Journey to/from office

This is one thing which i have been thinking about since many days. I have to travel around 60kms everyday and I feel 4 hrs of my day is going as a waste everyday but I am not able to do anything about it.
Its been 2 years since I started working and since then its been my daily routine to travel 4 hrs a day on weekdays. Initially it was a good experience as I had never travelled to that part of the city so i was getting to know new places, but this was the case only for the initial 2 weeks. Then I started thinking wat else can I do so the second option was listening to music, downloading new songs and listening to them on the way back and talking to friends over phone was becoming the routine. My company bus is the most boring bus I have ever seen with people not even wanting to talk to each other. So the only thing they do is listen to music, talk to friends over phone or sleep and there is no other option available.

After a few days, I realised I was slowly becoming one of them. I always used to think bus journey can become fun if people started talking to each other, play games like antyakshari. But somehow till now I have not got the courage to talk to anyone about this. One of the reasons behind this is whenever I meet my friend in the bus and keep chatting with her the whole distance,people give such stares. So i realised these are people who belong to a different category :D and gave hopes of playing games and all. A few days back when I was reading a novel I read in that that itl be fun to imagine wat is happening in other's life whom we dont even know. I have started doing this now, I keep peeping out of the bus just to imagine a story about someone in the street who looks interesting, its fun to do this.

Travelling to different places is always something I love but then travelling to the same place is boring. How nice it would be if my office keeps shifting everyday from one city to another and I have to go in search of it ;-) . But thats not reality and I am getting bored with everything in a few days but my journey to office continues and I have to think of new things :-(

My experiments with cooking :-D

This is my first blog so thought il write something which I have been trying since many days but not yet successful and thats cooking :-D. I think all girls of my age and who are working will agree with me that cooking is boring and will not step into the kitchen until and unless its necessary. But since a few days cos my mom has been shouting at me that I dono anything except few basic things like tea,coffee,rice ;-) I thought let me try cooking and since then my view about cooking has been changing :)

Saturday afternoon is the time when i cook if im at home and have no other plans, I take a small nap after lunch and sometime in the late afternoon is when i cook. Thanks to my friend who introduced me to a few sites of cooking, browsing those sites is when i got interest to cook seeing all the delicious recipes posted there :D.

So here are a few things which i tried:
Gobi Manchurian : Thanks to aayisrecipes, my first experiment was quite good. Even though it dint taste as good as the ones in hotels it was not that bad also. It dint turn out to be as crisp as expected and had a lot of tomato sauce :D. Taste was quite good and i ate half of what was prepared as i was the only one at home. Mom and dad also liked it and after that i got gyaan from Mom as to wat was missing and wat was extra :).

Cabbage curry, Capsicum bajji and Shavige kheer: These 3 dishes were my next experiment. When my mom had work on Sunday till afternoon I thought let me give a small surprise by preparing lunch but it turned to be a bad suprise :(. Cabbage was not cooked properly, Capsicum bajji was not fried properly but Shavige payasa was yum :D. Hence we landed up having lunch outside and the desert at home ;-). But then my dad has been supportive telling only if u try ul learn :D. Mom keeps telling "Ur a 23 yr old girl and this is wat u cook" :P

Dates kheer: By this time everyone at home realised im very bad at cooking so I had to change their view somehow so started trying simple dishes first. Dates Kheer was one such dish which was very simple to prepare and had a good taste. But again anything which i cook cant be perfect so it was too thick for a kheer but tasty :)

Oats Kheer: This is yet another simple dish which i tried but turned out to be very good and with high nutritional value and everyone loved it at home.

So now i can tell im preparing dishes which are edible ;). Anyone who wants recipes of the above can contact me :D. Will try to take pics of my new experiments and post them :).