of burnt cabbage and perfect pudla

After two weeks of landing in the United Kingdom, i have finally begun to settle down. The first week was International Students’ welcome week, where i met new people, and enjoyed a bit. Went to the Warwick Castle, and last Friday, i shifted to my term time accommodation, where i started to settle down, well, atleast for an year now.

The last week (second week in the UK) was Induction week, where we got to know a few of our professors and the way studies will take place. and this Friday Saturday and Sunday was cooking induction for me, and i am quite happy that…well…I CAN COOK !!!

Made cabbage for dinner on Friday, Mixed vegetable Kolhapuri for lunch on Saturday and pudla for dinner. 1% of the cabbage got burnt cause i used the wrong vessel for cooking it, but the masala was perfect, and yesterdays pudla (thin pan cakes of onion+tomato in gram flour) were perfect. And as every one knows, it takes time to achieve perfection (perfection को improve करने मे time लगता है ).

Mr. Big Mouth

Before you read the blog...plz glance through this....
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/indvaus/content/current/story/312735.html

I don't understand whats wrong with the Australians. I believe the folks below the equator think reverse...or maybe bcoz Australia is so far down.. that wo log sirf GIRI HUI BATEIN KARTE HAI....
Ponting has had the notorious reputation of shooting his mouth off at press conferences... but dude, u gotta grow up.... in the above article, he mentions the Aussies wud be better off playing against India wid SACHIN-SOURAV-RAHUL trio than without them.... big joke...thats a clear cheapshot...
I dont understand what he wants to prove wid a statement like this... Whether he thinks he can pressurize the Indian Selectors into not playing these 3 greats, or whether he plans to affect their confidence, either way, he must understand, that perhaps after scoring more than 35,000 runs between them, such people r IMMUNE to cheapshots like these....

No doubt the new and youthful team did a gr8 job in T20 WC...but 50 over games r a different ball game...(actually its a bat-ball game), and so the experience-youth-confidence combination is gonna be hard to beat..
DRAVID, free from the onus of leading the side, wud be eager to score heavily....

DADA, wid his classy drives and powerful lofts, wud be as solid as ever at the top...

and ofcourse,
SACHIN.... what to say of him.... Is in gr8 form, and i m sure Ponting wud eat his words and choke on them while he is chasing the balls to the boundry.....
On the other hand, Ponting himself is not 100% fit...and Hussey and Watson r out of the series...so when Ponting thought of winning the series, an Andaz Apna Apna dialog popped up into my mind...

"Abe saale, pehle koshish ke kaabil to ban...."

However, looking at the recent India matches..(not T20), I feel you dont need good bowlers of fielders to get these 3 legends out... All you need is ppl like this....

So knowing the fact that ICC has plenty of these species.... I am sure that this series is gonna be a gr8 one...... Do enjoy the cricket....

104 - TOW The Workaholic Me

104 - TOW The Workaholic Me

Well, the title to the post (and also my orkut display name) is justified by the fact that i posting here after a gap of more than 1 month....
In my last post, i mentioned my schedule.....well, soon after i posted it, my timetable went for a toss...training began to get extended, tests started becoming exceedingly tough.....no gym, swimming pool seemed non-existent and tennis was out of question.... My primary goal was redefined....going back to the basics....FOOD, CLOTHING AND SHELTER.... If this goes on, pretty soon i mite end up like this....

I made it a point to hv a heavy breakfast, coz lunch time was as fickle as the Indian cricket team's form....1.30...2...2.30....sumtimes no lunch at all...just a sandwich....I even had tough time finding some moments to grab a cup of coffee(yes...even though its free, i didnt drink much...)...and dinner was just like a midnight snack....Here, I can't resist quoting a dialog from Andaz Apna Apna.....
"Aisa hi chalta raha, to 1 din mere hi patte bich jayenge......."
However, I realized that all this was coming to me naturally..... We had an allotted lunch time....every1 took their lunch around 1 pm.....but it was just my ass that was not willing to lose contact with the chair in which i sit.... It was not like I was being stopped fm going home at 6.30...but I liked staying and working late...... I enjoyed sitting and staring at the code in my computer, making it look like i am actually gonna come up with a breakthrough snippet in a short time...even though in reality it was just like a Brett Lee bouncer, going about 10 miles above my head.....

Whatever it was , i realized that there was always a voice inside my head saying...."A few more mins., and I'll complete this part....." or "Let me do this much and then I can hv a nice lunch....". But each time, those few mins stretched to long hours....and even though my body wanted sum time off....it was mind that kept resisting.....
Even in my sleep, i keep thinking about CAA(thats what i m working on..)...which files to include.. how to solve particular erors...which identity card file to update...which DICO file to modify...n so on...(this is CATIA CAA jargon...just read n forget...actually i m disobeying the IPR privacy policy....but who gives a damn.....)
Thats when it struck me.... I was slowly turning into a workaholic...... (seems pretty abstract, considering its only my second month at work...) Now you all wud be wondering....how come this self-proclaimed workaholic found time to write all this crap....the answer is simple...I got a couple of days free....coz a project is always initiated on a Monday, so I got 2 days to relax....pretty cool huh????
Well, not for me.... I am getting restless to start my project asap..... thats how bad the situation is.... I hv realized 1 thing......the more I try to get out of it, the more I am gonna get deeper into it...so for the moment, I feel writing abt it wud help..... lets c how it goes........I hope i dont end up like this......

P.S.... For all those who thought I will lose my PJ skills due to this, be ready to be disappointed..... all this work and very little play is leading to all the PJs being bottled up and stored inside my system.... so if ne1 does nething to let it lose, then GOD help them........I wont take any responsibility for the consequences......lol......