Some annnoying NER!!!u cud ve seen them too!! they may live next door!

Somehow when some of our people complete their education and live in their new found Moneydom(full credit cards in wallet!) kill their brains!and their heart!
They just take it to work get promoted buy another car a house on OMR get married and raise children like they were born somewhere else and not in this country!.

The first identity lost is the language; the New Educated Rich(NER) never converse in their mother tongue its a bad thing c mon!.The next is whatever culture thats left is us.....like spending time with parents,family do few good deeds...instead most of this clan "hangs out!" at various pubs and splurge at all the stupid malls(ketta relax panrangalam!).Oh yeah but we all still follow our so called culture strictly in stupid things like say "Dowry!","Caste discrimintion","discrimination of all kinds!!".

Food culture : He he (apdinna!!) They will only eat Pizza ,burger have cola.....grow fat and die of some fancy disease and  get all new twisted stuff in to the gene pool!.They teach their kids to be arrogant and rude and demanding ..but never teach them to be kids!!.

They ditch anything thats native,original...good for health..likes of the humble idly are forgotten ....even local veggies....NER only eat Blah veggie from Blah country( i mean how do u wash hands off your own good things so easily!).NER always travel in cars but they drive like psycho crack pots!(most of em) and honk as if the cycle fellow standing in front in the signal is the only thing between them and their house!which is like 100 Kms away!.

NER s also throw money around unnecessarily...they may pay 1500 Rs for a pair of chappal but you will note that they always fight with the poor vegatable vendor for that 2 Rs discount!.Psst ....they always cry to contribute for any gift buying at work for a collegue!
NER even when they travel in the AC Bus will hit around other people and fight for seat and never say sorry/thanks!!.They waste food like crazy common sights at restaurants!!!They never can wait in any queue ..they throw plastic water bottles out of their cars while driving..in the middle of the road!!.They show off like they are the Sultans of the world but they act soooo cheap!!!man!!why cant some of you be a little human and well mannered and original!!Money is not everything all the time!!!.

PS: This applies only to a certain little group that act really cheap and insane!!.
There are so many of them  who really are very inspiring!!and great people who work hard ,go to great heights and still are so nice and human!

Food.......!!!!!! my love...my memories......

Every morsel of food is a delight...it gives us life ,recharges our battery,stirs our soul,brings back memories,inspires us!!.

I ve been a crazy fan of the cookery shows on TV!!from my childhood.I love to cook!!!...food really really inspires me!
Its like clay.....u just play with it...it takes the flavour and love of the person who cooks it giving different interpretations when someone serves it to you!!!.
You can cook a simple Thayir Sadam or a complex dish  cooking relieves your stress,kindles your creativity and is something that you better know to survive!!

Early memories of enjoying food are those hurried up morning breakfast sessions while you pray that the bus wont miss you :)  and end up being late to school!!the simple yet yummy Idli Sambhar combo!!nothing can ever beat this unassuming superman combo!!!that will get your day kick started bindass!!!!
My lunch at school was Curd rice and potato fry or any other rice mix with the appropriate veggies(2 varieties of veggies was a must!!!).I remember a north indian friend sharing Green Chilli pickle(Yummy and heavenly) with rotis! or my good friend bringing the ever so simle paruppu sadam with baby potato fry:).

Evenings was filled with simple homemade dishes crispy dosas which my granny made and the my ultimate love pudina chutney!!!!!!.............ooooooooooooooooo i love it anyday.Somedays it would be some new stuff which my aunt saw on TV and all of us cousins used to be guinea pigs to any new dishes she used to make!
When i started cooking ,i guess i was in class 5;  my easy menu for the evening used to be Top Ramen noodles ( i would make it a little soupy since i didnt get the water measure right :P) and my brother always loved what i made.My upmas,cutlets,samosas(thanks to cookery class in school) had a good fan following...even the instant coffee i made was appreciated!:).

Saturdays was the best of it all...when i return from school  amma will be home and as i approach home just about half a kilometer away(just exaggerating :P) i would know she is making rasam,keerai masiyal,karunaikizhangu varuval!!!!and lunch was eaten on banana leaf!! .
Oh how i love the way i would wait for her to serve all the dishes in a certain order and only then start eating.
Sundays was the " Non Veg" days !!!breakfast watching Mahabhaaaraaaaaaaaat....Luch watching some regional language film......dinner was usually with  stories about the whole week or some news programme!!.The fish curry my perimma made will make you start crying(it used to be sooooo spicy n yummy!!!)!!.And when it rained in Chennai it was time for Pakoda's with evening tea!:).
Summer s was always filled with Watermelons,Elanee,Nungu,ICE CREAM....no nonsense bottled crazy colas!!.There was a huge mango tree opposite our house , it was the most wanted since it had so many mangoes , all the rowdy boys used to throw stones at it watching them from our jannal was a favourite pasttime!!he he i used to have  binacoulars to count the mangoes!!!lol!!.

College was absolutely no food or very less food ....ended up like a skeleton after my Engg quite obvious why !!.
But memories of spending time at my Mallu friend's house is just amazing!!Aunty made the most yummiest fish fry and rose cookies for Christmas was an all time favourtie!!!.
My fraandship(the new movie...see i am updated!!) with mallu food was those days i spent at her home doing  my final year project!!she would never let me out of her house without eating food !be it lunch or dinner!!:).
The food at my other friend's house was always a treat!!I need to write a seperate post for that !!
College canteen either had chips,ice cream or bottled drinks!:(.Miss sharing one chips packet among ten girls!!whatty effort!

PG was just traveling looong distance to college  and food was eaten as fast as you could coz you would be hungry like mad!evening was ice lolly and cupnoodles...i know nothing sounds remotely healthy!!

My office was the place where i met absolute food lovers...there was simply no looking back!!
The GREAT MANALI TRIP and the super cool food we ate there......the trip was special coz we ate different food at different Dhabas on our way to Manali by bus from Delhi!:).The adventure camp where we stayed had super amazing cooks who made the most beautiful food be it the simple bread toast(whole wheat i remember...)  or the biryani!!!.
While we stayed at Noida just for a couple of days we were roaming the streets like mad people for some Idli and Dosa!!!Innumerable cups of Gulab Jamu at Lunch ......5 rupee per jamun was a steal!!!!i d say!

Friday Lunch sessions at Eden,Sigree,Dhaba,Amaravati...... so many places i really lost count!!it was fun as we were a big group and used to look forward to these sessions!
Bread Omlette at Alsa Mall,Frankie @ greams road! ,Tender Coconut pudding at Fruit Shop!Mint Icecream at Moven pick we wre just having a greaaat time!!!

....................................To be continued:):)

Oh yes!!!to whomsoever it applies!!!lol

Its been ages .........happy to be back!!

Have always thought how silly people can behave....to anybody for that matter!!

No  matter what you study,how much your travel...how many languages you speak.....how many wines and cheese names you can remember......you still remain the same cheap person!!! :)

Incidentally ready two articles in The Hindu Open Page today on the same lines as to how we judge people by their looks  instantly (we ve really taken the 2 minute mantra seriously ,it works for maggie not people!!c mon!)and how kids nowadays do not respect even their own  parents as human beings! (reminds me of that ad where the father is like an ATM who walks along with  his sonny in a mall!!!! LOL).
Its not like everyone you see and meet is like that but some of them do have those shades of stupidity which they simply cant  hide!!Like .....I will talk to / mingle with people who are from the same ....area,community,religion,speak the same language,same status!!!or same level ofstupidity!!! :P(this is excused!! saves others  some  energy!).
This kind of behavior is carried on to places where you study,work,socialise!!etc etc!!so whats the point on being the uber cool dude and still have the caveman ideology inside your head!! huh!?
These kind of people just make you feel sick!!!cant they do something to slip  some sense in their head like slap them or something!!or rather give them an ANTI -whatever injection!!!

These folks live around you and irritate people without any end to it!!!If you have the time and energy try slapping some sense on a couple of them...the rest ......GOD shall only save all of us from THEM!!!!
Or we can learn to ignore them!!

So all the jumpy,ones out there who still live in dark ages wake up....all of us are human beings we can sometimes be nice to each other...for a change....!!!!

what makes me happy..!!??

I know off late i ve kept just whining about something or the other ....but i do feel happy :)what makes me tick!!!!!hmmm...

* Good Movies
* Good people' s company
* The trees on OMR ...if they have flowers they really make me  more happy
* Wind in my face :) while i come back home from work in a cab....
* Good Music...any good music... no language restriction
* Taking Pictures :)
* Writing...(which i ve nearly stopped doing!:( )
* Watching the world go by when i travel ...
* Traveling
* Clouds...how can i forget them :P i miss watching them nowadays

Thats all for now....some things i need to remind myself and feel happy about :)
cuz the high tide keeps getting higher!!still looking for land....!!!!

ADD!

ADD i understand is  medical   condition.....simply going by the literal sense...it can be translated as one 's lack of attention!!!.In the days of " Web Living"  where people spend good(rather most of the time
)amount of time trying to connect over cyberspace/chats/Im ing /tweeting/social networking and the likes communication happens through abbreviations.
World has shrunk so has words...and so has attention spans.
With so much happening so quick one really wonders if the kinds who can read a 500 page novel still exist!.
May be in future they would design an application which would start of a siren if u speak more/take more time to  communicate!

So much of garbage in media u switch channels like 50 channels/sec one really feels the pinch when u watch a movie at one streatch in a theatre and  when there s a slow song u really want to change the channel/pause or do something about it.

Reading a news paper cover to cover was a  daily affair...but now u skip lines and  jump and probably are restless to get to the jist of it!!Even when you speak the attention span u can have of the other person is like nano seconds because there is always your high tech mobile which cries out louder than a child for attention(ah those annoying ringtones & caller tunes!)or there is an instant message about your friend's status update on facebook!and one is easily tempted to multi task than to talk to the person sitting right across the table!.The only exception to this could be the New Age lovers immersed in their endless mobile converstaion over a looooooooooong period of time :P !
Its becoming real that one has to be like an AD film maker to sell yourself/communicate in the shortest span of time.Gone are those days when even a power cut in the city was a moment for the family to bond and talk through. Now noone really has the patience!!!!
I feel this personally i am not able to read long articles, decently sized books !!!
I feel that only a concious effort to switch off from the Fast Forwrd mode and switch over to Normal Mode can kill this diminishing attention span syndrome.

On the way...

The most interesting part about a bus journey is the fact that u just watch the world go by....and still  noone knows u r watching them.

I love it when i travel long distances by a bus :).
I have had awesome fun  in my 6 years of bus journey everyday to colleges on OMR.

My intial experience was my commute to Hindustan ;an hour and a  half of travel time.
Then OMR had trees,ponds on either sides...there used to be fog in whatever winter chennai experinced.
And one got to see lots of birds .
My entertainment apart from chating,singing...sometimes sleeping used to be spotting kingfishers:).     
I remember the bus i used to travel in was - Brahmaputra :0) i ve had loads of fun there.......

Then later with SSN it was the famous bus number "7".Me and Priya ve had some of  the most entertaining times in the bus !:P

How i miss those times....

My Halwa!!!!!

Hurray....yipeeee................yesterday i made halwa!!!!

It was the wedding anniversary of my appa amma, so i decided to make some sweet at home.

Found one beetroot in the fridge so zeroed in on beetroot halwa.

Was really impressed with the outcome :) yummy!!!