Masterchef Australia - A one of a kind culinary show

Masterchef Australia was first aired on April 27, 2009. Since then, it has had a meteoric rise. Masterchef, being a cooking show franchise has other adaptions from countless countries. Australia obviously being part of a part of it. Other adaptations also include Masterchef US, Masterchef India and many more. In my opinion, the Australian one gracefully rises above all and shines, so obviously being my favourite. There are even four major series of Masterchef franchise, The normal Masterchef, Masterchef Professionals, Masterchef juniors and Masterchef All-Stars.    

To talk about Masterchef Australia and it's franchise, it is apparently the most watched television show in Australia. Predictable. It has completed over six seasons, each one predictably better than the last. The show is judged and hosted by three fabulous cooks in this world. Gary Mehigen, George Calombaris and Matt Preston. Everybody has each other's qualities but Gary's personality, George's supportive and friendly nature and Matt's wise and strict judgement makes this trio perfect.

In season six Of Australia, the show was graced by the visit of Kylie Kwong, Heston Blumenthal and the legend of cooking, Marco Pierre White. They three shared their exceptional knowledge of cooking and gave a fresh perspective on altering the traditional classical dish into a modern delicacy. Kylie even mentored the the contestant running for the immunity pin. I must tell you, some of the home cooks have the Midas touch in cooking. A guy named Brent Owens won this one, he was also a home cook like everyone and he especially struggled to stay in the competition. That guy went through every elimination except one, that too a team challange. Now that folks, is pure determination, will-power and hard work.

Overall, season six was as lip-smacking and an amazing ride into the culinary world. I hope this review was at least half as good as the show, because if it is, then I have compelled you to watch it. I would seriously love to do that, maybe you will be salivating and even despise your home food temporarily after watching the show. See ya! have a good day.
       

How to get away with murder - A stop for drama, suspense and crime

So as told,  here is a review on another television show I was obsessing about.

Annalise Keating is a defence lawyer who is also teaching at Middleton Law School. At the first day of college it is known thats it's a rat race to acquire the top position, for that everyone will hog on to the law books, memorize all the unusual cases, and just try to get to the top.

Annalise, for her law firm, hires top five students from her class as her assistant. To make matters more interesting, she gives a reward, a trophy to the most outstanding student in her class. This trophy will not be just a momento to grace your shelf, this trophy will give you the power to slip away from any one test planned on the whole year, even the end term exams. It has only one use, and when it is handed back, it will be up for grabs again. You even have to maintain the lead or else it will slip away from your fingers as if it is coated with butter. Needless to say, it is easy to have the trophy snatched than earned and only one of the top five she appoints will get it.

In the first episode our protagonist, Wes Gibbins manages to barely enter the university, escaping the black hole of reservation list. He can't make a good first impression and stammers in class, which is like the Achilles heel for lawyers. He gets his first assignment, which is to get a suitable defense (apart from Annalise's) for a case she has taken. He manages to impress the professor and paves his way as one of her assistants. Along with four other, Conner Walsh, Laurel Castillo, they solve the case at hand while Wes manages to know some secrets involving Annalise and her husband Sam.

Between the present day scenario they show snippets of past, in which Wes and other assistants are carrying the husband in a forest, to burn him, so that the DNA is destroyed. I know there are questions, How? Why? What? Everything is answered in the show by showing us the snippets of the past with the daily case Annalise gets gradually revealing what is happening. So it really is worth at least an hour's of your time, I hope you like this one. Again, get a scratcher. You will be greatful.

Castle - A show worth swooning over

Okay, as promised, I am writing on one of my favorite shows. Castle. Just to clear it up now, it's not a PLACE! It's a name of a writer. Richard Castle The most amazing writer that America (even though fictional) has ever spawned in their television history. Now, this was personal perspective, I may be wrong to some people. So no suing the blogger which gives you crappy reviews. Anyway, he is a guy worth being gay for. I am just telling how amazing he is, I actually am not gay. I don't care if they have started their season seven. I will still write about it.

As every writer needs inspiration, Richard "Rick" Castle who has written many books on crime, murder and mystery has found his inspiration in the twelfth Precinct of New York city. The inspiration turns out to be a cop (duh) known as Detective Kate Beckett. She is a mind blowing homicide detective with honour, integrity and courage embedded in her.

Rick Castle, is one childish (always), hyperactive (sometimes), and a brilliant wordsmith (obviously) of a writer! Needless to say, a detective like her does not like a writer like him. But she has no choice. As she goes through the journey to have him by her side all day with his childishness and stupidity she finds him way over mildly annoying. He spent a day with her and thinks he has found his inspiration for his next crime novel, Nikki Heat. So, yeah, for further research, he stays.

Castle not only observes but also participates by giving crazy and speculated theories on who might be guilty and what the motive of this heinous crime of sending an innocent soul (or not) away from the earth might be. Great Castle, another reason for her to hate you. Anyway, as they both spend time together, Kate realises that he can be a fun guy to hang around with, slowly they trudge along the path of of friendship and partnership.

So that's it folks, all the other things will be clear in the show. I hope this review is worth your time, just watch the one hour episode, you'll not be disappointed. Next up is another review on a TV show.

   

A synopsis of Egyptian myths

I'm going to answer what my stalker (if I have one) must be thinking about all the time. Why was I inactive these days? I was too busy swooning over two of the most amazing shows in the United States television. That's for another review, for now bear with this synopsis of 'Rick's bundle of Egyptian myths.

THE DEMON DAYS:
The demons days were created by the sky goddess, Nut, for her and the earth's (Shu) children to be born in. Yes, they made out. No biggie! They are just the sky and the earth. Was she an over-pampering mom who wanted to pamper her children so much such as to give them their own days? Actually, no. The real thing was that the sun god Ra came across the prophecy that the children of the sky and the earth will take over the throne of the pharaoh, of which Ra was taking pleasures of. So he got all freaked out and forbid Nut to bear children to bear children on any of the three sixty days of the year (Then it was five days less). Harsh. So now Nut out-smarted Ra by gambling with the moon to gather enough moon light to create five separate days! And yes you can do that. But people, gambling is bad and with the moon it's worse, ask Carter and Sadie they'll tell you. After those days were made, Nut bear five children, one on each day, Set, Nephtys, Osiris, Horus and Isis. So if you think you had a miserable year then you know whom to contact to complain on how the year is too long. Though I hope no one had a miserable year.

PATH OF THE GODS:
This is a type of magic which can help you to use the power of the gods by channeling it through your body. This magic is very volatile and can damage you till, let's say, irreparable body parts. That's the con. What's the pro? You can have the devine power of the Gods. You can have cool combat avatars wrapped around your body which can act as a shield too (Carter did it). You can produce big fists to knock out your enemies, it is advised not to try it on mortals. But you have to keep it all under control, if you become too greedy the power of the Gods will eat you up. If you try to channel too much power you will blast to smithereens (I mean die). Scary? it should be. Millions of years ago when the Egyptian culture flourished the path of the Gods was legal and people used it extensively on combat (it even helped them to bring snacks from the other room without getting up). But people got greedy and jealous of others (why can he do that? I want to do that too!) they started fighting each other and channeled too much power and were dying in great numbers. So the path of the Gods was forbidden and the Gods were buried deep into the Du'at.

OSIRIS:
I am just doing this part because I think he is a cool God. This God is the Lord of the Dead. I mean can you believe it? He is the judge of millions of dead people in this world! He can decide which damned or pure soul will go where. Well actually he does not decide it, he has an assistant named Anubis who (according to girls) is to die for. He is an extremely hot, with good fashion sense and respect for ladies, God of death rituals. Anubis also keeps the feather of truth which is used for knowing whether one soul is pure or not. The feather is kept on one side of a weighing scale and the dead's heart at the other. If the scales are balanced then the heart is pure if the feather is heavy then......
Osiris also has a cute yet devouring pet with a crocodile's mouth, he's not a crocodile though, who likes to eat the heart of the damned.
There is one more thing which is mind-blowingly interesting. Carter and Sadie's dad hosts Osiris, even though unintentionally. So the cool God is in an amazing dad cum Egyptian lecturer's body.

So that's it for this time readers, I hope you like it. I want you people to like it. That's why I write after all. I will write a review on the couple of shows I was swooning over. Soon. They are really a couple of nail biting shows. After all, a detective drama series and a sexy, thriller, suspense based on the court are ought to be amazing and nail biting. See ya readers.

He's the great author who made my life full of adventure

  

I know the drawings are not great but that's how it is

Serpents Shadow - Ma'at restored

Okay now, this is my final post.....of this blog project. You can't get rid of my writing very easily. Internet will suffer in silence taking in my writing for years! Bwahaha! Too much? Sorry.

Now this book is the final in the series. The final battle. Apparently, our giant, immortal, funky and chaotic snake, Apophis, is slithering around the world gathering followers either by fear or respect. His master plan is that he will swallow the sun so that the earth is plunged in an eternal sea of chaos and he can rule it afterwards. This particular snake can be the cause of immortal back pain I tell you. Now as always Sadie and Carter to the rescue! They have a weapon which, is a spell, if performed correctly, will send Apophis so deep in the Du'at that he may never to rise again. There is one tiny problem (as always). They are actually not so experienced with spell books, so they talk to the author of the book, who has been dead for some centuries. How? Their dad is the god of death now. Don't ask how THAT happened, it will take a whole other post. So, they ask the author to help them (whose name is Setne by the way) and he agrees to help. Now another problem, they have to use the spell in the shadow of Apophis, which is in the middle of the most dangerous and chaotic part of the Du'at (duh). Why is it not joined to him? Because as it goes, the shadow is one of five parts of you, essential for you to be complete, quite literally. Isn't shadow just a projection kind of thingy? Later please. Now the review.

So will our magical duo of siblings be able to stop our snake in time? Will they be able to perform the spell correctly? What will will be the plethora of dangers they will face? And yeah one more, they have to wake the sun god fully now. Who is now acting like a toddler. How will they babysit AND and save the world? All in the book.

The Throne of Fire - A Quest for the Sun

Why am I late? Because I am an asshole.

Now I will write a review on the second book in the series. The throne of fire, as you just read, there really is a throne of fire mentioned in the book. This particular throne is uniquely uncomfortable (duh). Your posterior will be rare cooked meat in a matter of seconds. Unless you are the lord of the sun, Ra. The throne is actually put up in the sun boat on which he sits when doing the nightly journey through Du'at (the divine prison for almost anything). Apart from making the sun rise again,  he does the journey to stop the lord of chaos, a giant snake, Apophis so that the world is not plunged into a sea of chaos.

Now you don't have to read about the posterior searing chair and the victim, I am coming to Carter and Sadie now. They have made peace with the gods inside them and they are trying to promote the path of the gods by recruiting teenagers and teaching them the path. Let's just say they couldn't do proper advertising and the product got a negative response from other magicians. But they did manage to recruit and now they all are learning the path of the gods. But how can a story go on without a chink in the armour? Apart from teaching, Carter and Sadie are forced to do a part time job, namely, stopping Apophis from destroying our world. I would pick car washing and grass cutting instead.

They are on a quest to retrieve a book which contains the spell to destroy our funky, chaotic snake. Now that's what we call a weapon. A book. Now since they don't have the support of other magicians and they have to break into a highly enchanted museum which also contains the book, without any body knowing about it. Last time I checked, that's what teenagers did.
Good going Rick, sending children to a deadly chase so that they can save the world. Couldn't you have kept the book in the fridge so Carter finds it while getting a snack?

The good thing about this book is....well almost everything. But the bad thing is.....well....nothing. Damn it Rick! Couldn't you show you were a normal human with faults.

The red pyramid - first in the series

Okay, sorry to be late. I'm not going to make excuses, but I had guests at my place. Sorry again. So back to the series....

Carter and Sadie Kane are two siblings living separately because their mother died in a freak 'Egyptian mishap' (No jokes). Carter travels the world with his dad while Sadie gets to live with her grandparents. I can totally feel the envy some people may have who posses an annoying sibling. But believe me, if you had to choose between a Justin Bieber concert and being a victim of their anger combined. You would gladly be messaging song suggestions to the authorities. Yup, their combined presence was catastrophic. Now, they don't know that, they think it was all courts decision after the accident. They don't know they share the lineage of two powerful magician families which makes them the most compatible entities to host God's. Yes, all those supernatural beings who were rumored to be buried by magicians centuries ago came back again. Guess how? The father. That's all I am saying, rest is up to you to read (too blunt right?). Carter and Sadie realise that they are demigods, meaning they have God's inside them probably doing an Irish jig and living rent free (yup, I wrote that). Amos, who is the brother of their father takes them to one of certified magic house of Egyptian in USA. There they discover they have to stop the god of chaos a.k.a Set from turning USA into a giant frying pan a.k.a. a dessert.
How do they stop him? How do they master the long lost art of hosting gods? What monsters do they face? Three words, read the book.