To Everyone's favourite God!!!

Vinayaka or Ganesh, we all so fondly call him!!! Like many Hindus, I too love him and adore him... Although a Jain by religion we still place Him first in all our functions, invite Him first and thus put Him before all of our Gods as well.

This year Sunil & I invited Him to our humble abode with lots of love and affection on his birthday “Ganesh Chaturthi”… I am not aware of the pujas that are performed as we do not celebrate it but for Sunil, this is a much more important festival almost as big as Diwali.

Today was a testing time for me in terms of cooking while Sunil took care of the puja stuff… I made modaks for the first time and definitely would like to skip the details… However, lunch on this special day included mooli sambhar, beans curry, semiya payasam and of course “curd rice”, the husband is so obsessed with!

And so I am leaving with you a snapshot of what happened at home today and wishing you a very Happy Ganesh Chaturti… while I retire now after a tiring morning and a very heavy lunch!!!

Another feather in my cap

Rads has so kindly awarded me the best blog and tagged me as well to answer a few questions. That’s so sweet of you Rads thank you so much, I am so touched!

Allow me to carry on with my answers while you get yourselves a cuppa coffee!

1. What is your current obsession?
Stay at home and sleeeeeeeep!!!!
2. What are you wearing today?
Pyjamas and t-shirt
3. What’s for dinner?
Long way off – haven’t thought bout it (its morning here)
4. What’s the last thing you bought?
Chanel Chance
5. What are you listening to right now?
Nothing
6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?
A wonderful long distance friend who interestingly I haven’t met :)
7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
Bangalore
8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?
Anything cotton
9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Some place cold with snow
10. Which language do you want to learn?
Cantonese
11. What’s your favorite quote?
What goes around comes around
12. Who do you want to meet right now?
My Nephews
13. What is your favorite color?
Mauve/sea green-blue
14. What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own closet?
Nothing yet :)
15. What is your dream job?
Restaurateur
16. What’s your favorite magazine?
Vogue, auto car and of course food lovers guide (very specific to Bangalore city)
17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
Probably something for my house
18. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?
People trying too hard to be what they are not…
19. Who are your style icons?
Nobody
20. What kind of haircut do you prefer?
Rachael in friends
21. What are you going to do after this?
Cook lunch
22. What are your favorite movies?
Too many to pen
24. What are three cosmetic/makeup/perfume products that you can't live without?
Deo, Chap Stick and moisturiser
23. What inspires you?
Nothing in particular – I am a very self obsessed woman
24. Give us three styling tips that always work for you:
Be confident, casual and comfortable – It does me good!

25. What do you do when you “have nothing to wear” (even though your closet’s packed)?
More shopping
26. Coffee or tea?
Coffee – anyday :)
27. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?
Cry!
28. What is the meaning of your name?
Dream
29. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?
Brownie with lots of chocolate sauce
30. Favorite Season ?
Winter
31. If I come to your house now, what would u cook for me?
Probably a yummy salad with pasta
32. What's your favorite cartoon character?
Tom and Jerry
33. My question: What’s your ideal holiday?

Unfortunately I dont have that many blog friends to tag so I'll just tag my husband here... but for the others - here are the rules...

Respond and rework – answer these questions on your blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own, and add one more question to the list. Then tag eight or ten other new set of people.

Have fun and be good.

Fimply Fexy!!!

Not mumbling mind you, this is just my reaction after watching the latest Bollywood flick – “Kaminey”.

I haven’t really enjoyed any Bollywood movie off late (thanks to all the mindless ones that get released week after week) than I have watching Kaminey – and watta movie I say!!! Ladies and gentlemen, Shahid Kapoor has finally arrived!!!

This movie definitely transforms him into an actor leaving behind all the chocolate-hero roles he portrayed in Jab We Met and Kismet Konnection… His character as Charlie is much more macho than you can ever imagine him to be… so mature, so uber cool and so much oomph!!!

After drooling over Shahid, here’s my take on Vishal Bharadwaj - unlike his previous movies this is not an adaptation from any of Shakespeare’s plays. Honestly, I never liked his earlier movies (Omkara, Maqbool etc), coz am not really into those intense slow-paced movies – I kinda find them borrrrring!!! I like more of the fast paced ones with a lot of comedy/drama/action – something like, say, Mummy/ Dil Chahta Hai types… I give a thumb’s up to movies which have a certain comedy element in it and which are very gripping!!!

Now I wouldn’t want to be a party-spoiler and give away the story but what I can say about the movie is that it is really a gripping, fast-paced and entertaining movie leaving you glued to the screen. If you take your eyes away even for a moment, you might end up missing a crucial moment and only chance you can understand it is by watching it again!!!

And as far as Vishal Bharadwaj goes – with Kaminey, he seems to be in his elements and has proven that he is a better movie-director than a music-director!!!

Must watch people – go catch it… Dhan Tanaaaa nanana!!!