Somewhere in the  corner of my mind, I always had a thought that I should learning cooking since I was 16. But I never found time.  It"s not just the time factor, I  was lazy. At home, I never got a chance to cook! There was no need for that. As am staying away from home (hostel) because of  studies, whenever I go home my mom would perpare delicious, mouth watering dishes all the day. As she would be busy in kitchen all the time, I used to sit on the platform, I used to chatter all the stuff about my hostel, friends and so on.; while my mom is busy preparing dishes.I used to seldom help her with the things like peeling the vegetables (nothing more than that). Now I realise that I never watched how she is preparing the things. Not even once! But I have rough idea about many things according to my own probability and statistics.This week is festive week and all the friends went home. So getting bored, I thought of giving a shot to cooking. Ofcourse this was the only escape from the pathetic mess. I made my room heater as electric heater for cooking and I bought all the stuff for making "Upma". So I started cooking. First I gave a ring to my mom to know the procedure of how to go about and started making it step by step.Then came some disasters. Every 2 minutes the power connection got tripped. So I have to run through the corridor to the junction box and make it work again.And then I tasted the water to check if the amount of salt is enough or not. First it was more than required, so I added some more water and then the amount of salt was less than required and i again added water and so on.. I did  this for a couple of times till it tasted fine.Then finally I completed all the steps. Finally Upma was ready! Of course it tasted fantastic.. But I learnt that it takes lot of patience to learn this art.But it"s not a big deal!