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Today I cooked Green Peas Masala. I took this receipe from this site.

2 persons, 30 min
3 spn coconut powder

3 inch of ginger

5 cloves of garlic

1 pinch of turmeric

3 elachi

1 spn of chilli powder (or) 6 green chillies

1 spn garam masala

oil 2 spns and

salt to taste
Fry in no oil all the above ingredients i.e., ginger, garlic, elachi, coconut power and grind them till a thick paste.
Now heat oil in a pan and fry onions,green chillies and turmeric till it gets brown.
Add to it tomatoes(cut into very small pieces)and fry them till it is totally fried and leaves oil.
Add the above grinded paste and let it fry till it leaves the oil.
Now add salt and garam masala and stir about 2 min.
Finally add the green peas decorated with cilanto on it..


This can be served with rotis,puri, and rice..

As per my plan in my US stay, I have decided that every weekend I have to do\visit some new interesting activity.

This weekend was good in this regard. On friday we had a picnic and we played softball over there.

Today evening we went to The Ray Gonzalez - Latin Jazz and Salsa Festival. It was a blast.

It was at the riverfront plaza, hartfrord.











Guest Artist were: Richi Flores, Lucho Cueto and Black Sugar Sextet, Ray Gonzalez, Torres Jazzy Rumba.
Guest Singers were Josue Rosado, Juan Garcia, Jennifer Murillo.

Jennifer Murillo was amazing. Her singing style and voice are phonomenon. She is daughter of New Orleans cultured by Pervuvian parents and gifted singing student at Guakia in Hatford. she has participated as one of the main characters in the following musicals: "Cinderella Eats Rice and Beans" and "Alice in Wonderland" presented by The Hartford Childern's Theater. Murillo made her debut at the Festival singing with Big Band Orchestra conducted by Ray Gonzal…

Softball is something new for me. In India the main game is cricket as football in brazil. But after understanding the game


I felt it is more interesting. the only comedy happen with me I always forgot that after you hit the ball in softball you

have to keep the bat at that point only. After strike I always tool bat with me...which was funny.

OVer all it was a nice experiece!!!

This is not my receipe, I learned it from this blog

Thought of sharing it again!!!

Preparation Method of Mushroom Masala Curry Recipe
Sliced Mushrooms - 1 pack
Ginger paste - 1 tsp
Garlic paste - 1 tsp
Onion - 1 no
Tomato - 1 no
Coriander powder - 4 tsp
Masala powder - 4 tsp
Chilly powder - 2 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Coriander leaves(optional) - 4 stems



1)Wash mushrooms in warm water.

2)Heat oil in a pan.

3)Add ginger and garlic paste and stir, till brown.

4)Add chopped onions and stir, till onions are cooked.

5)Add coriander powder and
masala powder and stir, till the smell of masala powder comes out.

6)Add one or two chopped tomatoes, chilly powder and stir well, till tomatoes blend well.

7)Add mushrooms, cover the pan with a lid and cook on a low fame,
till mushroom is cooked.

:- Secret to cooking mushroom well is that you should not cook mushroom in water. Mushroom, itself has a lot of fluid which comes out when heated up. Hence it gets cooked in its own fluid.

8)Add water and salt as required and sti…

The following article is published in Telegraph on June 28, to read the original article please click here

Bhubaneswar, June 28: This girl grew up playing with dolls but her favourite sport was to chase boys.

Today, the 25-year-old Arpita Mohapatra has progressed to where she is climbing peaks, plunging to the depth of oceans and falling through the sky. Arpita recently returned after leading a team of eight visually-challenged persons, who successfully trekked the Himalayas has surfaced to become the first and only woman in the state to have mastered all the areas of extreme adventure — mountaineering, water sports, aero-sports and scuba diving.

This daredevil hailing from Amaria, a little hamlet in Balasore district, was never a bright student. “Often, I would get back home bruised and was tired of dressing my injuries. None of my other six siblings troubled her like I did,” recalls Arpita. “Studies never attracted me. I was a good athlete from my school days, winning competitions…

I am in New york with my college buddy Riyaz. From morning it was fun day. We visited Arab-American Street Festival.







We watched "The Last Airbender" movie. I didn't liked it much.

We tried to visit some of the Irish Music Clubs but we could not make it. The band was not available.


We had a dinner in a Thai Restaurant. Yesterday we ate at Turkish Restaurant. In New York you will find food from different countries.


I also came to know about 2 interesting websites.

www.couchsurfing.com
www.meetups.com


Now we are back at home and I am listening to his Irish Violin.

She


She is a glass maker,

She is a glass breaker,

She is a game,

She is a flame,

She can handle furnace

She can resolve a mess

She is bliss

Like a baby’s kiss

To read more on this please click here.

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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Discuss:How_do_you_prepare_for_FTII_entrance_exam
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_does_one_prepare_for_the_FTII_entrance_exam&src=ansTT
http://media5w1h.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/ftii-question-paper-2009/
http://www.reocities.com/bvijay/movies/ftii.html
http://www.fullinterview.com/phpkb/article/how-to-prepare-for-ftii-1384.html

Best of Luck!!!

“When the ship S.S. Morea reached the port of Marseilles


on July 8, 1910, Savarkar escaped from his cell through a

porthole and dived into the water, swimming to the shore in

the hope that his friend would be there to receive him in a

car. “



It’s been a 100 years now. Please accept our salutes to you

and your heroic actions and thoughts.

Can I go to Marseille, France, where this happened 100

years back?

I repect brazil but I love netherlands.
Today Netherlands won the match against Brazil and created the history.
Excellent!! I am happy