Garam Chai ki Piyali Ho…
Posted by mE on Nov 19, 2008
AT work I try different combination when it comes to tea (chai) … just black tea. Tea with 2 heaped teaspoons of coffee in it. Medium colored black tea. Strong cup. Light milky tea. Strong 3-4 tea bags tea. Name it and I’ll give you a new combination of tea everyday.
Thanks god they are not re-hiring me as office boy yet.
When I reach home these days … the after-tea reminds me of so memories from not-so-old-times … a few years down the lane yet they seem so distant and so near. After putting the dinner plate off, bhai would shout for Chai Hojayay. And then we’ll fight daily that who’d do what. That was our ultimate family time. Ami and abu’s half half cups … our full huge mugs of tea. Oh yeah bhai’d make tea too kabhi kabhi. I’ll ask him o do half of teh work … either dum the tea and I’ll mix or do the opposite 
Sometime Ess (my eldest sis) would start blending coffee too. Deep in chilly winters, ami would make pink tea … and honestly that used to be THE yummiest and truest pink tea aka kashmiri chai I ever tasted. The shops sell just pink-colored tea in its name these days. Nothing can compete mom-cookeries ever … love you ama.
Ah ha and how can I forget the gajar ka halwas. Goodness, my mom used to make THE best gajjar ka halwa and gajrella too 
No one can beat that taste. Small things that you don’t even realize then becomes strongest of the memories when nothing remains the same. Nothing.
Winters are nostalgic. Seems like my last winters in my home these would be. Nostalgic with capital N.
چاء ہوئے تے بہت ہوئے پر اپناں دے نال ہوئے
Innit?
November 19th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Oy hoy!! Gajar ka halva!! Sahi baat hai, gajar ka halva sirf ghar ka hi acha lagta hai, aur woh bhi sirf Ammi ke haath ka - bahar pata nahi kya milta hai! :/ Aur na janay behen aur bhabiyan kya banati hein
Muahaha - start practicing your own pink tea and gajar ka halva
November 19th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Aww this post brought back such a flood of memories, it’s so true it’s those very little things which you don’t even think about that make the strongest memories. I’m not at all a tea or coffee person, but I remember the times spent at work with my friend over mugs of coffee and now having coffee just brings that flooding back.
Enjoy this winter to the hilt and create the best memories!
November 19th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I only like the Gajar ka halwa my mother makes. And whenever she makes tea, I realize what a pathetic tea-maker the kitchen boy is!
And just don’t kill your husband with all those “teas”, alright?
November 19th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Chai is the only thing I can make best! wanna compete?
November 19th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
At first the title reminded me Salman Khan’s song
Well chai and coffee! I am not a chai, coffee person but when I have to choose between the two I prefer coffee.
I can understand your nostalgia *sigh* happens with everyone.
November 19th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
^yeah nice title!
I don’t drink tea or coffee infact avoid it so i won’t comment on that
November 19th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I am not a chai, coffee person
So are are you a “MilkPak” person?
November 19th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Not a milkpack person adnan, Milopa baby
November 20th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
life is just too good with tea
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:48 am
absarHay naa and the best thing comes only from ami ka haath
AND ShuDDUP! He doesn’t like tea, yo :p
siras there are so many associations with tiniest of things in life
Strings attached everywhere 
sawj LOl, apnay haath paoon nahi hilatay? read my reply to absar :p
Adnan You can’t beat me in tea .. ever :p
Ayesha Ussi say inspired hay …
ooooh u choose coffee then dear you havent felt the glow tea creates within =)
Saad Ibrahim kis kisam kay log hain duniya may =P
Adnan look like :s
GH Milopa was something like pediasure
karl hay naa
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 am
I made tea yesterday, kettle wali, for the second time in my life. Warna teabag to chalta hi rehta hai. The kitchen boy sucks even more now!
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Tea with two teaspoons of coffee?
I had never heard of that before!
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
i find it pretty cool that that i don’t have to rely on tea/coffee to start my day.
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:31 am
SAWJ exactly … nothing can beat teh “dam” ki hui chai ever
Sidhusaaheb try the combo … awesome awesome awesome
Saad Ohh … Shukar alhamdolillah .. I dont rely on things to start my day either :p
November 25th, 2008 at 12:54 am
“Small things that you don’t even realize then becomes strongest of the memories when nothing remains the same.”
and you said it all on my behalf..we don’t tend to realize the significance of tiny things or lil gestures that we do every now & then as we take them for granted..we realize em’ when they’re long gone & then we’re only left repenting..these lil gestures & so called tiny things are significant part of our lives & without em’ there’s a void..a void that can’t be filled once created.
phew i’m talking..maybe some other time;)
November 25th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Uff kitni acchi baat kahi thi naa may nay