Friday Film

Extracted

Weekend is here!
I love Friday evenings.Of course everyone does. And I am waiting for the evening and for him to return back from his office.
Meanwhile, I was looking for a film to watch and I found this movie. Extracted. A 2012 sci-fi thriller where a man has devised a way, a technique to enter people's minds and view their memories. And then he gets trapped in his own built technique. The story runs around him trying to break out.
A strong critique might question a lot on its plot, logic and realism. But I find the plot interesting,it keeps one hooked and gives brain a tickle to assemble everything going on and intrigued me enough as to guess what would be next.
And I find such flicks reasonable watchable. Sci-fi thrillers is one tag which I look for most of the times while finding movies to watch and favorably my sister and husband are akin in that matter.
So I usually get a great company, also the partners to suggest me more on that.
Give this movie a shot when you've got a craving for a thriller.

Kitchen Stories!

It hasn't been a long time that I have taken up cooking almost close to a daily affair kind thing,only since I am here with my husband, away from mothers who are moms of usual adorable fashion, who just love to feed their kids with sumptuous food every meal.
And growing up like that can sometimes extract best out of you,[or put a lot in you ;) ],it can make you an expert critic or connoisseur. And I can say that because without much hands-on cooking before my wedding, my ability to manage cooking today  is realistically perfect. Yeah, I am boasting :P
Don't believe? Ask my husband, or some of my friends here. Am I not ? :D
Anyway, although I might have those cooking skills rooted in me, nonetheless, there are few tips that have helped, those which I have absorbed from observations of some feminines around or have got directly from them. Like I have seen one of my friend's mom putting oil/ghee in wheat flour while preparing dough for chapattis/rotis which makes them really soft.
And there are few more :-
When you are sauting curry sauce/masala for gravy, steam it once in pressure cooker. It makes gravy better.
Put a spoon of oil or ghee when preparing rice .That makes it like each and every grain separated kind.
No coriander for dal makhani. No ginger for shahi paneer.
Prepare black chickpeas in the same water they were kept soaked in over the night.
Roast semolina for enough long time say an hour over sim for delicious halwa.
Wash cauliflower well in advance before you are making any veggie with it so that it is completely dried up.
Put salt and/or sugar while you are cooking pumpkin only once it has reduced to its minimal volume.

Oh my my .. I am sounding like an expert who can actually give tips..
Well that's for now. I would be posting in more when I will have my hands full of them again.

Snorkeling !

Thats not me ! found it from google

11th April,2014.And on this day of our trip to Bahamas, we landed at an island called Coco Cay. By we, I mean myself and myhusband. A little more detail - Coco Cay is a privately owned island by the cruise line we were travelling with , RoyalCarribean.

We had decided on the ship itself to indulge our day doing one of the water sports on the island, either para-sailing or snorkeling. On reaching we could see people rushing for the snorkeling counter and we too got our snorkeling kits.

At first place, I don't know swimming. I took my life jacket along from home itself. More details - He had gifted me life jacket this birthday to help myself swim in the apartments' pool while he is a swimmer since he was 9 or 10.

So, We got our kits on and we got into water and I tried to splash around and then float onto my back with the help of life jacket.
But I was there for snorkeling. I could not float onto my back all the while.

And then he told me to turn around and to give a try floating onto my stomach and poke my face inside water and see inside through it. I tried but I just could not lie flat onto my stomach. Then he held my hands and asked me to keep my face inside and walk and then see. But all the time I ended up taking water in and almost to vomit it out. and I told him to do it all himself and I will sit by the beach. With the kind of inclination he has for water, I could almost tell his heart was dying to take a plunge in that beauty of water and to explore it inside. So he just went for a dive returning back almost in 10 to 15 min.

And here he banged on me the idea of getting in again because he had seen some hundreds of fishes and turtles in that time under water. And he insisted like anything to come on and just try once more just not to miss the astounding beauty of the life inside. And I put on again that snorkeling kit. And then he told me to have faith on him and forget that I will sink inside and he will save me from that and just to hold his hand while inside. So we got in again together. And this time I had more faith on him and myself too.

I tried to lay onto my stomach this time with little more determination. and I could do a little better. While I laid afloat on to my stomach now,I tried to see in but I was not able to see much. And then he held my hand and like just pulled me through water as he swam across.I kept flowing with him holding his hand.And then we were at a golden point. He pointed with his other hand in a direction and I could so clearly see that through such clear transparent water. And there laid ahead a bunch of beautiful colorful fishes surrounded by corals and plants, the sight of which just made my heart pound, stirring through me instantly BLISS! Those striped colorful fishes, some silver ones, and plants waving around them, the 'finding nemo' fish, WOW, heavenly!!  And at that particular moment, I could not understand what was more powerful to bring that in me, that hand of faith or that sight of beauty. But for that moment I really felt an unbound love for him, because lending a belief to another person that he can totally be on you is one beautiful thing to offer.

And it was something that is gonna stay in me like a little thing yet big enough to love him a lot more.
This post is truly a dedication for him to bring on my way beautiful wonders hidden here or there.