My first attempt at cooking

"I will teach you cooking". This came from my senior colleague who had travelled with me to the US for a training stint. I looked at him with amusement and told him "My wife has been trying to teach me cooking for the last 2 years and has not succeeded. Now you think that you can do it in 1 month(duration for which we are here in US)!!!!He laughs and takes it up as a challenge.I think about it and work out the economical gains of cooking for myself. A proper dinner in US costs you around 8 Dollars (Big Mac or a tandoor restaurant run by a sardarji - choose for yourself) and if i were to cook, then not only it will save me some real dough, but i could also make the food according to the likings of my palate. Got excited about it and wanted to start cooking immediately (I am like that. If i get excited about something, i immediately want to start it off. Guess its like that with most of the Aquarians!!).So the next day, i go and get chicken, oil, tomatoes, chillies, chilli powder and sauce. And then i start my experiments with cooking. End result - amazingly tasty chicken fry which i very magnanimously shared with my colleague who was shocked to find out that i could cook really nice. "This is really good" were his words and i was left thinking how i could achieve this feat when i hadnt even made an omlette before in my life.Guess the reason has to be that of being tired with the angrezi food and wanting to eat something really spicy.Well whatever the reason is, i have decided that i love cooking and am gonna make fish fry tomorrow!!

Called up my wife and told her that i cooked a real cool chicken dish and that my friend liked it and she responds "Well. Good. Once you come back, you can take over that job!!":-)

I Love.....

My new NIKE Shoes!!!! :-) :-)
Its soooooooooooooooo comfy...

Wow!!!

I am in awe. Found out that the project that i am working onright now used to have a member who went by the name of Anna Hahn who incidentally is the US womens chess champion (http://www.uschess.org/news/bio/hahn.php) and another parallel system used to be headed by none other than Fischer Black(http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/MEDIA/1995/black.html

Wow.

And there is a sybase guru in my same department who has written books on sybase and who is one of the people who were actually involved in writing sybase!!!!

True Friendship - Myth or Reality?

Is there something called as true friendship? If it exists, then what is the criteria for a person to be your true friend?
If he helps you with money when you are in desperate need, then is he your true friend? If he helps you to finish off your deliverables when you need to rush off to meet your spouse for an emergency, then is he your true friend? If he offers to cover up for you when u need to take a vacation, then is he your true friend? If he offers you free advice when you are down, is he your true friend?
Doesnt true friendship mean that we accept the other person as he is? If i expect him to act in a certain way and if he doesnt and if i say that i no longer want to be a friend of his, then arent i being a bad friend? Shouldnt i go back to him and ask him why he acted in the manner he did?
I can say that, he didnt do this, so he is not my true friend. He can say that, i didnt bother to find out why he acted in the way he did, so i am not his true friend.
Friendship is complicated. Or is it?