Coffee with Anu

Well. This is not like Coffee with Karan(star) or Koffee with Anu(Vijay TV). This topic is dedicated to my all time favorite drink Coffee :). As I just start thinking about it only, I could feel the aroma of coffee seeds brewing and decotion filtering.

I was not actually a coffee girl. My life started as a complan girl because I was lean, thin and puny. Infact I myself used to make fun of me saying the only weight I have gained so far is head weight. So my parents made sure that I drink complan. But did I drink. Well thats a different story. I hated milk and complan is something I hated the most. But no choice. Have to drink.Then I found a way out. Our house where I lived was a single bedroom house but outside we had a big garden with coconut trees, banana trees and even many crotons and parijatham(No idea in english) flowers..So there used to be one small banana tree which never grew. So I thought it needed the complan more than I need. So everyday after my mom gives me complan I used to take it out to drink and silently pour it to the banana tree. You wont believe actually it worked. The young small banana tree actually grew.I think complan might be a good fertilizer. Try the strawberry flavour.

Oops..Deviation. Now coming back to coffee..So every day morning when my mom puts the filter for coffee, the aroma of it, I just couldnt resist my tempation. But no..kids do not drink coffee!!! Then in my ninth standard holidays I went to my aunts house. Its in a town. Kind of a mini village. There I was the youngest and my aunt adores me a lot. So I get the full pamperings. And though my mom packed me my complan also in my luggage I convinced my aunt for a coffee. So daily I used to wake up around 5:30 with her and she will make decotion and the filter coffee. Wow!!!! And I used to take two cups one for me and one for laziest cousin and used to wake him up also and go to terrace. Just imagine...Filter coffee in hand and in terrace watching the sun rising..Its heaven in earth kind.

After that when I came back and was in 10th standard with Public exams and all that, My parents gave in for my coffee craze. And coffee especially the first coffee which my mom makes is the best.Actually after making the coffee, you should make it once the decotion is ready and warm and milk is warm with the right mix. If you warm it up later after making its gone. Just the way I used to love the best coffee, I hate the coffee which is not good even slightly. So according to me the best coffee is the coffee that too the first coffee made in the morning by my mom.

And then take the coffee sit near the window play your favorite song. If music is divine, then music plus coffee is well what would you call when its more than divine.

My grandma also makes good one but it would be too light.

After that the next good one I tasted is in a restaurant in pondy bazar. Well I have tasted coffee right from road side canteens to five star hotels in chennai. But the best I liked is in Balaji Bavan in pondy bazar in chennai.

Me and my friend Jayanthi and Priya at times almost most of the times after college used to walk till the hotel and have coffee. Every sip I enjoyed there.

Then it was coffee day. Well,all the time in balaji bavan and all the price of coffee is manageable. it was 2 ruppees. But later when I shifted to banglore working for accenture, that is when I started going to coffee day. Actually I liked the name coffee day. And also the coffee was good quite good because they grind it freshly and make but quite costly. But worth it too.

Then I had come to singapore. That is when I had learnt of the word latte!!! And then the star bucks. Wow I became a instant fan of starbucks. My mornings are always bliss just to think about star bucks. I loved to work in MT and so everyday I used to take a coffee latte and go to MT. And in weekends, where I stayed there was a library near and inside the library there was star bucks. So first I used to pick my favorite book then take my favoite latte and then go to ECP beach. I had one favorite reserved for me . A rock near the pond which no one would have noitced. At times I even enjoy being alone too.

And ya..the flavor of coffee can be 100 times better if you have best company also. Right now am missing someone too much and it really aches to miss some one. So well now, I am going to prepare a coffee for myself and play my favorite song sit near the window and enjoy my coffee with someone speical in my thoughts. So let me stop here.

Would you care for a coffee with Anu?

Life Is Beautiful

Aroma of Filter coffee,
Blossoming Buds,
Chirping Birds,
Daughter's Voice calling me amma,
Enchanting divine music,
Fragrance of Fresh air,
Grassess kissed by dew drops,
Heavenly Breeze
Interesting Small Talks,
Joyful Dance,
Kindness around,
Lovable Friend,
Merriful Moments,
Nice weather,
Optimistic People,
Pleasant atmosphere,
Queer Thoughts,
Radiant You,
Surprise Rain,
Tendor thunder,
Understanding you(again),
Vivacious Spirit,
Windy Weather,
eXcellent View,
Yearning To see you(Even that!!!) And am
Zealous of You That makes my
Life Beautiful.

Happy Independence Day

Wishing All Of You A Very Happy Independence Day

Unless You are Me

Be it a movie or Be it a song,
Be it a novel or Be it a magazine,
Be it am cooking or Be it am cleaning,
Be it am dancing or Be it am singing,
Be it am chatting or Be it am working,
Be it is related or Be it is not related,
Whatever Be it is, You are being in it...
There is nothing in which you arent there,
and Not a moment passess without you..
You could understand that if and only if
You are Me.

My Magazines..

We went to Mustafa yesterday for the weekly gorcs shopping. And I went to magazine section as usual. Well Reading is my hobby

and I wouldnt miss some of my favorite magazines. So when I get a chance to go to Mustafa, I try to buy them. And to my

surprise yesterday I saw WISDOM.

WISDOM though is considered as childrens magazine, it has lot of useful stuff for elders. I used to read it when I was young.

They were golden period. I got the magazine for my daughter.

Okay now that brings back lot of memories related to my crazy reading. When I was in school, I used to read Gokulam and

wisdom. And my parents would bring that only in the summer holiday time. So it would be only for 2 months. And after that

they started a public library near my house. But unfortunately there werent much of kids magazines that time.
But still most of the time, I used to borrow the books from the library and then I started saving money to buy my favorite

magazine.


It started with Gokulam and WISDOM and then slowly to TINKLE,CSR and Womans ERA, Readers Digest, India today and so on.
So even now I spend quite a lot on buying these magazines (Poor hubby!!!)

At times when I start reading I will never be able to close it without completing it. Many times I had been inspired to write

something to these magazines..But well why scare others. And when I start reading at times, I used to hide below the bed and

read. But the best of moments will be to sit beside the window when its raining and sipping MOM made coffee. Especially it

would be more divine when I had troubled my mom enough for the coffee.

Reading especially from books gives trememendous pleasure. Be it a magazine or novel its the best company a person could

have. Whether it enlightens your mind or provoke your thoughts or just takes you to a world of imagination whatever be it,

its a very good hobby.

With internet around and laptops becoming a necessity habit of reading is slowly vanishing. Guess very soon our future

generation would be seeing books in a museum.

You might ask what difference it makes to read a book or browse the same in net or your personal laptop. Well it makes a lot

of difference. The very best thing about books well especially when you buy it new wow!!! the fragrance. When I was young for

my school text books, I always buy the second hand books from my seniors or in a place called Luz there is a big old book

shop which we can browse through and get our books. So that way I used to miss the new text book fragrance. Infact I had

longed for it. At times I even used to pray that the syllabus should change so I can get new books :)
Well I was very immatured.

Ooops. Am deviating from the topic.

Yeah the first best thing I love about books is the fragrance. The next thing is well about turning the pages and keeping a

book mark and ofcourse carrying it wherever you want even in a bus and sitting next to window seat and reading. It definitely

wont spoil my eyes. At times after long time of sitting in front of computer have made my eyes tired but never reading a big

book has made me fall tired.

I generally prefer to gift books to my friends. And going to book shop is definitely a turn on for me. Music and Reading are

like two eyes for me.


After I joined my first job and got my first salary the first thing I did is to go to Landmark...My dream shop. And I got my

favorite books my favorite poem books and a fiction book. And after that it became a regular practise. Whenever I happen to

got a new place I always make it a point to buy a book. And I have quite a big list of to read books always.
The latest one is well a book by Bipin Chandra.


So let me stop her and keep reading....:)

True Lies

Right now...
I am not thinking about you,
I do not miss you,
I am not expecting any message from you.

Right now...
Your presence would make no difference,
Your call is just another call,
Your thoughts do not disturb me.

Right now...
I do not expect to see you..
I do not long to talk to you..
I am not waiting for you..

And these are what you call

TRUE LIES...

Tata Bye Bye See You

When I was young, we were staying in a place which was near the railway track. Basically, from our house backyard we can sit and watch the trains. And that time me and my sister will go and stand in the backyard and keep waving bye bye to every train that pass by hoping someone will return us the bye :). But it never happened like that and the only thing that happened was we shifted our house.
Because of that disappointment, I had taken a oath that if at all I travel in train and if I see any kids waving I would respond back by waving back a tata byebye see you :)
And luckily my first job I got was in tambaram and every day I had to take a train from Mamabalam to Tambaram, It would be atleast easily thirty plus minutes journey and almost 6 to 7 stops in between. And I used run and catch the train and will always stand near the exit door for two reasons.
One thing is I love the breeze flowing on my face and second most important thing is to keep my oath. And to my shock, again I was the one who was disappointed. Throught out the journey I never noticed a single baby waving to the train. Time changed may be..This continued for a week and I got so frustrated that I thought I would start taking bus instead of train.
(I know it would sound so silly but still...Life is not a big thing right..its again made up of so many small things ;))
And then it happened. As I took the train and when the train was reaching sanitorium the stop which I was about to get down, I saw a mom feeding her child showing the train and the kid was showing bye bye to the train???. Thats it...I just dropped the file I was holding and literally was waving a BIG BYE BYE for the kid. I dont have words to explain the excitement I had..Even now I feel so while writing this. The happiness in fulfilling one kids wish is really ectasy. After that we had a group in the train going regularly to same place and somehow everyone understood the childhood disappointment I faced and everyone started waving to that kid regularly. And infact the kids name later I learnt as Gayathri and we became friends too.
So anytime you see a baby waving at you, dont think if you know the kid just wave back. Its priceless and you are making a kid happy :)