Category: misc/personal

rochester, dec 7, 2010: it’s been snowing for three days pretty much.

yesterday:

channa poori, halwa and shami kebab for breakfast! channa is spicy chickpea masala, poori is deep fried unleavened flat bread, halwa is a dessert made with semolina, milk and sugar and shami kebabs r beef, lentils and spices, all ground together, fashioned into round kebabs and fried. yum!!!

traditional turkey and fixings for lunch. for dinner: shrimp palao (same idea as chicken biryani but with shrimp and abundant, fragrant amounts of ground cilantro and hot peppers), seekh kebab (spicier version of donor kebabs) and jalapeno peppers stuffed with spiced up, sweet and sour tamarind paste. needed some yogourt with all that spicy food!

today:

paratha, omelette and aloo methi (potato curry with fenugreek) for breakfast.

went for a walk in the neighborhood. nc is still gold and rust. it rained earlier in the morning. everything smells of pine needles. the air is clean and crsip. makes me want to travel all over america and take pictures.

anything else u’d rather do?

[Jarred] Younger said the reward sensation feeds into pain-suppressing centers that can block pain signals from reaching the brain, a process known as analgesia. Since love is an experience of reward, it could in fact have analgesic effects. Full article.

According to seismic department, the magnitude of the quake was 6.3 on the Richter scale and its epicentre was somewhere in Hindukush mountains. The tremors lasted 14 to 15 seconds. The tremors were felt in Gilgit, Chitral, Skardu, Abbottabad, Swat, Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Mansehra, Peshawar, Kohat, Nowshera, Islamabad, Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Sarai Alamgir. No loss of life reported so far. Full report.

haha! this was back on september 9, 2010!

i love kataria’s idea of laughter yoga – what a great way to be human, together!

This week in the magazine, Raffi Khatchadourian writes about Dr. Madan Kataria, the founder and relentless promoter of Laughter Yoga. (Subscribers can read the full text; others can buy access to the issue via the digital edition.) In this video, Khatchadourian visits a seminar on Laughter Yoga led by Dr. Kataria, who claims that the technique is a potential cure for mental and physical ailments of all kinds. More here.

worst plane crash ever in pakistan.

Anguished relatives sought the remains of loved ones killed in Pakistan’s worst-ever plane crash, some grieving at a hospital collecting bodies Thursday and others joining the recovery effort at the hillside crash site laden by heavy rain and mud.

The Airbus A321 plane operated by Pakistani carrier Airblue crashed into hills overlooking Islamabad during stormy weather Wednesday, killing all 152 people aboard. Aircraft pieces, bodies and belongings were scattered over the heavily forested slopes. Full article.

Zeus to Prometheus: You have given man fire (technology), but without the gifts of justice and reverence, it shall destroy him.

lol!!!

iran gets it right – let’s ban the mullet here as well!

So you know how you’re always perennially praying that some official legal entity will make the mullet illegal? Well, Iran recently sent shock waves to its country’s thriving country western fan base when the Culture Ministry officially banned certain men’s hairstyles, including the mullet. More here.

hot hot 4th of july so lotsa water skiing, barbecuing, sparklers and most excellent family get together at our lake house!

To be a Sufi, forget the past, put it all away
Turn a brand new page, rescue your being from yesterday
Become a child of the present age, of youth, of wisdom
Never leave this bountiful moment, this eternal day.

~ Maulana Rumi