BeeAndJay

Bee, Jay and Those Three Words !

2012-02-20T05:14:00.000-08:00

No. Its not THOSE three words you think. The three words which are echoed by Jay all over our home every day are "GUYS ARE LAZY-EEEEE".

How can I make Jay understand that I am not lazy but I am just like every other guy in this planet !

Okay, These are what making Jay curse on me.

- I used to dump left over food in our fridge , so much in a week so that , when Friday comes Jay will not have any space to store anything in it . Though the dustbin is few cms away from the fridge, I cant take that "extra mile" to deposit left overs in it.

- Jay puts the used clothes in washing machine every weekend without fail. I forget to take the clothes off the machine and drying them without fail. (She is too short to reach out the "thuni kaaya vaikra kodi". Huh, Poor Girl)

- I used to swear Jay that I will definitely remember myself to buy those essential grossery items required for every week, which I eventually forget . She has to remind me everytime to get that done.

Okay. Yes I forget (and sometimes pretend to). But this is how almost every Guy is, Isnt ? Girls Like and Want Guys, but they dont Want them to be Guy-Like, huh.

This was going on for so long and hence I decided to fix that. I know I just cant remember it. I realized I always wanted someone to remind me.

Its then I came up with these. Instead of my wife, What if those household things themselves reminded me to get things done. Definitely it would be much more polite. So, I bucked up , created some images and got them printed. I am going to paste these on my Fridge and Washing Machine. Now let them remind me what I should do everytime I see them (so that the 24 hrs background echoes stop once for all).

This one is for Fridge :

This one is for Washing Machine :

This one for Grossery :

And this one a bonus - To be pasted on the living room to remind us of our diet regime.

Jay was happy just by seeing these, hoping that I would atleast listen to my Fridge and Washing machine, if not her.

Yes, Guys are lazy. But they know how to deal with it ! Yeppudi.

Bee, Jay and SJ !

2011-10-06T16:54:00.000-07:00

Yes, iPhone is great. But that is not the reason why world loves Steve Jobs. There are reasons greater than Apple products which make Steve one of the most loved technologists of this century.

He is a visionary. He is a fighter. He is a believer. He always did what he loved, even when he was sacked from the very same company he founded.

He acknowledges that when he visited the door of death(due to his Pancreatic cancer), he learnt more than what he had learned till then. In his own words,

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart...Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

To the most Passionate technologist of our time, Salutes from BeeJay.

R.I.P.

If you have not seen his famous speech at Stanford, here is the link.
http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html

Interior Decoration Made Easy

2011-10-05T09:05:00.000-07:00

We wanted to do some decoration on the walls of our house and at the same time we want to meet certain criterias - Less Cost, Less Time, Less Nails on Wall (Courtesy-Flat owner) , Different and Aesthetic.

 After discussing many options, we zero-ed on this. 

 A Guitar in Living Room Wall.

 And to make it meet our all criteria (most importantly - Less cost ), the guitar was made of - Glossy A4 sheets - instead of an original one.

 Time for Setup  - Less than 30 mins
 Cost for materials - 99.9% lesser than market cost to do an equivalent.
 Nails used - 0. 
 Different and Aesthetic - Atleast for us, Yes.

 Here is the snap of the Final outcome :





 All it takes..

 A couple of Glossy A4/A3 Sheets
 Adhesive Tape
 Scissor
 Images for Guitar of your choice and musical notes.


 How we did it ?
 
After deciding the theme, we started to search in Net for various Guitar images and finally choose this. Though I was carried away with many flashy designs available, Jay kept reminding me that we have to choose based on the Wall's Background.  Then, to spice up the guitar , we choose several images of musical notes.
Next step is , with a bit of help from Photoshop, we split the image of Guitar
into 3 so that we can take it in 3 different A4 papers.

Then we took print outs of all these and removed the non-image part using scissors.
And thats it, just pasted using adhesive tapes and its Over!

Try this at your home ! A Lazy Saturday afternoon could be turned into an interesting get-together time !

Update : This post has been chosen for "Carnival of Creativity" blog carnival.

Chicken 65 ??

2011-10-05T09:03:00.000-07:00

More than the " What comes first - Chicken or Egg" paradox, this question haunts me more - "Why chicken 65 is called as Chicken 65?"


 - Is that Chicken  65 days old before being deep fried?
 - Does it require 65 people in Kitchen to do this dish ? And the original name is Kitchen 65
   which later turned to Chicken 65 ?
 - Does it indicate the cost of 1 kg of chicken ?
 - OR Is it a message to the world that , like chicken dies
   when it becomes chicken 65, the world will end at 2065 ?

All these thoughts were what running in my mind, when Jay said " Ok, lets cook Chicken 65 today".

And with her knowing that , of all the living things in earth - I love Chicken the most, I was sure the dish would come out well. And Yes it was.

When she served that dish, I had still not found the answer for the question "Where the name for Chicken 65 came from" . But  I knew , "Where this Chicken 65 will go into", instantly.

While it reaches my tummy, here is the pic of that. I have requested Jay to update this post with her secret recipe (I dont know whats 'secret' in that , but thats what she said when I asked her the recipe).

Bee, Jay and Harry

2011-10-05T08:59:00.000-07:00

We both are huge fans of Harry Potter. Between us, we have read all the books and watched all the movies. We both believe Reading the books were far more excilarating than the movies, but that never stopped us from queuing for Movies.

Like every beginning has an end, Harry Potter series ended with Deathy Hallows- Part 2 and when we were going for this last edition of the franchise, it was like going for a farewell to bid bye for a long list of friends.

The movie does captures all the critical moments, but has certain tweaks from the book. Especially, Harry rolling over with Voldemort and the stage at which Neville kills Nagini.

We were actually expecting a very emotional scene for the death of Weasley brother, but there was not one. That scene definetely deserved more space on screen.

Apart from the tweaks in the movie, we believe that there was a last minute change in the Harry Potter Book series itself. As Harry was the last horcrux , he himself needs to be killed and when Neville kills Nagini, all horcruxes were killed and Voldemort dies there. This was the original plot , if rumours are to be believed. And that explains all the dots in the previous story.


But because of the publisher's pressure, Rowling was forced to change that and to make up for that she need to bring in Dumbledore who sends Harry back to earth alive. 

Anyways, the joy, the anticipation, the experience this whole series gave us all is.. Magical.

And for that, Thank you Harry. We miss you !

We are not over with Potter yet. For fellow Potter fans, dont miss out visiting this link pottermore.com

And if you miss "Miss Granger" more than Harry (just like Bee),  the below pic is for you !

Ah - OOh - To - Fu

2011-10-05T08:56:00.000-07:00

             Whenever I cross any Chinese or Japanese restaurants on streets, I will usually feel like this . And when Jay said she is going to cook a Chinese dish at home and that too for the first time in her life, I felt like this .  But when she finally cooked and served that dish, I instantly knew this is going to be a regular for us.  Tofu Capsicum Masala is an indianized version of Tofu recipe and I realized tats why we both liked it.  While she put the effort in cooking that, I made it up by taking nice snaps of that and publishing in our Flog.   Here's the snap and below that is the more useful part of how she did it.

Ingredients :

Tofu - 2 cups - chopped into cubes

Capsicum - 1 (big)

Tomato - 1 medium size - chopped to small pieces

Soya Sauce , Tomato Sauce
Oil - 2 spoons
Mustard seeds - 1/4 spoon(optional)
Coriander leaves - few
Cumin seeds - 1 spoon
Chilly powder - 1 spoon
Coriander powder - 1 spoon
Turmeric - 1/4 spoon
Ginger garlic paste - 1/4 spoon(optional)
Salt - as needed

- Fry the Tofu pieces with oil in a pan for few minutes and keep it aside.

- Now, fry the chopped onion, mustard, tomato, cumin seeds and after seasonin , add capsicum and add little water for the capsicum to cook.

- Add salt and chilly powder as per taste.

- Now it should just appear like a capsicum masala

- Add the fried tofu and add Tomato sauce and soya sauce as per taste.

- Soya sauce is the secret of taste for this recipe so dont forget to add it.

- Allow it to be on low flame for a while and the Indian Tofu recipe is ready !!

 (Recipe Courtesy: Some Chinese Aunty's kitchen)

Inviting you !!

2010-08-10T09:32:00.000-07:00

We , Barani and Jaya, welcome you to be part of the First BeeJay Moment of our Life , Our Marriage :).

The above video speed may be slow, but our heart beats faster as the D-Day approaches . We would like you to join the beat , enjoy the moment and make it more memorable to us.

Lets Meet on 28/29 Aug 2010.

Life Begins..

2010-08-10T09:20:00.000-07:00

Some Moments make us laugh, some make us cry, same make us grateful but some moments Make Our Lives !!

We, Barani and Jaya, have started this blog to be a digital diary of our life. And we are making this to share and cherish our life with our near n dears ie. You.

We are logging our BeeJay moments here so that , wherever you are, We are just a Click Away from you.

Welcome to the Digital Edition of our Life :)