My Love Bhavishyavaani

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A light hearted post for a change! I was aimlessly exploring the different applications on Facebook and hopped from one to another till I landed at an interesting one - my Love Bhavishyavaani (fortune in Hindi)! Whether its true or not, time will tell and my partner will testify but reading it was so amusing that it instantly made me feel good :D

Here's what it said:

Profile:

You are very protective about your beloved. You are totally indulgent and like to woo the opposite sex in style. Candle-lit dinners, flower bouquets, mushy greeting cards, chocolates are your weapons of choice. You are a very passionate lover. Pleasure is foremost on your mind. You know how to make your sweetheart feel special. At times you get jealous in your relationships.

Bisibelebhaat

Habbadoota!
Karnataka is the land of recipes of rice. Talk about 'chitranna', 'puliyogare', 'vangibhaat' or or even the candid 'anna-saaru'. You have an 'anna' for every 'habba'! And while we're talking about rice preparations, one cannot afford not mentioning 'Bisibelebhaat'. One of Karnataka's signature dishes, Bisibelebhaat is a favourite with the young and the old. 'Bisi' means hot in kannada; 'bele' means daal and quite explicably, 'bhaat' is rice. An extraordinary combination of spices. Like most traditions, the blending of spices to form the masala used in bisibelebhaat changes from family to family as the secrets of the winning combinations are passed on from mother to daughter. And like you must've guessed, my bisibelebhaat masala comes from my lovely mother. Though, traditionally served on large plantain leaves with 'Kosambari', a lentil salad and some 'Palya', a vegetable side dish, or even 'mosuru', that's yogurt, it goes extremely well with potato crisps, especially Pune's 'Budhani Wafers', an all time hit with my Dad!


Ingredients:
1 cup of rice
1/2 cup of toor daal
1/2 cup of potatoes
1/2 cup of peas
2 tbsp of tamarind pulp
5 tbsp bisibelebhaat masala
1 tsp red chilly powder
2 tbsp ghee


Method:
Boil the toor daal. When nearly done add the potatoes and peas to it.
Soak the tamarind in hot water and extract its pulp.
Cook the rice.
Add the daal, potatoes and peas to the rice.
Mix the bisibelebhaat masala with a little water, stir and add to the rice.
Add the tamarind pulp, the chilly powder and salt to taste.
Serve with ghee.

Pasta

Apparecchia la tavola!

Let's revive our Italiano
Apparecchia la tavola! (literally, set the table): (ah-ppah-re-kee-ah la ta-vo-lah)to prepare the table that will receive yours friends.
Gira il sugo (literally, turn the sauce): (gee-rah il soo-goh) say this when making a sauce which needs to be stirred with a spoon.
Buon appetito (have a good meal): (boo-on app-èt-it-oh) before a dinner with friends say this to the whole company and expect the same answer in return. it is a blessing for the meal to come.
Complimenti alla cuoca (compliments to the cook): (com-plee-men-tee alla coo-oka)after enjoying an excellent meal, say this to compliment your hostess and (female) to demonstrate your appreciation of her efforts. The male version is "com-plee-men-tee al coo-oko".
La specialita' della casa (the restaurant specialty): (le speh-cee-ah-lee-tah della ka-sah) use this expression to ask for the dishes characteristic of the restaurant.
Pizzeria: (pee-zzeh-ree-ah) very common restaurant where you eat the most famous Italian dish, pizza. We especially recommend pizza margherita, pizza quattro stagioni and pizza capricciosa.
Ristorante Italiano (Italian restaurant): (ree-stoh-ran-teh ee-ta-leea-noh) has an elegant atmosphere where one can enjoy typical soups, pastas, gnocchi, risotti and interesting meat and fish dishes, and where every dish is accompanied by the appropriate wine.
Antipasto (the appetizer): (an-tee-pah-stoh)it's an excellent idea to begin the dinner in the best way.
Primo piatto (the first course): (pree-moh peea-ttoh), generally it consists of pasta, soup or rice.
Secondo piatto (the second course): (she-kon-doh peea-ttoh), generally it consists of meat or fish.
Contorno (side dish): (kon-tor-noh)i is the food usually served with second course, and is usually vegetables.
Cena a lume di candela (light candle dinner): (Ce-nah a loo-meh dee can-deh-la) a romantic tête-à-tête with a special person…
Ho una fame da lupi (literally I'm hungry like a wolf): (oh oo-nah fah-meh dah loo-pih)) if you feel especially hungry, say this as a little joke about how hungry you are.
E' una buona forchetta (literally he is a good fork): (éh oo-na boo-oh-na fork-eh-ttah)an expression used to describe a gourmet, someone who enjoys eating well and appreciates high quality dishes.
Sono pieno come un uovo (literally I'm full like an egg): (soh-no pee-eh-no ko-meh un oo-oh-voh) say this when you've just finished eating and you want no more food, as an excuse for not eating anymore. It actually means that you are full, literally, "as full as an egg".
Ho l'acquolina in bocca (my mouth is watering): (hoh lah-ck-ooh-oh-lih-nah in boh-kah) say this when you see a particularly inviting dish.
Pasta al dente: (pas-tah al den-teh)when pasta is well cooked and seems almost hard and dense. This is the best way to eat pasta.

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Ingredients:
2 cups pasta
3 cups water
1 cup milk
3 medium onions, chopped
3 chillies, chopped
450g tomato puree
peas
broccoli
cauliflower
salt to taste
oil for cooking
cheese for garnishing

Method:
Boil the water and milk. Add the pasta and bring to a boil. Continue to boil till the pasta is well cooked.
Meanwhile, pour some oil in a pan. Allow it to heat.
Add the onions and fry.
Add the broccoli, cauliflower and peas. Fry for a few minutes.
Add the tomato puree and stir. Add a pinch of salt.
Add the chopped chillies.
Add the pasta to this sauce and stir well. Allow it to boil.
Add salt to taste.
Buon appetito!

Punch line

Ingredients:

Method:

wash and Boil masoor with 2 kanda and 3 tomato

separate excess water and mash

oil

heat

jeera - fry till colour change

curry leaves

ginger garlic paste

1 tbsp amti powder
1/3 tbsp chilly powder

fry for one sec

add daal to this

turmeric

coriander

1/2 sp cutneypudi

salt

toop

Chole masala

Spicy and hot!!

The other day, I was lunching with my collegue who has never been to India in his entire life and yet knows 'chole', the better known name for chick peas in Hindi. And that made me think how big a small-town dish like chole masala had made it! So, here's to chole! Served with rotis, batures or rice, but necessarily served hot.

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Ingredients:

1 cup chole
4 medium sized white onions, chopped
4 tomatoes, chopped (alternatively. tomato puree)
3 potatoes, chopped
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp mustard
4-5 curry leaves
2 bay leaves
1/2 tsp ginger garlic paste
2 tsp garam masala
2 tsp amchur powder
2 tsp chili powder
salt to taste
oil for cooking
coriander for garnishing
lemon for garnishing


Method:
Soak the chole overnight. Boil for an hour with a bay leaf.
Meanwhile pour some oil into a pan. Allow it to heat.
Add the mustard. When it starts to splutter, add the cumin seeds. Saute.
Add the curry leaves. When it turns crisp, add the bay leaf. Saute.
Add the onions and fry for a couple of minutes. Add the ginger garlic paste.
When the onions are nearly done, add the potatoes and fry.
Add the tomato (or puree) and fry.
Add the masalas (garam masala, chilly powder and amchur powder).
Add the salt to taste. Add water to match the required consistency.
Garnish with coriander leaves and lemon
Savour!!

Misal

Self Torture !!

Ingredients
200g matki
3 medium onions, chopped
2 potatoes, chopped
3 tomatoes, chopped
½ tsp ginger garlic paste
2 tbsp kanda-lasoon masala
1 tsp red chilly powder
½ cup water
salt to taste
oil for cooking

Method
Soak the matki overnight.
Drain the water and keep aside for (12+12+12) hrs so that it sprouts.
Boil the matki.
Pour some oil in a non stick pan. Allow it to heat.
Add some ginger-garlic paste. Stir twice.
Add the onions. Fry till it is half done.
Add the potato. Fry till it is half done.
Add the tomato. Fry till it is half done.
Add the kanda-lasoon masala. Follow with the chilly powder. Top up with the garam masala.
Add the matki. Add the salt to taste. If required, add the water till the consistency is satisfactory.
Relish.

Varan

It doesn't get any better than this!

Each day, I suffer the phobia of answering the question 'What shall I cook today?' and each time, Ma comes to my rescue. I still have the emails which she'd sent me in October 2006 explaining how to make Varan. And guess what, it also included tips like when to turn the stove on and off. I still remember one of her mails instucting me, 'Sona, don't eat the cardamom pods - keep them aside while eating'. That's how caring my mother is. And she gives importance to even the minute details!

Serves 4
Time taken 60 minutes

Ingredients:
1 cup of toor daal
3 medium white onions, chopped
5 green chillies, chopped
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
1 tbsp of jeera
1 tbsp of mustard
4 corns of black pepper
5 curry leaves
1/4 tsp of ginger garlic paste
1/4 tsp of turmeric
1/4 tsp of garam masala
salt to taste
oil for cooking
coriander for garnishing

Method:
Boil the toor daal till it is soft and nearly melts into the water. This should take around 30 minutes. Once done allow it to cool. Separate the daal from the water. Mash the daal.
Meanwhile, pour oil into a non-stick pan. Allow it to heat.
Add the jeera and mustard. Follow by adding the pepper corns and curry leaves.
Add the chopped onions and chillies. For for about 3 minutes.
Add the ginger garlic paste and fry a little more.
Add the chopped tomatoes. Fry.
Add the mashed daal. Allow it to boil.
Add the turmeric, garam masala and salt to taste.
Add the coriander for garnishing.
Serve piping hot.

Picture unclear. Title unclear.

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Someone mentioned today that the problem with me is not my work or my ethics. The problem is that I do not know what I am going to be doing tomorrow. True. The picture, honestly, is not quite clear to me. But more than that, i was told that I’m not stong. That I don’t always stand for what I believe in. Rather, I don’t believe very strongly in many things. Particularly, those that are related to my life. Strange, that I have very strong and clear pictures and ideas about how the world should be or what other people should do, and yet at that same time a very poor picture about what I should be or what I should do!

I don’t plan my work. I think, I can do with organizing myself a bit. I’m quite loosely held in terms of my tasks for the day. Lets see, this is day 1. From historical data, not sure if I will even see day 2! Its time to go to sleep. Can I wake up at 0540? Well, when I had to write the J2EE certification, I could! I was OK to sleep for 3½ hours that night.

Or maybe it was just a moment of weakess in which I must have appeared to be miserably disorganised. Or, maybe the picture really isn't clear. Damn. Whatever.

The best trip with my best buddies

We spent about a week in Scotland and another in England. It was Christmas/ NewYear's of Dec2007/Jan'08 and my parents were visiting me. Once they landed at LHR, we spent the first day in the suburbs of London just relaxing and giving them a chance to unwind from the 10 hour long flight.


Next, we took a train to Edinburgh reaching there in the morning. We spent the first day enjoying the tour of the castle and the other attractions on the Royal Mile covering everything on foot right down till Hollyrood Castle. We stayed in Edinburgh that night and rented a car the following morning. We drove around to Linlithgow Castle, Doune and Stirling; explored the Trossachs and the Three Lochs Forest, spent some time at Loch Lomond, met Hamish at Callander and stayed the night at Stirling. The following day, we drove via Glencoe to Ben Nevis, Castle Stalker and then followed the A82 by the side of Loch Ness, spending some time at Fort Agustus and then to Inverness where we just crashed for the night. The next morning we shopped at Inverness (it was Boxing day!) and visited Urquhart Castle before starting our drive through the beautiful Cairngorms, to reach at Dunfermline for the night stay. We returned the car the next day and embarked on our journey to London.


Once back in London, we rented a car again to do a series of day trips around London to Cambridge, Windsor, Hampton Court etc. We used the tube and walked around to get to the usual attaractions: Lords stadium, Wimbledon, Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Street, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Canary Wharf, Greenwich, Buckingham Palace, Westminister Abbey, Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, St. James Park, St. Paul's, etc.


What made this trip the best one was not the beautiful locales were in or the weather, food or culture but the amazing company I had - that of my parents - my most amazing travel buddies from whom I have inherited the travelling bug! 

Edinburgh

0740
After a night journey of 8hrs 40min fron London Victoria, we arrived at the central Bus Station at St. Andrew Square. After some hot coffee and a light refreshments, we locked our haversacks away in the lockers and geared up for the day ahead.

0900
Hmm, the first views of Edinburgh! As we stepped out of the bus terminal, we found then unfamiliarly bright December Sun shining down at us. Telling ourslves that we knew the weather better, we strode toward Princes Street passing by the Royal Bank of Scotland (Incorporated by a Royal Charter, 1727). As we arrived at the intersection of Princes Street, it was difficult to miss the towering Walter Scott Monument or the magnificient Edinburgh Castle. Built in the years between 1841-44, the Scott Monument is a victorian gothic monument in the honour of Scottish author Sir Walter Scott (remember 'Ivanhoe' and 'The Lady of the Lake'?)

Statistics for u :)....

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TANU:
                   Why INDIA is in trouble?
                   Population: 100 crore
                   9 crore retired
                   30 crore in state Govt
                   17 crore in central Govt
                    (people in both categories don't work)
                   1 crore IT professional (don't work for India)
                   25 crore in school
                   1 crore r under 5 years
                   15 crore unemployed
                   1.2 crore u can find anytime in hospitals
                   Statistics says u find 79,99,998 people anytime in jail
                   The Balance two are U & Me.
                   U are busy "checking Mails /sending fwds.. "..!!
                   HOW CAN I HANDLE INDIA alone?


PAVAN:
                   Bharat mata ki jai !!!


ANOOP:
                   Bharat mata ki jai for being in trouble ???


PAVAN:
                   Noooo .. for being the only soul leadin her country, even though she is herself in another continent (and I’m busy replying to mails …damn these journalists) …She doesn’t let anything come in the way of her motherly feelings .. truly Mother India .. bharat motors ki jai .. sorry for the typo .. bharat mata ki jai .. ;-)


TANU:
                   no motherly feelings yet ... just plain patriotic ;)


PAVAN:
                   She's just being so humble ...


ANOOP:
                   No motherly feelings yet ?? Tanu !! congrats :P .. when will u have the motherly feelings :P???


PAVAN:
                   Anoop … what do you say, will it be pink or blue ?? :-D


ANOOP:
                   Wat.. the baby ?? I thought it was boy or girl .. when did colors come into the picture ( except for black or white)


PAVAN:
                   Technicolor …


ANOOP:
                   Wat bout rainbow colors :P ….hehehehee


TANU:
                   i had not done family planning in this detail yet...thanks for the novel ideas though!!! we have made lots of advancements in genetics and it is alwayz a thrilling idea to have it experimanted till the time u r not the one who is called mom or dad by such colourful kids


ANOOP:
                   Make sure it fluroscent color kids.. So that they’ll be bright J muhahahahahaaaaaa


PAVAN:
                   And come out with flying colours :- D

Mixed Veg

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Ingredients:

To serve two

• 1 tomato, cut in big chunks
• 1 onion, chopped
• ½ cup peas
• 1 baked potatoes, mashed
• 1 tsp each ginger-garlic paste
• 1 green chilly, finely chopped
• 1 tsp pepper powder
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• ½ tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• A pinch of asafoetida
• Salt to taste
• Oil for cooking

For garnishing

• Shredded cheese
• 1 tsp cream
• ¼ cup fresh coriander leaves chopped

Method:

• Heat the oil.
• Add the cumin seeds, chilly and asafoetida.
• Now add onions and cook till golden brown.
• Add the ginger-garlic paste and mix it up.
• Add all the vegetables, cover and let cook
• When the vegetables turn soft, add all the spices and mix well
• Let them cook for a few more minutes on low flame
• Garnish with the cheese, cream and coriander.

Serve hot as an accompaniment with bread or rice.

The pain of separation

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1040. I dint turn and look behind when I went for the check-in. Dint want to. Call it superstitious, if you'd like to but i'd rather call it sentimental. Got my check-in baggage scanned. The guys there put a security strap around my suitcases. I headed straight ahead to the Jet Airways check-in counters and joined the queue. The lady probably dint care to weigh my 2 suitcases, at least I couldnt see the weight being displayed. The helperboy who put my suitcases from the trolley to the conveyer belt, was so surprised at the weight of my hand baggage that he couldnt stop himself from asking me about it. I smiled and told him that I was carrying food stuff and some chakli. Perhaps he took me for a little girl who couldnt stay away from maa ke haath kaa banaa khaanaa and just ignored me. Collecting my boarding pass and seeing my suitcases being pushed away by the conveyer belt, I directed my trolley towards the immigration check. With some struggle to heave the cabin baggage on my shoulder, I reached the immigration desk in no time. The immigration officer, Mr. Shinde, took interest in my family origins for obvious reasons. The fact that I was from Pune dint probably go down with him so well as my telling him that my Dad is from Gwalior. After telling him why I was heading to the UK, I was through with the immigration check. I remembered the last time that I had crossed the line and not being able to come back to you both.

1100. I reached the lounge and waited there for no more than 5 minutes than we were called for security check for 9W118 at gate 6. My hand baggage invited a manual check for chilli powder. When it was not found, I got the stamp on my boarding pass. But the lady was surprised to see aata, rice and dal. I sat down next to Navaz awaiting the boarding instructions.

1120. I thought to myself that I should hava started at 1100 from you both, had I known that the entire process would get over so soon. While in the queue for the security check, I got talking to Navaz. A smartly dressed 58 year old lady, probably parsi. She was visiting her sister, 3 nephews and 4 grandnephews in Norfolk. Her plant nursery near the airport was eing taken care of by her servants who would also take care of her 93 year old mother and 95 year old aunt. Being single, she likes it her way, spending time with the sister and then travelling to Vancouver to meet some cousin, before returning to Mumbai via Heathrow. She took a liking to me knowing about my family and my profession. She invited me to her sister's home in Norfolk and exchanged contact details.

1245. When the plane actually needed to take off, we began boarding. Thankfully mine was an aisle seat. I had actually forgotten to ask for it while collecting my boarding pass as I was more occupied with the check-in baggage being over the weight limit. I settled down in my seat 44D.

New twist to the law of conservation of mass ...

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The law of conservation of mass/matter, also known as law of mass/matter conservation (or the Lomonosov-Lavoisier law), states that the mass of a closed system will remain constant, regardless of the processes acting inside the system. An equivalent statement is that matter cannot be created or destroyed, although it may be rearranged. This implies that for any chemical process in a closed system, the mass of the reactants must equal the mass of the products.
You might also remember the law of conservation of energy. In physics, the law of conservation of energy states that the total amount of energy in any isolated system remains constant but cannot be recreated, although it may change forms. In thermodynamics, the first law of thermodynamics is a statement of the conservation of energy for thermodynamic systems, and is the more encompassing version of the conservation of energy. In short, the law of conservation of energy states that energy can not be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another or transferred from one body to another, but the total amount of energy remains constant.

But in an expected event, an extremely enlightening conversation took place between Vipin and me in May 2007, leading to a new twist in the laws of conservation of mass. Read on to know what transpired.


[17:25:38] Vipin Menon: ping
[17:25:40] Pavan Shinde: CR18243_WLR3 TO MPF
[17:28:08] Vipin Menon: MPF to WLR 3 also please
[17:28:15] Vipin Menon: i know u ar dhoonding..
[17:28:54] Pavan Shinde: you need to hang on from some tree for that..
[17:33:53] Vipin Menon: im waiting only for u to send an important report
[17:34:01] Vipin Menon: important for somebody else
[17:34:07] Vipin Menon: not fro me
[17:35:10] Pavan Shinde: SCR18285 MPF to WLR3
[17:35:25] Pavan Shinde: now jump outta the window please !!!
[17:35:29] Pavan Shinde: its important ..
[17:35:39] Pavan Shinde: important for somebody else not for me .. ;)
[17:35:53] Vipin Menon: wah! kya dialogue hai
[17:36:27] Pavan Shinde: im waiting only for u to jump outta the window .. window(s) XP :p
[17:39:03] Vipin Menon: "im waiting only for u..." why me only yaar
[17:39:17] Pavan Shinde: damn
[17:39:27] Pavan Shinde: dont break sentences in the wrong places ..
[17:39:30] Pavan Shinde: :d
[17:40:09] Pavan Shinde: some joints may get dislocated and some bones may be broken !!!
[17:41:03] Vipin Menon: ur count of bones will increase and count of teeth will decrease
[17:41:59] Pavan Shinde: that proves that calcium can neither be created nor destroyed .. it can only be converted from one form to another .. !!

Yonder The Known

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There is something I know for sure,
Perhaps you know it too,
Our paths that had once crossed
Are gonna part into two.

Would have liked this to go slow
So that neither would feel low
But things just slipped outta my hand
Can’t be changed; its not written on sand.

There is a lesson life wisheth to teach
Some things are better, out of reach

They say
Thou shall reap
As you shall sow
This is a fact
For sure, I know

But why
Have the fruits
Of my pain
Been so unyielding
So much in vain

I have not reaped
As I have sown
Why?
The answer
Remains unknown.
Yet unknown.
Yonder the known.

The pains of love ..

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With remnants of the memories, of our last call
I aint broken, and I still stand tall.
Though your memories torment my mind
And I just wonder, Was it love, or I was just blind
Through the nights and the longer days
Thousands of such questions make me to sway

Love and Relationships are meant to be kept
To offer all and make one Indebt
What did I do, where was I wrong
Why couldn’t I carry this, and make it long
Why did I lose you, when I loved you the most
Why I am writing this to you, In the last mail I post
What did you always wanted me to know
What you wanted to see in me and I could never show

Here its all over and I am all alone
And there is no one to heal me and no one to mourn
There is No one to guide me in what I do
There is No one to say’ Hey I am there for you’

No, I am out of it and I no longer care
Cause you didn’t take a part of the pain, what I wanted to share

Though now, I look happy and pretend to be sane
You got to know me more to feel my pain
To count the tears that have drenched my face
Cause I have wiped them and left no trace

I know I can live, cause I have learnt with time
That I mean nothing for you…not even a dime
With a lock of your hair in my book, and your first love letter
I will live everyday feeling happier and better…

Joyeux Noël

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Vive le vent
Vive le vent
Vive le vent d'hiver

Qui sont va
Sifflement soufflage
dans les grands sapins verts

Vive le temps
Vive le temps
Vive le temps d'hiver

Boule de neige
Et jour de l'An
Et bonne annee grand mere

Last Love ... Last Minute Love ... Lasting Love

Here are some sweet nuthings that people wrote to me .. wen they learnt that I'd be moving on ...

The more touching ones are compiled here ...

From: Anoop Ravi Thomas
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:00 AM
To: Me
Subject: RE: Moving On !

Y do u have to leave ???

From: Geetika Bhagwan Tewani
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:18 AM
To: Me
Subject: RE: Moving On !

All the very best Pavan for ur new phase after mysore…
Had real precious times with u dear….
Tk cr tonnes…

From: Indranil Saha01
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:41 PM
To: Me
Subject: RE: Moving On !

Dear Pavan,

Yeah sure I made it memorable for you.

My best wishes for you.

Keep in touch.

From: Jairam Rao
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 12:42 PM
To: Me
Subject: RE: Moving On ! Importance: High

Hey,

where are you off to.. :(

regards,

Jairam M. Rao

Team - Facilities,

Mysore

Extn : 70969

M : 98451-80170

From: Maria Shalini A.
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:26 PM
To: Me
Subject: RE: Moving On !

Hey…. That’s a nice speech! :)

I can’t write so well, so I will just say it in laymen’s language!

All the very best on your new journey!! :)

From: Mayank Sajjan Saraf
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:27 PM
To: Me
Subject: RE: Moving On !

HI PAVAN,IT WAS GR8 TO HAVE YOU AS A FRIEND. THE TIME AND MOMENTS I SHARED WITH YOU WILL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR ME TO CHERISH. I KNOW IT MIGHT SOUND FLATTERING TO YOU, BUT I HAVE NOT SEEN A GIRL SO ACTIVE, SO ENTHUSIASTIC, SO HARDWORKING, OUTGOING, READY TO ACCEPT CHALLENGES, GOOD AT MAKING FRIENDS, ETC……. I MIGHT JUST FALL SHORT OF WORDS. THANKS FOR BEING ONE OF MY FRIENDS. AND YES AS FAR AS CROSSSROADS ARE CONCERNED, LET ME TELL U LIFE IS NOT MUMBAI-PUNE EXPRESSWAY (ABSOLUTELY STRAIGHT), ITS ALL ABOUT CURVES SOME MAY BE SMOOTH WHILE SOME COULD LEAD U TO A NEW ROAD ALL TOGETHER. WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS GOOD FOR US AND WAT NOT, WE ARE DRIVERS OF OUR DESTINATION AND YES DO REMEMBER THAT THIS NEW CROSSROAD IS A NEW TURN , A NEW BEGINNING TO A NEVER ENDING DRIVE.KEEP ROCKING BABE AND I KNOW YOU WILL BE A WINNER AT NE PLACE ON EARTH YOU MIGHT REACH.TAKE CARE AND ALL THE BEST.

From: Priya Sambandhan
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:29 PM
To: Me
Subject: RE: Moving On !

Hey Pavan…

U left so soon without meeting me..:(

Anyways I never thought this training will end so soon and time to bid a farewell will come.. All the Best da..Its great to get back to home and live with parents..Enjoy dear.. Do keep in touch da…All the best for all your future endeavours,..Do remember me…

It was really great working and studying with you da…Going to miss you a lottttttttttttt……….Already…missing :-( looking at the empty chair next to me…

Take care dear… no more uncooked maggi …ok…??? :-)

With Everlasting love,

Priya

and loads more ... all conveying their best wishes ... and looking forward to meeting again ... these are the times ..I feel .. I wonder if I really am worthy of so much love .. and it also gives me a scare .. which tells me not to ever lose this love ..
I have learned in life .. the hard way.. that earning love and winning hearts can be very difficult in life .. and once a heart is broken .. it may not be possible to ever put it together again ..

The Last Mail Posted from Mysore ...

There are times in life when we are at crossroads and need to make a choice.
I am at one.
So, I flipped the coin and have made a choice: good or bad I trust time will tell.


I will be moving on from Mysore DC, but I will be taking the spirit with me …
Wish me luck for I am off on a new journey, a threshold to a new life.


And I look forward to the crossroad where we meet again for yet another journey together.
Farewell and best wishes to you and heartfelt thanks to have made this stint a memorable one.


Reach me whenever you feel like on ********** / **********.

The First Blog

There ... had been hearing about this whole bloggin thing for years now ... but never really felt I should jump onto the blog-bandwagon ... but then as I was comin to office today ... I saw it in the papers ... 85% Indians hooked on to bloggin ... and I wondered ... 85% ?? ... seriously ?? ... am I missin sumthin ?? ... but then you'd never know if you're missin sumthin unless you actually take the plunge and feel the water lashin against you ... so here I am ... pretty lost ... but determined to knock down all apprehensions ... and set this place on fire ... well, just literally ... so fasten your seat belts and hold on ... allow me to steer you thru the happenings in my life ...