Welcome again to my blog! I can’t express how happy I am to see you here!! It’s been just a while that I am writing blogs. I don’t have much viewers here; but I love all the viewers I’ve got. Maybe they’re just four or five. The number doesn’t matter to me much. What matters is that they come and read my blog. I appreciate all my viewers. They matter so much!!
Well, we’ll come to our main topic for today.
Ever wondered what do Indians eat daily? Today I’m going to tell you the exact same thing. I am an Indian, living in Maharashtra (that’s a state in India). Perhaps, you might’ve heard that Indians have super delicious food daily. Um, that’s not quite true. We have delicious food once or twice a week. Not daily.
Today, I had ordinary meals. Want to know what I ate today? I am also eager to share the same thing with you. So, grab something comfy, and read on!!
What did I eat for breakfast?
To be honest, it’s too cold around here lately. It’s been raining here since yesterday night. Do you love rainy days? I do- most of the times. Well, as it was super cold today morning, I first had some hot milk. With cocoa. And some sugar. Ahh, my mouth still waters when I think of hot cocoa!! I just love it.
Then, my mother had made some ‘Fodnicha Bhaat’, which in English is Indian ‘Fried Rice’.With ‘Chivda’, that is a crispy spicy snack. Yeah, it was for breakfast today. Actually, some rice had been left from yesterday’s dinner. Mother didn’t waste it, she used it for today’s breakfast.
‘Fodnicha Bhaat’ that is in English, Indian ‘Fried Rice’.
What did I have for lunch?
I usually have my lunch at 1.00 pm, but ’cause of school presently, I have my lunch at 2.00 pm. Today, I had 1/2 Chapati (flat bread made of wheat), Bhendichi Bhaaji (Spicy ladyfinger which is eaten with chapati), Laal Kobichi Bhaaji (Spicy red cabbage also eaten with chapati), Kairicha Loncha ( Raw mango pickle) and ‘Taak’ ( Buttermilk). We drink buttermilk at the very end of our meal. It is known for good digestion.
Indian lunch/dinner.
My most favorite food in today’s lunch was Bhendichi Bhaaji. It tastes so delicious!! Sweet and spicy. In the above picture, a whole Indian plate is shown. And, in the below pictures I have tried to show all the dishes I have mentioned that I ate today.
Bhendichi Bhaaji (spicy lady finger)
Chapati (Indian flat bread)
Kairicha Loncha (Spicy Raw mango pickle)
Guys, I could only find these images, and not a few dishes I’d mentioned above. Sorry for that. I hope you won’t mind :))
What did I have for dinner?
Oh my gosh, I am writing this post right after having my dinner!! I know it’s too early to have dinner. Actually, I had my favorite dish made today. So, I had my dinner early, as I could not wait until 8.00 pm.
Today’s dinner was ‘Onion Uttappa’. It’s a south Indian dish. It’s somewhat like pizza, just a nutritious one 🙂 And below is the picture of how it looks like!
And that’s all for today, friends! I hope you like today’s post.
What do you have for your breakfast, lunch and dinner? Do you like it? Did this post make your mouth water? Should I post more on what I eat?
Hello guys! I am so glad you’re here! And, I do hope that you had a great and healthy week until today. So, today I’ll be sharing with you my absolute school morning routine. Since you know the beast of Covid 19 is here, and to defend him, we all have to stay indoors. And hence, there’s no real school, but virtual school. And to be frank, I hate the virtual school, you see. I’m terribly, awfully, dreadfully missing my real school. Believe me or not, I spend half of the day looking at my school pictures! I hope our school starts very very soon.
Anyways, today I’m gonna share my morning routine with you guys. So, grab something comfy and read on! Perhaps, you may find a suitable routine idea for yourself!
I don’t set any alarm for the next morning unless I have got something super important the next day. I usually wake up between 7 o’clock and 8 o’clock in the mornings. I wake up naturally to the fresh sunlight and cool atmosphere. (BTW, I simply love rainy mornings. They have something in them to motivate me to do something new) And then before doing anything else, I brush my teeth and wash my face with icy cold water. Icy cold water because it helps me to wake up fully, kind of.
Later, I make my bed and do some simple stretch, just to wake my body up. And then I’ve got something exciting to do. I run on the staircase, at a fast pace, for fifteen minutes. Of course I take small breaks in between to catch up with my breath. I do that because I get really lazy to do any yoga or workouts. Though climbing stairs seems such a good sport to me! It is also extremely good for our overall cardiovascular health. By fifteen minutes of climbing stairs, I become real sweaty and quite breathless. It is really good to climb stairs when you can’t go out in the fresh air to play some outdoor games.
Later at 7.30, I have some steam. Taking steam daily really improves our skin and keeps us from that deadly virus. (Of course I am not any doctor. So, before doing anything, you may prefer to see your doctor first! ) Steam has numerous benefits. It keeps us from cold and cough, improves skin, aids with stiff muscles, relieves headaches and much more it does!
Then I go downstairs to drink a glass or two of fresh water. It’s really awesome to stay hydrated! It’s always better if you have your first glass of water with lemon in it. Lemon detoxifies and refreshes your body. Lemon has a billion benefits of it’s own. And hey folks, me and my family got cured of Covid 19 by having an entire lemon everyday with honey. Trust me! We didn’t take ANY kind of medicines. We only got cured by lemon and honey. Wanna ask more about it? Mail me here: itsprincess.soha@gmail.com
After having water, I write in my diary. It’s super great to write in your diary. Super super GREAT!! Want to know how to write in a diary and also make it interesting? Well, I have already written a blog post for it. Click here to read it!! Writing in a diary has made me a different person, a better person; I have felt it myself. It gives you a somewhat nice feeling to have someone to listen to you, your thoughts and feelings.
Then, I read a book. I am currently reading Anne Of Green Gables. It’s a terrific book. I recommend it to all of you. I can’t keep the book down when I’ve started reading it. Do you like reading books? Oh, then I have another blog post for you, where you can find super wow-some books. (I myself have read them and then made the blog post) Click here to read that blog post!
And then I have my breakfast. At 9 o’clock, I start my school work. Homework and assignments. And then, it’s school time. I always learn the concepts which our teacher is gonna teach us, beforehand. Hey!! Do you want to be a bright student in your school? Oh my gosh. I also have a cool blog post on that topic. And it’s for online schools, as well as real ones! Cool, isn’t it? Click here to become a bright student in your school!! 😀
And here ends my morning routine. I hope you guys find it good 🙂 Any suggestions for my morning routine? How is your morning routine? Comment down below!! Stay tuned.
Have you fallen in deep thought now? Or, have you not? What do you think of this question? Is giving better, or receiving?
Receiving something brings us a lot of joy! How do you feel when you receive loads of beautifully wrapped gifts on your birthdays? It makes us super happy.
Or, how does it feel when it is your exam, and you have forgotten your pens and pencils at home, and someone helps you out by giving you the supplies you need? It has happened a million times with me.
But, have you thought about this? When someone gives us something, be it a gift or a help, we reward them back, with a help they need, or even a gift. 🙂
Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Don’t you think that giving something to someone is also receiving? Giving, repays you with two things: 1. Happiness and
2. A help/ reward from the person you gave something.
Isn’t it quite amazing?! So now, what do you think is better? Giving, or receiving? And giving can be anything. You can give people kindness, knowledge, love, a favor, a gift, your time, a compliment and even a smile! It doesn’t just have to be money or an expensive gift. And I bet what you give, will come back to you! Remember, every action has a reaction.
So, don’t be a tight-arse while giving! Because giving always has a rebound effect. You will soon get back what you gave, may be in some other way.
The following list will help you find a best book for you. So, just scroll down until a book catches your attention!
What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
The Phantom Tollbooth
1. The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth is a fantasy novel written by Norton Juster. It was originally published in 1961. This book is a MUST READ for everyone who who are literally tired of their boring lives, and have ‘nothing worth doing’.
This story focuses on a boy called Milo who thinks everything in this world is a waste of time. Then he finds a huge package in his room. He finds the package quite mysterious. It actually is a magical tollbooth, and having nothing better to do, drives through it in his toy car, transporting him to the Kingdom of Wisdom, which was once prosperous, but now troubled. He then there meets two sweet and funny companions- the Humbug, and the dog Tock. The three friends set off to a dangerous, but an exciting mission to rescue the two wise princesses, Rhyme and Reason.
The story is full of magic and fun! They meet unexpected ‘people’ on their journey, go on a wrong way, make a lot of mistakes, and learn life lessons through various twists and turns. This is a beautiful book that every teenager should have!!
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
The diary of a young girl – Anne Frank.
2. Diary Of A Young Girl- Anne Frank
I cannot tell how much I loved this book in words! It’s a superior!!! So, this is a well known and one of the the best young adult classics. This book is a diary of a girl called Anne Frank who was fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation during the World War-II.
They went into the Secret Annex in her father’s office building, after Anne’s bigger sister got a call-up notice. Her diary tells the story of her life in hiding, her thoughts, her longing to be free again, her family consequences and her relation with Peter, who is a boy living with Anne’s family in the hiding.
There are two families in the hiding. One is the Frank family, and the other is Van Daan’s, which belongs to Peter. There is one more person living in the hiding with the two families, Mr. Dussel. This book teaches us a lot many things. This is again, a MUST READ.
With guns, you can kill terrorists.
With education, you can kill terrorism.
I am Malala
3. I Am Malala
This is a book that tells the story of a young girl who was fighting for education, and was shot by Taliban. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, Malala Yousafzai spoke out. She refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
On Tuesday 9 October 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price. Shot in the head at the point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, she was not expected to survive.
Instead, Malala’s miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in Northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest ever nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize!
This book is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, and of Malala’s parents’ fierce love for their daughter in a society where sons are on a very higher position, than girls. It will make you believe in the power of one person’s voice to inspire change in the world. This book is one of my personal favorites!
Raise your words, not your voice.
It is rain that makes the flowers grow, not thunder.
The Breadwinner
4. The Breadwinner
I simply love this book. This is an extraordinary tale of a girl called Parvana. From the day she was born, she was facing the terrors of the Taliban in Afghanistan. The women there were obliged to stay inside their homes and cook food and take care of their kids, while men were free to do anything they pleased. If a woman in case had to go outside her house, she was enforced to wear a burkha and a hijab, and was obliged to have a written note with her, from her husband, saying that he had given her the permission to go outside. If found without one, you won’t know what’ll happen.
Parvana with her mother, bigger sister Nooriya, smaller sister Mariyam, little brother Ali and her father, lived in a small concrete flat, half destroyed by the bombs. When Parvana’s father gets caught by the Taliban for raising his voice over a Taliban, the family had no man left in the house to make money. The family already is suffering from poverty. Seeing her dear family suffer, Parvana takes a huge decision of disguising in a boy, and making money for her family.
She faces a million challenge while doing so. This is an unusual story of an unusual girl.
Life, with its rules, it’s obligations, and its freedoms is like a sonnet:
You’re given the form ,but you have to write the sonnet yourself.
A Wrinkle In Time
5. A Wrinkle In Time
This is a super amazing science fictional novel written by Madeleine L’Engle. This is an absolute page turner! I literally fell in love with this book. The only drawback of this book is, that it ends!
So, this is the story of three kids: Meg, Calvin and Charles. Meg and Charles are siblings, while Calvin is their friend. Charles is the youngest. He’s just five, but yet he tends to know everything which is going on in Meg’s and his mother’s mind. He is very wise and intelligent, compared to the other boys his age.
So, Meg’s and Charles’ father is been caught on some other far off planet. This story focuses on how they rescue their beloved father. This novel also teaches us various things, which we would never give a thought to. This is a MUST READ.
Just go on passing your light to others. And then there’ll be no place for the darkness to dwell!
A Dosa’s Hardships
6. A Dosa’s Hardships
This book is a collection of 10 short amazing stories. Each story gives out a moral, in a fun way. What if the Sun goes on a vacation? Does a dosa face any hardships? Is being short, great? How is sometimes patience not a solution? Tough is actually easy?
You’ll get all answers to these questions in this short, but revealing book. And, this book is written by me! Yes, you read it right. So, this is my first book which I have written. I wrote this book in the lock down days, just as a hobby. Then, later got it published. I hope you want to read this book 😀
Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear.
Totto-Chan The Little Girl At The Window
7. Totto- Chan
The Little Girl At The Window
This book is something really different; something very unique and special. This is an autobiographical memoir written by Japanese television personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. This sweet tale is based on the real life incidents of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi and her unusual and special school- Tomoi.
This book tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during the World War-II which included learning with fun, love and most important of all, freedom. This unusual school had old train carriages as classrooms and it was run by an super amazing man, who was it’s founder and headmaster- Sosaku Kobayashi. The school only had maximum 50 students, one of which was Tetsuko Kuroyanagi- Totto-Chan. She was a naughty little girl when she was a child. She also had got expelled from her school. Then her mother put her in Tomoi. Her life totally changed!
Read the book yourselves to find out how her life changed, to know more about the extraordinary school, and Totto-Chan’s and her classmates’ funny, but innocent ways. And the way the headmaster handled the kids.
Every time I read this book, I wonder, “Why isn’t my school like Tomoi? If only Tomoi was still there, I would seriously ask my parents to put me there!”
The school got destroyed in the war, sadly enough.
This is a world best-seller, and a MUST READ!
You are never too small to make a difference.
Greta Thunberg
8. Greta Thunberg
I guess, you all know who is Greta Thunberg. She is the one who raised her voice against the climate injustice happening around the world, in 2019, when she was just 15.
She took a place outside the Swedish Parliament, with a banner saying, “School Strike for climate”. She knew, not going to school is kind of a crime. But still, she did the ‘crime’. She, sat outside the Parliament every Friday for a climate strike, alone. People began to notice her. Some took pictures of her. Some of them trolled her on their way. But, Greta never gave-up.
This book tells an amazing story of a recent heroine, Greta Thunberg. She is a climate activist, and the founder of the organization- Fridays For Future.
Climate change is threatening our planet; our house is on fire. Yet, the leaders are ignoring our call for help. Millions of children strike every Friday for the environment. Greta woke every kid around the world, and she is the role model for all of them. Hats off to such a girl!
I do hope that these books will help you as an adolescent in some or the other way. Don’t forget to share this post to all your friends, so that they too get to know about these awesome books. You can find these books on Amazon, Flipkart and other online stores, as well as in your local book stores.
You just won’t find the book which I have written on Amazon or Flipkart. Sorry for the inconvenience, but you can surely shoot me a mail to purchase my book – itsprincess.soha@gmail.com
