Heart Beat

H – Hard to handle

E – Easily breaks

A – Always guides you the

R – Right way

T – Towards determination for

B – Balancing the life’s

E – Emotions that exhibits and

A – Actions to be taken

T – Tremendously to an extent

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Heart Feelings 18

Year crosses, time passes,

My beauty will fade, my memories may lose,

Everyone might leave, but still my heart will beat,

You know why? Even after I lose all,

The only thing that remain me alive is

Growing old with you and our ever ending

Love that live without withering beyond ages.

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Happy Christmas Memories

Everyone has a favorite Christmas memory. I know that Christmas is not a celebration for other religion peoples. But personally I love to celebrate Christmas even I belong to a hindu family. I love Christmas season. I love saying “Merry Christmas”. I love to see the colors of red, green and silver during Christmas.

I believe in santa claus. I really, sincerely, I do. I love the idea of a magical person who cares about what you want…a person who motivates you to be “good” and give you gifts.

I still remember the day when my dad bought a fluffy santa claus toy to home and rejoiced like a real santa came to our home. Every year we like to see the persons who dressed themselves like santa and sing jingles all the way out in the streets and distribute chocolates for everyone they see in the streets.

Apart from santa, reindeer, gifts, Christmas tree, I love the foods of Christmas season, especially Christmas cakes. Cakes are meant for special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries. But for me Christmas cakes are even more special, I sense a different rich taste and flavor from them. I don’t know what make them special, may be they are blessed directly by the lord jesus on that day. Once me and my sister baked a tooti fruity cake at home for celebrating Christmas.

Going to church did not make me less of a hindu and neither does saying “merry Christmas” make me less. My faith has not been shaken just because I wished my friends and celebrated Christmas in our own style. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. Now its time to wish,

May joy and happiness snow on you,

May the bells jingles for you and,

May santa be extra good to you,

“Merry Christmas”

Wish your Christmas be filled with peace and love.

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A Secret Heart - Part 8

                  Prithvi came to maya.

Prithvi: What happened maya? Is she convinced?

Maya: Ya she is… hereafter no more fights between you and sruthi (smiled).

Prithvi: Thank you so much maya. You have made it for me.

Maya: I won’t let things get messed up between good friends like you and sruthi. Ok prithvi now I gotta go. Cya later.

                She walked away. Prithvi thinks of maya how she handled his problem as hers and took effort to clear it up and made everything alright for him. Next he moved to meet sruthi.

Prithvi: Hi sruthi (with a smile)

                Sruthi turned her face away to avoid prithvi.

Prithvi: I know still you are in anger. But I know how to cool you. See what I have got for you.

                He had two chocobars in his hand.

Sruthi: Chocobars to cool me??? Ok I forgive you but both are for me.

                She grabbed the icecreams from him and started to eat. Prithvi watched her silently.

Prithvi: Sorry sruthi. I never do such mistake again. Sorry for hurting you.

Sruthi: It’s ok leave it. Let’s forget that. But I have a punishment for you. You have to be with me all the time for the next two days. Will you?

Prithvi: Oh this much tough punishment I dint expect (he acted like being sad).

Sruthi: Huh spending time with me is tough for you? (angrily).

Prithvi: Cool cool… I will spend time with you for next two days. Ok now?

Sruthi: Hmmm ok.

                Sruthi gave one chocobar to prithvi. They happily had it together. Maya watched everything from the distance and thought she should be away from sruthi and prithvi as she didn’t want to spoil their happiness.

                Next day prithvi searched for maya everywhere in college. But he couldn’t find her anywhere. He asked to sruthi about maya.

Sruthi: You don’t know really? Or acting to me?

Prithvi: What are you talking? (confused)

Sruthi: Maya is absent today. Dint she inform you about it before?

Prithvi: no she didn’t inform me. Why she is absent today? Is she alright?

Sruthi: I don’t know. I told you to spend the day with me. But you are searching for maya here and there. Don’t make me angry again.

                Prithvi was confused and lost in thoughts of maya.

                                                                                                                                                           -To Be Continued…

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Spicy Fish Fry

Ingredients

Fish – 4 fillets

Turmeric powder – ½ tspn

Lemon juice – 2 tbspn

Dry Red chilly – 8 nos

Small onions – 5 nos

Cumin seeds – 1 tbspn

Oil to fry

Salt to taste

Method

♥ Clean and wash the fish well and drain water completely.

♥ Soak the dry red chilies in water for few mins.

♥ Grind small onions, soaked red chilies and cumin seeds into coarse paste.

♥ Apply salt, lemon juice and turmeric powder on the fish fillets.

♥ Then apply the grinded paste all over the fish fillets.

♥ Marinate the fish fillets well for an hour.

♥ Heat the nonstick pan and add little oil for shallow frying.

♥ Add the masala coated fish fillets and drizzle oil to sides.

♥ Fry the fish on both sides until it reaches golden brown and crispy.

♥ Now spicy fish fry is ready to serve with sliced onions.

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Fake A Smile

Lined up by sequence of thoughts,

I fell down into the well of past,

Wondering where it went wrong,

What made us fall apart,

I see you walk away from me,

A last glance of our sights hit each other,

I left behind with a pierced heart,

For the first time with no words to say,

I am crushed by the heaviness in my heart,

For every step you take increased my infinite pain,

I reluctantly watched your silhouette,

Disappear in the distance gradually,

I know in this way better you will,

Drag the drama of playing with my emotions to an end,

If destiny bring us to meet again,

I desire nothing from you sternly,

Except a thing to do so effortless for you,

To look at my eyes and fake a smile atleast.

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Transform Your Life As New

Do you sometimes feel like your life is struck and you can’t get out? We all do from time to time. I remember before I sleep all I could think about was everything that was going wrong in my life. I would think about all the things that I wasn’t achieving and wished that something will happen one day to make everything better, a miracle. Unfortunately that miraculous day never came.

Why am telling you all this? Well, the point is that you are not struck permanently in the life you have now, even it may feel that way. It may sometimes feel like you should have started to change your life earlier. It may feel like it is too late now. You may look to your past and tell yourself “If only I had done this before then the things would have been different and better now”.

It isn’t too late for you to improve something in your life that you really want to change. No matter what age you are at. Over years, I learnt some ways that are really powerful enough to transform my life.

~ Be a master of your moods

                Be a master rather than a servant of your own moods. You are the ruler of the kingdom of your happiness. Do not allow other people or circumstances to make you happy or sad. Do not depend on material possessions to create happiness for you.

~ Focus on changing yourself

                It’s impossible to change the world around you. So stop fretting when people do not come upto your expectations. The best is to change yourself than trying to change others.

~ Make the best of what you have

                Its always better to make the best out of what you have than for what you think is the best. You change your life by changing your thoughts. If the thoughts you think are pure, your life will be pure.

~ Face your fears

                When you face your fears, possibilities open up. Learn to identify what you can do and what you cant while facing your fears.

~ Take responsibility

                I see people wanting to change their life, but they aren’t willing to take responsibility. When you take responsibility for the life you have created, you can begin to move forward.

                Now is the time to live the life you have already dreamed of. Turn your hopes into reality. Working together at transformations, begin your life a new.

“Fill your heart with creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future”

                                                                                                           -Osho

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A Secret Heart - Part 7

Sruthi was very angry about prithvi’s behavior. Maya saw prithvi sitting alone sadly. She went near him.

Maya: Hi prithvi, why are you sitting alone here?

Prithvi: Nothing maya…simply.

Maya: Anything serious?

Prithvi: I’m little upset.

Maya: Why? What happened?

Prithvi: Sruthi fought with me today. She is very angry on me now. I forgot her birthday yesterday. I dint wish her. I feel very bad… I don’t know how I forgot my best friend’s birthday.

Maya: Relax…go, talk to her and convince her.

Prithvi: She is not ready to talk to me.

Maya: If you wish, shall I talk to her and convince?

Prithvi: Ya maya…please do it for me.

Maya: Ok don’t worry.

                Maya went to meet sruthi.

Maya: Sruthi, are you free now?

Sruthi: Ya Maya I am free…what’s the matter?

Maya: I need to talk to you about prithvi.

Sruthi: There’s nothing to talk about him.

Maya: sruthi, I know you are in anger… but prithvi is very upset.

Sruthi: He deserve it. Don’t talk about him to me.

Maya: He is your best friend…how long will you be angry on him like this? Come on.

Sruthi: You want me to talk to him… right? You know what? Everything happened so far is only because of you…only you.

Maya: Because of meeee? (shocked)

Sruthi: Yes….you are the one who came between me and prithvi. He is not my friend. I love him so much. After you came in his life he changed a lot. If you really want to help us to be together then just get out of prithvi’s life.

                Maya was so silent after hearing sruthi’s words. after a while,

Maya: Sorry sruthi, I am unaware of your love with prithvi. I will never come between you both. Bye sruthi.

Sruthi: Maya one minute, don’t tell anything happened between us to prithvi.

Maya: ok sruthi.

                Sruthi watched maya walking away grumpily.

                                                                                                                                                            -To Be Continued…

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My Favorite Books - Little House Series

This is a small review about one of my favorite book series that I ever like to read again and again. My mom is a great story-teller. I love to hear my mom talk about her parents, her grand parents and her siblings. That’s why I love family stories. Perhaps little house is one of the reasons I have always love stories.

Little house series books were written by Laura Ingalls Wilder in 1930s. The little house series books are based on old memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s childhood in the Midwest region of the United States during the late 19^th century.

Little house on the prairie is third book in the series. The story, very briefly is about Laura, a pioneer girl and her family as they travel by covered wagon into new territory. Once they arrive, they try to make their new home. They build house, barn, dig well, meet neighbors and explore fields etc. However, their time in Kansas isn’t without troubles as the family is plagued by wolves, native Indians, wild fire and diseases.

I was so sad when I came to the last word in the last book. The little house series covers, little house in the big woods (1932), farmer boy (1933), little house on the prairie (1935), on the banks of plum creek (1937), by the shores of silver lake (1939), the long winter (1940), little town on the prairie (1941), these happy golden years (1943), the first four years (1971).

After reading the series, I wanted to live in one room with my whole family and have a corncob doll as my own. I wanted to do chores like carry water, churn butter, play along the prairie. I say I want to do all these things though that may not have been what I truly desired. For a while I had a close imaginary friendship with Laura when reading these books. Everything in these books are narrated like a scene by scene picturisation of a movie as clear and sharp so that anyone can visualize it in their mind while reading.

I simply loved the little house books because of the charm of the language, characters and stories. I believe that the little house books contain both practical and spiritual lessons that help us thoughtfully achieve both things. These books are for readers of all ages, points a bright way down good path.

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Palak Paneer

Ingredients

Paneer / cottage cheese – 250gms (cubed)

Spinach – 2 bunches

Cumin seeds – 1 tspn

Big Onion – 1 (chopped)

Tomato – 1 (chopped)

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbspn

Kasuri methi leaves – 1 tbspn

Green chilly – 2 nos (slited)

Garam masala powder – 1 tspn

Butter – 3 tbspn

Fresh cream – 1 tbspn

Salt to taste

Method

♥ Blanch spinach in 1 cup of water in a vessel and boil it for 5 min. Let it cool and grind it into fine spinach puree.

♥ Fry the cubed paneer in 1 tbspn butter and keep it aside.

♥ In a frying pan, add butter and melt it.

♥ Add in cumin seeds and cook it for a min.

♥ Now add chopped onions and sauté till it turns golden brown.

♥ Then add ginger garlic paste, green chillies and cook for 5 mins.

♥ Add chopped tomato and sauté till oil separates.

♥ Now add spinach puree and cook it for 10 mins without covering the pan.

♥ Now add garam masala powder, kasuri methi leaves and required amount of salt to taste.

♥ Add little water to gravy to get semi thick consistency if needed.

♥ Add in the fried paneer cubes and cook for 10 mins in low flame.

♥ Add a dollop of fresh cream and mix it well before switch off the flame.

♥ Serve hot with rotis or steamed white rice.

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A Bond Like No Other

This post is about brother and sister relationship. I just share this post to tell how importance is the sibling relationship in this world. Siblings are boon given by god. There exist siblings who are friends but there also exist siblings who are separated by rivalry, fights and hatred. There are people who share more affectionate relationships with friends than with their own siblings. But according to me, developing friendship among siblings is great.

Anyone who have either a brother, a sister or both will know a little bit about sibling rivalry. An ideal brothers and sisters will get along faster, even if they did have fights, they would learn to forget and forgive. Even if we want sibling relationships to be peaceful and loving, we cannot expect those friendly terms to exist always.

There are siblings who separate from each other after they grow up and busy with their own lives. But the fact that can’t be changed is “Siblings know you better than anyone”. They may not always admire you. But they will always be intensely interested in you.

From the time, we are born our brothers and sisters are our role models. They are our protectors, scolds, playmates, source of envy, objects of pride. They help us to learn how to solve problems, how to build friendships and when to walk away from them.

Nothing can change the care of a brother for his sister and vice versa. You can’t be more connected to yourself, when you are not connected to your sister or brother. It’s very true that we cannot pick and choose who is in our family. But we can learn to live together with affection and care. This not only applies to sibling relationships but to all relationships in common. Good or bad, happy or sad, there is a reason for everything and there is a reason you became family.

“A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self” 

                               -Marian Sandmaier

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The Moon And Me

I see it staring at me and smiling,

Is that a halo around it you see?

Sailing across the huge sky,

Lonely wanderer of the nights,

My heart raises over to touch,

Is it the same moon we are watching?

Make a wish, to be together,

Exchanging the secret messages through,

Go, go moon, consign it safely,

Come back with a happy note tomorrow,

Heed it, why I say for you to know,

Alike moon, you are the one,

Because, same as moon some days,

Your love on me shrinks and grows.

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Heart Feelings 17

Sorry is just a word,

When the relationship is strong

Nothing can break it,

Even your egos and mistakes

Appear tiny infront of the bond

That built using trust and love.

Sorry for once is by mistake,

Sorry for twice is of reckless,

Sorry again is habitual.

Words do have power,

When used properly

At right time and right situation,

Words just do wonders.

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A Secret Heart - Part 6

Part-1 & Part-2 & Part-3

Days passed. Prithvi and maya became close friends. But sruthi felt that prithvi is going far away from her. Some incidents happened to prove it. Prithvi started to spend time with maya more than sruthi.

On the day of sruthi’s birthday, sruthi waits for prithvi’s call. But he dint call her. So she decided to call him and dialed his number.

Sruthi: Hello prithvi

Prithvi: Hi sruthi, what a surprise? You called me this early morning?

Sruthi: Why don’t I call you?

Prithvi: No, no, I dint say like that…ofcourse you can call me anytime.

Sruthi: Hmmm…so what’s up?

Prithvi: You called me…you have to tell. What’s the matter?

Sruthi: What are you trying to tell? Are you telling that only I have to call you, if I have any matter to talk?

Prithvi: Ssss…oops. Did you call me to talk or fight?

Sruthi: Ok nothing bye.

                She cuts the call. Prithvi was confused about what happened to sruthi. Sruthi waits for prithvi’s call. She got disappointed. She called him again.

Sruthi: Prithvi, where are you?

Prithvi: Sruthi, right now am busy. I will call you later.

                He hangs the call. She again tried to call him. But he dint attend her call. Sruthi thought he is avoiding her call purposely. Sruthi waited for his call until night. But no call from prithvi. She called him again.

Sruthi: Hi prithvi, are you free now?

Prithvi: Sorry sruthi, am very tired. Just now I reached home. I went out with maya today and it was really a great day together. I am so happy today that she accepted to come out with me for the first time. Ok we talk about the rest in college tomorrow. Good night bye.

                Sruthi felt sad that prithvi dint even remember her birthday but went out with maya. Next day at college,

Prithvi: Hi sruthi

Sruthi: Hi prithvi

Prithvi: You are looking dull. Why?

Sruthi: Nothing…you are very happy it seems.

Prithvi: Ya its cos I went out with maya yesterday…unforgettable day in my life.

Sruthi: Oh that’s why you forgot me and my birthday?

                Prithvi was shocked. He realized that he forgot sruthi’s birthday. Sruthi left the place before prithvi says a word.

                                                                                                                                                      -To Be Continued…

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