Route-12 Day Out

Yeah.. We had been to 1-day Bus Outing!!  When I told my friends about it, they were surprised rather jealous that we were going for bus outing, where as in some buses people hardly talk to each other. :-) Well I am lucky to be part of R-12.  Everyday I would be looking forward to go by this bus.  The boring transit time of nearly 1.5 hrs is spent by playing games, DC, antakshari, etc.. One never knows how the time flies off.

R-12 troop has exactly 12 members as of now..!!  However 10 of us made for the trip.. Plan was to trek Ramadevara Betta at Ramanagara and then spend rest of the day @ Wonder-La.. We had to take leave since trip was planned on a Friday..  Everyone was in full josh and dint have much concerns for take a day off.. Our trip Captan Ravindra made all arrangements very well and everything went on as planned.

First pick up was at 6.30.. Most of us were on time and we reached Ramadevara betta around 9.  We had 'Tatte Idli's' on the hill.. Having breakfast in the midst of greenery and  hills.. It was a different experience.. After the trek we reached wonder-la at 12.  1hr behind the schedule, nevertheless didn't want to miss any ride.

This was my first visit to wonder-la and I was all excited..  First ride and first place to get wet was at the "Water Splash", almost everyone who visits wonderla will have a photo taken at this point..   First we tried to cover all dry rounds..  They are the scariest of all.. I wonder how the robotic arms are designed to rotate the people seated 0 - 360deg in all directions and yet safe..  Amazing as to how they are designed!!  I felt it was more fun watching others shouting than experience on my own.  I ended up shouting my lungs out.  It was breath taking.. However once done with the ride, one would definitely feel proud with "Oh Man! I am still alive!" kind-of expression left on the face.. :-)

Following the dry rides, were the wet-rides.. Everyone loved it.. Colour full snake-like tubes at different altitude were landing in various pools.. We were running around like kids to stand in the queue for the rides. Shouting anyway is part of the game.  One was shouting better than the other.. The closed tubes won more voice,  it looked as though we were dropped into a black hole.

Altogether it was a memorable outing..!! Hope R-12 troop gets to go on many such trips.. Cheers!!

Home Made Golgappa

I am sure most of us like the famous street snack Golgappa also known as Panipuri..  It is sibling of Churmuri.. ;) Whenever we(me & my-sis) spot a panipuri stall on roadside, we would definitely grab a bite..  Earlier we used to get 10 puri's for 10bucks now its reduced to 6..

Though I am not so inclined towards cooking, I find it interesting to trying unusual dishes.. ;)

It stuck to my mind that, if I was successful in preparing pani-puri's at home, I can probably eat upto 60 puri's than just 6! :P  Keeping 60 puri's in mind, I browsed for the recipe and gave a try.

Trial 1:

Pani - Though all the ingredients to make pani were not at home, I thot not adding a pinch of some spices wouldn't make much difference.  Its very quick to make pani, just gotto mix all spices in water.. Pani tasted just like tamarind water nowhere closer to the pani which we get outside. :(

Puri - Next coming to puri.. My first mistake, I thot puri can be made out of chapati's floor.  The puri instead of becoming balloon shaped turned into small soft disks (Diskgappas instead of Golgappa's?!).  Next day mom made big puri's out of the remaining atta and packed them for breakfast..

Trail 2:

Pani - Get pani puri mix from shop and prepare pani.. It was great! ;)

Puri - Got the proper recipe from internet.  Atta is made out of Sooji and not wheat floor.  Ya I was successful in getting some balloon shaped puri's.. Hurray!!  However 40% of them turned into discs but they tasted good compared to Trial1.  Lots of small puri's could be made out of little atta.

Trail 2 was considered successfull.. You can assess based on the below picture.. Everyone liked at home, some were parcelled to my aunts place as well.. ;)  I think I had atleast (60/2) puri's.. :P  Enough of the trials, next time I am gonna buy readymade puri's too..

I felt its worth to give 10bucks for 6 puri's !!

Wedding Season

Its been long since I opened my blog.. Guess what? I was busy attending weddings!!  June-July being wedding season, I attended 6 weddings in June alone and also missed couple of them. My batch mates are getting into wed-locks one by one.. I wonder what they mean by wed-LOCK!! ;) No doubt I have put on some 2-3kgs in these 2 months.. All credit to the sumptuous and tasty food.. :P My tongue was rejoicing :)) & tummy was crying to digest variety of stuff.. ;)

This month's wedding count already started. July 4th was my lunch mates wedding.. Happy to see decorated smiling couples.. God bless them all.. :-)

Another thing which is good about weddings is that you get to meet a lot of friends.  Happened to meet 15yr old friend at my school friends wedding recently. The Delphi v_rock gang is part of almost every wedding. Nowadays, by seeing the frequency of weddings, we sign-off saying  "Catch you at the next wedding!!"  ;)