Ann's Abode

The other day Jupiter, Venus and the moon arranged themselves in a spectacular fashion so as to smile benevolently at us, our friends in the west were not so lucky as they had to made do with a frown.

Here are some pics.
Enjoy!

And here's the frown the americans saw, No wonder they weren't as excited.

Amazing, huh!

Life is too short to wake up with regrets.

Love the ones who treat you right.

Forget about the ones who don’t.

Believe everything happens for a reason.






If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it.

Nobody said life would be easy.

My colleagues and me were eyeing the newly introduced Tandoori pizza's at Papa John's for a while.

So one not so fine day, we ventured in to avail of the Papa John's Introductory offer for the new Tandoori Pizzas - Buy One Medium pizza and get 'pizza for one' (more like 'pizza for one kid', they left that out somehow) free!!!

I was having a good time, but then we ate at Papa John's.

I am entirely at blame, got enticed by their tandoori pizzas which looked so good on paper, how do they do that? Snap some other pizza? Or take a close-up of the teeny tiny pizzas they offer?

Take this: The tandoori paneer and tandoori chicken looked exactly the same with negligible amounts of chicken/ paneer respectively and with large doses of tomato, onion, corn… (screams)was more like an halfcooked utappam than a pizza.

The big red chillies, I thought, would be a saving grace, adding spice to the sad ordeal, but apparently that was too much to ask, the chillies were actually sour!!!(never seen that happen before, hence the special mention)

Quantity is less too, (that could be a good thing in retrospect) with the regular (normally 7-inches), they call it ‘pizza for one’ here (more like 'pizza for one kid', rolling eyes), being smaller than 6-inches and medium (normally 10-inches) being about 8-inches here.

The paneer is white by the way, my veggie friends seemed to have a problem with that, I can still hear them say: 'if it’s tandoori, it’s gotto be red'.
They have a point actually, after all we eat out even for the frills.

Like Saif said in the movie Salaam Namaste (wow, m quoting movies now) that: The wife is like ‘ghar ka khana’, when people are eating out, they expect a mistress.
(Saif played a Chef+Hotel Owner in the movie, that should take care of your wild imagination)

So the same day, I ordered the Chicken Bonanza from smoking joe’s (it doesn’t get better than that, very juicy chicken… mouth watering really) which finally satiated my pizza craving.

The terror attacks have left a scar for sure, I feared going to the gateway of anger (like the news channels put it) to avoid any possible repercussions, if the terrorists turned up there too.

The govt too must have feared for the people there as they have imposed section 144 in Mumbai, i.e no more than 4 people can assemble at a time.

Though nothing can really be said about them put that into action, as the smoking ban which was imposed similarly is more like a joke with policemen sharing ciggies with the civilans.

Terror attacks in the city have been numbing more than anything. Nobody expected them to strike so soon.

One is safe nowhere, neither in the trains nor in the five star hotels. Before I feel ready to go to work, I will have to face a chilling truth and admit to myself that my life might not end the way I want it to.

I don’t want people to believe that they are avenging some injustice by causing more harm. I feel like addressing the terrorists, counseling them and most importantly listening to them and their grievances.

I think they just want to be heard and understood. Their attacks are more like kids’ tantrums to get his mothers’ attention than anything else.

In our search for a sophisticated motive, we overlook the ones that come naturally to us.

Though i don't know how such completely brainwashed minds can be shown the light of day, it still looks better to me than war which seems to be in the offing, what with all proof pointing only one way.