Green and white salad - a favourite salad

Ingredients Ganth Ghobhi/ patta Ghobhi 1cup Spring onions chopped 2cups Safed Mooli grated 1 cup Lettuce leaves to line the plate Lemon dressing Lemon juice  1/4th cup Oregano       1tsp salt to taste red chilli powder 1/2tsp artificial sweetener  2tabs cheese grated   1tbsp Dahi (yoghurt)...

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Party game - Accessories from your partner

A couple game, the couples stand together and the stopwatch is set at 30secs. The wives remove all possible accessories from their husband's person. The couple which removes the maximum accessories is the winn...

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Party game - Small Tables with biscuits

A party game for children. Take a pack of Marie or glucose biscuits and a bundle of toothpicks. Each biscuit is balanced with the help of 4 toothpicks. Person balancing the maximum no. Of biscuits in one minute, wins the ga...

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Printing with iPad

Since I purchased my iPad in October I've been trying to print from it. I thought if I connected my mac to a printer and as both the iPad and Mac were on the same wireless network that the printer may get selected by apps while printing but no such luck! I kept touching the print button with no printer getting selected. So I started printing...

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A variation of Musical chairs

All the participants stand in a circle and the music plays in the background. A dupatta is knotted at one end and converted into a round loop, a hoopla can be used instead. Each participant passes the loop from his head to feet that is over his/her body and passes it on. Whoever is caught with the loop when the music stops intermittently...

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Queen of Sheba

A party game for teenagers/small children. In which the host plays the Queen of Sheba. She asks for something and the first participant to fulfill her wish correctly wins a point/prize. She keeps asking for one thing after another.Examples:1. Red rose.2. A fifty paisa coin or maybe two coins.3. 3 balloons or purple balloons.The list is endless....

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2012 - an amazing movie

This is a must watch movie. It does get melodramatic at some places, but the effects are amazing and involvement of all nationalities is ensured to make it a global hit. It is a Hollywood masala movie. It is to be watched in the theatre and not on the television or computer. One feels one has seen it all - the superhero movies and action...

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Sweep - Rules of a favourite card game

Lately I got the idea of teaching my children, some of my favourite card games. I had spent hours playing some of these games in childhood. We started with teen do paanch, rummy and then sweep. Try as hard as possible, but I could not remember the rules of the game of Sweep at all. I asked mom but still nothing came back. Sweep used to be...

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Latest Hindi Movie songs for free - musicindiaonline

I love Hindi movies, well I guess that's not a unique characteristic of mine, I'm just one of millions. Every week I like to hear the latest hindi songs, like top ten songs or top twenty or top fifty according to the time available. I like a ready-made list of songs, kind of "ready to listen". I usually listen to songs while I work on my...

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Rangoli '09

This year's rangoli at the hospital was amazing. Lot of work put in by children and staff.The origin of rangoli painting is traced to a legend recorded in the Chitralakshana, the earliest Indian treatise on painting. When the son of a King's high priest died, Brahma, Lord of the universe, asked the king to paint the likeness of the boy so...

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