The Masala Dosa Personality Test :)

There are many ways to eat a masala dosa ..What ever the way one eats; there is a very good reason for doing that. It shows some traits of the person that is you...

Case 1: People who open the masala dosa and eat it: These are the people who are very open about their life. Everyone one the persons friends would know all about him/her. I have generally seen guys do this rather than girls. Some people think that it is a gross way of eating but in truth, these people are just portraying who they are and how their life is.

Case 2: People who start from both end and approach the masala later: These are the people who like to wait for the exiting things to come to their life. Sadly when the times comes, they are not too interested or just do not know how to enjoy it to the fullest. These are the folks who just want life as either dry or exiting. They just do not know how to phase their life and enjoy it no matter what. There are two types of people within this group

Case 2.1: People who do not finish all the masala: These folks just do not care as much for the fun times as they are already brought down by the harsh reality of life. The dry periods in their life has left them with so much scars that they do not want to be really happy when the time is right. They just take only as much as they needed and end their life. A very sorry state indeed.

Case 2.2: People who finish all the masala with the little dosa they have: These are the folks who just are the extremes. They just go all out in life. No matter it is dark or bright. They may not enjoy life to the fullest but they sure make sure that they get every single good and bad thing out of life. Sometimes these folks are really hard to get along with. They are either your best friends or your worst enemies. They do not have a middle path at all.

Case 3: People who start from the middle and proceed to both ends: These are the people who like to get right to what they think is their best part of life. Usually these guys finish of the good portions in a hurry and get stuck with nothing but worst parts of their life. The thing to note among these people is that the tendency to burn out very early in their life. Like the above case, there are two kinds of people in this group too.

Case 3.1: People who do not finish the dosa: These folks are really the saddest of people. They are the ones who tend to end their life as soon as it hits the bad patch. For them, they only need and want the best things in life and nothing more. Typically, they are not prepared or tuned to life as a whole. They just want to enjoy from first till last. Sadly, no one in the world can live without even an ounce of sadness in life. Not even the richest of the richest. But to self destruct at the mere sign of distress is very bad. That is what these guys tend to do. Some learn to live life but most of them do not.

Case 3.2: People who do finish the dosa: These folks are the typical human beings. We all enjoy the greatest of times in life and push the sad parts thinking about the great times in life. Typically the plate is clean and nothing is left for fate or in life. Happiness and sadness are part of life and these guys know that and are kind of prepared for it. Life is not always happy but there are moments of happiness here and there.

Case 4: People who eat the dosa making sure that the masala lasts for the whole dosa: These people are very rare. These are the people who like to attain balance in their life. It is hard to displease these people and it is hard to make them really happy. They like their balance and are very protective of it. Sadly these are the people who tend to be lonely as anyone else may upset the balance of their system... Perfectionist to the core and are very careful. These guys do not make the best company but are needed in any group to make the group from going hay wire.

Case 5: People who do not share and eat the dosa as if it is precious: These folks are very protective about their life. They do not want anyone to come and interfere in their life. They like to hide their true nature and intensions for their benefit. Beware of such people as they are in every group for their own need and nothing else.

Case 6: People who offer their first bite to others: These guys are overly friendly. They do anything to be part of a group and make everyone feel like the group is important than the individuals. They are the glue that holds any group together. They are very friendly and bring the best of all the others in the group. They go out of their way to help other friends. Most groups should have a person like this and they are the ones who plan the group outings and other group activities. Once this person is out of the group, typically the group slowly falls apart.

Case 7: People who take one or two bites and then offer the dosa to others: These guys care about friends and friendship but they take their time to get into the group. They take their time in making friends and they typically are very committed once into the friendship. These guys like to always be in the side lines and typically do not jump into anything in life. They always take their time to analyze the situation and then make a decision. These guys take the better safe than sorry approach.

Case 8: People who wait for others to make the offer first: Typical people I must say. They are unsure about everything. Even if they wanted to offer, they will wait till the other person offers the food first. If the other person is silent, so are these people. They are the followers. They do terrific idea, they will pitch it to someone else and get their advice before proceeding. Sadly, most of the elderly world like these types of people.

Case 9: People who offer dosa only when they cannot finish it on their own: You all may be familiar with these kinds of people. People who are very generous only when all their needs are fulfilled. These folks are selfish but at the same time not misers or greedy. They just want to satisfy themselves before they give it to the world. They typically do not stuff themselves nor do they tend to starve. They are very good people who would give you the best of advices in life. They would make sure that you are not sad following their advice.

Case 10: People who offer the whole dosa and eat from others plates: These folks are other extreme. They know what they want, they get what they want but they cannot enjoy what they want. Instead they tend to settle for other things in life which satisfies the needs but does not satisfy the person completely. These guys are termed as born losers cause even when they have the thing they wanted, they can't stop others from stealing it from them.

So next time you sit with a person eating a masala dosa, look closely and see if he falls into one of the above categories. You may be surprised as how much it reveals about the person*

Enjoy eating Masala Dosa

Truly madly deeply

I'll be your dream
I'll be your wish
I'll be your fantasy.
I'll be your hope
I'll be your love
Be everything that you need.
I love you more with every breath
Truly madly deeply do..

Heard this song after a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonng time.
I got a sort of (yeah sort of) smile on my face while I was listening to it.
Actually Savage Garden was my first ever "English Song" album purchased while is school. Back then it costed me Rs 125. Standard price for Sony audio cassette.

Nostalgia loomed over (big time).
Heard MLTR, lady in Red (sigh.. .. .. .. ), RobbieWilliams-RockDJ, etc.
It was nice. Rather pretty nice.

Coefficient of Coolness

I often come across some really cool stuff.
One of them is in this link. It took a while to figure out what it was.

Found it pretty cool.

http://leogeo.com/28_timebeat.htm

Chocolate Pudding

Its totally established that I'm a foodie. I've grown every year to love and appreciate food.
My appreciation for food does not ends with eating, I love to cook too.

Recently we (me and my wife) tried a new recipe for a Chocolate Pudding.
It comes from the books of my in-laws.

Its zimply awesome and you should try too.
Ingredients (serves 6) :
Chocolate : 150 gms (Plain chocolate slab or any plan dark chocolate. If chocolate slabs are not available, then you can use Yochelle's plain dark chocolate)
Fresh Cream : 400 gms
5-6 Digestive biscuits
5-6 Chocolate cream biscuits
Sugar : Hardly 3 tea spoons.

The best and easiest part is making it. Read TnT as "Tips and Tricks"

1. Melt 150 gms of chocolate. TnT - do not over heat it, else it won't taste good.
Melt it just enough so that it becomes semi-solid. If melting it in a Microwave, then just do it for 20 seconds couple of times.

2. Add approx 100gms of fresh cream to this melted chocolate.

3. In a separate bowl whip the cream with 3 tea spoons of sugar.
TnT - keep the cream in chiller / freezer to make it absolutely chilled (and not frozen). If the cream is chilled, it whips better.
Whip it in a container surrounded by ice (so that the container stays cold). This will make the cream even more fluffy after whipping.

4. Add the chocolate+cream mixture to this freshly whipped cream.

5. Mix it well.

6. In a flat serving dish put a layer of crushed (really minced) digestive biscuits.This will be layer 1 (from the bottom of course)

7. Pour the mixture of cream and chocolate on top of it. Layer 2.

8. Remove the cream from the chocolate cream biscuit and crush (only the biscuit) them as well.
Sprinkle generously over the cream and chocolate layer to form layer 3.

Keep it in refrigerator for 30 mins / till serving time.

Serve chilled.
It'll be a hit.

This entire activity of preparation and making does not takes more than 15-20 mins.

It was a very nice experience making this pudding. Since we have come to know the recipe, we've made it twice.

If you try it, don't forget to leave a comment about its taste or your experience.

Happy eating Chocolate Pudding :)

Free Lunch??

Is there anything as a free lunch?
Heard a lot about the saying -

"There's no such thing as a free LUNCH"

One fine Friday morning my bosses -> bosses -> boss (really senior guy) comes over and asked me if I had any lunch plans.
Duh.. What’s going on??
Being a foodie, I never think twice before accepting an offer to dine.

So invites go out and I notice that I am accompanied by two more colleagues of mine.

Venue?? This is something my company gives us the liberty of choosing.
We decided for this new place "ZURI" in Whitefield.

Really, a marvelous place to dine.
A very well picked range of cutleries. I was really impressed with the layout, buffet spread, service and decor, almost everything.
Will definitely go there to dine again to grab a burger (though we were having a well served buffet, my eye was on the burger with fries served on the other table :D) .

Coming back to the free lunch part.

I have still not been able to figure out what was the lunch about..

Lets see what’s in store for us with this free lunch :).

Shopping

Ever wondered how serious / deep / exhaustive / expensive this term is??
Well it all depends on the perspective.. Actually there are lot of categories in it.

Married / have a girl friend, you'll understand it better :)

When she says - " I have not shopped for so long", there is a catch some where.
Beware. Choose your words. Whatever come's out of mouth is Evaluated, Hashed and Saved (I call it "EHS") in a non-volatile memory. Evaluation is done faster than a computer, Hashing mechanism is stronger than what Google has and memory is in Pita bytes).

Your responses-
Option 1: "Yes dear, that's true".
This is a very diplomatic and not-so-safe option. I personally call it not so safe cos dude.. either its your wallet or your time or both. Forget the IPL matches, beer with buddies, fav movie you called for.... Once you say these words, just remember "EHS"

Option 2: "Your Mom got so many tops for you darling??"
He he he he.. Are you kidding.. She never even wanted tops when her mom gave her half a dozen tops. Man you are out of your mind. She never wants tops.
This no doubt will go in the "EHS" but you will get a response - "But I did not shop anything na!!"

Okay.

Option 3: "You went to shop last weekend rite??"
Now come on. You are supposed to know her friends were in town OR they were catching up after a long time OR she had to go to checkout the sale.. that's not shopping. Come on.. how can you even say that.
Just a gentle reminder - data routed via "EHS" :)
Her response - "I had to go for a friend. She wanted to buy something".

Option 4: "Hmm..."
This is the safest of all (not at all times though). If this response is forth time in row... God save you.
Safest cos your gentle "Hmm.." will be followed by a ton of explanations-
"I went for shopping the other day, but I just got boxers for you" (you lucky fellow).
"I went to shop but couldn't find anything"
"I went to shop but damm traffic jam put me off"
"I went to shop but I did not buy anything for my brother / sister / nephew / mom / dad / etc / etc."
And in the end (the best thing I love to hear)..
"I went to shop but didn't buy anything for me"

This is the place / time / locations of stars and galaxies when you are supposed to jump in and say, "Ah!! yes..."
Mostly you'll get full marks. Don't ask me what to do next, I generally go without questioning to Shopping :)