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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Almo-nilla

Sahana Rao Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1 Comments

Type of recipe: Juices and Drinks

Ingredients

1) Almonds (Soaked overnight, Peeled) - 12
2) Roasted Almonds - ( Chopped finely) - 12
3) Vanilla Essence - 1.5 tea spoon
4) Milk - 1 litre (Chilled milk)
5) Sugar - 3.5 Tea spoon
6) Crushed ice

Serves: 4

Procedure
1) Grate the soaked almond into paste
2) Add the paste to milk
3) Add vanilla essence
4) Add sugar,crushed ice and run for a few seconds in the blender.
5) Pour the milk-shake into the glasses and garnish well with roasted almond pieces.If you are of the kind who likes milk shake to be thin, you can add water.

PS: There can be many variations of this milk-shake like
-- Use dates instead of almonds
-- Use vanilla ice cream instead of essence
-- Use Butter Scotch flavored ice-cream instead of vanilla

I came up with this recipe when I had to finish the ice-cream at home.
The milk-shake was yummm!

Missing from a few years: Sparrow.

Sahana Rao Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1 Comments

I remember, during my childhood, I would wake up to the chirping of sparrows.I would love to see the host of sparrows flying. I used to fill rice grains in a bowl and keep it in various places.

Sparrows came into my house, ate the grains kept for them. Their twittering excited me as they flew in and around the house. I used to jump and dance rhythmically to their chirp and wings flap.

There was a day when I saw a baby sparrow on the parapet of our house, which was putting all its might to fly. I wanted to grab hold of it. Amma told that baby sparrow’s mother will not touch the baby sparrow again. Baby sparrow will not have a house to live and it will lose its parents because of me. I got scared and I decided to watch the sparrow from a distance. It flew out successfully within an hour. I was so happy.

Now, I know that 'touching the bird' is a myth. But, I my excitement might have harmed that small bird then.

But now, where are the chmall cutie birds?

I don’t find them in Bangalore. I still keep a bowl of rice grains everyday, expecting sparrows to come. But, the grains in the bowl are eaten away by insects or it gets spoiled.

Where did they go? There are several reasons for their disappearance like,

Ø Modern architecture which neither have holes or ventilators for houses nor do they have tiled roofs. - Sparrows lived there.

Ø Sparrows would eat spilt grains near the provision shops where the grains were packed manually. Plastic packed grains have left no room for spillage

Ø Sparrows would love eat insect and pest infested grains. Do we bother to keep that out for them? We are busy with our own lives

Ø Electro magnetic waves from the cellular phone towers are a peril to the sparrows.

We have come a long way in the paths of modernization. And there is no looking back. But, we have overlooked our small chirpy partners, who were living with us in our homes, who were friendly, who were leading a social life with us.
We never gave a thought about them through our journey towards modern era.

Now, we can’t go back. And they don’t know the way to come where we are.

I feel bad that present generation kids don’t have a chance to watch and enjoy this bird. The day in the future is not far, when the only way to find a sparrow inside your living room will be to frame it up on the wall like Dodo.

But I don’t want these lovable birds to become extinct. We can still see sparrows outside the city. Please come back dearies. We are missing you hell lots.

PS: Photo Source <Internet>

# Bangalore # MY TWO CENTS

Friday, March 11, 2011

Humor -0

Sahana Rao Friday, March 11, 2011 1 Comments

In a buffet lunch today, my veggie friend got skeptical about the salad she had put in her plate. And she asked the waiter to confirm that it was a veg dish.

Friend: What is this? (Holding out a reddish-white piece in her hand)

Waiter: Rabbit madam.

Friend: ??!!**%^#%!! (What questions must have run through her mind)

Waiter: Sorry Madam, it is Raa, Rabb, Radish…

Friend: 'O'

# LAUGH TRACK

Thursday, March 10, 2011

An Unnerving and Poignant Incident

Sahana Rao Thursday, March 10, 2011 2 Comments

A gentle small town girl aged 23 from northern parts of Karnataka set out to Mumbai with dream in her eyes. She wanted to become a nurse. She qualified as a nurse practitioner. She was appointed in King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, as a staff nurse.

She was extremely dedicated and virtuous at work. She gave the rough side of her tongue to subordinates who failed her expectations. Her efficiency was sure to take her up the career ladder.

This beauty with the brain fell in love with a young and energetic doctor of the same hospital. They spoke to their respective parents, convinced them and got the marriage date fixed.

One uneventful late evening, she went to the dog research lab which was used as the dressing room by nurses of that hospital. She was about to close the door behind, she was strangled with a dog chain from behind. She fell unconscious. She was looted physically, mentally and monetarily.

The rapist cum robber left her in the room presuming her death. She laid unattended till the early hours of next morning. She was rushed to the ICU. She had lost her vision due to cortical blindness, lost her neuromuscular functions, her memory! Basically she was brain dead. The asphyxiating had halted oxygen supply to the brain.

Does this story ring a bell? Yes. The story is about the unfortunate Aruna Shanbaug. She was brought to this condition by a ward-boy named Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki. He was her subordinate who was rebuked for his deeds. Indignant Sohanlal took up this course to settle the scores of vengeance.

Now, she lies in the dark room, on the old iron bed of the hospital. She has not seen light for more than three decades. Her colleagues are looking after her at KEM hospital. She has been locked-up in the room where only doctors who treat her and nurses who feed her and bathe her are allowed. This lock-up is after second attack of Sohanlal in the hospital after he served 7 years of jail.

Sohanlal, led a happy life working in another private hospital after serving 7 years of seven concurrent years of sentence for assault and robbery.

The whole incident and aftermaths are very disturbing. If Sohanlal was allowed to walk free in this world after just seven years in jail, doesn't his savaged victim have the right to be set free after 36 years of an internment?

This post is in the light of the judgment of the Supreme Court on passive Euthanasia.

“In a path-breaking judgement, the Supreme Court today allowed "passive euthanasia" of withdrawing life support to patients in permanently vegetative state (PVS) but rejected outright active euthanasia of ending life through administration of lethal substances.”

-------TOI

# euthanasia # MY TWO CENTS

Monday, March 7, 2011

Bunni's babbles

Sahana Rao Monday, March 07, 2011 2 Comments

She is over an year now, here is the list of words she has learnt apart from Amma, Appa, Taata, Aggi (Ajji), Maama,Anna, Akka, Paapa..

English

1) Nen – Pen

2) None(pronounce as known) – Phone

3) Nant – Pant

4) Baab – Ball

5) Laaigt – light

6) Aaan – On

7) Aaap – Off

8) Duckie – Duck

9) Choo - Shoe (Even slippers)

Kannada

1) Abba – Amba (Cow)

2) Bowb bowb – Bow-Bow (Dog)

3) Kaawkb kaawkb – Quack Quack ( It is really funny when she says this, and even more comical to see the movement of lips)

4) Duckie – Duck

5) Aani – Aane (Elephant)

6) Aiiiya - Jeeya (Water)

7) Yaayaa - Laala (Milk)

8) Mom-mom - Mom-mom(Anything which is eatable)

9) Hakki - Hakki ( any bird)

10) kho-kho - Koli (Hen)

# babbles # baby-talk

Ahamkaara

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Almo-nilla

Missing from a few years: Sparrow.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Humor -0

Thursday, March 10, 2011

An Unnerving and Poignant Incident

Monday, March 7, 2011

Bunni's babbles

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