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Deep Cleaning Our Homes!!!

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Who doesn’t like a clean house. A house that is dust free and is immaculate always! Now wouldn’t that be a dream come true? Unfortunately, things don’t work that way. We need to tire and toil to ensure our house is neat and clean. I had shared a few tips in one of my previous blogs. Those were more like daily tips to keep the house clean. This blog is dedicated to deep cleaning the house. Here I will talk about tackling the stain in between the tiles, the food stuck in small parts of the stove and the huge French windows. These are just some small things that I learnt over the years and that I follow. Some of them come from the internet, some I learnt from my parents and some I learnt while experimenting on my own. If you think this topic interests you, then do keep reading. The Bathroom Now, the bathroom is something I feel that has the most germs. During my weekly cleaning routine, I ensure I clean my bathroom nicely. I clean/scrub the toilet (using a good toilet cleaner), w...
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What's Your Cleaning Mantra?

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How many times have you wished that the house cleaned itself? I keep wishing this many many times in a day. And I am sure, many other women also think that way.  To give you a premise, I am not someone who wants everything to be perfectly clean always. But then things need to be decently clean. Windows without major streaks, furniture without dust, a dry and neat bathroom and definitely a clean kitchen is what I aim for most of the times. Over the years I realized it is not very easy but then it is not very difficult to maintain as well. A few things here and there and we have a beautiful home. There might be many blogs on this topic and I too have learnt a lot from different blogs out there; but here I have mentioned a few tips that have helped me in my day to day life. Start in the Night Yes you read it right. I do not start it in the day but in the night. I start by clearing all my dishes and stacking them in the sink. Then I proceed to wipe down my stove and my k...
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India to Australia - The PR process I followed

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Want to move to Australia and don't know what to do? Well, then you are exactly where I was about a year and a half back. I tried going through an agent and all that jazz but I realized it was way too much money. Then I set out to do my own research and understand all that I needed to apply for a PR. Since I had no knowledge at all and was researching all along the process, I ended up taking way more time than was actually required. I had to actually go through a lot of sites, YouTube videos and blogs to understand what needed to be done. When I entered Australia, the feeling of relief was overwhelming. To know that I singlehandedly managed the process from End to End (With a little help from the husband), was a feeling of achievement in itself. Today when I think about it, I realized how difficult it was for me to understand the entire process. Gathering information from different sources was a hassle. Hence, I came up with the idea of penning down my journey at one place. T...
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Our Experiments with Food

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What do you do when you are staying away from home where your favorite foods are not as accessible? You can either forget about them and have them when you go back to India or you can spend time whining about how you can't have them or you can just start making them. That's exactly what we started doing. We started making so many things that we took for granted back in India. Below is a glimpse of a few of our Experiments with Food. Homemade Dosa and Idly Now, this might be a very common thing in Indian households but then staying in Hyderabad, we had access to Dosas and Idlys at almost every nook and corner. And many a times I would just get idly batter from my mom and would directly make them, giving no more thought to it. Staying in Sydney, I started making the batters from scratch. So now having a Dosa or Idly is something that I can do at home. Pizza Funny as it may sound, Pizza back in India was cheaper and more tasty as well. The pizza I had her...
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Back in Action

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I chanced upon my blog today   -Yeah, you read it right, I just happened to visit my bookmarked pages today and rediscovered my long forgotten blog. So coming back, I chanced upon my blog today and was saddened by the fact that it’s been so long since it went untouched, so long since I actually wrote something. But what caught my attention most was the fact that over a period of time, almost all the posts that I have published had struck a melancholic chord somewhere. This fact disturbed me. I realized I might have written those when the going had gotten tough for me, but that doesn’t mean that now when things are much smoother than what they were, “Touch Wood”, the blog should lose its value for me. So here I am, with absolutely no clue about what to write. But with a determination in my mind that no matter what, I shall touch base with my blog on a regular basis from now on and with a promise that I shall revive my lost spirit for writing. And now I have put on...
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Someone's Watching Over Me, Hillary Duff, Raise Your Voice

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This is one song that has hugely motivated me over the past few months. I simply love the lyrics and the feel... And somewhere it feels true :) Found myself today Oh I found myself and ran away Something pulled me back The voice of reason I forgot I had All I know is you're not here to say What you always used to say But it's written in the sky tonight So I won't give up No I won't break down Sooner than it seems life turns around And I will be strong Even if it all goes wrong When I'm standing in the dark I'll still believe Someone's watching over me Seen that ray of light And it's shining on my destiny Shining all the time And I wont be afraid To follow everywhere it's taking me All I know is yesterday is gone And right now I belong To this moment to my dreams So I won't give up No I won't break down Sooner than it seems life turns around And I will be strong Even if it all goes wrong When I'm standing in the dark I'll still believe...
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Just Me

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"Do you ever get that feeling where you don't wanna talk to anybody? You don't wanna smile and you don't want to fake being happy. But at the same time you don't know exactly what's wrong either. There isn't a way to explain it to someone who doesn't already understand. If you could want anything in the world it would be to be alone. People have stopped being comforting and being alone never was. At least when you're alone no one will constantly ask you what is wrong and there isn't anyone who won't take 'I don't know' for an answer. You feel the way you do just because you do. You hope the feeling will pass soon and that you will be able to be yourself again, but until then all u can do is wait"
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