My Serendipity!

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...

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...

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...

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...