Mountain roof

There is an open space that I see every evening and since its not in grass, I generously call it fields. Through one of the windows, I saw few houses with the roofs - palms facing each other and the fingers touching at the top. Grey came into picture- from the clouds, from the distance of the mountain, from the roofs I just talked of, which seemed red till then. The new grey of the roof made the houses look white. This mountain is 2 or 3 days old in my album. The first day I found it, its presence puzzled me. Today's focus revealed sub mountains in front, much like the houses with sub sections of similar roofs. How fast the mountains change.. the tectonic forces I tell you..

El Nino

This little kid stared and stared and then just broke the stare unbashfully. The white and the black of her eyes reminded me of the inside of a custard apple. Was it because she was too young to reflect cognition in her eyes?

If only there were two of me

Three weeks ago, I saw a black round table with two people at it and a half wall beyond which steps led to a fountain and the rest of the sides. I thought to myself, this is the place I want to sit at, have coffee and ponder. This should happen on a non-sunny afternoon with not much of a crowd around. But how can I ever watch it happen standing from where the wish was begotten?

See Chef bat

Today my fielding skills were called to attention at Hon Machi, what with the chef batting out a pea which could be missed if not due to lack of my attention then for its size for sure... Aww!! so you cant watch food being prepared in front of you and think of something else if it is Teppan Grill.. With the caution I put in, I managed to dissuade the chef from squirting teriyaki sauce at me.. But it was fun watching the egg being broken in the air..I was told to expect this..
Even if you make yourself believe that mustard sauce looks a lot like peanut sauce and devour it.. it sure does not wait long to tell...

Whats in a name

How much of karmic account is effected by curses in an alien language? I got to know of this loss like 5 days later..
How harmful can it be to make a statement like 'Del taco is like Taco Bell'...
Few days ago, a man asked me for the route to Taco Bell in Spanish and I pointed him to Del Taco...

Listen to your friends

It all started months ago, when I had beetroot rasam at a friends place. I was so taken by beetroot that day, that I knew I was going to have it again... Now I will have it when it either changes its colour or stops leaking which is never..
I have had enough of visual effects of betacyanin. If you have to cook beetroots for many but have only few, mix carrots and or cauliflower. Once cooked they will all look like beetroot anyway. It seemed so much like a personality trait ... of not keeping to itself...
I should have listened to my friend. I thought peeling it was the only discouraging thing.. and I couldnt be stopped. I was only making a wish of having beetroot come true. And I had the previous excellent review of tasting it to back on. So how much ever or what ever my friend said would not make a difference.
When I get this feeling of how would this vegetable go with that, I just have to try it, even if someone says dont. And when I do that I am just considering if I am a Don Juan in a way. In a book I read recently, a conversation had it that Don Juan went for one after another because thats the only way to test if his power/effect still worked. Its like how the boy who was told he could scream for help kept doing it to see if it works..Why do we make wishes come true? Is it to see if we can make our next wish come true.
Oh, why I say a 'conversation had it that way' is to just say how we chance upon different interpretations because of who we are talking with...

10.27.12

Once my roomate had some beetroot leftover from a salad. We made a raita from it. Boy was it the prettiest.
My husband once made an aloo and beetroot curry. I havent had that combination before. his favourite from hostel food. Mine happens to be a runny plain dal.
last week I made poha with some beetroot in it. we all know how its good at lending colours.

Sitting against motion

I didnt realise that some people have problem sitting in a direction not facing the driver. There is this train journey from the City of Williams to Grand canyon. This route is a point to point and not a loop track.. so when the engine is brought to the front .. passengers can adjust their seat if they want to sit in the direction of motion. I wonder how such seats will look. I heard a complaint that all signs in the City to Williams always point to some other spot there itself and the one pointing to the highway is there but too small to find.