Doodle Recipe - Puffed Rice Upma

This is a recipe which my mother prepares and you can prepare it in 5 mins. My Doodle recipe is a part of Easy Doodle Recipe (tastykhana.blogadda.com) contest at BlogAdda.com (www.blogadda.com) inn association with TastyKhana.com (http://tastykhana.in/) . Enjoy :) (turns out the format in which i had written the previous post was not right. So here is the final recipe. :) )

8 things which will irk you if you are fat.

A girl's gotta write what a girl's gotta write, right ?. Inspired by this post by REDHANDED, I bring you this post. Don't ask me how these two posts are related because I have no idea. Just reading the mentioned post made me want to share this post. This post has been written some 5 months back and has been primped every now and then. The reason for not posting it is, I keep feeling that I will be judged, that I am lazy to exercise or diet and have found excuses and I am bashing the people who are trying to help me. Well read on and let me know. :)

I admit, I am fat, I am overweight. I am always on a diet and an exercise routine. The point is, I am fitter then some of my skinny peers. I don’t get tired easily (thanks to the morning walks which I used to do). I can lift heavy weights without moaning about it(thanks to the dumbbells I lift every morning). Being overweight does not bother me much. Especially when you see a person who is 20 kilos lesser than you huffing and puffing beside you because we ran across the road before the signal turned green and you are not even breathing hard. The point where it becomes irritating is when everybody around you starts considering you overweight. Here are some instances where people around me make me feel fat.

1. The big fat skinny person – I hate it when these skinny people claim that they are fat when an XS(Extra Small) shirt won’t fit them anymore. They go on and on about how they are going to lose weight (which will be mostly dieting). This done when I am holding the XL (Extra large) shirt and wondering if it will fit me.
   
   Hello miss, Wear an effing S(small) sized shirt.
2. The weight-loss-goddesses – These are the people who have not dieted in their entire life. The nearest they come to exercise is when they run when they see a spider or a cockroach. These people have a truck load of information on how to do be slim and won’t hesitate to badger you with it.
   
   Hello miss, Shut your gob!!
3. The I-lost-2-kgs-in-a-week-by-looking-at-an-XS-shirt – There is this category of people who think they know how to lose weight. They claim that they lost so and so many kilos because they drank mineral water instead of tap water. I do not have a problem with these people (because I understand that each person has his/her own way of losing weight) until they open their mouth. They go on and on about how they lost weight and keep telling you to do it whenever they meet you.
   
   Hello, please. You need not rub it in my face. I know you have lost weight and I am happy for you. Please don’t keep repeating what you have said. I got it the first hundred times you said it.
4. Your ever present cousins and relatives. None of my close friends comment on my weight because they have witnessed how fit I am. But cousins, relatives always know how to make you feel fat and sometimes make you feel fatter than you are.
   
   Hello, I am a human being with feelings.
5. The-people-who-treat-you-like-dustbins – You read that right. These are the people who order more than they can eat in a restaurant and expect us to eat what is left over in their plates (which is usually more than half the initial dish) because they think, you know, that we have the capacity to eat a lot, and to top this they order the most oiliest dishes.
   
   Hello, I am not a dustbin. Throw it if you don’t want to eat it. Please don’t force me to eat it.
6. I-look-like-an-elephant – Some (slim) people have this notion that they are really fat when all they have gained in 2 kilos. They start calling themselves an elephant.
   
   Hello miss, if you are an elephant I am the effing earth.!! Beat that !!
7. Give-me-tips-to-gain-weight – Some of my classmates in school had this habit of asking me for tips to become fat. Just imagine the impact of such questions on a 13 year old girl who never thought of herself as a fat person.
   
   I so hate you.
8. I-am-so-thin-I-can-eat-anything – These are the people who prance around eating anything and everything to show that they don’t gain weight as easily as me. They keep eating chocolates and add a big dollop of ghee on every dish and insist that we eat it too. And they keep telling, rubbing it in that they won’t gain weight because of this.
   
   Get a room.!! No, seriously, get a room and go eat there.!!

So please, if you are doing any of this to your friends please stop making them feel fat. I am speaking for the people who are really trying to lose weight and also are a foodie. It’s a struggle fighting weight and when I have to fight these people too I get so tired that I eat some more. It’s an vicious cycle. 

I have written this post because I have realized that I was able to lose weight faster when I stopped feeling bad about such people.

You can also add to the list if you had a similar experiences :)

Love and Hate.

Traffic. Work. Too much of salt, add chili powder, too spicy, add sugar, now sweetish, burnt and eating this at 11.00 pm after spending 2 hours on it. Travelling two and a half hours per day in bus. Eating alone in office. Listening to mind numbingly stupid talk on the bus. Falling asleep in bus. Deadlines. Remember. Resolutions. Remember. Clothes too good and too costly at the same time. Save money. Remember. Expectations. Remember. Freezing cold on the way to the bus stand and in the bus. Remember to buy a jacket. Forgetting to take umbrella and it rains the heaviest that day. Remember to take umbrella every day. Just-this-once eating indulgences. Remember. Lose weight. Remember. Stomach upsetting foods. Remember. Too much to do. Prioritize. True friends. Identify and remember. Bored of all songs on the phone. Remember to change it. No rice at home. No flour. No vegetables. Remember. Remember. Remember.

Mom. Chocolates. Books. Harry Potter. Enjoying work. Gifts. Chocolates as birthday gifts. Friends who do care. Lost 2 Kgs. Coldplay. Medhu mari. Maroon 5. F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Shopping for the perfect gift. Arya Stark. Game of thrones. Roland Deschain. Temperance Brennan. Loving sister. Cold evenings. Agatha Christie. Dad. What-did-I-do-to-deserve-such-a-good-friend feel. Goli ka VadaPav. Medhu mari. Goli ka kulfi. Friendly team lead. Window seat in bus. Kind smile from an aged stranger on the bus when you give them your seat. Satisfaction. Writing. Reading. Chocolates. Sai Ram chaats ka dahi puri. Agatha Christie. Shopping. Cooking. Medhu mari. Cheeky. Nishu. Friendly person on the bus. Team outings. Reading blogs. Watermelon juice. Hot cup of coffee and a crime novel on a rainy day . Mangoes. Phone calls which go on for hours. Little bookmarks and surprise gifts you get along with your order from online stores. Washing clothes. Writing poems. Getting appreciation on written posts. Madikeri.

Smells like home..

I know it is a really long poem. It is about a pup on the street. Dogs identify the world through smells. They remember people through distinctive smells. As I love to write about bugs and animals, here is a poem on a pup.

I feel so lost in this world of smells.
On unfamiliar terrains I do dwell.
I wonder how I ended up here in this dump.
Was I born here near this dry pump?

The world I feel through my nose.
Hoping somebody will find me by my howls.
In every smell I try to find my home.
But all becomes unbearable as I roam.

Fighting for food with my look alikes.
I try not to whimper when the hunger strikes.
On the cold night I shiver with pains.
I try to forget it by gazing at my fur stains.

Next day I wake up and smell hope.
A little being stands on hind legs near the slope.
I walk towards him with a glad heart.
I can smell a good being it is like an art.

I forget the days spent on this ground.
I know in my heart to where I am bound.
This little being that smells of hope.
I pledge to protect him and I lope.

With his fore paws he clutches me to him.
And I smell in his whole being.
Now I know why I am here.
The purpose of life becomes clear.

On unfamiliar terrains I am again.
But now I smell home everywhere.
With all stains on my fur removed.
I smell the delicious smell of food.

I know in my heart what my duty is.
To protect this smell of hope and home.
To see a smile on this little being.
To hear the laughter that smells real good.
To follow this being where ever he goes.

I promise to make his life as smiley as mine.

The Preps.

As my birthday is approaching, I thought of writing a post on what my friends can give me on my birthday. I know, I know, it is not very nice of me to give my friends a list. But still here is a list of things which I want.

1) I recently bought the most uncomfortable slipper in the whole world. In my defense, it looked great on my feet. I mean super great. But the slipper had other ideas. I got shoe bite first and now it just slips off my feet. On top of all that I paid 1500 for that. So, my birthday gift would be not a new pair of slippers, but take these from me. Please, I beg ya. I am ready to give it away for free to a really nice friend. Its been worn for just 4 days. So please could ya.

2) SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB 311. It has a built in reading mode. It would be the perfect gift. So I would like some of my friends to think really really think hard about this one. It can make me really very happy :). And you need not give me gifts for another 5 or 6 years. :) How awesome is that deal ? Eh ?? :) :)

3) This is a easy one. Download the hunger game series and mail it to me. I want the .epub files. I searched a lot for a whole minute. But dint find it online. So if somebody could search it for me. Even a link from where I can download it for free is fine. And if that link does not give me the e-books then thats not really a nice gift now is it.

4) Suggest me an fantasy/fiction series. I have already read Harry potter, Game of thrones, The dark tower and I am going to read hunger games, lord of the rings and sandman. So apart from these. If anyone could suggest me a series which has been completed or will soon be completed (I am tired waiting for the next in series books of game of thrones, the author writes one book every three years), that would be an awesome gift.

5) Read one of my blog posts and comment on it. I mean it. Most of my friends don't read my blog.

See, I am not such a bad person. All reasonable gifts. Now you have the list, go crazy and surprise me :). I will act surprised I have been practicing it all week. ;) :) :)