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After my first lesson in cooking "How to make potato masala", I tried the next lesson. "How to cook rice". I know this might seem funny and simple, but I never thought it would be so simple. Seeing my daily lunch that had only chapathi and potato masala, one of my colleague gave me a good idea and thats the second lesson. To put the title precisely, it is "How to cook rice in microwave oven".

One cup rice + 2 cups water ---boiled at 650W for 12 mins-----> boiled rice

Thats the simple equation that covers the whole lesson. Wow! Thats easy.

But what about curry masala? I dont even know how to make sambhar.

Another simple idea.

Boiled rice + curd + pickle -> best food to have anytime.

Coooooooool. And it will always taste good as its only the rice you have cooked in it. So I tried it last weekend and it was great. Made rice in 12 mins and added with curd and pickle to get the best taste that my taste buds were longing for a long time. Now waiting for more recipes to master the art of cooking soon.

What am I doing

With every attempt to make this blog active, but I am not able to update it often as I am getting more and more work these days. With a team member missing here, I am held responsible for his work too. So I had to read mails that are chinese to me and have to answer the questions that looks like trignometric equations. While I am running around with these things, I thought I should atleast update the blog with this. So here is the message. I am getting busy more and more. Hope everything will be fine very soon. So am I saying "I dont have time."?

I just thought of a line from Matrix Reloaded.

Merovingian: Of course, who has time? But the question is "If you cant take time, how can you have time?"

Please take time to have time. Cause and affect. ;)

My cooking in UK

I tried cooking in UK for the first time. After having the breakfast prepared by the house mates, I wanted to cook on my own. But what shall I make. I started with the best thing I know to make. French Toast. So I Started my purchase for cooking from Tesco. Tesco is like our Big bazzar. Its so huge that it covers the space occupied by 33 to 38 buildings in Infosys. 8) Running around the shop for more than an hour, I found where milk is displayed. But the only problem is there were Milk from different brands each ranging from 33pence to 1pound. And there is differentiation in the fat content of the milk too. I took the cheapest one which is 33 pence. Then searching for eggs, I saw similar range of products from 6p to 12p per egg. With all the eggs looking alike, I was wondering if its the 12p eggs are from celebrity hen farms. So I went home after buying bread where I had to choose from 35p to 2 pounds. Atlast, I understood why Tesco is so big. It was like a outing in a huge musuem. Only thing is you can buy the products on display. With the plan to cook for evening snacks, I actually made French Toast for dinner. With all the housemates frightened to take my first ever cooking in UK, I had the toast myself while the rest enjoyed with their rice and aloo gobi.

Guess which tasted best. Thats mine!

New world

After staying in BnB hotel for 2 months here and paying twice as much the normal rent for a room, I got accomodation in another place for 420 pounds per month. Though its still costly, its much cheaper than before. Also there is a micorwave oven and a small fridge in my room itself. And of course, we have a neat kitchen, washing machime and dryer. Only problem is that there is no TV.

So there is no way to watch Friends and Just Shoot Me in the mornings and CSI, Deal or No Deal in the evenings. Things are going to be boring more. But anyway, I think I can cook my own food. Which again means, I am going to do some serious experiments on my own. I better start with some bread toasts which I am good at. This is going to be fun too.

And another big difference is now the office is 2 miles away and I cannot walk all the way everyday. Have to get a bus daily. My calculations for Bus fare is getting to 35 pounds per month. I am spending more on bus by saving money on rent. Also, I will miss the daily walk which was the only exercise for me here. So I have to do something to compensate that. Lets see how this new world goes.

Thoughts that I heard and those I thought

Don't ask WHY?
Ask WHY NOT?

Ask WHY and you will find reasons,
Ask WHY NOT and you will find solutions.

Last but not the least......

GOD. Yes I am.

XXX2: State of the Union - Review

It's the Jamesbond at his worst. After seeing the hit of XXX, they thought a sequel would also be a hit. Bad guess. This time, the story starts with an attack at the XXX base itself. Our XXX lead Samuel Jackson and his comedy sidekick, who imitates the gadget creator for Jamesbond alone escapes. Now they want a bigger XXX. Where do they go. They go to jail to pick up our hero who was working with Samuel in his military life. So, the XXX base itself relies on our hero from the start of the movie itself.
When the NSA starts investigating the XXX case, we can find a real smart guy leading it. You will easily wonder how can there be a smart person in NSA when ONLY our hero can be smart in this movie. Don't worry. Even NSA will fall to the knees of our hero at the later part of the movie. Now coming to the story, it's our bad guy, who was the commander of the team in which our XXX and XXX head worked is trying to take over USA. And he is now the Department of Defense minister. He is trying to kill the US president and blame it on the ex soldiers that includes XXX, XXX head and others. Cool idea. Even NSA cant do anything now. NSA smart guy also comes to our hero for help. First XXX head asked for help. Now NSA. Our hero is the only person who can save the nation. So, our hero with his friends fight against a huge army and save the US president and the nation. The end. The audience were killed anyway.

Things that you cant digest in the movie:

• Racer boat flying in the air and landing on the bridge with our hero still holding the steering and not even showing any shock of the crash
• Chasing a bullet train and using the rails to speed the car. Car owners hear this. Remove the rubber tubes and your car can run on rails.
• When crashed into the train, our hero walks into the train with no sign of the fast wind that blows against him. Only the car can feel the wind and it blows up.
• Why does a stupid NSA agent climb down to the train from a rope when he knows the enemies are armed. Is this what they call sacrifice and Passion. Stupidity
• Last but not the least, do they keep Bazooka in helicopters????

Overall, the only person who will be happy to see this movie is our Super hero of Tamil film industry Vijayakanth. He has got the right director for his next action film.

Weekend in Hyderabad

Its the first weekend in Hyderabad. Staying in a completely different environment from my usual Bangalore, I felt wondering what I could do the two days without computer. Staying inside the room all the day is cruel for me. But walking in the hot sun is hell anyway. Surprisingly, the whole saturday went like a breeze with thinking about somthing lying in the hotel itself. And then came the sunday. Not ready to loose the whole day again, I set out to fight the heat with my sun glasses. I walked to my brother's home and succeeded in the fight against the sun. We had the strawberry sundae to cool us down against the day sun.
Happy lunch it was, we were chatting in the evening till it was time for my brother's friend to leave for chennai. So we set off to leave him in the bus stop and went for the ride towards the city. Atlast, I was back on my usual weekend, roaming without any specific destination. And here, we ended in PRASADS, the entertainment complex famous for the IMAX movie complex. Though we were not interested in watching movies that day, we just roamed around the shops and took snaps all over the place. We took photos infront of posters, shops and anywhere we think good. We even took photos eating snacks and we were having great time exploring the photography skills in us. Snaps went on and on with us saying cheese all the way till the camera said "No memory". We had to stop this time, as we have deleted most of the existing snaps that were already copied to the computer. Completed the day with snacks and snaps, we set back to home with the Pizza in one hand and Sprite on the other. Thats what I call a enjoying weekend.

Check the photos at http://photos.yahoo.com/injey