I have been fooling around for almost a month now, :) getting up somewhere around eight (ah! I know, it’s quite early for few people!), and sticking to the idiot box. (Gosh! it has become so dramatic these days, you won’t find much difference between news channels and saas-bahu serials! I’d love to come back on that sometime later...) And how can I not mention gtalk in this really long doing-nothing list? As for now it’s efficiently behaving as lullaby. :) I am loving it....................
So it was during one of these really busy routine of mine that surprisingly I was asked by my mother to prepare tea for her. For those who are wondering why surprisingly... my sister being a tea addict herself is always called in for such chores, not me. It’s not that I hate things related to cooking but I don’t love it either...:D Anyways at first I looked out for her, she was nowhere to be seen. No wonder my mother had asked me!
Last time when I had prepared tea was some three years back...I remember I was in 12th.My father had asked me to prepare four cups of tea. (again...neither my sister nor my mother were at home that day. So I was the chosen one.)
Anyways I ventured into it, mixed two cups of milk into equal amount of water, and added tea and sugar accordingly. (I still have no idea what amount does that “accordingly“ actually correspond to? :) :) ) It really had good taste and smell. What went wrong? Have patience my dear...As I started pouring it into cups I realized that two cups of water and milk each, had turned out into ONE cup of tea!!!!!!!!!!(Meanwhile I had all the guests waiting longingly for “THE TEA” :) ) Albeit I had miserably failed in it, I had the courage to prepare it again and serve them. Don’t ask me whether it was appreciated or not. I was quite happy that ultimately I had prepared something that could indisputably be called as tea and didn’t taste bitter........ :) :) :) :)
And then....once I was done with my schooling, I never had a chance to be involved into any such thing.
But now there I was, standing in the kitchen with milk, water, tea, sugar all in my vicinity with absolutely no idea of proportions in which they should be mixed together.(yeah, I know the ingredients! ). For milk and sugar at least I had inkling that adding them in equal proportion wouldn’t make it bad. Since I didn’t intend to relive my last experience of making tea, I resolved that adding all those ingredients appropriately for two cup of tea would eventually leave me with one cup at least!(Let me remind you, in case owing to my digressing talks you have forgotten that I was asked to prepare one cup!) And I did so...added one cup of milk and one of water, but then got stuck , how much tea and sugar should I add? One spoon or two? One,two,one,two....
I added half spoon of tea at first, felt it was quite inadequate (visually....), then half more, then a smidgen of it and then one more pinch! :) :) :) :)
Again same confused procedure was repeated for sugar as well. I ended up with one and a half cup of tea, one of which I happily gave to my mother and the other one to my sister. My mother finished it off quickly.(???????..............) :) I could see the other one kept on the table, she was about to have her first sip, I felt an urge to have it. I almost ran, snatched and had one sip, and with same pace I had to spit it out.......... :)
(Don’t ask me to describe it. Please have some mercy on my nerves... :) )
I can’t even prepare a nice cup of tea let alone cooking food! :) :) :) :) Just thinking of my future mother-in-law.......... :D :D :D
Monday, June 15, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
THE INCONTROVERTIBLE VERDICT
Now that even cabinet has been formed, I do realize that the value of this piece of writing has depreciated. Nevertheless I felt it's better late than never!
So, ultimately proving all the speculations wrong , Congress has emerged as the winner in the Lok Sabha polls, much to my relief ! No , not because I am a diehard Congress supporter or am completely mesmerized by Rahul Gandhi’s charm , rather had BJP won I would have been left perplexed for next four years , wondering how can the verdict of voters of a secular country be in favour of a party which has grown with its roots in Hindutava soil .(I am still wondering ... how did it even manage to get 160 seats! )
I can only see BJP in the form of a party whose bigwigs are held responsible for the infamous Godhra incident , catastrophic Babri Masjid demolition (and thus losing 18% of total votes !) concomitant merciless killing of thousands of Muslims in India and Hindus in Bangladesh, a party , a party which has been sabotaging communal harmony ever since it came into existence, be it Ramjanmabhoomi issue or anti-Christian riots of kandhamal. I never understood , and probably wouldn’t ever ... why would a Hindu want a temple to be built at the cost of a mosque? Or rather who wants it, people or politicians? Obviously not an educated rational citizen! And if politician , then who provides them the reins to encourage such abominable acts in our democratic country? People , right? Unfortunately, it seems this religion and caste based attempts of polarising the electorate works. Otherwise Varun Gandhi and Kalyan Singh would not have won. And Lalu Prasad Yadav wouldn’t have reigned Bihar for fifteen years.
Instead of making development as the key issue, throughout the election campaign BJP did nothing other than accusing the UPA led government for having a weak candidate for the coveted PM post, terming UPA as 125 year old “budhhiya’ and projecting L K Advani as next prime minister. People were looking for a strong alternative , a party which could have promised them an eradication of poverty, a curb on burgeoning crime, a promise of an inclusive development and what they found was a pretentious party engrossed in abandoned mud-slinging!
Owing to all these deeds , its defeat was entirely inevitable! In the post-result analysis, some political pundits have attributed Congress’s success to NREGA, some to loan-waiver scheme and many to Rahul Gandhi’s assiduous work in Uttar Pradesh. Of course all these factors would have helped, but I simply view it as a rejection of a party supporting a particular religion in a secular nation. And there are quite a few optimists who have termed this victory as the end of the ”Mandal-Kamandal era”! Let’s just hope so...
So, ultimately proving all the speculations wrong , Congress has emerged as the winner in the Lok Sabha polls, much to my relief ! No , not because I am a diehard Congress supporter or am completely mesmerized by Rahul Gandhi’s charm , rather had BJP won I would have been left perplexed for next four years , wondering how can the verdict of voters of a secular country be in favour of a party which has grown with its roots in Hindutava soil .(I am still wondering ... how did it even manage to get 160 seats! )
I can only see BJP in the form of a party whose bigwigs are held responsible for the infamous Godhra incident , catastrophic Babri Masjid demolition (and thus losing 18% of total votes !) concomitant merciless killing of thousands of Muslims in India and Hindus in Bangladesh, a party , a party which has been sabotaging communal harmony ever since it came into existence, be it Ramjanmabhoomi issue or anti-Christian riots of kandhamal. I never understood , and probably wouldn’t ever ... why would a Hindu want a temple to be built at the cost of a mosque? Or rather who wants it, people or politicians? Obviously not an educated rational citizen! And if politician , then who provides them the reins to encourage such abominable acts in our democratic country? People , right? Unfortunately, it seems this religion and caste based attempts of polarising the electorate works. Otherwise Varun Gandhi and Kalyan Singh would not have won. And Lalu Prasad Yadav wouldn’t have reigned Bihar for fifteen years.
Instead of making development as the key issue, throughout the election campaign BJP did nothing other than accusing the UPA led government for having a weak candidate for the coveted PM post, terming UPA as 125 year old “budhhiya’ and projecting L K Advani as next prime minister. People were looking for a strong alternative , a party which could have promised them an eradication of poverty, a curb on burgeoning crime, a promise of an inclusive development and what they found was a pretentious party engrossed in abandoned mud-slinging!
Owing to all these deeds , its defeat was entirely inevitable! In the post-result analysis, some political pundits have attributed Congress’s success to NREGA, some to loan-waiver scheme and many to Rahul Gandhi’s assiduous work in Uttar Pradesh. Of course all these factors would have helped, but I simply view it as a rejection of a party supporting a particular religion in a secular nation. And there are quite a few optimists who have termed this victory as the end of the ”Mandal-Kamandal era”! Let’s just hope so...
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