Spring Doll

Have you ever seen a spring doll, you know the one that has a smiley face and has a spring attached to its bottom. You hit it once, it stands back again, you hit it again, it's back up and standing + smiling again. You do the same thing thousand times, it comes back up, standing again!

Now the key is that you don't hit it until spring is broken, you stop hitting it and ignore it, probably right after second hit. The key is to realize no matter what you do, that object is not going to get the message!

Same thing is with hypocrites. You don't argue and get tasty with them, the key is to realize that you need to ignore them. You don't need to get into their tacky tactics, ignore them.

Biography

I am reaching new lows of psedo-journalistic profession by manifesting my blog into an humbug and flagrant biographical and satirical version of my life. Hehehehe.

Number of cars that I passed on freeway. Pompous interest that interviewer showed in my work. Simplicity of uneducated yet street smart janitors. Stuff lying on my desk. Computer profile problems that I successfully solved yesterday. Feeling of uneasiness coming from my soggy, wet socks residing peacefully inside my $120 shoe. Noise of loud radio being played at this mid-night hour in farthest office in this building. Thinking about failed relationships (one of them I was victim, others I ended it). Feeling of hopefulness while thinking about future. Aching shoulders and forearms from rockclimbing. Feeling guilty because I could not help Nij in his work. Thinking would it better to have 48 hours in a day or a copy of me working parallely? Laughing 12 hours after watching Seinfeld over some silly joke. Getting lost in maze of my own thoughts....

Uber Cuteness

A major Panda Club in China had bountyful of pandas in January'06. They received 16 panda babies in a month...pictures of uber cuteness.

Some major magazine headlines

After last week's Texas Shooting controversy...some major magazines reported the story in their own way...Here are they:

Field and Stream: Lawyer season open.

Lesbian Magazine: How to avoid Dick?

National Enquirer: The bullet wound resembles the young Elvis.

Ebony: Whites on Shooting....it's damn time.


(As reported by Craig Furgson of Late Late Show on CBS)

Pasta - (Name undecided)

I have been fooling around in kitchen and created something. This is a pasta-bread-dessert recipe that was also for dinner tonight.

Pasta - Name Yet Undecided

Ingredients:

Tomato pesto
Sun dried tomatoes
Oregano leaves (1/4 tea spoon)
Basil leaves (1/4 tea spoon)
Olive oil
Dates (ripe) - 5/6
Garlic - 2 big leaves
Mushrooms - 2/3

Spaghetti or farfalle dried uncooked pasta
Salt, red pepper, black pepper as per taste

Recipe:

Sauce: Pour 1/8 cup of olive oil in flat cooking pan and start heating oil on low seam. Add garlic and mushrooms when oil is semi-heated. Saute this until garlic is pink in color. Then add dates and saute the whole mixture until dates are fried from all sides (all low heat). Now add tomato pesto, sun dried tomatoes, oregano and basil leaves to add some water to it. Continue to stir the mixture while being cooked (otherwise tomato sauce may stick to pan from bottom). Do this until water has vapored off and pasta sauce has just hint of dates ' sweetness. I noticed that garlic leaves very strong scent quickly but dates take long time to really get flavored in (first time I did it, I left this pasta sauce overnight). Let the pasta sauce cool now.


Pasta: Heat the water to boiling temperature. When water is boiling add some salt and then add choice of pasta to it. Let it get worked up until pasta is cooked thoroughly. Drain the pasta using a drainer or other easy and convenient method.

Serving:

Serve pasta sauce over hot pasta in a flat dish like china-ware. I added cooked chicken to pasta sauce. Alternatively, cooked chicken can be added when pasta is being served. Grate hard Parmesan cheese (I personally don't eat lot of cheese), but I preferred freshly ground pepper.

Wine/drink:

Serve with wines for spicy foods and the ones with especially go with chicken, for example, Merlot or Cabernet. I had chilled lager beer and Cabernet Sauvignon (I think, it's pretty new 2003 or so). I personally hate orange juice or sodas with pasta and is big no-no for me.

Home-made Garlic Bread:

Use sourdough or baguette only, wheat bread leaves wheatty aftertaste. Sourdough is best since its sour taste complements with spicy garlic.

Toast slice of bread in toaster. Grate fresh leaf of garlic on it with hands (use a little on center only). Apply olive oil and bake/toast it again. Viola, garlic bread is ready!!!

Dessert:

I had custard-caramel ice cream.

Controrian

Not surprisingly, St. Valentine's Day is also celebrated as National Condoms Day.

Feb 14, 2006