The Best Recipe I Learnt

Serves 4
Ingredients Chicken- Cut to the size of ping pong ball
Onion - 2 Big Ones
Garlic - 5 pods finely chopped
Ginger - 1 small piece ..finely chopped
Tomato - 1/2 finely chopped
...and any standard Chicken Masala Powder

Method
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1.Pour 4-5 teaspoons of oil and heat it
2.Add finely chopped onions
3.After 3 mins add 5-6 pinches of pepper powder
4.Saute the onion till they become transparent
5.Add the very finely chopped ginger and garlic and sauyte for
3/4 mins
6.Add finely chopped tomatoes and saute.
7.Once the mixture turn red and pasty add the chicken.
(You may add one small cup of water if you feel the paste is
sticky)
8.Mix the chicken well and leave it to cook for 10 mins
9.Once the meat has become white and soft add 4 cups of water
and mix well
10.Leave the mixture to cook for another 10 mins
11.Add 5-6 teaspoons of chicken masala, required salt
(and 1 teaspoon of chilli chicken/ Mutton Masala)
12.Mix well and allow it to cook for 20-25 mins with
intermediate stirring.
... Your tasty chicken should be ready by now

Key Points:
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Chicken needs to be in small pieces (with bone prefered)
Onions,Ginger, Garlic and Tomatoes should be chopped very finely

Serve With Rice/ Roti

Thanks Karthik for sharing the recipe...

Gamble Game With Students Career at Stake

Right from the age of epics, in a game of politics,we know a lot of things can come to stake in gamble board. The most recent one being the BE aspirants in the political game of Tamilnadu. The facts says there are about 266 Engineering colleges in Tamilnadu with the total number of BE/BTech seats stood at 100175. Of these 62337 are supposed to come under the single window counselling system conducted by Anna University. About 84000 aspirants have applied for these seats.

Peeking at the background that leads to the chaos; DMK came to throne with vows to help the poor in a better way. One way they did was to abolish the entrance exams. The process of abrogating the entrance system had actually begun during the AIADMK regime but was stayed by court considering to the last minute desperate announcement to abolish Entrance by the then AIADMK Government. DMK went on to demolish the entrance process that was being practiced effectively and successfully over the years. The reason being entrance was holding up the fair chance the poor would get to compete. A good one to resist. But did they get through? The private colleges on the other hand were making money through the few management seats they had and were looking for a chance to improve their monetary health. DMK ministry failed to maintain the agreement with the self financing colleges to surrender the seats for 2007 with they had agreed for the year 2006. The year 2006 in fact saw a lot of engineering seats unfilled as parents of the students had rightly judged the infrastructure of many colleges as inappropriate. Blame the colleges or the committee that approves them, it must have hurt the college management reasonably.

The unsuspecting parents filed there application for TNEA 2007 counselling aspiring a good future for there students. The self financing colleges went on to fill their BE seats at their will. When the time came for counselling, the self financing colleges filed a case with high court. The court judged the government's rule as inappropriate and that the agreement does not hold good for 2007 but advised to follow the 2006 process for this year too. There was a similar situation going on for the medical seats. But in case of a minority medical institute, the court had a verdict in favour of the medical college. This verdict kind of encouraged the self financing engineering colleges to go for an appeal in the supreme court.

Now that the TNEA counselling has been happening for the BE seats from 18th of July, the petition was brought to Supreme courts attention few days after the mainstream counselling.The private colleges argue that when its all their investment in their institution why bargain for a poorer deal with govt when the students are ready to pay what they demand. The supreme court bench has commented to the private colleges that what's happening right now in TNEA counselling is not actual admission has the next hearing on 30th July by then the exciting part of the counselling would have been completed. This has left the parents confusing as selecting a college and department in TNEA counselling is considered a seat confirmed in the college and Anna university used to collect a DD as part of confirmation process to be deducted on actual college opening day at the respective colleges. Now that DMK is in fire by AIADMK and PMK, DMK has initiated a series of raid on a few self financing colleges accusing complaints of excessive fees. It looks like a bossy revenge act by the government.

DMK government has failed miserably in the department of higher education.Also it has failed to maintain its vow of guaranteeing the poor the value they deserved.Its a betrayal on govt's part. 226 engineering colleges under its state banner not accounting the deemed universities. Few colleges have already started the courses, as usual the government dependent colleges will start late this year too. Education has surely become a business in a state which raised a professor to become the first ever first citizen of India. When a similar concept of business in educational institution has been featured in the recent record hit movie Sivaji starring Super star Rajini, the people in Tamilnadu are in need of a real Sivaji.

Hurray!! A New Driver Out in US Roads!!

Yes! I got my Drivers License in my first ever driving test..
I did not commit any major mistakes.
I was asked to do the following
1.Turning left/right to the correct lanes
2.Parallel parking
3.Uphill Parking
4.Yield
5.Stop
6.Perpendicular/ Garage Parking
7.Lane Change
8.Normal Parking

My good luck Parallel Parking was perfect..
Perpendicular parking came naturally ...
Few mistakes he pointed out was...
1. Didn't use indicator while joining traffic from parallel parking'
2. Didn't park close to curb.
3. Stopped at yield
4. Stood over the line on stop sign
5. Slowed in intersection
Thats all

Good that I will be getting my ID before I return to India.

Lord Ganesh in my Balcony

Copyright@Subash 2007 :) By Me and Only Me

Planning for a Diet Program

Planning for GM Diet Program..will last for a week. I wont be able to visit few interesting food related blogs for a week :-)
Starting tomorrow with the Grand Release of Sivaji!!
Tomorrow has one another significance... lets wait and see if I can get through :-)
..Yesterday I completed one successful year in US. oooph Dear India I am coming in <100 days.

Day 1
Breakfast : 1/4 Honeydew Melon
Mid Lunch : 1/4 Honeydew Melon
Lunch : 2 Slices Watermelon
2/3 Honeydew Melon
Dinner : 1/4 Watermelon (whole Diameter1 -11inches, Whole Diameter 2 -5 inch)

Chicago... Venice of IL

Cool Links

Love Science!!

Chennai Drips & Drops

Ask anyone about Chennai...There common reply will be"Oh its hot machi!!" (Not just because of Radio Mirchi :-))
But things changed this year....
Floods ruled the metro through the months of September,October,November...
Yet expecting one more storm in December)
Lot of things were forced to surrender before the mighty nature...
1.BCCI falling as an easy prey to the monsoon,which swiped all the cricket matches in chennai...the cricket lovers were left with their useless ticket that too wet.
2.Currents were switched off in many areas..though the death toll came down due to this..they couldn't just eliminate the life loss...
3.Most year ends used to cause devastation ....may be the nature too has its own balance sheet to submit.
4.But there's a good behind every evil...this monsoon though devastating has left the thirsty Chennai population with pompus water for the year ahead..
5.(Atleast)Two of the govt dept got hectic ...Metrological dept and PWD Dept..
One forecasting the rain which has already ruined the hopes of people
other repaying their deeds as most lakes breach either due to their pocket filling or due to the filling of the politician pockets..
6.Media ....making a merry...Rival political channels spitting each other...while the drenched news papers got a year end bonus..
7.Hearts melt seeing poor people at the river banks loosing lives,livestocks and livelyhood to their swollen neighbourhood.
8.Some believed that donkey wedding and monkey wedding has brought their fruits.
I know, at max a wedding can bring misery at one extreme and children at other extreme never a rain in between.If it can please search for those stranded donkeys and monkeys and at once file a divorce for them...perhaps could stop the havoc of rain
9.Can't control telling my fate....
Being a bachelor in chennai in this rain has its own taste...
My wet clothes not drying and my dirt clothes can't be washed..
Nights without electric current but a strong cold wave current..
Atleast my relatives are near(usually 1.5 hr journey) but when I started on one such rainy day by 8...it took 2 hours to reach half the way by train...!!!Stopped...Yes the train stopped even before the station at half the distance was reached...I has to walk for about 20 mins in knee deep water with stones ,pellets ,railway tracks,iron rods and gutters with no light to reach the nearby station Tambaram slipping thrice on the tracks.
Had to catch another train to reach my aunts house..which as expected got cancelled...
After swimming(can't call it a walk) to the nearby busstop...and after chasing two housefull buses... finally got one...
But learnt a lesson...people giving lift were eager to lift you in their vehicle only if you are a young GIRL(Poranthalum ambilaya porakka kudathu)
When I finally reached home after taking a auto half the way for triple charge...it was past midnight...
10.Finally its time for us to remember our childhood days and sing
"RAIN RAIN GO AWAY COME AGAIN ANOTHER DAY"

TamilNadu Entrance Exam Cancellation

Ha yet another political game....

Already a lot of engineers around with no job.
There's a famous saying

"In Banglore,the silicon city of India-
If you through a stone up it will either land on a stray dog
or
.......on a SOFTWARE ENGINEER"

The entrance test filtered the students to professional courses
by testing their aptitude,time management, etc skills
now the quality of professionals will fall short
since a few books mugged up makes a professional...

If you wanted equal opportunity to under privileged and poor students
and if you wanted to stop the education coaching money market
why don't you just stop those coaching centers...

Ha they say there's no need for entrance since there is already lot of engineering seats
going vacant, so finally....
.......its the Govts plan to fill those seats but showing off as if its people friendly...
ha hate these political games..
Who the hell asked them to create so many engineering seats?

All money makers in to education..
Perhaps they envy the money the coaching institutes make..

This has widened the gap between the tough CBSE and damn easy State Board.

Those who wrote the TNPCEE and believed in it are fooled.

Does anybody know why TNPCEE was cancelled even after its results are out...
Because, because
The final of the this series of political games....
THE ELECTIONS
are around...

Had the govt been so people friendly, it could have implemented these changes a year ago or after...

Finally its going to be

"BOOK WORMS ON RISE"

Link Rivers of India

Floods in the north drought in the south.
When life in north is lost of excess water
life in south is lost in need of water.
How could mother India tolerate this pain on her children.
Politicians cry a poor story "No Money"

I remember a cartoon in a newspaper A politician telling...
We have taken hard and firm steps to reduce water crisis...
We have given more licenses to mineral water suppliers!!!

But I know,
If India is so poor then how come many Indians are so rich.
All corruption!!

If we Indians can get together we can recreate the Bagerathan of epics who led the Great Ganga to Bharat.