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Lonely, does he shine A black curtain behind With none to help in his work Of lighting up the world. I feel not the need for people Like my beautiful worker Alone I like to live in this world Enjoying an eloquent silence. As I revel in this thought Stars come out to remind Of society which gave me life And I depend on it.

The wind blew with a mighty force. The coconut trees danced in joy. All at once it seemed as though They were seconding the wind, Challenging me to a duel with Nature. A battle within myself – A warning from my practical self And encouraging words From my romantic self. An incurable romantic that I was, I stood trying to resist the wind. The coconut trees seemed to tell me That it was impossible. But there I stood enjoying The wind’s caresses and its effort To cool my body; when ‘CRASH!’ came down a flowerpot. In a flash I understood What sort of a life I was leading. All I knew was Nature’s caresses And not its violence.

Hey! Guess what? I'm majorly into blogging now. Check out My blog . We do keep hearing/seeing this often as a signature in a lot emails nowadays (why! even I have a signature set up :-).... It is definitely fun to write... give in to your creativity..... realise long buried dreams of becoming a journalist, author, poet, reporter etc. etc.. etc... as long as you know who reads your blog. Here I am all excited writing a post about Alarm clocks ... I would definitely not want to show this to my father-in-law knowing his great sense of humour... So there he goes out of my blog_reader_list. Now I need to be very careful not to send an email to FIL with a signature. After a few days I am absolutely frustrated with my friend's attitude and furiously dash out a stinker post on her. OOPS! I hope I have not already sent her the URL! NO? oh good! So she is out of the BRL (blog_reader_list). My next hit? an uncle, an aunt, brothers, sisters-in-law, sisters, brothers-in-law, mother, father,...

Candid Coffee There are two methods to be followed. Incase someone prefers "degree kapi" follow method 1. If there are no specifications follow method 2. Method 1 1. Keep the milk on the stove as soon as the first round of decoction is ready. 2. Always turn the stove to sim and let the milk reach to boiling point slowly. (R) there is actually a taste difference in the coffee when the stove is on full. Further, bottom of the vessel remains clean without any layer formed. 3. Never mix coffee in a big vessel for everybody together. (R) each one may want a different strength of coffee. Further, you might be left with too much or too little coffee on hand. 4. First pour some of the 1st decoction into the tumbler then pour milk till the tumbler is 3/4ths full. (R) the rest of the tumbler is used to adjust the strength of the coffee with either more decoction or more milk according to the individual taste. 5. Now add sugar and give WITHOUT mixing. (R) Mixing promotes heat loss. Meth...

Decoction Discussion Have you made coffee decoction using the regular manual filter? Now there are a few steps to be followed. 1. Set water to boil with a lid on the vessel. (Reason) heat is not wasted. 2. While the water is boiling assemble the filter and add coffee powder till it fills half of the top chamber. (R) Too much powder - longer time for decoction to filter. Too less - might as well use a smaller filter. 3. Take a karandi(ladle) for pouring water over the coffee powder. You should move your hand in a circle as you pour. (R) Water gets equally distributed. 4. Keep adding water. Remember to remove the decoction from the lower compartment before every round of fresh water to avoid overflow and to keep the 1st decoction separate from the 2nd and 3rd. {Making coffee is a whole new procedure which will be taken up for discussion in the next post} Corrections by a coffee connoisseur Less powder - resultant decoction is too watery to make " degree kapi ". Circular motion ...

Congratulations!! The stork has delivered! I had my second baby Sundaresan (Sundu) on May 3rd. Shyam had his baby Anjali (Anju) on June 13th. Okay. So? What’s the next step? Take pictures. Done. Next? Upload them for friends and relatives to take a look and analyse feature by feature, step by step... Sundu being a month older than Anju, he has had more photos taken, more people taking a look at him and trying to work out resemblances. Start from the head………. Anju and Sundu both have lots of hair on their head. Did you have hair when you were born? No I did not. Neither did my brothers. Bala and his sister apparently had lots. Ah! that explains why Sundu has lots of hair. Now Anne's sister's kid was a baldie. So how come Anju has lots of hair! hmm... Lets think.... Did some magic gene work its way to Anju bypassing a couple of generations? Definitely..... One of my Mother's sister come out with a head full of hair, surely to compensate for the vacuum inside...

Milk Can Mania Placing a milk can in the refrigerator is quite tricky to master. Align the sides of the can with the sides of the refrigerator in such a way that the handle is to your right. Reason Getting the can out is easy when the handle is facing you. More cans fit in one shelf this way. Caution 1. Make sure you don't buy all groceries at the same time, else you will have a tough time stocking the refrigerator properly. 2. This is the most important part. Read carefully. Never push the milk can inside when your wife is supervising the procedure.