For a while ....

Hmm seems like a long since i last posted, but then it doesn't matter, does it?

Many a ideas came by and then went away before i could catch hold of them.
I seem to be at a loss for words. Abstraction doesn't seem to be effortless anymore. perhaps it is because of all the 'precise' writing the code and more importantly the comment requires.

so what should i talk about? the few movies that i managed to watch or the many many more that i ought to have watched but haven't?

the book that i brought 2 months ago but whose first page is still waiting to be discovered? or the other books that I have borrowed and have been patiently waiting for their turn, in a line on the only filled shelf in my room?

or the busy days that seem to pass by in a hurry, but each day lingering long enough to proclaim that nothing much was achieved in it?

the excitement intermingled with the doldrums? the anticipations coupled with the ennui?

and on a unrelated note (not that most of the statements above have any clear relations within them), i realize i haven't been blogging much about my work,fun or my life here ....

why? perhaps because it is all good with nothing much to crib about, yet not extraordinary enough to entitle a discourse?

i guess this will do for now and for a while?

Crazy bug :D

Disclaimer: Maddening bugs in your application can give rise to certain levels of insanity. So who said 'Friends' doesn't have something to do with our daily lives? I mean, could it be more obvious?


2 Bugs singing - hum donon jaisa hai kaun yahaan , red red kiya hai hum hi ne ye screen
Ho ho ho o hooooooooooooo
Now one of them has to go just like every indian bollywood film triangle ....
So now derz jus one one bug left singin alone "dost dost na raha error error na raha :P"
Finally the bug's singing session is over and its my turn to take over and keep our singing session on giving a break to the debugging session :P So here we go .....

crazy kiya re ....

Crazy bug! Cra-a-zy bug!
Whaaat are they feeding you?
Crazy bug! Crazy bug!
When did they discover you?

They wont even take you to the vet...
You're obviously not their favorite pet!
Look at the way your code's been set...
No wonder I haven't solved you yet!

Crazy bug! Crazy bug!
Eeets not your fa-a-ault!!

Tang, tang tang!! TI-NING!!!
Hehehehe :P :D ;)

Dedicated to all the debuggers and ya to the bugs !!
Cheers :P

Winds chasing ....

Fluttering curtain, an open window
a cold glimpse of the morning sky
breeze, valiant against the bricks
leaves, clinging on to the twigs
winds chasing the cottony clouds
early light, dispelling the night.

sleepy eyes, a restless mind
a look at the dry itinerary ahead
work, jostling amongst the waits and meetings
pleasure, finding not its bearings
long day, life rushing on its way


Eh ! a morning verse written in the midnight .Btw weather has really beautiful in Bangalore , you can really feel the breeze in ur hair and dance with the wind ...courtesy clouds.Just like the clouds roll by so does life ,some clouds sans silver lining cause storms that we want to pass whilst some clouds produce a much needed refreshing rain ...

Oh on readers strong recommendation the post comes to an end here :P

PS : this was a cryptic entry written for a set of people ;)

Is it or Is it not ??

"So do you want a love marriage or an arranged marriage?" the eager voice gushes in my ear... hmm well for me love in this case is kinda decision , is it or isn't it ?
Umm yup Love, to me, is a decision. One has a (sub)conscious checklist of what one seeks in a partner (of any sex). It is unlikely that a woman who has "a decent man" on her list would fall in love with a foul mouthing, belching brute (unless if she had not put in enough thought into the need for that want). Would a man be attracted towards a confident and perhaps domineering woman if he would like a nice obedient young girl for his mate?

For centuries,we Indians have been married off in the "arranged" marriage and have "loved" their spouse till one of them died (post-death, love seems irrelevant). It was purely a decision to "love" their spouse upon realising that they were getting married. Life in India has thrived and well for long to warrant a "correctness" of lifestyle or at least several facets of the same. I wonder how else can the correctness of a lifestyle be ascertained. A destructive or decaying lifestyle would eventually lead to the annihilation of the lifestyle and/or of the adopters. So given that such a lifestyle has worked and kept the Asian community thriving and well, love seems to have nearly always been a decision, whether post-marriage or whether as a checklist.
Love, in most cases, has succeeded a phase of being attracted to the other person. The reasons for being attracted are peculiar and quite characteristic of the individual mind. There are physical reasons, psychological reasons, financial reasons and others which influence a person's "falling in love" act. Though people hate going into it, every person I have met (and tormented) have eventually been able to go down to the nuts and bolts of why they fell in love with a person. One friend of mine said that she would definitely not love a womanizer (which was one of her no-no's) but if the the guy she fell in love with turned out to be a womanizer, she would accept it!! Isn't all accepting a decision too? QED :P

Now there is that love which people say happens at first sight. That usually tends to be physical. Let us assume that it is not so. What attracted you to this person? Brains? But it is first sight! Depth? First sight?? ok well,define first sight. The first 10 hours of time spent with a person? First 10 minutes? Think about it. It might sound silly to waste time being so pedantic, but I believe it is vital to understand the working of our mind and whatever we wish to call our heart. Isn't it always something tangible? If it is not so, and this love is spiritual or "just there" then I would wonder about why that love, soon transforms into the typical 2nd stage of this "Love" rigmarole?

2nd Stage of Love:
So you decide (oh! come on! humour me!) to love someone. Good for you. Congrats! Mazel Tov!
So you decide to stay in love too. Congrats !! Voila
Every day you encounter... wait, I am speaking about the days after the initial euphoria... so, every day you encounter this person acting like, well, any other human being. This person has his own idiosyncrasies, littleness, humour, pain, whims, lows, anger and allergies. If you never tolerated hypocrisy, you wouldn't take it from him either. But you decide to stay in love. This person forgets your birthday and you are cross. He thinks you are making too big an issue of it, and you, in all your ladyness are quick to remind him that he wasn't like this when he was courting you (when will people learn!). He is quicker in enlisting all the reasons for the natural decay of memory (your nagging appears to be there as every odd numbered point and the end of his list has 5 "nags" in succession!). You want him to buy you jewellery and take you out to movies mostly because you think that is what lovers do for the other (I tend to think that ladies get to benefit more, materially).Things slowly transform into a "supposed to do" pattern and a lot of life is spent in the fear of being caught being not-lover-enough.
So every day you revisit this state of affairs and wonder why you believe that you are in love. Even if the problems don't surface (highly unlikely, because you are living in this world and reality requires facing problems and tackling them), you slowly notice that the excitement is waning. The level of cheer is cheerlessly familiar and more a habit now. Things have become more about two people running a life together and doing the necessary chores. No, I am not being cynical. It seems to be the most popular story on the road and exceptions don't maketh a story.
Then there are people who try to get the zing back into the relationship (which only re-enforces the point about love being a decision). I think that is a wise thing to do, given that you have already decided to love and then live that love. They try new things - define new phrases (quality time! awwww!), get memberships in new clubs, go out more often, learn new languages together ("Oh! What is Japenese for "I love you"? and Catalan?". Personally, I think they should ban that phrase and demand of couples to invent new ways of communicating it!), do shopping, may be cook meals, go out on picnics etc. etc. etc.
I think man inherently is not comfortable being alone. Someone said that a person will go to any extent to keep himself from having to live in loneliness. I tend to agree with him (her). People enjoy a good life and would like to bring that in with the least overhead (not all of us can be sheiks with a harem!). What is a good life is a personal measure and hence, one's love also tends to be a subjective choice, and a choice it is; hence a decision.
Rarely does a "spiritual" or "just there" love escape the rigours of the 2nd stage. Its origin might have been mystical but its life on earth is surely made of houses, bank balances and food on the table. People still want exclusivity (god save me from that one) and complete allegiance whether right or wrong. Life becomes a dichotomy of "our love" and "the world". Life really isn't that. It functions as a mix of everything but I shall withold my opinion of the same.
So, whatever the start, love does roll into the mundane after a point (the toppling point remember we read about it in physics n oh ya me not a great physics lover but still this is the word which clicked). So love seems to be this lure into a stabilizing monotony of living and managing life in its secure state (I have known people breaking up because the guy decided to go join a startup and brought in enormous amounts of instability or the woman taking on a high pressure job which paid but rarely left any time for the emotional security of the family. Replace man for woman and I think you might still have such problems).

So love is not something that is eternal - not the commonly found strains of this microbe! Hence, I am not interested in something that is ephemeral and quite a pain to manage.

Falling out of love:
And then people tire and break-up. Not all, but there seems to be a steady rise in the per capita breakup rate. People are either treating love casually or are more narrowly focused on a single entity (self, money, career, etc.). Either way, one can only break out of love with a decision, if they got into it as a decision. If you are going to give me an analogy of a disease occuring on its own but being eliminated by the decision of taking medicines, then I would ask you to choose between considering love a disease or a decision. People talk so much about unconditional love, but it seems to be a conditioned decision to be unconditional in love. It really seems to be some rose-tinged dream cloud when people talk about unconditional love while have ziltch clue about the conditioning they have gone through. People who unconditionally love cannot choose and cannot surely fall out of it. If you choose to unconditionally love one person, there is a set of reasons why you chose this person (and not another) and they are perhaps a superset of what this person satisified as your desirable conditions to be met. So where is the unconditionality!? And why is it that you want unconditional love? Because you are ready to give it? Firstly, I don't believe that is as simple as you think it is and secondly, why hold that as a condition for giving your unconditional love?

So what's the big deal?

If we are comfortable accepting love as a decision, we will be less in pain when wondering over any or all of the following questions:
Why did I fall in love?
How did I fall in love?
Why am I in this relationship?
Why am I not happy in here?
Why does my state of being depend so much on this one person?
Would I behave the same way if it were someone else doing what this person just did to me?
Why do I want to run away?
etc etc.


If you believe that your "love" is not a decision then what do you think it is? Why don't you love your colleague too? If this person you love, was a pauper on the streets who looked like Shrek, would you still love him? But would you have spoken to him in the first place? Is love for you being compassionate towards someone? Feeling sorry for them? Every man, whether he has ever been in love or not, has an opinion about love. That is the major difference between love and differential calculus. Given this profound catchment of opinions, it is but natural to demand to know what is it that I think is love. I might (and that might never happen) write a post about what I think of love....

Then comes the major confusion between love and what to do with it. The most common strategy is to get married. What if the person cannot marry you? What if the person doesn't believe in marriage? What if the person doesn't want to marry you? Does your love fade? Does your love lose meaning? Is it still not a decision?

Think about it.

Or else, just enjoy the so called sate of being in love !

What if .....

I know its been loooong since I blogged ,reasons being varied ones but yesterday came a statement and here comes the entry :D
"Hey my nanny says I look like Aishwarya Rai 'Bacchhan ' ....this is the best comment i have ever recieved "and loads more you keep hearing when you are out window-shopping (i think now i can put any compulsive shopaholoic to shame , hail ORACLE !!! )....Damn !!! WHAT IF u r no Angelina Jolie .....I believe the normal-girl-next-door is better than Angelina Jolie, Lindsay Lohan or the size zero Kareena Kapoor or whoever you think is breathtakingly beautiful or attractive.
I don’t know why women seek breast augmentation, liposuction, tummy tucks and other surgeries in their eternal quest for perfection. Okay, I confess, I would love to get my hair straightening (hair-rebonding) done once they grow long... but I would never go under the knife to transform the way I look. I don’t ever starve myself or deprive myself whenever I get those timely chocolate or ice-cream pangs/hunger pangs.
The narcissistic good looks fixation, the fair skin fixation ......this reminds me of “Use a bar of soap to wash away the dark skin that's keeping men from flocking.”- A fair friend’s advice to her dusky friend.
“Look beautiful. Here’s how you can lighten your skin tone,"- screams a silly Television commercial.
‘Fair & Lovely’ vows to transform an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan! – WTF!!!Remember that disgusting ad where a dark-complexioned girl dreams to be an airhostess? She is cursed by her parents for being a girl; a dark girl at that! Mademoiselle uses a fairness cream, and, lo and behold! There she is, a girl transformed with fair complexion, a smartly dressed airhostess who takes her parents to a swanky hotel for a grand dinner.... f*** Why are we Indians obsessed with fair skin? I am yet to read a matrimonial ad that says: “Dusky and Lovely”, “Dusky and Beautiful”, “Wanted a dusky, good looking bride.”Most people everywhere place a high premium on good looks; and good looks = fair, or so it seems. I don’t understand why sundar (beautiful) is synonymous with gori-chitti(fair).This mindset is apalling.

Then comes the size zero obsession, the cosmetic surgery makeover culture, shapely derrieres and heaving bosoms, the anorexic syndrome, "the quest for perfection…"
I want to know the importance of good looks! Does it guarantee professional success? Does it guarantee matrimonial bliss? A tall-dark-handsome husband? A hot date? Is physical perfection equal to happiness/confidence?Do good looking women have it easier than their not-so-great-looking female counterparts at work? Do women feel inadequate because they are not attractive? Who decides what’s ‘beautiful’ and what’s ‘ugly’?.I personally believe that a person's beauty is not just the external one its how one feels /herself ,its about one's persona ,the mental and spiritual beauty adding to the confidence ,its about feeling beautiful which is important and i really quantify confident people as one of the most beautiful but people think differently and the number of plastic surgeries being performed has sky-rocketed in recent years. A wide cross-section of celebrities have confessed to altering some aspect of their appearance through cosmetic surgery.
Do men like girly women ?
Do men like dumb women?
Do men prefer plain Jane ove glamorous bombshell ?
Do men like Ugly Betty ?
Do men like hot women ?
Do men like a homely women who would do their laundry and othe household chores ?
Do men really care what's on the outside ?
Do men prefer intelligence over inches ?
Umm ....What do men really want?
(I guess the male brigade like their women to be curvy and wholesome.)
So are you doomed if you’re not Angelina Jolie? Are you doomed if you’re not voluptuous? How can you boost your career with cosmetic surgery? FYI, even good looking celebrities have delivered Box Office debacles!
I believe women should refrain from -discussing their weight,complaining/ nagging,self-pity,loud make-up and jealousy of course! As one of my friends status read sometime ago girls should be classy not crazy :P
But I know for a fact that most men are suckers for beautiful women who can take their breath away ....recently my friend confessed that he was on airport and he couldn't help himself from taking his eyes off a female...lost he almost forgot that he was to fly (I always doubted him ,jeez ...hez straight :P)
Beautiful women always steal the thunder from intelligent women, okay, at least initially! They grab more eyeballs. They become the cynosure of all eyes when they saunter into a party.
Is this TRUE?
The less you care about how physically attractive you are to a man, the more a man will want you in his life.

Roads untaken ...

Recently wrote a poetry to bid a warm welcome.. which came just spontaneously .
No, not another abstract poem?
./restart :P


This ground is grey, with streaks of black
Running and criss-crossing, yet each remaining intact,
These roads that travellers use, will never ever change,
For the only way to change this life is but to stay the same.
Some have travelled these roads before, many a time I would say,
Others are still new to these roads, slowly but surely finding their way,
Others still go quickly by, trying very hard to forget,
The fact, the truth, and the denial that:- on this road there is no turning back.


It's not running away neither mean feat ,to many which it may seem ,
It's trying to keep youself away, not for you but to let not wither away someone else's realm.
Pretending to act like stone ,letting go things unheard ain't no fun ,but what if this is the only new road you find,
For some you should walk the same old crooked roads but its only you who know that now those are the roads left far behind.
Why deny I must ask, this simple truth that you already know?
Why hurt trying to deceive someone's eyes, when the complicated heart is in control?
Don’t try to run or hide, for it’ll come back to haunt you.
Neither do you try to forget, for the only person you cannot deceive – is you!

Pain, anger and guilt you will feel, for emotions are but part of life,
Because what is life without emotions, and what is happiness if you know not strife,
For your mind and heart are one – an entity single and divine,
Thus fault is your own blame alone, without any chance of rescind.
You might have done something wrong, but everyone deserves a second try,
It's one's duty to right the wrong that happened before, to stop someone living this damned lie,
To break free these bonds, that shackle us to the earth,
For only then can you fly, for the first time since your birth.

But if you fear what lies ahead, then you should stop wasting your time,
For the sands of life trickling away, will soon leave your ashes scattered behind,
Forgotten and forlorn without care, your memory will whither away and die,
Leaving you with nothing at all – because you chose to live a damned lie.
This is the way of the road, these grey stones which mark the way,
And though we all travel these roads, not all of us will eventually fly away,
Thus lead your life as you should – be brave and above all never forget:
Connected is one’s past to one’s present, and the future is in our hands .

./end

What's on the menu ?

So what all do you know to cook ? is the question coming my way since past few days !!! U know finding matches :P , soon will i be leaving this beautiful home of mine & heading to far far land....Hold it ,you are getting it all wrong , me not looking for THAT match ...its about staying in bangalore during my internship... so it came to food $ from food to cooking .....Everybody seems to be talking of cooking these days and new additions to my vocab are the words -"saute,” “braise,” “simmer" and so on ...My last few conversations with friends go something like this -

Kriti - kuch naya banana seekho na and post the recipe of pasta on blog
haan maine woh cake banaya-turned out perfect (had to afterall recipe kiski thi ;)
main bhi cooking seekh rahi hun (good for me i 'll have new dishes to eat )

Kamiya - yaar cooking classes going on ..tujhe kya aata hai batana main woh nahi seekhti banana (Smart !)

Apoorv - Khaana toh aana chahiye yaar , main jab germany gaya tha toh had to cook ,ab toh even i can certify myself as cook.
me:-Oh accha !!!!! come lets walk into kitchen its close to drawing room , lets go try
Apoorv - have fire extinguisher na ghar pe , fir we can go take d risk

Silky - She is a brilliant cook :) will be sharing the same workplace after 6 months ....me destined to eat good food u see
Silky -main nahi banaungi akele .....
to your good luck silky -don't worrry ma has joined dis mom's association-where all mom's on" teaching cooking " spree ...
Devesh - ladkiyon toh aana chahiye khaana banana ,tujhe kya aata hai ?
yeah i know i know i too want some praises should be credited to my account to :P btw vice-versa also holds true, we all believe in equality, don't we ...

Sahaj - it was a gtlak conversation, goes like tis -

12:30 AM Sahaj: haan.. aur sunao kya ho raha hai?
12:31 AM me: bas aajkal toh full aish , ghar pe bhi ma papa r lyk ab toh itni dur jaana hai so vip trtmnts baaki toh get tgthrs ,treats n haan cooking classes bhi :|
12:37 AM Sahaj: haan yeh toh hai
12:38 AM ghar pe itna kam ana hota hai.. toh poora vip treatment hi milta hai :)
me: :)n tumhe toh aur bhi zyada milega flyin abroad sari dishes khake jaana yahan se :)
12:39 AM Sahaj: arre saari dishes kha ke .. aur banake :P
me: hehe tumhari bhi cookin classes shuru
12:40 AM Sahaj: haan.. :)
me: lucky wife of urs :P
12:41 AM Sahaj: fir toh mujhe apne bio-data mein yeh disclaimer lagana padega
me: lolz
12:42 AM Sahaj: thanx .. tum nahi batatai toh pata nahi kya hota mera
meri sari umar choolein mein hi beet jaati
12:44 AM Sahaj: but agar meri wife jitni achci cook ho ghar mein.. toh mujh nacheez ki kya kazaal jo kitchen mein bhi jayun

Hmm so on everybody's demand :P
here's what u can order from Neha's kitchen .....

ITALIAN
Lasagne - yummiest
Sizzlers -Perfect Indianized version
Pasta -the aromatic spices, golden hues is perfect antidote to dark gloomy days .Cook really cooks it dil se re ;)
Dynamite Pizza -will make you forget dominos and soon pizza hut ;)

CHINESE
hakka noodles - Owner's risk
Gobhi manchurian - try when you are full :P
Chinese Vegetarian soup - i promise won't remind u of Madagascar , the drink Alex was offered :P

FAST FOOD
Pani puri - now available in 2 special flavors,u gotto chk out !
Burger - i know u all bored of mc donalds
Macroni - the good old choice
Club Sandwiches - Neighbour's envy owner's pride.will remind u of school days's , i bet its better than ur frn's mom's sandwiches u used to love :D .
Neha's Sandwich -think about it , caramel sugar on fresh, creamy butter....how bad can that be? ;)
Pav Bhaji - who makes it d best !! still thinkin ..... Me
Veg chilly cheese garnished maggie - its no ordinary u see
Breadrolls - now they come in perfect shape :)
Dosa - will remind bitsians of sunday dosa its no less no better :P .
Khaman Dhokla - thats even cook's favorite
*new Paneer pakora - recent addition !very much in demand dese days <>
Bhel puri - ready to spice up ur life :D
Poha - yahi hai ryt choice baby ahaan !- fast to cook gud to eat ;)
Upma - maaaaaaaa ....time to get nostalgic wid mtr upma.

INDIAN

Parantha available in dynamic shapes " ITS DIFFERENT" -aloo ,pyaaz , paneer,all green leafy -gud for ur health - ppl just love 'em .Also recently

cumin up special shake shake parantha :P oh no its not at all an inspired concept :P (I know u thinking of shake shake fries )
Chappati -Error 404 .Item not found .Due to some problems it will not be served for a few days .We honestly believe in consumer satisfaction :P
Veg rice - with the hint of hyderabadi biryani n punjabi tadka
Bhindi masala - gives u the taste of INDIA -masala food .
Aloo matar- every Indian specializes in it but we have a secret ingredient ( not inspired from Kungfu Panda -shacchhii )
Mixed veg - veg mix everythin it will fix :D
Dal tarka - is exactly what it sounds like :)

Salads
Floral paradise - WYSI'N'WYG wat u see in name is not wat u get -dont confuse urself wid fower servings
LIFO -not the last in first out - its tangy green leafy salad
JIT - just in tume :P (appreciated d most by A7 ites , a comuter-science eng should be lazy -aint it ;) )

Raita
Fusion -adding colors to your food -veg raita
Classic - pineapple raita,boondi raita, cucumber raita, aloo raita .

BEVERAGES
Dreamspark -sippin in d dreamworld , the capaccino
Sexyparilla - its hot n invitng ...
Amaretto - Italian delight
LA - like always -the ginger masala tea
Squattysip - Gud old frns squatting n sipping :)

DESSERT - dil ko jab khushi choo jaye kuch meetha ho jaye
Gaajar ka halwa - kuch khaas hai kuch baat hai , everything about it is so Nehaish... ishhh
Fantasy cake -ok tested .Its recipe has been tried by many many friends and has been approved by mom's association :P
i know i know the way to a man's heart is through his stomach ..but dont get scared n refrain your bf from having this delicacy ..cook interested in singles :P
Chocolate cookies - Did u just grumbled that you lost food paradise and that the last delicious cookies you enjoyed was in ccd? I guess its time that these grouses of yours will be happily forgotten ;)
My precious -this precious dish is/will be only for my preciousssssssssss :) :P :D It just melts in mouth ,one of the best “taste” experiences a person
can have.It can make you melt ;)
Speciality- I serve "ALL" ready to cook food :P and one secret -The key way to enjoy all is by letting the inner child in you out .
Soon will u see a new refreshed menu with dishes imported from ma's corner .Till than place ur orde from the above .My mom is one of those intuitive cooks in the kitchen,never seen her following a recipe, she's awesum. Whereas I'm good for making only one dish at a time, she can coordinate the whole meal without getting remotely flustered. If you work with her in the kitchen, she'll continue to give you the same advice, over and over and over again, until it is clear to her that you have learned what she wants you to learn. Or perhaps it's just me that she needs to give the advice repeatedly to, since I'm a typical daughter :P.She is a GREAT COOK... I feel she has a feeling that I will not match up to her and so she is behind my life to learn proper cooking...Its fun to cook with her coz she tells me her stories, jokes, some secret recipes I do enjoy it very much...I know this will help me but at times you feel when the time will come i will but mom feels this is the time ...so go ahead with your teaching lessons mom, you rock :).

PS : here is the pasta recipe for you Kriti -
Ingredients -(assumin it will be 4 ppl to share :))
Pasta(Sphagetti )- 200 gms
Onions - 2
Carrot - 1
Tomato - 2
Green coriander (finely chopped)-2 tbsp
Beans (optional)
Minced garlic (optional)
1/2 med sliced Mushrooms (optional)
Oil - 2-3 tbsp
Pepper Powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tbsp
red chilli pwd -1/2 tbsp
coriander seeds -1/2 tbsp
Before i start with the recipe let me tell something about the same ,this recipe says “to taste” a lot. That means “the way you like it.” So you can put in a lot or a little. I use 2onions, bit of garlic, lil less of red chilly flakes, etc. It just depends on what you and the person you are cooking for likes!So here we go -

Cook pasta separately in boiling water (2 cups)for 4-6 min ,don't run away from kitchen to watch tv ,stir it two -three times in b/w so that it doesn' stick to the pan and you don't get a scoldin from mom :P .Chop the onions, carrot, beans,mushrooms ,coriander leaves and tomatoes. Heat the oil for 10-15 mins and when its hot fry onions and chopped vegetables.When onions turn brown and soft, add tomatoes alongwith the spices.This takes about 10-15 mins.When the vegetables are well cooked,taste it and see what you think -add more salt or pepper if you need to.Finally add cooked Pasta. Stir it for 2-3 minutes and its ready to serve :).(if u rein the kitchen u can go abt garnishin - grate some cheese ,put in the oven till the cheese melts and sprinkle coriander leaves and add onion rings .You can add loads of other things -really upto u :) )and yeah if it tuns out good don't forget to mention - soon will i register this one too for a ok tested cetificate ;) and if its not the case -kriti when did i blog about pasta ,which blog did you read :P

Dil Se Re

One of my friends called today and we talked long n in the end she hung up sayin that she had to go receive her cousin on airport flying from Udaipur (in the background i had dis song DIL SE RE being played )..so all of this just reminded me of the time when we had A R Rahman with us in the flight from Udaipur...still remember him fiddling with his laptop.I guess it was like the thing that I never ever thought would happen even in my wildest dreams, –meeting A R Rahman himself! Standing in front of him, I wanted to tell him so much, how much his music meant to me and all such stuff. But, as expected, I got tongue-tied. :) All I wanted was to catch a glimpse of the man whose music is just incomparable. That was more than more than enough. I really cannot explain what I felt at that moment, an adrenaline rush would be expressing it correctly.
A R Rahman has this way of making his way into one’s heart, mind, and soul. You don’t need to work to savour the moment, he savours it for you.His music was and is out of the world with recent hits from yuvraj and ghazni (i remember so many ppl in my gtalk list had the status msg readin tu muskura n guzarish lolz )Guzarish from ghazni is just mind-blowing !! I donno the difference between preludes\interludes or what instruments he used...but it just gets into you completely and u'll be dumb-strucked through the whole process .The reason we all become Rahman’s fans is different. The choice of favorites may be different, and the way we enjoy the songs might be different. But if it is one thing that unites all Rahman fans, is the passion for his music.Coming to my personal favorite its Dil se re .....A.R.Rahman was lucky to have been spotted by Mani. No other filmmaker could have done justice to this prodigious talent. Even in the very first scene, the background score was so pleasing....I just love the way he renders the words DIL SE RE. If the piece contained these three words alone and no other instrumentals or lyrics were added on, I’d still say it is one of the greatest compositions ever created. These 3 words i donno somehow have their own magic. Many people think of “I love you,” as the three words. I say, forget “I love you” its DIL SE RE :P.

Adios !

Now time for the LAST entry from Meera Bhawan Bits Pilani ....Dont wanna write a sappy reflective entry thats gonna come later !

Flickerin images

Like ne other psentisemite I went for a photo clicking spree around the campus which used to appear so funny to me a few days back but time flies and here I am contemplating .Nostalgia may be painful. Nevertheless, it is quite agonising when you realise that many of your memories are slowly, silently fading out. When you try to recollect various time-periods of your life, your are confronted with some faces floating around and some scenes blinking in and out of sight. You focus your attention on some of these scenes only to realise that they depict some random incidents that have occurred on some arbitrary occasions and are quite inconsequential. You have no justification as to why your memory chose to register these sequences so strongly while overlooking the actual major events. You might consciously force your memory to gather those moments that you feel are important and should be treasured. It will cough out a few flickering images and you have to carry out extensive extrapolation to make them coherent. But you begin to wonder how much of it is a genuine part of the memory and how much of it has been cobbled up just now using your imagination on how it should or could have been.
And then, you sigh and give up .... after all, soon you wont even remember that you were trying to hold onto those fading memories.....