Rai in diff moods...

Thats Rai (Adwitya)...the sweet lil girl now grown big...the last time I saw her was abt a year back..that time she was this sweet lil girl crazy after big..gliterry earings...cartoon network...now she's become more fashionable and refused to pose for a pic. coz her hair was not combed...the first pic. she posed for me after her hair properly done...how kids grow big so soon

Hungry kya......

The first pic. from top is Aloo saag and its my all time fav. manipuri snacks, I like it more than singju or bora....sorry singju!!! but Manitombi's ( The Singju-bora yonbi in my neighbourhood back home) aloo saag is something I can do anything for. The 2nd pic. is of singju...before mixing it....its the ultimate salad anyone can have...among manipuri's it's the most popular snacks/salad, when I was a kid I used to buy aloo saag and hide it from mom and have it with my sisters...fearing mumma will scold. Funny even after so many years, I still have that feeling that mumma will scold for eating junk and food from outside whenever I buy  singju, bora or Keli Chana and mind you the Keli Chana from our locality is really famous in Manipur. My friends always ask me to buy it, if I am visiting them whenever I go home for work or holiday. Hahaha how much I used to fear mumma...looking at these pics I feel hungry...very very hungry....

Bora and aloo kanghou

Nothing beats manipuri snacks.....its a lethal combo...bora as in Pakora and aloo kanghou and top it with oo- morok on the side yummmmmmmmm....its so yummy that no manipuri can stop our mouths from watering...I had these at my fren Purna's place when I had gone home 10 days back...

Some more good pics.

Pics. of Orchid @ My home in Imphal

When dad was posted in hill dist. he used to get different species of orchid this is one of the ordhid he got from I guess Mao Maram. The leaves are very very tick and it blooms through the year. I have not seen this orchid else where, its a creeper attached with our mango tree in our sumang, one of my attempt to some good photography. I want to learn some basic tips on photography and buy myself a good camera. My best birthday gift to myself.

Kangla-Sha

Thats the pic. of the mythical creature Kangla sha. I went home after almost one year and did enjoyed my week long break alot. Earlier Kangla was occupied by the Assam Rifles but handed over to the public in 2004. The last time I visited kangla was abt 2 yrs back, things have changed inside kangla, many restoration work is going on and the Govt, sure is doing a good work.

The Ahmedabad days

I learned making really good fried rice when I was in Ahmedabad,I learned out of desperation and my love for good food I guess.....making fried rice! .....is no big deal m very sure anyone can make it from a road side dhaba to big hotels..but to make it interesting sure requires some bit of

patience....chopping 6 different types of veggies, boiling chicken, shredding the chicken requires patience I must say......alot of it and when it comes to cooking I do have patience alot if it....

Ahmedabad was so damn vegetarian....we won't even get egg at any shop...and being a non-veg was very difficult....so we had no option but to cook non-veg at home......Amrita and I had a gala time....cooking non-veg at a Jain colony....its another thing our neighbours never got to know or else they sure would have cried murder or thorwn us out of the apartment.....but thankfully that never happened in 2 yrs of my stay there....I enjoyed my stay in ahmedabad it sure made me aware abt the value of having non-veg food...hahaha but I did enjoyed the variety of veg snacks..

Pic. of sauteing veggies for the fried rice.