no… No… NO!!! Not them… please!!!

Published February 22, 2012 by cooltwins

I am scared of them…

No, it’s not a ghost! No not a group of zombies! Not even a bunch of the creepiest insects!

I am talking about the Sales Girls in most of the shops. Yeah, you read it right. “SALES GIRLS!” I guess half of you are laughing to yourselves * Sales girls?* It is some thing I dread and as a result I go to the point of avoiding shops with too many sales girls. They don’t let you go around all by yourself and keep asking you if you were interested in this and that. Want an example? Check this out:

If only an Éclairs would do the trick! But no… It is just an advertisement. Here is my experience with salespeople.

I was watching this advertisement for a product and had an urge to try it out at once. I made a mental note to visit a shop near my home that evening. I did go to that shop. I started searching for that product. It was a 500 square feet room and they had 6 sales girls in the same shop (like there was so much space!). I found my way through and browsed through the racks for the product. All of a sudden, all of them were interested in “helping” me out and came to me. I was surrounded. They asked me what I was searching for and I told them I was searching for product X.

At once all of them got so excited and started shoving different products into my hand. They started saying a well-rehearsed list of their effects. I did not get one word of what they were trying to say. And the never-heard-before-brands were at atrocious prices too. When I said that, they were acting like it was so normal to pay Rs.900 for a 100gm cream! Duh!

I did my best in trying to convince them politely that I was not interested in the product. I left the place before they could come back with more products. It was such a terrifying situation. I came home and only then I realized some thing: “I forgot to do what I went there for! I forgot to buy product X!!! The whole process was such a waste.”

It would’ve been a better experience if:

  • There was more space or less sales girls.
  • They could just leave the customers alone.
  • They assist them only when asked to do so.
  • They help them with what they ask for ALONE.

But there are places where they leave you to yourself when you say ” no thanks I’m just having a look around”. They are the best! How i wish all were the same like them.

Hey there! :)

Published February 21, 2012 by cooltwins

hey people 🙂

Guess what? I’ve started using a separate blog for photography (my sudden craze!!! )

I’m so crazy about it that I’ve started calling myself “Madshutterbug”!!!

I know its another crazy name like “Cooltwins” 😀 but i love it!!!

So here it is: Mad Clicks and Picks!

Do let me know what you feel about it 🙂

Will be back with some thing for this little place here too… having loads in my mind but very little time at hand 😦

Take care… 🙂

The first dessert we made!!!

Published November 12, 2011 by cooltwins

sunshine cheese cake with poached apples set inside the mango jelly layer.
sunshine cheese cake with poached apples set inside the mango jelly layer.

Few months back we tried our hand at cooking. 😀 It was far far better than what i expected it to be 🙂 I can proudly say it was the best dessert I’ve had in my life :p

the dish was “Sunshine Cheese Cake with Poached Apples set inside a layer of mango jelly“. 

yummy!!!

Yummy!!!

Here is how we went about with the dish :

The ingredients we gathered:

1 packet Mango Jelly

sweet plain biscuits, finely crushed

150g butter (unsalted)

500g light cream cheese

1/2 cup icing sugar

270g can coconut cream

1 apple (to be poached, in slices)



The Method:


1. Put the Mango Jelly in boiling water and whisk until dissolved then let cool for 30 minutes. cool until if forms a thick syrup consistency. Don’t let it cool for too long, or it will start setting.

2. Combine the crushed biscuits and melted butter in a bowl (make sure it is unsalted! else a disaster will follow 😉 ), and mix well. Press biscuit mixture into the base of a 20cm spring form pan. Refrigerate while preparing filling.

3. In a food processor, whip together cream cheese, icing sugar and coconut cream until smooth. Gradually pour the cheesecake mixture over the biscuit base and set in the refrigerator for 3 hours.

4. Slowly pour the cooled jelly on top of the cheesecake filling. Allow to set for a further 3 hours.

5. Then you have the final product! 🙂 go ahead, Slice it and enjoy it. 🙂


Do try it when you find enough time for all these steps. when you do spend that time, i tell you, the end result is worth all the time spent 🙂


–The Twins 😉

	


	



		
			

		
			

		
			

		
			


	

					
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This post is being written for Blogjunta’s THE GREAT DEBATERS, season-1, Debate-3




The cartoon explains corruption in a nutshell. It is just like the old Hutch punch line : “Where ever you go, our network will follow”. Similarly, whenever the pathway for reforms is laid out Corrupt people will be there to claim “their share” and as the process goes on, at the end the people will receive nothing. And the whole point of a reform is lost!


I am sure there is no need for me to introduce to you Mr.Anna Hazare, the social activist who is now in the limelight of the world media. Thanks to his brave stand against corruption and the Indian Government. People call his movement the “need of the hour” and there is no second thoughts about it. The corruption rate has reached a saturation point beyond which tolerance is just not possible. One must surely applaud the efforts the old man is taking up when all the youth in the country were minding their own business.


“The greatest step in any movement is the first step.”


Taking initiative is not so easy. People of the country must indeed extend their full support to this great man but people go to such obnoxious levels in the name of “support”. People even get the doubts if this “support” is out of real concern or their way to two minute fame. But the end result is simple: such a great movement’s reputation is tarnished. I accept there have been so many such incidents.


You want an example? I’ll give you one best example: The recent IIT Karagpur convocation. In case you guys haven’t heard about it, this is how it goes. A group of around 20 students were fasting in support of Anna Hazare since Aug 16th and in the pretext of lending their support to the Anna team, they decided to give the convocation ceremony a miss!!! That was because they were not allowed to attend the convocation with Gandhi toppis and these students were adamant about wearing it. Lets get this straight: Wearing Gandhi caps to your convocation is in no way going to make sure the bill is passed. Not even if the PM was present at the convocation. Apparently these guys thought the PM was going to give away the degrees and staying away from it will be an insult to him. But it so happened that PM was there only for a speech and after delivering it he was on his way out of the campus. Acts like this is not going to get a desired result but is only going to damage the reputation of the institution (poor thing!).


The candle light marches and other similar campaigns are in fact needed to show the strength of the movement, but acts like these?


People should not mix up two or more issues. If you are not happy with the way parliament is working with the bill, you are free to show your dissent. This is a free country. But the convocation ceremony is surely not the place.


Similarly, so many people make wrong interpretations of the drive and the campaign and as a result the image of the entire Campaign is tarnished. But all this should not lead you into the idea that the entire movement is  nothing but a thamasha.


The Anna campaign is one of its kind. It has brought out the sense of responsibility in the youth and the sudden rise in resistance against corruption is a good sign. If more such tarnishig incidences don’t occur, this campaign will march on to victory, the Ahimsa way.


When you have no other better way, try to embrace the best way in hand and make the most out of it! You are lucky to have at least that one solution… And we are more than lucky to have this solution.


Don’t underestimate it. Just wait and hope it does do some good. Anyway we were quiet for like years with no response to the scenario and when a person takes the initiative it is not right to disparage his efforts saying it is not the right way (I know Arundathi Roy will not be reading this but i will be happy if she gets the msg :p ). Gandhi followed the very same route to secure our independence and i don’t see anyone complaining about it and its result. I know times have changed, but still… If you still feel his method is not the the best then do go ahead, take the lead… make the initiative. People will be there to support you. Else, please stand by and give your support.


Cheers!!!