Once you are married you practically tend to spend almost all of your available free time in the company of each other. You tend to understand the other person better and enjoy random events which sometimes are absolutely fun.
So the other day me & wifee were driving along the Magrath road in Bangalore. When out of the blue wifee suddenly shot back with a question/statement “Why on earth is Mac so expensive?”. Now this was an opportunity for someone like yours truly to impress the wifee with knowledge prowess. I mean you don’t leave this opportunity even if you are 10 years into the marriage and for me, I haven’t even completed 10 months.
So I went into details of how the Mac has a different hardware platform and the software which work more efficiently over the machine as compared to the others. I was about to delve into the drawbacks of restrictive hardware access by Mac and Apple. I saw the wifee was looking towards me as if I had just been reincarnated from a different planet.
That was when I realized I was talking about this-
And the wifee was talking about this-
After that I did the most sensible thing a man would do “Shut Up” :\
So all of you folks know about my obsession for various gadgets etc and my joy of buying them. I shared with you when I bought my car and I shared with you when I bought this. So it was time for me to buy another gadget which I had my eyes on for a long time. So last week I jumped over the opportunity to get the desired coffee maker for myself and bought this model from Morphy Richards.
For the feedback, the coffee maker works well and makes a good espresso and cappuccino. I also got a Costa Rica Beans for brewing for my espresso. Here are some pics of my first few coffees from the new coffee maker and the coffee brewed on my own coffee maker.
Firstly this is the machine that I bought, though had some other models from Inalsa, & Lavazza but Inalsa was too crude (as a matter of fact there was another stripped down version of Morphy Richards where you could not control the strength of the brew which also was too crude thought a bit cheaper) and Lavazza was very expensive priced around Rs. 9,000. So this is the model which yours truly & the wifee decided to pick up.
Once all the equipment was setup and cleaned, I added the coffee to the filter and water in the machine. Saying my prayers I finally switched it on, after a minute and a half, the espresso started pouring in the kettle.
Finally after full 3 minuted we had a kettle full of Espresso ready and though I wanted to immediately pour it down my throat, wifee gave me the “Do Not Touch It” look and took some warmed milk for the cappuccino.
Now we poured the milk and the espresso in the mugs, leaving space for the froth to be formed. Then we steamed the mixture in the mugs to generate the froth over the coffee. Generating froth is a bit tricky, specially in a small mug the coffee tends to spill around, inviting you are so dead look from the wifee. This is how the nozzle looked after we had steamed for making the froth.
and after all the steaming and a bit of mess which wifee cleaned up, this is what I can proudly present as the coffee made by me 
One of my seniors from the engineering college had a line etched on his hostel door which has inspired me since I have read it for the first time “One thing I like about stones in my path is, when I cross them they become my milestones”
This is a big moment for me, I got published in Sakaal Times on Friday July 30th, 2010. It was a long waited aspiration that one day I would write something that would see my name in the print. A dream long before I even started this blog, and all I feel right now is a stone crossed and a milestone achieved. And I hope for many more to come.
Below is the scan of the paper carrying my article, you can click on the image to read my piece at the bottom of the page.
Tags: Awards, Blogging, Celebrations
So Pal started this challenge of Unscrambling words here and I was a proud winner of the challenge. Now winning had a catch, that I had to start my own challenge here. These are the rules-
Now, your CHALLENGE is: Proud recipients of the F-Un-Scrambler Golden rolling Trophy are HEREBY TAGGED to put up a similar post with scrambled/jumbled words!! No rules/conditions apply. It just has to be jumbled words or jumbled letters or both, the way you like it!!
Do remember to link back to this original post though, so we maintain continuity.
And here is the trophy-
Now the part of my Challenge, this is what is a scrambled line-
I feel you Instrumentation lyric
Pointer- This is a very famous line from a cartoon script.
So people decipher the line….
Dear Mr. Priyadarshan,
I being an ardent fan of bollywood movie have had the pleasure, actually less of pleasure and more of pain, of following your bolywood career over so many years. You know after so many years of observation I have inferred either you are a sadist or a person with deep hateful sentiments against the Hindi speaking crowd. To justify my claims here is a list of the movies you have made in Hindi-
| Name | Origin |
| Khatta Meeta | Remake of Vellanakalude Nadu(Malayalam) |
| De Dana Dan | Remake of Vettam(Malayalam) |
| Billu | Remake of Kadha Parayumbol (Malayalam) |
| Mere Baap Pehle Aap | Remake of Ishtam (Malayalam) |
| Bhool Bhulaiyaa | Remake of Manichitrathazhu (Malayalam) |
| Dhol | Remake of In Harihar nagar (Malayalam) |
| Chup Chup Ke | Remake of Punjabi House (Malayalam) |
| Malamaal Weekly | Remake of Waking Ned |
| Bhagam Bhag | Remake of Mannar Mathai Speaking (Malayalam) |
| Kyon Ki… | Remake of Thalavattam |
| Garam Masala | Remake of Boeing Boeing (Malayalam) |
| Hulchul | Remake of Godfather (Malayalam) |
| Hungama | Remake of Poochakkoru Mookkuthi (Malayalam) |
| Satyaghath: Crime Never Pays | Remake of Abhimanyu(Malayalam) |
| Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar | Remake of Sanmanssulavarkku Samadhanam (Malayalam) |
| Hera Pheri | Remake of Ramjirao Speaking (Malayalam) |
| Doli Saja Ke Rakhna | Remake of Aniyathipravu (Malayalam) |
| Saat Rang Ke Sapne | Remake of Thenmavin Kombathu (Malayalam) |
| Virasat | Remake of Thevar Magan(Tamil) |
| Gardish | Remake of Kireedom (Malayalam) |
Now if I go through this list, there are only three movies you have screwed up ‘Virasat’, ‘Hera Pheri’ and ‘Hungama’. Yes, I mean to say that these three movies the audience had something good to take with them, at least some good laughs.
Rest all, as my mallu friends tell me you have taken up awesome movies in Malyalam and derived sadistic pleasure to destroy some very good work done in the movies. Bringing it down to a level that would be despised by all by making the remakes of those classics. Come on have some respect for the movies, and how great they have been and I totally understand your reverse Midas Touch that when you pick the most awesome of the movies and turn the same to absolute crap but please stop doing it.
Now coming back to the regionalist attitude of yours, given the fact that you have been torturing the Hindi movie audience. I mean what has the poor bollywood fans done to you that you have been churning the best of Mallu-land movies to horrifying Hindi movies. Take your last movie for example Khatta Meetha, one you stole the title from this movie which is an awesome movie and a loved one through generations and you choose the concept from another great movie Vellanakalude Nadu.
Now you add some of your own crap to it, then you recruit Akshay Kumar in it and then you add a lot more crap into it. Seriously what is so much hatred with bollywood audience, and what is with so much love for the crap you put in the movies.
I would have totally found the scene in Katta Meetha hilarious with the one where the Elephant was pulling the road roller and the disasters associated with it, but then Mr. Priyadarshan we are a generation which has watched Malgudi Days when it was being aired on DD, then again on internet and then on DVD’s. I am sure you could have ignored all of that and people won’t remember it, but please for heaven’s sake you should have known Kingfisher Airlines airs that episode on their in-flight entertainment and have seen it at least 6 times in past 1 year. So please use some tiny winy brains when you flick scenes from the most popular sources.
To conclude this is a request from a passionate bollywood lover, please get a life and stop making these stupid, boring and painful remakes.
Regards,
A Bollywood Lover
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