Posted by: whitephosphorous on: June 27, 2007
Its Six months since White Phosphorous became reality. Six months of glorious interaction with amazing personalities… It’s been wonderful to share my musings, cribs, favorite poetry, little tit-bits of knowledge, rants, culinary jaunts and anything I felt was worth sharing, with each one of you.
I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for reading everything I [...]
Posted by: whitephosphorous on: June 22, 2007
It’s a cold, wet day and I have not much to do at work. I yearn for some hot coffee, and my mind wanders…I go back to those golden days of childhood, and reminisce fondly about those days when the only entertainment during such weather, when friends could not meet, was good old Door Darshan. And [...]
Posted by: whitephosphorous on: June 18, 2007
My friend G and I were talking about different facets of human emotions and behavior last evening when he suddenly remembered this poem we studied in Primary School. We studied this poem may be in 5th or 6th Standard, and probably even forgot about its significance, but come to see, it has so much to tell [...]
Posted by: whitephosphorous on: June 15, 2007
This is one of my Ajji’s recipes for yummy kodbaLe…it’s Friday, and I am hungry and waiting for lunchtime as I am writing this.
Ingredients
Rice flour (slightly coarse, gives more crispy touch)
Red chili powder
Jeera (cumin seeds)
Hing (asafetida)
Grated coconut
Dried & crushed curry leaves
White sesame seeds
Butter
Salt to taste
Oil to fry
There is no fixed proportion for the ingredients….if you [...]
Posted by: whitephosphorous on: June 13, 2007
No, this post has nothing to do with loans, or about the specific loan jargon on the bank documents….yeah, in the broad perspective, it is about how a language itself evolves by borrowing from others .
Loanword (or loan word) is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, [...]
Posted by: whitephosphorous on: June 7, 2007
I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw [...]
Posted by: whitephosphorous on: June 5, 2007
So this is another post I felt I simply had to share with my readers. I had a host of issues to write about, and had also finalized on a couple of topics, and was drafting them, when I happened to watch this program on TV, which made me stop all other things, and write [...]
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