embarrassing moment..s

Listening to loud music with ur head phones on in office. except that u have connected the headphone to mic jack instead of the head phone jack.

Luckily for me the embarrassment was limited as I sit in a cube/cave alone with just another guy . who BTW laughed his heart out

Avinash was not all that lucky, he sits with the whole integration team. He borrowed kingfisher headphone and was so eager to listen to music, started playing it even before he connected them.

Ravi comments, let him fly the good times :P

walking into glass walls, I did it in Music world, I didn't break anything neither the glass not my head. except for my shape :P shape hoytu ashte

we have frosted glass doors in out pantry thanks to my super boss, :D he walked into a glass door one of those days, with in a week all glass doors got frosted. He broke his nose I heard.

Pulling on a door which opens by pushing!! grrr. In my old building u push the door and get in and u pull the door and get out and here.... ! cant they even maintain protocol?

haha one day I was tryin to be anti chauvinistic and wanted to open the door for people and yeah u guessed it I am pulling hard at a door which opens by pushing! :D

and typos.. when typing... sec.. pantry.. grrr...

Flutter

just read the blog flutter by M about how thoughts link to each other... the world flutter reminded me of that bird, ( more like the picture of the bird came to my head) My cat is a sweetie cutest little thing, but its a killing machine allright. I heard a bird tweet and stop suddenly, I knew. :-( Its a really sick feeling. I got sonu to leave the bird in time before it died. It flew around in the house for a while and then I opened the window to let it out. I saw it sit under the window and pant. I saw its heart flutter. It was one sad sight. having pets is a real heart break. I felt bad that i d take away sonu;s prized catch, it kept meowing for a while. now I felt bad seeing that tiny little birds heart flutter like crazy. hope it lives after all this feeling bad. thinking of feeling bad I read about this joint suicide today parents have committed suicide, their son who;s 7 came back from school, he saw both his parents dead, he didnt know what to do he went to his friends house, didnt tell them anything. itseems stayed there till evening. evening he had no where else to go, he went home and called his grandpa and told him his parents are not talking to him :( That was the saddest thing I have read for a while. poor poor kid :(.

Karela cousin

I found this new veggie in MK Ahmed, I asked him for the name. I never could catch it. It looked like a cross between a rat and a karela and a jackgruit. It had the texture of karela, size and tail of a rat and shape of a really tiny jackfruit :-) I cooked it today and ... it was yummy!! or what! but what is it? enquiries with a few mallu friends( MK ahmed is a mallu store) turned out nothing. Then i tell my mum that I am eating this wonderful yummy sweet version of karela, she say yeahhhhhhhh ur granpa used to get it from our fields when we were young! ok! it turns out it is more of a Konkani veggie than a mallu one. but still no name.. so I go to google and type in "karela cousin" and there it is :-) ITs called KANTOLA!!!

photo by Sivahari.
. Its also called spicky gourd, some are callin it Indian gourd, aakakrakaya it telgu itseems. It's called ghee korola in Bengali... dono what it Konkani or Kannada..

nice to find someone who faced the same questions about life as me....http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=79369...

Just fry it with salt and chilli powder and a lil bit of oil. Its really yummy stuff that! wonder why its not more popular that it is !!!

if a fly dies does it become flu? :-P

and if u have flu, can u say u are flying? :D

modes of operation

8 dresses sorted in one day, these have been lying around my cupboard for years now, they are either loose or tight or dont have buttons or dont fit or something. and just one saturday evening. each one of them was sorted! The machine which was not touched for 6 months came out. and it didnt stall!! I even managed to wind the bobin- Ive never been able to before. cut snip stitch and it was done!

Why! I mean why was it done so easily! why couldnt I do this before? not that i havent tried. there have been many many failed attempts. The machine stalls, the thread gets stuck . or It just doesnot work out I end up stitching and re stitching and it never works out....

I realise I work in two modes heart mode and head mode. When I work in heart mode( Let us call it that for now) the work gets done real fast and well and i enjoy it. the other that is drudgery achieved with will power. pushing myself up hill. the first one is like down hill path, even on a cycle may be. I dont think when i am in heartmode, i just do. I took the chalk drew up the lines, cut it up and stitched. no measurements, no hesitation...Its kind of lettings the work flow, It doesnt just apply to stitchign, drawing, writing, gardening, even office work - very rarely i manage to get into the mode and then it flows and it works out really great.

This is not the same for many people, some ppl can do anything with their will power, they have only one mode, a good mode. They work by perspiration and not by my inspiration. I can work with perspiration too, but when i try to do that i think I sabotage myself by all these stalls and stumbles? Have those people found the trick of switching to my so called heart mode at will and no work is drudgery to them? I dont think so actually. I think they just push through the uphill on a low steady gear. They think it is duty It has to be done and it will be done and they do it well... are they built differently? ummm they have different values...

Me, I want to find the magic of switching into heart mode and sail down hill through any damn task I have at hand, I want to find the switch. I switch to Nirvana :-D