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The mother of inventions is here..!

2010-04-12T07:16:00.000-07:00

Necessity is the mother of all inventions they say..! Well, you never know until you experience it right... Now, here I am, strongly believing this..! Why do I say this? Here it goes....

It usually happens that when you stay away from home, away from family and friends, something somewhere appears to be missing. I will stick on to one 'something' out of the many for the time being.. and this important something is 'FOOD'... When I am at home, I do not have to bother if I will be having anything at all for dinner or lunch (lunch...during holidays of course..! not to mention, if i am home...).. Anyways, the point here is, we tend to think about what to cook or for that matter what to eat.. and how to prepare what you want to eat... And it definitely becomes an issue if you are a novice, and know nothing about cooking apart from preparing rice and an omlette..(a delicious dish prepared with egg.. not sure if it has another name
)....!

So here i was, far far away from home. I get back to my room one beautiful night.. beautiful because, the weather was just clement with a little rain and long cool breeze. Just before I made it to the Metro to get back to my room from office, I helped myself with a good chicken burger from the ubiquitous Mc D... Satiated for the moment, it did not last in my ever hungry belly for more than an hour..! Result: Hungry again once i stepped into my room.. and what do I have at hand.. a very very poor experience in the sophisticated science of 'Cooking'... I qualified only as a 'bachelor' cook... satisfied with rice and omlette.. But today was just not going to be the case... I had to do something with anything available to satiate myself.!

Serendipity was about to happen ! I open my refrigirator and find a few carrots.. (bugs bunny's fav cawwits!) Well, not a bad idea for a night.. but i wanted something more... Rice, carrots, onions, and.......... well, how can i forget eggs... but my refrigirator had none. So as a good cook, I immediately rushed to the nearby store (thankfully, most of them are open for almost 24 hours)... well actually, did not rush.. remember the beautiful weather i was mentioning about? Yes.. so was actually enjoying the weather on my way to the store.

So, here I was, back in my lab, ready for experiments, with every little thing available at hand. Chefs! Please note that this recipe has been patented!
With initial thoughts to have rice with egg scramble, I turned on the cooker with about half a cup of rice. I was patient enough to allow it to boil. ;) Then, for the egg scramble: cut onions, put them in a frying pan with a little oil, then added a little chilly powder, 'garnished' with black pepper.. and the eggs (1 egg does not suffice, I added 2 :) - remember, I said 'ever hungry' !)
I had a smile on my face when the scramble was ready with addition of decent amount of salt.

Now, how will I use the carrots? Big question. There were two options, eat it raw, or fry it! I chose the latter. Cut onions, put it in the frying pan, simmer it for a while, then add carrots, and add chilly powder and black pepper in desired amounts (Andhrites might like it a little more spicier!). Fry for about 2 - 3 minutes in medium flame.

Meanwhile, the rice was ready. And so was my scramble and my carrot fry. What best can you do with all the three ? You got it! Mix it!!! But I did it in a sequential order..
Mix the rice and the carrot fry in the frying pan and heat for a couple of minutes. Remove from flame and add the egg scramble and mix lightly. Voila!! Bops pulao is ready! Find tomato sauce and have Bops pulao with it! I must admit, my dinner was made...

One last thing, i forgot to tell you how to cut the carrots.! Cut it in shapes as desired!! After all, delectable is the key..! Aint it??

If you have any queries, or concerns, feel free to post your comments. I shall try and answer all of them :) The name is Bops.

Mangalore horror story

2009-01-25T01:41:00.000-08:00

I am sure everone is aware of the incident tat transpired at a Mangalore club on the Saturday night. I believe it is total attrocity on the part of the so called 'self-proclaimed' 'moral-police' from the supposed Ram Sena.
Agreed that the people engaged in dance and booze were young girls and guys. But what the so called activists engaged is absolute hooliganism. I happened to watch the news being aired by Times NOW and the scenes were just horrific. It is learnt that the police engaged in duty in that area gave a deaf ear to the event. It is nobody's surprise that the police would have been bribed by the pub authorities to keep the party going. But what the activists did was absolutely wrong. What do the activists think of themselves!! If they thought that the ppl engaged in dance were wrong, they should have approached or assaulted the police and not the girls. It is totally against the law. Do these people have the authority to indulge in such activities? If yes, then why didnt they try and correct the wrong doing police officials? Are they scared of them?
Added to the horrendous event, back home, all the elderly feel that wat the activists did was absolutely right. They say,"Very Good, these girls have to be treated like that! What do they think of themselves? What kind of parents these children have! Havent they instilled in them some culture?................" This is absolutely ridiculous. How do they know abt what exactly happend.? How do they know what their families are like? They should not jump to a conclusion just because Times NOW is airing them candidly. Some thought and analysis should go into it and not jus a stereotypical opinion.
What the Ram Sena activists should have done is bring the corrupt police officials to book and assaulted them if they had the guts. But they preferred to inflict harm to the 'innocent' youth that were engaged in party. Such social activists should be brave enough to correct the erroneous admistration of the coutry. Much acclaim would go to them if they took a step in this direction and not otherwise. Else, they would only accumulate hate and curse from a wide populus of the country's youth.

Indian hell

2009-01-24T12:02:00.000-08:00

A man dies and goes to hell. There he finds that there is a different hell for each country. He goes to the German hell and asks, "What do they do here?" He is told, "First they put you in an electric chair for an hour.Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then The German devil comes in and whips you for the rest of the day." The man does not like thesound of that at all, so he moves on. He checks out the USA hell as well asthe Russian hell and many more. He discovers that they are all more or less the same as the German hell.Then he comes to the Indian hell and finds that there is a long line ofpeople waiting to get in. Amazed, he asks, "What do they do here?" He istold, "First they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the Indian devil comes in and whips you for the rest of the day." "But that is exactly the same as allthe other hells - why are there so many people waiting to get in?""Because maintenance is so bad that the electric chair does not work, someone has stolen all the nails from the bed, and the devil is a confirmed employee, so he comes in, signs the register and goes to the canteen!!

Kudos to the Indian spirit.... we love laughing at ourselves.!!

Kick start your day wit a well known joke...!!

2009-01-24T11:34:00.001-08:00

What is confidence ????
A hypothetical situation where 20 executives board an airplane and are told that the flight that they are about to take is the first-ever to feature pilotless technology: It is an uncrewed aircraft. Each one of theCEOs is then told, privately, that their company's software is running the aircraft's automatic pilot system. Nineteen of the CEOs promptly leave the aircraft, each offering a different type of excuse. One CEO alone remains on board the jet, seeming very calm indeed. Asked why he is so confident in this first uncrewed flight, he replies : "If it is the same software that runs my company's IT systems, this plane won't even take off." !!!!
That is called Confidence!!!