5 October
2014
5 October
2014
“Teenti montro niye jaader jibon”
5 October
2014
Nikispeak this morning
At the breakfast table, somehow the discussions got started around what Natasha was thinking about her choices of college. We know she wants to follow her heart into journalism and mass communication. I mentioned that a friend of mine had suggested that all kids should think of a second option to follow simultaneously because you learn a lot about yourself as you progress through college life.
Natasha: “Yeah! I am thinking of keeping Business as a major too”
Me: “That is a good idea. The good thing about Business is that it helps you in whatever profession you get into later – engineering, medical, journalism, movie making… whatever”.
And that is when Nikita piped up “What if Didi grows up to be a plumber? Or a street performer? I don’t see how a Business degree can help”.
Uproarious laughter and a little food fight between the sisters later, we left the table 🙂
5 October
2014
Durga Puja time…
5 October
2014
“Always do your best”
“There was a man who wanted to transcend his suffering so he went to a Buddhist temple to find a Master to help him. He went to the Master and asked, “Master, if I meditate four hours a day, how long will it take me to transcend?”
The Master looked at him and said, “If you meditate four hours a day, perhaps you will transcend in ten years.”
Thinking he could do better, the man then said, “Oh, Master, what if I meditated eight hours a day, how long will it take me to transcend?”
The Master looked at him and said, “If you meditate eight hours a day, perhaps you will transcend in twenty years.”
“But why will it take me longer if I meditate more?” the man asked.
The Master replied, “You are not here to sacrifice your joy or your life. You are here to live, to be happy, and to love. If you can do your best in two hours of meditation, but you spend eight hours instead, you will only grow tired, miss the point, and you won’t enjoy your life. Do your best, and perhaps you will learn that no matter how long you meditate, you can live, love, and be happy.”
Excerpt From: Don Miguel Ruiz. “The Four Agreements.”
5 October
2014
When the student became the teacher….
Showing how to light up a orange peel to a couple of fellow bartending girls. You probably are wondering why would anybody want to light up a orange peel (it is actually the oils that shoot out of the peel when you squeeze it). Well, many – like my wife – do not like the taste of their gins emasculated by the fruity taste of fruit-infused gins. But they like the aroma of a fruit – like orange in their drink.
So, basically, you are trying to create a sense of taking in orange gin without messing the taste of the gin. As you know, what our brain perceives as the “taste” of food is only a small part in what the tongue senses and a big part of what the nose senses. The solution is to let the customer inhale the orange fumes but drink the gin in its native form. And you do that by making a normal gin and tonic (Hendricks and Fever Tree is what I would recommend) and then light up an orange peel on top of the drink before you serve it. [The technique will require some practice though. And I learnt it from the venerable mixologist Bensan Varghese from Mumbai]
