five weeks into my internship… four weeks after my moved into my current ‘hole’… i finally opened my mom’s carefully written cookbook (yes, note the words ‘carefully written’. every recipe in that my mom wrote and my dad cooked following what my mom had written to make sure she hadn’t messed up) and made good use of it…
after five weeks of pizza and pasta and sandwiches and toasts and cereals and salads, ah the aroma of hot onion upma, with just the right amount of salt and onion and chillies and everything else… maybe for the first time in my life i feel proud that i’ve created something lovely. only problem was that i’d put in a little too much oil so cleaning the vessels took a couple of hours!!
as for other stuffs, my internship reaches the halfway mark today and i am expecting my ‘mid-term review’ soon. dunno how it’ll come though. anyway, it helps not keeping expectations too high…
and for the first time in my life i’ve seriously started thinking about my career… and this time i’m sure i’m not going to ‘do another general degree and think about my career after that’ like i did the last time this question came up… hope to find an answer to that by year-end, by which time i must decide which companies i want to apply for…
as for the title of this blog, after i wrote ‘cook’ i remembered the first cricket match i saw completely. at my neighbor’s place as they had a ‘color TV’. south africa’s return to international cricket at the eden gardens… cook… hudson… wessels… kirsten… kuiper… rice (poor guy never played a test)… mcmillan… snell… richardson… shaw (a left arm spinner who didn’t play after this)… donald.
shastri… sidhu… manjrekar… tendulkar… azhar… amre… kapil… prabhakar… more… srinath… raju.
south africa scored 176/8 or something like that in their 50 (those were the days when 200 was a good score). india were quickly 4 down with donald taking 3 and shaw having azhar stumped by richardson… then tendulkar scored 62 and amre 55 on debut and india finally won comfortably with 3 wickets and 3 overs to spare… (though donald came back to dismiss tendulkar and amre which resulted in a few missed heartbeats).
I remember the next day’s deccan herald bewspaper describing azhar’s stumping when he jumped out of his crease as a ‘grasshopper jumping’. Or was it the sportstar coverage of the matc? I dont remember, but I remember the grasshopper reference clearly.