Give Peace a Chance 🙏🏾

 May the world move away from War...may Russians and Ukrainians know Peace...

May we humans give the Environment a chance to Breathe without bombs, arms and ammunition 🙏🏾

Happy New Year and Humble Thanks...

  Wishing ...An Awsum New Year and Humble Thanks to All of You who spare time to read my blog...

🙏🏾

31st December 2015...

 FB is informing me its new years eve and that i should tell my friends... what i am gonna do to celebrate :( 

FB i thought you gave us reason to celebrate all 365 days of the year and inform the Universe about it ...right ;)  

so whats in the name of a day ;) 

didn't u make 'each day' 'flamboyant' for most of us eh ? ;)

The ant and the grasshopper by Somerset Maugham

Started a new podcast few months ago...

https://anchor.fm/she-isms/episodes/The-ant-and-the-grasshopper-by-Somerset-Maugham-e1stbcl

https://anchor.fm/she-isms/episodes/The-ant-and-the-grasshopper-by-Somerset-Maugham-e1stbcl

The new age Voyeur...

 It's one thing to have a few off key notes in a political party... and quite another to see a large Contingent of ex road side romeo types who willed away time... the usual sadak chaap/roadside wastrel way...acing at cat calls and being a general nuisance to the community...

Imagine these types get Lucky and big time Sooo... from being a nuisance for society...they get double promotion and are the regulators of the very society that they riled and troubled no end...

It's like waking up one fine day and Literally realising that ...the wastrel back benchers with the least bit of respect for anything or anyone and limited, Wrong knowledge... got Lucky ...like no hardworking frontbencher ever got... and heights of heights they are the government of the locality...

When such kind of anomalies happen... Rest Assured that the inherent voyeur in them will be anything but inherently voyeuristic... And will Necessarily... shout out about the voyeurism from their Rooftops:/

Good Times???

Depraved and Degeneration Personified!!!

My privacy vs Your Right and privacy...

 When the privacy of my home and even the bathroom can be invaded...why is some information of some people sacrosanct???

Aren't we still in the feudal times??? 

Anyone could enter poor people's homes and all upper classes were marauders...If they Chose to be... those days...

However

Now even those serving in public office and Don't know how to use a laptop can be Voyeuristic and look into any house Anywhere...new age orange for you...

Do you folk have A Conscience???

Nameless, faceless, invisible Entities... I Soooo Look Down upon...

Today you laugh at my expense...But ... tomorrow someone you Abhor might pull A You on Thineselves...

Then what will you Do???

Life and society today trying to reach the Pinnacle of Technological Advances...

Good Times...No???

Sickening to the core...

Appam and stew...

 Appam and vegetable stew--kind of... without the milk which is added to vegetable stews ... Coconuts lying around are developing cracks... Ergo trying to finish them ASAP... also...appam and stew is very convenient to make... since I add a whole coconut for 3 cups of soaked raw rice... the taste is Superlative...

Learnt this technique of making dosha like appams in the Annamalais ... during a helping session for a district party...the GM's wife was very helpful a person to new brides about the ways of catering and serving large crowds...Ditto about the executives wives...

Everyone gave tips and were encouraging and helpfull with praise too...

This dosha technique of making appams came in handy in assssssssssam when I cooked for a district tea party ...i made 200 appams and stew...along with tomato chutney sandwiches, gulab jamuns, boiled eggs, chickpea lentil fritters aka paripp vadas and the regular fillers like chips and savouries...since I made everything... the total expenditure in 2004 was ₹650 ... the lowest cost in the district for hosting a post lawn tennis...tea party...

Those days i longed for Pune and the convience of buying stuff like sandwiches and cakes from a place like Marz O Rin here...

In hindsight I feel that was healthy catering and satisfying too...

Only thing that day was the fact that I didn't wake up my elder child and I remember feeling terribly guilty when he woke up by himself and came and wished me in the kitchen a little after noon..it was the Latest my baby had zzzzed for... 

But I started at 6am and cooked non stop till 2pm and was well ahead of time to pay out and serve tea...

All of mohokutie tea estaten was in attendance and appreciated my money management and keeping costs sooo low...

Years later in 2008 i was in-charge of food and beverage during a college fest and for some twisted reason... the director slashed food rates from the Standard ₹40 a plate to ₹20 a plate... and I Aced at cost management and used the fact that I lived in the locality of the college All my Life to my advantage and delivered a Fait Accompli...

Pre and post that college fest ...no faculty had to rake their brains to cater at half the normal catering rate...

We never know What we are being Tested for...i kept my eye on the Goal in front of me and took Life one day at a time...

In assssssssssam and Pune ...my very Life was at stake for no fault of mine...

But I got out of assssssssssssssam alive and that was something I doubted Many times ...as circumstances were dangerous and highly complicated...