I hate to say this...butttttt...

I was asked to conduct a training for around 25 people...I was excited and was looking forward to conduct it... Since I had already undergone that training , so I was feeling okay... I prepared little notes about the product... I also discussed few of the points,over which I was not sure, with my trainer...So I was going good..

I am a guitarist and I perform at least twice a year now...I am performing since 1987-88... i.e. it's around 20 yrs when I first publicly performed... I have performed in front of more than 2500-3000 people couple of times... I am not boasting but the matter of fact is I was able to lead my team couple of times to win college cultural championships...I was quite famous for my stage skills in my college days...

When I was asked to conduct training...I took that without any problem... as I have faced more than 2500 people, I thought I can handle it... I have conducted training couple of times but never for more than 5-6 close associates...This time the strength was around five times...There is a difference between training people of your own team, performing in front of 2500 people and train 25+ guys...and yes.. most of the guys of this training was from different teams...so..frankly speaking..I want to put a good impression on them...

So, I wanted to impress people, which is not me...I do what I do... I never try to do something special to impress people...I hate to impersonate...but that's a harsh reality of this professional world... I was going to do something..of course I am talking about impersonation...which I really hate...That thought of impressing people by doing something through the process I do not want to follow...was making me nervous...over conscious...

I booked conference room and projector for after office hours training...I work at different location from the place where I had to conduct training, so I asked one of my colleagues to collect projector from admin...I was supposed to start session at 18:00 hrs, but some of the invitees were absent...I asked people to have patient and wait for few more minutes... finally I started the session around 18:15 hrs...

22 guys was there when I started the session...I was all nervous in the beginning and I forgot to put couple of funny lines...I was mumbling...I was not able to communicate properly...I was also not able to look into eyes of my trainees...To make this situation worse... my laptop was running damn slow...Butttaa... I believe that was a blessing in disguise... It gave me time to catch my breath and which was sufficient enough to decide...DON'T PRETEND...JUST REMAIN WHAT YOU ARE... sooo..there I go... I started doing what I do...tone was high...I regained my confidence...Session went fine after that...

I hate to say this...butttt...let me tell you..... I was scared to death...

Is this BIRYANI...I believe so..

We went to Ankur's place after playing HOLI for lunch. Snacks, halwa and kheer was served.....o ya...how can I miss Biryani...It was one of the best biryani I had in recent past...



I was really enjoying BIRYANI...so what next.... nothin...say gudbye to ppl and left for my place...ooo..i forget to mention this all happened on saturday, march 23rd 2008. Becauase of i don know wat..my head was heavy I slept whole saturday night and sunday....and finally It was monday..today..I marinated chicken..thinking of cooking chicken-curry in evening..before leaving for office...In the evening I had to conducta training session for my TCS associates....I reached home after training and after 2 eating 2 Gulab jamun at J's place...tasty Biryani was still somewhere in my mind...sooo...I decided to cook BIRYANIII...ha..ha..



In the morning I marinated 1 lb of chicken...so I took three cups of Rice and half cooked it.. in the mean time i chopped onoion and put in the frying pan...when the onio turned brown..i added half cooked rice to it and cooked it for some time..I pre heated owen at 380 degree... I took an aluminium foil case and created base of marinated chicken.. then i put a layer of onion rice at the top...I covered the box with a sheet of aluminium foil..and put the box in owen for an hour...



After an hour... chicken was ready... i mean Biryani was ready to serve..taste was awesome...I invited J and his wife for dinner..also tried inviting Santo.. but he was enjoying food with his friends...I cooked BIRYANI real well...so finally I was able to cook fine biryani...Special thanks to Afrose...for sharing recipe...

Its too late now... goin to bed tc.. sweet dreams......

Another wonderful holi...

This edition of my holi started just after the party and after everyone left my apartment. It was I believe around 2:30am. I was about to close my door. while closing I heard a faint noise. I went to staircase to check and to my surprise I find a tossed snow ball falling in hands of Mr.Soni. This really charged me and went to my closet to search my ski pants. I immediately put my skipants and jacket and rush downstairs. It was snowing and people were about to leave. Before anyone could have thought anything...there was a snow ball in my hands and I was in action with a... BAMMM!!!...HOLI STARTED...with in a sec ..like chain reaction..everyone was in action...everyone was throwing snowballs on each other and at the same time were trying to dodge the SHELLING...there were some wrestling going on..betwen some dare davils...around 3:30am we finally departed for our places.

Around 11:30 am I got a call from Mr. Ankit saying they are 'Neeche' and waiting for me. Upon hearing this challenge, adrenaline flow grew exponentially and within no time I was all together in a different paradigm...I put on my clothes and GULAL in pocket and rushed for action...the environment was really elactric...everyone was shouting and trying to put gulal on each other...and there I go...BAMMM...I restarted shelling again...but for my surprise...instead of dodging, people launched the counter attack...everyone was in action for more than 10-15 minutes... then we agreed for ceasefire...then we went to Mr. J's place where we had GUJIYA and taste was awesome...then there was another full blown action sequence for some time...after controlling the situation we rushed towards another target...

Evrything was looking good and the weather was also good....we were cruising toward our next target...but you know wat...at the corner of E block, we were ambushed by daring boys of Mr. Vivek..It created a chaos in our battalion...but our brave guys..without loosing heart...took their postion with in no time ...like well corigraphed event we thrashed the attack...we covered rest of the targets without much problem...After hearing the ferocity of our attack Mr. Rakesh grounded himself... Mr. Mittal,Mr. Kusha and Mr Ranga surrendered without any resistance...Group was offered wonderful coconut sweets by Mittal...it was awesome...
Finally we went to Ankur's place where we had feast...Kheer, halwa and snaks was there...and we had awesome BIRYANI as well...

so...moral of the story...don't get scared of holi... It's a festival of colors...which brings love and happiness to you...so enjoy it with full of your energy....
For detailed action events in sequence, check this out...http://picasaweb.google.com/pd.siddharth/HoliCollection2008