Explanations for the term "Ma-food":
In general: Mom's food; Food cooked by Mom. Special connotation attached to the term "Ma-food" that points to a certain special liking for some very very delicious food that one is in habit of having, since very young.
I just read Phoenixritu's blog and happenned to think about this particular craving of Mom's food that everyone (read especially son) has. For those of you who might want to refer to the blog: http://www.phoenixritu.com/2009/09/16/but-i-am-going-away-ma/
Let me also include my own list of my fav Ma-food:
1. Plain rice with Tomato Chutney
2. Choley Puri with Green Chilly Pickle
3. Sarson ka saag - makki ki roti
4.Burmese form of Chowmein (Auno Khauswey)
5. North Indian style of Chowmein with ghee-mirch
6. Aaloo/Gobhi ke parathey - aam/gochi-gajar ka achaar
7. Besan ke laddoooo
and this list just continues......
and i am sure we all have a similar loong list...
So most of us are in love eternally with Ma-food... but this legacy unwinds itself unto the boys once they leave home for studies and gets even more interesting once they get married. There's something very naughty about teasin the wives on the taste of food not matching upto "Ma-food". And somewhere the wives also wish to catch up to "the level"....
This unfortunately never happens in the mortal world, just 'coz the sons are the judges... and they never want to miss out on the fun. The Mom's naturally feel happy and satisfied knowing all this, and their love continues to be showered on the blessed sons :).
On a recent trip back home, me n Tj (My wife) landed home at around 1 am in the night and had not had our dinner except a few sandwiches. So i had called up Mom and asked her to make my fav Rice & Tomato Chutney... and it was great to dive into it at 1 am. Both Mom and Tj happenned to enjoy the fact.... (Tj's got so used to me and my "Ma-food" gimmicks... ).
Dedicated to all ye Mom's, Sons and DILs.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wierd Dreams
I'm sure we've all had some really abstract dreams. The ones that we most-often do not remember and do not even care about. But there are times when one does remember the god-forsaken incomprehensible but intriguing dream and if one's crazy enough, then he/she also tries to solve the mysteries.
It's also so much fun to tell your freinds n cousins about what you dreamt... and then listen to their prophecies.
Well, this is one of my wierdest dreams that i did remember... and i just wrote it down as the first thing in the morning. When i read it later, i had a humorous time myself. The thoughts that appeared in my mind while i read it later have been colored in red.
I peeped through a pandal… an enormous pandal with the typical reds n greens in stripes all over (looks like you’ve recently been to an Indian wedding)…. listening to some loud voice (Big deal! In such a uselessly huge pandal the voice has to be loud for everyone to hear)…. The voice starts resembling “akashvani” (hope it wasn’t the radio program), and later it appears that it’s a very huge event and someone is literally speaking from the sky (now this is turning mythological)…. Speaking about events in our life (haha that could’ve been karan johar’s movie idea dude!).
Suddenly there starts a heavy downpour (Bollywoodish…)… rains with thunder and lightning (So, whats unusual?)… the volume of water dropping down is humongous….(whatttt… I thought this was getting romantic)
I run out of the place (looser)… and it turns out to be a sea-shore with numerous war-ships (pirates of the caribbean)…. An infinite fleet of warring boats (troy…)…. I am playing with kids (what…. On a shore that has war-ships across the waters… you’re playin wt kids, u gotta be insane)…. Small kids, with waves coming at us (what else).
The waves keep getting higher and higher… I save a few kids from the hit of the huge waves (at last u really “do” something)… it turns to flood (now for god’s sake… a flood on a sea-shore)… water flows with high velocity everywhere… to the huts…(Huts???)
When the water recedes(time really passes quickly), it leaves behind baby crocodiles(not whales?? Discovery channel freak!). Kids start playin wt them (bizarre kids). Some crocs are slightly bigger (u did realize), we chase them (chase them to where brave people)…. I spot a long snake rushing back to its hole in the earth… a red hooded snake (enough this is a jumanzi remake).
We start playin wt the crocs too.. we happen to chase them to a room( :O) a room on the shore, n where did the huts go…went with the floods? Leaving the room for your indoor fun wt crocs?)… they crawl in… we follow them (Crocodile Dundee).
In the room its just a few crocs (2-3) & we play wt them… slowly they disappear to the other side of the room… (did u wish they’d stay wt u forever?)
We think of taking one as a pet (dats a modern idea)… but we don’t (ur mom wud be releived). and then we spot a bundle of young chicks (aha now there it is, some fun… so were they sexy?)… colorful n cute (go on)…. I pick them with their mother…(their mother? Were they sisters? How cud u pick ‘em up)
She bites me with her beak and seems unhappy, I leave them(Oh the real chicks… from the hen)…. Then they move on in a straight line after their mother.(thank god u woke up).
So thats it guys.
All your comments on my dream are welcome.
All your comments on my comments are also welcome.
Even your interpretations of the dream will not be rejected :).
It's also so much fun to tell your freinds n cousins about what you dreamt... and then listen to their prophecies.
Well, this is one of my wierdest dreams that i did remember... and i just wrote it down as the first thing in the morning. When i read it later, i had a humorous time myself. The thoughts that appeared in my mind while i read it later have been colored in red.
I peeped through a pandal… an enormous pandal with the typical reds n greens in stripes all over (looks like you’ve recently been to an Indian wedding)…. listening to some loud voice (Big deal! In such a uselessly huge pandal the voice has to be loud for everyone to hear)…. The voice starts resembling “akashvani” (hope it wasn’t the radio program), and later it appears that it’s a very huge event and someone is literally speaking from the sky (now this is turning mythological)…. Speaking about events in our life (haha that could’ve been karan johar’s movie idea dude!).
Suddenly there starts a heavy downpour (Bollywoodish…)… rains with thunder and lightning (So, whats unusual?)… the volume of water dropping down is humongous….(whatttt… I thought this was getting romantic)
I run out of the place (looser)… and it turns out to be a sea-shore with numerous war-ships (pirates of the caribbean)…. An infinite fleet of warring boats (troy…)…. I am playing with kids (what…. On a shore that has war-ships across the waters… you’re playin wt kids, u gotta be insane)…. Small kids, with waves coming at us (what else).
The waves keep getting higher and higher… I save a few kids from the hit of the huge waves (at last u really “do” something)… it turns to flood (now for god’s sake… a flood on a sea-shore)… water flows with high velocity everywhere… to the huts…(Huts???)
When the water recedes(time really passes quickly), it leaves behind baby crocodiles(not whales?? Discovery channel freak!). Kids start playin wt them (bizarre kids). Some crocs are slightly bigger (u did realize), we chase them (chase them to where brave people)…. I spot a long snake rushing back to its hole in the earth… a red hooded snake (enough this is a jumanzi remake).
We start playin wt the crocs too.. we happen to chase them to a room( :O) a room on the shore, n where did the huts go…went with the floods? Leaving the room for your indoor fun wt crocs?)… they crawl in… we follow them (Crocodile Dundee).
In the room its just a few crocs (2-3) & we play wt them… slowly they disappear to the other side of the room… (did u wish they’d stay wt u forever?)
We think of taking one as a pet (dats a modern idea)… but we don’t (ur mom wud be releived). and then we spot a bundle of young chicks (aha now there it is, some fun… so were they sexy?)… colorful n cute (go on)…. I pick them with their mother…(their mother? Were they sisters? How cud u pick ‘em up)
She bites me with her beak and seems unhappy, I leave them(Oh the real chicks… from the hen)…. Then they move on in a straight line after their mother.(thank god u woke up).
So thats it guys.
All your comments on my dream are welcome.
All your comments on my comments are also welcome.
Even your interpretations of the dream will not be rejected :).
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