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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Some Random facts or confessions about myself


Some Random facts or confessions about myself........(the updated 2019 version)



I wrote this in 2013 and now that I have managed to recover my blog, I am updating it today with an added experience of five years in this big bad world and a head full of grey hair. 


1.      I am an Aries Taurus cusp. I always wanted to be a true Taurean just because it said ‘this zodiac is ruled by the planet of Venus, beauty’. Off late I’ve finally realized that the Aries characteristics in me are much more than the traits of a Taurean. 

2019 version:  This doesn’t matter to me anymore. I’ve not read any horoscopes or the silly articles about sun sign which keeps popping up in Facebook. 


2.      I generally like talking with people and enjoy making friends but I easily get annoyed by people also, particularly their behaviour. By behaviour I mean everything , it could be their continuous use of English language(We are Indians, remember), their eating and purposefully escaping the bill on a regular basis, gossiping about someone for a particular thing which even you are guilty of( I hate them), always bragging about themselves ( hello , who are u? ….Mukesh Ambani), false compliments ‘u looking so good, hawwwt’ to a 85 kg woman(they can look good but definitely not hot) ‘my God are u dieting, uve gone down so much’ (I’ve haven’t budged 100 gms).

2019 version:  I still love talking to people but yes I’ve become lot less judgemental.  


3. I am shit scared of butterflies or to be more precise any insects which flies. To be all the more precise anything which flies, like birds?

2019 version:  OMG...I still am.


4. I am a beauty and makeup fanatic. I can read the “uses of gram flour in beauty” 10 times in 10 different websites everyday without getting bored. I love to watch the YouTube videos of makeup.

      2019 version:  I seriously don’t believe that I am writing this. I rarely go to any beauty section now days. I am so away from all of this that I had to write in my New year resolution that I will be punctual in putting a night cream.


5. I am totally a fan of pink lipsticks. It is never enough for me to get a new shade of pink.

2019 version:  Nope...I like more of brownish peach these days. 


6. I also read a lot about health and fitness and diet. I feel I can easily become a diet instructor (they will see me and go running away ….that’s another part of the story)

2019 version:  I still do read about diets and about my weight fluctuations..That will be a separate post altogether. 


7. I am also into a lot of stuffs like home décor. Though I feel I don’t do it so well but yes if I will be given a free hand I can make homes look better.

2019 version:  Now this is something I am totally into these days. Yes, I will put a separate post of all the works which I have done. I love DIYs.



8. I love baking cakes and biscuits...no I haven’t baked anything more than a simple plum cake or simple butter biscuits.

2019 version:  I do bake now but a lot less. Fiza and Faris are more into baking these days.
 

9. I love to teach especially crafts and DIYs and stuffs like that.

2019 version:  OMG. I don’t believe I wrote this. I’ve started a Storytelling class and I teach the tiny little darlings little crafts, of course stories and everything too. I love teaching crafts.


10. I love experimenting new hairstyles on Fiza

2019 version:  A big No. I sometimes do a French braid or a fishtail on her just because she pesters me to do otherwise I hate even making my hair. 


11. I like to read and write (this blog…….)

2019 version:  Yes I do.


12. I hate selling products….i was doing this for eight years .I don’t know but I simply hate selling now ( never liked it then too) , giving wrong reassurances about the products, disgusting.

2019 version:  same 


13. I hate eating bhindi (ladies finger) . I have specified this coz I enjoy eating every other edible thing on earth but I hate this thing.

2019 version:  I hate it even more now. I’ve made a new recipe of bhindi. I call it cream bhindi. Its loved by my kids and Mr husband too.


14. I can have dosas and omelette three times a day, 30 days a month…..yummmm

2019 version:  same...yummy


15. I hate anything complicated…theorems, functions of electronic gadgets. Yup I am very clumsy in handling any electronic items. I think I have a E.M.F around me which causes all the electronic gadgets to malfunction and finally breakdown as soon as they come into contact with me. 

      2019 version:  True but I think the queen of disruption goes to Fiza these days


16. We have a  Digital camera, video camera, an SLR, a home theatre….I don’t know even 50% of the operations of any of this.

      2019 version:  Digital and video camera are laid to Rest in Peace. Yes , I know a bit about SLR .


17. I cannot play video games especially the car racing ones and hero fighters in which u have to fight against all different evils and shoot them. I can only play puzzle games (like Sudoku, Solitaire) and Mario Luigi (in which I know what is coming next). I have come to a conclusion that I cannot coordinate speed, direction, time at one instant so according to Amir Khan in “Taare Zamin per” makes me 30% dyslexic. Yes to support this theory I cannot even catch objects thrown at me.

      2019 version:  Even a lifetime cannot make a difference to this one. I am still dyslexic.


18. I tend to develop a favourite boy and girl (among subordinates) wherever I work and I am quite vocal about it so it makes me a partial boss because I support them always and the degree of scolding also lessens tremendously if they have done a mistake.

      2019 version:  I don’t work period.


19. I have a stupid face which cannot hide emotions and feelings. So if I am pissed off my face is also pissed off irrespective of the situation I am in. I am also quite vocal about everything.

      2019 version:  This trait of mine has landed me into troubles many times. 


20. I get angry if I don’t eat when I am hungry, I cannot control my hunger. I get hungry every two hours. That is a very good sign according to Rujuta Diwekar’s book “Don’t lose your mind, lose your weight” if I have little food every time but I tend to gobble huge portions every 2-3 hours.

      2019 version:  True. By the way, I am reading a new book by Rujuta Diwekar, “Notes for Healthy Kids”


21. I have a bad and gross habit of scratching the skin of the nail bed (I don’t know what to call that area, it is the place where your nail begins, I mean the area above the cuticles) which has eventually made by hand and fingers look ugly. I need a lot of concentration to stop it, the moment I feel stress or anger or fear, I start it.

      2019 version:  I still have it but these days I shape my nails and put a nice nail paint on my left hand, so they are saved. The right one goes for a toss. 


22. I was a dark girl when I was young and I don’t understand how the transformation happened for me into a wheatish one. 

      2019 version:  I know now....The skin stretched manifold.


23. I don’t like my routine to be disturbed, I get irritated.

      2019 version:  same 


24. I have the shortest of the shortest possible temper. I get angry at the drop of a hat and also forget things in the same way but then it always becomes too late.

      2019 version:  Why am I so short tempered.
 

25. I like Shahrukh Khan…hell….(This is a major confession, hope Tanki never reads it) yeah but I like him .

2019 version:  After Zero I want to kill him.


26. I love Salman and Akshay . They are the two most handsome heroes of Bollywood.

2019 version:  They still are with lots of botox and implants.
 

27. I love M.A.C Cosmetics, how I wish I could purchase their entire store.

      2019 version:  I’ve gone down to Lakme. I don’t have money guys.


28. I don’t know to walk in heels, even a mere one and a half inch freaks me out. 

      2019 version:  Yesssss. I can walk in a three inch like a BOSS. 


29. When I was young I used to read a lot about IVF simply out of interest. It used to intrigue me; I never had the faintest idea I will have to undergo this treatment in future. I am a proud mother of IVF twins. Yes, I ve stopped reading anything in medicine nowadays especially if it is a disease.

      2019 version:  This seriously is true. Yes I don’t read .


30. I always wished my husband to be tall fair and very articulate from College days. Allah has taken care of this wish 100% and also many more. I find myself very lucky. Alhamdulillah.

      2019 version:  Ladies, first don’t expect a husband. Expect a high class education for yourself with a great job. Then choose whoever you like. 


31. I find striking similarities between Fiza and Tanki. I love both of them. Ya ..i can do a separate post on this.

2019 version:  They look similar but now Fiza resembles a lot with Ayaan in her behaviour. Infact she is a photocopy of Ayaan in her actions.


32. I find my mother very broad minded and intelligent and understanding irrespective of the fact that she has done only Senior Secondary. And my father the most patient.

      2019 version:  My mother is very intelligent and always ready for ideas and thoughts. She listens patiently and thinks logically. My father loses his temper these days. 


33. I am allergic to cigarettes and ashes of it. I will be unable to eat if I sight cigarette buds anywhere.

      2019 version:  Ugghhh.


34. I am 100 % sea sick person. Any sort of long movement in the flight or ship or car nauseate me severely. 

2019 version:  And thats the reason I cannot go to Havelock. Thats so sad. 


35. I had been through a very bad depression phase in my life and believe me its terrible. I try to support people who are going through a rough patch but I’ve met some who never want to see a light. I feel sad for them.

36. Never tell your plans and ideas to anybody. You will be kicked in your ass. Love your friends but don’t trust them with everything about yourself.

37. Take risks. It is worth it.

38. I want to do so many things in life and I will be forty this April.

39. I’ve undergone a terrible amount of body shaming by educated people. It hurts.

40. Parents are the most precious things in life. My parents and my sister gave me full support to start a class. They are my biggest moral strengths.




Saturday, December 29, 2018

I welcome myself back

Hey everyone...
Finally I recovered my dear old blog again. So updating with some pics

Love love love
Shaima

Monday, August 31, 2015

ALL I NEEDED WAS A HUG



All I needed was a hug
When I failed in that moment
of life where I was victorious.
When the jigsaw just didn't seem to fit in
All I needed was a hug.
When I had cried with pain all night
but you never seemed to care
because my tears had dried
and my face was left bare.
All I needed was a hug.
When I was stressed out for all the petty things
that life unknowingly puts on me
Yes I agree I made a mountain out of it
but why did you suddenly turn blind.
All I needed was a hug.
Was it that I was asking for more
Your wealth, your time or your friends
Couldn't you take a minute from your life because
All I needed was a hug.
When I look around my life
and happy faces surround me
I fake that happiness back
but you know me right that
All I needed was a hug
Now when I'm gone
You see my empty closet
A dress swaying there
You wonder why it remains there
All it still needs is a hug.

Sunday, March 22, 2015

BREAKING NEWS>>> A NEW COUNTRY IS FORMED>> AL-ARAB-SALAH



BREAKING NEWS>>> A  NEW  COUNTRY  IS  FORMED>>

AL-ARAB-SALAH


Yes, you heard it right! There is a brand new country on this globe with quite a fancy name: “Al-Arab-Salah”
The ‘Father of the Nation’ of this baby country is the most handsome, most lovable, most adorable --
Shri  P.D. Ays Mohammed Faris


 (P.D. Ays is an honourable salutation in Al-Arab-Salah, I don’t yet know it’s meaning, but, I shall get back to you with more info in this regard!)

Shri P.D Ays Mohammed Faris is the leader of the victorious “Milton Party”.
He got independence for his country through great sacrifice. To bring fair rule to his country he even had to sacrifice his own brother, “Mohammed Ali”.



[[ Republic Day of Al-Arab-Salah- On 2nd April, 2014 Al-Arab-Salah got freedom from the rules going on Al-Arab-Salah on this day Shri P.D. Ays Muhammed Faris told to North russians you can shoot my brother Mohammed Ali then after shooting we will make our own rules of AAS then North russians shooted Shri Mohd Ali. After shooting they go back to Al Arab North russia. And then both countries lived happily. Muhammed Ali was asking for Deth the God gave him Deth.]]

Al-Arab-Salah has a majority Muslim population  but is ‘secular’ for all practical purposes. India already has a Muslim majority secular country as a neighbor, we can only hope that Al-Arab-Salah is not India’s neighbor! Yes, you got it right, Shri P.D. Ays Muhammed Faris has not yet disclosed the location of his country! And that is strange coz’ he is addicted to maps! I’m sure he will soon draw many maps showing the location of Al-Arab-Salah and release it to the world. I’ll pass it on to you, don’t worry!

Meanwhile, Shri P.D. Ays Muhammed Faris has a constitution ready for his countrymen and women. He also has a cricket team ready! The currency of Al-Arab-Salah is the “Sinner”…. And it also has a symbol “@”. 




Imagine! India took decades to come up with a symbol for its rupya and here we have a new country with a new currency and they already have a symbol for it!

The national anthem of Al-Arab-Salah is “Zoomba Doomba”. It is really long and confusing, but, I’m sure I’ll be able to get the hang of it soon.

This country is also rich in food- cooked in pure ghee and maida!! Surely, Al-Arab-Salah- THE PLACE TO BE!!! :)

Saturday, April 26, 2014

EXPERIMENTS IN THE KITCHEN cont.....

vanilla cupcake
This was one of the best cakes to be baked by me. It had simple vanilla cake with choclate chips.
Tasted awesome and looked great too.





Rava cake
 "Curiosity killed the cat" is all I could say from this recipe of mine. I really like rava and love everything made from it, be it chilla ,dosa, idly or upma. When I read cake I was so thrilled that I immediately baked it. Later did I realize that it was nothing but sooji halwa which was baked. Anyway, it tasted okay but I will be careful next time and will not get carried away by my favourite ingredient names.



choclate cake

 This was a simple chocolate cake . What are those black beads? Those are white chocolate chips which I decided to put during the halfway of baking only to get it charred . Sometimes I really do get intelligent ideas. Isn't it?


                                                     
     
    I made this with a lot of hope that it will be loved by my kids but
it failed to impress them . This contains chocolate chip cookies, nutella, cocoa powder, sugar and it did taste good but only to me.                                                                                                                                                      
nutella truffles

Thursday, March 20, 2014

FIZA SAYS FARIS SAYS

My blog says "Bringing up Fiza & Faris" but off late I am putting in here everything apart from them. My whole day revolves and rotates around them ( well I dont have an option ) and I get to witness such amusing and interesting talks and actions from them that I really start thanking Allah that my decision to be with them was correct. This post is dedicated to all the small talks or conversations they have. I wish our Internet connection was fast enough so as to upload their small videos too.  Again I will keep it as an ongoing post and will continue to add whatever I find funny and amusing ( Again........whatever (I FOUND FUNNY OR AMUSING)


I was teaching them English Grammar and while explaining the tenses to Fiza , I explained her first the meanings of the word past, present and future ( I always go a little overboard while teaching ). I dont know whether she understood or not but when after all the long stories, I asked her if we call today as "Present tense" then what would be yesterday called ( I waited proudly for the answer) and she said " ABSENT TENSE"

My son did his first naughty search  in our good old Google. He searched for "Potty Pics" . I came to know about this because Fiza told me and second when I opened google in my ipad , the page was opened with "Potty Pics" and the images were like awwwww, it had so many pics of kids sitting in the potty with their bums for the world to see. It was the cutest things I could have seen. But on the dangerous side , he can type any nonsense things so I have to be very careful now.
                                                               
      "Which is the largest oil producing country in the world?" We all know it , right. Faris also knows it from his GK textbook and he always starts his little research on things which intrigues him. This time he got a bit confused with the term oil and asked me "wahan pe oil se banne wala saara khane ka cheez zyada milega na?" May be he even dreamt of puris and pakodas that day.
           We are planning our holidays and he asked us whether we can go to another planet like Mars and when I told him no, he really became sad and truly wishes one day it will be possible for all of us to go for vacation in different planets. If that is possible I would like to goto Saturn. Thats a beautiful planet.

That day I had tried methi ka parantha for the first time and after giving their exams Faris had three. I was happy and just to make him know that I had put so much pain in making them, I told him that I had kneaded the dough with dal. He replied " Isliye isse itna smell aa raha hai". I was shocked and asked him why he had three when it smelled so bad, to which he replied " bahut bhookh laga tha isliye kha liya nahin to ek bhi nahin khata" . I was stunned. Anyways his favourite nowadays is methi ka parantha and he very weirdly combines it with an egg poach. I am still unable to come in terms with this combination.
                                                                                                 
                                                








Tuesday, March 18, 2014

EXPERIMENTS IN THE KITCHEN




At the time when I got married I knew how to boil water .... I mean exactly how to boil water. Other than that , I had a long way to go. Had it not been the support from my jethani i would have been sent back to ..well back to momma to learn something other than boiling water. I somehow hated all the cooking business. " Why do people waste their sooooo precious time in COOKING" was exactly my thought . The time which used to get spent in cooking can be utilized in so many productive ways ( cooking was definitely not a productive chore). It was always we both ( jethani and I) getting up at approx 5:30 am and entering the kitchen to begin our long extensive menu preparation for the day ( breakfast , lunch and dinner). We prepared all the three meals together at one go because we both were working at that time ( I quit recently) and none of us would be back by 5:30 pm. Only fresh rotis were prepared at 7:00 pm or the timing had to be adjusted in such a way that the first roti came off the tawa ( the griddle) at 7:30 pm dot. I did learn few things from my jethani but that was out of sheer pressure and not out of interest. These were my initial days , later I had joined Axis Bank and things became much worse. I detested coming to kitchen because I came back home at around 8:00 pm and the "ME" time was getting reduced tremendously. After that I became the fortunate mother of twins in the year 2007 and i had to manage the twenty four hours properly into a demanding job, a joint family, my two beautiful babies, my husband ( i always fall short of adjectives when it is time to describe him) and ME. For the next six years what followed was a mayhem of unkempt home, dissatisfied in-laws, neglected kids, all the more neglected husband and a DEAD ME. " How can women write recipes asking one another and to top it , go home and actually cook what they have scribbled " . I despised cooking to the core. In between I did get a sudden spike of interest in baking and so my husband ( lovable, adorable, dutiful, peace loving) got me an OTG. I did bake two cakes and a batch of cookies. Then suddenly it became too tedious and boring for me. By this time I had automatically learn t to cook biryani. This dish did come automatically because i had accompanied my jethani in cooking this awesome dish umpteen times . It just got registered in the memory. I think even if I get Alzheimer, i will certainly remember how to cook a biryani.  So all said and done I quit my job due to many reasons in the year 2013 and now I am a full time homemaker or better still housemother. Not in my wildest dreams I would have thought that I , Shaima Shamim would become crazy about cooking new dishes and trying out all possible understandable recipes from the Internet. My OTG is in full use . Not only I bake cakes, muffins and cookies in them, I also bake paneer, cauliflower, potatoes. I am a big fan of everything which requires baking. I never knew this side of mine. I still sometimes smile by myself that I am actually liking this whole cooking business. Gone are the days when I used to cook just because I had to feed people in my home ..Today I cook because I want people to relish what I prepared. I cook from my heart and soul. 
I thought why not put all the experiments be it good or bad in an ongoing post. So I am going to start uploading pics of what I make in the kitchen . Nope, there will be no recipes...the Internet is full of them . This is just to keep in memories what I love just as we keep pics of our kids and pets.....
NUTELLA FILLED COOKIE



This one I recently prepared and My kids just loved it. It really came out well but as the name in the recipe says, cookie. This turned out to be more like a cake. Have it with a bit of actual Nutella by the side and you will be in heaven.








MATHRI








This is the famous mathri which my family loves. It has cumin seeds and pepper powder and the healthy wheat too in half proportion. But do not make the mistake of considering this as healthy just because it is baked, it has half cup oil..........boo hooo half cup of oil. I also had put a little more salt in it so it was not so liked by all.





CHOCOLATE CAKE
The specialty of this cake is that it has no eggs and no butter......HEALTHY????? NOOOOOO
It has 1/4th cup oil....yippeeeee. If you think about your waistline, don't eat cakes....I have sprinkled some icing sugar on top for that glamour. 


RED VELVET CAKE
  See this cake, this is supposed to be "Red Velvet cake with Vanilla frosting" . The cake was uhmmm salty , i dont know how, i dont have the slightest clue. For the first time Faris told me "Yeh cake bilkul nahin kha sakte". Yes for the first time, I had to throw the cake in the dustbin, my heart, my love. Though the icing was fantastic , I could have licked the entire preparation. This cake was my BIGGEST DISASTER. The pic on the right looks good though.


KULCHAS




The very same day I made the above monster , I also made this delicacy , the Kulcha. It turned out to be very soft and tasty. Actually I wanted to make Naan but then after reading the recipe, I felt it would be a bit tedious and lengthy so switched on to this easier version. Now I personally feel it is very similar to Normal maida ka paratha of course but a little variation here and there. My both the kids enjoyed it and I was a happy mother at the end .