All over the lunch table

Just sharing the incident happened over lunch table at cafeteria today. Prateek was talking about something interesting as usual and we were enjoying the talk, these days election campaign is on the heights so TV Screens with news channel was showing people of Gandhi family of Indian National Congress. Prateek remembered that he used to tease one of his Sikh friend by saying that Gandhi family has some issue with Sikhs, he quoted the riots in Punjab was a result of decision taken by Indira Gandhi. And later on he continued saying that he used to say to sardar that because of this people from Gandhi family have lost their life. He added more by saying that Sonia to be on safe side has given a chance to Sikh by appointment of Prime Minister from India.
He was simply saying the points he might have put in front of his sardar friend just to make him respond back a good laughing session was going on, all of sudden we got attracted by the TV Screen where news channel was showing a journalist throwing show on Home Minister P. Chidambaram. It moved our discussion from the issue and we actually started discussing why journalist can hit on the target, Bush remained unbeaten by them and so is the home minister. We were discussing to develop software for journalists so that they can simulate the hit before actually trying it. After having more such funny discussion all were quietly having nice lunch. Suddenly Prateek started laughing again and in his laugh he passed the message that journalist was sardar and was asking some question about the riots only. Now Prateek left his food and started asking us to finish it fast, normally he is the last person to finish his part at lunch, he was eager to go to his desk today … you all can guess why??


Sometime back his sardar was online and he wanted to tease him again with the issue :)

Trip to Kanyakumari

I was back in campus for mid-term evaluation of my project, evaluation was scheduled on Friday, so i reached calicut a day advance on Thursday morning, full day spent with friends talking about here and there, finally at night prepared project report and the presentation for tomorrow's evaluation. by noon presentation got over and we were decided to go to Kanyakumari, we have tried to get car from Raju bhaiya but as he was little busy with some work we couldn't got from him. finally we got a Wagon-R from the Abdul Cheta, many times we rented bikes from him for small journeys but this time we have planned to go almost 500 Km bike will not be a good option.
We all got into car and started our journey at 4PM. This was first time i was driving a Wagon-R. and car was good with good pickup and electronic steering. at night 2AM we reached Trivandrum which was our decided first halt. Our two seniors Mr.Shashi and Mr.Bhagat with one of our super senior Mr Arun welcomed us their.

We stayed at their flat for the night, as per our daily schedule we got up from beds late and continued our journey to Kanyakumari after visiting State Bank Recruitment Cell for some work. We took a break at Kovalum beach, it was nice beach full of foreigners taking sunbath and enjoying the sea waves.

On the way we got attracted with Nagarcoil waterfall sign-boards, although it was 15km out of the way, we decided to visit that also, some how we found the waterfalls and all our expectations went wrong when we saw the waterfall, it was very small one. any way we clicked some pics there and continued journey towards endpoint of peninsular India.



Ooo i missed out the introduction of the crew this time guddu and salam were with our alltime NIT gang APJ (Amit, Pavan and Jayant). Five of us reached Kanyakumari at about 6PM. It was nice to be there we spent time sitting near to the sea-shore. As the boat service to the Vivekananda rock was closed by the time so we didn't went to the meditation rock. Done with some purchasing we we got into the car for return journey it was 9PM so we thought to have dinner here itself and got into a restaurant. after a nice dinner started our return journey and we were back at Trivandrum at 11:30 PM.

Something extraordinary we got up early in the morning to visit famous Padmanabhswamy Temple after temple i met one of my BCA batch mate Raees. and then we were on our return journey, we stopped at Alphozha backwaters which was again a new place for all of us. By 6 PM we were back in Campus and fully tired with the journey. At night again i have to travel to Bangalore to be present in the office Monday morning. Nice experience.

As it was too hot during day journey everyone was trying to do something to get rid of the boredom sitting quite in the car. We captured a video also while returning on the Kochi Highway

Sprite Dal

Don't think too much about the title.. read about what happened exactly

Last weekend all my NIT friends came to Bangalore for masti and a break. i had shifted to new room last weekend so they all came to my room. As weekend was the only time with them they all were returning back on Sunday night. My roommate, who was with his friend Manish last night was coming back to room, but i went to inter-state Bus stand to give send off to my friends. i called Viney before going to Majestic and said him that today we'll prepare our food at room itself, also Viney's friend Manish was also coming to our room for tonight and being very good cook he always like to prepare food.finally i left with my friends to kick them out from Bangalore..

It was around 10PM and i was on the way back to room, i got a call from Viney that we have not purchased salt, as it was newly setup kitchen we only had things which were good enough to prepare tea/coffee. it was first day we were going to cook so we found that salt was not purchased. I reached home with a salt packet and i went out to call SHRUTI. They prepared rice and dal + bhindhi.

After i finished call, i entered room and got into their talk, they were discussing how come dal is sweet, Manish was not getting how come dal got sweetness, i thought let it be after tasting so much variety of food i don't have problem in trying out this dal. i went to kitchen and saw the small little bottle in which i have kept some sprite left out last night, when i offered that sprite to these people they asked me back is that SPRITE(a colorless cold drink brand), finally they started laughing , they have used SPRITE for preparation of dal.. now finally they got how dal has not got its original flavor, now Manish was also relaxed as he found that he hasn't done any mistake, his cooking is still good. We had that sweet dal as gujrati dish with rice and bhindi prepared along...

Hey what are you planing now something like Pepsi chhole, frooti rajma or colin rice like Rinku suggested to me