5 Steps to Catch the Toy

Minion Claw Dispenser and Yes! I have got a Minion from that! ❤

We at some point of our life have come across this CLAW CRANE MACHINE hoping to win something!!! I already have splurged a fortune on these machines and mind you, theses are super addictive! They sort of bewitch you, those toys, those pretty toys! Sounds creepy, eh? Well an addiction is much creepier, I can assure you that! Now that I am over that ‘addiction phase’ (I was my own rehab!), I still play and win sometimes, I just follow few steps of precaution! Hope it helps!

5 Steps to Catch that Toy!

1. MONEY LIMIT

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Always, Always have limited money to splurge on these machines as you can go and on and on! Fix an amount, maybe five coins or two and do not go beyond that money because lets face it, you are simply wasting them (until you really get the toy).

2. DECIDE!

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After you have spotted one machine, spot what you wanna have, as sometimes these Claw Cranes are timed and you can waste your one and only chance deciding. So just figure out what you want.

3. WATCH CLOSELY

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Obviously! you cannot get the toy you want. Look closely if they are stuffed between other toys or not. Look for the ones which are just lying at the top as the pick up strength of the claw are kept low. Evil Machine owners, eh? Well, can’t really blame. Its a business (evil business). If possible, watch others play, in that way you’ll know which toys are out of reach. Eliminate them.

4. GO FOR THE LIGHT ONES

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Again its so obvious, the owner of these machines are not fools to have just kept the machines like that for everyone to pick a toy! Of course not!  You may find that one huge Pooh Bear in a peach night suit just lying there and you think that you can pick it, HELL NO! That Pooh Bear is super heavy and will never be picked by that claw. N-E-V-E-R! Look out for the lighter ones (tiny ones), you might still have a chance to pick it up.

5. ATTACK!

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Now everything is set. You are ready soldier! Go grab the toy! But just remember that do not exceed the money limit because that machine is a money eater!

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P.S. Luck helps sometimes, but these steps will always do! 😉

Mangshor Jhol (Mutton Gravy – Bengali Style)

Every Bengali household have very special Sundays because Sundays are pampered by this sumptuous Mangshor Jhol or Mutton gravy if we translate it. I know yesterday was not a Sunday but never the less it was special. Hence to celebrate, the Mangshor Jhol.

Note: As mutton takes more time to cook, overnight marination is suggested but myself being super impatient, I keep it marinated for an hour or two (More time, more amazing your mutton will taste, just don’t exceed the ‘overnight’ limit, because after that I don’t guarantee).

INGREDIENTS:

• Mutton (Duh uh!) – suit yourself! (I took 500 gms)
• Jeera powder (cumin powder – 1 teaspoon)
• Dhaniya powder (Coriander seeds powder – 1 teaspoon)
• Red Chilli Powder (1 teaspoon)
• Turmeric Powder (1 teaspoon)
• Garam Masala (1 teaspoon)
• Yogurt (2 tablespoon)
• Salt (as per taste)
• Sugar (one fourth of a teaspoon)
• Cinnamon Stick (1 no.)
• Oil (Mustard is preferred, but I had sunflower oil)
• Butter or Ghee – OPTIONAL
• Dried Red Chilies Whole (1 nos.) – OPTIONAL
• Sliced Tomato (1 big no.)
• Thin Sliced Onion (3 small nos.)
• Green Chilies (as per your needs)
• Chopped Fresh Coriander Leaves
• Half Cut Potato (2 no.)
• Chopped Garlic (5-6 cloves)
• Whole Garlic (2 nos.) – OPTIONAL
• Chopped Ginger
• Water (1-1.5 cup)

METHOD:

Marinate the Mutton with Yogurt, Coriander Powder, Cumin Powder, Red Chili Powder, Turmeric Powder and keep it overnight. Take the round bottom vessel, add Oil and Butter or Ghee, put Cinnamon Stick, Dried Red Chili and Sugar, then put Chopped Garlic, Ginger and Onions and saute for a while. Adjust the salt. Add the tomatoes and Green Chilies. When the oil separates, add the marinated Mutton. Cook for a while till the mutton appears to be cooked, but HAAH! Mutton is just fooling you my friend! Mutton takes time and pressure to cook (Reminds me of diamonds! weird eh?). Till then, take the pressure cooker, put the Potatoes, Whole Garlic, a little butter, and the pseudo cooked Mutton. Add water. Keep it on high flame and let the Pressure Cooker whistle. I have a very ancient pressure cooker, so please don’t ask me about the whistles, I think 4-5 should do. Open the lid, add Coriander Leaves and Garam Masala and keep it on the flame. Before it starts whistling, turn off the flame. Do not open the lid, let the pressure go away naturally. Open. Smell. Serve. 🙂

Tastes best with plain rice.

Mangshor Jhol and Rice with a HUGE coriander Leaf!

Thanks Enid (and no she is not a Blyton! 😛 )for taking this photo.

Yes my phone is screwed meanwhile and am currently on a very basic mobile phone. 

Stalking Penn Masala

Yes! Yes, Now my ever-never-ending stalking list has another add on -Penn Masala. The Penn Masala is the world’s first Cappella group and guess what! it was started by a bunch of Indian students at the University of Pennsylvania ! HAAH! *just proud* 

Looks like you can take the Indians out of India but you just cannot take the India out of the Indians! For Indians, our TV channels will just shuffle between Cricket or anything Bollywood. We are just C-R-A-Z-Y for it (now I strongly believe that our DNA must have been modified by now).

I happened to stumble upon them through the recommended list by YouTube. ❤

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Few fact checks (of course! I had to Google them!), Formed in 1996, the music is an amalgamation of ‘East meets West’. They are already eight albums old and have had numerous music tours all over the world and met a lot of famous personalities; well, lets just say that they are now one of them.

Penn Masala with US President Obama

Though its just that they mix the songs pretty well, I mean any disc jock can do that. What’s so special? I don’t know, its maybe how they sing without any instruments (Cappella), you can totally feel the soul of that particular song! I personally like to put my earphones on (and increase the bacteria in my ears).

This one was the song I stumbled upon. It shows the evolution of Bollywood like nothing else. All famous songs put together in the 5 minutes’ compose. And guess what! I knew all the songs! 😀

Now I’ll just go back and stalk them some more till the battery of my laptop dies.

‘ 2 States’ – MyView

2 States Theatrical Poster

This is the story of the union of ‘Butter Chicken‘ and ‘sambhar‘, a story which is so cliche in India. Be it the whatsapp era or the old times, Indian parents have always twitched on the idea of inter caste or worse inter state marriages. Truly its not ‘just’ marrying the other person, its rather marrying the entire family!
The story of Ananya (Alia Bhatt) and Krish (Arjun Kapoor) who fell in love while studying at IIM Ahmedabad is also on the same page. The first half of the movie mostly dealt with how Krish was smitten by Ananya’s charm and beauty but could not tell her because he did not want to be the 56th or so rejection (because all the other 55 IITians proposals were rejected by Ananya). And he was also afraid that Ananya might make him her ‘rakhi IIT brother’ which is the most dreadful relation of all! So what does our hero does? He starts ignoring her leaving her all confused. So the girl (after knowing about Krish’s feeling) takes her chances and starts dating him. Lucky IITian? eh? So Few songs here and there with their love stories wrapped in them, that’s all the romance you will be seeing in the movie, next is all drama and action!

So on their convocation, both the families meet and then starts the cold war between the ‘punjabis’ and the ‘madrasis’ (for Punjabis, anyone from south is a Madrasi!). So entire movie goes on and on about persuading his family, her family, her mother, her father, her brother, his mother, her, him, then persuading both the families to like each and everything else in between.
*phew*
A lot of emotions and drama but not much romance between the couple past the IIM days. I mean even Raj and Simran wanted to marry only with their parents consent, but they had their romance in between (Those who don’t know I am talking about the movie Dilwaale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge here). Yeah I know, DDLJ was a bollywood masala and 2 states is an autobiographical, but I felt a little more could have been done in terms of the love in between them, I mean wasn’t the movie’s fundamentals based on love?
To sum it up, its a good watch if you already liked Chetan Bhagat’s 2 States, the movie goes pretty much same of what’s in the book. Alia Bhatt looked gorgeous and she held the movie together. Arjun Kapoor was a bit shaky but you’ll get used to him seeing him on the screen after some time. The cold war between Revathy and Amrita Singh is something to look out for. Altogether a nice weekend flick, not awesome as I expected.

Time and Tide

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“That’s it! I am done sitting alone at home”, were the words of a girl in pyajama looking at the clock, the laptop and the mess around her. It was already 5.15pm and all she did was oversleeping and eating that day. Yes, it was her day off (the only day off in the entire fucking long week!), so sleeping and eating are essential but she had been doing this for over a month now. It was the usual office-overdose with no social life scenario. She would usually sleep again when such thoughts creep-ed in, but not that day. She got up, dressed up and within 10 minutes she was down on the road. The roads were familiar, they were the same for the past six months. The restaurants on the left, the dry cleaner, even the cats were recognizable now, after all she occasionally meow-ed to them. She walked along the pavement, crossing the road with music plugged in, which was a relief, though she would frequently change the songs. The day was mundane, until she saw a road which she had never noticed before. It was a small lane, a detour, between the buildings. She stopped. Changed the song again and walked. 

The lane was deserted except for some pigeon poops that jazzed up the tiled road all along. When she reached the end of the lane, a huge smile had hit her across the face; ‘Flowerhorn Pets Trading‘, the board on the door of the shop beamed at her. She had never noticed that shop before and of course she almost barged in! The shop was adorned with turtles, tortoises (Yes! there is a difference between tortoises and turtles and they are not the same), parrots, love birds (varieties of love birds chirping), fishes (small cups with colorful fighter fishes and other kinds) and BUNNIES!

Five Small, tiny ball of fur crawling in the cage, consuming what ever was kept, cuddling into each other, totally an Awww-moment. Two were as white as snow, other two were grey and one was white with black odd patches. She bent down to have a better look; seeing the attention he was getting, the black and white bunny rose up on his two feet, twitched his nose.

“May I help you?”, the keeper of the shop asked. 

“Errmm… Can I have a look at that?”, she pointed at the black and white bunny. 

The next moment she was cuddling the bunny and walking all around the store with him in her arms. Hours passed by, the keeper of the shop was polite, did not mind much as long as she and the bunny behaved well. Somehow, she never had the courage to buy the bunnies no matter how desperately she wanted one, because it was a huge responsibility and with her lifestyle, she did not want the bunny to suffer.  Although she visited them on a regular basis and each time it was a new group of bunnies to be cuddled. 

She was glad she went out that day; you see, sometimes we care about the bigger picture so much, that we forget that the tiny details are also very important in it. 

 

P.S. – For all those who thought, its was an autobiographical, I’ll be off now. 😀 I can’t wait to meet the bunnies ❤ 

Being a Woman

Copyright © DeekshaSarkar

The days I spend are the days that go by,

Often I ask myself the question – How and Why?

Being a woman is not that easy, 

like the people around me sound like its so cheesy

A daughter, a wife, a mother of maybe five,

a sister, a neighbor, a friend to survive

Among these roles, the time which I spend; 

no regrets; gorgeous, pretty and ten on ten

But somewhere between those fake smiles and uncleaned makeups,

somewhere between those eyes and breakups,

There lives a soul, naked and deep inside,

Away from the pretentious world, within me it resides

Between the folklore and the daily chores,

usually when the heavy rain on the window pane pours

“don’t let it out, be a lady”, they say,

and I stayed still, did everything their way 

a silent storm, an ocean rooted,

buried inside the abyss of ‘being a woman’, rotted 

being sophisticated and polite, 

often suppressed and conquered without a fight

“let it be, you can’t change anything”, they exclaimed,

there was a voice within, thought to be in vain, 

there was a choice to be made, but all they said, 

“don’t be stupid, you are just a lady,

and we don’t give a damn of what you say”

The soul still lives there, weak and frail,

a cold flame, decayed and under a veil 

another butterfly trapped in the cocoon, 

hopes for the future still high, though a little swoon

You see, the days I spend are the days that go by

Often I ask myself the question – How and Why?

‘Main Tera Hero’ – MyView

Main Tera Hero Theatrical Poster

Are you a person who loves comedy, parody, romance-te-dance, colorful costumes, a little dishum-dhishum all in Govinda ishtyle? Well, if you have seen this (Main Tera Hero) movie, you exactly know what I am talking about, if you haven’t, you are missing something awesome here! This is a typical David Dhawan movie; I think David Dhawan’s movie should be classified as a different genre – senseless movies where logic gets out of the back door but awesomely hilarious and has the major 3 factors of Indian Cinema – Entertainment! Entertainment! and Entertainment! Remember the laughter riots we had back then seeing his movies, this movie is certainly not a disappointment to me! And ohh! Varun Dhawan! Did you see his smile? His killer smile? Aaah! Varun! *sigh*

Varun Dhawan ❤

So, after all the drools and ogles, this movie, -yes-you-guessed-it-right- is a love triangle which eventually becomes a square. With twist in every corner, this movie is surely not much predictable, but of course, the ending is obvious; Hero-ji-Dulhaniya-le-jayenge. *happy endings*. The movie starts with the prologue of introducing the character Seenu (Varun Dhawan) in his hometown and how he is the Denis-the-Menace of Ooty. This is to build the characteristics of the Haraami boy whom you’ll witness in the entire movie.

The Haraami Seenu

The movie actually begins when the sweet-innocent-swami-type-ka-Seenu-who-is-actually-very-Harami-type-ka falls for the pretty Sunaina (Illeana D’cruz) on the first day of his collage only to learn later that a local rowdy, terrorizing policeman Angad (Arunoday Singh) is obsessed with this girl and torments her. Ofcourse! He is the hero and apparently saves his lady and they fall in love (Here, I would not like to spill the beans of how he does that. Watch it).

The Barfi Parody

Tell it the twist of fate or director’s choice, Ayesha (Nargis Fakhri) also falls for Seenu who is a big Bankok Gangster Vikrant’s (Anupam Kher) beloved daughter. Sunaina is kidnapped and Seenu is forced to marry Ayesha. Now you must think it is such an intense moment, where is the comedy? That my friend, you have to watch. 😀 It will literally make you R-O-F-L-M-A-O! Both the parts after and before intervals are equally funny (My popcorn bucket almost tossed and dunked the fellow beside me *embarrassing moments*)

Nargis Fakhri as Ayesha

Varun Dhawan being a newbie (well, just a movie old, now two) has done a splendid justification to his character because doing comic roles are quite a challenge in itself. Looking forward for more ‘Father-Son’ duo comedy flicks. And Thank God! Nargis Fakhri was not given emotional drama, though her absence of emotions (We have our own Kristen Stewart! Are you listening Hollywood! HAAAH! 😀 ) was not much of a concern unlike her previous role in Rockstar.

Main Tera Hero Hotties! Can someone switch on the AC please?

Aah! it would be my bad if I don’t mention, the ladies had the curvaceous HOT bodies! Oomph-La-La! I could literally hear the men beside me going Oos and Aaas. Lucky Varun to have got a chance romancing both of them. 😉 Good performances by Anupam Kher, Arunoday Singh, Rajpal Yadav and Saurabh Shukla.

I might re-watch it again! Its gonna be a weekend again. ❤ :3

10 Favorite Dialogues – Juno (movie)

I was re-re-re watching Juno for the nth time today and that movie has some pretty awesome dialogues! So this is just a compilation of some. Enjoy. Feel free to comment your favorite dialogue from the movie. Cheers! (y)

Here are my top 10 Favorite Dialogues from the movie Juno:

#10

Rollo: Well, well… If it isn’t MacGuff the crime dog! Back for another test?
Juno MacGuff: I think the last one was defective. The plus sign looked more like a division sign so I remain unconvinced.
[Rollo pulls the bathroom key out of reach]
Rollo: Third test today, Mama Bear. Your eggo is preggo, no doubt about it.
Another Girl: [to Juno] It’s really easy to tell. Is your nipples real brown?
Rollo: Yeah. Maybe your little boyfriend’s got mutant sperms. Knocked ya up twice.
Juno: Silencio old man! Look, I just drank my weight in Sunny-D and I gotta go pronto!
Rollo: Well, you know where the lavatory is.
[Juno heads towards the bathroom]
Rollo: [yells] You pay for that pee stick when you’re done! Don’t think it’s yours just cuz ya marked it with your urine!

#9

Su-Chin: I’m having a little trouble concentrating.
Juno: Oh well I could sell you some of my Adderall if you want.
Su-Chin: No thanks I’m off pills.
Juno: That’s a wise choice because I knew this girl who like had this crazy freak out because she took too many behavioral meds at once and she like ripped off her clothes, and dove into the fountain at Ridgedale Mall and was like, “Blah I am a Kracken from the sea!”
Su-Chin: I heard that was you.
Juno: Well, it was good seeing ya Su-Chin

#8

Vanessa Loring: Your parents are probably wondering where you are.
Juno: Nah… I mean, I’m already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

#7

Paulie Bleeker: I still have your underwear.
Juno: I still have your virginity.

#6

Juno: I think I’m in love with you.
Paulie Bleeker: You mean as friends?
Juno: No… I mean for real. ‘Cause you’re, like, the coolest person I’ve ever met, and you don’t even have to try, you know…
Paulie Bleeker: I try really hard, actually.

#5

Juno: I’m going to really start looking like a dork soon. Will you still think I’m cute if I’m huge?
Paulie Bleeker: I always think you’re cute. I think you’re beautiful.

#4

Juno MacGuff: Hey, Dad.
Mac MacGuff: Hey, big puffy version of June bug. Where you been?
Juno MacGuff: Oh, just out dealing with things way beyond my maturity level.

#3

Juno MacGuff: As far as boyfriends go, Paulie Bleeker is totally boss. He is the cheese to my macaroni. And, I know that people are supposed to fall in love before they reproduce, but… I guess normalcy isn’t really our style.

#2

Juno MacGuff: I’m just like losing my faith with humanity.
Mac MacGuff: Can you can narrow that down for me?
Juno: I just wonder if like, two people can ever stay together for good.
Mac: You mean like couples?
Juno: Yeah, like people in love.
Mac: Are you having boy troubles? Because I gotta be honest with you; I don’t much approve of dating in your condition, ’cause well… that’s kind of messed up.
Juno: Dad, no!
Mac: Well, it’s kind of skanky. Isn’t that what you girls call it? Skanky? Skeevy?
Juno: Please stop.
Mac: [persisting] Tore up from the floor up?
Juno: That’s not what it’s about. I just need to know that it’s possible that two people can stay happy together forever.
Mac: Well, it’s not easy, that’s for sure. Now, I may not have the best track record in the world, but I have been with your stepmother for 10 years now and I’m proud to say that we’re very happy.
[Juno nods]
Mac: Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.
Juno: Yeah. And I think I’ve found that person.
Mac: Yeah sure you have – your old D-A-D! You know I’ll always be there to love you and support you no matter what kind of pickle you’re in… Obviously.
[nods to her belly]
Juno: Dad, I think I’m just going to, like, shove out for a sec, but I won’t be home late.
Mac: Ok. You were talking about me right?

 #1

*I know its not a dialogue but this is my favorite song from the movie*

That’s all folks! ❤