Thursday, June 21, 2007

World Music Day

World Music day is Celebrated on 21st June. I came to know about it yesterday :-). Probably Many came to know about it yesterday.
FM 91.1 is my drive time friend. And Sunshine girl announced that RC will be playing special songs for World Music Day. I love many songs but I don't know I remembered " Albela sajan ayore" from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. After 5 minutes Sunshine girl played the same song. Was my wish fulfilled because of World Music Day or Telepathy works I don't know and not worried either.

Reached office and wanted to listen to old song list which my friend had created in raga. but raaga had some problem yesterday. Thought of trying Music India Online to listen to MS songs. Even that didn't open.

I remembered I have "Da. Ra Bendre" songs stored in my system. I kept listening to them.
Beautiful poems with beautiful tunes. What else I could wish on World Music Day.

Why only one day is marked as World Music Day. Isn't the music part of our life. Isn't every day a Music Day?

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Devrayana Durga

Wanted to go trekking this weekend, Didn't knew where to go. Finally Shrilatha suggested to go to DD(Devrayana Durga).Four of us started on Saturday to DD. We drove car our self to DD enjoying the traffic free drive.
I had told I want to walk even though there is a road for vehicles to "Yoga Narasimha" Temple. Shrilatha had even told me to climb further and reach "mantapam".We reached "Bhoga Narasimha temple at base around 9.30am. It was very calm. Place is clean too.Loved the way they had tied sari to "Lakshmi" devi.

We ate Jamun first time this year.Enquired which is path to take if we are interested to walk. And started marching towards our destination.It was sunny not a very good weather for trek. But we had determined to walk and we stick to that.Few places it was steep but good experience. On the way Our camera caught beautiful pictures around us.


We reached "Bhoga Narasimha" temple.All busy in buying "pooja" material, we were busy buying eatable. We were hungry.
After taking the blessings of "Yoga Narasimha" we moved towards the "Matapam". There are arrows to guide. We had enough time to explore the rock and we went to place where it said no road :-). We were happy about ourselves not to follow the arrow as we explored many more caves.






We relaxed in sun for sometime and walked back to base.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Sabudana Upama

No No I am not giving a recipe here. I am sharing my long relation with
"Sabudana Upama".

I did my engineering in "BEC Bagalkot". First year and Final year I was in Hostel. But Second and third year I stayed with my friends in a room near to college. Attached to our room was a house were "Aunt , Uncle and their 2 kids" were staying. We were lucky to have such a nice family as neighbours. Aunt Used to prepare "SabuDana Upama" during Shivratri. She may be preparing other days too. But I had got to eat on Shivratri. It was very tastey. That time I didn't even know to prepare a cup of coffee. So I didn't bother to know the recipe.

Recently during lunch we lunch mates started discussing on "Sabudana payasam". Thanks to our caterers. Now I know to cook so I asked if any one know how to prepare "Sabudana Upama". One of them mentioned how to prepare.

On same day I happened to tell how much I like "Sabudana Upma" to my friend Shrilatha too. She probably took 1 minute to send me the blog on preparing "Sabudana Upama".I decided I will prepare on weekend.
Next day I was surprised to see one of my colleague(who was not aware of Sabudana discussion) had brought "Sabudana Upma" for her breakfast. I was shameless enough to say I love it. So sweet of her she asked me to eat. That was also very tasty.

One Sunday I prepared as mentioned in blog. I was disappointed as it was almost like a glue. I told my colleague who had brought Upama what had happened. She told I have to soak it only for 45 minutes and not 3/4 hours. Second Time I tried again. This time it wasn't glue but it was little harder. Again I told her my upama story. She said she soaks previous night and keeps in Refrigerator and prepares in the Morning. And she buys Sabudana from "FabMall".

Yesterday I did the same steps and Today yeah "Sabudana Upma" came out really nice. My theory "To learn any dish you need 3 days" proved right again.

Thursday, June 07, 2007

French Open

Yesterday I happened to watch French Open women's Semifinals. Henin And Ana were Superb. But Henin is my favorite. I am not fan of Sharapova. I feel she lacks sportsmen(women)ship.
I started liking Ana too. But still I want Henin to win.
Watching them play reminded me of the days I started following tennis.

I started watching tennis when I was in school. I liked Steffi. How calm a player can be. When I was not understanding the rules, players expression would help me to know they lost the point/won. But It was very difficult to understand from steffi expression. As she used to be calm all the time. Just opposite was Monika. No doubt Monika was a good player but I liked Steffi.Among Men players I liked Boris Becker, Pete Sampras.

Now I like Federror, watching him play is treat to eye.Now a days most players are hard hitters. But Federor place the ball very nicely.I feel he wins because of his intelligent way of placing the ball.
Today is Men's Semi Finals. I will not be able to watch. But I guess Federror and Nadal will be in Finals.
How can I forget Martina Navratilova. She is all time favorite. She is one more cool chap.



Monday, June 04, 2007

Cheeni Kum

I like sweet which is really sweet. I never thought I can like a sweet which is less sweet.
But I liked Cheeni Kum. I like Tabu she is a fantastic actress. Not to mention AB is always best.How sweet "sexy" was. How could they say "cheeni kum" :-).

I liked everything in the movie. Starting from AB name "ghas poos" to AB mother saying I don't have to eat my medicine as I don't have to cook for you.
One of the scenes I liked most is AB mother telling Tabu there was a women in AB life for 6 months. How well mother can know her kids without kids telling her. Is n't it so real.

I like original kannada song " joteyali jote joteyali" and I like "janedona jane janedona" too.

Very good dialogues. Debut movie of a director/writer should be the one to watch I guess. They will be fresh and different.
I liked "cheeni kum" not because it a sweet with less sugar but its like "Haldiram's chatpata".