Kai...pun..yummy

My fiancee has been behind me for the last couple of months to write something about her in my blog. According to her i write a lot about irrelevant things, which by the way normally spark an international debate which she is not aware of, and miss out on important topics, like her. So here i am writing about her and what better than writing about her cooking.

She believes in the saying "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach". So every time i go to visit her she prepares this one absolutely delicious dish for me. She keeps this dish lined up along with the other dishes and once I am done eating she plays this game, "Guess the Dish I made".Now here I am, not only at the risk of identifying which dish she made but also giving a report card on it.

I should admit that so far I've done well in this game.

While we are in the topic of cooking it wouldn't be fair if i do not mention 2 other people whose cooking is an integral part of my appetite.

Mom

Its a known fact that moms are the best cooks in the world.My mom too cooks amazingly well.

My mom like my fiancee makes sure she gets the feedback for her cooking.But my mom has a very peculiar way of getting the feedback of her cooking from us.

While at the dinner table she would be the first one to give her opinion,on her own cooking. Then she would give us this look, which only mothers can give, expecting us also to give our opinion . Me and my dad look at each other helplessly with no option but to give our opinion, or rather you can say admire her cooking.

So you see she leaves us with no choice but to admire her and we too leave no stone unturned to praise her.

Vishnu my roommate

Now for him the whole world is an ingredient. Given an opportunity he would just open the door go to veranda where the leaves would have fallen from the leaning tree and use them for cooking and then call them ....curry leaves!!!

Unlike my fiancee and my mom he has no set pattern of cooking. Like a typical mallu he might just use the parachute oil we use to oil our hair if he finds that we ran out of cooking oil.

Innovation, is his recipe.

Now this all sums up to what we call Kaipunyam in malayalam meaning quality of certain hands that are believed to fetch good results.

Mallu in a Zoo....zoo

I have always believed that mallus are everywhere and on top of everything. At any given point of time i think there will be more mallus on top of a coconut tree than anybody else in the world.

At any given point of time there will be more mallus eating puttu and kadala than anybody else in the world.

At any given point of time there will be more mallus praising themselves in a blog than anybody else in the world.

This list is however long and can't be accomodated here.

I also personally feel that malayalam is going to be the next global language, next to english, in the next 10-20 years and infact this globalisation has already started.

Now we have the tribal zoozoo's speakin malayalam.



"Ninne konnu chicken aakum" - Will kill you and make you a chicken.

Take a bow....Little Master

The one thing which i had wished to witness in International cricket finally came true. Sachin straight driving into the record books by hitting a double ton in One day international.

Now here is a man, with his strokes, capable of virtually turning any office, any street any home into a stadium, with people biting their nails off and screaming on top of their lungs for every run he scores while inching towards a milestone.

Here is a man who doesnt believe in numbers, or rather doesnt seem to be satisfied with the numbers and hungry for more numbers.

The true Master Blaster all the way..

Sachin...You da man!!!

Alarming Situation!

Whats the most irritating way of waking up in between a good and a sound sleep?

a) A stranger ringing the door bell asking if you are Viswanath omkarnath? huh?

b) A phone call which says you are the most valuable customer of their Bank or their telephone company... coming to think of it you might not be holding a bank account or even a telephone connection from these guys.

Well the options a and b are applicable for people who have their morning coffee before they go to bed.

c) Alarm Clock.. which by the way would have been set by you to wake up early and then starting to curse yourself and the poor clock for no fault of its own by which time you'd have heard the snoozed alarm at least 10 times before you finally decide to wake up.

Fact time..Do you Know who invented Snooze in Alarms. No points for any right guesses... but its our very own Kuttapan from Gods own Country. Now, Kuttapan one fine morning missed his alarm, slept an hour extra and reached his office late.On the way he noticed he had missed his regular bus and thought he would never make it to office that day but to his surprise he found out that there was a bus every 10 minutes to his office.He thought why not have the same system for an alarm clock. where in the alarm rings every 10 minutes reminding you to wake up. So thus came the Snooze in an alarm.

Keeping up to my promise i have tried to make my blog as informative as possible.

Now some Alarm experts like my friend who is also my roommate say that we should not wake up at the first ring of an alarm but hit the snooze on their alarm clock at least 4 to 5 times in the morning before actually opening our eyes and getting some clothes on. This according to him helps us face the challenges in the day ahead well, because the more we sleep the more we meditate as sleep is the best form of meditation.Trust me, this will be scientifically proven one day or may have already been proven, we just didnt know because we were busy meditating.

Now my mom used to the traditional way of snooze when i had to wake up early for my tuition's when i was in school. All she had to do was switch off the fan and let the mosquitoes do the rest.They would come and buzz around your ear urging you to wake up every 5 minutes, and to switch off the snooze all i had to do was kill a mosquito. This however had an additional advantage of improving your accuracy and aim with your eyes half open.

So Happy Snoozing and enjoy the song.

Miss...Take...Anyone??

Happy New Year to Everyone!!

One more year gone away from our lives. One more year of mistakes left behind.

Ever kept a diary? Well i haven't... And even if i had i would have observed that all the mistakes i make in my life would be repeating itself.

Now here's a story i had read somewhere.

Once 2 Hunters go hunting to a dense forest.They charter a plane to help them get there. The pilot drops them in the forest and they go hunting for 2 days. The pilot returns after 2 days to get the hunters and the hunted.

The pilot looks at the animals and says"I can take all other animals except the ox and the 2 zebras as I don't think the Plane can take its weight"
The 1st hunter says "But we took animals exactly like these in a similar plane last time we came hunting"

The pilot after a lot of deliberations finally got convinced and took the ox and the zebra along in the plane.

Just after the plane took off it came crashing down a few hundred feet away from where they took off.But all of them unhurt.

The 2 hunters came out and so did the pilot rubbing his forehead covered in blood.

The 1st hunter asks the 2nd one. "Any idea where we crashed"
The 2nd hunter says" I think we are just a bit off from where we crashed the last time!!"

The Morale of the Story...You need to be intelligent to make mistakes as well.New ones of course.

Intelligence makes us aware and thus helps us to learn from our mistakes the first time around. So live intelligenty and never commit the same mistake

Mistakes are fine. But if you commit the same mistake again and again then it becomes a sin.

Personally i like mistakes, unless you are saving somebodies life.Seriously, mistakes are all over us. We just don't realise them.

Anyways Here's wishing you all again an intelligent and an eventful 2010.