Closing the year on a good note!

2008 - A year full of promises, surprises and changes for me. needless to say some of the unfortunate moments as well.
This post will be about a personality who has made a huge difference to me and my life.

She was born in a small town.
She was the eldest in the family.
She grew up in a royal environment.
She studied well;
She became a role model for all the other kids who grew up in the family.
She made friends who went on to become friends with the entire family.
She was pious; She obeyed her parents.
She taught me what is prayers.
She was cheerful.
She was beautiful. She is Aishwarya but not Rai.
She was logical.
She was disciplined.
She was calm.
She was the first to goto college from her home.
She kept in touch with all the childhood friends. She valued each of them.
She worked as a teacher.
She became poor someday.
She had a very rich aunt.
She got married. (or her Aunt got her married)
She became rich again.
She adored her husband.
She lost her father.
She became a mother of 2 kids.
She loves everybody like her own.
Later...
Her aunt became poor.
But she is rich.
She is high on status now.
She is being abused for that by her aunt.
She still trusts on God.
She still loves all of us.
She still is calm.

She is my Sister. Saying 'She is my cousin sister' does not take me any far from her.

This post is very important to me as she is one of the most inspiring person in my life.
She means a lot to me.
Touch wood, we are the closest of sisters now and her kids love me and I love them like mine.
She is sweet.
May God give her all that she needs in life.
May this new year bring all the wonders to her life.

Extending my hearty wishes to all of you for a very very happy new year!
Godspeed to you Good people!

Take care.

A disgusting bid.....

its been a sort of emptiness within me.. for the past 2 days. 2008 was a great time spent in a much greater way. a lot of remarkable things amidst the other hard path that i took through. pretty more friends made along the way. some very new ppl, some of them who were known before as just hi-bye friends were added to 'good' friends category.

sometimes mind thinks why things move so fast. this fast moving life, is it really required.. so many rattling thoughts. why things start so fast and end within no time. are all those that i do over the millions of seconds make sense? at least to something or somebody somewhere in this huge world. sometimes i think if I'm over doing things, other times i doubt if I'm doing anything at all. at times I'm so stingy at making a single phone call while that evening i go out and spend on something thats so materialistic.

why not life is full of only good things, fun times and happiness, why would the sad part emerge in, why do i get so depressed at nothing, why do i not hesitate indulging in fights, why do i pretend being cool when I'm really not. why do i object showing love in front of others, why should i get the hell out of what I'm working on, why should i even care at making my deliverables, damn it, so prefect.. they all gonna bring in what!? money or only they make me a prefect human or what i am. Am i not good as just me. why do i have to do a hell lotta thing to prove what I'm capable of. or they are just gonna make up for those times when i had hurt people.. life is meaningful only after all that!? heavy or light, why should such feelings ramble over the good night's sleep. its a lot of craziness.

i have to read the words 'live life' to realize that i'm living something called life and i have to live it, across the mountains and valleys that i cross to work everyday. the mind is silent and wants to not think of anything, but shallow breaths queue up and tells me that 'you are uncomfortable listening to few things'. it is when i get to embrace the feeling of loneliness. why should i feel lonely even after being in the bird's nest like a place. its disgusting to know that i 'have to' live life so far off from my loved ones. why do i not simply live life at the place i like, with the people who make a difference to me and stop running around aiming at achieveing something, running all around towards nothingness. i have to damn it hope that tomorrow will be more colorful, tomorrow will carry something which i really would want to take it up and not couple up those disgusting things which i ever was scared of. its shameful to even say that i am SCARED of thinking if i would have a way ahead. a standard that i have to maintain for myself. a dignified standard!

it just goes on.. on and on.

sometimes its better to spit out those bitter herbs rather than clubbing it inside, cogitating, because of the medicinal effect that it has which would be helpful at later point of time. i do not want it.

Barbeque Nation - Awesome!!

One of the wonderful restaurants I've ever been to!
What on earth they don't have! I really wonder.. Right from the ambiance to food, service.. 'Awesome' will be way too less a description for this place.
You are a non vegetarian lover.. then this is the place to be!!

There have 3 outlets in Bangalore Kormangla, JP Nagar and Domlur. I got to venture @ the Domlur outlet as I heard this is the bestest of all. We got to occupy a table at the rooftop and with Bangalore weather rocking in this season, an absolute treat to ur eyes and ur taste buds..
They had both sofas and chairs for seating and as always, my choice was sofa! The arrangement was pretty spacious leading to a nice ambiance. Being a Sunday lunch, the crowd was perfect, not in excess neither less was it.

Coming to the food, it was a buffet lunch and they had lovely barbeque's starters made right on the table. The helpers come and neatly arrange the oven for you. They leave the masalas and oil (some 4 different types -mustard, soya bean blah-blah) on the table and you can add them to the taste you want it to be. Then they start leaving the items one after the other. It hardly any veggie food, but a whole different amazing varieties of non veg.. I'm restricted to consume non veg and so could just take a look at it.

the bowls placed on either side had the chutneys and the oil varieties.

What I could observe is that the food is already cooked in the kitchen and the whole process of leaving it in the oven etc just goes to the entertainment part, meaning it just gives a different feel and probably u can keep your food hot for however long u want them to be. Apart from the tandoori stuff, they had something made out of baby corn and fried fruits which had apple, papaya, pineapple and grapes. a lot of fried stuff in vegetarian, i simply loved them.
The starters part is the best in fact, its unlimited and they keep serving until u go ahead put the flag down indicating that they can stop serving starters. I was literally done here itself as we continued with just starters itself for more than an hour.

The main course had good varieties, but nothing was special as such, just the names were different and the food was the usual taste. they had an egg salad with boiled eggs soaked in some mild sauce and tomatoes (cut in big pieces), a different dish which I never came across, that was the highlight amongst all. Macaroni, pastas and the rest were as usual, the breads with paneer curry, fried rice, briyanis etc.

This was followed by desserts. 1st and foremost thing about this part is the arrangement, that itself brought a lot of temptations. There were decent number of varieties. rasmalai, a custard, ice creams with different sauces- chocolate, pista and mango. they made a wonderful combination.

I'm not sure how clear is the pic below. its anyways here for you!

I must mention about the customer care. we had ordered for a drink separately and I went for something called 'chocolate monk'. i was almost about to finish the drink and I could find a piece of plastic, its not even of the size of a pepper, but still I just called the guy there and showed it to him, note: it was not a complaint raised. But still he went ahead and changed the drink for me immediately. Ultimate service right!? And this is what I would call Value for the money!!

My 1st drink:

The replacement:

Awesome right!!?

And that's the end of the story.

The cost part was pretty ok, it was 500 bucks per buffet. I have paid 300+ in some of the average restaurants so many times. And considering the replacement drink factor, I was ready to pay even an extra 100 bucks :D And people said if we would have gone for La'Carte its not easy getting out without a min cheq of 1000 bucks.

Overall rating from my end- :) :) :)

A lil extra:

Awareness/Value-add/Just another business motto!?

Yesterday.. being a Sunday, we got to venture in front of the idiot box sometime.
Amidst the interesting programmes were the annoying ads! and that's where I got to watch this disgusting one.

the one for co*do*. a lady comes in n she, by her looks, is like the biggest B! people would do anything and everything for money n India would be the No1 country in such a list. she goes around preaching that co*do* is not a bad word, the mind that thinks irrelevant things when it comes across this word is perverted. Wat a crazy logic! anybody in the world who comes across this particular word (is, was) will think of the direct implication which could be nothing but s**!

Particularly in a country like ours, I do not understand the need of it, when I have got to study about this in my IXth class science studies, XI th class Biology and when the boys entering the so called 'teens' start talking about the C word, F word, A word etc right from their say VIIIth class. Such things when not realized by the current generation via all these forms, they think this will be an effective way to spread the core idea.. In such a form, is it really adding value!?

Okay, u tend to say that 'we want people to understand that it is not a bad thing to know'. Exactly! I go with you. But it puts me into disgust when I sit in the big hall with so many people around, in my living room with my family and suddenly such a thing of 'no bad' is being so explicitly declared that its not a bad thing at all. There were several ways of spreading this awareness in the past. I could find 'we 2-ours 2' posters in every street of my town @ my 15. Are they not decent words!? Did it not bring in change!?
For instance- I was a 1984 born. My parents (not a doc, not an engr) had this basic thing in those years itself and we are just 2 at my home. I can count the number of my batch mates who were more than 2 and it definitely is way too less, probably in 2 digits. I would even say, the servant maid at my home who had 5+ children, 2 of them were daughters and they were married sometime during the end of last century AND they stopped with 2 kids. I seriously think the current generation, to which I belong, is way too ahead of things. A lot is planned and is being properly executed.

You preach it to spread logic of safer se*!? Bull $hit! I even know a batch mate of mine who conceived just in a period of 3 months time after her wedding. She is an Engineering grad. and the reason she gave was that it was accidental. Do you think she did not know what is CO*DO*!?

So let's stop getting such things so public, and only this is when I start analyzing what's really bad about it, rather than just taking what is being directly conveyed! Let this 'awareness spreading logic' stay as decent as it ever was!
Bottom line: I condemn this whole CO*DO* ad logic being relayed particularly in TV channels!