Lauki ka Kofta

Surely the Star of the Day is Mr. Bottle gourd.
When we enter a hostel, its a common notion : " Gone are the days of yummy home food".
When we are over fed with this fad  , and if you are as lucky as me, the delightful mess food of Kasturba Bhavan makes you wag your tongue!
This was semester one.

Slowly the monotony steals away the charm and repetitive trips to the same restaurants all over the place makes you look up to home visits , where there's a mom , eagerly waiting for you, with her haven of good food.
That's sem 2.

Your room mate is selected as the Mess auditor. Great! You dream of five star menu for the hostel mess , forgetting the cooks remain the same ones as those in earlier sem! You are selected the Joint Hostel Secretary. Now you have already dreamt of revolutionizing the mess .  Alas! Dreams don't always come true. Potato crisis         takes a toll as every dish owes itself to potato and people don't hesitate once to complain. Yes, those with crown have a crown of thorns. Then comes inflation and lets just forget about eating in the mess. Queen Canteen welcomes with wide-spread arms and latent smirk. Lovers' paradise and cricket fan's hub- our canteen.
Sem 3, that was.

You finally take a risk of including lauki to the menu as an experiment, fully aware 90% of junta hates lauki ( although you love it, screw yourself!)
Lauki kofta makes its way and surprisingly people didn't even know what kofta is! Even more surprisingly it is finished even before half of the girls have come to eat. YES!! That's success.
No! Success is when next week kofta is prepared, every one floods the mess in order not to miss the kofta this time round (those who came late last time) and those who had feasted last time knew this time even 4 chapatis would be less! (Remember, we are girls and eat limited, normally) . Personally, it tasted to me as yum as meat and yeah, no exaggeration.
Sem4 , still going strong!! :)

Priya laments when food wasn't good, complaints were never ending, but now no one comes up to praise. As the JHS, sentiment shared , roomie!
As an in-mate and a foodie.... forget about praise and lets feast!! :D

SURPRISE :)

Jan 5' 12


I returned to my home for four years... my college hostel. Was real glad to see my whole "family" after a while. A Happy New Year to all. After all this socializing, I had a job to do. Jan 6 is my room-mate's birthday!! My first obvious thought was to get a cake... so I instantly smsed our dearest friend Shiksha, a sweet and ever so excited person. About an hour later, with a "just woke up" look on her face... she asked my roomie for me. Shiksha insisted I talk to her privately... fueling suspicions in roomie's mind. We talked in hushed tones and decided after Shiksha is done with her "meeting" with the first years, we two will go together to the bakery.
Roomie asked what "private" talks we had, to which I replied of some  Robocon competition and debugging stuff that I had heard Shiksha discuss earlier with Leena, our Miss Super Intelligent.(Thank God I overhear, :D)
In the mess , during evening milk time, we met Leena... as roomie too was there , I pretended that I had received a msg from Shiksha for Leena (its a known fact Leena never carries her cellphone along) and passed on my phone to her. Ah! Ms Super Intelligent read out aloud: "Hey,secret ..kal Priya ka bday hai... cake lane jana hai..."


Alas! Priya the roomie couldn't resist smirking.... but as they say party must go on. Shiksha insisted for the cake; we got a black forest, a few cupcakes, Five Star and Mars bar..... :)

Thanks to Mayuri for this lovely little candle :D
And to Shiksha who insisted for the cake in spite of Priya knowing  about it.

But Ms. Roomie.... surprise isn't over yet.... I had secretly messaged all to surprise her by invading our room @ 12 in the night!! And even asked Roohi-- who had left our college to pursue her dreams of being a doc-- and was a close friend of Priya-- to surprise call her . Well, all these things may be a regular affair for everyone's birthday, but for Priya, there's never any surprise, and she never expects! 
 Our friend from Bhutan, Meenam, who was discharged from the hospital only yesterday, too dropped in (unexpectedly,  given her health) to wish!


 So, it was indeed a surprise party and we rocked it all right. Now, its her turn to treat us :D

they say the way your first day is.... the whole year will be like that.....this time the first day is a Sunday !!

Your neighbors are your first family...... then I bid adieu to 2011 and welcomed 2012 with my whole family!!
And kids in my family rocked it alright! Desi Gals and Desi Boyz!!

It was chilling night.... something of a surprise to Ahmedabad.

And yeah.... they say the way your first day is.... the whole year will be like that.....this time the first day is a Sunday !!