Almost Single

Thirty plus, single and ready to mingle, female of the species looking for husbands and trying to make the most out of their and other people's lives, is what the recent book by Advaita Kala is all about. Even though the book is well written with witty anecdotes, hilarious situations and all that, but still it doesn't do enough justice to the title, 'Almost Single'.

To me the title suggests the book to be about the life of someone who is coupled and decoupled and recoupled time and again. Just like the economies all around the world are planning to, in order to save themselves from catching cold. Derailing from the topic, ain't I?

An aunt who spent the prime period of her marriage away from her husband, for her job and with the sole motive of giving her kids a better life. A favorite librarian, whose husband served in merchant navy, all through their married life. My best friend's parents, still live in different cities doing their respective jobs, they underwent the separation to earn a decent living for their families and also to be able to marry off their three daughters. All these and many such individuals who have spent their life alone with a married tag to bind them and force them to shoulder the responsibilities of Grihastashram, would better fit into the 'Almost Single' club.


Living this married single life, now for almost two years, these are some of the things which I love to hate and sometimes hate to love of my pseudo married life.

The perks:
1. Eating whatever and whenever you feel like, like endless tubs of ice-creams
2. Hanging out with your friends both girls and boys and have a gala time without even a pinch of guilt
3. Shopping endlessly and shamelessly, no one to take away your credit cards
4. Feasting on the eye candies roaming around you anywhere and everywhere...:P
5. Making your married friends feel jealous, (oh, how I love doing this all the time.)
6. No one to compel you to exercise over the weekend.
7. Getting preference in anything and everything from the aunties and grannies.

The vetoes:
1. Friends bore you by worrying about your future all the time.
2. They keep on empathizing with you and waste the valuable fun time
4. Aunties planning to be mothers-in-law, keep on inquiring about you at the marriages and parties. This news when reaches your mother, you have to face the music and you can’t even hang up your phone.
5. When you tell them you are married, gorgeous guys ask you to come up with a better excuse.
6. Your house owner keeps on asking you about your husband all the time and you have to give all kind of assurances and explanations just to have a roof over your head which otherwise is meant for families only.

There are many more additions to both the lists, but I think it is better for me to stop here.

If you can endure it a little more of this, no one would make fun of you when you fry quarter circled Mathris instead of round ones.....you will understand what I mean, as you proceed.



Mathri

Ingredients:
1 cup of maida (all purpose flour)
2-3 tbs ghee
1 tbs ajwain
Salt to taste
2-3 Pepper corn, crushed
Oil for frying

Procedure:
Mix flour, salt, pepper corn and ajwain.
Add the ghee to the flour and mix to get a crumbled texture.
Add cold water to this mix and knead into a stiff dough.
Apply oil to your hands and take a small ball of the dough.
Roll into a small round puris.
Prick it with the help of the fork. (to save it from bulging into a puri while frying)
Deep fry in hot oil, till golden brown in color and crispy in texture.

Drain it over a tissue paper.

It would have taken eternity for me to roll small round puris from the mountain sized dough, so I increased the size of the puri and divided it into four parts. Please don’t give up on me, I can do better than this.

A perfect tea/coffee time snack.

Update:
It was from Asha's this post, I understood that Mythili of Vindu is hosting RCI:Gujrat.
So guess I am going to the party with my not so heart shaped and not so round Mathri.



P.S. One day, I would like to write my own version of 'Almost Single', NOM towards the author.

P.P.S. The sole motivation in writing this post, I thought the pics were fantastic......now stop giving me that look.

Not so relevant
P.P.P.S. I think Life in a Metro is the best hindi movie of 2007, after Chak de India (a die hard SRK fan, I am). Also. I think the album of the film is mindblowing.

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