Four Days in Hyderabad

A good meal begins with expectation, continues with gratification, and ends with satisfaction.

When it comes to food, Hyderabad is vibrant, innovative and open to gastronomic ideas. It is a city of appetite. A four day restaurant crawl across the city is just not enough to savor the Hyderabadi/Andhra cuisine. There will always be uneaten meals, restaurants unvisited and foods untried.

Friday 10/10 - Chutney's -Chiranjeevi Dosa, Babai Idli, Filter coffee; Angeethi - Roti, Biryani, Karela and Cashew Curry; Paradise - Veg. Biryani, Qubani ka Meetha; Irani Chai, Tie Biscuit at Blue Sea Cafe

Saturday 11/10 - Chutney's -Guntur Idli, MLA Pesarattu; Annapoorna Andhra Mess- Andhra Thali-Gonugura Chutney, Tomato Pappu, Bangaladumpa Veypudi, Aratikayala Kura

Sunday 12/10 - Upma at Home; Mutton Biryani, Sheer Korma at Cafe Bahar; Chai, Osmania Biscuit at Blue Sea; Rayalaseema Thali with Ragi Sangati at Rayalaseema Ruchulu

Monday 13/10 - Kamat, Secunderabad - Rava Idli, Masala Dosa, Filter coffee; Gujju Thali at Gujarati Bhojanalay; Falooda at Shadab; Andhra Thali at Abhiruchi, Chai, Samosa at Hilton Cafe

Clockwatchers

"I used to work in a bank. There was this button on the desk and I kept looking at it every day for a month, and finally I just pushed it... it was the alarm. They never tell you anything because they're afraid you'll take their stupid jobs." - A dialogue from the film, Clockwatchers(1998).

The experience of being underloaded, of too little responsibility and work is more stressful than being overloaded. If you are overloaded, atleast you feel needed and useful, even if you are overworked, overwhelmed and exhausted. We all have a choice between tolerating the routine ("being a clock watcher"), or standing up and making a change.

Most of us start our careers with lofty ambitions but do we eventually become what we despise the most? Do we all become clockwatchers and architects of our own petty domains and self-important delusions?

Doing a favour to Google

Blogs are the saviours for search engines, as without them the likes of Google would have very little fresh content to index, other than brand new sites which are few and far between.

As someone who belives in Google's credo of doing no evil, i wanted to contribute some content to the blog today.

I did not want to write about the financial crisis because a vast patch in the amazon forests have already disappaeared in analysing the debacle. I did not want to write about Saurav Ganguly's retirement as he will contradict anything he says or does the very next day. I did not want to write on when Sachin will cross Brian Lara's record, as at this rate it will be next year(if he is still around).I did not want to write on the anguish of allowing Ponting to make a century in the first test of the tour as visitors are gods for us and we have a history of redeeming visiting batsmen(remember the resurgence of Matt Hayden?). I did not want to write on the Telugu movie i saw yesterday, as you have to make fun of it to keep from getting angry, I mean really angry. I did not want to write on Lewis Hamilton's disastorous outing in the Japan GP, as he is again messing up his chances to win the championship. I did not want to write on Chinese manufacturing beacuse if they are not manufacturing kids' toys with lead paint or contaminating pet food, they are mixing toxins in toothpaste and milk.

Now that i have put in lot of indexable words in this post, i will stop the rant!