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Bhelpuri, the exotic Indian snacks can be prepared easily at home in the following easy steps.

=> Get a large packet of Haldiram Bhujia Sev

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=> Get two tomatoes, two onion, 4 lemons, 1-2 green chillies, black pepper powder etc

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=> Cut the tomatoes and onion in small pieces and lemon into 2 halves as shown below

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=> Mix onion and tomatoes in a large bowl

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=> Add black pepper ( don’t add too much of it, as it may upset the stomach)

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=> Squeeze all the lemon in a different bowl and remove the seeds

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=> Empty the haldiram bhujia sev pack in the bowl containing onion and tomatoes

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=> Add the lemon juice in the mixture and mix well.

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=> Add topping of coriander leaves and nicely cut green chillies, mix well and it is ready to serve

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The chef can be reached here

9:30 PM – 20 K.Ms – Shutdown the system. Lappy goes in the bag, lights off. Door locked. Into the parking, hit the road.

9:45PM – 12 K.Ms - Old Madras Road signal. Lights, red.  Gigantic water drops started falling. Being on a two wheeler, had no option but to stop. Parked in Indira Nagar on the juice shop. Had an awesome mango shake. Rain pouring in at gushing speed. Roads started submerging , water everywhere. All traffic rules violated, everyone rushing here and there. No option , but to wait, cosy and dry under the shop.

10:15PM – 12K.Ms – Making calls to friends to kill boredom

10:20PM – 12K.Ms – More calls !!! geez, I am bored.

10:30PM – 12K.Ms – More calls !!! geez, I am bored.

10:40PM – 12K.Ms – Rain seemed to reduce in intensity. Made an attempt to proceed further, drenched slighlty. But bearable. Heading south.

10:50PM – 10K.Ms – Whoa, what’s that? Never seen so many vehicles and jam on a flyover (Domlur flyover). Cars coming in from all the directions. What’s happening. Rainfall intensified.

11:00PM – 10K.Ms – Managed to get down from the flyover, swerving in between car spaces. Drenched badly. Roads submerged in water till knee length. Parked the vehicle and hid under the big stationary shop.

11:00PM – 10K.Ms - Waiting for rain to reduce. Cars, trucks , buses all stuck up on the road. Honking honking ! Jam packed. No one goes anywhere. No movement on other side of the road. Looks like the other end is witnessing a phoenix, ganges in south !!! World came to standstill.  People trying to manoeuvre their bikes across the water logged gaps, pavements. People falling in water logged ditches, heading in some direction. Total chaos. Power went off. Street lights off. Can see big shiny blue DELL on the far end.

11:30PM – 10K.Ms No traffic movement ahead. Looks like the inner ring roads are submerged totally under water for a stretch of 4KMs. No one goes ahead. The mob broke the divider to let the water flow out.

12:00 AM – 10K.Ms Still waiting under the shop. A noble voice shouted: The inner ring road is totally submerged and vehicle movement is impossible. Cars take a reverse and follow Old Airport Road, Old Madras Road, MG Road etc. Slight movement in vehicle began.

12:15 AM – 10K.Ms The traffic reduced. All vehicles headed in reverse direction. Drizzling. I too took the reverse route .

12:30AM – 8K.Ms. Brigade Road . Roads damp, but not flooded.

12:30AM – 6K.Ms. Bannerghatta Road.  I am an idiot that i did not take this route. May be I would have escaped that Domlur inner ring road crisis.

12:45AM – 2K.Ms Outer Ring Road. Whoa, I am reaching home finally . Hurray.

12:50 AM – 0K.Ms Alas ! Reached home. Drenched. Took a shower to freshen. Had dinner. Did some tweeting and finally slept at 2:00AM . It was a tiring day .

Epilogue

Wallet got drenched badly. It took two full days to dry. Luckily, the two 500 notes managed to stay off from getting biologically recycled owing to excessive hydration.

Catastrophes bring people closer. They seamlessly start helping each other without thinking as otherwise they would.

Voila, it was an amazing experience

Advancements in technology has penetrated all domains and Bangalore traffice police is no way refrained from adopting the same. Inner ring road, one of the lone roads, situated across sparsely populated region. It connects the densely populated region, commercial Koramangala and the Old Airport Area, Domlur. This is fairly long stretch of road that give motorists and other vehicles a speed up zone to catch up with time. Owing to no residential or commercial construction on the sides, the traffic is swift moving. Unexpectedly, on a fine weekday afternoon, a vechicle loaded with gadgetry stuff was parked with lot of traffic police men in and around it. The motorist speeded up past the Koramangala-Ejipura signal   to gain an acceleration lead on the inner ring road. Whoa, why is he stopping me, I am wearing helmet, the emission test are done. Cannot escape, had to stop. Thunderbird, as the name suggests was talking to winds. The motorist was stopped by the cops.

Officer : You have over-speeded

Motorist : Hmm… I was just 70 Km/hr

Officer [Hands him a printout]:  See this. You were at 76 Km/hr. The statistics have been captured by the #@&^*#5 camera with %#6*#*9 technology. Its all given below. I will have to fine you . 300 bucks.

Poor motorist had no other option.

P.S – Identity of motorist is concealed and is of no concern with respect to the blog.

Both of these share their own importances and have wide differences in functioning, lifestyle, work culture, ambience etc. Working at each of them has its own pros and cons. Let us see what are the striking differences among them that can be of interest to you. Here onwards I shall designate MNC by M and a startup with S.

M: Large coffee machines, surplus supply of beverage, good enough for coffee/tea addicts.

S: Limited supply of beverages, may vary depending on where startup is located, its own office, or a business incubation center.

M: Manager says, you need to be in the office at 9:00AM sharp, they are aussies, ahead of us by 4.5 hrs. We need to bridge this gap. Mails need to be checked every second. Sticking your ass in the office without doing anything is the motto. Punch the clock, 9:15 hrs a day. Some companies have started a early bird offer, earlier you reach the office, say before 8:30 AM, you acquire credit points making you eligible for the lucky draw coupon of Rs 500, Rs 1000 and so on.

S: A product based startup, timings are flexible, no one is going to ask you to push your ass at 9:00AM. But you have critical goals and targets to be achieved, which are of extreme significance for the startup. Hence, you cannot simply laze around in the office. You need to get things done and if you are passionate about work, this can be your dream come true.

M: Please display your ID, where is your ID. I hate this. You are like one in a million. Just another piece of shit in the campus.

S: You know everyone else. The whole comapny is a team and you are a integral part of the company. ID card?  I don’t remember the last time I wore it. Only thing you need is the incubation center’s access card. No one is going to pester you to hang the id round the clock, as if you may be a terrorist.

M: Dress Code. This is the most fascinating part. Mondays-Tuesdays- Ultra Formal, Wed-Thurs- Mild Formals, Fridays-Freedom, but with a limit, off course. Thank god they do not have any restriction your undies.

S: Dress is not a restriction. Work is all what matters. But that doesn’t mean that you can park yourself in the office wearing your sleeping t shirt and shorts .

M: Use of brain, minimal, rather its a rare event. And if you are a fresher, I suppose you will be doomed in most of the cases, they treat you really fresh. They may put you in some low profile, time consuming work and may not listen or ascertain your technical capabilities.

S: Ideas are supposed to nurture in a startup. Brainstorming and impelmentation of cool  thoughts to reality is inevitable.

P.S. Writings here are solely based on writer’s life experience and may not match up with the real scenarios or your beliefs. Contradications are likely to occur. Comments are welcome.

The following code draws a circle of particular diameter by setting the PIXELS falling inside the circle to a different RGB value. It involves simple co-ordinate geometry fundas. There are some approximations being taken.

import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.JComponent.*;

public class circles extends JFrame {
public static void main(String args[]) {
double d=Double.parseDouble(args[0]);
int diameter= (int)d;
circles ca= new circles();
ca.drawCircle(diameter);
}
public void drawCircle(int diameter) {
int x=0,y=0,radius;
JFrame frame=new JFrame();
JLabel lab;
BufferedImage bi=new BufferedImage (diameter,diameter,BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY );
WritableRaster raster=bi.getRaster();
double [] iPix=new double [diameter*diameter];
if(diameter%2 == 1) {
diameter-=1;
}
radius=diameter/2;
for(int i=0;i(radius)){
y=y%(radius);
}
else
{
y-=radius;
y=-y;
}
if((x*x+y*y)<=((radius)*(radius))) { iPix[i]=255; } else { iPix[i]=0; } }
raster.setPixels(0,0,diameter,diameter,iPix); lab=new JLabel(new ImageIcon(bi)); frame.add(lab);
frame.setVisible(true); frame.setSize(600,600);
}
}

compile the program as javac circles.java

run as java circles diameter_value

e.g. java circles 500

It all started in the Biotech labs. Where you are supposed to keep those biological stuffs, measuring nano in sizes in small tubes called eppondorfs for high speed circular motions, they call it centrifugation . This is a very time consuming activity and you get a lot of leisure time to chill out. She used to hit me with her notebook, and I used to chase her with a feeling of sweet vengeance.This notoriety gained pace and I started developing a liking for her. I was getting captivated.

We had a birthday party in one of the popular restaurants of the city. We were around 16 people. One of the girls, was excited to the cloud nine and wanted to pose for a snap wiith a gold flake ciggarette in her hand.Obviously, most of the girls do not fag. And she too belonged to the same category.

The restaurant waiters were too quick and smart in the services. Guess what happened ???

The girl was posing with the ciggarette in hand for the photo.A waiter popped in and kept an ash tray in front of her, before the snap could be taken. The whole party folks bursted into laughter and waiter received a special pat for that.