooja. Everything is in place except the fireworks. The student association has been forbidden from having fireworks like we do every year and so no fireworks it is! Diwali cleaning starts in exactly 4 hours when I get home from work and I am much excited. Unfortunately, som cannot do the pooja with me since he lost a relative a few days back.

Will update you all soon on how the pooja went and with pictures of the new home :)

Happy Diwali, you all!!! Have much fun and be safe :)

Must Read Forward

Got this as an email forward!! Go on, laugh it out with this!

Living in 2009



YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2009 when...


1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.


2 You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )

12 You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list

AND NOW YOU ARE LAUGHING at yourself.