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Vacation series: episode # 9: Chilli garlic spaghetti 🍝

LITTLE CHEF’S APRON

Welcome to Little Chef’s Apron! Today we will be making something savoury! I tried this recipe as an experiment and I never expected it to be this tasty!

It was so delicious and it required the most basic flavouring agents. I am pretty sure you figured out what those are by the title, chilli and garlic!

I thought if I could use normal noodles instead of spaghetti but I understood why spaghetti was best. It is slightly yellow in colour, it is thicker and has the authentic pasta taste.

Whereas normal noodles lack all that and which is why their taste fits in Chinese cuisine.

If you want , you can use them too and make your own version. Let us get started with the recipe:

Ingredients required:

1 packet spaghetti( I am using the brand, ‘happy chef’ )

1 tsp soy sauce ( optional)

4 tbsp butter

8-9 cloves…

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There’s Nothing I Can’t Today

Shayan's Sphere

It’s true my days are dreary nights
And the ways are full of thorns,
I have to go through silent fights
In each silvery morn.

I have to deal unnoticed tears
And sheer hatred and taunts,
And weird feelings of baffling Sphere
Don’t go the way I want.

And vague mirages of eerie past
Like wraiths so foul and vile,
Ruin my flowers with grimy dusts,
And haunt my pleasant whiles.

But still amidst this savage game,
Though high my burning pain;
This life shall never lose its flame,
And nay, it shan’t complain.

For hurdles dwell in every sight,
O nothing is eternal fine,
And thousands even are spending nights
With aches sharper than mine.

And what’s the use of weeping
When the sun has set in west?
While squillion stars are waiting
To brighten again the breast?

So, though this life is fleeting
And yesterday was gray,
Here’s…

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Found Ya Blog | Bloggers Interview | Mental Health is health

A Writer's Deli

For today’s interview, we’ve got a topic which is of extreme significance. I, particularly am a huge advocate of mental well-being and eradication of the stigma surrounding it. To throw some light on the topic, we’ve with us a blogger whose life experience, optimism and practical ways to combat mental illness will be enlightening for the readers. The link to the blog is attached at the end for your reference. Happy Reading.

1.Thank you for this interview. What is your blog about and why the name Mental health is health?

My blog is about my journey through bipolar illness that started when I was in college and continues to this day, sometimes well managed and sometimes somewhat well managed. I feel that stigma is a major issue in the field of Mental Health – perhaps adding up to half of the battle for many people who are…

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Rainy day!

Bio-Blogger

On a Rainy day

When clouds are dark

My thoughts in the park

Deeply into nature’s look

I feel you from my back

Warmth of your breath flake

Making me to feel like a snow flake

Our thoughts are flowing like a lake

When we had no choice to make

Our eyes got pleased to set back

With no words to wishper or speak

It’s raining

We both are rinsing

Our thoughts are syncing

Our hearts are feeling

Our souls are romancing

My body & voice are trembling

Your wishperings are pleasing

When our breaths are slow striking

Moon must be out there peeping

Stars must be there twinkling

The pleasure of heavenly feeling

Tears in my eyes are streaming

My heart started questioning

Why was I only be dreaming?

How can I stop my heart from fainting?

You & Me will ever be really meeting?

The answer? God must…

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I learned how to ride a bike in Sheikh Jarrah – The Boston Globe

Not only did Israel steal my grandfather’s land; it has also stolen Jerusalem from me. Growing up in the city, I was an undocumented resident in Israel’s eyes despite the fact that my mother’s family has lived there for generations. My mom was born and raised a mere 10-minute walk from my childhood home, but my father’s family is from Tulkarem, a small city in the West Bank. And so my dad, my siblings, and I have West Bank IDs while my mom, a Jerusalemite, has a Jerusalem ID. That meant that while my mother had a right to live in Jerusalem, the rest of us were only guests in our own home, living there because we renewed travel permits that technically allowed us only entry into Jerusalem, not a permanent stay. (Israel has been trying to revoke Jerusalem IDs from Palestinians like my mom for decades.)

Because I still have a West Bank ID, as an adult I can never live in Jerusalem again despite it being my hometown. Under Israeli law, West Bankers aren’t allowed to drive or work in Jerusalem unless they have special permits, which are very rare and hard to get. They are also not allowed to buy or rent a home. But those rules do not apply to Jewish people, be they from Israel or anywhere else in the world. So long as someone can prove their Jewish ancestry, Israel will help them settle in Jerusalem and offer them full rights and privileges — ones that I, an indigenous Palestinian, can never get for the sole reason of my identity.

Source: I learned how to ride a bike in Sheikh Jarrah – The Boston Globe

Facebook said it would stop recommending anti-vaccine groups. It didn’t.

Facebook broadcast a sweeping pledge in a Feb. 8 blog post: It would remove false claims about vaccines from its platform. The declaration followed a series of promises over the preceding months to curb bogus health information on its site, particularly misinformation surrounding the pandemic. This included a commitment in September to stop recommending “health groups” in order to halt the practice of people turning to fellow Facebook users instead of doctors for medical advice.

But data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project shows that not only is COVID-19 misinformation still easy to find on Facebook, the company has also continued to recommend health groups to its users, including blatantly anti-vaccine groups and pages explicitly founded to propagate lies about the pandemic.

Source: Facebook said it would stop recommending anti-vaccine groups. It didn’t.

They recovered from COVID, only to die of ‘black fungus.’ What we know about the disease sweeping India – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

“We now have a new challenge of black fungus, we need to be cautious and prepare for it,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday.

At least seven states have declared black fungus a notifiable disease, in accordance with the central government’s advisory to collect data, according to respective state government authorities.

“These cases are being found in patients who have recovered from COVID, so there are a number of complications,” said J. V. Modi, medical superintendent at Gujarat’s Ahmedabad Civil Hospital. He added the hospital has seen a rise of cases in the past 10 days, as the country appeared to pass the peak of its second coronavirus wave.

Source: They recovered from COVID, only to die of ‘black fungus.’ What we know about the disease sweeping India – San Gabriel Valley Tribune