My Views and Ideas: Life and Parenting

Recently I bought a much awaited  instant pot.I had this item in my wish list for more than over an year. For a 6 quart pot other wise I would have to pay $126 something .Where as I paid just $44 because of the prime day deal on amazon. I was very happy and excited to use this instant pot as I have heard so many nice things and great meals it can cook and save me lots of time. Now that I have it and have used it several times,I am very disappointed in this pot as all the claims I have read so far turning to be wrong one by one. The biggest challenge people talked about was operating it ,as it has so many buttons that at times it feels overwhelming as how I am going to learn about all the features and usage of buttons and finally be able to cook something. So let me tell you as daunting as it looks ,it is the easiest appliance you can use and work with. Here are some of the cons of this pot :- 1) The pot-in-pot(PIP) method is complete garbage.You ask why ? Because it is ...

My Daughter is learning to play Clarinet.She is playing quite well for a beginner.She is taking lessons apart from her school music classes. When I see her play Clarinet and the time, effort and money we are paying into her music lessons reminds me of the time when I was a girl  and wanted to learn a musical instrument so much.In our days music was learnt mostly  by  children who were from the musical family background.We were just too simpletons to learn a musical instrument.For us every thing was just study and study and study. Today I was listening to some songs of Kumar Sanu(don't ask me why).The songs took me  19-20 years back when I was in college.The effect was not that magical anymore though.I still liked the songs but not to the extent where earlier it felt divine.When he sang about mountains and hills ,I would really see mountains and hills.When he compared the beauty of the girl's eye with the depth of the mountain I could relate to what he was trying ...