First of all let me wish a very Happy New Year to all my friends ...New Year and a new start..well i dint take any resolutions this time..infact never tot of it....There is a superstition that (atleast in my place) u tend to continue to do the things u do on New Year day and so generally people tend to avoid spending money ..If thats so,,then i cud be working all year long as i was working on Jan1.we had chicken biriyani at nite for a gud start and for the rest it was all the same. Had a potlock session on friday night with rak's colleagues and on sat, a old friend came over. She was our classmate and at first felt a little embarassed to greet her....Felt all collegelike and being caught redhanded with rak....he he but now things have changed...years have gone by and so have we.She has settled down here with a beautiful little girl Nandu......she was so cute and all her antics were admirable...at first i tried to make her address me as an elder sister but suddenly had a change of plates to an aunt....felt comfy in being called an aunt for the first time in my life.But the poor little thing cudnt sense the difference btwn an uncle and an aunt and kept calling both of us as uncles. A heavy meal followed by a hearty chat made us all cheery and we all set out to see Blenheim Palace..Even i was a first timer there. The palace was closed to public vehicles on that day and so we had to walk our way down there. We were trying hard to open the gates and had almost given up when a guy on a bike came up and opened the gates cooly and darted off into the palace grounds..Then we got it...the way we were handling the knob needed a twist :D.....the place was so beautiful and i cudnt help wondering why any king/royal blood would need so much of palace grounds.....anywise dey wud be either inside the palace or visiting guests or fighting enemies........why cudnt dey live in a small place? hmm Nandu wudnt let me continue on my pondering and she almost kept yelling "Dog" "Dog" on every mongrel that passed by.. Here the people treat their pets as their own kids and calling such an ungraceful name would highly motivate them to respond in an unpleasant way......we had a hard time covering her mouth.......Nandu was a unique kid in the sense that she never knew wen to stop eating and her parents had to plead with her really hard to make her stop..usually i have seen people doing the other way round..well if she were to be left on her own,she would continue until she threw up ...which in fact justifies her little physique.......at one point in time,Nandu got pissed off with me and shot me off in a RajniKant style....lucky that she is in UK and not US.it was -1.5 deg and none of us were dressed to the weather.So we cudnt make it into the palace and had to retreat half way through. From there we headed to the City Center and had a brief walkthrough until we landed in Nandoos..It is famous for its chicken along with its peri peri sauce and our friend wanted to taste it badly...So our dinner was done and finally we parted ways around 7 in the nite. Felt so happy to see an old face and to use the same "kewl" words of our college time....
Sunday was spent in shopping followed by a screening of Pirates of the Carribean-Part2 with Veeru at home.
Speaking of Pirates,my fav series wud be Matrix,Pirates,Father Of the Bride and Oceans..All kewl movies.Each pirate scene is so vivid and full of animation to feast to ur eyes on......Wonder when the fourth part is due...
Monday, January 5, 2009
Monday, December 29, 2008
christmas!!!!
2008 xmas has passed but it was my first one ever since i started my own family.xmas eve was spent at bhabhi's place along with rashi & family and balvinder. dint have to talk much to others as aaru kept me occupied for the major part of the evening.He even started feeding me ;) as opposed to what i am supposed to do..then we made a hit for the midnite mass along with rashi and family. the church was already filled so we could not get any other place than the one next to the crib.but anika started crying and so rashi had to leave in between.rak also got caught somewhere in the back and so i was all alone. Wished some strangers Merry Xmas...I received the Holy Communion after a 9 month notice and was so happy. We dropped back Veeru half-way back and then we hit the bed around 2 in the nite only to be woken up at 7 by a happy voice from home wishing Xmas!! it was Pa,Ma,tijo and toji..we were hardly in our senses, so we promised to call back later in the day. Finally we managed to crawl out of the bed around 8.30 to start the lunch preparations. We had invited some of rak's colleagues and we had an awefully heavy menu......lets see,,,it was kadai bhindi,vegetable korma,chillie chicken,chicken curry and salad finlly topped up with icecream....I had made the cake on xmas eve so we had a stomach saver ready when the guests started coming in...someone had bot champagne and i had my first taste of it...tasted something like sprite and everyone commented that the cake was cooked...i sincerely wished i knew how to bake it earlier so that i could have made it for junaid...he always used to ask me for homemade xmas cake....
anywise lunch was a little late as we couldnt finish off everything until it was 3 :(.......then after food,the guys hanged out in the living room while the ladies pondered in the bedroom....i guess charlie was giving his usual fundas and veeru would have been enjoying them.......i was playing with aaru all the while and i discovered that if u speak to him in english,he turns out to be a little roughish,,,,,,,hmm...should investigate out this funda with kids.......i missed out the icecream while playing with aaru......someone suggested cards and everyone pounced on it...rummy was shelled out and from the looks,none was a jack in it,,,,rak and me were left to look after the kids,,,tea was served once in between and we were damn tired by that time......but anywise everyone had a gud time and i enjoyed it a lot as it was really informal and we felt good.......
the next day,26th is called boxing day here and most of the shops here go up on 50% sale.....so we too joined the herd on early morning 6.30 the next day(yes,6.30 is now too early for us :D) but we couldnt manage to find anything ...so we came back home and had a breakfast round again...this time veeru prepared the omlettes and i watched the clip which ballu had prepared...he has done a gud job ,,making a video out of all our pics..... :D.......afternoon,we set out to reading and there we were entrusted with aaru as bhahi and charlie wanted to go for a movie and aaru wudnt sit out thru it........goosh shopping with a kid is a little hard :D........sometime in between,i met an old tamil lady and we started speaking in tamil......i was actually surprised that she could understand my tamil.......she was staying with her son and has been visitng UK every 6 months now.......she was a very sweet lady and we had a gud time until her grand daughter came to call her off.......while walking with aaru in the stroller,we got many funy glances,,,,mayb we dint look mature enuf :D.......finally after handing over aaru,we caught up with our movie-ghajini in hindi!!! i had already seen the movie but still kept guffawing at almost all the scenes......had a gud time all in all and was 12 again when we went to bed.........next day again sale day!!! this time we had to get up by 4.30 and by the time we reached the shop,it was already filled with people....people kept giving weird glances at me and rak as we were walking about lesiurely unsure of what to buy while others were busy filling out their baskets.....finally we were done with it and waited for others to come out.........we went to 2 more other shope and there we found sofas to rest upon and gladly spent our time there......here i met one more lady......pakistani this time..........she too was tired of shopping and was waiting for her sis........she was a very pleasant lady with a wise mouth and i wished that she lived somewhere nearby our house so that i could have some company here.......but alas!!!
then came home and slept for the rest of the day followed by a demo session at the end of the day to try out our shopping.........
sun was spent comfortably at home watching movies and we found this one-Slumdog millionarie a remarkably gud one........
feeling lazy now.....cant get myself to get up and do my tasks.......ok mayb till the chocolate tin.......
oo ya yes,,rak had left me some gifts under the tree,,,,,,btb need to figrue out wot mistltoe has to do with xmas...the church had loads of it.........
anywise lunch was a little late as we couldnt finish off everything until it was 3 :(.......then after food,the guys hanged out in the living room while the ladies pondered in the bedroom....i guess charlie was giving his usual fundas and veeru would have been enjoying them.......i was playing with aaru all the while and i discovered that if u speak to him in english,he turns out to be a little roughish,,,,,,,hmm...should investigate out this funda with kids.......i missed out the icecream while playing with aaru......someone suggested cards and everyone pounced on it...rummy was shelled out and from the looks,none was a jack in it,,,,rak and me were left to look after the kids,,,tea was served once in between and we were damn tired by that time......but anywise everyone had a gud time and i enjoyed it a lot as it was really informal and we felt good.......
the next day,26th is called boxing day here and most of the shops here go up on 50% sale.....so we too joined the herd on early morning 6.30 the next day(yes,6.30 is now too early for us :D) but we couldnt manage to find anything ...so we came back home and had a breakfast round again...this time veeru prepared the omlettes and i watched the clip which ballu had prepared...he has done a gud job ,,making a video out of all our pics..... :D.......afternoon,we set out to reading and there we were entrusted with aaru as bhahi and charlie wanted to go for a movie and aaru wudnt sit out thru it........goosh shopping with a kid is a little hard :D........sometime in between,i met an old tamil lady and we started speaking in tamil......i was actually surprised that she could understand my tamil.......she was staying with her son and has been visitng UK every 6 months now.......she was a very sweet lady and we had a gud time until her grand daughter came to call her off.......while walking with aaru in the stroller,we got many funy glances,,,,mayb we dint look mature enuf :D.......finally after handing over aaru,we caught up with our movie-ghajini in hindi!!! i had already seen the movie but still kept guffawing at almost all the scenes......had a gud time all in all and was 12 again when we went to bed.........next day again sale day!!! this time we had to get up by 4.30 and by the time we reached the shop,it was already filled with people....people kept giving weird glances at me and rak as we were walking about lesiurely unsure of what to buy while others were busy filling out their baskets.....finally we were done with it and waited for others to come out.........we went to 2 more other shope and there we found sofas to rest upon and gladly spent our time there......here i met one more lady......pakistani this time..........she too was tired of shopping and was waiting for her sis........she was a very pleasant lady with a wise mouth and i wished that she lived somewhere nearby our house so that i could have some company here.......but alas!!!
then came home and slept for the rest of the day followed by a demo session at the end of the day to try out our shopping.........
sun was spent comfortably at home watching movies and we found this one-Slumdog millionarie a remarkably gud one........
feeling lazy now.....cant get myself to get up and do my tasks.......ok mayb till the chocolate tin.......
oo ya yes,,rak had left me some gifts under the tree,,,,,,btb need to figrue out wot mistltoe has to do with xmas...the church had loads of it.........
Friday, November 7, 2008
first steps in cooking
came across this old blog - http://adukkala.blogspot.com/ and it really tuk me to my past when i really started cooking.. The author seems to work with some of the bigshot newspapers and i'm so relieved to know that even such a g8 person cud be stuck up like me!! by the way, i respect writers a lot....the most,i can say...
well to say,,my cooking experience started in room number 24, st joseph's hostel,trv...it was those kewl engineering days and we were always ravenous for anything that came by...
it had been a long time since we had omlette and so we decided to make one!!! ...we faced only one problem!!! no cooking utensils,no raw materials!! well...a little pondering helped us sneak a silver tea plate from the kitchen during our tea breaks and our dividers would replace the tongs!! fire!! yes!! we had it substituted too...........we tuk one of those big candles nayana had bot to burn her midnight oils...........for the rest of the part,,,,we bot one egg from spencers...it felt like a golden egg back then....and the spices-pepper and salt was whisked off from a visit to hotbreads,,,,,,so there we were ..all 6 of us..tired from a day of watering over the omellete and just as the bells rang for the study time, we sprang into action......the intelligent one amongst us..he he not me ofcourse had managed to bring along a matchbox ..:)
we then lighted the candle,held the plate above it and poured out the egg...all those tiny splutters and blisters gave us immense pleasure......we dint need much cajoling to finish off the last bit and as we stood there,relishing on our fete, we heard the knock on the door.....as we opened it, the stands our mother superior with a sniffing face,,,,she demanded to know the cause behind the smell in the room and we gladly attributed it to jisha's pile of unwashed clothes...well.the sister was not entirely convinced but there was not much that she could do.......so she gave us a final warning and gave us our quota of advice for the day :)
the 6 of us were so proud of ourselves and kept bragging about our omlettes to our neighbouring rooms for the rest of our stay there.........
there was a brief break from cooking as we shifted to our new house in patoor as we had a cook.......but then those study days before the exams got the better of us and we decided to venture again..this time toh, we included dayscholar friends too and had a egg party :)......soon this was followed by maggis, masala mixtures and horlicks(just to boost up pur brains)
those days were a treasure and we used to find immense glory in every single thing we did no matter how stupid it was!! weell i guess thats the factor about being young :)
well to say,,my cooking experience started in room number 24, st joseph's hostel,trv...it was those kewl engineering days and we were always ravenous for anything that came by...
it had been a long time since we had omlette and so we decided to make one!!! ...we faced only one problem!!! no cooking utensils,no raw materials!! well...a little pondering helped us sneak a silver tea plate from the kitchen during our tea breaks and our dividers would replace the tongs!! fire!! yes!! we had it substituted too...........we tuk one of those big candles nayana had bot to burn her midnight oils...........for the rest of the part,,,,we bot one egg from spencers...it felt like a golden egg back then....and the spices-pepper and salt was whisked off from a visit to hotbreads,,,,,,so there we were ..all 6 of us..tired from a day of watering over the omellete and just as the bells rang for the study time, we sprang into action......the intelligent one amongst us..he he not me ofcourse had managed to bring along a matchbox ..:)
we then lighted the candle,held the plate above it and poured out the egg...all those tiny splutters and blisters gave us immense pleasure......we dint need much cajoling to finish off the last bit and as we stood there,relishing on our fete, we heard the knock on the door.....as we opened it, the stands our mother superior with a sniffing face,,,,she demanded to know the cause behind the smell in the room and we gladly attributed it to jisha's pile of unwashed clothes...well.the sister was not entirely convinced but there was not much that she could do.......so she gave us a final warning and gave us our quota of advice for the day :)
the 6 of us were so proud of ourselves and kept bragging about our omlettes to our neighbouring rooms for the rest of our stay there.........
there was a brief break from cooking as we shifted to our new house in patoor as we had a cook.......but then those study days before the exams got the better of us and we decided to venture again..this time toh, we included dayscholar friends too and had a egg party :)......soon this was followed by maggis, masala mixtures and horlicks(just to boost up pur brains)
those days were a treasure and we used to find immense glory in every single thing we did no matter how stupid it was!! weell i guess thats the factor about being young :)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Musing again!
last week has been tough enuf with all 5 days at mcdies with an average 7 hours each day :( ..My poor shoulders weighed down but it gave me a chance to examine people from different countries....
the french people attracted my attention first...i can make out only french girls toh....they are very pretty damsels(suits them very much) with often golden brown hair. Pearls are a strict must to them and all of them wear at least a pearl earring if not for a necklace..However, they are not a confident enough bunch and are usualy timid . The way they shrink back on hearing the order repeated is amazing ;) (oops,,i'm not a pessimist!).
now for the chinese part, as one of my colleagues joked, they are always confused...he he...i felt it true enuf as they spent a major part of their time in making up their minds...
as for the african kinds of people, they are pretty much sure about what they want and are very quick in placing their orders. However its difficult to grasp their orders from the hip hop rhythm in which they speak......
ok enuff of comparing people ...its turning out to be a bore......
hmm now wot? friends?? aaa Yes!!!got a couple of them there...the best is Ayeesha,whos from Uganda and has a cheery face always , then comes Prabhu from Coimbatore(doing MBA here), who the people here call Problem as they are unable to pronounce his name properly and then comes Hiran from Ahmedabad who was a s/w tester back in India and is here to get a start with a career...
Theres also Iqbal from Pakistan,who i consider like a chacha and always greet me with "Kaisi Ho??"...He finds my name amusing toh i cant understand y ??
all my life i have felt that i am not good enuf compared to the people i work along with esp in Novell where i felt it was a talented bunch and always used to wonder how i made it into there.......someday i hope i would be like Jane in Xmen3 who was finally discovered to be a wonder.... :D he he i've not yet overcome day dreaming :D
adios amigo!! (as often heard from Pablos, an Italian guy in Mcdies)
the french people attracted my attention first...i can make out only french girls toh....they are very pretty damsels(suits them very much) with often golden brown hair. Pearls are a strict must to them and all of them wear at least a pearl earring if not for a necklace..However, they are not a confident enough bunch and are usualy timid . The way they shrink back on hearing the order repeated is amazing ;) (oops,,i'm not a pessimist!).
now for the chinese part, as one of my colleagues joked, they are always confused...he he...i felt it true enuf as they spent a major part of their time in making up their minds...
as for the african kinds of people, they are pretty much sure about what they want and are very quick in placing their orders. However its difficult to grasp their orders from the hip hop rhythm in which they speak......
ok enuff of comparing people ...its turning out to be a bore......
hmm now wot? friends?? aaa Yes!!!got a couple of them there...the best is Ayeesha,whos from Uganda and has a cheery face always , then comes Prabhu from Coimbatore(doing MBA here), who the people here call Problem as they are unable to pronounce his name properly and then comes Hiran from Ahmedabad who was a s/w tester back in India and is here to get a start with a career...
Theres also Iqbal from Pakistan,who i consider like a chacha and always greet me with "Kaisi Ho??"...He finds my name amusing toh i cant understand y ??
all my life i have felt that i am not good enuf compared to the people i work along with esp in Novell where i felt it was a talented bunch and always used to wonder how i made it into there.......someday i hope i would be like Jane in Xmen3 who was finally discovered to be a wonder.... :D he he i've not yet overcome day dreaming :D
adios amigo!! (as often heard from Pablos, an Italian guy in Mcdies)
Thursday, September 25, 2008
fully falthooooo
mtv fully falthoo was one of my fav shows wen i was at home....the name struck me bcoz i recently had a fully falthoo exp..well rak's bday was coming up and i had decided to surprise him.....so yday i went off shopping on all the stuff i needed and came home around 5..rak had called up in btwn to say that he was coming home but i dint quite believe him......he normally says so and comes home after some 1 hr .......so there i was sprawled comfortably on the living room carpet and wrapping up the gifts...some stir in the window made me look up and there stands my grinning rak.......i tot he had seen everything through the window,so i dint make any attempt to hide the stuffs....so i opened the door with a sheepish smile only to see him gape at the stuff inside the room........late realizations!!! our window was not all that transparent and i had mistook him!!!! gosh!!! felt so foolish........but still proceeded with the gifting ceremony......thankfully, i tink he liked d gifts and the card......personally i believe he loves anything in red :D he he.........
the sad part was that..he saw even the caking indredients and the stuff i had planned to bake :(....
but anywise with his bday being today, it was not a big loss toh! i shall try to bake the cake today.....
the most abashing event of the day happend at midnight........we had put on a movie and had pleasantly slept off.......the movie was his choice ...(he thinks my choice were really award films..well his are pathetic comedy..!!)...both were almost wafting through our dreams wen suddenly we started hearing knocks on the door,......thinking to be part of the dream, i jumped off the couch and promptly opened the door.......there stood veeru and ballu and i was so happy to find them in my dreams that i called out to rakesh to come and see......by that time they got inside and rakesh and me sat on the couch grinning at them all the while.......it took a while for them to understand that we were in sleep and they had to shake rak to wake him :D.......i followed his path and soon we were looking at them abashed......... :D
the guys had come with the cake(there goes my plan to bake a cake!!) and as in all happy scenes, rak cut the cake while we sang to glory..ballu kept going with the song and veeru and me had to stare hard at him to stop.......rak got his right of cream smeared across his face (i bet my face wash wont last to see this weekend....times have changed....now guys are more calorie and beauty conscious)......veeru gifted rak with a key chain with our pics inside it ( i was planning to give rak a turtle with our pics in it.. :( )
well it was a warm start to rak's bday and i hope his day goes through fine..!!!
happy bday my lazy fellow!!
the sad part was that..he saw even the caking indredients and the stuff i had planned to bake :(....
but anywise with his bday being today, it was not a big loss toh! i shall try to bake the cake today.....
the most abashing event of the day happend at midnight........we had put on a movie and had pleasantly slept off.......the movie was his choice ...(he thinks my choice were really award films..well his are pathetic comedy..!!)...both were almost wafting through our dreams wen suddenly we started hearing knocks on the door,......thinking to be part of the dream, i jumped off the couch and promptly opened the door.......there stood veeru and ballu and i was so happy to find them in my dreams that i called out to rakesh to come and see......by that time they got inside and rakesh and me sat on the couch grinning at them all the while.......it took a while for them to understand that we were in sleep and they had to shake rak to wake him :D.......i followed his path and soon we were looking at them abashed......... :D
the guys had come with the cake(there goes my plan to bake a cake!!) and as in all happy scenes, rak cut the cake while we sang to glory..ballu kept going with the song and veeru and me had to stare hard at him to stop.......rak got his right of cream smeared across his face (i bet my face wash wont last to see this weekend....times have changed....now guys are more calorie and beauty conscious)......veeru gifted rak with a key chain with our pics inside it ( i was planning to give rak a turtle with our pics in it.. :( )
well it was a warm start to rak's bday and i hope his day goes through fine..!!!
happy bday my lazy fellow!!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
weekend dhamakas
friday nite we went bowling with rak's friends....ballu n veeru.....comp is always amongst veeru n ballu.......rak ends up 3rd and me last.....got many gutter balls.......played 2 rounds.......had dinner outside...........learnt to eat chicken leg with knife and fork.....was from nandos....a famous one here.........their lightning system was gud...they used bottles instead of light shades.....
then saw a movie.....the dark knight.......batman3 series...i dint like toh .. others liked it...i found it sick........and we had icecream too........was 12.20 wen we finally reached home.......
sat went to do some small grocery shopping in the sat market nearby and evening went to the onam celebration by the malayalee association here....oxford malayalee association....oxmas.....he he......initially i found it funny......then i wanted to get out of it......was mostly people from the medical proff....the lectures were so funny.....tht i cudnt help guffawing......it was like some politic fanatic who was banished from kerala and found a mike here to vent all his holed up emotions....he said that the fact that mahabali was stuffed down to hell was a big political move of tht era........even rak cudnt help it...we both started laufing loud......after our merry was met, we slowly turned around only to find people staring at us........funny tht dey dint find it funny!!! (similies hurray!!)
no no i'm not mad....its just the cold....haa then....it was gud to find mallu kids playing around..we get to see mallu adults now n then but mallu kids were first timers......
the only bad part was that the women and men sat separately....the women and the kids sat in the hall while the men lurked around the corners and outside the hall.......i was so used to stick around rak that wen i had to sit alone, i felt angry at the custom and finally broke it after some 1 hr......i fished him out and orbited around him for the rest of the event......one other amusing thing was that in such events you could wish out your spouse even though both dint have cells.....
there were some dance shows as well.....one father and his daughter played some 5 dances.......one of them duet.....others along with others......(this shud inspire chax.......hes so mushy mushy on having people in the same family performing along with u....he cud with his insider!!!)
was gud..saw the traditional thiruvathira kali as well.....after a while i got so tired by the music but rak wudnt budge......he wanted to make the most of the membership fee he had to pay.(:D 10BGP for each.and 4 GBP per month)......and so we had the sadya......it was a big queue and we were ravenous by the time we got our plates filled....the sadya was ok types...but the payasam was g8.....
we got dropped back by biju chettan.......and again it was 12.30 ......
sun was spent at home with an upset stomach......thanks to the sadya, the water bill would go high this time ;)
called up some of our batch mates around.....
yday went to visit another colleague of rak's who had just had a baby.....anika....goddess durga's another name.......we think the baby looks like her mom.......
we had our dinner there and i helped rashi babhi around......shes younger to me but i got the habit of calling all north indian girls as babhis...so cudnt help it.......
i tried making chappthis like her but i ended up in more world maps....someday my day wud come.......
and today yet another day......last week was adventurous with my job at mcdies......i found it v hard and demotivating at first but i dint want to run away from it......i dont like turning away like a coward and so mind wudnt let me......and now tht i am in control, mayb i wud leave it this week.....initially i was hesitant to even mention it..,,but yes the first day was v tuf.......i expected a friendly and easy atmosphere but the thing was full action packed..........missed novell very much......it was my ideal kinda comp......with the ideal colleagues...........it had all the bits and pieces i needed........:(... got a degradation kinda feeling and the s/w engineer in my head was taking insult in every job i was asked to do......moreover the people there hardly knew english.....they were people from nepal and bangladesh and they spoke urdu and broken english mostly.....thanks to rak's lucknow origins urdu was not all alien to me and i cud keep up but the broken english really broke my spirits.....it was something of the sorts of "i coming,i do that,u no do that" kinds.......it was dampening in the sense that i felt i was wasting my time there......but the fact is that with my visa type i'm not getting any software jobs here and mcdies was a gud start to a bank account atleast(cant open one here without a job),,,,,,my colleagues were rite.....sitting at home is v boring and so i've decided to stick along to mcdies till something better comes along......atleast it wud give me a chance to buy something for rak on his bday from my own pocket(hes too lazy to read blogs......he finds this annoying just as i find his games).....reminding of which ,,,initially it was too tuf to ask for money after all the years i've been independent......but now its easy
chethan bhagath's one day at the call center is being made into a movie starred by salman? saw it from some site yday........lucky chap chethan bhagath..........that was so simple a story and it became a best seller and now a movie too!!!
then saw a movie.....the dark knight.......batman3 series...i dint like toh .. others liked it...i found it sick........and we had icecream too........was 12.20 wen we finally reached home.......
sat went to do some small grocery shopping in the sat market nearby and evening went to the onam celebration by the malayalee association here....oxford malayalee association....oxmas.....he he......initially i found it funny......then i wanted to get out of it......was mostly people from the medical proff....the lectures were so funny.....tht i cudnt help guffawing......it was like some politic fanatic who was banished from kerala and found a mike here to vent all his holed up emotions....he said that the fact that mahabali was stuffed down to hell was a big political move of tht era........even rak cudnt help it...we both started laufing loud......after our merry was met, we slowly turned around only to find people staring at us........funny tht dey dint find it funny!!! (similies hurray!!)
no no i'm not mad....its just the cold....haa then....it was gud to find mallu kids playing around..we get to see mallu adults now n then but mallu kids were first timers......
the only bad part was that the women and men sat separately....the women and the kids sat in the hall while the men lurked around the corners and outside the hall.......i was so used to stick around rak that wen i had to sit alone, i felt angry at the custom and finally broke it after some 1 hr......i fished him out and orbited around him for the rest of the event......one other amusing thing was that in such events you could wish out your spouse even though both dint have cells.....
there were some dance shows as well.....one father and his daughter played some 5 dances.......one of them duet.....others along with others......(this shud inspire chax.......hes so mushy mushy on having people in the same family performing along with u....he cud with his insider!!!)
was gud..saw the traditional thiruvathira kali as well.....after a while i got so tired by the music but rak wudnt budge......he wanted to make the most of the membership fee he had to pay.(:D 10BGP for each.and 4 GBP per month)......and so we had the sadya......it was a big queue and we were ravenous by the time we got our plates filled....the sadya was ok types...but the payasam was g8.....
we got dropped back by biju chettan.......and again it was 12.30 ......
sun was spent at home with an upset stomach......thanks to the sadya, the water bill would go high this time ;)
called up some of our batch mates around.....
yday went to visit another colleague of rak's who had just had a baby.....anika....goddess durga's another name.......we think the baby looks like her mom.......
we had our dinner there and i helped rashi babhi around......shes younger to me but i got the habit of calling all north indian girls as babhis...so cudnt help it.......
i tried making chappthis like her but i ended up in more world maps....someday my day wud come.......
and today yet another day......last week was adventurous with my job at mcdies......i found it v hard and demotivating at first but i dint want to run away from it......i dont like turning away like a coward and so mind wudnt let me......and now tht i am in control, mayb i wud leave it this week.....initially i was hesitant to even mention it..,,but yes the first day was v tuf.......i expected a friendly and easy atmosphere but the thing was full action packed..........missed novell very much......it was my ideal kinda comp......with the ideal colleagues...........it had all the bits and pieces i needed........:(... got a degradation kinda feeling and the s/w engineer in my head was taking insult in every job i was asked to do......moreover the people there hardly knew english.....they were people from nepal and bangladesh and they spoke urdu and broken english mostly.....thanks to rak's lucknow origins urdu was not all alien to me and i cud keep up but the broken english really broke my spirits.....it was something of the sorts of "i coming,i do that,u no do that" kinds.......it was dampening in the sense that i felt i was wasting my time there......but the fact is that with my visa type i'm not getting any software jobs here and mcdies was a gud start to a bank account atleast(cant open one here without a job),,,,,,my colleagues were rite.....sitting at home is v boring and so i've decided to stick along to mcdies till something better comes along......atleast it wud give me a chance to buy something for rak on his bday from my own pocket(hes too lazy to read blogs......he finds this annoying just as i find his games).....reminding of which ,,,initially it was too tuf to ask for money after all the years i've been independent......but now its easy
chethan bhagath's one day at the call center is being made into a movie starred by salman? saw it from some site yday........lucky chap chethan bhagath..........that was so simple a story and it became a best seller and now a movie too!!!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
lazy sat
maybe it was the lazy sat sun or mayb i was too tired .....after packing off rak to office, i set out on my usual sprawl......met Mr.Hal's son in the church courtyard.......i kept talking to him without getting down from the cycle......I wonder if the name is Hal..i dont quite remember clearly but i thought it would be impolite to ask after all the friendly gestures every sunday..........went to the highstreet and lurked around the stalls....went to St.Mary's church..its a v old church built back in the 1600's btu somehow it failed to make me gasp......but it did give me goosebumps wen i tot of the old days it portrayed.....there was a flower festival going on and the kind of exhibitions they put up really amazed me.........those were very simple compared to what we would have put up in India. like some little cloth pieces collected,toys etc..new ideas of exhibiting......
and then while coming back,popped into the empty exeter hall and discovered a new way back home.......oo it was so beautiful and dreamworld like.......shady trees on either sides,,,,,birds chirping.,,open playgrounds on either side......moss rich fences.......he he i'm not shrek toh.......
yday gave the biggest party in my life........it was onam and i dint want to make Rak feel homesick........so i browsed up some traditional recipes and made them.......they were (just to rem in my old days)...
kalan,olan,pulinji,erriseri,thoran,sambhar,rasam,pappadam,
sharkaravaratti(flop),achar,payasam,kondattam......
i'm glad to pronounce that i still dont liei them :D
oo my god i got so many guinea pigs and unluckily only one was south indian...the rest were north indians and they couldnt stand my spices......it was funny to see them eating with running noses and running helter skelter for water........:D...i dint have much(brainy me!) as i wanted to be sure of the output......but i cudnt get any obvious outputs other than a messy kitchen......which tuk me 1 hr to clear........
and yaa the homesick part...........both of us missed our families dearily and it was a lossy try......
but ya i was happy...........
2day while walking down a graveyard........a beautiful one.......not ghostly ones........i saw some grave engraved "to my dearest kenny,i simply love you".............i found it so touching and i felt that its a bliss to be in love.......love is a boon........it comes along with its package of troubles and joy but u shudd maintain a cool head to enjoy the treasure.......
every time u luk into the eyes of ur loved one, u feel something glowing within ur heart..........something warm and deep......i rem the quote i had given during coll days to some contest like love is "the bread and butter of the soul" ..he he i used to be v hungry those days and bread and butter used to be my fav.........but yes......once u r in love, ur soul becomes so dependant on it........without it u become famished......
turning out to be so mushy mushy.........better wind up......
ciao senoritta.....;) wotever tht means!
and then while coming back,popped into the empty exeter hall and discovered a new way back home.......oo it was so beautiful and dreamworld like.......shady trees on either sides,,,,,birds chirping.,,open playgrounds on either side......moss rich fences.......he he i'm not shrek toh.......
yday gave the biggest party in my life........it was onam and i dint want to make Rak feel homesick........so i browsed up some traditional recipes and made them.......they were (just to rem in my old days)...
kalan,olan,pulinji,erriseri,thoran,sambhar,rasam,pappadam,
sharkaravaratti(flop),achar,payasam,kondattam......
i'm glad to pronounce that i still dont liei them :D
oo my god i got so many guinea pigs and unluckily only one was south indian...the rest were north indians and they couldnt stand my spices......it was funny to see them eating with running noses and running helter skelter for water........:D...i dint have much(brainy me!) as i wanted to be sure of the output......but i cudnt get any obvious outputs other than a messy kitchen......which tuk me 1 hr to clear........
and yaa the homesick part...........both of us missed our families dearily and it was a lossy try......
but ya i was happy...........
2day while walking down a graveyard........a beautiful one.......not ghostly ones........i saw some grave engraved "to my dearest kenny,i simply love you".............i found it so touching and i felt that its a bliss to be in love.......love is a boon........it comes along with its package of troubles and joy but u shudd maintain a cool head to enjoy the treasure.......
every time u luk into the eyes of ur loved one, u feel something glowing within ur heart..........something warm and deep......i rem the quote i had given during coll days to some contest like love is "the bread and butter of the soul" ..he he i used to be v hungry those days and bread and butter used to be my fav.........but yes......once u r in love, ur soul becomes so dependant on it........without it u become famished......
turning out to be so mushy mushy.........better wind up......
ciao senoritta.....;) wotever tht means!
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