People.Places.

Ever wondered what makes a person trace his eldest brother's wife's first uncle's neighbor's brother living in some corner of the US when he goes there? No distance or familiarity or the lack of it can stop one from getting hold of some souls on landing in a totally new place. That's pretty understandable too!Man craves for company, for more than anything else, security.Some level of security crops into the mind that he/she has some folks familiar to them that they can turn to when in trouble.
At my previous workplace which was relatively small,if people could avoid bumping into one another, it would be a great achievement altogether. Yet, day in and day out, most of the the encounters would go unacknowledged keeping the ostensibly unfamiliar people,unfamiliar. As were so many others,a person I saw mostly everyday ( of course leave,weekends,holidays etc claim for exceptions) never cared to talk to me anytime for over 1.5 years. Well, not that person alone to be blamed, I never cared a bit more to talk either.Well, that was a disease I gradually picked up after entering the corporate sphere.Fake a smile only to the people concerned,in the business sense, at the most.After all, how often can your ego afford to get offended for not getting a response for your greeting?Only later I got to know that it takes a lot from people to smile back!!
Coming back to the supposedly unfamiliar person,when I happened to see her at another place that was quite unfamiliar to me and very unfamiliar to her,she came forward to strike a conversation.Speak she did with so much comfort giving a feeling that I have known her for over 1.5 years.Unfamiliar places do make unfamiliar people familiar!! Strange are (wo)man's ways!! Of late,We reach out if need be and not for anything in the world,otherwise!!

Married,Yet Available!!

A married guy claims himself "Available"!!! What is supposed to be his wife's reaction? Should he be spared for all the love she has for him or punished for his deed? Is it short of any offence?

Offence it is not!! What is his mistake after all, if Google talk offers 'Available' status message too, irrespective of the user being married or not?!!

:P

Be Idol. Judge Idol

A singing competion audition. A contestant with a strong will to sing and become a great singer, sings. Does not impress the panel.Gets rejected. Nothing to vent about here. Everything stuck to protocol there. A person makes an attempt and since only the best can survive, if he could not sing well, it is fair enough to get rejected and the decison of the panel is respected.But, a role model, an idol, an icon from the panel judging the judiciousness of one's dream and saying one has to dream to one's capacity and not beyond that, was horrendous. If the contestant was a truck cleaner, does that mean he should not dream of being a singer? It would not offend if he had told that he does not have it in him to sing, but to say that to cherish dreams, which was seeming as if,of 'sophisticated-class' was not for him,was disgusting.I hope Annu Malek was not intending to demotivate the poor (literally too) contestant,and he remarked on those lines at the spur of the moment, but would it not have hurt the poor guy? Would it not have demotivated him?Big B would never be Big B if had not cherished dreams of becoming BIG despite a series of initial flop movies. Neither would Abdul Kalam or Dhirubhai Ambani have been whatever they went on to be if they had not dreamed the sophisticated-dreams!!
Let the Indian idols be judged by Indian Idols themselves !! Let the right to dream be left alone!

Culinary S'kill's

Well, very recently, I was struck with a very adventurous, challenging, first-of-its-kind, brilliant and highly social-service oriented idea. And I also know that I am the only person who is capable of and destined to do it. The origin of the inspiration is the fact that whenever I have held my hands on any cookbook (confessed, out of compulsion), I always see that only one method of a dish preparation would be mentioned in each of those, with no guarantee of the out-coming taste, and to try things differently, one has to own a library of cookbooks which is quite impractical. After all, all the time can’t be spent collecting and reading cookbooks you know, one has to cook too!!!

So, I thought I should author a cookbook that would do away with the need to gather different cookbooks to try out dishes and save a lot of time, money and serving the purpose with guarantee of taste too!! Now, is that not a social- service? So, I will compile all my recipes with dedicated effort and publish “HOW NOT TO COOK” book. Now, is this not a one time solution to the cooking–woes? Just follow any method but the one mentioned in the book, so there you get multiple cooking options and of course, guaranteed taste too!!!

There’s one risk though, I would like to admit.
As the world knows, “The way to the husband's heart is his stomach". If you make the best utilization of the book, your husband’s love for you might not increase as it can for me. If you follow “HOW NOT TO COOK” properly, you end up cooking real tasty food, hence he will eat his stomach-full, hence the way is jammed, hence you can’t reach his heart!! If you can keep him starving, the way looks gliding smooth and clear, isn’t it? ;) It’s up to you to decide, what’s better for you, good food or husband’s love. I would prefer the latter one for sure (Mind you, mutually exclusive, they are!!).