Random..

The disaster that poached eggs could be

Call it the Julie and Julia effect, but I would not. When it comes to food, I have tried to sound like a connoisseur who eats at the chinese van occasionally. I read Veer Sangvi’s Brunch column regularly, and have come to know some little things about food and wine (though I never had any.. except when I was a kid being experimented with).

So.. Julie poached an egg, so did I. Except that instead of forming a a well formed cake like lump and appearing absolutely delectable, mine was a sort of floating white phlegm in the whirlpool of water and vinegar. I had to sieve it, eat the coagulated strands of something that tasted like boiled egg.. surprise there!

Cooking 101 is so on!

Earth hour

Last year, I was so enthusiastic about this, I still have the poster from last year. Yet this year, I gave up on observing it. Why??

Well.. why do you want to turn off all the lights and plunge into a collective , self inflicted darkness?? If the discom does that.. its fine. But if we do , out of our own wishes… are we freaking out of our minds??

I just dont get the funda. I mean, if n million homes save electricity for an hour, there is so much electricity saved. Kudos. Try that for 2 hours.. then 3 hours.. then 4 hours.. and before we know we are back in the dark ages.

The amount of electricity we end up wasting every day, is not something one can just magically compensate for in an hour. All it would do is wash away the guilt bubbling deep inside. I had this enthusiastic friend of my sister, who bustled into the place, turned off all the lights.. and planned to do so in rest of the houses she had a chance of being let in.

“Ok.. why are you observing the earth hour?”

“To save electricity..”

“Why dont you get your electricity disconnected then?”

“That wont do na. Think. so many million homes, with 1 hour of electricity saved. Electricity saved is electricity generated”

“And what about those days when we dont switch off the lights.? We are eventually consuming it!”

“But.. we are saving 1 hour worth of electricity across the world”

“But.. what would you do with it if you dont use it?”

“Save it for our future generations.”

“So easy.. saving it for future. ANd your future would save for the future of their future.. and they could all go living happily ever after .. in the future”

“Yes.. “

“Ok.. at least let the poor scientists ,who are working so hard at finding alternative sources of energy keep their lights on”

“But we have to our part. Neither you nor am I going to find an alternative fuel!”

“So you deem yourself utterly futile. There is nothing better you can do to save the planet..”

“I am doing my part. what are you doing? “

“I am studying capital budgeting .. so that I can save the cheer leader.. and I can save the world.”

“Now you are just saying lines from a tv show..”

“Do you wanna watch it?? we have it on time shift..”

“Cool… I missed the last episode.”

“Sure.. go ahead”

“You wont join us..??”

“I dont watch heroes..! Happy Earth hour by the way”
And that is how I saved the hour

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