May 19, 2009 at 2:04 pm (Everyday affair)
Back wid a BANG?? Well.. not literally 
Yeah I know I’m posting after many days.. but u know I’ve got married n all, so I guess thats the best excuse I can give!
Now.. the actual reason of not posting since so long was I had taken a vow (of course in my mind) that I wont post anything before I complete the X task! 
No no.. Its not that I’ve completed the task! But that doesn’t even mean that I’m no more interested.. well.. the efforts are still going on 
Just felt like writing something.. direct dil se.. So here it goes!
Now that I’ve been married for more than a month n everything seems to be all happy-happy.. at some point of time, I do long for things that have changed these days.. very simple things like…
- The long chats wid my bro after dinner.. and by long I mean really long ones.. lasting till around 2 or 3 o’clock in the night (or morning.. whatever!!)
- The sudden plans of staying over at a friend’s place n chatting on absolutely any useless stuff on Earth!
- The weekend shopping (the grocery n stuff!) along wid my bro..
- The sunday afternoon ice-creams with one of my cousin n swap..
- Breakfast + Lunch combination on a weekend (yeah.. we used to get up that late!
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- Maggiii.. Numerous recipes of maggi n wierd combinations to eat along wid it..
Well I can really go on n on.. but I guess I’ll keep things for upcoming posts too..
Hoping to post soon and finish the X task too!
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December 2, 2008 at 12:51 pm (Everyday affair)
Tags: canteen, work
Everyone reading this post, first answer this:
How many of you are really satisfied with your job?
Okay okay.. I know none of you would at once say.. “Of course!” We have our usual rantings about our managers, the kind of work we do, no appreciation or recognition n so on. Well I’m not gonna write about all this, coz if I get started.. this post can go on endlessly
Anyways, the reason why I felt like putting some post was this guy working in my office canteen.. He truly represents the saying “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work”
See him anytime of the day, he’ll be there working happily with full enthusiasm.. Be it serving food, cleaning tables or whatever! Just looking at him, anyone can make out that this guy simply enjoys his work! He does all the routine work with utmost zeal, simultaneously whistling or cracking some jokes etc. We even try to guess by talking among ourselves.. “aaj shayad usko salary hike mili hogi” or “aaj shayad usko appreciation mila hoga” but thats his mood while working daily! And to tell you truly, after looking at him, I simply forget my tirade (atleast for sometime) wondering what is it in his job that makes this man feel so happy about it! But Still unanswered but I’m sure of asking him oneday!
Well just hoping that this continues for him.. atleast there is someone whom I know who is happy with his work! For others, try n figure out what you really want.. (cant advise anything more as even I’m trying to find the solution )
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October 24, 2008 at 6:27 am (Foooooood)
Last friday all of us.. the whole office gang gathered that Teju’s place for the cook+eat dinner party n unquestionably we enjoyed… BIGTIME!!
The best part was seeing even guys helping in the cooking spree!! Check this out
After everyone trying their best to help, the food was definitely made delicious and mouth-watering!
So here I present.. the outcome of the whole rampage!!
Paneer Chilli
Mushroom Cheese Balls
Fruit+Jelly Custard
And one more pic.. thats my personal favorite.. Jus checkout the expressions.. he he!!
The pics certainly shows how much fun we all had that time! A party.. truely gratifying!!
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October 21, 2008 at 8:12 am (Everyday affair)
Tags: traffic
Yet another super cool punishment for someone who breaks traffic rules! One of the guy who didnt follow the traffic rule and offended a traffice cop was given a simply laborious penance.. n that is.. he would have to man the traffic near Senapati Bapat Road every morning from 9 am to 11 am for continuously 5 days! Cops said he has been awarded the punishment so that he can understand how difficult it is to man the traffic in Pune city.
I am in complete accord with this step as I have to face this daily traffic trouble for almost an hour one way! People simply ignore the traffic signals as if the lights are there as a part of beautification of the road. I agree even I get tempted to break the signal as I see others do that.. but yea I try my best even though thousands of horns blow away my ears!
How much ever I write about Pune traffic, it really isnt sufficient. I can go on n on.. but to put it short, all I can say is, please FOLLOW TRAFFIC RULES! It is definitely better than cursing it all the time..
Happy commuting!
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October 14, 2008 at 8:44 am (Foooooood)
Another entry in the “Foooooood” category!
I made aaluchya wadya this weekend when I was left with nothing else to do! So thought why not give it a try.. coz I simply love this delicacy!
In case you guys do not know what is aalu, its called colocasia in English n looks like..
Colocasia
After asking mom for the recipe on phone and confirming it twice, it turned out really well n its really cool n simple to make!
Here’s the pic..
Aaluchya wadya
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October 10, 2008 at 5:34 am (Foooooood)
Tags: dushera
Happy Dushera to everyone!!
Well from now onwards, I would be posting the pics of food cooked by me.. Hope u all like it..
To begin with.. the Dushera lunch at my home:
Puris, potato sabji, koshimbir (salad) and amrakhand
(yes I love Koshimbir.. incase you’re wondering about the quantity! )
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October 8, 2008 at 1:41 pm (My Frustrations)
Tags: fight, frustrations, petrol
These petrol pump guys really get on to my nerves sometimes! I dont know why these people think that their customers either have ample money or are bigtime fools.. or may be both! They think they can fool you with such an ease and you won’t even shout back at them even if you realise that the business done there was totally unfair!
I have experienced this so many times and everytime I have this kind-of-fight at the petrol pump, I go all red with anger. Initially I never understood all this but with time and experience I can literally list down all their tricks!
Just today in the morning, I asked the petrol pump guy to fill petrol worth Rs. 150. The other guy who collects money started involving me in conversation like “do have change” n stuff like that which certainly diverted my eyes from the reading. Within about 3 seconds I could see Rs. 50 flashing on the display. I said “I asked for 150!” Innocently he said, “Sorry Madam, I heard just 50!” and filled petrol worth Rs 100. Experiencing similar situation before I said “I want the petrol worth the money I am paying! Dont even try to fool me !” He finally filled another litre after hearing from me that I am not going unless I get the right amount!
This situation definitely deserves this old n famous dialogue regularly heard from uncle and aunties “Its not about 50 or 100 rupees.. its about PRINCIPLES!!” Yeah.. I totally agree.. I accept these guys are poor and need some more money to earn their living but fooling people is certainly not the right means of making money.
So all I can do is tell everyone reading this post to be alert at the petrol pumps n fight to get things worth your hard-earned money!
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September 29, 2008 at 11:00 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: impetus
I sometimes wonder what it actually takes to complete what you decide! And I end up getting only one answer.. Motivation.. Impetus, some driving force that would push you towards your goal!
Now, since about 1.5 years I’ve been thinking of completing an X task.. And mind you, all the attempts were actually sincere.. all 7 times! And my usual dialogue, which even my colleagues have started making fun of is “Its by this month end.. or never!!” I have said this for atleast last 6 months as far as I remember!
And yes, what i wanted to convey by giving all the stats is, there is a serious lack of driving force. Now if you think that making fun by colleagues n all should act as motivation then I’m sorry, it really isn’t!
Probably the following could act as one:
1. A junior of mine decides to complete the same X task after me and finishes before me (Yeah.. ego in action!)
2. Someone says.. aah forget it.. u can never do it! (Where’s my self-respect??)
3. I’m given an official deadline (this is gonna work 100%.. Software Engineers afterall )
4. This task acts as a bottleneck in my promotion! (OMG!! As if the bottlenecks are few!)
5. I get a weird (read filmy) dream where in everyone’s circling around my head saying “finish X, finish X!” (Jud kidding )
But now its high time I think (Well this thought has come many times though).. So on ur marks.. get set.. n GO!!
Wish me luck..
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September 26, 2008 at 6:26 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: hostel
Now this post would be like thousand other posts everyone must’ve read about nostalgic hostel days! But mind it.. dont even try to underrate it! Its because everyone has those memories attached which are really unique and special..
So this yearning for good old days started when I casually checked the orkut profile of one of my junior and just started reading the very first testimonial.. It was written by her junior roomie who joined hostel after we left it! So the testimonial started something like this.. “20th August 2006, I entered the hostel room for the first time and….”. I read this first line and my mind went back to the day I was supposed to leave hostel after staying for whole four years in the same room!
And in a single minute, I remembered..
… how everyone was trying to avoid eye contact with each other.. just trying to delay the rona dhona!
… how we wrote on the room wall a so called message to the new people who would be staying in our room after us
… a single photograph of all of us trying to smile! But the tears are actually visible!
… how my almirah looked without even a single stuff of mine it it!
… the look in every persons’ eyes while waving a “bye”
And to add more to it, I had a chance to go back to the hostel room for some shifting work.. and by that time everyone had left. When I entered my room, I saw the same scene I had seen four years back! A room ready to welcome new dwellers.. and trying to say.. COME.. CELEBRATE YOUR FOUR YEARS!!
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April 22, 2008 at 7:11 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: ice candy
It was thursday.. a regular boring day at office. Pallavi was on leave, and that added to our boredom! So me n bharu went for lunch and just to make it a bit exciting, we decided to have an icecandy.. to be more specific.. Amul Ice Candy and that too orange! All excited to have a candy on this summer afternoon, we somehow gulped the canteen food n headed at the icecream section of the cafetaria. On asking for one, that canteen ‘bhaiya’ opened the fridge with such full confidence that we thought there would be a variety to choose from! But alas.. only to find the fridge was all empty.. Bharu n me, both heart-broken went back to our BAYs sad!
That evening, our work got over at the same time and while going down to the stairs, the ice-candy thought pricked again! Now that we have time, we decided to go anywhere jus to have that 5 rupee candy! We thought as all kids must be loving those kind of candies, it wont be that difficult for us to hunt for one..
We checked out all shops serially on shastri nagar chowk only to find everything else than our favorite orange candy! Finally we reached a place near Indiabulls supermarket. I was waiting outside due to lack of proper parking and bharu went on the search like going on a war supposedly having only the picture of orange ice-candy on her mind. I was waiting as desparately as she was passing on to other shops with the sad face showing “its nowhere!! 
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Finally, in Badhaai sweets, after small altercation with the seller, she finally got the ice-candies! Yipppieee I thought! And yeeah, it wasnt Orange.. but it was a combo of rasbery+mango.. just imagine.. half mango and half rasbery.. lolz!!
There we were, standing in front of Badhai sweets enjoying our ice candy discussing about how kids dont enjoy these days with such ice-candies.. all they want is rich icecreams n stuff! And also thinking.. “din safal hua!”
After all.. nothing can replace an ice-candy!!
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