Day23

Today is just any other day... nothing new except that I am called at Deepak's place for dinner... here is the summary of dinner items

1) Bhel puri + Tea
2) chola
3) alloo gobhi
4) raita
5) roti
6) rice

finished dinner with ice cream...

Day 22

Another Monday...

Had tea and bread breakfast... packed biryani prepared on friday with dahi for lunch..
in the evening made roti and paratha.

after lunch office mei table tennis khela... 3 games with vinod.. it was good.. i sweated after a long time...

cofta sabzi ko sahi kara by adding little bit water and veg broth...had a small glass of wine...

Day 21

Today there is a picnic at the park...I went to Manish place first to help him putting the picnic stuff in the car.

Sanjeeta cooked so much stuff that i could not even taste it.
here is the list

papdi chat
palak paratha
egg curry
banana cofta
bhindi
mango rice...
rasgulla

party ended around 3:30 and then i went to manish place.. had tea and came back home...

sanjeeta packed palak paratha for me for dinner...had that in dinner.

watched movie unstoppable... good movie, i liked it.

Day 20

Waaoooo.. its been 20 days already...

Today is Sat so I will enjoy my 9-11 hindi songs program... I missed Aditi today because she gives me tough time watching the program...
Made lauki cofta and roti for lunch... cofta were ok but looks like I will have to add some water to the sabzi for the next time...

Went to bday party in the evening and before that had to go to mall to buy the gift bag... first i bought it from target at around 3$ and then while returning to the car I realized that mall also has a dollar store... then went and bought 1$ gift bag from dollar store and returned the one bought from target...

In the evening got a call from Sachin that he is going for bheza fry part 2 night show... I know that reviews of part 2 are not that good but still i agreed to the plan because its been a very long time since I watched late night show...I hope I will not sleep in the movie... For this reason I asked Sachin to pick me from my place...

Day 19

Today is friday so I will be working from home... I also have a dentist appt in the afternoon and then batchlors party at night...So far deepak and sachin have confirmed...

I had home made roti for the first time since Richa left... It was OK... looks like I have to put some efforts in making roti..

Went for Dentist appt and came back around 2... Started cooking for dinner... will be cooking paneer potato tots and biryani...

Sachin came around 6:30 and deepak came around 7.. They had beer mostly but I restricted myself to a glass of wine.... had a wonderful time with them...

Day 17 + Day 18

These 2 days were very normal..nothing major happened except that on Wednesday (Day 17) I was called for a dinner by a kannad friend of mine... I already told him not to cook any north indian food as i want to taste real authentic kannad food.

Started the evening with south indian coffee... Believe me or not south indian girls have something in there hand to make Yummy coffee....

His wife made kannad style dosa + sambhar, special kind of kannad pulav called puliograh, daal salad (I hate salad when real food is there), raita , curd rice, sweet dish.

Had a half glass of wine with my friend along with dinner. I was not planning to drink but came to know that he generally drink and will not drink without me...

Thursday was very normal.. Had a headache so made maggi in dinner by adding paneer, tomato...

Friday would be little different as I called few friends of mine at home for evening party... I will be making paneer potato tots and biryani....obviously there would be wine and beer along with food... I will restrict myself for one glass of wine only...

Day 16

Again had littlebit sleep problem in the night... Finally decided that enough is enough ... Now i have to see the Dr to make sure everything is OK with lungs and it is just allergy which is giving me rough nights... Days are fine...

Got ready by 7 AM and had some time so gave water to the lawn... looks like tomato/gobhi plants are growing good... mirch and bellpeper is still struggling to grow...

had tea + toast in the breakfast and packed rasam + rice for the lunch...

Came to office and took appointment for wednesday to see the Dr.

Had coffee in the office after a long time with my manager....

Will go home and go to Costco as I am invited for dinner at Vinod's place tomorrow. I already told vinod not to cook north indian food.... I want to eat authentic karnataka style food....

Will buy something for his daugter from costco....

Waaooooo... I played table tennis in office.. i was playing almost after 3.5 years... office has a table and I was thinking that we have to buy our own bats but noticed that bats are there to play... Now will try to play sometime in office...

This evening i called Sachin to check if he is free and we can have dinner together....He agreed and said that he cooked chola and he can get that... i told no, i will cook something... I went and picked him from his house and we went to lowes and costco.... when we came back I cooked plain kadhi + aaloo tamatar sabzi... Sachin helped me getting the aaloo cut for the sabzi... i cooked both the things in parallel in about 20 min... after that kadhi was boiling to get some flavor...
In the mean time i also soaked rice to eat with kadhi..

His brother in law also came and then we started searching for some movie to play... we finally settled for "khosla ka ghosla"... around 8:30 PM i started making roti (used rotiland ready to eat roti)... we had our dinner by 9 PM and finished the movie after dinner...
it was overall a different evening... i had roti for the first time Richa left for India... most of the time i cook paratha for some reason...

Day 15

It was again tough to get out of the bed because I was having high allergy during night from 1-3.. somehow managed to sleep...

Had a left over paratha with chai in the breakfast...

Carpool started sharp at 8...I had to tight one carpool partner 2 days back as he was giving excuse of getting late because of traffic... Now everyone reaches on time...

Reached office in record time today.. around 40 min...

Lunch was paratha + masoor daal... had 1-2 kankad in the daal... i was under impression that there are no kankad in the daal but now i am going to check daal before soaking....

Today we got late in leaving office because one of our carpool had a meeting... finally reached home around 6 PM... I was tired because I did not had good sleep last night so made chawal for dinner and next day lunch... finished daal in the dinner and will pack rasam for the lunch...

started watching "welcome to sajjanpur" movie after dinner... it is good movie...

Dont know what time i went to bed as i was watching the movie in laptop...

Day 14

Since I had a rough night woke up late from the bed... it was difficult to come out of bed after a bad night... had allergy problem...

Finally came out of bed around 9:30 and had tea + toast in the breakfast... I had to do the weekly deep cleaning of the kitchen...Since there was idly better left over in the fridge made rasam again and had that with idly in the lunch...went to bed again after lunch and woke up at 4 PM...

cleaned dishes and did some other kitchen work... ironed the cloths and then took bath.

Had evening tea again with Toast and went for grocery shopping... I realized that vegitables are very costly in trader jo so went to indian store also...

made chola + paratha in the dinner...

This Sunday was really silent...

Day 12 + Day 13

By now you must have realized that I don't have much to write that's why now onwards I will be blogging for multiple days at the same time.

Day 12 : Friday

I had no mood to go to office on Friday but I got up at 5 AM and was not getting any sleep... Made my paratha's firs time fresh in the morning and got ready for office..
took the paneer sabzi i made few days back...

In evening we started around 3 PM because it was going to be very crowded for some reason... Reached home and gave water to plants...had my tea...

First time in 3 years I was dealing with Sev 2 kind of issue in office so worked on that and fixed that finally around 7 PM...


Since it was friday I wanted to try something other than Indian...Watched few videos about how to make kulcha but finally made Pita bread...finished matar sabzi which was cooked by Richa just before she left for India...And yeah i also opened the wine bottle and had a glass of wine with dinner...

Day 13: Saturday

Woke up little late around 7:30 AM... Made ghee paratha and had tea in breakfast...Since it was Saturday I was waiting for hindi songs program... had a second nap while watching the program... After that had a short conversation with Mayanks brother in Germany.... He wants to send a laptop for his parents... gave him few tips...

In lunch I had to finsh rice which was left over from last few days... while searching fridge I also found a old packet of vegitable broth... That clicked me to cook daal in the broth instead of water... i chose masoor daal BLACK...Daal did taste differently cooked in broth but I feel that taste would be more prominent in Chana daal as chana daal needs more spicy flavors... next time will cook chana daal.


I knew today I will be going for dinner at Sunil's place so no dinner cooking....I thought of cooking kheer for the whole party gang but Neeta said no need to cook as nishi and sanjeeta are also cooking... I said OK...Since I was going to vallyfair mall i asked sunil if he wants to buy something from Gap.. He came to Gap and bought few shirts for himself....

Dinner was good..i liked mashroom sabzi the best... rest all was normal stuff... but well cooked...As usual I was offered Wine but decided not to drink because I had to drive.... Had 2 bottles of Fanta.. for some reason I liked fanta since i was drinking it after a long time....

Rohit gave a bicycle + few toys for aditi as he is leaving back for India... Adit will have fun once she is back... I was thinking about buying the same bicycle for Aditi.. Thanks to Rohit...

Came back home around 12 AM and straight went to bed... had little rough night because of allergy...

Day 11

Today I woke up little early... got ready and ironed a shirt because i had to go to a conference in oracle. In the morning looks like one of the smoke detector was running low battery... it was giving one beep every 2-3 minutes. Tried to figure out but could not figure out which one it was.... Did not changed the battery thinking that I would do that in the evening but now that beep sound is not coming....looks like since I ironed a press after a long time something different was happening.....

Left for conference and had an orange juice with muffin in the breakfast... I also had my tea and bread at home before leaving....

Conference was good. When I turned my seat in the conference room I noticed that a lady was sitting with me who use to work with me 6 years back....Also met Deepak in that office...Deepak bola ke daaroo party rakho kisi din... now I have to think about it.. may be next Friday ....

Lunch was little different.... KhusKhus + roasted vegitables + falafel + raita...

AFter lunch headed to meet my insurance agent to have an annual meeting with her...No change in the insurance coverage...She tried to sell few things but I said no change....

Reached home around 1:30 and logged into to office network.... Gave water to both sides of the plants and also gave miracle gro water...

In the evening I baked mini patties in the mini oven and had those with Tea....

Dinner mei kadhi chawal khaye kyon ke mei so gaya tha news dekhte dekhte.... watching Chitchor hindi movie in youtube... looks like youtube has added lots of full length hindi movies...

kal most probably work from home he karunga... cleaning karni hai and kuch kuch reorganize bhi karna hai ....medicines ko check karke expired medicines ko throw karna hai....

For the time being I kept all my cars above mental.... will play with my new RC car later.....

Day 10

It was same as any other day... Had a nice sleep... looks like my climbing to stairs at office is helping me getting good sleep...

Had a french toast in the breakfast and headed out for the office. Today was the record time... reached at 8:45 in the office...

Had same palak paneer in the lunch.. It was really yummy.... i think the podina powder did the trick... i added pudina powder (1/2 tea spoon) and cumin seeds powder (1/2 tea spoon)... this had a shoothing taste to taste buds... and i feel since pudina is good for stomach it also helps with digestion of heavy paneer.

While coming back it was heavy traffic.. took roughly 1.25 hours to reach home... Had my evening tea with toast and watched few videos of different styles of kadhi as i have to finish the brown rice...

While searching how to reheat rice I saw a good video on youtube to put a wet paper towel on the top of the rice while reheating in microwave... looks like a good tip because this way water will create some moisture and prevent rice to get dry by reheating...


Netflix movie bhi aayi hai aaj... usko dekh kar kar return kar dunga so that i can have new movie on sat to watch over weekend..

Kal subah to conference mei jana hai so No lunch cooking... vaise bhi traffic se tired ho gaya hoon to movie dekhunga kadhi bana kar....


Finally while watching movie I was surfing net and bought 2 shirts for me 11$ each... Once they are delivered and if I dont like it would be an easy return as per the policy... Bought from Amazon... Lets see...

Day 9

Now life is getting simpler and boring.... Same routine everyday.. nothing much to write today except that Sat party is shifted back to Sunil's place instead of mine...

In the evening I wish someone could make T for me as I was feeling tired after whole day of busy schedule at office... Ab 2 ghante se jyada kaam kar lo to tired ho jata hai apna system office mei :-)

Abhi costco jaunga kyon ke milk expire ho gaya hai... After analysis it makes sense for me to get milk from costco and make paneer of it instead of buying 1 gallon at almost 75% cost of 2 gallon price at costco.

Soch raha hoon dinner mei palak paneer banata hoon or wo brown rice ko eggfried rice mei convert karta hoon....

cloths ko bhi Iron karna hai... at least 1 jeans and 2 shirts.... vaise Richa hoti bhi to ye to khudh he karna padta hai so no issues there... waiting for Aditi to grow up little bit so she can do the ironing for me...

Day 8

Woke up early today around 5:45 AM.... Got up and was ready by 6:45 as usual...
Packed Idly and rasam for lunch and strawbarry for after lunch snack...

Made paratha and chai for breakfast...

Looks like i slept in a wrong position yesterday night... Having a neck ache since morning and having little bit trouble turning my head in one direction :-)

From office went to Costco and bought 2 bottles of Wine as I have a party this Sat for Rohit who is going back to India for good....

Still working on to finalize the menu for Sat party with other folks but it is sure that it would be at my home because of 2 reasons 1) Wine 2) BBQ

Day 7

Waoo... it's already 7 days passed I am still having fun... This morning I was little lazy compare to other 6 days of the week.. I prefer little relaxing Sundays...

Had a talk to family in India and realized that they are also having good fun over there.... It was little cold this morning so had tough time coming out of bed.. Finally came out and had my breakfast done by 9:15 AM...

Watched 2-3 different video's of Rasam on youtube and decided my own way by combining the tips from those videos... This is going to be my first ever south indian cooking at home... I always thought it is little difficult and different but i was wrong... It is almost same as north indian cooking style....

In the evening I have to go to a bday party (Pizza) so have to get ready for that and pack the gift etc (Very boring work)...

At this time I also want to post that I have decided not to shave and keep beard for some time... lets see how successful i am in that because I know it is really difficult to get rid of that itchy feeling after 3-4 days of beard....

Also after my research on Fila shoes i decided that I am going to return those back....

Now going to clean kitchen and prepare something for Rasam (Tomato Rasam).....

After having lunch i took a short nap before heading out for the dinner party...Went to mall before that as I had a coupon of 10$ for a shop...Went to that shop and bought a remote controlled truck for me to play... It is still packed.. will open it tomorrow..

And yeah I returned my Fila shoes I bought yesterday.

Had a pizza party and just came back...

Day 6

It is raining today and looks like will rain till Monday. Woke up around 7:15 and watched some news. Thode se push-ups bhi maar liye aaj kyon ke mausam sahi tha....

Had Aaloo paratha + T in breakfast.

After a long time able to watch the 9 AM hindi songs program even though songs are not that good today for some reason :-)

Cleaned dishes and going to cook brown rice in slow cooker as one of my friend will come today to have some fun [NO bachelor party :-)].

Soch raha hoon ke Aditi ke bottles pack kar deta hoon since she is off bottles now in India and I dont want her to catch the bottle habit once again after she comes back....That will also create some space in the washer dryer room....

Aaj thoda sa cloth washing ka kaam bhi kar liya... towels/bed sheets ko wash kar diya... abhi fold karna baaki hai... Will do that in evening.

Lunch mei mera dost Krithi aa gaya.. Uske saath lunch (chola sabzi+ paratha + mango + left over sambhar + brown rice) kara. After that we went for some grocery shopping and also saw his new house for which his bid is accepted. I liked the house...

We came back and had coffee... This is the time for me to tell that I used starbucks Via coffee powder to make the coffee and at the same time i used the new Frother i bought on Monday to froth the milk. It did work as I hoped. Coffee was little dark to my taste but Krithi liked it..

Once he left I also left for Costco to return the air purifier which Richa bought last week to help me with allergy... Allergy gone and that was not helping much... Also returned a dress which Richa bought for Aditi in April (Very good customer service from Costco [ No questions asked]).....

While roaming in Costco I realized they had a new Stock of Fila Men Shoes selling for 26.99.... For the time being I picked one pair for me (My new pair of shoes after almost 3.5 years)... Last one was also from costco for around 30$.... Will think about keeping this pair as I never wore Fila in the past but have to google little bit to make sure that it was right choice.

Soch raha hoon dinner mei tahri bana loon so that I can watch new Movie from Netflix... Vaise to idly better bhi laya hoon indian store se to make idly but abhi Rasam banane ka mun nahi kar raha hai.... Will update in tomorrow's blog if I made idly or not...

Day 5

Today I was working from home as always on Fridays but it was different. Missed Aditi little bit because she gives me tough time working sometimes... But at the same time she is learning it slowly. When I have calls from home she keeps quite and sit on my lap...

Well Since it was working from home I woke up little late then regular days (7:30 AM)..
Had left over paratha and chai with a toast in the breakfast....

Since it is Friday I thought what would I have for dinner and watched few videos to make medetranian food at home... Soaked garbanzo beans to make falafel...

Gave water to the garden and did vacuum and hard wood floor cleaning.

Had a hair cut in the lunch time and had left over daal and rotiland roti in lunch... did not really liked the roti...

By evening I changed my plan to have chole + roomali roti today for dinner and will have falafel tomorrow evening...

Had a half hour video chat with Mayank and Gudia... It was good that I was having a company while having dinner..

Will watch "Pyaar ka panchnaamaa" in the evening before going to bed.

Day 4

It was getting settle now so not much changes today then Day 3.

I had normal T and bread and kissan Jam sandwich in the breakfast. Packed my lunch as same Daal (toor)/ Rice i cooked last night. While packing I was thinking that i should also try cooking brown rice in slow cooker.

Evening was slight different from other days... Had a short glass of Wine with paneer sabzi and paratha... Gravy of paneer sabzi was very thick because I also added home made paneer into the paste (tomato/chili/onion/ginger garlic paste). I think next time I would try adding 2 spoons of Besan to make a different gravy.

Also today I decided not to take my allergy medicine to see the effect. I just took decongestant and other regular medicines.

Tomorrow is going to be Work from home....

Day 3

Getting Better day by day...

Shutting two room doors and closing the curtains of the bed room really helped killing the loneliness.

Got ready by 6:45 as always.. Packed lunch with 3 paratha's I made on tuesday night with left over matar sabzi... while taking out the sabzi i realized that there is some left over dosa better in the fridge...

Decided to make my first ever dosa. It was not very good but Hey for the first attempt it was not that bad at the same time... somehow managed to make it in eatable condition. Had that with aaloo and T.

In lunch could not finish all parathas. looks like i am cooking bigger parathas then normal size.. Also while making dough on Monday I added some milk in the aataa thinking it would make paratha soft but it did not really helped much.... next time not going to add milk.. Will finish that aataa over the weekend.

In the evening Had my T with world news and namkeen and good day biscuits (3 pieces).

Had a short skype chat with Aditi and noticed that she is having fun with grand parents and bua..... While talking gave water to the indoor lawn and vegitable plants.

Since paratha's were not that soft decided not to make any paratha for thursday lunch and cooked arhar daal with chawal (16 min on microwave Not a good idea... next time will try only 15 min). I thought i will also make one rotiland roti but forgot to take that from the fridger and realized that i can not separate rotis from the packet as they were frozen.... Not a big deal.. I had enough Rice for me to get filled and also some left over paratha as well...

Watched "No Strings Attached" Movie from netflix... After a long time I saw full english movie without sleeping :-)

Went to my room and watched some documentaries on netflix to make me sleep.. By 10 PM I think I was sleeping...

Another exciting day just passed..

Day 2

On Tuesday morning I felt little lonely but to kill that I shut off Aditi's room as well as the master bedroom. This helps me moving more with less space.

In breakfast had bread butter and packed my lunch with paratha's which I prepared on Monday evening with Left over Sambhar and Rice. Watched news with no DISTURBANCES :-)

Was not able to finish the whole lunch, Rice was not very good with reheat... Searched how to reheat rice on youtube and learnt that if you soak paper towel with water and cover the bowl with it will make the rice heat in a moist environment and it will not become hard after heating.

Anyways... Reached home at around 5:15 PM (Now a days we are leaving office by 4:15 PM to avoid any traffic). Had a HOT cup of T with toast. Watched world news and then gave water to both front and backyard..

In dinner made 2 eggs omlette with a sligh change. Fried the onion first on the pan and spread those evenly on the pan to make it onion omlette. It was different than putting raw onion while beating the eggs. Had that with left over quick biryani..

Tried to eat mango after that but changed my mind after cutting it as it was not sweet. Will make mango chutney over the weekend with that manago...

My alllergy seems to be getting better now and Eye swelling is almost gone by this time... Thanks to my Dr. for writing such a wonderful medicine.

BTW I started eating Fish oil and multivitamin on a daily basis. I heard on morning radio that it is good to eat good fish... Since Fish is not in my diet will manage with the Fish Oil :-)

Started watching Full N Final movie on youtube and could not complete it as I slept as always watching movie.

Day 1

On Day 1 after dropping Aditi and Richa to airport I went straight to IKEA to spend some time and kill an hour or so. I was surprised to see that IKEA parking was full at 11:15 AM in the morning on a long weekend. I used escalators to go up for the first time since Aditi was born. As always I was walking fast to see some really impressive and new stuff on the shop. End up buying a milk frother and a clock for Aditi's Room.

After leaving IKEA i went to drop books to the library and dropped books.

Bought my undershirts from Gap and came back home.

Watched movie Mirch on youtube.