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The Lotus Feet.

Garden gnomes
A poem
Lotus

Garden gnomes were playing around,

The grass was green and flowers made sound,

“Hush,Hush see the colour of light,

You take blue, You take pink,I take brown.

Gnomes do not play easy games,

They are tricky, sometime friends.

From top of the hill, God looks upon us,

If he comes down we will surely blush.

He will make us newly made.

Gnomes will ask for many days.

But we will have his feet to shed.”

Adios!

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Kiwi-Pineapple Mocktail.

Pineapple and kiwi mocktail is a fabulous drink. When served with crushed ice, it simply nourishes the soul. When it passes down through our throats, the crushed ice and the kiwi pineapple drink gives a pleasant and cool relief. To make this mocktail, take a tall glass. In it, first add crushed ice. Ice crushers are available in the market or you can grind it in an ice mixer or in a plain mixer.

Add 30-40 gm of crushed ice. Then add 40 ml kiwi syrup and 25 ml pineapple syrup.

Take two slices of kiwi (small sizes) and add it. Take a fresh lemon and make thin round slices of it.

Add four such thin slices in the glass. Then add seven to eight basil leaves.

To bring balance, taste and sweetness to the mocktail, add 25 ml of sugar syrup.

Then using a stirrer, give a stir. Stir it nicely. Have a sip. If it tastes bland, you can add more of the sugar syrup. If you want to make it more of a kiwi mocktail, then add twenty ml more kiwi syrup. If there’s need for adding a bit of more pineapple syrup, you can do so. But remember, it’s a kiwi-pineapple mocktail, with kiwi in a major proportion.  

It’s an excellent mocktail, make it, have it and be happy.

Adios!

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Laughter and Its Effect.

We came out of the house, past the building gate,walked along the main road, passed the by lane. A few steps ahead, we met our old housemaid. Seeing us, she felt so happy that she laughed. Her laughter was so yellow, I don’t want to describe it any further and I leave to you to understand that we felt suffocated and couldn’t help answering her questions, like how we are, who is working now? Could she come for giving my mother some massage and all.

Ma gave her little money and we proceeded further. Reached a baker’s shop and ordered some savouries and told him that while going back home, we will collect it. We proceeded further to the next by lane for walking and met our old school bus driver.

 He smiled and he had long and sharp teeth. Recognized me and asked what I was doing now. He told my mother –“Your son was very peaceful. He never quarrelled in the bus”.

After passing him, Ma looked at me and asked-“Is it a denture day?” We were walking and came the panipuriwala. We stopped for it and had panipuris when a small girl brought a pitcher full of good water. The panipuri seller, made the tamarind water.

The girl is very fluent in Marathi and she asked her father would she bring some more. To this her father said-“No, now you sit here.”

As we were gulping down the panipuri very faster, the girl started laughing without any control. Both of us also laughed. This time, her denture and laughter was from her heart and joyful. That we forgot the laughter of the old acquaintances

Came back and collected the bakery product and both of us checked in the mirror, that how do we look when we laugh and it was okay. Relief.

Adios!

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Bubble Tea.

Did you ever have bubble tea? Bubble teas are juice sort of teas in flavours such as lemon, peach, litchi, kiwi,etc., with bubbles flavoured as mango, strawberry, blueberry, etc.

When you drink the tea, the straw is to be held a little bit higher so that bubbles come straight into your mouth and that’s where all the fun is hidden. The moment the bubbles, enter your mouth the whole experience comes alive. Within a second you will find them popping. The fun cannot be explained. It is super, marvellous and extremely wonderful.

Whosoever has invented the concept of bubble tea is an extremely wise, intelligent and efficient person and a nice human being as well. Have fun while drinking bubble teas.

N.B. Don’t forget the popping bubbles.

Adios!