Ada Ada Adai!

One of the Great learning for me in 2008 is cooking. Before coming to Brussels, i have planned a little bit expecting that i cannot survive without self cooking. I slowly started cooking, rice, sambar , rasam and some curries. After my parents visit, i learned to prepare Adai. Previously my view on Adai was, it is difficult to make - but now i feel it is so simple; I make almost every week. Preparation of Batter. Equla portion of Rice and all other grams; Example for 1 cup of Rice, 1 cup of all other grams combined(i use, urdi dal, door dal,"passi paruppu", "kadalai paruppu". Soak in water for 2 to 4 hrs . Grid with salt, red chilli powder, little hing. The Batter is Ready, we can eat with Jaggery or prepare some chutney.

Appolo 13 - Great Learning

Appolo 13 - The Successful Failure The perfect oxymoron.What a team effort;I recently saw the movie and i was so inspired, i wanted to find out more on Net, When i searched i come across this article from IEEE.This is white paper which details the account. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr05/2697 The whole episode teaches so much- training, leadership, innovativeness, dedication. It should be part of every engineering curriculam.
Leadership- Though "Flight" did not deliver the phrase "Failure is not an Option", what he said to his team exactly reflected this and inspired the team so much. Innovativeness - How many disconnected items the team came up with a solution to do Co2 filter. So much to learn from this episode.

Snow ,Snow and Winter

I am experiencing the first coldest winter, the temperature dropped to -15.

That is almost 50 degree difference from my comfortable temperature.

It started to snow the begging of this week and the snow froze and still seens in all parts of Brussels now.

What i experience at an altitude of 3000 meters in Switzerland, i am experiencing daily, near my office, on the way to office.Walking on Ice paltforms(Should be careful)

Some times it to good to see the snow but it also feels very cold..

This is a test for me to adapt and I am doing good.

New Year Eve in Brussels

I and some NIIT colleagues went and had dinner in Thai Restaurant called "Theva" near Grand Place. I have a White Wine, Vegtable Soup and Vegetarian Spring rolls . White wine was not good. Then we walked to "Sablon" were the Fireworkd will begin.There was huge crowd and people were dancing for the loud music. there was big display of Clock through Laser i believe projected on a big building. The Fire works started at 12.00, it was great , spectacular and brilliant. What a Great event to Begin a New year. Sumit asked everyone about there New Year Resolution, i did not have one, on a later note: atleast i will have a resolution to Post 1 week this year, that amounts to 48 posting for 2009.