A's Blend Of Emotions

What's in the menu? Food and frolic always come together atleast in my life. Laziness and hunger.. when these two come together, I start missing India even more. Happy lunch hours with mom's recipes in my box, sweet granny/grandpa preparing their signature recipes as soon as we come from school. Love wrapped up in a box!. Yet, I remember the days when I used to almost cry when dad tries to make me empty my breakfast plate. Give it to me now and I shall grab it :) Never did realize how happy they would feel if we reciprocate the same for them until I had put it in action a year ago .. I was feeling under the weather the whole of last week and did not happen to cook a lot. My latest inspiration is Rachel Ray, the 30-minute meal lady. As I turn on the idiot box to watch her show, I generally start my cooking as well. Although I do not tend to try a lot of her recipes, I love learning little things like "how to choose a veggie at the market" .. "how to clean up as yo

Song: Poonjittu Kannangal Movie: Thulabaram Singer: Aparna Originally Sung By : P.Susheela This song is one of my favourites.The lines of the song are very touching and powerful, but nevertheless would not have reached us without the beautiful voice of Susheela. I could hardly find this song anywhere. But still remember my mom singing this and hence reproducing the same.. Short Description for the song: Like a lullaby, the mother sings about the tears of the poor (herself) ..

Song: Shri Rama Raaga: Ghambeera Naattai Singer: Aparna Radhakrishnan My all time favourite varnam .. but i swallowed some swaras cos of bad recollection of swaras :) Description of the song: "In praise of Lord Shri Rama" .. Quote: "When there is one Universal Power, why name them in different ways? Only to see people quarrel for something that is man-created? " Jus' a quote. My thoughts .. Now Listen :)

Song: Vaseegara Singer: Aparna Originally sung by Bombay Jayshree.. Thanks!

I tried to do my own karaoke track this time (meaning .. no thanks to esnips :) ) . But .. thanks to Audacity ! This song has a lot of scale transitions (in my terms) . Description for the song : A confused female (not uncommon :)) is like .. " Are you the one in my heart ..? " A quote for the song : The lines of the confused female never failed to soothen our minds (atleast mine) though .. Been ages since I promised to deliver this song in my voice. Hoping to get it done soon. Got to buy a new microphone! Thanks..

Writing as I listened to ARR's marudhani .. from the movie Sakkarakatti. Marudhani-- means "mehndi" -- means .. some artistic floral and other designs (with henna) drawn especially to a woman's hand before the wedding ceremony. This is an interesting article about mehndi: http://www.mehndidesigns.com/aboutmehndi.html A Quote : As a "not" so "non-believer" of palm history, I was wondering as mehndi was applied to my palms .. if " the beautiful lines of mehndi are trying to deceive the real lines of fate or is it trying to prove that the lines of fate can be changed to a colorful one if you really wish to and work for it ..