Thursday, December 22, 2005

Worlds grossiest looking cooking tool

Peter Petrie (egg separator)

You take Petrie and an egg


crack it inside his head, and while the yolk is blocked by the nose,the albumen tastefully drips through the nostrils and into your bowl.


Coo-hoool!!

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Crunchy Crunchy Yumm

Cacao attack!

Exceptionally chilly winter evenings.
The last time you saw the sun, was on the chillier morning ride to work.
When the 7'o clock alarm had rung, the animal instincts hidden deep within your primitive genes had cried out 'its time to hibernate'.
And when your back home,at the end of the day...your blanket and room heater seem like what today was meant for,warm cuddley lazed sleep.

And who the hell asked you to parent the kid in you,put down rules.Life was so much fun without them.
So drag yourself across the flat, change into your sneakers and dive inside your jacket and out you go.
Its unhealthy, you tell yourself, to turn into a chair-worm.

20 minutes is the max you last.Yah its one of those days when you can shut your eyes and almost sleep even while your feet are pounding the gravel.
What the hell! 20 minutes is more than zero minutes.

And then when you feel you have paid your dues...you'v worked, and you'v worked out, and now its time for you to grab the pillow and the remote...bang it hits you!

Stupid chocolate cravings.
You try to fool the kid in you.
Buy kellogs choco.its breakfast cereal...how bad can it be.
munch munch, two bites and you know it.
who the hell were you kidding.

caramels, dark chocolates, crusty wafer loaded with milk chocolate, crispes,nougat..even the otherwise detested peanut variety.
Their immaginary forms and flavours seem to fill your mouth.

Think 'that black top',
Think 'mutton chops',
what the hell, think of the 'cute guy'.
nah..nothing works.

Ghosts of all the burnt umber devils eaten over the last two decades haunt your mouth and palate,mercilessly tickle your tastebuds.
And then you just succumb.



My roommate has just returned , and has a giant stash of twix, hersheys, champagne n strawberry filled delight,
and more.
Lets say we had quite a time tonight. And I had to eat quite a bit before I could re-affirm my true love.

Bitter dark chocolates rule.


Thursday, December 01, 2005

Decembers here!

The International Risk team shifted to the new swanky office for a year.
Till the new campus gets built.
As everyone already knew...im an amazing packer.It took me precisely 10 minutes to sort, shred and pack every single paper I had ever printed, every single handout, mail, salary slip , blah.
Everyone else had packed their belongings atleast a day in advance.
Pshaw!! whats the fun in that.Theres definitely no adrenaline rush without last minute panic.

Videos from our lucknow offsite were out.S and D's snake dance was a scandalous hit.
Except for rexy no one else has been allowed to make copies.

Winters have slowly crept in...mornings are deliciously chilly.

2 years ago few friends and I had gone for a dalhousie-chamba-khajjiar trek.Spanning over 5 days, dec25 onwards, temp at night 2 degs below zero.
Your toes start going numb inspite of snow boots, and two pairs of woolen socks.
And every part of ur exposed flesh singes from the icy wind.
And only then can you appreciate the 5am royal blue sky with the sun bleeding in, throwing pink shadows across the vanilla peaks.
Cos you know the price your paying for it.
Cos you know you wouldn get this anywhere else.

Feel like starting the usual year end badgerings for 'lets go for a trip/treck'.
But 4 out of the 8 usual suspects are struck down with the marriage fever.

Gangotri seems like as distant a plan as its always been over the last few years.
Sigh.
Very few people get to enjoy it.
With their dslrs.

Peak Bhagirati


Shivling

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