Bling me Baby!

The latest trend of this season is sequins. Sequin embellished clothes and accessories are everywhere these days. Dresses, tops, skirts, leggings, shoes, bags and head bands are sequin embellished now. Bling is the new colour of life! There are a number ways to add a little sparkle to your outfits.

Now, the rule of wearing sequined clothes is that they have so much of sparkle in them, that you really don't need any other accessories. Try and wear just one piece per outfit, like a sequined skirt with a solid colour top, a sequined dress with black heels and clutch or a sequined top with a blazer and jeans. If you think a sequined top or dress is too over the top for you, you could always try a head band or heels with sequin details. My personal favourite are the metallic ones especially bronze. I think they look SUPER HOT. I own a pair of black sequined heels which Mez gifted me for my 20th Birthday. I lowe them more than myself!

DO NOT wear all your sequined stuff at one go. You don't wanna end up looking like a disco ball and blind the people around you!

Ok, I was feeling lil weird about publishing this post, because I don't have much idea about fashion and I din't do much research on this subject. But I did collect a lot of pictures :) Feel free to correct me if the above post is crap!

Instant Noodles

This post is about a mail which my dad sent me yesterday - noodles. When I was in school, I rarely had noodles. But after I got to college, instant noodles instantly became a part of my life. Hostel food was really bad and to fill my stomach I started having noodles. Its fast & easy to make. Maggi is the most consumed brand of instant noodles in India. Even Top ramen, Koka & Wai Wai are good. So many types (atta noodles!!) and brands of noodles are there these days. This new noodles is out by horlicks and its called Foodles. How dumb! Supposedly its a healthier version. Yeah right!!

Everyone says that noodles is not good for health. The flavouring powder in particular is just not good for your stomach. Normally, we put the noodles into a pot of hot water, throw in the powder and let it cook for around 5 minutes and then it's ready to eat. Supposedly, this is not the correct way of cooking noodles. By doing this, we are actually boilling the ingredients in the powder, which contain Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). This will change the molecular structure of MSG, causing it to be toxic. The other thing that you may or may not realize is that, noodles are coated with wax so that the noodle will stick to one another & look bright prior to packaging. Consuming the wax regularly from the noodles can cause cancer in the long run. Therefore, it is important to remove the wax from the noodles prior to consumption. It is considered safer if you consume the noodles in dried noodle format than in the soup format as the wax is left behind the boiling water before you mix the noodles with the ingredients.

Correct Way of Cooking:

1)  Boil the noodles in a pot of  hot water.

2) Once the noodles is cooked, take out the noodles and throw away the water which contains wax.

3) Boil another pot of water, add the cooked noodles into the hot boiling water and then turn off the stove.

4) Only at this stage when the stove is off and while the water is very hot, add the flavouring powder into the water, to make noodle soup.

5) However, if you need dry noodles, remove the noodles and add the flavouring powder and toss it to get dry noodles.

My suggestion: Add butter, cheese and oregano to make it more yummier =D

Hello kitty noodles?!?!?!  Seriously? I thought they make only stationary stuff for 1riyal.

Favourite Songs of the Week

I download new songs EVERY weekend & I keep listening to them day and night. Last night I even danced to these songs. Lot of crap happening these days but blah, shit happens right? Sometimes all you need to do is  close your eyes and turn up the music. I love what music does to you.

- Break Your Heart [Ft. Ludacris] - Taio Cruz ft Ludacris
- Club Can't Handle Me [Ft. David Guetta] - Flo Rida
- We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool
- DJ Got Us Falling In Love Again [Ft. Pitbull] - Usher
- Zor Ka Jhatka - Action Replayy
- Anjaana Anjaani Ki Kahani - Anjaana Anjaani
- Cry Cry - Jhoota Hi Sahi
- Dynamite - Taio Cruz
- Toyfriend [Ft Wynter Gordon] - David Guetta
- Love In This Club - Usher
- Hotel Room Service - Pitbull
- Love The Way You Lie [Ft. Rihanna] - Eminem

Peace, love, music!  \m/

Laaaaa :)

Thank you Anuradha for the lovely advice.

'A moment on your lips, forever on your hips!'

How true :) :)

Movie Review - Anjaana Anjaani

Lately, I've been dying to watch Anjaana Anjaani. I loved their promos, songs and I love Ranbir Kapoor. Who doesn't? He's so cute! Most of my  friends who watched it said that the movie was bad and its pointless going to the theatre to watch it. So, I downloaded it last night. Yay! I love chick flicks and rom-coms particularly the ones which start with a once upon a time there was a handsome prince and a beautiful princess, blah blah blah, fell in love, blah blah blah and they lived happily ever after! Aww :) :) I hate horror, thriller or real life inspired movies.

So, coming back to Anjaana Anjaani, the movie sucks ass. I watched first hour of that horrible movie, till they decide to go to Vegas and then I slept off. So this review is of that 1 hour. Rest half, Google and read it. The movie goes like, 2 losers - Ranbir Kapoor & Priyanka Chopra try to suicide so many times, but they fail. Hence they decide to live for 20 days more, do all the fun stuff they always wanted to do in life and then try to jump off some stupid bridge again and kill themselves. Some parts of the movie were ok. Just OKAY! Zayed Khan - why is he still acting? The only thing I liked is Priyanka Chopra's name - Kiara. How I wish my name was Kiara :) :)

If you liked Anjaana Anjaani, then I'm sure you will like Tarzan and Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag!

Next on list : Dabangg!! :) :) :)

Fishy fish

My best friend Jeena was in town last weekend and we decided to go for a Fish spa. We have been planning to go for this since forever! In Bangalore, Kenko spa offers fish spa treatment for your feet and hands. It has branches in Lavelle road and Garuda Mall as well.

This wasn't my first time here. I had been here on my birthday last year & loved it, which is why I wanted Jeena to try it as well. They have this pool of zillion small, tiny, cute but freaky fish, into which we have to dip our feet for them to feed on the dead cells. I remember the first few minutes I didn't dip my feet because I thought it would hurt me. And just when I dipped my feet all the fish rushed towards my feet. This just freaked me out. But the lady over there told me that, its not at-all painful and its kinda ticklish. That's exactly what it was - freaking ticklish! You end up laughing and screaming because when the fish are nibbling on your dead cells, it tickles. Its so cute to see the lil ones eat. This is the same experience Jeena went through. Towards the start it was weird, but later we both loved it and wanted that ticklish feeling to last longer. But it was just a 10 minutes procedure. We could have opted for the 20 or 30 minutes one, but its kinda too pricey at 420rupees for 20 minutes as all they do is wash your feet before and after the procedure. They don't even apply a moisturizer later or massage your feet. So basically, we feed the fish. They should pay us! Haha! =] But the tingly feeling is something that everyone should try atleast once.

These fishes are called Garra Rufa.. They nibble on your skin removing all the dead cells through natural exfoliation. It is also called Doctor fish because it heals people affected with skin problems like psoriasis.

Restaurant review - Cafe Noir

Cafe Noir is located in UB City, Vittal Mallya road. Its an open place right next to City bar.I had been there last week and I had THE-MOST amazing Hot chocolate - Choco Parisienne from there. I also ordered for Chocolate Mille Feuille which is a layered puff pastry. And Mez had Creme Brulee, a custard dessert which was just marvellous. I usually don't like custard. But this one was to die for.

I went there again yesterday. I had ordered for a 3 Chocolate Ganache cake. Its got 3 layers of dark chocolate, white chocolate and milk chocolate. And oh boy, I could kill anyone for this piece of cake. It was the yummiest cake I had ever tasted & I even brought some back home. ;)

There's nothing better than amazing chocolate, good friends, great weather and a lovely place like Cafe Noir to be at.

3 layer Chocolate Ganache

Mille Feuille

Creme Brulee