tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485Wed, 09 Oct 2024 02:05:19 +0000AppleAngelInterestingMemoriesRamblingsbooksentertainmentmeR2IRecipecelebrationsDaughtersEvent participationIntroductionWishesmoviestravelAwardsFair gameQuestionfriendsschoolhttp://2asmom.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)Blogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-370656640169217802Tue, 02 Jul 2013 05:59:00 +00002013-07-01T23:00:23.577-07:00AngelAppletravel School has started and we are back to the routine. We all did a trip to a village this summer vacation - the kids enjoyed this trip a lot. They got to see all kinds of domestic and farm animals and also got to see a Mango Orchard. I was surprised to see my bread cheese eating kids seamlessly move to Jowar roti and egg plant curry. Angel's first exclamation was - "They have a calf as ahttp://2asmom.blogspot.com/2013/07/summer-2013.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-2707332522977783126Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:17:00 +00002013-06-21T00:17:24.170-07:00booksentertainmentmovies I am reading John Holt's 'Why Children Fail' book and it is very interesting. I am impressed with the way the emotional maturity is being portrayed in films of late. For instance in YJHD - Kalki's character is shown to have a soft corner for Aditya's and Aditya is shown to be completely oblivious to it. Later when Ranbir comes for her marriage and asks why she did not go with Aditya. She http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2013/06/thoughts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-3338650246790893827Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:13:00 +00002013-06-13T05:13:09.203-07:00entertainmentmovies Watched YJHD. It starts out well, falters in the middle and suddenly all the threads make a bow in the last 15 min. Deepika Padukone is a song, looks nice, is tall and lanky and acts decently well. So does Ranbir Kapoor. Liked the trailer let's see how her new movie will be http://www.chennaiexp2013.com/   http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2013/06/deepika.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-2835249225992190111Tue, 21 May 2013 08:35:00 +00002013-05-21T01:37:47.362-07:00AngelAppleMemories Imagine a lazy Sunday afternoon - the body is tired after having cleaned some areas around the house. A breakfast of hot parathas, pickle and curd has been heartily devoured, the kids and the husband have had their breakfast a while ago and are busy in their own activities. Papers have been read - the AC has been on and is at a comfortable temperature not too cold. The eyes begin to http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2013/05/sunday-afternoon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-1310400561668015301Tue, 14 May 2013 11:00:00 +00002013-05-14T04:00:40.739-07:00AngelApple The swimming classes have started. So we have skating and swimming going on for this summer.   It was nice to see A&A pick up from where they had left last summer. This time the fear of the water has slowly receded and they are enjoying the class as they are able to swim on their own   I took them for the swim class for 2 days - This honour is usually reserved for their http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2013/05/notes-from-swimming-pool.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-8235000107942445075Mon, 06 May 2013 07:33:00 +00002013-05-06T00:33:26.278-07:00 Dear people of Hyderabad - Do you realize how dangerous it is to install WiFi for your home use and not secure it with a password. For starters - you are giving access to random people to use the Internet that you have paid for. Do you realize how much the government might be spending to clamp down on the Internet cafes and here you are just providing a huge ozone layer kind of hole to theirhttp://2asmom.blogspot.com/2013/05/free-wifi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-8534978275254266462Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:55:00 +00002013-04-15T23:55:04.411-07:00Question My kids read Mary poppins recently and thoroughly enjoyed the story. I would like to show them the 1964 classic Disney movie - Can somebody help me out and tell me where it is available in Hyderabad? Thanks. http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2013/04/mary-poppins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-1064074723714776826Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:46:00 +00002013-03-20T23:46:03.374-07:00 Are you one of those people who are devastated that google will shut the reader from 1st July?. I am - so I was happy to see this article on cnet. Bookmarking it here so I can read this later and pick one to aggregate the feeds and not be lost. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-57574201-233/google-reader-is-dying-but-we-have-five-worthy-alternatives/ http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2013/03/replacement-for-google-reader.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-3455362830210243064Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:22:00 +00002013-02-19T22:32:06.589-08:00 Have you seen the new ICICI Pru Ad? It is so subtle yet so brilliant     http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2013/02/new-ad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-5606153884520522775Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:08:00 +00002013-01-24T00:10:11.440-08:00 I have lived a completely urban life, so this wonder of a nut was what was introduced to me via poems and stories told by my mother. Growing up, this tree was special only because each and every element of it is usable. We do use coconut a lot in our cooking but that’s about it. Coconut oil applied to hair was so not fashionable and was to be used only a few hours before washing the hair.http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2013/01/goodness-of-coconut.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-4585080484191219549Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:08:00 +00002012-12-21T01:09:40.000-08:00AppleInterestingme I had been very busy the past two weeks, A customer site training happened in Gurgaon. My first visit to Delhi/NCR area (not counting airport transfers). Knew that I was going to be busy so did not make plans to meet anyone or go sightseeing. The items that I got from there - Paneer and Lettuce only because the grocery store was next to the hotel. Apple let me know one day that http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/12/random-thoughts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-6467901099783082913Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:04:00 +00002012-11-25T21:04:03.852-08:00 Much fun was had this Sunday at the Jamba cloud Hyderabad 10K Run. Here are some of the pictures that I took.       http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/11/sunday-snapshots.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-5530911828105194007Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:32:00 +00002012-11-08T21:32:35.301-08:00 Typically we need to purchase a new pair of school shoes mid year as the girls tend to outgrow their shoes. Their school requires them to wear Reebok sports shoes in all black. Unfortunately for us, their size was just one beyond the easy to wear velcro design meant for little kids. So the option for us was to buy the kids size lace shoes, instead of the toddler sized velcro ones. Angel and http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/11/shoe-adventure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-1463161507781289742Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:01:00 +00002012-11-06T04:01:18.469-08:00 Hyderabad Children's festival is on and as part of this they are staging three plays. The kids and I went to the first play Laal Pencil. This was the first play for the girls. For me it was after a long gap. The organizers had mentioned that there was a carnival at 5:30PM and the play was supposed to start at 6:30 PM. Given the logistics, we could make it there only by 6:30 PM. Luckily for ushttp://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/11/laal-pencil.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-8482709127349580076Thu, 11 Oct 2012 04:53:00 +00002012-10-10T21:53:04.293-07:00 Got a chance to see English Vinglish over the weekend. The Telugu version was playing much closer to home than the Hindi one, so went ahead and watched it. Overall it is a very well made movie. Everybody acts well and the movie just flows through. My thoughts - It is a very low range emotional movie. What I mean by low range is that situations which have the potential to become http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/10/english-vinglish.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-7783589161183290915Fri, 05 Oct 2012 04:53:00 +00002012-10-04T21:53:23.126-07:00AppleMemories This is evident from the fact that the paintings that usually have "I love Aai" have now been changed to "I love ..." a) Friend J b) Friend S c) Aai d) Friend Y http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-new-season-of-kbc-is-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-4829053643782888608Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:16:00 +00002012-09-05T22:16:48.693-07:00 Celebrating our Myths is a contest from Tulika publications to collect the various myths that exist in the Hindu mythology. The idea is to be able to give more than one version of the same story. Hindu Mythology is one of the oldest stories that exist and with the print medium being very limited in the beginning myths have been well woven into these stories. The one myth that Ihttp://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/09/celebrating-our-myths.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-7485589516480037021Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:05:00 +00002012-08-30T23:05:34.069-07:00AngelAppleMemories Lines lines upma (Semiyan/Vermicelli upma) Dot dot Khichadi (Sabudana/Sago/Tapioca khichadi) So one is welcome to eat at our table if one understands Morse code. http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-food-we-eat.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-6217566981641169030Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:39:00 +00002012-08-28T02:40:38.202-07:00 Yashodhara is a very witty person, her blog makes me laugh quite some and I had agreed to do a post for her contest a while ago. Today I realized that time was just flying and so had to pen down this story.   My mom’s and my MIL’s cooking styles are vastly different. My mom cooks food with mostly fresh  herbs and coconut. Her food has the Kokan (coast of Maharashtra) http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-just-married-please-excuse-contest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-3209049076588546110Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:47:00 +00002012-08-27T04:47:51.131-07:00 (Pic courtesy : Tulika Publishers)     I was happy to see this book from Art and checked it out online and in the stores as well. Looked at it and then thought that it is too easy for my girls as they are mid-level readers and they would be done with this in 5 min and so did not pick it up. My next visit to the store, it did look quirky enough that I should pick it up. I dawdledhttp://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/08/have-you-seen-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-158498677648699976Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:02:00 +00002012-08-22T05:04:54.898-07:00 There are lots of such gems touring the internet, but these I have heard personally You need to be able to work on both the things parallely - Paralyze them. You are leaking confidence. I think the way lacking was pronounced was heard as leaking. Put an email. I have some doubts on your code - Meaning I have some questions and need clarification. He has piles - meaning he http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/08/gems-that-i-have-heard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-8105107126290893581Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:34:00 +00002012-07-30T02:34:43.348-07:00AppleMemories The cutest spelling for the word enemy that I have ever heard - a.n.y.m.e. - from apple.http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/07/cutest-spelling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-3412657718441523840Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:07:00 +00002012-07-23T04:07:46.210-07:00 Some observations about Angel and Apple - I realize that at the stage that they are I can now classify them into 2 categories - doer and thinker. Angel is the doer –whenever she has free time, she will come up with new games on her own and start playing them. I watch her play carroms with the coasters, draw and or color a picture, she loves to play with her mechano set and the blocks. She http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/07/doers-and-thinkers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-2194641683822790894Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:13:00 +00002012-07-15T23:14:50.838-07:00 Eega (Housefly in Telugu) was watched this weekend. I had kind of stayed away from reading the story or getting any information related to the movie. Kind folks at work had said it is a good movie for the kids and I thought may be 8+ year olds. So after threatening my husband (did not work) followed by my sister with dire consequences if she doesn't accompany me, we went to see the http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/07/eega.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135016869633565485.post-3937257063255996271Mon, 28 May 2012 11:26:00 +00002012-05-28T04:26:19.142-07:00 A couple strategic clicks and you end up saving a girl child – Do I have your interest? Choxbox works with an NGO that takes care of abandoned girl children. The lady who runs the NGO has brought on a change in the district in her own quiet way. It is not easy to go against the tide, it takes lots and lots of courage to do so. And the way to keep her motivated all one needs to do is to http://2asmom.blogspot.com/2012/05/important-click.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (AA_Mom)1