Who's that 'round the corner?
Sitting at home after a long, long week. Apologies for being MIA. I like to pull out my alter ego at such situations – the one who skulks in the shadows and watches the world go by in the darkness. I call her The Lurker.
Which means, the past shenanigans haven’t escaped my notice but I feel I wisely stayed out of it by accentuating my Lurker personality and surveying the battlefield from afar. I WAS thinking about updating Twitter with every comment that was posted but I got bored after the first 200 or so :P. Glad it’s over…or IS it???? Muahahahaha. Ok moving on….
I have been, in truth, super busy. Juggling two reviews at work at the same time because everyone conveniently decided to take leave. I mean, come ON. It’s WINTER. What are you going to do when it’s cold, wet and miserable??? Oh…two tickets to the Gold Coast huh? Fine, rub it in.
I find myself creeping closer and closer to Evs during the night that by morning I wake up to find myself entangled with him with limbs and blankets everywhere. I snuggle so close that I end up pushing him off his pillow and he gets pissed off from his head being so close to the edge that he snatches the pillow and whacks the offender (me) with it. I quickly go back to ‘my’ side, shocked into waking up. That’s love.
Am slightly bored now that all my fave shows have finished for the season. However am not too down because the US - So You Think You Can Dance has started for its fifth season. I HEART SYTYCD!!!
Last night’s show (for me – it’s uhh...available one day after it airs in the US. Although they have just premiered it in Aus tonight. But who can wait??!) had AMAZING performances. I was a bit apprehensive when they announced the Bollywood routine and my resignation was confirmed when the strains of ‘Jai Ho’ started. Thankfully, they played the Indian version and the dance itself wasn’t too bad.
Oh!! And yes – I almost forgot! Well it HAS been about 2 weeks now since my famed dinner party (I can’t believe you guys didn’t forget!!!) but I wanted to share what happened on That Night.
Well (deep breath).
It went….FANTASTIC!!!
I went over to my parents place a few nights before to gain the infinite wisdom of my mother. Nothing is better than your Mum’s cooking right?? That was my thinking as I grabbed a few quick recipes.
So the final menu (thank you again for all your suggestions!!):
I bought a food processor the week before, tired of having to slave away over chopping onions and crying from the sheer effort and I gotta say, total value for money. Used it for everything. Although the carrots kinda stained it…but meh…it’ll come out. Eventually.
Everybody loved the food, which was a huge relief for me. I ATTEMPTED to make this Veggie and Lentil squares for entrées but then realised I didn’t have a baking tray to actually MAKE them so I kinda…had…to abandon…it. With 15 minutes to go before guests arrived.
And which is the point where I TOTALLY understood my mother when she insisted we buy a house that had a formal lounge room in it (so that guests wouldn’t see the MESS in the kitchen). Too bad our ‘formal lounge’ currently has no lounge of any sort in it and houses a pool table. So the guests wandered down the hallway to the family room which adjoins the kitchen. Their eyes kinda widened at the array of pots and pans and the potatoey-lentily mess that was my abandoned entrée.
After dinner the real party started with the wine flowing all night (which had already started from the moment people walked in lol. Yup. It was THAT kind of party :P) and even a few rounds of shots done in various glasses with some Russian vodka and something that smelt suspiciously like plums.
We played poker and pool until about 2am and then with the last of the guests gone and the house in complete disarray, Evs and I went to bed.
And now it’s time for me to go to bed.
Oooh…! A documentary called ‘The perfect vagina’ is on TV. I’m watching that. Evs is visibly embarrassed heheheh.
Current music: Gossip - Heavy Cross
Which means, the past shenanigans haven’t escaped my notice but I feel I wisely stayed out of it by accentuating my Lurker personality and surveying the battlefield from afar. I WAS thinking about updating Twitter with every comment that was posted but I got bored after the first 200 or so :P. Glad it’s over…or IS it???? Muahahahaha. Ok moving on….
I have been, in truth, super busy. Juggling two reviews at work at the same time because everyone conveniently decided to take leave. I mean, come ON. It’s WINTER. What are you going to do when it’s cold, wet and miserable??? Oh…two tickets to the Gold Coast huh? Fine, rub it in.
I find myself creeping closer and closer to Evs during the night that by morning I wake up to find myself entangled with him with limbs and blankets everywhere. I snuggle so close that I end up pushing him off his pillow and he gets pissed off from his head being so close to the edge that he snatches the pillow and whacks the offender (me) with it. I quickly go back to ‘my’ side, shocked into waking up. That’s love.
Am slightly bored now that all my fave shows have finished for the season. However am not too down because the US - So You Think You Can Dance has started for its fifth season. I HEART SYTYCD!!!
Last night’s show (for me – it’s uhh...available one day after it airs in the US. Although they have just premiered it in Aus tonight. But who can wait??!) had AMAZING performances. I was a bit apprehensive when they announced the Bollywood routine and my resignation was confirmed when the strains of ‘Jai Ho’ started. Thankfully, they played the Indian version and the dance itself wasn’t too bad.
Oh!! And yes – I almost forgot! Well it HAS been about 2 weeks now since my famed dinner party (I can’t believe you guys didn’t forget!!!) but I wanted to share what happened on That Night.
Well (deep breath).
It went….FANTASTIC!!!
I went over to my parents place a few nights before to gain the infinite wisdom of my mother. Nothing is better than your Mum’s cooking right?? That was my thinking as I grabbed a few quick recipes.
So the final menu (thank you again for all your suggestions!!):
- Chicken curry
- Chole
- Shahi Paneer
- Aloo Palak subzi
- Raita
- Jeera Rice
- Salad
- Toasted Pita Bread
I bought a food processor the week before, tired of having to slave away over chopping onions and crying from the sheer effort and I gotta say, total value for money. Used it for everything. Although the carrots kinda stained it…but meh…it’ll come out. Eventually.
Everybody loved the food, which was a huge relief for me. I ATTEMPTED to make this Veggie and Lentil squares for entrées but then realised I didn’t have a baking tray to actually MAKE them so I kinda…had…to abandon…it. With 15 minutes to go before guests arrived.
And which is the point where I TOTALLY understood my mother when she insisted we buy a house that had a formal lounge room in it (so that guests wouldn’t see the MESS in the kitchen). Too bad our ‘formal lounge’ currently has no lounge of any sort in it and houses a pool table. So the guests wandered down the hallway to the family room which adjoins the kitchen. Their eyes kinda widened at the array of pots and pans and the potatoey-lentily mess that was my abandoned entrée.
After dinner the real party started with the wine flowing all night (which had already started from the moment people walked in lol. Yup. It was THAT kind of party :P) and even a few rounds of shots done in various glasses with some Russian vodka and something that smelt suspiciously like plums.
We played poker and pool until about 2am and then with the last of the guests gone and the house in complete disarray, Evs and I went to bed.
And now it’s time for me to go to bed.
Oooh…! A documentary called ‘The perfect vagina’ is on TV. I’m watching that. Evs is visibly embarrassed heheheh.
Current music: Gossip - Heavy Cross
Friday, June 12, 2009
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15 comments:
'Ther perfect vagina'?!!! HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!! Do you live an interesting life or what!
You know the funny thing about winter? You can all the queen sized quilts you want but that midnight unconscious creeoing and stealing space is still going to happen!
Glad your dinner party went well... could you please give me the recipe for that potato-lentil entree?
Good to have you back! :)
@ dewdropdream -
heheh the doco was all about women striving for the 'perfect' vagina and undergoing plastic surgery on it!!! Crazy!!
heheh and yes - that's prob the only thing I like about winter - snuggling :P
and yes - I WAS trying to make these:
http://www.quickindiancooking.com/2007/10/18/pretty-perfect-lentil-bites/
It looks easy - but I got stuck when I realised I didn't have a baking tray and the guests were already here!
Yummy food! reminds me...gotta go cook.
The perfect vagina...is this the one by Lisa Rogers? about woman who have plastic surgery on their vaginas? I cannot understand why someone would want to have vaginal surgery.
Ohh I love SYTYCD tooo..this season promises to be exciting. teh first round was definitely good. I still don't have a fav yet.
Sounds like a really yummy party menu!!
Apart from the entree *touch wood* you've hard darned great luck!!
I go into a panic everytime I have to host a party, simply cause I know I WILL get something wrong..
Do write in about the very interestin documentary ;)
what happened to the girl who used to say 'work it out Biyatch!'? lol this is a total foody post, yum I love it! u can make halwa? WOW!
The Perfect Vagina? Which vagina, I means which channel is it on? :):)
Keshi.
ur life sure sounds interesting! :D
and oh yeah... i totally <3 SYTYCD as well!!! :D
Sounds like the party was a success!! good for you! you think you'll be doing this often now?
wut in the world is a perfect vagina!!!! only you could be watching something like that and then writing about it!! :D :D kudos!
pliss invite me for dinner so i can have an excuse to fly to australia? thanku?
Il come for dinner too if you promise me gajar ka halwa. We ca have a blog meet at your place Silv of ppl across 3 continents - you, me & Roop, and we won't even ask you to make the lentil squares or I'l gift you a baking dish to make them if you want to do full khatirdari :P
All I want to know is was there sex after all that !!!! Haven't seen a sex post in a while
@ la vida loca - heheh cooking is fun - need to do it more often methinks :P
@ just call me a - YES! that's the one - i had to turn it off when they showed in GREAT DETAILS the doctor CUTTING off a 21 year old's labia!! Oh i felt that pain!!!
Woohoo!! new ep (SYTYCD)tonight!! :D
@ beauty and the beast - heya!! heheh oh man ur right it was all luck!! but you known they say practice makes perfect so i gotta keep at it!
Will do - it's a definite eye opener!
@ keshi - oh my god...u don't even WANT to know what's happening with that. The AMOUNT of chocolate i have eaten in the last 2 weeks is disturbing lol.
It was on SBS - i don't think any other channel would have broadcasted it. On around 10pm - actually it it may have been on SBS One (the new digital channel thingie)
rayshma - lol thanks girl :)
SYTYCD rules! :D :D
@ tarantismo - thank you! it went very well - and yes I quite enjoyed. Although I still prefer the casual small group of friends for dinner thing - a bit dinner party isn't too bad either :P
@ roop - there's no such thing!! lol...man, lucky i had seen enough porn to watch it with a straight face :P :P (kidding!! am i?? :P)
my house is open for you at any time roopie - come over!
@ SMM - hell yeah - the more the merrier. I think i can take you all on now lol *flexes culinary muscles*
anything but lentil squares!!!! but a baking dish would be nice :P
@ anon - hahahah. loved this comment!!! well you either make two inferences from that - that i'm not getting enough, or that i'm getting so much that i'm too tired to write about it all.
But to answer you question - yes there was. Remind me to post the story about how I tried to fit into my nurse's costume after 2 years :P :P
My god, where have you been all my life? I love your blog. Your choice of TV programming. And my guests always sit among mounds of dirty pots and pans in the kitchen... Shame about the missing baking tray.
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