January 30, 2004
Ummm....Doc....
Please spare the recipe details ;-)
Leave that to our taste buds as and when we get to taste it :-D. Then we'll decide about your cooking skills :p
Cheers...!!
Vits
P.S. Me planning on going skiing next monday night...
Please spare the recipe details ;-)
Leave that to our taste buds as and when we get to taste it :-D. Then we'll decide about your cooking skills :p
Cheers...!!
Vits
P.S. Me planning on going skiing next monday night...
January 28, 2004
The pains in making pav bhaji......are not all that much. Infact the complete thing can be done in under 40 mins including cutting etc. What I am not counting is the warming up of the buns. That I think even our very own sirdee can do without much fuss. So take a few potatoes, peel and cut em, a little cauliflower and whatever else is left in your fridge. A little bit of water and steam them.
Meanwhile, cut onions, loads of em, mean atleast three and tomato. Saute them both and add chilies and ginger and whatever masalas you want too. Mash the steamed veggies and mix everything. 5 mins down the line and presto, you are done. So you see, not all that difficult. An interesting thing to make. Now only if I could prepare bhel puri like the thele wala.
Now I have been receiving a lot of requests to make a full meal when I am in India. Surely I will do it. So head over anytime. Help me in cutting the stuff and I can cook it. Hozzat!!!!!!!!!
My brother got engaged among a lot of ado, January the 26th 2004, republic day. I was on the phone for quite a while. Let the bill come and then I can commit suicide for going bankrupt. Donations for my bill paying are gladly accepted.
Have one homework due tomorrow, so me will hit the books, actually one book only and get that done.
Taking a break
Meanwhile, cut onions, loads of em, mean atleast three and tomato. Saute them both and add chilies and ginger and whatever masalas you want too. Mash the steamed veggies and mix everything. 5 mins down the line and presto, you are done. So you see, not all that difficult. An interesting thing to make. Now only if I could prepare bhel puri like the thele wala.
Now I have been receiving a lot of requests to make a full meal when I am in India. Surely I will do it. So head over anytime. Help me in cutting the stuff and I can cook it. Hozzat!!!!!!!!!
My brother got engaged among a lot of ado, January the 26th 2004, republic day. I was on the phone for quite a while. Let the bill come and then I can commit suicide for going bankrupt. Donations for my bill paying are gladly accepted.
Have one homework due tomorrow, so me will hit the books, actually one book only and get that done.
Taking a break
January 23, 2004
Though I might update this thing a little more. Hey, you ppl should remind me to do this. Atleast mail me. "Update the blog." Usually I play squash on wednesday with the former ME grad council president(you can guess who the current one is?) But this wednesday he was busy, so he mailed me that he would be able to. I write back a one liner chat style. The reply. Your spelling is absolutely wonderful. :-)
Ok, at the days goes by, india gets another anniversary for becoming a republic and it conincides with my bothers to be anniversary. Thats neat. For all those in delhi, and even outside, are invited to the ring ceremony.
What have you all been upto all this time. Well I made some aloo tikki's this past evening, and they came out quite nice. So had fun eating them(what else). Three are still left. Available on a first come basis. No booking.
Today in the morning I had a meeting with the dean for international affairs. Interesting fellow, quite nice to talk to. The graduate office for internal students wants to organize a periodic event for the internation grads. Anything goes. My name was recommended by my grad secretary. Well, so I will most probably end up on the advisoree committee to the the new organizations. It would be called RISA - Rackham International Student Organization. Dearest Sirdee should tell us the meaning of this word(please post and tell).
Well that was today. And it snows again. Today morning it was a seething -17C. I am sweating out here. Can someone get a cooler please and a surahi. Luv ya all
Ok, at the days goes by, india gets another anniversary for becoming a republic and it conincides with my bothers to be anniversary. Thats neat. For all those in delhi, and even outside, are invited to the ring ceremony.
What have you all been upto all this time. Well I made some aloo tikki's this past evening, and they came out quite nice. So had fun eating them(what else). Three are still left. Available on a first come basis. No booking.
Today in the morning I had a meeting with the dean for international affairs. Interesting fellow, quite nice to talk to. The graduate office for internal students wants to organize a periodic event for the internation grads. Anything goes. My name was recommended by my grad secretary. Well, so I will most probably end up on the advisoree committee to the the new organizations. It would be called RISA - Rackham International Student Organization. Dearest Sirdee should tell us the meaning of this word(please post and tell).
Well that was today. And it snows again. Today morning it was a seething -17C. I am sweating out here. Can someone get a cooler please and a surahi. Luv ya all
January 19, 2004
Hey Gyro,
Get to the frikkin point....stop kidding about with this marriage thingy....about time to come clean.......!!!!!
Cheers...!!
Vits
Get to the frikkin point....stop kidding about with this marriage thingy....about time to come clean.......!!!!!
Cheers...!!
Vits
January 15, 2004
The "Vits" Has Arrived
I'm sure you've heard it before....but I say it again here....
Life Stinks
Had a pretty good trip back home. But thanks to some people who didn't turn up (Read CLC), I was left asking for more...and more...But then you would say one never gets enough.
The trip back was horrific to say the least. First the "trauma" of having to leave after "just" 3 weeks, next having to stopover for 10 hrs at the Moscow Airport (trust me...it's worse than it sounds). Follow all that up with my nightmare in NYC (missed bus to Harrisburg by 5 mts and had to wait for 6 hrs more for the next bus in the frikkin bus station)...you have all the ingredients to make up for one hell of a concoction.
I got back to Harrisburg at 7.30 AM and took a lil time to just get used to the fact that I was back to where I have all my classes and research and tutoring and all that work to do (just thinking about all that work made me sick for a minute). I dunno if it was the jet-lag or the tiredness of all that waiting/sitting but I could just manage a shower and then hit the sack by 9 AM. When I woke up, it was 8 PM. I had slept through the day and missed my first class which was from 6-9 PM. I figured what the hell and slept for another 2 hrs....:-).
As for today, I'm trying to get to meet most of the people I need to for my job and research work and get the grind started all over again.
Watch this space for more updates from me and oh yeah, don't forget the scoop on the trip to India :-)
Cheerio...
Vits
I'm sure you've heard it before....but I say it again here....
Life Stinks
Had a pretty good trip back home. But thanks to some people who didn't turn up (Read CLC), I was left asking for more...and more...But then you would say one never gets enough.
The trip back was horrific to say the least. First the "trauma" of having to leave after "just" 3 weeks, next having to stopover for 10 hrs at the Moscow Airport (trust me...it's worse than it sounds). Follow all that up with my nightmare in NYC (missed bus to Harrisburg by 5 mts and had to wait for 6 hrs more for the next bus in the frikkin bus station)...you have all the ingredients to make up for one hell of a concoction.
I got back to Harrisburg at 7.30 AM and took a lil time to just get used to the fact that I was back to where I have all my classes and research and tutoring and all that work to do (just thinking about all that work made me sick for a minute). I dunno if it was the jet-lag or the tiredness of all that waiting/sitting but I could just manage a shower and then hit the sack by 9 AM. When I woke up, it was 8 PM. I had slept through the day and missed my first class which was from 6-9 PM. I figured what the hell and slept for another 2 hrs....:-).
As for today, I'm trying to get to meet most of the people I need to for my job and research work and get the grind started all over again.
Watch this space for more updates from me and oh yeah, don't forget the scoop on the trip to India :-)
Cheerio...
Vits
January 14, 2004
Oh, I forgot to add. PLEASE ACCEPT MY INVITATION. Even if you dont want to post, you can LEAVE COMMENTS.
Another day with lots of snow. Already 3 inches on the ground and more expected. To about 6 inches till night. Spent the complete morning in a chem lab. Was helping out in static pressure testing of our reactor. Unfortunately after 3 hours we found a small leak and sicne we cant do anything, we left it. Kuch to karenge hi. One para of what we are trying to is here.LTT Research Group
Its interesting, to find a leak, you hook everything up, put pressure inside the reactor and then put a leak finder liquid on all the joints. Where there is a leak, small bubbles start forming, just like finding a puncture. Good point is that the leak leaks only at high pressures, not on low ones, so we should be ok. Bad news is that we will be operating at high pressures. Good news is that we can tighten it more so that its ok at high pressures. Bad news is that it is leaking from a port that is disconnected. So there is crosstalk in the two stream channels inside. Really not good.
Made veggie noodles yesterday and oh yes, tomato soup. Surprisingly, I have managed to survive here without eating non-veg for more than 2 weeks now. religiously pack myself a lunch box and get here and eat it. You can blame the cafeteria for increasing their price for the stupid food that they serve there. Now they even serve sushi. Well, I want food, not fish.
Its interesting, to find a leak, you hook everything up, put pressure inside the reactor and then put a leak finder liquid on all the joints. Where there is a leak, small bubbles start forming, just like finding a puncture. Good point is that the leak leaks only at high pressures, not on low ones, so we should be ok. Bad news is that we will be operating at high pressures. Good news is that we can tighten it more so that its ok at high pressures. Bad news is that it is leaking from a port that is disconnected. So there is crosstalk in the two stream channels inside. Really not good.
Made veggie noodles yesterday and oh yes, tomato soup. Surprisingly, I have managed to survive here without eating non-veg for more than 2 weeks now. religiously pack myself a lunch box and get here and eat it. You can blame the cafeteria for increasing their price for the stupid food that they serve there. Now they even serve sushi. Well, I want food, not fish.
January 11, 2004
Hello, welcome to the the blog. Ah, where are the rest, sleeping. No doubt they are complaning the lack of contact. Ok, saturday the 10th, skiing day. Left at 9 in the morning, and headed to a place called mt brighton. hardly a mountain, a man made hump on the ground covered with man made snow. Oh yes, they have snow makers there, which spew out snow at quite an impressive rate.
My first time at skiing. But I would say, my ice-skating helped. So we bought a package, got 1 1/2 hour of training and then practised on the bunny hill.(bunny=begginerest). I got the hang of that while the others had to struggle a bit. Eventually, we all came out nicely and manged to come down the hill in one piece. Once though I had a nice tumble and lost a ski and fell on my face pretty hard. No harm, did I mention that snow is soft.
Post lunch session(which consisted of horribly expensive and bad pizza) we headed back and had the most productive time. The guys headed to the intermediate slope with the gals still on the bunny slope. Well about 5-6 runs down the intermediate and still in one piece. That was good. The worst part were the rope tows. To get up the hill, you hold a rope going up and just get pulled up. And you have to hold the rope pretty hard. So my hands were getting sore and more sore while my gloves lost quite a bit of the inner surface. Getting up the bunny slope was fine, but the intermediate specially towarrds the higher side, where the slope is steeper, it took some holding.
Then me and another guy got a little more zealeous and decided to elevate outselves to another level. There they had ski lift, which looked so much better than the tope tows. So up we went and got a reprimand up there that we dint have the appropriate passes. We said and ok and down we went(via the snow route offcourse). Now this was fun, atleast teh slope lasted for some time as compared to the others which got over before they even began.
Well, net results, lots of fun, great time, and a sore aching body. Took a hot bath yesterday and capped the day with Munna Bhai MBBS, do see this one, its a fun movie.
All right you guys, I am expecting atleast two lines. Cheers
My first time at skiing. But I would say, my ice-skating helped. So we bought a package, got 1 1/2 hour of training and then practised on the bunny hill.(bunny=begginerest). I got the hang of that while the others had to struggle a bit. Eventually, we all came out nicely and manged to come down the hill in one piece. Once though I had a nice tumble and lost a ski and fell on my face pretty hard. No harm, did I mention that snow is soft.
Post lunch session(which consisted of horribly expensive and bad pizza) we headed back and had the most productive time. The guys headed to the intermediate slope with the gals still on the bunny slope. Well about 5-6 runs down the intermediate and still in one piece. That was good. The worst part were the rope tows. To get up the hill, you hold a rope going up and just get pulled up. And you have to hold the rope pretty hard. So my hands were getting sore and more sore while my gloves lost quite a bit of the inner surface. Getting up the bunny slope was fine, but the intermediate specially towarrds the higher side, where the slope is steeper, it took some holding.
Then me and another guy got a little more zealeous and decided to elevate outselves to another level. There they had ski lift, which looked so much better than the tope tows. So up we went and got a reprimand up there that we dint have the appropriate passes. We said and ok and down we went(via the snow route offcourse). Now this was fun, atleast teh slope lasted for some time as compared to the others which got over before they even began.
Well, net results, lots of fun, great time, and a sore aching body. Took a hot bath yesterday and capped the day with Munna Bhai MBBS, do see this one, its a fun movie.
All right you guys, I am expecting atleast two lines. Cheers
January 08, 2004
Another visit to the school of dentistry and my last filling has been filled. Takes 2 1/2 hours to get it done. Each visit that is. There students attend to you and that means that they take their time with the instructors coming in and checking if you are doing it correctly or not.
Plans are also afoot to go ice-skating this saturday. Would be an interesting experience. Will update post saturday. Remind me if I dont. That way you can post something there too. Reminders only via posting on the blog. Enjoy
Plans are also afoot to go ice-skating this saturday. Would be an interesting experience. Will update post saturday. Remind me if I dont. That way you can post something there too. Reminders only via posting on the blog. Enjoy
January 07, 2004
Hello again,
This is another attempt at making the people contribute something. I know, can be done via groups emails too, but hey, no harm in some more enthu to know what all you are upto. I know for sure that vittal is enjoying his curd rice. The southi restaurants here are ok sorts. There is a nice one about 45 mins aways where I have gone once.
So dudes and dudecess, please accept the invit and post any crap that comes to your mind. That can include what you may have in the past hour too. Trust me to post some crap here. Ah, ,my car is at the mechanic. Time to call and ask if she is ready for pickup or not. Cheerio for this one. Waiting for you all. And ah, Happy New Year
This is another attempt at making the people contribute something. I know, can be done via groups emails too, but hey, no harm in some more enthu to know what all you are upto. I know for sure that vittal is enjoying his curd rice. The southi restaurants here are ok sorts. There is a nice one about 45 mins aways where I have gone once.
So dudes and dudecess, please accept the invit and post any crap that comes to your mind. That can include what you may have in the past hour too. Trust me to post some crap here. Ah, ,my car is at the mechanic. Time to call and ask if she is ready for pickup or not. Cheerio for this one. Waiting for you all. And ah, Happy New Year
January 05, 2004
Monday, the manic one. I have almost finalized the courses that I will be taking this semester. Almost is the keyword here. Just need two more. I had hoped for a non course semester this, only research, but as it turns out, I need two more. So here I am taking some arbit courses. Nothing good is being offered that I want to take. Pratical spectroscopy sounds nice. I even thought about taking financial engineering.
And wow, the sem has barely started and I have meeting lined up. NOn counting my advisor meeting tommorow, i have two more, 10 am and 11 am. I dont even know if I can make the first one. Things are going to be hot this semester. But I am sure it will all downhill from there onwards.
And wow, the sem has barely started and I have meeting lined up. NOn counting my advisor meeting tommorow, i have two more, 10 am and 11 am. I dont even know if I can make the first one. Things are going to be hot this semester. But I am sure it will all downhill from there onwards.
January 01, 2004
January the first 2004. I don't know how this year promises to be. But I have full plans to make this one an interesting year. Not that my previous years haven't been interesting. This will be a better one. The year was brought in with a nice get together at Suresh's place. Nice fun it was. And for a change, the food was really really awesome. I really enjoyed the food. Followed the south Indian way by not using any form of cutelery. All hands. There was pav bhaji, puri, sabji(mixed), rajma, paneer and hyderabadi chicken biryani that actually dint turn all that bad.
We played some stupid fun games as usual. Dumb C, antakshari etal. Finally the stoke of twelve was welcomed by a black forrest cake and some champagne. The festivities continued for a couple more hours, but then I left to get some beauty sleep. Now January the first and this person sits in 2046 GGB trying to get work done.
Welcome to 2004.
We played some stupid fun games as usual. Dumb C, antakshari etal. Finally the stoke of twelve was welcomed by a black forrest cake and some champagne. The festivities continued for a couple more hours, but then I left to get some beauty sleep. Now January the first and this person sits in 2046 GGB trying to get work done.
Welcome to 2004.
