Simple recipe...

When you feel tired and do not want to spend more time in cooking, you can very well make an attempt on this simple recipe.

Required items:
Bread - 8
Onion - Finely chopped
Tomato - Finely chopped
Lettuce - Finely chopped
Sooji (Rava) - 4 teaspoons
Curd - 3-4 teaspoons
Salt, Chilli powder - small amount for additional taste/flavour

Method: Mix sooji and curd and add the finely chopped onion, tomato, lettuce, salt and chilli powder. Mix well until it comes like a paste. Take the breads and spread this paste on those breads - one side/two sides as you wish. Once it is spreaded, put the bread in the non-stick pan and keep it until it turns brown. Then toast it on the other side. To check whether it is toasted well, break the bread lightly and see if the paste exists as it was applied. If so, you have to put it in pan for some more time.

Done! Simple and easy to make. Just takes 10-15 mins depending on how many you are about to make. I have given you a simple recipe. Can you name it??? Try it out! And do let me know whether you liked it!

Nxg

I am quite late in writing about Nxg although I have been reading the columns of Nxg in 'The Hindu's website for months. I appreciate the young authors who are contributing to the Nxg columns. The way they write is sensible. If I were given a pen and paper and ask to write those columns, I would end up in simply thinking. Their writing is natural and they do have different columns which is good. Young people tend to have fresh ideas and that's how Nxg is born.

I salute Nxg and its young authors and wish that they emerge as the best of the best.

Nxg, they make it happen here:
http://www.go-nxg.com/

Poem...

I was walking near my apt and started with verses for a new poem...It suddenly hit my mind without any reason. I sat and wrote the whole poem as it started flowing continuously from my mind. I wrote it in Tamil and read it after I felt that I have completed it...

But now, I forgot where I kept it after leaving the place. Need to find that small piece of paper which has the tamil inscriptions legibly engraved on it...

Although I remember the verses that I wrote, I want to post it here the way it was actually written - A photocopy of it...But where will I find it? Oh...My poem...Where are you hiding?

:)

Performances...

I don't know what should I call this as! Last week, I wrote a post about Maanada Mayilada dance show where I mentioned about Lokesh - my favourite contestant to emerge as the best performer. And he has got the best performer award this week :) That was an unanimous decision. And he deserves it.

Watched Super Singer show and was dumbstuck to see so many good singers in Chennai zone alone. My judging capabilities has grown so intense that I can say whether the person would be selected by just listening to the beginning lines and the shruthi that matches it. I was almost right in every contestant's try. And my favourite performer cum singer MKB is a contestant again in SS this year. I am hoping that he will atleast come till the final level this year. His forte is his performing attitude...

Keeping fingers crossed XXX...

New Search...

I guess most of today's hits on the web would be on 'Cuil' - the new search engine from a group of Googlers. Although there is more information on the net about Google and Cuil and how they are going to compete each other, I am going to get away from this topic.

I checked Cuil site and I dont want to compare it with Google site. But, the first and foremost thing that came to my mind after seeing it is:
Cuil - Looks more professional and well structered
Google - Looks so creative and unique

Lets see what happens in the next few years...

Admiration Vs Hatredness

Looks like I am in a great flow of writing today...

When do you think that you can admire at a person? When you feel that the particular thing is great which you are wanted to do something like that but unable to do which someone else does - You admire at them. There may be lot of people to admire at, in your life but you just have few of them in your top list. There is one such person whom I admire at. He is Sherman Praveen who was in my team for a two day Personality Development class called 'Journey in Attitude' where our team emerged as the winners :) Although I did not talk much to SP, I remember he was telling us that he wanted to quit his IT job and work in helping people mentally to achieve success. Although I did not understand his core idea, I thought he is capable of doing it. After few years, I found his name in a local newspaper that he conducts Personality Development classes in Chennai for students through his new venture. It has become a hit and I see ads regarding his classes often nowadays. Good to see people like him who does what they love to do.

There are few things which sounds illogical in life but more common and when I talk against it, all my friends, relatives and family members claim that what they see as common thing is right. A wrong thing will not become right since everyone does that. But people tend to think like that. I term it as 'Materialistic life'. I hate it to the core and nowadays I have stopped talking about it. To me, life is not all about education, work, marriage, kids, bungalow, car, jewellery. The first two are important but I dont agree with the rest of these things. It's upto each one of us how we want to live but to have all these as mandatory things is what I dont agree. I dont get it why people are so crazy about this Materialistic life? ......This is called Hatredness

Nintendo...

Did not touch Nintendo for the past 3 weeks and played it today. But I flunked it too badly as I could not even get above 1000 in the Brain Academy game which is considered to be one of the easiest. I have a bad habit when I play Nintendo. I would be engrossed in the whole game and without a distraction, i would always want to win the games. Hence if there is some incoming call when I was playing, whatever or whoever be it is, I ignore it. Has to find an alternative way to get rid of this habit or has to play when noone can call me esp. during early mornings :)

Movie Time

I saw the movie 'The Departed' on Saturday night and it's one of the movie that made me sit even after it was 12:00 at night. I liked the movie, especially Matt Damon's character.

Watched 'Hancock' today and it was not the type that I like. I did not read the review before because I did not have any plans to watch it today. It was jus another movie and I did not like it. I watched the movie among the number of choices that I had only because Will Smith acted in that. I have been smashed away by his acting in 'The Hitch' and 'The Pursuit of Happyness' earlier and hence thought Will would have shown a different flavour in this movie but not worth watching.

Naan Thedum...

One of the most favourite song of mine. Whenever I hear the beginning aalap by Maestro, you can see goosebumps. I always thought how an aalap can be rendered flawlessly and without a breath in between. Ilayaraja has an unique voice and so does Bavadharini. I like both their voices so much.

Take a look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn3PPs4aqMo

Thanks to FT!!!

I subscribed for Frozen thoughts for a whole year and my first issue for June had to reach me during mid of June. It came as expected but just the cover and there was no book inside :( I called the FT office in Chennai and enquired about that. The guy who spoke was so considerate and assured me that he would get me another copy soon. I was not sure whether he would do as he said but still had this in mind 'If he does not send me in another 15-20 days, I'll cancel the subscription' and thanked him for his response and hung up.

I forgot this whole episode and to my surprise, I got the June edition after 4 days I spoke to FT team. I would thank FT for their prompt response and this is what will keep them going. Thanks FT!

And I did read the 'Unposted letter' which is my favourite section in FT. Part of my positive thinking and to rise amid disappointments has been imbibed through reading FT for months. It's a great source of inspiration to me. I am going to give my feedback to FT for their Boomerang section and my long term idea is to write a column for FT but not sure how feasible it is, though :)

For those who do not know about this magazine, visit
www.frozenthoughts.com

Three cheers to FT!

Maanada Mayilada...

Having a passion for dance, I did not leave this show too...Have been consistently watching the show since the day of its inception this year. When I started watching the first show, I was like 'Whatz this title - Maanada Mayilada? Kevalama irukumnu nenaikiren' - This is what I told my roomie. Later, my interest in watching the show increased because of the theme and the variety the contestants show. 2 hours easily passes away...Today is one another day like that...I was totally engrossed in watching the Celebration round.

Although most of them dance well, I have my set of favourite contestants for different reasons. Among the male contestants, my vote goes to Lokesh. Being consistent in expression, attitude and dance (of course :)), he deserves to get the best performer award. He humbly accepts whatever comments are given by the judges. Among the female contestants, my vote goes to Priyadharshini. What a delicate dancer she is - To be frank, I used to think - Indha nelivu sulivellam epdi ivlo easya varudhu? ;) She never overreacts or over express herself...I like that :) Apart from all these, I should confess one thing that I am a fan of dancer Bala...:)) Whenever me and my roomie watch the show together and Bala appears on the stage, my roomie used to say - 'Ungaalu vandhachu' for which my response would be a smile with a full stop....:))

I miss my dance :((

Start-up...

I was reading this 'What inspires people to startup?' and suddenly this flashed my mind - 'What inspires me to startup?' Literally speaking, I dont have a startup but I would like to... It's my dream...My pathway to Success!...That's my wish, my hope for future and what not? Easier said than done :) I remember watching the KWA show in VijayTV where the music legend ARR talked about his dream of making an Orchaestrial Symphony and that inspired him to start his conservatory. It took him 8 years to implement this idea.

Actually speaking, it is not easy to set a startup. Everyone knows that. It requires years of toil and passion, plethora of ideas, capital, resources etc., On the other day, I was talking to one of my friends when he quoted about his group of friends who have a small startup and what they do in business. As always, I had the same question - "When they are devoid of ideas after their startup goes fine for few years, what will they do? It's nervecracking when I think about it...". But got an answer from him that it's not like the way I think. When you start and move forward, you will always have various areas of improvement and enhancement that keeps you going. Maybe, he's true.

It's fascinating to hear people's success stories but at the same time it's a great learning too...For some of them, entrepreneurship is dream, to some - it's money, to some - it's ideas, to some - it's that passion in that area that percolated their minds, to some - it's an outer world from the 8/5 monotonous job....If you ask, to me what it is? It's a blend of all these above :))

There are not much people in India who would like to give it a shot. People are afraid of taking risks but want to savor the taste of success...But if there is someone who could give me support and motivation, it would be a great asset to me...Wat say???

Sensible Speech...

A tremendous effort and an awesome speech - This is what I thought after seeing this girl speak in the UN conference before a huge crowd. You are what you do and not what you say! - A sentence that shows how sensible it was! I am dumbstuck after watching the video.

Watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0

School of Music

Happened to see this while I skimmed through the news in 'The Hindu'. For a person like me who has a passion for Music, this is a great news. Although I came to know about this school after a year of its inception, I am glad that I know about it now. Wanted to join but not sure its procedure and requirements. Had emailed them about it and lets see how it goes...

You could check this out by googling or read today's edition of 'The Hindu'.

Syanora............

Sharanu Siddhi...

While I was cleaning my stuff @ home, found a bunch of print-outs and was wondering what it was!I had got my music class notes from India and those were in the print outs. When I had those in my hands, I started rendering each one of them starting with Sharanu Siddhi...It was my first song in the music class. Although the music classes did not long last, I still remember the swara in a way that it was taught to me. Also, I remember those high pitches in some songs and when the music teacher asks me to go for a high pitch, I used to sing aloud thinking that it was meant to be the high pitch and later came to know the nuances of it. But, still I tend to sing loud when it comes to high pitch...a habitual thing to be changed, I guess...

Here is the link for this devotional song's lyrics:
http://www.karnatik.com/c2625.shtml

Couldn't find a link for the song :(

Dhaam Dhoom

Heard few songs in Dhaam Dhoom and liked this particular song a lot - Sakiye En Ilam Sakiye...It's been playing in my ipod repeatedly. I have become a fan of Krish's voice now. Next to Harish, my favourite is Krish. Whenever I hear Krish's singing, I feel he has got a background karoake with his voice :) and that's what I like the most in his singing nature. Although Krish has only sung very few lines in this song, it's amazing!

There's another song called 'Anbae en Anbae' rendered by Harish R and it's second in my list after Sakiye...Harris Jeyaraj's musical tendency is easily recognizable in these songs.

Looks like I am more into music nowadays :))

Listen to Sakiye here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ7akrByp30&feature=related