Read this yooki

Black and white better

Daddy’s daughters

You threatened me that u will turn into a kitten

Me: "write a-z in small letters not capital letters"
4 yo: "if you trouble me like this i will turn into a kitten and will not turn back"

:/// really what?

Smile often

"every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so as you get older and older your face starts to show all the tiny bits of all your smiles and you look like you are smiling all the time, even when you are just thinking about what to have for breakfast. Also, that if you frown a lot then the frown sticks to your face."

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"'Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.' "

U and i

Stories for u to read

Vaster Than Empires and space- Ursula Gain
Story of your life - Ted Chiang
The curious case of benjamin button- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Curse 5.0 - cixin liu
DAY MILLION- Frederik Pohl
The magic shop - hg wells
Standing woman- yasutaka tsutsui
September 2005: the martian - Ray Bradbury
The truth is a cave in black mountains - neil gaiman
Babydoll - johanna sinisalo
The brain of rats - Michael
Two small birds -Han Song
"The Poetry Cloud
CIXIN LIU
"THE UNIVERSE OF THINGS
Gwyneth Jones"
The sphinx without a secret - oscar wilde
The library of babel - borges , the plot - borges
The book - Margaret Irwin
Ten deals with the indigo snake - mel kassel
The distance of the moon - italo calvino
REIKO'S UNIVERSE BOX
Kajio Shinji
Crying in the rain- tanith lee
Mechanopolis - miguel de unamuno
The doom of principle city — yefin zozulya
Astronaut—
"THE LAST POET AND THE ROBOTS
A. Merritt"
"THE MICROSCOPIC GIANTS
Paul Ernst"
"The screaming skull" f. Marion Crawford 1908
"The Snowball Effect
KATHERINE MACLEAN"
The honeymoon - per hallstorm
Prott - Margaret St Clair

PELT
Carol Emshwiller

The first sky is inside you

Diwali 2020

Flower power

Two imp writing advice

On writing

"A genius — a Shakespeare, for instance — would make the history of his parish more interesting than another's history of the world," Thoreau wrote. https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/30/margaret-fuller-thoreau-letter/

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"'Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.' "

Yooki 2020

Yooki

Yooki ki loot kuffi

Only story is about story

Venn diagram

Why so cute

Baby yuvishka

Colors in shining

I like this photo

I love the six months rule

Tofu

Overnight marinate tofu in soya, hoisen, corn flour, garlic ginger paste, sesame oil


Next day, pan fry the tofu till they are well done


In a wok heat oil, add star anise, red chillies
Add ginger garlic minced
Add very little hoisen, two small spoon soya sauce and vineger
Add corn flour or atta for thickening.

Chinese Fried rice

Indo chinese is my fav but i never made it at home and really missed ordering it during lockdown.
I feel i have more or less perfected the inchin fried rice with minimum effort but max flavour. Also tofu which reminds s of hong kong tofu!

Recipe for chinese fried rice:
1) boil rice with cinnamon stick and star anise - it gives a good flavour to the rice.
2) in a pan heat oil. Fry small pieces of diced chicken (optional most of the time we don't do it- family is half vegan but yooki loves chicken), then remove chicken set aside.
3) in the same oil - add lots of garlic finely chopped. Once little done add grated ginger let it cook a bit. Then add onions, carrots, capsicum cut in small square pieces. I also put in 2-3 green chillies whole.
3) once little done, round up veggies on one half of the pan. On the other side, add egg and scramble and remove it when done.
4) now let veggies semi cook (they should not be overcooked, Chinese veggies are made in wok, cooked outside but not on the inside)
5) add cooled rice (Chinese fried rice is better with old rice, sometimes I put rice in freezer to cool it)
6) now add your egg/chicken to it.
7) add 2 teaspoon of sesame oil (very imp for flavouring)
😎 add 2 teaspoon soya (my soya is dark soya hence the color)
9) add salt to taste (soya sauce is already a little salty)

Mix all well. Its ready (i havent used green onions but would prefer that if i have it in the fridge)

I will add tofu recipe to this post soon!

Too big is just about the right size

For young people's dream

Yoo wiith stalwarts

Made English breakfast for you

Noodle recipe

I put some grated ginger, diced garlic in beginning and some green chilli sauce to the mix and little pepper (apart from soy sauce and vinegar)

Lockdown 110

Meta cognition

Metacognition, thinking about how you think, has been shown to help students improve their grades. Stanford University researchers published a new study that outlines a 15-minute thinking hack that led to an average improvement of one third of a letter grade for the participants.

"Blind effort alone, without directing that effort in an effective manner, doesn't always get you to where you want to go," said Chen.

The research stems from the insight that while many resources are provided by educational institutions, students don't always know how to use them effectively. Patricia Chen, a postdoctoral research fellow who led the study, hypothesized that if students were made more self-reflective about how they approach their studies and the available resources, they could do better.

"Actively self-reflecting on the approaches that you are taking fosters a strategic stance that is really important in life," she said. "Strategic thinking distinguishes between people of comparable ability and effort. This can make the difference between people who achieve and people who have the potential to achieve, but don't."

Graduation 2020

Today you graduated nursery :* 

I am crying. Cos its so beautiful seeing you grow up baby.

Your teacher called you affectionate.

I love that. Stay affectionate.

Love

Mom

4-6-2020

mummy and yooki

Me: Yooki you are mummy ka beti

Yooki: No mummy I am mix beti

Me: :(

Yooki: Ok Ok mummy ka beti.

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"'Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.' "

You with your nani

yooki's 4th

Happy 4th Birthday to the pearl in my oyster, my yookster monster, my tinkerbell, my golu face, my sweetie ..

From age 3 to 4! You have now grown older to enjoy life in its more details. And it is so much joy to see you find newer treasures in this world everyday. 

This year, you have shown so much love and compassion for animals (I esp love when you enquire "where is her mummy" whenever you see a solitary cat or dog or a bird) and I find the comfort you share with them so captivating. I admire your boundless imagination and your love for books and puppet shows and drama - i have done more theatre with you than in my entire life -suspenseful chor-police hide and seek games, or fixing the dilemma of the zebra who wants to fly or those countless mock aeroplane journeys to so many wonderlands where fairies and witches flew past us as we soared over deep monster and dinosaur valleys together. 

I love how you run, jump and hop endlessly barefoot on grass (like a rabbit) or how suddenly the same day you get totally self-absorbed in your art when you are drawing or playing with your clay.

Last few months you have developed great passion for music and music videos and you dance to them matching steps with no other than Taylor Swift or Justin Timberlake! And you have developed a sense of self - you look at yourself in the mirror, try to do your lovely twirl and laugh back at yourself. And you choose your own clothes to wear!

I love how you consume everything that come your way and yet you like concentrating your interests, and that you work hard to do things the right way, even at this age. Above all, I relish how you are curious about others, their stories, their happiness and you wonder about small things of nature, insects, birds, pollens, honeybees, spiders, flowers, leaves ...

Four is a good age Yooki. Its an age when we are fully awake, honest, frank and fearless.

As a mother only thing I can add is stay your loveable, compassionate, curious self. Faith, love, patience, respect and hardwork are the few essential things that can help you achieve anything in life. As you grow older, be a bold explorer. Discover new things in your outside world and your inside world both. Carry this 4 year old with you even when you are 40 (most importantly never stop twirling in front of the mirror even when you are 200!).

Always remember: your mother loves you very much and believes in you completely. 

Afterall it was you who had drawn this wonderful scribbly drawing last month  - where a small candle in your heart became the sunshine of the whole valley. For me Yuvishka, you are that delicate flame of my inner heart and the bright sun over my valley- you are both.

 I love yoo.

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Some things about me at age 3.999:

Things I love - puppet show and storytelling, unicorns, juno, toy juno, suzi, tinkerbell, banana chips, chocolates, skits with mummy papa.

Colors I love - pink and blue

My weight - too heavy but mumma can still carry- 15 kilos

Teeth- all of them - one is looking weak to mumma - wont let anyone count (on advice from juno didi)

Things that make me laugh - gossips between mummy and friends, tickle monster, juno sneezing

Places I love - Nana house

Fashion icon - Aanya didi, Diana

fav music video - Taylor swift (you will never find a lover like me), maroon 5 (a girl like you), Justin timberlake (i got this feeling)

School Chums - kashvi, sohini, aahana, nitant, reyansh, aryanveer

My squad forever - Aanya, Ranveer, Eva, Saiba, Aahaan

My new rakhi brother - Ranveer

Current Boy crush - Batu

Current Girl crush - Diana

Current teachers - Ms Farheen and Ms poonam

Favourite soft toy - pinky pie (pink unicorn), and soft toy version of Juno

Favourite garden spot - Backside parking lot of nana house

Favourite eating spot - la folie, yoghurt icecream shop

Favourite hair band - unicorn cat hairband

Favourite human invention - ipad

Favourite nature element - grass

Favourite city - Nana house in nasik.

Favourite word - tinekerbell (for all cats)

Guilty phrase - achcha nahee lagta hai mujhe

Happy phrase - yaaaaayyyy

Oopsie phrase - shut (followed by face palm)

Hustle phrase - guys guys guys guys , this was fun was it not mummy

What I can cook- omelette and cake

Favourite profession - Yooki (u said that you want to grow up to be yooki)

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"'Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.' "

Overheard

Me: i am gonna do this - wake up at 4 and sleep from 7:30-8:30 am
Saurabh: I ordered coconut flour and we can try parathas with it

Overheard my mother: dono pagal ho gaye hai

Yooki read this book

[Recipe] overnight soaked oats

Overnight soaked oats in turmeric milk recipe - I add a little turmeric in milk, and add oats and chopped toasted almonds, cashews and I also got pumpkin seeds. A couple of dates for some sweetness. On lucky days like today I add pomegranate. Some days I use almond milk 🥛. Refrigerate overnight and have in morning.

[food recipe] american chopsuey

It was my fav food growing up. I made vegan version as papa is vegan and we are - most of the days.


Ingredients:
Carrots cut long - 1
Cabbage cut thick – 1/4
Beans diagonally cut – 300 gms
Maggi Ketchup for this will taste better
Deep fried noodles

Small chicken pieces

Preparing the chicken
 In a little oil fry finely chopped ginger and finely chopped garlic (this corr flavour of chinese)
 Fry green chillies
 Add chicken
 Add cabbage, carrots, beans
 Add chicken stock
 Add vinegar, salt, sugar
 Let it cook…
 Add ketchup at the end
 Add corn flour and mix at the end

Sent from my iPhone

Healthy Cake recipe

Quarantine diaries

Making tent with nana

Are we a computer simulation

Hello yooki

Do u know there is covid-19 scare and we are all planning self quarentine.

I was supposed fo goto sxsw but it got cancelled amidst covid19. Such a bummer.

Dear yooki

I love you more than i love my life