How to make really tasty sabudana wada

Begin with the firm intention of making gulab jamun.
Take khoya and add a white powder that you assume to be maida (wheat flour).
Start making balls and deep-frying the resultant dough.
Be shocked when the jamuns start bursting in the oil.
Give up and keep the sugar syrup that you had made in the fridge.
Two days later, remove the syrup, and since you are jobless and absolutely refuse to throw anything (and I mean ANYTHING) away, decide to make shankarpali to use up the syrup.
Mix the syrup, milk and ghee and boil for a while.
Now pour the mixture into some more of that soft white flour you used a few days ago and knead.
Watch in horror as it gains a consistency resembling that of shira.
Speculate on what the flour might be, as it is clearly not wheat.
Realise with even more horror that it's either sabudana (tapioca) or rice flour.
Laugh a lot and fall over.
Make little round discs of the material (which will crack around the edges due to the weird consistency) and deep-fry.
The discs will puff up to resemble pani-puris with a sickly sweet taste.
Give up again and start thinking of ways to get rid of the dough.
Call some people and tell them what happened and laugh even more.
Experiment on a poor boy and watch gleefully as he admits to liking it.
Finally, add cayenne pepper and peanuts and deep fry again.
And there you have it! Delicious sabudana wada with minimal effort. Thank you. :D

[NOTE: Most of this was mom (duh) though I helped with the fall over laughing part :D]

The New Year Post

This is basically going to be a compilation of lists. I've had a crazy, crazy year, and I'm pretty sure the next one will be the same :D
Here goes...
The BAD things about 2010:

1. Tenth (need I say more? :D)
2. My parents changing into crazy paranoid people.
3. The beginning of the end of school.
4. Tenth Social Studies - ESPECIALLY Geography and Eco
5. Complete uncertainty about what exactly the Board is planning with our futures.
6. Playing guinea pig as the CBSE board tries various educational experiments on us.
7. Not blogging and restricted internet access all thanks to the lovely mother.
8. NM moving away randomly without notice in August :'(
9. Every single girl in Std 10 crying on the bathroom floor at some point or the other in the year (it's called a breakdown :D)
10. Only getting to watch 4 movies in the whole year: Avatar, Iron Man II, Eclipse and HP7 Part 1.
11. Munni and Sheila (do NOT get me started... not that I have anything against THEM, just the hype surrounding them and the way the boys in our class were behaving :D)
12. The sudden neccessity to do crunches to stay in shape. Sad.
13. Katy Perry getting married to RUSSELL BRAND in JAIPUR. I mean, whaaa....?
14. Raj Thackeray and his MNS. Geez.
15. Usher wailing OMG.
16. Miley Cyrus TRYING to be bad and failing miserably (Who Owns My Heart? Seriously?)
17. Pamela Anderson in Bigg Boss
18. Actually, Bigg Boss too. It has got to be the most depressing idea in the history of Indian television.
19. The days preceding the CWG and the absolute IDIOCY of the Indian government.

The GOOD things about 2010:

1. Getting a cell phone, no matter how much they confiscate it :D
2. Our last school trip where we had TONS of fun screaming random songs :D
3. The general class unity and togetherness in our last year :D
4. Singing songs in class with a bunch of crazy freaks :D
5. Tenth Science. Especially Organic Chemistry. SO COOL :D
6. Geting over Edward Cullen.
7. Avatar. Even if it was in 2009 :D
8. HP7 and Eclipse
9. Nailpolish in weird colors even though my parents HATE it (BLUE!)
10. Ice Golas for Rs 25 in Central.
11. The entertainers of the year (for me): Lady GaGa! (pure awesomeness :D), Perez Hilton, Lady Antebellum, Eminem (SO COOL) and DJ Earworm (freaking genius).
12. Falling in love with Justin Bieber and Jay Sean
13. Opening Ceremony of the CWG. Stunning :D
14. FIFA FEVER!!! And Waka Waka by Shakira :D

Stuff that I want in 2011:

(My dad is going to look at this and just go "yeah, right". But there's no harm in WANTING, is there, if I know I'm not going to get it? :D)

1. At least 80 books that I have to catch up on.
2. Gadgets-wise: An iTouch, BlackBerry Torch, iPad, a camera of my own and and iMac :D (yeah, right :D)
3. SHOES. LOTS OF THEM.
4. A whole new wardrobe.
5. Gym Membership.
6. Red streaks in my hair.
7. A tattoo of a dragon on my left shoulder blade like Lisbeth Salander ( lol jk :D)

Stuff to not look forward to in 2011:

1. Board exams.
2. Studying for board exams (yeah, that's a whole different category :D)
3. The end of 10th and my school days.
4. Changing schools.
5. Our farewell.
6. Getting older :D
7. Brad Pitt getting married (*sob*)

Stuff to look forward to in 2011:

1. Our last and awesomest concert :D
2. HP7 Part 2
3. The end of 10th and the torture our teachers put us through.
4. Turning 16 (that sounds so OLD :D)
5. Going to France maaaybe? :D
6. Buying books!
7. Our farewell.
8. GaGa's new album :D

So I guess I'll just have to wait out the year and see if it turns out the way I hope it will :D