Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. ~ Ambrose Bierce
I am going for the treatment. 
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. ~ George C. Lichtenberg
I am going to get my sight restored.
Sankranti means transmigration of Sun from one zodiac sign to the other. Due to the geography and size of India, this festival is celebrated for innumerable reasons depending on the climate, agricultural environment, cultural background and location. In West Bengal, Sankranti, also known as Poush Sankranti after the Bengali month in which it falls, is celebrated as a harvest festival Poush Parbon. The freshly harvested paddy along with the date palm syrup in for of jaggery is used in the preparation of a variety of traditional Bengali sweets.
One such sweet is the famous Pithe. After many years all the members of my family were together on Sankranti and it was decided to make pithes to celebrate the day. [My interests were solely getting a new thing to blog about and to eat ]
Pithes are of various types: Ranga alur pithe (made of sweet potato), chandrapulli,puli pithe (made of coconut), gokul pithe and patishapta (sort of pancakes). The recipe I am going to describe is a stuffed kind of pithe, Puli Pithe. Puli basically signifies the shape of the sweet.
Oh my god!! It has been 12 days since I posted in my blog. 
Work, family, cold and lack of inspiration in that order are the factors responsible for such a sacrilegious act. 
Celebrated Mom’s birthday on 9th Jan.
Watched Avatar at last! But in 2 D Liked the movie a lot. It could have been a bit shorter though.
The new year seems to have brought about winds of change not only in people’s lives but also in the blogosphere.
Last time I had done a photo summary of 2008 and had also written a round up of the important events of my life and the lessons I had learned in year 2008. As the year 2010 begins, it is time to audit me and my life in 2009.
I celebrated Christmas by watching Rajkumar Hirani’s 3 Idiots – a movie I had been looking forward to; not because it is based on Chetan Bhagat’s book Five Point Someone but because it was a Rajkumar Hirani movie. Here is my review of probably the most anticipated movie of the year, without any spoilers.
As I said once on twitter, the 55ers posts of the blogosphere are the 20-20s of the cricket world. Short, nice, don’t take much time to read and easy to comment. So here is another one
Yes you read it right. I am going to write the review of Twilight – a movie which was released in theaters on November 21, 2008 ..one year ago!! But not in India. It was released in India just few weeks prior to the release of its sequel – New Moon. ..almost an year late. Twilight had grossed US $35.7 million on its opening day; US$ 384,997,808 in worldwide box office and as of December 2009, $175,255,138 in North American DVD sales. So I had to watch it to know what was the hype all about!! Its sequel “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” took in $72.7 million in its first day to break the single-day domestic box office record set by “The Dark Knight”.
Here are my reviews of the two movies :-
This year I won the “IndiBlogger of the Month May 2009 – Original Humor” contest. Again I was one of the three winners at “Star Movies Indiana Jones Blogged Challenge on IndiVine.” And before the year ended, another contest has come along – a contest which started it all, a contest which is one of its kind, a contest which is happening again at public demand, a contest “of the bloggers, by the bloggers, for the bloggers”, a contest where I won awards in 4 categories last time and was also the runner up for 4 categories!! [ All of you do remember Reemawati right? and her famous election campaign] A win in this contest and it will be a “HATRICK” for me!
Its been days since I saw any new award doing rounds of the Blogosphere. As Vishesh says in one of his posts, the days of receiving pingbacks and all those old blogging stuff seems to have ended. Where are all those creative people who used to design these awards in the first place?? I sound like the old people who say “Hamare zamane mein”..no?
Thankfully, I did receive a few some time ago. I have been late in acknowledging them and passing them along. Excuse me for that!
