Gourmet

This vacation, I decided to try my luck at cooking. It did turn out really well except for a few. So here are three recipes that turned out well.

 Maggi Cutlet

Ingredients

Maggi-1pkt

Potato-1 boiled

Onion-1 finely chopped    

Cream of tomato

Mint leaves finely chopped

Salt

Honey- 1tbsp

Chilli Powder

Method

Boil Maggi and drain excess water. Add finely chopped pudina leaves, onion, salt and chilli powder. Mash well and keep aside. To the cream of tomato, add honey and little salt and mix well. Make small balls and flat the maggi mixture for shallow fry. Fry both sides in medium flame. Crispy cutlets are ready to serve with cream of tomato.

Veggie Rollz

Ingredients

Maida-2 medium cups

Carrot-1 diced

Cabbage-Few leaves finely chopped

Potato- 1 boiled and mashed

Coriander finely chopped

Garam masala

Salt

Chilli Powder

Oil/ Butter

Method

Mix maida with little butter and water and knead well. Set aside for half an hour. Heat oil in a pan, add carrot, cabbage, mashed potato, chopped coriander, salt, garam masala, chilli powder. Sauté well for two to three minutes. Make small balls with the dough and roll out. Place some stuffing in the centre and fold evenly and deep fry until golden brown. Serve Rollz with tomato ketchup.

Chicken Fried Balls

Ingredients

Chicken-1 cup minced

Coriander chopped

Salt

Pepper

Oil/ Butter

Maida

Potato-1 diced

Method

Mix minced chicken with chopped coriander leaves, salt and pepper. Cook for five minutes in medium flame. Prepare dough by mixing maida, butter, water and salt and set aside. Make small balls with dough and flat out. Place the stuffing in the centre ,collect the edges and twist at the top. Deep fry in a kadai. Serve with mint chutney.

When Life is a Tremor

Yesterday, after the tremor of Sumatra shook parts of Chennai, there was hustle and bustle everywhere. All the private and public sector companies including those ever open IT companies closed owing to the Tsunami alert. Life is priceless! Jam packed roads, crowded pathways and the booming vehicles added to the tension. Life is priceless!  Amidst such a boisterous environment, sat a man in torn clothes scratching his head, unnoticed, uncared, ignored by all and indeed unware of the life saving TSUNAMI WARNING. His hair curled down his wrinkled face. His eyes were fixed upon those feet which hurriedly passed by (that literally ran for life!), hoping for someone to drop a penny into the broken bowl beside him. What is life for a man like him? A thousand dollar business? Or a multimillion share in the stock market? No. His life is all about the penny that you drop into the bowl. His life is all about saving money for a meal. This is the state of mentally retarded people in our country. Such a shame!  When you see someone really suffer, extend your help. Ignore the grumpy and cruel society behind you! I did not help the man yesterday but I am in such guilt. It hurts now. For all those who read this, however rich you are, however talented you are, have a little concern for the people around you. Life is priceless not just for us but for everyone !

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO SAY GOOD BYE??

As my time in WCC draws to a close,I cant help looking back at the three years I have spent here.How i wish i was in a relativistic space ship travelling at the speed of light,Time would stand still or if anyone builds a time travel machine I would certainly want to go back to the first day I joined WCC.Treasure trove of memories!What a lot we have learnt,How well we gelled together as a class.Of the three years,the last year was the most exciting and the most memorable.Though the schedule seemed hectic and strenous,6 hours of regular lab+3 hours of microprocessor lab in a week.Now I Know I had loved every moment of it!Sitting through the theory classes wasn't easy either.Sometimes I have felt completely lost,baffled by the humongous equations! (Always wondered how could an Hydrogen atom so teeny tiny be so complicated and difficult to understand)Neverthless I managed to scrape through the tests.Now I know quite a bit of physics too! including quantum mechanics.(Hope my QM teacher doesn't read this).We had wonderful professors ever willing to guide and encourage us,sometimes strict, sometimes easygoing.Its hard not to get smitten by their passion for the subject! Iam obliged to thank them all! Dr Anna Siromoney,Dr Mercy Rajasekhar,Dr Usha Desai,Ms Sabitha, Ms Kalavathi Shanthi,Ms Joice,Ms Christina Nancy! How lucky we were to have You! I wouldn't get another chance to sit in your classes.I cant believe its all over.And to all my friends(Shakthi,Anjaly,Sharmila,Nivea,Suganya,Grace,Prathyusha,Jennifer,Charis.. and the list goes on...) who made my time in WCC unforgettable.Thank You! I will miss you all! Though I wish We didn't have to leave,Life offers bigger and better opportunities, so keep moving on and stay true to spirit of WCC 'Lighted to Lighten'. God bless.

                                                                                          

Stand out of the ordinary!!

Be unique!!

Stress Bursterrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!

Mr.Schrodinger and Mr.Newton completely confused by the way Kepler behaved.Higgsy Bossy and Messy and dont believe, hard work and hardly any work.Superstitious beliefs and supreme success over a cup of hot vanilla icecream.Make no sense.just words.Rubbish if you want to call it.Idiot,Chuck out of life. No,I can and i ll do it.Partiality and nothing else.a piece of paperrrrrrrr and a long long looooooooooooong report. no use, no listeners and yes life is a boon to all those who do not grrrrrrrrrr or gurrrrrrrrrrr or murrrrrrrr with it.entrance examinations and travelogues, crazy and mess it up.Love all. live and let live. Over flow of thoughts.piano, instrumental in a approchable yet unapproachable way to decide whatever is happening to the great indian economy in producing the arithmetic of the logical formulae of the romance of music..aiyo!Bessel functions of all types is none of my type..enthralling and always exalted about the universal phenomena involved in the metamorphosis of a dead butterfly.. Sing and let it throw on you the influence of highly talented optimistic people with the highest degree of pessimistic approah in life.miss you, love you and yeah hate you in a way history and geography made their way into civics examination and finally became lawyers at the nearby hospital to investigate criminal cases in the department of food management and water crisis.
 Truly, Physically, chemically, blogically, historically, geographically, anatomically, astrologically, physiologically, astronomically, fully, completely, hardly, shortly, bravely, psychologically, enduringly, cinematically, mathematically, lovingly, faithfully, honestly, surely all the above furnished details are true to my knowledge except for the fact that Chief ingredient Mr.coordination is out of the coverage area!!
Please try again later!!!
Insanity overload!!!

Life is all about living.

Kharagpur,Here we come!

After crossing innumerable hurdles,We boarded the shalimar express from chennai on the 27th morning at 9.30.We were on our way to Kharagpur to participate in IIT's ksitij.Annual techno-management fest of IIT Kharagpur.The train journey was uneventful,we hadn't prepared anything for our event'Disha'.So much of our time was spent in brainstorming for ideas.We could just manage to prepare a 2 page document.Hadn't even started preparing the ppt.We reached Kharagpur,the following morning at 11.30 tired and famished(blame the eastern railways for the awesome food they provided!)It took another 45 minutes by auto to reach IIT.Once inside IIT we had to hunt for the registration desk,the campus was a sprawling 2000 acres!There was a long queue at the registration desk,finally after an ardous 30 minutes in the afternoon sun we registered for accomodation.We were provided lodging at Transit hostel.Roughly a km from the registration desk.In a hurry to get to our 'rooms' (i had no idea what was in store for us)I left my borrowed digital camera on the desk.Fortunately for my friend, from whom i had borrowed it i remembered it just in time before we got into the rickshaw,ran back to the desk,it was lying where i had left it.We reached our hostel soon and were made to wait in the lounge(If you can call it that) for a volunteer to officially check us in.I was hoping for some sort of a small room just for the two of us.Instead we got a small room attached with a bathroom to be shared by 22 participants.Already half starved to death(we hadn't eaten since the previous night)We didn't have much energy left to even complain.Quickly we got dressed and left for a meeting for the participants of DISHA.Before that we had to refuel ourselves.We saw a canteen on the way to registration desk.Thinking it would be good,I ordered dal,rice and curry.My friend wisely opted for noodles.One mouth of the rice i had had enough!There was a strange not so good smell emnating from the Chawal and the dal curry was hopeless to say the least.Having been used to hot sambar rice from down south,this felt utterly inedible,yet people were queing up to get their meals.Cursing myself for having left the comforts of home,We went to the main building for the meeting.It turned out it was not a meeting at all.The organisers wanted to take a look at our solutions( ppts).We had none!We set to work immediately.By the time we finished it was close to 2.00 am!Outside it was bitterly cold,thankfully i had my jacket,my poor friend forgot to bring hers.Together we walked back the two kms in silence. We were too tired to talk,but my mind was reeling with questions. I was feeling lost. What on earth was i doing in this strange place at this unearthly hour when i could be sleeping in my bed?! There was very little space available in the room but one corner of the bed was unoccupied.We had to squeeze ourselves to fit into the little space.We had to be up by 7.00,that would give us sometime to rehearse before the actual event at 9.00 am.The light was turned on,someone was watching a korean teleserial on the laptop, non stop chitchat, there were no clean blankets or pillows available but nothing bothered us.We slept like logs for the next few hours. We woke up at 7.00,already feeling claustrophobic we went downstairs to the waiting room to practice our presentation.Honestly we didn't have any hopes of winning.We just wanted to get it over with as soon as possible.Back in the room it was still very cold and no way we were going to take bath in the freezing water.Who knows one could even catch pneumonia or tuberculosis! We dint want to risk it. we washed our faces and set out to the auditorium for our presentation.There were 10 finalists but 3 of them couldn't make it to Kharagpur.So Seven.The Judges arrived.All eminent personalities from the social sector.The presentations began.We were 4th or 5th team to present.We were getting restless sitting and watching other teams on stage.Finally it was our turn,though we had rehearsed considerable number of times we couldn't do our best.Much of what we wanted to say were left unsaid.Ours was the briefest presentation,lasting just about 6 minutes while the other teams went on to exceed the time limit of 13 minutes.We were asked 3 or 4 questions by the judges.I must say We managed quite well.We had no intentions of watching the rest of the teams. We left the auditorium, very glad that it was over.We had figured out that were better restaurants available on  campus. So we walked to one such open air restaurant and ordered greasy food.

We ate to our heart's content,the food wasn't great but atleast not inedible(Looks tempting though!)After the heavy luch,We trudjed back to the auditorium just in time for the results.Lo and behold !we were adjudged the winners!!The first place was a tie,so we shared the honours with another team from Tamil nadu!The rest of the time was Spent in basking in the glory of success.Quite literally I was basking in the sun the whole of next day.It was a huge confidence booster for us,having come this far from home.(1547kms to be precise)We weren't expecting it so it was all the more sweeter!The train journey back home was wonderful.We weren't worried about the food this time.We were going home!.Learnt three bengali words from our co-passengers.After a 26 hour journey,the Kanyakumari express reached chennai!There were intense expressions of joy and happiness written on our faces!We couldn't hide it! We won in IIT!I went home to enjoy a sumptuous meal prepared by my mom and slept that night dreaming position and momentum operators!I had quantum mechanics assignment test the next day in college!

Nature and Serenity.....