as I unlearn and unveil the Life . . .

Kuppu's Child is Crying :'(

2011-04-27T18:17:00.000-04:00

Kuppuswamy in Crapbook : Just Born Kuppu

2011-02-09T20:25:00.001-05:00

Disclaimer:

The names and incidents mentioned throughout this series if matches with someone's name, website, idea or experience is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Prologue:

Kuppuswamy was born to Kuppuswamy's mother and Kuppuswamy's father. He is just a month old kid. Being in boredom he got in to Crapbook - a leading innovative solution to waste time 24x7. This series will show some of the craps happening on his floor. Another important character in this series is Ramaswamy. He is also a new born kid and a dear friend of our Kuppuswamy.

Just Born Kuppu:

Inference:

Companies always like their own production, irrespective of how crappy their product is. I remember of a Tamil proverb apt for this situation, which says "Crows think that their kid is the most fair looking one in the world".

Ramaswamy is indeed a childhood friend of Kuppu!

Stay tuned for updates on Kuppu :)

Wat de heaven happnd in me?

2011-01-04T06:57:00.087-05:00

After reading couple of New Year posts, I just started looking back at 2010. The best year I have ever had till now. Indeed, really a prime time for me. Lot of things happened outside me, but something much more profound happened and still happening within me that has totally transformed me, inducing a question in many of my friends' mind and even made few of them go crazy, namely "What the hell is happening to me?" Hence thought of answering it in this post before my friends would mistake it as an impact of my college or IIT or the US education. Many of new friends wouldn’t be able to appreciate this question without me showing a comparative study.

Until few months back I used to be very quiet student, with the only goal of eating well and of course to earn enough money in order to sustain my appetite. Definitely I wasn’t nerdy, as I had full scale student life except that the range of my scale was too small :P I can stay in any abandoned forest provided if I just have food and internet; sorry the order should be the other way around first internet and then food. To put it much simpler I was just a nut , as Sadhguru says: " If you do not get out of your shell, you are just a nut"

During last April, something happened which really over shadows everything else, namely: Me attending an online engineering program. It’s not of the sort we engineers generally know of. Instead something much profound called as Inner Engineering. It was just a seven online session program. You may wonder how can a seven online sessions have profound impact in anyone’s life? It may sound as absolute nonsense. But experiencing Sadhguru many a times before, I decided to go ahead and attend the program. On completing the classes many a changes happened in me without even me being aware of it. But most of my closed friends started noticing it. I become much happier, started playing, elegantly tackled problems, got in to photography and travel. Then I decided to get initiated in to the practices and it happened in the last week of August. From that day onwards, it has been an immense pleasure for me to live every moment of this life. I always feel happy and many of my friends on seeing it started asking, why are you happy? Is your advisor not in town and so on? I just tell them the fact that, I don’t find any reason to be sad. Just to give you an idea of how I feel, I can say that I am experiencing an uphill drive @ 200 mph. Very few of you would have experienced it, that too only in a downhill. After flunking GRE for the first time and barely crossing the borders in the second attempt, it would have been highly intimidating for me to blog, without Inner Engineering. If I was asked to start a blog year back, it’s not that I would have peed in my pants ;), but would have definitely resisted it lacking the clarity to handle life. Now I am feeling so ecstatic with life, that even poems started happening automatically.

The picture on the left was taken during my last week at IIT (trust me I have used one of my best available old pic, to avoid Halloween effect) and the one on the right was taken a month back. It’s not just the external outlook that has changed, but most importantly, the very core, the engine technology itself has been transformed.

So what is this Inner Engineering?

“This is not about becoming super human. This is about realizing being human is super” – Sadhguru

Isha's flagship program, Inner Engineering, distills powerful, ancient yogic methods for the modern person to create harmony in the body, mind and emotions. It introduces Shambhavi Maha Mudra - a simple but powerful kriya (inner energy process) for deep inner transformation. This practice which I have been doing for the past 3 months takes around 21 minutes everyday.

A short introduction video by Sadhguru:

For further details please visit: www.InnerEngineering.com

You can follow Isha on:

All I wish to say is just that:

I bow down to all those who made it happen, who are making it happen and who are going to make it happen! Pranams

Definitely I cannot end this post, without a poem:

Inner Engineering!

Many a good schools have I attended
Under many a good professors have I studied

Everyone taught me the subjects' fundamental
Shaping me as a bright intellectual

It did helped me a lot towards my survival
But fell apart when it came to my revival

Seeking the infinite in installments
I could not capitalize on any of my investments

Until he came from no where
Setting my mundane logic to fire

Instilled the ultimate knowledge
Even without my knowledge

As I very slowly grasp it
My life has started sprouting from it

He calls it Inner Engineering
But I feel it's the only engineering that's worth knowing!

I wish you and your family a very happy and a prosperous New Year!!!

The Art of Making Dosa :P

2010-12-16T00:31:00.000-05:00

Upon the requests from my friends, especially from my graduating buddies, I am posting this recipe for Dosa. Thanks to my mother for the inspiration and recipe.

Disclaimer:

This algorithm will run only on a blender with a minimum processing power of 450 Watts. This recipe is released under GPL(General Public License). Hence the author of this post cannot be held responsible for any resulting burnt/crappy dosas!

It's one of the simplest food that one can make producing highest returns. An hour of work could get you going for a week!!! Of course, I override the assumption that you won't get fed up with it during the course of time. I would like to give two sets of ingredients. Based on the availability of items and your interest for food, you can tailor it between any of these two +/-inf . However the procedure remains the same for both.

Ingredients -inf: Ideal for those whom you have already impressed and feeling sorry for it(say your spouse)

Long grain rice - 4 Cup
Urad Dhal - 1 Cup
Meethi Seeds - 1 Table spoon
Salt - 2 Table spoon

Ingredients +inf: Ideal for those whom you want to impress and feel sorry later(say your boy/girl friend)

Long grain rice - 2 Cup
Idli Rice - 2 Cup
Urad Dhal - 1 Cup
Meethi Seeds - 1 Table spoon
Salt - 2 Table spoon

The above quantities will yield around 25 dosas with a diameter of 15.098 cm with an error tolerance of 100% ;)

Note: It's is very important that you don't buy microwavable long grain rice. Idli rice is a special variant of boiled rice. You can get it from Indian stores. In case if you are unable to find it then you can buy the ordinary boiled rice from Indian stores. Else just stick with first set of ingredients. Don't try the parboiled rice available in US.

Procedure:

Soak the urad dhal with meethi seeds for an hour. Also soak the rice mixture separately for an hour. Use the water with room temperature for soaking. Start blending the urad dhal first. Also add all the salt to the first run. Empty the mixture in to a big container as it gets done. Then start blending the rice and add it to the same container. Upon completion mix these very very ... very(I can't say enough :P) well. Set the container aside for fermentation. If it's summer then it takes about 8 hrs and in winter it takes just about a season :P

In winter you place the container(container should not be plastic) in the oven and set the temperature to 200 F for 15 mins. Then switch the oven off(else you will get one big idli) and leave the container inside for 6 - 8 hrs. In case if the level of the dough has not increased in level and does not have some froth above, then the dough is yet to be fermented. So you can put it back in the oven again repeating the temperature settings. But keep checking the dough every 1-2 hrs time interval for fermentation. The dough might have bad odor after fermentation. Don't throw it away. That's how it should be. After fermentation remove the dough from the oven and mix the dough well. Add water as per the required rolling consistency.

Find a ladle with almost a hemispherical shaped scoop. Set a round frying pan on medium heat. On warming the pan take the required amount of dough using the ladle and drop it at the center of the pan. Then start spreading the dough by rolling the ladle over it. You can then spread one or two tea spoons of ghee(clarified butter)/oil as per your taste. Then wait until it becomes medium brown. Then you can remove it and serve.

A general tip for blending: Add the quantities in small amounts and add water as required. You have to blend until you see a smooth texture. The quantity of water is critical, as if it's more then it won't ferment well and if it's less then it can burn the blender. You can definitely take this as my hypothesis, because at some point of time I was too good at burning blenders ;)

Tips for foodies: While rolling the dough on the pan, roll the ladle only in one direction. Don't change in the direction in between. Generally most people roll the ladle flat on the pan. But to get a thin paper roast, roll the ladle with 35 - 50 degrees inclination depending on the required thickness . Also remember to turn the dosa around when it gets done and cook for some more time to get it roasted.

Hope to hear your experiences :) Good Luck!!!

Being my third post, I felt that I should say something about the blog. In this blog you will see posts about cooking, technologies, driving, travels, animation, programming, ... anything, anything that you can call as life on this planet(including myself :D), as and when I experience it. Some of them you might already be aware of and few of them you may be unaware of. In a nutshell, this blog is like a assorted sweet box and of course a gift box :). Definitely everyone will like at least some part of it. But based on your existing sugar levels your experiences can be totally different; it can be anywhere between a good starter to the very thing that can point the way beyond to you!

A small bad poem before I end this post :)

From Dosa To Yoga!

A mix from intuition
Spread round with precision

Turned around for the perfect taste

But I failed to turn inward for the life's taste

Cooking up life using lot of assumptions

Did I burn its taste with resulting afflictions

Following the recipes by intellectuals

Have I spoiled all the human potentials

Until he fermented me to turn spiritual

Whatever I did was just a ritual

Now even the simple act of making dosa

Bakes me towards the ultimate state of yoga!

Divine Vs The Wine!

2010-12-06T14:36:00.000-05:00

Sipping the divine

I lost the respect for the wine

For the hunch it gives lasts all time

And makes me more aware at the same time

Available wide open at no cost

But still it's very difficult to get lost

Constrictions have I made in the form of my mind

Poses restrictions to imbibe the kind

Surfing its ocean for quiet a long spell

I am yet to dive in, to find the pearl

Oh how stolid am I

To still stall on this narrow board of I

Hence without his cocktail mix

I definitely don't have any other fix!

My Birthday!

2010-12-05T01:47:00.000-05:00

A yearly time marker indicating my dead line
Urges me to put myself on the line

Crawling through life at snail’s pace
No where did I reach in terms of life’s taste

Infected by the mundane stupidity to count the infinite
I ended up every time reaching the finite

Many a years have I wasted in this time line
Until he graced me with his trick of making oneself a zero below the line!