Casinovah!

I manage to make it to office today after a 5-day Christmas break and is busy with emails and gmails when a colleague of mine (uncule) as he settles in to his seat asks me what I did over the past 5 days in a tone which screams of boredom. Not to dishearten him I said 'No...thing', the last bit is still stuck in my throat when uncule is already half way through his next question.. 

Uncule: "Have you been to Casanova?" 

Me: In my head I'm already wtf is he asking?? but say "Excuse me, what?"

Uncule: "Yeah casanova where one plays all these games", 

Me: "Oh you mean Casino?"  but sigh uncule hates be corrected

Uncule: "Yeah Casinova! Its very interesting you see, it has amazing games, you should try it sometime"

And that reminded me, I have been to a casino, it was called casino kursaal in Swizz and it was once in a lifetime experience to see money flowing away right through your hands :p But uncule does not have to know any of this, so all he gets for a reply is a :) 

Ain't no Sunshine.....

... this is the song that woke me up today, not quite literally though, as I was making my way out of the crowded tube station today morning. Once in a while you get to hear budding singers, wannabes, some hoping to get a few pennies, mr/miss unknown singing or playing an instrument in the London underground. Hearing one of these always brightens my day. The other day one of the random singers had a placard with a big huge happy Smiley next to the guitar he was playing, and most of the day the thought of it made me smile all day long :) Little things like this reminds you that it doesn't take a great lot to make life seem beautiful...


Time to listen to some more Ain't no sunshine when she's gone enzoi

"M"

No one has the right to take one's own life, what about someone else's? What would you call someone who has done it? The media is never short of crime stories, but having a first hand information on such a happening is different from how its portrayed by the media, its less sensational.

Here is the story-

 http://www.zorsebol.com/latest-news/another-techie-found-guilty-for-murdering-his-wife-manoj-kumar-behind-bars-after-committing-the-most-horrible-murder/

This is an incident which happened in my colleague's family and the murderer is out on bail now. I fail to understand how inhumaneness can take over a person for his carnal desires. At the least hope this case sees justice and let the family move on.

R.I.P? Nah, does not sound right!

Hibernating!

Blogging has been on hibernation mode for quite a while now, not that there wasn't anything to blog, but its nothing other than sheer laziness and aversion to the virtual world lately. But then there have been a few things which I would like to share and of course have it as look back write up for some time later in life :) I will try to post all of it soon, but on top of the list before my memory fails it all is a restaurant/food review in and around London which I have immensely enjoyed and would be worth penning down :) As a trailer below are the ones on which I plan to write

1. Cafe momo

2. Mamma Mia

3. Jimmy spice

4. Roshni's

5. Princi

6. Sakura

7. Wagamana

8. Nandos

9. Cafe Des Amis

10. Ca 'pucchino

11. Cosmo

Will update the rest as and when I remember :) Adios for now..

Love struck

love the way you smile and the happiness it makes me feel
love the depth in your eyes and the trust it brings along to bare my soul
love the way you look at me and the butterflies it gives me still
love the way you laugh and the worries it takes away
love that you love me which makes me feel so blessed
love everything about you which makes me miss you more and more
your happiness is mine forever and ever....

Wrote this after a really long time and it made me be a dreamer again where everything is just about perfect. Of course the above is a censored version :p I love the sense of freedom writing gives.


Signing of on a dreamy note, adiós :)

The chef in me

At times I dream that I am this perfect chef making yummy things and enjoying the same with family or friends.  Most of the times in an effort to make it all perfect,  the dish turns out to be quite bad. One such disaster today was 'Thayir Bread' on the lines of Thayir(Curd) Vada.

If not for the bit of extra salt, extra spice and a tad(really! :p) bit too less curd the dish would have been purrfect. Sigh! There goes my dream, like the Concorde never to take off again.

Every other day(ok almost) I religiously log into blogger with the hope of writing something interesting, but have not been able to. I wonder how some bloggers manage to write religiously, I'm in awe especially of some of the cooking blogs where nice photographs are put up, extensive descriptions are given on how to make a dish taste better, and the blogs have been existant for years! What keeps them going? Is it a regular fan following, faithful readership, loads of comments? Maybe its what they enjoy doing day in and day out. Would it wither away with time? For some its a few days maybe in these cases it would take years, but probably it would some day or maybe not.

I hate the times when my mind thinks too much like now about unnecessary things. There is a lingering why for everything around me, like why am I even writing this post, so I shalt hit the publish button even before I decide to delete this post like many others :p