Kitchen-Muse. Kitchen oriented muse. 

That’s how our kitchen looks like on Week-day mornings and evenings. While the mornings keep us busy with fruit/vegetable juices-breakfast-cereals. Or something like that.

Evenings see either Spicy-South-Indian Cuisine(Me). Or Tasty Punjabi- Rajasthani cuisine(My roomie).

I could say sometimes its immensely relieving, the entire experimentation exercise with food in the Kitchen. Sometimes, its a passe. Sometimes, it’s a Stress-buster. But almost all the time, it’s gratifying, slow and steady…even in this internet age of instant-gratification! 

I was travelling by bus one of the days and I saw this child sitting across(upper half of the set), who I thought vaguely resembled self from one of my childhood pics(refer the pictures in the lower half of the set)..

While I tried clicking her picture, she held the cardboard in her hand,up, imitating the way I held phone-cam. I smiled. She smiled. 

I found it IMMENSELY ADORABLE!

I blew her a flying kiss as I was getting off and waved a ‘bye’..she did that too. That was requited affection, for that evening.

#lifeisbeautiful. Or what.

True, that.

Credits: asofterworld

Warm comfort for a change.

We were walking past Blossom Book house on just any other Sunday evening, lazing around and stumbled into faintly familiar acquaintances singing songs, playing Guitar, Tabla, etc., and pitched in.

Voice-over by YoursTruly! :D 

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B-Flat in Bangalore and Abhay introduced me to Jazz music one fine evening and then there was never looking back. Check that video from that evening. I saw and heard that evening, covers of such popular numbers(unheard of, earlier). The most familiar of ones were that of Amy Winehouse and they were spectacular!

Oh,and Aman Mahajan, the noted Jazz Pianist played that evening.

All this is, by the way.

Opus plays Jazz- Sax and violins on their Channel 6. And Radio Indigo 91.1 fm plays Jazz every.Sunday.evening<Yeah, you heard it right>

At YOCS this month..

Taken up a major at The Young Orators Club of Secunderabad on the 5th of November and the topics for the Major session were:

i)We are all refugees from something..

ii)Belief is an act of convenience

iii)Irony

P.S:Excellent one-liners were a passe that evening. Was THAT much of fun! :)

I had attended the Spicmacay event at IIT-M in October-2011, where Pandit Shiv Shanker had performed on Sarod. The different raagas ranged from Vachispathi to Raag Mallika with a dash of well-timed humor. An excerpt out of the concert…

Few moments at Kalakshetra. And Gods unwind themselves with spectacular synchrony in dance steps…what is it?(Bharatnatyam)

And you’re left awe-struck and spell-bound…Just like I was, while clicking these pics!

Kuch khayaal, kuch sawaal!

Aaj aap mera khayal sunhi lijiye
Sunhi lijiye aaj khayal mera

Wahi subha wahi shaam hai
Wahi khayal wahi sawal hai

Aap khatam kardein yeh silsila
Tab hi jaakar mujhe chain mila


Press: “How many of you are bald, that you have to wear those wigs?”Ringo: “All of us.”Paul: “I’m bald.”Press: “You’re bald?”John: “Oh, we’re all bald, yeah.”Paul: “Don’t tell anyone, please.”John: “And deaf and dumb, too.”

Press: “How many of you are bald, that you have to wear those wigs?”
Ringo: “All of us.”
Paul: “I’m bald.”
Press: “You’re bald?”
John: “Oh, we’re all bald, yeah.”
Paul: “Don’t tell anyone, please.”
John: “And deaf and dumb, too.”