Guest appearance

Its not often that you would see a guest post on someone's blog, but then this is my blog, so I decide if I can have one. Arindam is one of the very few who replied to my post "Alice in wonderland", the others who did are kept confidential. I know my friends are always concerned about me and so am I about them. But then Ari put a completely new angle to my view and thats why I had to put his reply here on this blog. Yep and I did get Ari's permission before I put this here. So enjoy a new angle to the view....

I read ur Blog Alice in Wonderland.
U r definitely concerned about someone, deeply.

What I got to understand in life till now is that Life follows a Law. Like all things of science follows a Law (Law of Gravity, etc.), life too has a law.

The law is preety much simple and I state it in scientific term:
For all Actions, there is an Equal and Opposite Reaction.
It's called the Cause and Effect, or the Sow and Reap Effect.

We all human beings are interconnected. We may not be believing in this initially, but trust me we are. So, the best part of this inter-connectiveness is, we can make a Cause for someone else and the Effect will also be seen in the other. Not always is the other person wrong, but it's our limited wisdom that we see things that are correct as wrong. So, this Cause that I make may well change our way of seeing, correcting us.
In other words, making a Cause gives an effect always. Good cause, good effect. Bad cause, bad effect. Please remember that each and every cause produces an effect. None escapes.

So, if the person for whom u are concerned has taken up smoking, for example, u urself take a cigeratte and throw it into a dustbin. Tell that u are doing this act, making this cause, so that all people of the world stops smoking. Specially, abt ur beloved person. (All means a bigger dream, ur beloved will also be included within that big dream.)

Never belittle yourself saying that how can cause made by me cause a big change.
Human revolution in 1 single man can bring about a change in a society, a country or even the complete mankind.

All of ur deeds, thoughts and words make causes.

Not sure in ur brighter days, but will always be there in dark with u.
Arindam
Hum

Halwa hai kya!!

I still remember the days when i use to help my mom prepare halwa...gajar or dudhi. Ok so now what do i meet by help, basically i use to shred the gajar and dudhi and in the later stages stir the mixture over the stove...indefinitiely.
That would be just a day before we had a big get together or luncheon at my palce..bhaubeeg..man those were the days. If you have ever been at home while your mom cooked up a fundoo receipe, i am sure you would remember the aroma and every time you smell the same aroma again...you will re-live the same time and place. It has happened to me a couple of times, but this time it was strong enough for me to write up this post.

It all started (if i can say that) when my colleagues decided to a charity luncheon at Merrill Lynch. The concept is that we cook the food and people pay the price to eat it. That way we collect one part from the people who eat the food and one part from ourselves (we dont recover the cost of the food) and all the collections go to the Unitedway charity foundation.

Rohan (my roommate) volunteered to cook gajar halwa...with no prior experience. Later he decided to pull me and Pankaj into it too...anyways that was bound to happen.

One day before the finale we had no clue to as to what we were gonna do, we couldnt find shredded carrorts and were in no mood to do the shredding. But in our last try to get the carrots we walked into Giants and walla!! we found some 8 packs of shredded carrots. Then we started the actual cooking....

You can skip this para if you have no interest in cooking gajar halwa by yourslef..and just enjoy the pics!!

Heat up a cup of ghee in a pot and add shredded carrots to it...keep stirring the mix until the carrots go soft. Add almost equal amount of mile, sugar as per taste, gounded elaichi and shredded almonds to the mix. Regularly stir the mix untill all the milk is absorbed. If you like you can also add pista powder and kismis to the mix.

I can tell ya one thing...it tasted great, but then again you will have to satisfy yourself with the pics...