Pensive

Pensive, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

Of a punctured tyre and slanting lines.

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High on Music, Listening to the Booze

I started following a very interesting blog recently : High on Music, Listening to the Booze. He inspires me to listen to my music with a little bit more heart. His recent Steely Dan number reminded me of one of those I used to like of Steely.

Word clouds from similar time of previous years

This is the October 2005 (I had 22 post that month, highest in 2005) word cloud. Dominated by my bike trip with the guys and l.o.v.e and some escapes into arbit reading like Kant on Time. heh. Times change. The stomach is more real than many of those things.



October 2006: Echoes from my Kerela rip in August...



August 2007: Photography and Cleartrip



September 2008: Echoes off the boulders of Hampi (lingering echoes, they must be, from April), sunset's at goregaon, mahabaleshwar ... and the need to get away

Tondli Batata

Tondli Batata, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

Tondli Batata
Slice (thin) the cleaned Tondli and Potatoes
Heat oil, add halad and one finely chopped onion and saute till onions pink
Add red chili powder and little 'goda' masala and salt to taste
Add potatoes and cook for 4-6 minutes
Add Tondli and one finely chopped tomato
Cook till well done (leave the tondli a little rare for crispiness)

Henjoy!

Nipra : 7/10
Percy : 8/10
Q : 7/10
Raju : 7.5/10

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Egg Curry Sholapuri

20090831-EggCurry.jpg, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

A meal well eaten.

Egg Curry and Fulka with a Tomato-Onion-Curd-Chilli Salad. All finished. Four happy souls.

Egg Curry Sholapuri
8 eggs hard boiled for 5 minutes
onion + dry coconut power fry-roasted in oil on a shallow pan till deep brown
above mixture when cool, ground together with ginger, garlic and coriander.
haldi and kala-masala sauted in oil quickly
ground mixtures cooked in this for 1-2 minutes
salt to taste
eggs and a little water added and cooked.

Salad
1 onion shredded
3 tomatoes shredded
2 green chillies finely chopped
200gms of curd.
salt to taste
all mixed well together


percy : 8.5/10
q : 8/10
nipra : 8.5/10

hehe

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Red Maggie

Red Maggie, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

Heat a little bit of oil.
Put an onion, finely chopped, in it and saute.
add Red chili powder to taste.
add 1 finely chopped beet, saute for some time
add dark soya to it and saute for a minute
add a little bit of water and cook for some time
add more water for 2 maggies
add 2 maggie masala sachets and bring to boil
add the noodles from the two packets
cook till well done

RED MAGGIE !

Nipra gave it 8/10

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Heading off

Am heading off for some time. Posts may be intermittent. But such is life.

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Sanket has a voice which goes to my heart. Once, sitting on the steps of closed shops on the naka he sang my fav song of his for me. It was an old gazal... I recorded on my phone .. Then later I devised this video around that song .. from arbitrary clips I had shot with my k750 phone camera over the year. Those where the days of a lot of questions.

This is the story of a guy and a girl - but mostly the guy. He has questions ... he is unsuccessful in love, then dark side tempts him and he goes awry ... but his luck is in ... finally he finds peace ....

Vasu plays the hero.

Freedom

Free as a bird, they say. High above, seemingly at peace in a vast space, without restrain, without paths, without signs - at will. But the bird is tied to its mother, the earth, by an invisible force. It has to keep flapping its wings least else it will fall down. But the force is not the villain here - it is life itself, or maybe, love - in restraining the bird it also protects it from the infinite space beyond. The bird would not be 'free' as a photon is not free, even though it travels across the universe. The bird's freedom is defined by its boundary. Without context there is no meaning. Without boundary there is no freedom. The choice is not if we want boundary, the choice is in what boundary we define. And we keep redefining the boundaries when we feel the urge to venture beyond or within.



I was going through my old emails ... and I found the above piece I had written for someone dear on 22/4/2005. It is quite interesting and sometimes funny to read oneself after a gap.

danger

a dangerous thing

Past: Vidyanagari Campus

Photo by Vijay Rao

The Vidyanagari Campus of the University of Mumbai in the MID-80's. Photo taken from the water tower by my adventurous father. He had done a similar stunt sometimes in the mid 70's too.

How different was the whole world at that time. I remember the first time I had come to this place (before we actually shifted) was to see the Haley's comet. The program was held on top of the Library building. The campus seemed so huge at that time... or even later when we played chor-poolice all over the place in our summer vacations.

wonders of modern technology

I am connected to 'agni' over ssh over VPN from my MBP. I am typing this from my MBP which is connected over encrypted 802.11g network to the HP nx8220 in a peer-to-peer connection. The HP nx8220 is connected to the net with a PCMCIA Reliance Mobile NetConnect card over a CDMA 1.0x network. HP nx8220 shares the net connection with the Mac with the Win XP SP2 internet sharing - which is basically NAT :). I can also connect from a Win XP SP2 I have running in a VM on the MBP OSX. I can also connect from a Debian Sarge Release 4 I have running in a VM on the MBP OSX.

"Bazically and all that" (hehe) this enables me to connect over a ssh tunnel to any of the running Allegro images with SLIME in Emacs and hot patch.

Cool no ? :)

p.s.
the photo is me working on the MBP. scary, eh?