Food Analysis

     While I was retrospecting the food habits ever since we started our career, this is what I found out.

1)  The no of restaurants that we try out has drastically increased...And it’s just not any restaurant ...We are hitting big names like Barbeque Nation, Copper Chimney, Little Italy,HRC,TOIT, etc...(I am talking considering Bangalore city...names of the restaurants is subject to change according to the cities  ...)

2) Pizzas, pastas, sizzlers etc are no longer consumed once in a while. The frequency of consumption has augmented (And as far as Dominos, Pizza hut are considered I think we have become the prime customers (in our locality) owing to the number of orders we place)

3) If you want to eat at midnight...you need not rush to Railway Station or Bus Stand ...we have Empire to our rescue

4)  Gone are those days when McDonalds and KFC were the sought after eating locations.. (Some of my friends used to travel 100kms from Belgaum to Kolhapur to eat at McDonalds)...We hardly give a damn to McDonalds nowadays, It happens to be our last option if nothing is there

5) Our Breakfast is mostly taken care by "Anand Bhavan" and the "Shanti Sagar" restaurant chain.

6) As far as those who stay in Pgs are concerned, I think their taste buds have become tired of typical Andhra food.!!!

         

      But there is one thing that we miss a lot...The delicious food made by mom. When we used to get it on a regular basis we hardly paid heed to it..We were of the opinion that "who is going to eat the same food daily"...But now we realize that it is the best; Nothing can beat it...You see that’s why we will be waiting for an opportunity to rush to our homes and have that homely food... J J

       

       Now this makes me remember the famous statement by mother’s  whenever we skipped the food "Ond tinglu horga idbek ninna amele mani utaddu mahatva gottagutte "  which means if you stay away from home for a month u will realize the importance of home food…and I think I have realized and also internalized this statement JJ

Natures Allure

    It was just like any other day in office today.Everyone was busy with the daily routine of checking mails,attending unproductuive meetings,coding, design etc.Some were talking big jargons like reusablity,modularity,scalaiblity (i guess how much of it they actually understood).But by around afternoon something vivacious happened as mentioned below
   
"The Sun began to reduce its temperature and  gave control to the clouds.The Clouds collaborated and delivered collective masses of droplets called "rain".And the hailstones were the addons.And in order to make things much alluring "breeze" stepped in.What a moment it was today in Bengaluru.Thoroughly enjoyed the show put up by nature  today.

        But there were two things that prevented it from being completely ecstatic.First was the absence of our friends group which would have compounded fun and second was  the absecnce of sweet smile of the special girl.:-) :-).
   
Well i think today i realised to an extent ,what it means when they say "Find happiness in small things".Nature always has triggers that reenergize you and i think this was one such.!!!!

Insane Consumption of Beverages

Cardamom tea, Coffee, Latte, Cappuccino, Badam milk, Lemon tea, Bourn vita, Horlicks and many more!!!!! What z the first thing that comes to your mind when you read the above list.I

guess for most of them it would be the beverage vending machines in thier office. Just try

calculating how many gallons(bit exaggerating :D) of beverages have you consumed ever

since you have entered the corporate world.????? !!!!!!!Myriad isn’t it?

               No matter whether you are in a Software firm, BPO, Finance company ,or any other

Office; No matter whether you are on bench, or involved in a project or doing production

Support; No matter whether you are a project manager, or a developer or a team lead irrespective of

anything   one characteristic that cuts across all of them is "insane consumption

of beverages.”.

             

                Just a year ago when we were still in college it would just be 1 or two cups of

beverage a day  .Most of it would be coffee/tea. Latte, cappuccino "to door ki baat hai"

except when we had coffee day visits with friends and girl friends.

        But now things have changed drastically. ....Tea/coffee has been replaced by

latte,cappuccino,badam milk etc.Actually Lemon tea has turned to be the favorite drink of

many. As far as frequency of consumption per day is considered ....we start counting form 5 .And

some people don’t believe in consuming beverages in cups  . Therefore they have their own

Customized mugs(err..JUGS) for that.

         I guess whenever a company places a PO(purchase order) major one goes to Cafe

Coffee day,or Nescafe.

       But they are many logical reasons for this "insane consumption of

beverages" let me list down a few....

1) "No Reason"...this seems to be the biggest reason..because most of the time people

(especially  freshers) don’t know what to do and they end up with beverages..and  chit chat.

2) You can’t turn down your friends request..--Let’s assume that you have come to

office on time and you have already finished your first round of tea/coffee...An hour later your

friend  comes to office and says "Nadiyo cha kudud baron(chal chai peeke ayenge)" and you

are so good that you wont say no....and throughout the day such requests keep on coming...

3) You are developing a software ...and you are stuck .You feel that you badly  need a

break. Result: Coffee consumption.

4) You are on a night shift ...and there is no one apart from you. You virtually embrace

the coffee machine …!!!

5) You are amidst a boring ppt. You need an excuse to go out. You demand a

break. Result: Coffee consumption.

6)  Some managers prefer one on ones, priority setting, appraisal and incentive announcement

to be done over a coffee. You definitely won’t say no during such circumstances.

7)  You are in training. And as is the normal case most of the times you are sleepy. To

battle with sleep you use your most trusted weapon ....Coffee !!!

        This is just a small list. Feel free to add to this list...I have to stop this post here. Because one of my

friend is inviting me for a coffee and I can’t say no. ….:)