My Experiments with Maggie

The recipe is simple. You chopp some onion & tomato & some few fresh green chillies. Fry them gently in a pan, & put appropriate amount of water in it for boiling; & then you put ur maggie in it. If u have grean peas, that would make an ideal combination of an exotic recipe. For those who crave for more spicy food, put that extra red chilly powder you will see an amazing matter in ur cooking pan, the aroma of which, will drive your wildest digestive juices in your tummy. Keep steering it for sometime & let the others stare at your cooking skills. Take out that fresh green- Coriander leaves & sprinkle them on top of your cooked dish. That would add the final flavour to your art & this is surely going to water your tongue. Yes you are ready now. Go for the delicacy & serve it steaming hot. Yes that's pretty simple & at the same time it is the most delicious food item giving sharp competition to the luxuruious, costly & tasteless 5-star menu. Be it anytime of the day, its always a cherishable snack. For breakfast, there is simple maggie with less spices. For lunch, the red-hot spicy maggie is a mandatory option. And for dinner, quantity is the name. No matter how many packets of maggie are cooked, never in my lifetime, did I face a situation that we had some extra stuff. First we cook what we eat & then we eat what we cook. Plain & simple. There are addicts to tea, coffee, cigarettes, & then there are like us, who are given in to this magical dish. I never heard any of my roomate saying a 'no' to maggie. Man I need a testimonial in orkut, certiying the facts about my genuis art of cooking maggie in a unique way. (Singla, Gurchet, Sumit, Sagar, Tripathi, Raghu, Rini, Appy, I hope you all read this some day).
Then there are different varieties of cooking maggie too. I still am a fan of unique 'Soup' Maggie, discovered by one my great friends, Sagar. Or else should I call it chilly soup with maggie flavour? It contains numerous green chillies, tomato optional, & more quantity of water to allow the maggie to float in it. I bet you, it will scare the ghost out of you & your tongue would be sent to the hottest & deepest core of the sun. You will be sweating & it would be tough to differentiate, if u just took a bath! And tell what, its still the more lovable dish. I become a crazy fan, yeah.
My roomate Raghu, erstwhile was averse to maggie menu (given he had awful maggie preparation by home cook). I calmed him one day, & assured him the maggie cooked by me wont be a too bad thing to eat & that definitely he would like it more than I could convince him!
And guess what, when he was served, he was busy grabbing the food & didn't utter a word of praise untill he cleaned his plate. Satisfying his hunger, he gave glittering look & smiled in content & then he began to criticize the home-cook & he was all praise for me. He declared everyweekend, Sunday night, Maggie must be a dinner option. I gleefully welcomed his comments & assured him my best of services as a maggie charmer! I dont wish to do some self praise about my cooking art, but I felt maggie has played an important part in my bachelor life (& for all the bachelors for that matter). Its one surprise gift I would like to keep the cooking talent & when I get married, I would love to recall my bachelor stint with Maggie. Maggie makes no choices & age is no bar for its lovers. Kids are crazy for it, the elder love them too; for youngsters, its a necessity!!! Its synonimous to the bread-&-butter concept.
Its summer or winter, day or night, Monday or Thursday, maggie rocks all the way!!!

Cheers
Bhola

The way it Worked

On monday, the 29th of June, 2009, I get my passport & I just felt like now I am considered an Indian citizen in true context. After a period of 1 and a half years, finally now I become an eligible citizen with some rights. Man it was really frustating all through having missed few onsite oppurtunities just because my passport was not ready at this juncture of my life. Utterly dismaying! Let me not stop writing about this, because this is one experience in life which I would never forget in my life. My passport was delayed because of some issue - the officials stated that my Police verification was not yet received by them despite the adress verfication already done in year 2007. What else could I have done? The police officials rubbished the claim & said that they had already sent the details to the Passport Office. Then I contacted an agent. He took money & assured me, in less than 45 days, my passport would be in my hands. I was glad. Then 45 days had gone & few more days also passed by. This converted into months & finally into a year & my application had no sign of progress. I could just contact the agent who just claimed that I need to wait for some more days. Nothing I could do, except for listening to his words. Then one day in march 2009, one more oppurtunity arrived & I was asked by my boss If I was intersted in going to Australia for 3 months for one project. I waved out a sarcastic smile to myself. I thought this was about to happen. Then it took me for some real action. An another agent in Pune had advised me to FAX the officers enquiring my application status report. My boss had another suggestion that I should go for an RTI application. I thought I would try for all things whatever I was advised. I kept calling SPO Office; RPO Office, e-mailed them, & also had a fax sent to them with subject line mentioning RTI application. Man it did work. Next day I received a call from Head Officer, Passport office Guwahait & he explained I can resubmit some personal details which he had emailed me & that I can resend for the Police Verification. I did exactly what I was asked: Re-submitted personal particular form, asked my bro back at home in Meghalaya, to enquire with the Police Officials to do the verifications. Then I kept on calling the offices & regularly put a fax to them enquiring about the status. It began to show some positives & I could easily see that a Fax does wonders. Never had I expected that a Govt Office would work so fast! And shortly after the verification report was sent to RPO, I could see the status online that something had happened & that my passport is granted to me. Immediately I a took screen-shot of my desktop to capture the glittering status of my application. You could imagine my joy, I was so thrilled at the prospect of becoming a passport Holder & I swear I would not have felt so enthralled had I been offered an onsite tour if I already had one passport. This was the description I thought I must put up in my blog the day when I get my passport in my hands; & again thanks to the Cramer-ASMS Integration testing, it took me some days to post this blog.
Talking about other things here, I have been associated in different team on loan basis on the work front. I am not sure what full time projects are about to come & my boss had already cleared mentioned in the team meeting that due to the present market condition it looks grim that any new full-time project was in due for us. I kept my fingers crossed. Well in this scenario, I could possibly not do much :( , there is no way I can send a FAX to HIM.

Cheers
Bhola