V for VendettaHere is a recipe for Dum Aloo from a proper Kashmiri friend of mine.
For all those guys and gals who will be cooking their own meal tonight!
This is what it should look like in the end (theoretically speaking).Few days ago a numerologist told me that I should spell my name with 2 z's and 2 c's.
Thus my name: Azahar Machwe becomes Azzahar Macchwe - which sounds like something out of a Star Wars movie.
This post is about someone Very special, someone I trust a lot, someone who is my Best buddy!
Hey who is this person, you ask? Ahhh but what is their name, you ask?
Really want to know the name don't you?
These questions will remain unanswered I am afraid. Since the person is special let them remain special and thus my little secret. ;)
Oh well, you all know how bad I am at avoiding questions especially when I am giving such BOLD hints! :D
So I will tell you.
The post is dedicated to my blog! It has created controversies, made me new friends, made me loose friends and generally kept my brain running when it wanted to go off to sleep. It gave me a platform for my thoughts, pictures and words. Sometimes I abused this space by writing about depressing things, sometimes I angered people by posting controversial thoughts.
All in all it has been a fun 2.5 years out here. My blog has over 500 posts now (579 to be exact). Lately I have been feeling that I should just end this blog and begin afresh with a new philosophy and a new title. Or maybe give up blogging completely and write a book or something (haha!).
This blog started with me wanting to post things about my work. Things related to life and evolution both in the computational sense and practical sense.
But then I reaslised that even our emotions evolve. In short Everything Evolves! What doesn't evolve, dies. As simple as that.
Thus life is about Everyting Evolutionary!
This blog started out as an attempt to redefine myself.. or maybe an attempt to define myself?
Will it end with me redefining myself as Azzahar Macchwe? Or will the old saying that 'more things change more they remain the same' come into immediate effect and stabalise this blog on to the next innings?
Lets wait and watch. Lets wait.. and watch..
A. M.
Spending some time in London these days. Travelling around on the London Underground is both painful and fun at the same time. Kind of paradoxical.
During my journey's on the 'Tube' I have seen many things, heard many things and experienced many things.
Heard on the Tube:
Two hep-ish Indian/Pakistani mom's talking.
Woman 1 (smart and trying to be sexy): Our stop is two stations away.
Her kid: 'Where are we now'?
Woman 1: We are near Harrods.
Woman 2 (not so smart and showing stuff to try and be sexy): 'Isn't that where you bought your handbag from'?
Woman 1: -blah blah blah- 'your foundation [makeup] is visible' -blah blah blah-.
Seen on the Tube:
Lots of cool looking girls in formal clothes! Smartly dressed gals from exotic parts of the world!
The latest laptops, mobiles and PDAs. Books with interesting looking covers and catchy titles.
Experienced on the Tube:
The woman who smiled at me. I was travelling on the District Line Train towards Earl's Court. A woman came in on board the train at Westminister. She must have been around 28. She had a badge on her jacket with today's date and 'Visitor' written on it. I was trying to make out where the badge was from. Looked like something Government related. She caught me looking at her badge and she turned a bit towards me. I could now make out the badge clearly. It had a Government logo on it.
Then my attention wandered towards the door because a station had come up. As I looked back in her general direction I saw her looking at me. I met her gaze for a bit then looked away. She had a sweet face.
Looking back again in her general direction I again saw her looking at me. This time I didn't look away and neither did she. Then she gave me the sweetest smile and I couldn't help but smile back at her.
She got down at the next station and that was the end of that!
:)
Like I said.. the Tube is amazing yet a pain. New things happening all the time! I could never read a book there. So many things to observe and think about!
The other day I was told by someone that 'Boots sells everything from baby toys to sex toys'.
Sex toys are sold only through the website except during Christmas when they are also sold in the 'family planning' section in selected stores.
A question that came to my mind, at this point was how do sex toys help in 'family planning'?
Perhaps a social science Ph.D. topic?
It is amazing though, that Boots does baby toys so the baby can grow up happy and then once all grown up, go back to Boots for their sex toys and thus produce more babies completing the circle! This is what I call full circle family planning!
:)
arti17a: were u born in zoo
me: yeah
me: lagta to aisa hi hai kabhi kabhi
me: or maybe apke saath ka asar
arti17a: MAD GUY
me: THANK U!
me: this is going on the blog!
FuchsiaToday something really amazing happened...
I was at my neighbourhood chip shop waiting for my food when I saw this sign advertising fresh milkshakes. I decided, on an impulse, to go and get a chocolate milkshake.
As I was waiting at the counter for the shake I saw a small baby girl (could make out from the colour of her clothes) lying in a pram. After a quick glance I went back to waiting for the shake. As I started looking around I noticed that she was looking at me. No wait. Not just looking but staring at me. As I started back with a stupid smile on my face (I am never really sure what to do when facing a baby) she slowly started to smile. It was like watching a flower bloom.
She game me the most amazing smile I have ever seen. Her eyes seemed so gentle. It was as if she was saying 'I know you!'
And whenever I would look back and smile she would again give me that same slow smile.
I guess anyone who has experienced something like this before (or experience it regularly) will know what I am talking about. It was the first experience of this kind that I have had.
I am usually not a morning person. So getting up is difficult for me! :D I love my sleep and my BED!
Therefore I started thinking what are the different kinds of mornings that one can have (in my experience).
1) Scratchy Lazy Morning: These are the kind of mornings when you are content to just sit in your bed (after waking up) and scratch yourself all over the place (like an ape) for the whole day if necessary. Such mornings usually happen over the weekend or after a very good nights sleep. It takes a while for your brain to kick into action.
2) Groaning Morning: Mornings that you wake up with a painful groan. The kind of groan which, as a kid, would have compelled your mother to check you for fever or ask you if you have a stomach ache. These mornings happen when you don't really want to wake up (usually during a working week!) or after a night of heavy drinking. On days like these you just want the world to leave you alone!
3) Screaming Morning: Mornings that you wake up screaming because you have a big day ahead, you slept for just 2 hours last night, your head is fuzzy, you feel like shit and you feel as confident as an earthworm.
4) Master Chief Morning: These are the mornings you feel full of confidence. You feel like you can cut through a million strong army of aliens (like in Halo) all on your own. You LEAP out of bed and go charging out into the world like a one man army!
5) In-bed Morning: This kind of morning is spent in bed (in an awake state) doing stuff. This is only possible if your desk and PC are right next to your bed and you have nothing major planned for the day (which includes everything that requires getting out of bed). These morning are quite common in winters especially when the room is as cold as a crypt and you are snug-as-a-bug in your bed. Such morning only end around 4-5pm when the sun sets and you start feeling hungry!
6) Nuclear Bomb Morning: These are the morning when your cell phone goes off next to your ear like a nuclear bomb, waking you from that amazing dream. Depending on the person who called, either you want them to call you like this every day (so that you can wake up with a smile!) or you pray to God that next time you will have enough sense to keep your cell on silent mode (no vibrations also!) before you sleep!
What do you do when your day starts with your house-mate coming into your room and asking you 'are you in the toilet' (and you are sitting in your bed trying to decide whether to get confused at the question or to laugh!).
Last night at 2am (Friday) I felt like eating cornflakes. A friend found that weird. Couldn't figure out why anyone would want to eat cornflakes!
The sleep was good. For the first time in days could sleep without thinking about..
Then I got out of bed (after the funny start) and started thinking what to do with the day ahead.
And thought the best thing to waste the day away would be to write this blog entry! :P
Sometimes life can feel like the above picture. Also blocked in and closed with a hint of freedom.
Yet the block is not all stone and cement. There are windows. There are openings through which you can either allow light or darkness.
The choice is yours!
