ONE KATORI

Today I began my self-styled ONE KATORI program. [ Armaan calls it a KATORETI ]

What I’d intended was that from today for an indeterminate period, I would eat 3, preferably low-fat meals in a day, each not exceeding a quantum of one katori.

Breakfast went off fine with one katori of vermicelli upma. [ Armaan calls it OOMPA ].

At lunch time I reached for a plate at first, and as my program flashed thru my mind I didn’t want to slacken so fast; so I placed a bowl on top of that, and proceeded to fill it with dal and rice. But then there was mushroom with peas, and roti.

I was ok with letting mix the rice and dal in the bowl, but the roti presented some serious problems in containment as well as in not getting it soggy, yet staying within my one katori definition.

So I let it go for now, thinking to myself that I MUST NOT start getting all neurotic about it. After all, I’m a mature and responsible adult & capable of self-regulation.

So I took half a spoon of mushroom-peas and a roti [ yummy ], halfway thru I realized that this would leave me unfulfilled, so I got another serving and another roti.
This was followed by the katori of dal rice.

And then a katori of ice-cream ...........with chocolate sauce to boot !!

Its ok I thought, considering most of the food came in katoris. [ a convenient solipsism ]

All went fine with my internal moral system, until it was snack time at 1745 hrs and the mini pizzas came around. Not only did I have mine, I ate my colleague’s as well !!
[ neither fitted in a katori ]

I’m not sure how dinner will go, but I’m staying positive…….

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The Sigma Lens

THE SIGMA 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG MACRO



For those of you who know what I'm talking about.

Basically I picked up this lens two weeks ago, to compliment the current one I have which came as part of the original kit.

For its price its not too bad. [ Approx 200 USD ].

yes its supposed to have the new coating on the glass and SLD glass ( Special Low Dispersion ), both of which work quite well and eliminate flare and does away with chromatic aberration commonly seen in higher-end tele lenses.

The macro setting is an over-rated feature, and frankly doesntly allow me to get close enough.

From 70 upto 200 its quite good, after which it drops sharply. AF mode too is a little slower, and it "hunts". So frequently I shot in MF mode. Easier for DOF calculation too at that range.

I ned to work it some more to do it justice, meanwhile here are some pics, not all using the SIGMA.

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The Cosmic Twin

Today 2 things :

As I was explaining to Juhi about the plum pudding incident, I got call from Aman in Delhi who is claimed to be very similar to me [ my cosmic twin I'm told].

Later in the evening when we got home from lifestyle, and Deepa explained to Alisha about the pink flower Alisha gets her and the concept of gratitude, I wasn't around during this explanation.

2 minutes later I explained the very same thing in the very same words.

Rating 8/10

ALISHA ASKS 004

Last night Alisha set out to spell this fruit-



According to her and her present understanding of phonetics, it A for Aa, P for Puh and L for Luh. Her reasoning ofcourse is very good, and she is correct in spelling it so.

And like she rightly said to me : "There is no second P and an E at the end ! Why is it there ?"

And as usual, child intelligence prevailed over adult stupidity, as i sat there dithering about how someone made up the spellings earlier, and however crazy they may seem, we all need to learn them the way they are spelt.

Now its obvious that if i gave her the liberty to spell the way she wanted, no self-respecting teacher would accept that. And the reason being - "Thats the way its done"...."We cant change that"....

The way we perpetuate our own stupidity confounds me.