Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Our respected parlimentarians

If u ever wonder, what our parlimentarians do in parliment, here is sample on what they discussed in today's sen's comments,

http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/aug/21ndeal9.htm

Super

Until next
Raghu

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Villain in my Life



Ants are the current villain in my life. they make me sweat, they make me work hard, they make me do all those repetitive household work, they are small, but in numbers they come to my home every day, despite my efforts to keep my home clean.


I might have ignored my parents sometime @ home, my friend's request @ room, here am i always obedient, cleanliness centric, always working hard with lots of sweat :-(


Only villain in my life --- Ants

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Cash

Mazhaiukku udangara madhirinu kelvi pattu irukinga la? I happen to visit PVR yesterday afternoon just becz Badri wanted to sleep. It was 3 PM when we two stood in the que looking for tickets for afti show... After reaching the ticket counter, PVR salesman posed us an impossible question. We have tickets for Partner, Cash, which one do u want? Kizhinchadhu krishnagiri nu niniachom.. Still i asked badri, do u wana go? He said he wanted to sleep, We had cash also in our pockets :-) Damn it!! Aunty behind the line must have been wondering about us going through our discussions...

well time was 3.10 when all these were over... we headed right into our M10, M11 seat of Audi 4. The movie started with a song, i thought it is gonna be another one of those bollywoddish movie... i looked at right, badri was already preparing himself, stretching himself with half closed eyes..

Cash is a movie about robbery, thieves, cars, pathetic songs and not so bad screen play. The scenes of the duo ajay devgan and shamita shetty are good to watch (but better watch it in TV yaar). well these guys have lot of cash to take such movies cash... if u are expecting me to run through a previe, my apologies, this movie is worth writing this much.... at the end of 2 1/2 hours of sound sleep (yes, some side effects during his deep sleep), he woke up and said, good movie isnt it!! shall we leave? I said right :-) lets go, we headed straight to... u know what people do after getting up from deep sleep or someone who drank 2 Large Coke during a movie....
Its de pressurising time!!!

Until next
Raghu

Thursday, August 2, 2007

so far so good

Hello,

So far so good! in terms of my experience with kitchen as concerned.
In the last 15 days i have tried variety of dishes and most of them turned out to be of similar taste as that of dishes!! few times, i failed dramatically! but i learnt about the mistake and do not worry if any of u are visiting my home, u will not be experimented...

My recipes include - Oninon Rava Uppuma, Wheat Dosa, Chappati with Chow Chow Pallaya or kootu, Saada Saada Dosa, Adai, Tamarind Upma, Bajji (failed here, need to try again), some varieties of rasam - regular rasam, pepper rasam, coconut rice, coconut chutney and ofcousrse lots of time potato fry...

more to come, i am finding lots of time as my office timings have changed and it ends at 5PM!!

Guys! do u know very well a recipe, send it across to me... but only veg!! (eggless)

Come home sometime!!
Raghu

The mindset of a Bangalore driver

I am one of those million drivers in the streets of Bangalore. I feel less pride and more shame in being part of this community.

A lot is said about city's worst infrastructure woes in the past. The situation is improving these days compared to 2001 when i first arrived in this city. What is not changed is the mindset of this cities elite well educated drivers in the road.

Yesterday i happen to stay late in the new office and i faced enough ordeal reaching my home. it took me an hour and 1/2 to reach my home which normally takes 30 minutes if i had started on time. So many of them took platform service road (it was not ready, still people drove in it) and created more traffic jam. they never realized their attempt to go early was making many to wait and a win-loose situation. This mindset i can see everywhere in the city!! A win-loose behavior... this one makes me feel sad and rethink my options of staying here long term plan for this city.

In the last few weeks of travel, i have been analysing the pattern. Bangalore is not like chennai where we know people violate and chennai roads are big. Here roads are narrow (as like the mindset of the drivers). Here there are people who follow rules and there are people who don't. this adds to the chaos...

We have 2 categories of drivers who cause chaos, traffic jams and sometime an accident.

1. one who violates lane rules (most of 2 wheeler riders, cars, all trucks, all BMTC buses, cyclists and auto drivers)
2. one who goes slow in the wrong lane (i see beginners, girls do this often)

well the cost of an accident is huge (both mentally and financially). i have seen myself this in the case of Subbu when he was admitted for a reckless driving by an alcholic and he dashed subbu in a scooty (driven at 30KM). Subbu was in ICU for 3 days :(

We educated people in this city have been consciously attempting all these traffic violations.. when are we going to change? it is in the mindset of these city'es elite educational people!!!

fy entertainment... this happens in most junctions of this city...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luNwDf-BXZQ

Enjoy maadi

Until Next
Raghu