Salman Khan - Go To Jail

The only thing terrible about the entire drama of Salman Khan going to jail for involuntary manslaughter is the Times of India's coverage of the story. Forget the 6500 dead in the Nepal quake more emotion lies here - mood swings of Salman Khan

And then we have comments like these from Farah Khan "Khan Ali tweeted, “The govt should be responsible for housing ppl. If no1 was sleeping on d road in any other country Salman wuld not have driven over anybody”; and “It’s like penalising a train driver because someone decided to cross the tracks and got killed in the bargain. #salmankhancase”"

Total dumbass.

Lessons in cooking - Cupcake (Tutti Frutti)

So having a lot of time on my hands this weekend I have managed to expend time on the following activities

1.Free Multiplayer Weekend to play Halo -

    I don't buy Xbox Gold or else I will do nothing useful in life.

2. I made Tutti frutti cupcakes and cakes - both of which weren't awesome. 

While Sharmi's passion might have been butterless eggless cupcakes, I didn't mind either of those ingredients. However, in our family our recipes are driven by a single unusual ingredient at home which happened to be Tutti Frutti. This has been at home for the past 1 year. It even survived an apartment move. Tutti Frutti in Italian means "All Fruits" which of course commercially translates to only candied Papaya with preservatives. It was the title of a famous song that has lyrics such as

"Tutti Frutti, good booty

If it don't fit, don't force it

You can grease it, make it easy"

Sharmi is wrong on the quantity of sugar. We need at least 1.5 times more than what is stated in her recipe. This is what I did and works OK.

Final outcome after 1 day of consumption. Said recipe is enough for 6

Mix 1:

Maida - 3/4 cup
Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
Tutti Frutti - 1/4 cup
Salt - a tiny pinch

Mix 2:

Sugar - 1/3 cup Sugar - 2/3 cup
Oil - 1/8 cup + 1 tbsp
Vanilla Essense - 1/2 tsp
Water - 1/4 cup

Mix 3:

Thick Curd - 1/4 cup
Vinegar - 1/2 tbspVinegar - 1/4 tbsp
Baking Soda - 1/4 tspBaking Soda - 1/8 tsp

While the consistency was good, the taste was that of regular white bread. So much for that - it at least looks tempting.

Well the cake was a different affair. More on that later.

Work - thoughts during code building

When code builds I should do something useful. There is so much of work that goes into ensuring stuff builds and works and then you are given this period of time to wait until the next phase that you can go off on a tangent and then be drained before beginning the next phase. That can get frustrating.

I think when people get terribly bored with their jobs they do take some eventual action and they do become happy regardless of what they do. I mean it isn't that you need to become the VP or the director of the organization. Somehow there are a similar set of problems to be handled at that stage and nothing is free of problems. But there is extra money and that could be nice. Except what do people do with all that money. I wonder.