take 1 cup mango pulp.add half cup milk maid.add elaichi powder for
taste.add the kharbuja seeds powder after frying the kharbuja seeds.serve
the pudding.it just takes 5 minutues to prepare this delicious dish.
tata jagriti yarta
today we had the screening of the tata jagriti yarta documentary film in
assosciation with cnbc tv 18.it was an amazingly life changing experience for
the 350 yatris picked from all over india.they started their tour in mumbai and travelled all over india from dec 24th to jan 11th studying the social
entreprenuership.First they visited tcs techno park in trivandrum and then
they headed to aravind eye care in puducherry.after that they all were excited to meet r.ilango in puduchery village in tamil nadu,who transformed an entire village using his business model.then they visited aware group in karnataka.after that they traveled thru the lenght and breadth of orrissa and got the first hand experience of a rural indian village by visiting gram vikas and understanding their model.along they way they even visited hyderabad and then headed to rajasthan.there they met “the Bunker Roy” and studied the model of the bare foot college.finally they travelled towards lucknow and visited SEWA. they did a bit of sight-seeing too by visiting the monuments in nawab ka seher and clicked a picture at bhulbhulaiyya and headed back to their origin mumbai central.all the yatris had formed a strong bond among themselves and they all were in tears at the very thought of leaving each other.at all the places they visited and all the learning imparted was about to how serve the society or give back to the society and make it a better place.it truly was an inspirational,motivational , tremendous learning and life changing experience.
I genuinely got inspired by this video and also got registered myself for the
jagriti yatra 2009 here http://www.jagritiyatra.com/
To change India start by changing yourself
i should have but did not May 27, 2009
what i should have done in these summer holidays…
prepared for gmat and given the exam
written my story or start the work on the script
researched abt the various univs
traded in the market
gone for a vacation to kerala or rajastan
progressed spiritually more
read more books
joined the summer dance classes
created more paintings and pieces of art
hachus story
yesterday hatchu called and i told him tht i came to know abt him and haaris story 😀
he told me tht he ll be leaving in aug for gisma.he ll be doing one sem in purdu and will be getting the purdu degree.all this n much more with a scolasip of 21 euo of the total 30 euo.so he pays just 9 euo for all this n much much more.i am really so very happy for him and glad tht he got his long and well deserved break. even though his profile was most the common iim india it male, he made it coz of his gr8 score and strong applcn. i decided tht i ll take him up as my inspiration and never give up even if i fail in this present attempt. i ll research n target all those univs and better each n every aspect of my application.
laccha paratha May 24, 2009
Mix aata with water and knead the dough.keep it aside for 2 hours.roll the dough into a flat circle as though making a chapathi.pour little ghee and let the paratha absorb the ghee.Now sprinklesalt,chilli powder,vaamu,dhaniya and very lil aata powder.make it as a fanand roll it into a twister.now keep it aside for 5 mins.now roll the paratha like chapathi and u ll get layers.Shallow fry it on a shallow frying pan with very little ghee.
punjabi chole
take around 2 cups of kabuli chana.soak them overnight and cook them in
the morning by pouring sufficient water on a presssure cooker till 3 whistles
and then boil the chana for half an haour on slow flame.Now place a frying
pan on the stove and add 2 tb spns of oil.Add dalchini or dalchina
chekka,lavangam or clove,elaichi or cardamom and sha jeera to the oil.Now
add finely chopped oninions and let them fry till golden brown color.Add
finely choped tomatoes to this mixture.Add a tea spoon ginger-garlic paste
or allam-vellulli paste to it.now add the cooked chana into this pan along with the water in which the chana has been cooked.
Now put another vessel on stove and add half cup water and let it boil.add
4-5 teaspoons of tea powder and let it boil for 5-6 mins.strain the tea powder
and only take the tea decotion.
Add this tea decotion into the chole mixture in our original frying pan.add 1
tea spoon garam masala and salt and chilli powder to taste.garnish with
corrainder leaves or kothimir.
GVK one mall
I had been to this newest coolest and happening mall,the GVK one mall yesterday.I simply loved the look and decor inside.I was rich and every nook and corner was shining.The construction work was still going on at a few corners on few floors.The mall is not fully operational but am sure it ll take over the hyderabad party circuit by a storm.the floor and the tiles were shining as though some one sprinkled silver powder over the tiles.it was very neat clean and well maintained.the hep n happening crowd of hyderabad was present and i spotted many urban chic cool teenagers in the mall.The mall houses all the well known indian and international brands like mango,reebok,addidas,KFC,shoppers stop,soles,neeru’s,catwalk,oxygen spa and many many more.It also has the INOX!Do visit it for the cool relaxed and laid back look and enjoy yourself.Don’t forget to taste the kwality swirl thunderstorm in the fun center section.it just tastes heaven 😀
Have a look at these pictures of the mall.
kishore biyani’s fav books
current read : eminent historians by arun shourie
all time favs: I too had a dream by verghese kurien
made in america by sam walton
jonathan livingstone seagull by richard bach
An interview with job hopper May 22, 2009
Some, rather most organizations reject his CV today because he has changed jobs frequently (10 in 14 years). My friend, the ‘job hopper’ (referred here as Mr. JH), does not mind it…. well he does not need to mind it at all. Having worked full-time with 10 employer companies in just 14 years gives Mr. JH the relaxing edge that most of the ‘company loyal’ employees are struggling for today. Today, Mr. JH too is laid off like some other 14-15 year experienced guys – the difference being the latter have just worked in 2-3 organizations in the same number of years. Here are the excerpts of an interview with Mr. JH:
Q: Why have you changed 10 jobs in 14 years?
A: To get financially sound and stable before getting laid off the second time.
Q: So you knew you would be laid off in the year 2009?
A: Well I was laid off first in the year 2002 due to the first global economic slowdown. I had not got a full-time job before January 2003 when the economy started looking up; so I had struggled for almost a year without job and with compromises.
Q: Which number of job was that?
A: That was my third job.
Q: So from Jan 2003 to Jan 2009, in 6 years, you have changed 8 jobs to make the count as 10 jobs in 14 years?
A: I had no other option. In my first 8 years of professional life, I had worked only for 2 organizations thinking that jobs are deserved after lot of hard work and one should stay with an employer company to justify the saying ’employer loyalty’. But I was an idiot.
Q: Why do you say so?
A: My salary in the first 8 years went up only marginally. I could not save enough and also, I had thought that I had a ‘permanent’ job, so I need not worry about ‘what will I do if I lose my job’. I could never imagine losing a job because of economic slowdown and not because of my performance. That was January 2002.
Q: Can you brief on what happened between January 2003 and 2009.
A: Well, I had learnt my lessons of being ‘company loyal’ and not ‘money earning and saving loyal’. But then you can save enough only when you earn enough. So I shifted my loyalty towards money making and saving – I changed 8 jobs in 6 years assuring all my interviewers about my stability.
Q: So you lied to your interviewers; you had already planned to change the job for which you were being interviewed on a particular day?
A: Yes, you can change jobs only when the market is up and companies are hiring. You tell me – can I get a job now because of the slowdown? No. So one should change jobs for higher salaries only when the market is up because that is the only time when companies hire and can afford the expected salaries.
Q: What have you gained by doing such things?
A: That’s the question I was waiting for. In Jan 2003, I had a fixed salary (without variables) of say Rs. X p.a. In January 2009, my salary was 8X. So assuming my salary was Rs.3 lakh p.a. in Jan 2003, my last drawn salary in Jan 2009 was Rs.24 lakh p.a. (without variable). I never bothered about variable as I had no intention to stay for 1 year and go
through the appraisal process to wait for the company to give me a hike.
Q: So you decided on your own hike?
A: Yes, in 2003, I could see the slowdown coming again in future like it had happened in 2001-02. Though I was not sure by when the next slowdown would come, I was pretty sure I wanted a ‘debt-free’ life before being laid off again. So I planned my hike targets on a yearly basis without waiting for the year to complete.
Q: So are you debt-free now?
A: Yes, I earned so much by virtue of job changes for money and spent so little that today I have a loan free 2 BR flat (1200 sq. feet) plus a loan free big car without bothering about any EMIs. I am laid off too but I do not complain at all. If I have laid off companies for money, it is OK if a company lays me off because of lack of money.
Q: Who is complaining?
A: All those guys who are not getting a job to pay their EMIs off are complaining. They had made fun of me saying I am a job hopper and do not have any company loyalty. Now I ask them what they gained by their company loyalty; they too are laid off like me and pass comments to me – why will you bother about us, you are already debt-free. They were still
in the bracket of 12-14 lakh p.a. when they were laid off.
Q: What is your advice to professionals?
A: Like Narayan Murthy had said – love your job and not your company because you never know when your company will stop loving you. In the same lines, love yourself and your family needs more than the company’s needs. Companies can keep coming and going; family will always remain the same. Make money for yourself first and simultaneously make money for the company, not the other way around.
Q: What is your biggest pain point with companies?
A: When a company does well, its CEO etc will address the entire company saying, ‘well done guys, it is YOUR company, keep up the hard work, I am with you.” But when the slowdown happens and the company does not do so well, the same CEO etc will say, “It is MY company and to save the company, I have to take tough decisions including asking people to go.” So think about your financial stability first; when you get laid off, your kids will complain to you and not your boss.
kick May 21, 2009
kick was just yuk. :X i did not like it at all except for a few bits and pieces
scattered here n there in the movie.gross comedy and worst performance
from ravi teja.i did not enjoy the comedy tracks of brahmanandam and a fat
police inspector,over exposing by illeana,double meaning dialogues and
double entrandae like 18 saarlu koskuni,inka nayam jutte peekadu etc etc
it was very vulgar and cheap.whoever suggested me to watch this damn
bloody bull shit kick i just wanna go and kick them hard in their _____ thanks
to the movie for my language.a few scenes do deserve mention like the conversation between sayaji shinde and illeana where in illeana looks like she dressed just to seduce his father and his father says tht his son should not have the dissatisfaction he had been having all these years by not being able to do what he likes.the being happy and doing wht u like part and helping the kids.the kid looked just like a copy cat of sexy in cheeni kum with same action and accent.ravi teja’s thief role was ok atleast trying to sustain some interest in the second half in an otherwise cliche movie.ravi teja was looking very old and yes, the twist on dec 16th was good..although i expected it
verdict: nothing new to offer..waste of time and money
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