My experience with Fine Dining

What does one typically do on a birthday?Cut a cake..Receive gifts…attend calls…thank umpteen FB frnds for their wishes and ….Yes u got it right … Treat the above!!
So can u go to KFC ? Chungs ? Domino’s?Naaaa… too baccha . College goers treat there…So what are my other “elite” options .Khansama , Toscano .. Fava .. Sunny’s or anything in and around UB City .This is where I fell prey.And which of the above did I pick??
Sunny’s J

  After supposedly hearing aawesome reviews of the place I felt I need to try it out with my Gondu.
So we went there on a perfect Sunday evening at an ideal time of 8.We chose the corner table and sunk ourselves in the ambience.The setup was relaxing … quaintly lit in corners. And now time for some food … wat do we order?I dint know. So I called up this friend of mine to suggest something as he is always gaga about the place …His reply “ Order anything from the menu , food is really good here”.Hmm interesting  suggestion.. anyways my Gonds chose Lamb chops and I chose some unpronounceable chicken dish plus we also ordered a prawn starterJ

 My gondu and me were eagerly surveying the place and during this process the waiter comes in with a complimentary bread and butter. Don’t we all Indians love things when free??Both of us were happy …but our joy was short-lived …why ?The bread was so hard that I could damage the head of my friend who suggested this place (I had half a mind to do that) . But what can one do … U never complain.Its Fine Dining .So after using all my canines n molars I managed to break that into few pieces . Bread powder all over my dress , napkin , table .. thank god we got the corner table.And shortly afterwards they got the starters ie; Golden Fried Prawns.I could not believe my eyes . 4 pieces :O that too adulterated with some coating to make it look FAT( which it dint!)

 I thought the main course would compensate the bitter experience . And when the waiter arrived with the dish I was amazed by its looks .Whoever said don’t judge anything by it looks MUST HAVE HAD THIS DISH!! It was far from good. A wrinkled tomato in the corner as a decorative ,butterfly shaped pastas, super salty chicken,  a puddle of inedible orange sauce and my favourite --Green  bitter leaf J And to make my experience even better mosquitoes starting biting me .I guess even they wanted to experience Fine Dining JBut surprisingly my Gondu’ss dish was really good which was such a relief . So I consumed most of his dish .Check arrived .My fine evening came to an end with a sizeable hole in my pocket J
But one cannot complain .
Why ? Because it fine Dining .
You need to develop taste for it* J J

 Love

NeetJ

* That’s what Mr Lavelle road says…

What time will you leave?

Every day I ask “Tom when will you leave?”

“At 6.30 Neet” is always the answer I receive.

But yet I ask the same question every single day,

“Neet I shall leave early” hoping you would say,

I feel like a princess caged in a jail,

Oh my Dear prince come soon and help me Bail,

Please rescue me, Get me out of here,

With you around me I have nothing to fear

So tell me my love when will you leave?

I hope this time it’s a different answer I shall receive!:D

Love Knows no Boundaries

It was beautiful Wednesday evening when I fell for him,

I wanted to make him mine it was my current whim,

He was Chocolaty and adorable just the way I want,

I crazily wanted him after all I needed to Flaunt,

But little did I realise that he came to me quite steep,

I was so much blinded by love that It was him whom I decided to keep,

After few hours of being with him the reality begins to dawn,

Oh my ex lover the lust for you is gone,

You showed your true colour, you hurt my feet

Tom you were right I should have picked a Sasta chappal from Com street!!

Love

Neet :D

Shopping

 We Girls love to shop. Let it be on weekends , festive seasons or whenever we find time.The insatiable need to add a new member to the already obese wardrobe family never ends.There is always a room for that extra black dress .
Why when you already have two?
“Because I have georgette and crepe , not chiffon”- came a quick reply.
This dangerous addiction has taken over a vast majority of female race and is fast approaching the male clan too...Scary isn’t?

So a careful study was planned and I asked few shopaholics what tempts them to shop .

Findings –

1.       Shopping because you genuinely need something.

Eg: You buy a bag as your old one is abused to death

Valid excuse.      

But It doesn’t mean you can buy a Hide design worth 3k.

Result : Guilt free youJ

2.       Buying things out of boredom .

Eg: You are waiting for your friend outside commercial street and in the meanwhile u think why not pass time entering the nearby store.You wander around the store find a pretty red scarf and the sales man does his job .Even though you would have never worn a scarf in your life you buy it.

Why?

Common excuse -“That sales guy showed me so many things so I thought it won’t be appropriate to leave the store without buying anything . And anyways the scarf looked good, I can gift it to my niece.”

Result :Happy salesman

3.       We buy because others brought it / Its a "Standard" issue.

Eg: “ Hey you what almost everyone in my team has a blackberry , Its high time I buy one too. "You may hardly use the features in blackberry , Still you justify saying “If I need....”

Result : Welcome to the club.

4.        We buy things because others want us to buy.
Eg: You go out shopping with friends , during the numerous try-on’s your friend feels that this particular kurthi fits well on you. You hate it but your friend manages to convince you that you need to buy it.

Result :Happy friend , Unhappy you.

5.       Unintentional  buying

Your friend wants to buy something so you accompany her with no intention of shopping But .....

Result : Guilty you.

6.       Buying things because it’s cheap.

Flea market goa: “Hey look these earrings are so pretty  “,”How much does it cost?” ,”25 Rupees ma’m”

“Really !!” (You are shocked hearing the price ) “ I need 6 of these in different colors”.

Result : You will remember its existence after 5 months of it gathering dust.

7.       We buy things out of whim/ Impulse buying

You go to the electronic store to buy an ipod and while visiting the section you spot a home theatre in the new arrivals , you already have one but this one has better features ( Even if u may not use any). As expected you fall prey to the latest development in technology.
Result : Instant gratification + last week of that month you are on shanti sagar meals..

8.       We buy things as its in offer.

Now this is one of the most dangerous forms of shopping . You will find the need for a thing which you dint even knew existed.The 50% off in shopper stop , 75 % off in Mango ....so temptin..

Result : Crazily happy you + Long credit card bills +leg pain standing in long lines outside trial room+  impatient spouse/Friend with Prefix etc J.

Now after all this revelation do you still feel like shopping?

If yes then you are not alone :P
 

PS: Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go Shopping ;)

Why does one feel the need of a thing only after someone else wants it??

You reach office in the morning, check the mails and when you feel everything is settled down you think it’s time to catch up on the daily news stories .

You wander around office searching for the newspaper and after 15  minutes of searching you find the newspaper quietly perched on your colleague’s CPU. You ask him if you can borrow it for a while, His immediate response – “I am reading it”. While its very evident that he wasn’t reading , he may “feel-like” reading it just because you wanted to borrow it.

Same goes with when someone borrows your book/Pen/DVD’s/ Money/Car..

The book which had gathered dust was finally asked by a friend and within days of your friend borrowing it you see an intense desire of asking it back . Why? Because suddenly you feel you need it. You might have million other books in your shelf but it’s that one book which your friend has taken you need. You call your friend, inform that you need it by tomorrow and your friend regrets to inform that it has been taken by some other friend of hers. You request her to track the chain of people whom this book has been passed on to and return the book asap. Within a week your friend rings you “ Hey lets meet at the coffee shop this Sunday noon, I have your book with me “, Me-“Great , c u there”.

You meet this friend on Sunday , she returns your book back. You return back home place the book back in your shelf. The furthest you ever go reading it is till the index.Why? That urge you had for reading this book is gone .But you satisfy your guilt saying you don’t have enough time to read it or similar such excuse.

Another incident which caught my attention was when I saw my friends stock their entire kitchen with liquor on October 1^st.Why?
October 2^nd is a dry day in India on the occasion of Gandhi jayanti .Now my question is why did my friends who rarely drink want to stock up so many liquids?Their reply -“What if we “feel like” drinking today then we will have no place to buy “.

We human beings are silly, weird and incomprehensible creatures.

We want things which we don’t have ,

And forget the ones that we do,

You might have one pretty girlfriend

But you wouldn’t mind your best friend’s too;)

Cheers

Neet

Kavvv

My Parents agreed for my marriage!!
Kavya announces one morning .
With whom ??
Santhosh ofcourse!
The lunch gang members are shocked in excitement .
Her parents agreeing all of a sudden has given us a shock (Good one of course )
But at the same time slightly disappointed.
Why you may ask…

Every single day the chapathi , puliyogare , cucumbers , tomatos go down our throat hearing Kavya and santhosh stories.
How her parents are trying to get all the gowda’s on the planet to woo their “forever-on-diet daughter” to how skillfully she is dodging all their attempts.
How she loves shopping for black bathroom tiles with her would be in laws for the new house to her attempts to convince her friends dad to persuade her dad that santhosh is the perfect one for kavya.
We all smile , laugh and enjoy these stories every single day and look forward to it as much as we do to anusha ‘s yum tiffin . We can’t have enough of it.
But the news we received on dec 9th morning has given us a feeling of nostalgia.
It’s great no doubt on that , but maybe a little of bit of drama and action would have made it a sure shot entry in the box office!!So finally Kavya Gowda will be introducing her parents to her future in laws during santhosh’s house warming ceremony which is happening the next day. The lunch gang can barely contain their excitement on the grand finale (We were invited to witness this occasion) .
Why?We are getting to see all the actors , villains , supporting actors of kavya’s story the next day.

Dec 10th morning was one of the most colorful days BigCity had witnessed.
Raksha wore a salwar ( You may think wats the big deal… but wat if I say we are seeing her for the first time in one )
Anu was looking drop dead gorgeous with a pretty chudidhar and a green bindi.
Sonia was another beautiful spell to cast your eyes on.:D
Neetha came with a dhinchak salwar and a ching ching chappal.
Thus by noon Lunch gang members set sail in two bikes to a place they barely knew exist ;)
We had a adventurous time travelling to R T nagar as none of us knew the exact route .
Asking million people where “dinnur road” is we finally reached Unnati.

The word stunning would fall short to describe how kavya was looking .Her hair laid back in curls with a nice brown n green salwar teamed with a simple gold necklace, my my.Santhosh wat do I say about him , he just couldn’t stop smiling. 
Both santhosh’s and kavya parents finally meet each other.
(dhoom ! dhomm , pathak…crackers bursting in the sky):P
The cherry on top was kavya’s mom singing a bhajan .
It clearly indicated she was happy and at the same time comfortable in her future son-in laws place.Happiness smiles everywhere.
After witnessing these wonderful moments we marched towards the lunch area .
My mouth waters thinking about it even today.
Finally the lunch gang remembers that they have to go back to office
The three hour extended lunch break was totally worth it!!


You may wonder why is there such a hype about this kavya and santhosh’s love story?
We are all surrounded with “couples” seeing each other quite some time , the definition of quite some time differs from few days to few years . But if two people are seeing each other from past 12 years? Thats a record to beat!
Either something is seriously wrong with them or maybe they are truly, madly crazily in love ( I think the second option holds true)
And seeing that beautiful relationship turn into the holy matrimony is sacred (we don’t get to see a lot of those these days).
It gives us a feeling that true love exists.
It also makes us believe that two people of this “current generation” can still tolerate each other and be very much in love even after 12 long years.
Somewhere deep inside all of us wish to find the perfect life partner like the way Kavya and santhosh have found in each other or the ones who already have wish their love too survives the test of time and becomes a lifetime commitment.
Not everyone is so lucky or fortunate to find the right person so early in life .
So kavya its time you share with us your magic potion :D

Sweetheart we wish you guys all the happiness in the world and a lifetime of togetherness:)
And as santhosh put it “ After 12 years of waiting..finally! Kavya Gowda is officially mine! :) It doesn't happen everyday that the first love of your life ends up as your wife!!! So looking forward to marrying and sharing the rest of my life with her!!”

Congrats again.
Kaavv just for u,

“We all wish your love will forever stay ,
Let it be june , april or may.
No matter how much your hair turns grey ,
I love you my darling every night he shall say”.

PS: As for our daily gossip we have ample to talk about still…where to shop for wedding , were to go to eliminate unwanted ….(teeeeeee) , lol


Regards
Neetha

Working on a Holiday...

How does it feel when you are working while others aren’t??
How does it feel when only you have to get up early and go to work on that day while the rest of the family is still sleeping ?
How does it feel when you are on your way to work and the roads are all empty?
Pathetic isn’t it?
You fret why did you join this company.
You curse why has your boss not called the day off,
You think of the “other options” you had left to join this company (and that other company has an off today)…
Why??

All of us love holidays let it be kids, college goers , working professionals or even grandparents. If you ask someone what is that they look forward to in that week – their quick reply will be weekend.When we were kids we used to have summer holidays and by the time we recover from that long holiday we have one more coming up ie; dasara holidays , then Christmas , new year . Infact we don’t even mind study holidays. The cycle continues. Then we have national holidays varying from Gandhi jayanthi , Independence day and so many other important events. And there are also these unexpected holiday due to bandhs , some major politician died or the weather is bad .And the joy of getting an unexpected holiday can be overwhelming.
We all love it.

Why do u think people love offs so much?
Do you think we really celebrate Gandhiji’s birthday or attend the republic day parade?
Do we join a group on a protest during Bandh?
Or do we mourn the death of some ex-prime minister?
Then why do we need the day off?
The reason is very simple most of us are always tied down with work that we don’t get time for ourselves or our loved ones , so when they declare a holiday we can utilize that time in doing what we like. We can catch up on the movie which was released last Friday, or try out the lunch buffet of the popular restaurant in the city. We can also sleep and sleep the entire day. Or we ladies can catch up on the monthly parlor activities . We can visit our grandparents , relatives or hang out with friends or go shopping. We can do absolutely what we feel like and there is no boss to monitor your task or ask your daily report.We feel happy . We are doing what we like and not what we are asked to do.

Infact we all should take a break from our work at least few times a year and go on a fancy whim maybe a outdoor adventure ,a long holiday or just stay at home and relax . We can give our mind some rest .The traffic , pollution and the stress of work can be forgotten for a while . And also have a look into our personal lives be with our parents , spouses , friends and Check the damage which our day to day schedule has done and do some repair work .We must work towards getting back the Zing in our personal lives.
We work to have better lives and what if we have everything other than a better life?
The purpose is lost..

So let’s learn to live and enjoy every bit of things.
From the time restricted breaks to the long signal waits. Look around , check out the chick sitting in the next auto ,read the hoardings (companies spend so much on advertisements!) , Think of the whole traffic as a big Maze and try to find your way out and so when you reach your destination emerge Happy , not sad!
And why?? Because prime ministers don’t die every other day (And Mamta Banerjee won’t hold a protest every now and then..)

Cheers
Neetha Acharya.