Attention Housewives! Note these tipsFiled Under: housewives

This is just a hit and miss list which will confirm practical. Pin it up near your kitchen cabinet so that you can refer to it from time to time.

• To keep rice separated, while boiling add juice of a lemon to the water
• Add a dash of lemon juice to mushrooms when cooking them.
• If you add one spoon of milk while boiling the cauliflower, it will still look bright white.
• While boiling cabbage and broccoli, add a slice of bread to the water lessens the odour
• To prevent beetroots from discolouring, cook them with 2 inches of the stem. Add a tablespoon of vinegar to the cooking water.
• . Rub potatoes with butter before baking to improve the taste.
• To remove the bitter taste of eggplants, soak them in salted water. Then drain and cook as desired.
• Lettuce will look fresh, soak in ice water for 30 minutes and adding a little lemon juice to the water.
• To slice mushroom in even sizes use an egg slicer .
• Add lemon juice or soak onion in cold water before cutting them for salad.
• Rub potatoes with butter before baking to improve the taste.
• When making potato chips, fry them twice to get a crisp crust.
• To keep red cabbage from discolouring while boiling, add a little vinegar to the water.
• To keep the colour of vegetables while boiling, add a pinch of baking soda to the water, particularly useful for spinach.
• Add a pinch of sugar to tomatoes to enhance the flavour.
• To remove the skin of tomatoes, just dip them for a few minutes in boiling water. The skin will slip off easily.
• To keep boiled syrup from crystallising, add a pinch of baking soda or a teaspoon of milk.
• Don’t throw away bread crusts. To turn out a pudding in a jiffy, make coarse slices of the bread and add them to a mixture of milk and pudding powder. Stir in a few raisins and bake. A yummy desert is ready.
• To whip cream, pour the measured quantity into a bowl and chill. Then whisk.
• When separating egg whites (for a soufflé), break one egg at a time in a small container. This is to ensure that no egg yolk goes in.

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Smiles to rehearse at homeFiled Under: Uncategorized

1. Unadulterated smile:

This is the real baby smile, as one cannot counterfeit it.  The eyes are beamed up and a small crow’s feet is observable around the eyes. Lips are raised and parted and full set of teeth is visible.

2. Synchronised smile:

This can be done by an confident smiler as it is a hard one. The smile has to be affectionate while accumulating a presumptuous penchant body, as the smile and the body language has to be parallel.

3. Adoring smile:

This can be faked easily, because this depends upon the relationship with the person you are facing. This is done by slanting the head towards the others.

4. Courteous smile:

This is a smile used by politicians as no facial expression is visible and the eyes too does not give any expression.

5. Uncomfortable smirk:

In this head is twisted forward and eyes look away or may be even down. To be used in situation like when you are late at work or forgot to do some work given by your spouse.

6.Forged grin:

One of the lips is higher than the other one.  The eyes are glazing elsewhere.  Can be shown when you are not interested in seeing the other person.

Additional tips on smiling further:

• 1. Be optimistic
  2. Say to yourself that you were cheerful and you can be joyful
  3. Glance at things far beyond like trees, birds and planes
  4. Accept with gratitude the humanity offered to you
  5. Even if you want your friends circle or move to a new office set up, do it for the sake of keeping in the company of positive people.
  6. Always say thank you or appreciate  a person who has been grateful you.
  7. Stop thinking about people or person who always nags you or criticises you too often, ignore this person from your mind and soul.
  8. When someone smiles at you just in mid that he/she feels great about you.
  9. If you try to judge others you will feel more negative.
  10. For better feelings, hang tall upward looking things like pictures of buildings, planes and birds in your work place.
  11. And lastly, smile from your heart.

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How To Shake Hands The Right WayFiled Under: Handshakes

Tips for a positive handshake

Do’s

1. Ensure that the clutch is positive
2. The palm should be clean and hygienic and keep the fingers on the thump up position and open
3. Keep good eye contact with the person you are shaking and discharge the hands immediately after introduction
4. You break the ice first, as you should be the one to instigate action to shake the hands, if he/she is your guest/host/or behest leave-taking.

Dont’s

1. Giving a chilly/drenched handshake. At a party this can be taken care by holding the cool drink in the left hand.
2. Clutch someone as if going to press the bones and act as if to demonstrate force.
3. Shaking hands with a shamble hand, this does not generate an excellent consciousness.

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Shah Rukh Khan’s school life in St Columba’s, New DelhiFiled Under: Bollywood, Desi General, India, Indians, Shah Rukh Khan

• The early flowering tulips….:
• Shah Rukh was enrolled in The St Columba’s School,in kindergarten in January 1972 at the age of six. It is an impressive institution spread over numerous acres of land in the heart of Delhi. Founded by the Indian Province of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, it was started on April 29, 1941 with 32 boys enrolled. The school’s status grew with its size. By 1955, the students numbered 2200, and a new building had been added.

• The demureness of the school:
• The Irish Brothers were well-known for discipline and punishment. Up to the late 1980s, corporal punishment was used at St Columba’s. Minor children were striked on buttocks. Older ones were caned on their backsides — a few whacks meant sitting on a sweater or bag all day to pad the cuts. And the eldest boys were rapped on their knuckles and fingertips. On cold winter days, the canes connecting with frozen fingertips caused on the spot blisters. The Brothers hid canes in their robes. If a rule was wrecked, penalty was instantaneous and excruciating.

• His visits to the hair-dresser:
• The school insisted on snappy nails and tiny hair. Anybody with hair over the chosen length was sent from school to the barber on the sidewalk at the nearby Gole Market. Shah Rukh, blessed with a intense, disorderly wash made this spree frequently. It was seven-thirty A.M and the barber had usually just woken up. He had morning breath and eyes full of sleep but he began the haircut with the same question, ‘What style haircut do you want, Dharmendra or Amitabh Bachchan?’ Years later, Shah Rukh knew he had attained celebrity when hair stylists told him that clientele were asking for the Shah Rukh Khan cut.
• His noutankis:
• Hindi gaalis or curse words bombarded his verbal communication. Fights were not infrequent. Shah Rukh saw knives pulled and blood pour. The image of cane-carrying priests and the prolonged schedule of rules at St Columba’s didn’t dissuade Shah Rukh. He was a master prankster. His best tricks were humorous, overconfident and generally put his burgeoning amateur dramatics aptitude to use. In the ninth grade, he hired an Amitabh Bachchan line from a film called Kaalia to persuade a teacher that his parents and the school administration neglected him.
• The teacher, his saviour:
• The teacher was his solitary unsubstantiated encouragement. Considering this and his tantalizing analytical rank, he told her, she should allow him to leave out some forthcoming tests. ‘Mere liye toh oopar bhagwan hai, neeche aap. Beech mein Yamraj talwar le kar vaar kar raha hai,’ he said. ‘For me, God is above and you below. In between, Yamraj, the Lord of Death, is attacking me with his sword.’ The repercussion being that the teacher was the only one who could save him from devastation. She bought it and endorsed him to overlook the tests.
• Fun with Teachers:
• Whenever they got a new teacher, he would play to have an epileptic fit. The students would pull off his shoes and would force him to walk bare feet. Everybody knew that Shah Rukh was playing consciously. He was really very asinine. He was awarded with the Sword of Honour by the school for all round development.
• His first crush:
• The primordial Church of Goldakhana is closest to the school and attached with its compound is the prominent Convent of Jesus and Mary.
• Gauri (now his spouse) used to study in that convent. It is learnt that they used to come by the same school bus. SRK had a crush on her. During a Christmas show, SRK showed Gauri his fondness to salsa with her. She agreed. Later on to meet her even during school hours SRK used to bunk classes and reached the girls convent to meet Gauri. The sharp Brothers of St Columbus caught SRK’s wayward playoffs and later built a huge compound barrier unscrambling the Convent of Jesus and Mary and St Columbus. Gauri’s parents later shifted her to the elite Modern School, Barakhamba Road.(Now Gauri is SRKs beloved wife).
• His school gang:
• In school there were four of them and called themselves the ‘C’ gang.
• As they were from the C-section. They are still friends and are married
• friends. Like he married Gauri who’s best friend is married to Vikas.
• He has never had more friends and close friends than these three-except
• perhaps, Chikki. Anyway, they were very cool, yanky gang, very American. They loved wearing Nike and they’d have a little spring in their walk, like the Americans and the blacks do.
• The good quality Khan:
• Shah Rukh would return home at nine every night, after taking part in elocution, exhibitions, or rehearsing. Later at night he would play Cricket under the street lamp. He would study at the last minute as he had a good memory.
• The arrogant Khan:
• At college he was quite lost as he came from a sophisticated school. But he was not an artificial guy with an accent like most guys from St. Columbus’s get. He admits that he learnt to be arrogant because of the ambience in school. He had it for 13 years in school. That amount of arrogance he says is excellent. Then that approach continued at Stephens College, Delhi, which he left after a year. He then joined Hansraj College, Delhi and after that he did Masters in Mass Communication from Jamiya Miliya Islamiya, in Delhi, but quit it in a year.
• Time has elapsed, he is a Star now:
• Now SRK is invited as a VVIP to the schools’ prominent and elevated profile shows, but he hardly ever attends those functions. Now only reminiscences are left. At the foyer of the school a big life size snap of King Khan is positioned as a chronicle of the legendry luminary.

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