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The financial secret of moving from where you are and where you want to be? Would you like to know the financial secret behind moving from where you are and where you want to be? Try to answer this question. “Where will you be financially five years from now? 10 years from now…? 20 years from now…?” You may get answers like “I will be financially stronger”, “I want to be financially better”. Are these answers specific? If you don’t know where you want to go exactly, there is no focus. When there is no focus; there will be lot of distraction. Distraction either leads to mediocrity or destruction. How to refrain yourself heading towards mediocrity or destruction? You need to set Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound Financial Goals. That is S.M.A.R.T. Financial goals. Let me take you through step by step to set SMART Financial goals. 1) List down Financial Goals: Write down all your financial goals like buying a house, kid’s education, Vacation, Retirement and so on....

PARUPPU THOGAIYAL (A chutney made with Lentils) After the Diwali snacks and sweets onslaught, I am thinking of foods which are easy to digest and lighter on the stomach. Togayal is one such dish which usually is a treat to the taste buds and light on the stomach as well. Thogayal is generally served as an accompaniment to a meal. I made bottle gourd kootu and paruppu thogayal and it felt like a slice of heaven. Paruppu thogayal can be eaten with Idly, dosai or any snack. We can also eat this by mixing it with hot rice and a dollop of ghee or some gingelly oil. This thogayal can be made with Moong dal or toor dal. I used moong dal as it’s a healthier option. Add caption Ingredients Yellow split Moong dal / Pigeon Pea (Toor dal) – 1 cup Coconut – 2 tbsps (Freshly grated) Dry red chilli – 1 (To taste) Curry leaves – A sprig Peppercorns – 1 tsp Asafetida – ½ tsp Salt as per taste Oil – 1-2 tbsp Method Heat oil in a Wok (kadhai), Add the Yellow split moong dal or Toor dal (whichever yo...

BADHUSHA I would like to wish all the visitors,  A VERY HAPPY & PROSPEROUS DIWALI. These days I look for sweets which are less sweet. I usually have Badhusha in a shop here in Singapore and adore it because it’s not that sweet as other sweets, so this Diwali I decided to make Badhusha also known as Balushahi in some parts of India . While I was browsing for a no-fail recipe I stumbled across Raks kitchen (Raks happens to be a fellow blogger from Singapore as well) and found this wonderful step by step recipe with pictures. I had tried making Badhusha earlier but it was a huge flop as it came out very hard. I didn’t want to try any stunts and followed exactly as mentioned in her blog. Ingredients Maida/All purpose flour -1 ½  cups Butter – ¼ cup Oil – 1/8 cup Sugar - ½ tsp Curd – 1 ½ tsp Cooking soda/sodium bi carbonate - 2 pinches Water - ¼  cup (approx.) Oil - for deep frying For Syrup Sugar - ½ cup Water - Just to immerse the sugar Cardamom powder -  ...

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Director            Anubhav Sinha Cast                  Shah Rukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Armaan Verma, Shahana Goswami, Dalip Tahil, Satish Shah, Suresh Menon, Sanjay Dutt, Rajanikant, Tom Wu Year                 2011 Genre               Action I had passed judgement on RA. One after seeing the first trailer itself.   It looked so much like Tron Legacy that I was completely turned off with the idea of RA.One.   You could argue with me that I get too biased too soon but my regular readers would agree with me that of late, I have tried my very best, not to be biased at all – and successfully at that.   I was in fact hoping and praying for a good movie to begin an otherwise dull Diwali day. ...

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The most hyped film of recent times "7am Arivu" (Seventh Sense) is a mixed bag of sorts. To begin with the film has a documentary style of telling the viewers about the life and journey of Bodhidharmar (Surya) who from a prince in Kanchi in the year 520 A.D travels to China and becomes a powerful saint who gets to cure diseases that didn't have a cure and also help the Chinese people learn self-defense in the form of the famous Martial Art Kung-Fu. The movie does keep the viewers glued to their seats for the first 20 minutes. However, when the plot moves to the present day where our hero who is a circus artist Aravindan (Surya) gets to meet his lady love Subha Srinivasan (Debutant Sruthi Hassan) things tend to drag a bit with the usual run-of-the-mill romance sequences. The only thing here is that the heroine is a genetic student who is involved in doing some path-breaking research. Aravindan when he gets to know the real reason behind Subha's purpose of meeting him g...