Ann's Abode

If I hear one more time that kids nowadays are so smart, they never made them like that in our ‘time’, I am going to puke and mind you I am talking about teenagers and twenty something’s talking like the oldies.

My response to such remarks is just that there were plenty of smart kids in my ‘time’; I just wasn’t one of them.

So the question I am leading up to is, by crediting the smarter kids to the changing times, are you in a way pacifying yourself that it’s okay; you weren’t that smart a kid?

Is it the kids or is this really all about you?

i chanced upon this video of a 'Smart Dog Who Doesn't Like Water' from The Ellen Degeneres Show. Check it out!

I’ve heard this ‘I am a cat/dog person’ comment so much that it makes me wonder how animals can differentiate people into two categories – The Cat people and The Dog people, just like that!

I find it even more difficult to comprehend as I happen to love them only at the zoo. That said, I do have this warm feeling for the dogs while cats seem too self-centered to me.

Anyway Lalita iyer, (the HT writer I am a big fan of) has an interesting take on this. She claims guys tend to love cats because of similar characteristics (read lazy) and women, the perennial multi-taskers bond with the dogs better. Cool, eh

She's a darn cool writer and is so good at what she does that after I read her food column on baking cakes, ‘Bake, bhai bake’, I actually made an edible chocolate cake. She just made it sound ‘oh-so-easy’ that I shopped for ingredients the same day and shocked the family on the next.

Back to cats and dogs, Ellen degeneres actually had a mock poll (which people took very seriously, wonder why they get so personal about pets) on her show, for the Best Pet, no prizes for guessing who the top contenders ended up being!

Love is most certainly blind; I’ve noticed the formation of strange couples all through college life.

It’s induced (yes it can be induced), both by suffocating an insecure person with your presence, as well as by controlled visibility and being an assuring presence to a secure person.

There is a third way that which intrigues me, which I just don’t understand, when it just happens, just clicks!

I hope to fall in the third category and even more hopefully, the aforementioned blindness won’t infect me!

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.