Saturday 2 June 2012

Random thoughts-food, music, movies, travel,books, sports....

Getting food whether an ice gola or a chicken tiikka had at the venue is maximum fun, see a movie in hall..match at stadium..vanilla ice cream dipped in chocolate sauce..love it...i can cook eggs, roast chicken, tea...picking up food fresh from the market..best...eat at a home of a friend..better than any restaurant, whether at sumangal society Mrs. Shah or Mr jafri at juhapura, or faiz's sisters cooking at jama masjid or grandmothers (punjabi-fathers mom, gujarati, mothers mom) food...if u have to eat out, pizza, bataka poha, dabeli, daal vada, bhutta, juice, cold cofee, pizza..eat on site..do not get packed...do not eat bufet..if u go on vacation spend less time communicating more time staying...love hills, sea..l;ong walks....pick up food from supermarket and cook it yrself...if in france..speak french...fresh fruit..huge cherries, fresh mangos..remember thai houses in old bangkok with open kitchen..thai curry with rice followed by one scoop of coffee ice cream cone and iced coke...all u can eat korean barbeque in toronto i had sixteen bowls..my friend marvelled..he did not have beef so he had 12 bowls... one of my best meals was next to sea in singapore choicest sea food...rome..open air restauranting in 1980.. iremember having three huge sundaes in singapore while waiting for family at restaurant as they shopped..tandoori chicken for rs 50 at lajpat nagar...i remember climbing elgin peak with my father 3500 metres...all flushed on return....walking 20 km in university areas in canada and US....two packs of strawberry and two in one ice cream between lunch and tea..unlimited burrah kababs in pandara park since 1988...rickshaw driver trying to steal my pizza from me...at this time pizza was 13 rs..uncle getting veg chowmein from jnu..jnu best book shop..jawahar book depot..all good academic books..jnu best entrance papers..academic bookstores in US and Canada..designated for university..lots of fun..heavy swimming and cycling..followed with chinese food..swagat, sankalp, woodland, dasaprakash....filter cofeee..chocolate cake with ice cream..stufed parathas with white butter chawal rajma, alu puri, chole rajmah, rice and gujarati daal, home cooked south indian food, filter cofee, tamil brahmin girls...kanada girls..aditi rao hydari in london, paris, newyork, pakistani media obsessed with india..wasim akram alizafar and adnan saami good guys..imran khan?..but still keeps coming to india...goan food in bandra..8 bacardi breezers..six small rums with coke..vodka with seven up....Mphil monographs in economics..very neat..macroeconomic dynamics...dificult to do...excel regressions..neat ppts...not wordy..wodehouse, christie and ludlum..comfort reading...visits to friends places...gurgaon malls..vacations at close relatives....multiplex PVR...jogging..cycling..exercise..summer sessions in US universities...butterscotch candies in italy, lindt milk chocolates..new york public libraries..infact public libraries in general inUS and Canada..amitabh films..naasir hussain films..impossible catches in park cricket..cold wintry evenings and fireplaces..gardens...driving scooters..cars...gavaskar..azhar..pathans..more fail than success..jet executive class..rajdhani, shataabdi...zeenat aman, payal rohatgi..bronze missed in olympics..now one or two golds, comp, laptop, skype, android...meditating..boundless energy like dhoni...conserving energy..crossword and baristas..reliance, airtel, tamils..bengalis, marathis..kkr..mango pieces with ice cream..lizards, cockroaches, rats..raksha bandhan..diwali in delhi,...salmans eid film..favourite song list..facebook updates...picnics...college tours.........................

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