italiano...instantiano :P

this saturday made some pasta!

yeah big achievement.....got some readymade dried macaroni elbows and some pasta sauce....and voila 10 min of heating and some veggie frying..mixing up of the boiled macaroni and veggies with the sauce and voila...........pasta :P

it did taste nice...especially if u havent had anything from the afternoon....

indeed the sauce was the clincher....nice mix of ginger garlic bell peppers tomatoes and some herbs in that sauce...

the pasta did taste great with all them corn and peas and capsicum....
some experimentation which hopefully paid off.... :)

fred fred and away!!!!

hey really...
if you need someone to make you understand something about DV or V&V
yeh gotta meet the freds!!!

oh yeah...the fred with a p and the one without a p...
these guys are awe inspiring!!!

so casual...so humble...so down to earth
so monstrously equipped and so demonically intelligent!!!!

man these guys can debug anything...they know the entire workspace...
one fred...the dood with the frenchie..(its ironc coz he himself is a frenchie :D)
he knows the entire e-map
the other fred....the cuter one...with a nose block...this dood know the entire c-map

good thing that i had a session with these two mavericks...they know everything
you wanna know....and so patiently explain stuff...you feel so confident once you interact with them...really...them guys.. the F and F...they dominate the world of V&V!!

today had a discussion with the fred without a p...he just sat there and let me explain what the scenario was and said thats it...code what u said!!! it seemed so simple after that...just coded the entire thing and had him review it..

the interaction with fred with a p...the frenchie dood...yeah the french gentleman with a french beard...he's wicked cool...got some big time puns with him....and he is total opposite of the other fred...he doesnt let u explain anything...but explains everything himself and makes u understand big time!!

am a fan of the F & F foundation...these guys rock!!!
merci beaucoup guys for all the help :)

bunny mine!!

yeah..bunnies...

loads of them...

some curious...
some brave...
a lot of them cute...
and all of them scared!!!

as soon as its past 6 in the evening...there is a bunny explosion...it seems as if like the whole garden is a bunny mine...they pop up outta nowhere...

these little sweethearts....there are so many of them...

some of them are just lying on the lawn lazily...a few are eating..chewing on grass...and some of them playing...

its really amazing to look at their cute furry faces....they run away when they hear you coming...and they actually hide if you continue walking...

just wait for sometime there itself....and you will get to enjoy the bunny antics!!

man these doods are really curious..
they push their ears up listening for any movement of mine and start sniffing in the air...i guess to detect any strange chemicals i might be emitting...

slowly they come outta their hiding places...from behind bushes and out of the holes and slowly resume what they were doing..though a few doods stand on their hind legs for the whole duration of your presence...just as a look out...you can actually see their whiskers twitching big time :D

now we becoming homies...slowly...they too get the fact that i am a veggie as them...i mean no harm...i actually plan to have baby carrots with them today...lemme see if we can indeed have that garden party :D

from the bunny kind...as their spokesperson...a big hi to all who will read this blog...

and yeah...we aint gonna stop having fun!!!

squeeek sqeeek squueek!!!!
(RUN JUMP SKIP!!!!)

saturday!!

now how in the **ll could i forget this...

lemme share the fun i had on saturday with you..

okay....slept late on friday...and got up really late on saturday...to see my roomie munching on nachos!!!

was on the net chattin with a special someone for sometime :)

finally we two decided it was time to move my roomie's stuff to the car..yeah he shifted out :(

he was not at sure that all his stuff would fit into his car...and along came a mammoth to help this confused soul out :P

first pushed two really large suitcases into the trunk of the car....and then neatly slid the third one into the trunk as well and shut it close...

then put his comforters on the leg rest of the back seat and had an extended cushion for the rest of the stuff..cutlery and the gizmos...yeah he is a gizmo freak...cant exactly call him a geek...

put all of them neatly and closed the back doors shut...we were aaaaaaallllllllllll settt!!! :D

then we both were really hungry...so decided to eat out..
went to this indian bistro called as indian tandoor...good stuff...3 sabzis...biryaani..raita...two rotis and pickles and yeah..i am still hooked on to it...lassi!!!

then went and did some shopping for cutlery...picked up some plates and bowls...

he still had some time and we decided to drive around...
there is this little indian shopping mall kind place...
went there...i picked up some pickles and we looked around..there is this nice place to pick up hindi dvds and stuff...

then we decided to have some chat...went to a nearby indian place...farsan something...forgot the complete name...i ordered...oh yeah..one more of my favs...puri and alu palya!!!!

it was filling!!! the meal that we had at indian tandoor was not filling but this was..

my roomie then wanted to have a masala chai...so we went to one more place...and i ordered a mango lassi :)..yeah one more lassi :D

this whole shopping area is filled with so many desis...i actually called the whites as foreigners!!!
good god..i am the foreigner here...not them :D

we sipped our lassi and chai talkin about all the beautiful places of india..
sringeri...kodaikanal...ooty...darjeeling...sikkim...shimla...shirdi...pune...tirupati and went on a whole discussion of how each place is unique and how good u feel when u are at them places :)

then finally headed back home and finished his packing and shifting of stuff...
we were too pooped out to cook...so we went to another indian place..where there was a buffet..
all u can eat vaala..
there was gulab jamoon...rotis...four five sabzis...chat...and the best part...a BIG bowl of raita...lip smacking raita...
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!

it was a very curdy saturday!!! :D indeed

at eleven finally my roomie pushed off...said my byes to him...

best of luck bro!! TC

pulao!!!!

yeah...finally did some of my own cooking... B-)

the best part is...i myself am the laboratory rat...for any sort of testing :)

bought a rice cooker first....along with some pans and rice and frozen veggies

i know..i am too lazy to chop up veggies...and found this awesome packet with everything packed into it....carrots..peas...beans...corn...and a few more veggies that i forgot :)

had too much of time...but wanted to have a lazy sunday...

put 2 cups of rice into the rice cooker and switched it on...the rice came out bindaas...totally fluffy and nice to eat...even the aroma was great!!

then well put the veggies into a bowl and microwaved for about 7 minutes and had a superbly well done veggies...

put some jeera powder...a little salt and a little pepper...hmmmmm..and a little sauteed onions in ghee...they sizzled till golden brown and just picked them up and put all them into a big bowl...put a little rice and the veggies into the bowl and mixed them all together..

added a little poppul pudi amma had sent.........

wooooooooooooooooooooweee!!
that was awesome....gulped down a lot of it...had a little yogurt on the side and a little pickle(nimbe kai)

that was heaven!!!!! actually it was something better than heaven..it was pulao!!!

the magical symphony :)

yo yo yo!!!

left my office on friday at 6.05 pm......missed the bus while waiting to cross the road.....was totally pissed off at myself for having missed the bus...

but need to thank the bus driver for the wonderful sight that i got to see..
i slowly pulled myself to the bus stop and sat on the seat...
to witness one more them magical mother nature's symphonies :)

awesome sight it was

there was a cool breeze blowing...the skies were almost clear........
the sun was just about to set..

the dude was one big fiery orange sphere...blazing away in his glory...
slowly did he start the majestic descent....to the west...

the sky light was lit up with his rays...his golden rays...his orangish golden rays...
it was amazing...everything around him was shining thanks to his mighty glow..

slowly the light in the sky started dimming...the bright white and golden sky started to lose its shine...it was one brilliant fade into a dull blue and grey sky...

u had to see the clouds...
man they were on fire thanks to the sun's rays...they were all burning a brilliant gold around their borders....
good god...!!! one the top half of the clouds you could see pale white colour....but the bottom half of the clouds were just burning golden!!!!

awesome sight this was...to see eagles soar in front of these clouds....the whole flight seemed so royal...

slowly the brightness started to lessen..as the sun went to his resting abode slowly....but majestically...the air cooled down..
you could feel the transition...in the temperature...it was so gradual..
the bright golden colour of the sky seemed to be fading into the horizon...whereas the colour of the dusk seemed to be seeping out of the horizon filling in the blanks...the blanks left by those golden hues...
the skies turned a dull grey....the clouds seemed to lose their lustre all of a sudden...
that burning golden glow had slowly turned into a pale orange and finally to a bluish grey hue..
it was music in the skies....everything was happening in a very synchronised manner..
this was amazing to watch...

i was sitting there..being a mute witness to this spectacular event...dumbstruck by the magic...
just sat there enjoying the spectacle...with the cool breeze blowing across....

that twinkle in your eyes.......

hmmmmm....yeah saw it today...not once...but many times

its really wonderful indeed to see that twinkle.....when one is speaking about something so dear to him/her.........the eyes really twinkle...they even shine....reflecting the passion that person has for the thing he/she talks about....

yeah now you may wonder what did i do this time...well as usual came late to the bus stop...and then well became the lucky guy to enjoy the adventures of an old man.......

the old guy was kinda pissed when i met him...the bus driver didnt allow us to get into the bus till five mins before the departure time...and the old guy had to get down...

well...then we started off with the conversation...well i started this discussion by asking him about what kinda rifle he owned......well he was wearing a NRA cap....for those who dont know what NRA is..it short for National Rifle Association......

then did the story that i thoroughly enjoyed begin...
he had bought a very expensive rifle about 30 years back...which he paid $400 for at that point of time....man...that was expensive....he was so possessive about that gun that he didnt even use it a single day..he used to borrow guns from his friends and use it to hunt quails and deer....i know i know sounds like an ice age salman khan!!! :D

okay back to the story...it went from he going on hunting trips with his buddies...then withhis teenaged son....to his divorce where he did not give me the reason for that to happen...

it seems that he had hunted animals left and right...

now i come to the best part of the story...

ok...one winter he and his son are on their way for a hunt....and they come across a medium sized brown bear right in the middle of the road...now this teddy scrambled into the bushes when this guy honked at it......and well outta curiosity the guy gets down from his car...armed..no dont worry not with a gun but with a camera!!! and goes searching for the bear in the nearby bushes...and LO!! the bear has run up a nearby mound and standing on its hind legs....with ears pricked and it sniffing around intently for anything strange in the air...

these two guys...the teddy and the oldie...are locked in a stare down....and this idiot...not the bear...but this oldie...shouts "boo!!"....what an idiot....instead of enjoying the curious gaze of that brown bear...he yells boo...and the bear scurries away......
no one was hurt except for the fact that the oldie was all sweating and well he forgot to take the picture....

this is the part of the story that he cherishes a lot....dunno why...but you had to see that twinkle in his eyes when he was talkin about it...it felt good...

though one thing i would like to say here...i didnt appreciate that mad gleam that comes into his eyes whenever he talks about hunting down animals...he is nothing more than a cold blooded killer....didnt like this fact one bit...

one more twinkle that i am talkin about that everyone would enjoy is that which appears in the eyes of that little kid when it gets that cone of ice cream...yeah chocolate ice cream...and it takes the first lick!!!! after all that shouting and bawling.....finally when it gets that cone of ice cream into its hands....oh man!!!! success!!! a big smile............then comes the first lick...mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhmmmmmmmmm woooooooooowee!!! cold and chocolaticious!!!!!!! he he he he he....sweet nirvaana!!
and when the second lick comes....then shine the eyes....u have to watch it to enjoy it...
though you might get an angry little stare from the little fella if he/she realises that you are staring at the ice cream.... :D