What a time for the H1N1 virus to enter the country - the festive season’s just begun.
Janamasthami (Dahi-Haandi) & Ganapathi-Visarjan (Ganesh Chaturthi) – the 2 communal festivals celebrated in humongous numbers – are on its way.
BEAT THIS …
The Govt is still debating whether to but a ban on public celebrations or just do away with precautionary pamphlets!
Didn’t we learn from Mexico & Italy, how to manage the epidemic spread quickly and efficiently!!
Or is it the Democratic way to control the population!
Who shall I ask this question – Gulam Nabi Azad – our minister of Health & Family Welfare?
Sir, perhaps you could enlighten us here!
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
H1N1 - Swine Flu
Pune has been declared the most polluted city of India – 07 Aug 2009
All public places have been closed – Schools, Colleges, Malls and even Multiplexes
The state government is trying everything to monitor the increasing number of swine flu cases in the city.
But isn’t this a tad-bit-too-late?
Perhaps the magnanimity of the proliferating death tolls hadn’t hit us then
Or
Perhaps we assumed that the Western world viruses won’t infest into the trench of the developing world!
Either ways, the reality has hit us and hit us hard this time …. Swine is a pandemic!
There you go … while I pen-down … the news flashes …. count reaches 10
All public places have been closed – Schools, Colleges, Malls and even Multiplexes
The state government is trying everything to monitor the increasing number of swine flu cases in the city.
But isn’t this a tad-bit-too-late?
Perhaps the magnanimity of the proliferating death tolls hadn’t hit us then
Or
Perhaps we assumed that the Western world viruses won’t infest into the trench of the developing world!
Either ways, the reality has hit us and hit us hard this time …. Swine is a pandemic!
There you go … while I pen-down … the news flashes …. count reaches 10
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater
Read these beautifully true lines on women
Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater.
If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby.
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home.
If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit!
Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater.
If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby.
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home.
If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit!
Monday, 26 January 2009
Cinderella Pantomime
It’s been ages since the last time I penned down, the reason being my social engagements during the Xmas season and a few personal commitments.
Christmas was yet again fun filled and Merry!
The best was the Cinderella pantomime @ Shaw Theatre Euston – an amazing girlie night out. The glamorous chicks from work – Jenny Harry, Tricia Birch, Jo Pink, Sima Naran & me!
The evening started with a glass of mulled wine at a local pub – the best way to relax and cut from work thoughts…..
We reached the theatre at 7:00 and it was full of kids presumably from 2 different schools … so that made us a few selected adults in the hall for the panto!!
The play was enacted gorgeously and me in my bubbly-self was shouting and shrieking with the kids.
It was not all about fairy god mother or Cinderella or her lost shoe …. It was also about nursery rhymes …
My fav still being
Old McDonald had a farm
Eeya eeya oh!
On that farm he had a chick
Eeya eeya oh!
Here a chick,
There a chick,
Every where a chick chick
Old McDonald had a farm
NB: Yeah, H didn’t make it this time & I missed her a lot. At least the theatre pple were grateful that it was just me and not the Gang!
Christmas was yet again fun filled and Merry!
The best was the Cinderella pantomime @ Shaw Theatre Euston – an amazing girlie night out. The glamorous chicks from work – Jenny Harry, Tricia Birch, Jo Pink, Sima Naran & me!
The evening started with a glass of mulled wine at a local pub – the best way to relax and cut from work thoughts…..
We reached the theatre at 7:00 and it was full of kids presumably from 2 different schools … so that made us a few selected adults in the hall for the panto!!
The play was enacted gorgeously and me in my bubbly-self was shouting and shrieking with the kids.
It was not all about fairy god mother or Cinderella or her lost shoe …. It was also about nursery rhymes …
My fav still being
Old McDonald had a farm
Eeya eeya oh!
On that farm he had a chick
Eeya eeya oh!
Here a chick,
There a chick,
Every where a chick chick
Old McDonald had a farm
NB: Yeah, H didn’t make it this time & I missed her a lot. At least the theatre pple were grateful that it was just me and not the Gang!
Sunday, 4 January 2009
i carry your heart with me by ee cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Finally!!
I impressed H with my baking skills ;-)
We had coffee and cake and chatted for so long over a movie
just like old days .... its pretty late in the night and i am not tired ... just plain happy
nah
ecstatic is the word!
We had coffee and cake and chatted for so long over a movie
just like old days .... its pretty late in the night and i am not tired ... just plain happy
nah
ecstatic is the word!
Friday, 21 November 2008
Cake, H & Me
These days I have been too worked up trying to balance my personal goals with the work pressure. I feel like a zombie and my reaction time is reduced as if under the influence of alcohol!
My managers have to give in to my extreme dedication of working and providing accurate results ……. No off and working on weekends for straight 2 weeks with only 5 hrs of sleep everyday.
Kitchen is the only place where I get to relax myself with extreme pleasure!
So I decided to bake this new 5 minute instant microwave cake …. Checked the ingredients and realised the only thing I required was baking powder, which I bought on my way home.
To surprise H with my baking skills I decided to bake the cake while she was still upstairs busy with her laptop. She gets hooked to that wretched thing the moments she gets into the house till I give her a peace of my mind for ignoring me! (These days by the time I get home its way past 10 and she is almost wrapping up for the day)
Anyways, back to the cake making business of de-stressing myself.
While getting the ingredients together I realised that I would have to use Coffee instead of Cocoa and will have to do without vanilla essence.
So I decided I will make ginger cake with Nescafe!
Once the mix got ready I realised there wasn’t enough sugar in the house (remember I haven’t got more than 5hrs of sleep in 2 weeks now)
Anyways, the final outcome was a diet ginger cake with less sugar and oil!
H decided to do the honours to take the first bite and she liked it so I insisted her to take another piece which she gladly did. I felt good about it!
After a long tired day at work atleast I was still good in the kitchen!
While talking to her about the cake I took a bite and arghhhhhhhhhhhhh
I ran to the bin and spit out the ‘shit’ in the bin. It was the most horrible thing I had ever put in my mouth!
H said she didn’t want to make me feel bad esp with my current schedule and so she had 2 pieces of that ‘Cake’. The sweetness she is … I decided to bake another cake.
I am always this excited and enthusiastic about everything in life irrespective of my schedule!
And this time it was another special reason – to impress H with my baking skills!
The second cake didn’t had ginger but Coffee instead of Cocoa and brown sugar in place of white sugar and no vanilla essence. H said “Trust me it tastes better than the first one but still the diet cake feeling”.
I didn’t taste it.
Next morning while I was still in bed, H came back munching on the cake and said “Babe, let me be honest. The cake is crap and there is something seriously missing”
I got out of my bed, went to the kitchen, threw the cake into the bin, dressed up for work and left home a bit ashamed at my deteriorating skills in the kitchen!
I have decided to bake the cake when I am in full senses to ‘impress H’.
My managers have to give in to my extreme dedication of working and providing accurate results ……. No off and working on weekends for straight 2 weeks with only 5 hrs of sleep everyday.
Kitchen is the only place where I get to relax myself with extreme pleasure!
So I decided to bake this new 5 minute instant microwave cake …. Checked the ingredients and realised the only thing I required was baking powder, which I bought on my way home.
To surprise H with my baking skills I decided to bake the cake while she was still upstairs busy with her laptop. She gets hooked to that wretched thing the moments she gets into the house till I give her a peace of my mind for ignoring me! (These days by the time I get home its way past 10 and she is almost wrapping up for the day)
Anyways, back to the cake making business of de-stressing myself.
While getting the ingredients together I realised that I would have to use Coffee instead of Cocoa and will have to do without vanilla essence.
So I decided I will make ginger cake with Nescafe!
Once the mix got ready I realised there wasn’t enough sugar in the house (remember I haven’t got more than 5hrs of sleep in 2 weeks now)
Anyways, the final outcome was a diet ginger cake with less sugar and oil!
H decided to do the honours to take the first bite and she liked it so I insisted her to take another piece which she gladly did. I felt good about it!
After a long tired day at work atleast I was still good in the kitchen!
While talking to her about the cake I took a bite and arghhhhhhhhhhhhh
I ran to the bin and spit out the ‘shit’ in the bin. It was the most horrible thing I had ever put in my mouth!
H said she didn’t want to make me feel bad esp with my current schedule and so she had 2 pieces of that ‘Cake’. The sweetness she is … I decided to bake another cake.
I am always this excited and enthusiastic about everything in life irrespective of my schedule!
And this time it was another special reason – to impress H with my baking skills!
The second cake didn’t had ginger but Coffee instead of Cocoa and brown sugar in place of white sugar and no vanilla essence. H said “Trust me it tastes better than the first one but still the diet cake feeling”.
I didn’t taste it.
Next morning while I was still in bed, H came back munching on the cake and said “Babe, let me be honest. The cake is crap and there is something seriously missing”
I got out of my bed, went to the kitchen, threw the cake into the bin, dressed up for work and left home a bit ashamed at my deteriorating skills in the kitchen!
I have decided to bake the cake when I am in full senses to ‘impress H’.
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