La shish

Yesterday me, Neeraj,Santhosh, Diwakar and Sam decided that we would eat outside. So we went for Rangoli, an Indian cuisine restaurant. But as it turned out, it was closed. Anyway no one was in mood to go back and cook. So we decided that we would search for some other place to eat. We drove for some 20 mins to reach Ashoka (Indian), it was closed too. The reason was that it was 10 in the night. Anyway we tried our luck in Dawat (Indian again), but it was closed too!! Bad day you would say!
Anyway Sam knew of this place 'La shish'.. Its an arabian cuisine! We decided that why not try it! So we made up our mind, and went to this place. The choice for veggies (me and Neeraj) was limited, but we made the most of it. We ordered 'Potato Kibbie' and 'Falafal Plate'. Potato kibbie is a dish in which potato and some other vegetables are sandwiched in bread. It was not bad. Then falafal plate had pakoda sort of dish. Anyway overall it was not bad. We also got bread and salsa as free accompaniment. After eating all this I concluded this - Indian food is the best :-). And in Indian food, Punjabi food rules !! Anyway we need to try some new things, to reinforce the belief ;-)

Showtime

I have been watching a lot of movies. What else are vacations for?! Mr Hollands Opus, I-Robot, Dumb and Dumber,Hellboy, French Kiss (original for Pyaar to hona hi thaa), Bull Durrham etc etc were some if them.. Also saw Swades in theatre. Swades is a nice movie. It touches some chord somewhere. And i am sure many others would feel the same. The theme talks about giving something back to the community.
This is one topic we often discuss about. Anyway good that we are getting some theme movies too. Liked Shahrukh after a long time. Infact first time after 'Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa'.

Leaving on a Jet plane!!

My roomie Sam introduced me to this amazing song. Ah, I dont seem like getting over it! I would have listened to it for some 100 times now, but it still touches me.
John Denver is too good in 'Leaving on a Jet Plane'. The music and lyrics both are awesome. And the main point is that you can identify with the song to varying extents :-). My friend Neeraj, is truly a fan of this song. This is the song he would play first of all!! I am not complaining ;-)
You can get lyrics of the songs at -> Lyrics

The Vacation!

Our holidays are going to start from this friday!! The good news is that there are lots of them! We have holidays from 24th Dec till 2nd Jan. I dont even know what I would be doing in the vacation!
Had never got holidays in bulk in Infy. So thats a plus point here in DCX :)
The only problem is that weather is chilled. I cant describe it enough. Dont know if it would suffice, if I say that its often -30 degree centigrade!! You read it right, the minus sign is not a typo error!! Freezing news right? Hopefully the temperature would be above zero on this Saturday as per forcasts. Keeping the fingers crossed :)

The Sugar Fiasco

Yes, even sugar can make life sour sometimes!!
I might be exaggerating here, but the event initiated by sigar was quite eventful indeed!! It so happened that i finally got up at 1pm today afternoon. After making myself tidy, I note that there is no sugar in our house. Me and my roommates wanted to have morning tea desperately. There was bit of a discussion as to who will bring sugar from neighbor's house. Finally it was decided that we will go and buy it.
So there we were (me, Diwakar and Santhosh) in our car. We started for India Gate. Its a desi general store, where we get Indian grocery. As soon as we started Aakash and pakya asked us to stop the car. They were coming in their car behind us. Now the problem was that Santhosh is a novice as of now in terms of driving. So he didnt stop the car, and so we reached India Gate. Pakya also was coming behind us, and when we stopped, he broke the News that our car's rear tire was FLAT!!
Now this would have had been ok on some normal day, but today was it damn cold. And then add the wind chill factor. We were freezing, and it was tough to stand outside for a moment also. Anyway cursing our luck and each other, we bought the goods and SUGAR!
Now came the tough part. How to get the car in shape?! Getting it repaired would have had been a costly affair as labor is vey costly here. So we sought the help of our more experiened friends. Diwakar didn't bring his cell, so we called up Suchit from a shop. Good guy he is Suchit said that he will come to help us out. He asked Diwakar to bring out the spare tire and jack etc. Our dear Diwakar said that he has opened the dikki many times, but he has never seen the spare tire!! Anyway I told him how to see the tire ;-). When we saw the tire it was more of a joke!! It was just half the size of normal car tire. We were really wondering if its really meant to be a replacement tire!!
Anyway after some time Suchit also came. We somehow managed to change the tire in freezing cold. I came with Suchit in his car. We were following Diwakar and Santosh. The sight for us was real good! The car with the small tire looked very funny! But as they say everythings well that ends well. So we finally reached home, and I made tea. I must take the credit for making a nice tea :-). It was a nice outing afterall ;-)