Cooking Experiment

So, we had a cooking experiment yesterday.

My father saw his article "The house on Serpentine Street" in The Mint. The author remember recipes of Ramzan from his childhood. The author takes the recipe from Andaleeb Wajid's blog. The post is called This ain’t no pepper fry! The recipe is about Phaal. 

My family and I are big foodies. So my mother decided to have another cooking lesson for me. 

Yipee

I like eating not cooking.

Anyways, she made some changes in the recipe. So the onions, tomatoes and coriander were put in the mixer together. The oil was placed in the pan, then the chicken was placed. Then the garam masala, ginger paste, salt and the entire contents of the mixer. All that in a pressure cooker with five whistles. After the second whistle, the heat was decreased. 

Dinner time came. The gravy was too thin and not enough salt. The less salt didn't bother me but I like thick gravy. The salt wasn't my fault but the thin gravy was my fault. If I had checked on it, I would have found it and cooked it longer for the gravy to thicken and then the less salt wouldn't have been noticeable.

Anyways, today was a good day. I listed all the corrections of a manuscript and I still have more to write tomorrow. Good god. The author wrote so many freaking long sentences. I talking about 7 to 8 lines long.

Overall, it was a nice day. Let's see what happens next in my life. 


P.S. I know you people are reading my blog, please comment. Just a small one

My Bucket List

I never saw the movie The Bucket List but I really liked the concept. Also I found a story called The Bucket List to read on India Forum and its really good. So here is my bucket list.

Have two degrees

Done - Visit at least 1 country of Asia

Done - Visit at least 1 country of Europe

Visit at least 1 country of Africa

Done - Visit at least 1 country of North America

Visit at least 1 country of South America

Visit at least 1 country of Australia

Done - Visit at least 1 country in the Northern Hemisphere

Done - Visit at least 1 country in the Southern Hemisphere 

Have a road trip with my friends or cousins

Meet Shah Rukh Khan, take a picture with him and get an autograph

Meet Bret Lee take a picture with him and get an autograph

Watch Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge in Maratha Mandir Theatre

Slap someone

Punch someone

See a live autopsy

Do something that scares me

Fall in love

Climb a mountain

Visit all the states and union territories of India

That's it for now. I will add things as I think of them or get them done

Happy Tuesday

Yipeee
July 2
It's tuesday
It's also the middle of the year.
182 days are gone and 182 days are left
In honour of today, I present this Jim Hunt photo:

Today this bird wasn't anywhere near my head or body or any part of me.

I have this major project whose deadline we did not meet. I did corrections on this book, but according to my boss I missed some. So, I had to list all the missed corrections from yesterday and today and emailed them to the typesetter (person who makes the text look like it does when you open a book.)

In the meantime, I worked on another project. But I was taking too much time, said my boss. The book had at least twenty corrections on every page which I had to sort out. I had to erase all the pointless corrections and leave the important ones. Those have to go to the typesetter as soon as possible

My third project, I sent my doubts to the author and they got cleared up pretty quickly. So that was good and I emailed the few corrections to the typesetter.

The typesetter emailed me my two projects by today evening which was really amazing and nice of him to do. I did mention that my first project was a top priority and needed to be fast tracked.

My brain hurts from remembering about the statuses of my projects. Sometimes I wish life is simple as it was in our childhood.

My life needs a do-over seriously. Why don't we come with warnings and suggestions? Oh well, just going to have to bear with it and move forward.