'MENU' KI FARK PENDA!!!

It is in the nature of restaurant menus to amuse a person far more than offering him a variety. I reckon, this is a deliberate ploy on part of the hotel to implant their sadistic curse on the eating public. This has also to do with the fact that while those folks serve, we eat. More often than not, I have greatly admired the menu and have been determined to have a dish on my palate which resembles closely the heavenly greatness associated with gourmet meals. But, my excitement has been withheld to containing myself to the mundane. Because, thats what seems to be available and time summons that I try only the 'flying of the shelf' variety for food. I assume that except for office-goers, we mostly taste outside food for the variety and the option it gives us to order and reorder while courting our gastronomical demands. I would always like to eat at a place where the menu is very small and precise. Too many ingredients on the menu makes it a difficult task to understand the finer nuances of food. Besides, many people visit hotels with the menu firmly ingrained in their brain.Seeing the menu is a fake custom. But we can't try to avoid it. We have to throw ourself into the menucard and pour over less interesting details like the price, interracial differences between dishes and grill the waiter over the less understood part. Here, people who get their queries sorted are the ones more likely to order , again, the same stuff they did the last time they ate outside. Interestingly, the lag time between ordering the food and eating it is also the time one should mull over the menucard. But most hotels prefer to take the menucard away from it's clients at that exact moment when he needs the most. Having ordered something, he is going to review his decision and also think himself into ordering more. I don't know why-hotels spend a fortune on the interiors, but they are always short on the menu cards!!Keep the bill please!

The tales of a survivor

Consider yourself very lucky, if you've found this letter. I won't give you my location, for fear of being found. I shall not even divulge my co-ordinates. But one thing is very clear to me-I'm a very happy man. My wife of 2 years left me for good. People like each other for all the wrong reasons. For all you care to know, we fought, I cried. She left, she gained. From not being able to live without each other, we managed to be able to not see each other. Anyways, my plane crashed. I was travelling somewhere over the ocean. Only three of us survived. Two died. They couldn't come to terms with the disaster. Some people can't live with change. For all you care to know, the fear of anonymity killed them. The knowledge that you can't get out of here. Anyways, my first act of survival was a horrid one. Food, shelter, the things we take for granted in the modern world; I had to struggle for them. But, I scrapped through. After the plane wreck, we managed to salvage some tools, books, toothbrush, paper, pen. I never knew such rich usages of a screwdriver. Almost like they could be repatented. For all you care to know, life here is an awakening. I don't have to use the alarm clock, switch on the TV, use all those useless gadgets. W've made them to further complicate our life. I even had to learn writing anew. All those years of typing on the keyboard! Anyways, there are species out here and we live in harmony. There is a rule here, if you care to understand. Never take more than you can give. See, I made myself home here. I was bored of the life in the world where all life is spent in accumulating,possessing and fighting over stupid things. Things that have no significance. And this is paradise. For all you know, remember the ads of these real-estate ventures. They all promised of paradise,luxury and an utopian world. They know nothing. Anyways, I'm not telling you this for any grandeur mission or like some new age guru. I'm feeling sorry for you folks. I'm standing at a vantage point on a high cliff and you all seem drowned-doomed.

FOOD WONDERFUL FOOD !

I really find it interesting that food forms a major part of our life & yet we don't realise it. Glad, I did it long ago. Isn't it amazing that we leave all our work, sit & have our food at some point of time during the day. Frankly food consumes me for most part of my waking life. I am hungry before I eat & hungry thereafter. I eat after I eat & then I eat before I eat. All religions as a matter of faith practise penance through starvation. That I say would have been a disaster for me. So I practise two hours of strict starvation every day. I believe that we should have a mechanism through which we could consume our food even in our sleep. Imagine a drip pipe attached to a funnel connecting your mouth to some delicious pre-digested food parcels. That is true paradise! If you've seen 'Wonka's' chocolate factory I presume you'll understand what true fantasising means. I've been there lot of times. I understand why infants cry or life of very old people is made miserable. They can't consume enoumous chunks of food. For most of us we should be making full use of this wonderful opportunity that enables us to conquer all food items. The most important aspect of heavyduty eating is to pack your mouth with everything that you can lay your hands on. Remember,the next day you might still be hungry. Then what? Always have your desserts after your main course before your apetisers not because it's been laid infront of you but because you should'nt make any food item feel bad about the fact that you haven't consumed it. But then what about weight loss programs, dieting and balanced eating. Oh!Theres a certain way out of it as well. Go to gyms with a food canteen attached or having a food-joint in it's immediate vicinity. Gain weight, lose weight. Please understand that some insects eat five times their own weight. So that makes us food deprived. Even poor elephants eat six tons of it. But they hardly have variety. All elephants die wondering how Chinese soup or french fries or candies or burgers taste like. Thats why we ride them!