The day we started to cook...

After lots of discussion and thoughts we finally decided to start cooking at home (bangalore). What is supposed to be the cleanest place in the house is where we dump everything. Dirty clothes' bag, dust bin, everyday news papers, water bottles, shuttle rackets, bunch of tooth brushes, tooth pastes and what not.. Since we have decided to cook and I am the one who wanted to do it the most, it was my responsibility to clean the kitchen. Ah.. friday evening, But I had to clean, since we have booked for a new gas connection, which can arrive any time.  

While I was doing the kitchen, I heard the calling bell. I was so immersed in cleaning that I didn't bother about it. After a few seconds another ring came through. I dropped the brumstick and then cleaned my hands with the near by newspaper and then eagerly opened the door. A guy was standing with the gas cylinder. I asked him to keep the cylinder in the kitched where we kept our dirty clothes bag before. He, then assembled the new Pigeon gas stove which was kept unused in the closet for more than a year. We were pretty excited about our first cooking experiment. 

He fired the gas stove and the stove flamed with bright blue light. My nose smelled odor of gas and I turned around to find the exhaust fan switch (yeah.. I had to find it, since we never have to turn it before!)  and turned it on, after few minutes it was better. I paid him 2550 rupees for the new gas connection and sighed him good bye. 

We have already decided what to cook today. I shut down the gas burner and them marched to a new by shop for buying cooking stuffs. We got a new packet of atta for chapathi and once we reached home we realized, we did not have chapathi roller for preparing chapathi's :) We felt stupid, but we immediately changed our plan to Dosa. So I  ran and got a packet of batter for Dosa. 

The first one was a big flop, it didn't come out properly.  I tried the second and to our suprise it was pretty good. We were encouraged by this good dosa and started the next one.. Finally we used all the batter and had a happy meal.  We then discussed about tomorrow's lunch plan. Its a week end, so we have some time to kill and hence we planned for a big menu :)

And today's lunch was also good! Not good really, but better than what we thought!! After the good meal comes the tough part of cleaning it, but we have to sacrifice something to get something..

Do you know Benny Lava???

I stumpledupon a blog about Benny Lava.. Benny Lava is the name given to an Indian actor by a bunch of western fans(really fans??!).. So just read the blog little more and came to know that Benny Lava aka Prabhu deva..

Buffalax, a youtube user, added english subtitles to a Tamil song.. subtitles based on what he heard and it's not a translation.. And it became a hit in youtube with more than 9,835,326 views.. sounds funny ah..! Take a break from your days work.. watch it here..

Nobody escapes from this economy crisis!!

Its all well few months back.. everybody is happy in Cisco with good pay hikes.. but that happiness didn't last long.. (Nooo they didn't rollback the hike by the way!!) Cisco is always projected as company which can handle economy down turn with ease.. Even in 2001 Cisco managed very well and Cisco sees these economy down turn as an opportunity to come out well, where as our competitors with many in-house problems are having tough time battling them and not to say about economy slow-down..

But this time even Cisco is not spared.. Spree of cost cutting measure were taken out across all cisco location and one of them is to force the employee to take leave this christmas and new year.. Company will be shut down for around 10 days and Cisco saves considerable amount of money..

In one way it is good to take leave, but people are worried where this will lead us to...
Everybody is hoping that Cisco will come back well.. With the foresight of our senior leadership, (standard slogan in every cisco meeting!!) we will fight back well.. Hopefully!!