TGIF?

Author : Jhoomur Bose      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 5/17/2013 12:22:00 AM

'Livvy refuses to be put down today, has puked on me thrice since morning. The last one right after I had a shower. Then as I am holding her on one arm and trying to have a sip of my coffee, she flips the cup. Coffee down my dress and up my nose. After I had just changed from the pukey dress. Mia has nose full of snot that she insists on wiping herself and thereby smearing all over her face. I am having a brilliant morning. How is yours?'

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Recipe: Mexican red chicken

Author : Jhoomur Bose      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 3/21/2013 10:40:00 AM

'Pollo rojo (Mexican red chicken)*Serves: 4 I’ve made this dish twice now. Once in the oven as per the original recipe; the second time, with my modifications and on the stove top. With the original recipe I found that the tomato paste retains its tomato-pastiness and doesn’t taste quite ‘cooked’.  Perhaps it’s because I’ve grown up eating curries… When making an Indian curry, the tomato/paste – the base of the curry/gravy – is always ‘prepared’ first and doesn’t taste uncooked(...)'

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Understanding marriage

Author : Jhoomur Bose      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 3/19/2013 11:58:00 PM

'Compromise: the negotiation involved in buying a new casserole dish ONLY if you throw out three other dishes.Going today, ice tray, jelly moulds and one plastic storage box. Cheating, but the size of items to be thrown were not specified.'

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I'll moon you

Author : Jhoomur Bose      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 3/18/2013 7:31:00 PM

'It's 5.30 am and given my "regular" routine for the last three weeks, that's sleeping in.I went to bed at 11 pm last night, woke up at one am to feed Livvy and have slept a total of five hours. Wow. For the last month that I've been on steroids (Prednisolone), I've been on a crazy energy drive, which includes me waking up at three am. I cannot sleep unless I'm literally asleep on my feet and once awake, I can't go back to sleep. Apparently insomnia and (...)'

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Seen, Intouchables, EoW and Prometheus

Author : Jhoomur Bose      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 12/14/2012 10:47:00 AM

'You start with missing one week of writing and before you know it, its been four months. To be fair to myself, two of the last four months I was hugely pregnant, quite unwell and extremely uncomfortable. Then of course I had the baby; my second one, for those who might not know. Olivia turned 10 weeks old on the 9th and Mia is now 28 months old.  With two kids now I’ve quickly realised that I'm not going to have the time or the luxury – and time is a luxury – to write the (...)'

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Petrificus Totalus

Author : JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 8/1/2012 12:53:00 AM

'I was wiping down the fridge yesterday (hate cleaning the fridge, why can't we have self-cleaning fridges? Also, I'm an author, surely authors don't have to clean fridges?) when I noticed this A4 sheet stuck to the side with a magnet.  It had a list of dates, neatly demarcated into trimesters, then weeks, week-by-week. It was the list I'd made when I'd first found I was pregnant again (mid Jan). In the time it took for my eyes to scroll down to July 31, I was in full blown(...)'

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Make a confession, win fab prize

Author : JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 7/27/2012 12:01:00 PM

'Many thanks to ibnlive.com for running a rather fun contest. All YOU have to do is make a confession and win a prize.Here's where you go: Confessionally Yours Contest'

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Deboned and loving it

Author : JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 7/26/2012 11:32:00 AM

'That first time. The momentous instance when your cherry is popped a woman is deflowered and a man deboned. How many fantasies built around it, how many books written, how many movies made! The movies for some reason are mostly comedies and almost always about men. Virginal men are funny. Virginal women coveted if only to be conquered (conquested?) Much is written about virginal women holding on to their hymens virginity till they meet the Right One. Conveniently, the(...)'

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Project Bookshelf

Author : JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 7/26/2012 2:58:00 AM

'I have been naughty. I am supposed to clean the house, or start at least. And a huge part of that cleaning up is sorting out our books and shelves. But. Every time I think of house-cleaning I come up with some interesting avenues/ideas to explore. So. This particular non-cleaning idea/avenue is called Project Bookshelf (because everything is a project these days). Here are what the bookshelves look like in my house (when not tidied!) I'd love to see your shelves, whether posted here(...)'

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The Bookadda interview

Author : JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 7/23/2012 10:12:00 PM

'Thanks to Bookadda.com for interviewing me. The questions were fun and interesting and I did enjoy answering them. The highlight of the interview? Reiterating that I do believe in "Get them by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow." ;)And oh yes, another few days and my first novel, Confessionally Yours, should be in book stores. If you don't want to wait for the stores, you can order at uread.com or bookadda.com or Flipkart.Here goes the bookadda.com interview:(...)'

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Will Mamta Sharma please shut up?

Author : JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 7/21/2012 8:45:00 AM

'Book update: Confessionally Yours, my first novel, should be out in book stores soon. In the meanwhile, you're most welcome to preorder with uread.comI was recently asked by Outlook magazine (ie one of their journo's) to contribute 500 words on how Indian urban women are unsafe and how India is becoming a nation of voyeurs. Below is the original piece that was submitted to Outlook. The magazine has used some quotes from the piece that appear in its current 'Obama- Underachiever' iss(...)'

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Utter crap

Author : JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 7/18/2012 3:07:00 AM

'I am so extremely exhausted. This is a time I should be celebrating -- second baby in a couple of months, first novel out in another week or so. But I can't because my life's been taken over by shit. Three weeks now, diarrhoea refuses to go. Last week I had a sudden bout of unstoppable puking that landed me in bed for four days straight. I couldn't move without vomitting...and if I was moving, it was to go vomit more or to have a shit. Now the pukemonster has gone -- regular ta(...)'

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Beat those bastards

Author : JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 7/14/2012 7:39:00 AM

'India is NOT shining. Hosting F1 races and flashy IPL is not making us global icons, it makes us look like morons. So flashy, yet so trashy? High time to use that money to: 1. pay the police more in ghe hope they wont take as many bribes (lets start with reduction before we aspire for complete elimination) 2. hire a 'better' quality of policeman (and not just men who cannot get employment elsewhere), 3. get more women into the police force 4. Have a fresh, new look at our penal (...)'

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Confessionally Yours

Author : Jhoomur aka JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 6/26/2012 9:04:00 AM

'My first ever novel -- Confessionally Yours -- published by Penguin (India), coming to a book store near you. Very soon. Oh wow. Oh well. What do you think?'

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The fairest (vulva) of 'em all

Author : Jhoomur aka JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 5/23/2012 1:01:00 PM

'I haven't waxed my arms in over 4 months. I usually shave my legs (haven't for weeks now) and I go with whatever is convenient for the underarms. The hair on my head is trimmed when the ends become ratty and for any other hair I might have -- nostrils for instance -- that's none of your bloody business. Why exactly I'm talking hair, I'll get to in a bit. First, what's been happening in the last week? Well mundane stuff really -- remember, me, housewife? Amidst all the routineness of(...)'

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Pretty as a pav

Author : Jhoomur aka JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 5/16/2012 11:48:00 PM

'PavlovaThe pavlova is the biggest reason why Australians and New Zealanders get into a strife with each other (along with who has more sheep). Neither can decide where the pav was first made. Well the first time this Indian tried it, I’d used a mere 250 W beater and the pavlova had not risen much. Since then I’ve learnt that for a perfect pavlova, you need to really beat the egg whites and it helps if you have a heavy duty stand-mixer. But don’t be deterred if you don’t have one, a (...)'

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Happy Mother's Day

Author : JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 5/14/2012 12:37:00 AM

'My favourite person!So how was Mother’s Day for all you mums out there? I got a bunch of hand-picked flowers – Mia picked them from Nanna’s garden with Nanna’s help – and I didn’t have to do any housework or cooking (because poor Nan did everything and cooked us some great meals!)While I’m asking about the mums, hope the dads didn’t have too much of a hard time either. I’m mentioning the dads because sometimes I think we – the world in general and mothers/wives in particular – give (...)'

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Thirty-three

Author : Jhoomur aka JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 5/9/2012 12:36:00 AM

'Tasmania trip in AprilAnd while I've been gone, Blogger has a new format. Oh well, what with all the changes in my life, I'm sure I will thrive with this one too. I looked around my house before sitting down to type and realised there are a number of things that need doing. That's been one of the Most Important Learnings for me as a stay-at-home-writer-mum-housewife: There are always things that will need doing. And that will be procrastinated.Cupcakes baked yesterdayJust have a loo(...)'

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Not so different

Author : Jhoomur aka JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 3/3/2012 11:29:00 PM

'It’s no secret that I enjoy reading fantasy novels. Whenever there’s a discussion about books, someone always pipes in with “Oh JB likes fantasy, dragons and such.” Sometimes that sentence is followed with an eye-roll, most often a wink. Perhaps a humorous admonition that someone my age really should not be reading fantasy. I’ve been labeled an only-fantasy reader. I don’t mind that classification on most days. I won’t say I’ve read all the noteworthy writers in the genre, hell I ‘d(...)'

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Happy new year then

Author : JB      Blog : Twist in the Tail      Date : 12/29/2011 1:45:00 AM

'Oh well. Today's the first day of Mia's potty training. Or non-training. So far all we have achieved is a sudden, definite preference for being nappy-less, announcing pee-pee-pee very loudly while pointing to nether regions and when I run to her, all excited, she scuttles away cackling gleefully. She doesn't get it that poo-ing is serious business.However there is small comfort in the fact that she has instantly taken to her potty. She has so far put coins in it, made Charlie Bear s(...)'

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