Saved by the Troubled

Regarding some paperwork, I was shuffling around a lot for quite a number of days. I avoided going to a lady, as she looked very troubled all the time, and I didnt want her to feel worse, especially when she did not have info as the 'rules' in question were 'in the making' . My papers seemed to have known the way to 'Burmuda Triangle'. I was interested in finding out their trail. Finally it was she who said that everything was fine were they are.. as long as the papers have entered an untraceable,chaotic cosmos.

Pot-no-luck

Today I was going to work for the first day after the break. The rst of the colleagues had planned a pot-luck. If I had to do the hours, i would have to stay there for long, aroung which the pot-luck would take place. But turns out that I couldn't begin today.. and then there was no pot and luck.

As unplanned

Today I had to make certain calls, to clear up a matter. I did not know , in which order to go about it, as they seemed very related and it seemed that info gathered from one conversation would make the next more informed. The first call, was denied as nobody picked the phone up. the second after lots of transfers, went to this voice message which was neatly and slowly worded and made me think that the speaker spoke like a lady , I met in some meeting. I didnt make the third call, as at the end of this I had no info to relay to the third. Also, the news that I was going to convey, is better done in person.

Murphy stroking his ego...

Usually, I check my mail at home, before leaving for the lab. But yesterday, I couldn't do that. And I realised from a mail , that I had to go home for a cheque. How is it that I seem to not have checke d the mail at home, when it would have helped me?

Please take your seat!

Can you recognise a person by seeing them from the back, if you have always seen them sitting in a chair?
Today I was taken aback, to find that the person I was looking for, was right in front of me, and I was still looking around.

Words for the day

A Dozen Notices.

When my roomates check the mail box, shared by four of us and find that one of the girls has a 'recall notice' from the library every day, they almost reach their tether's end. The library must be worried that their shelves look empty cause our house has a carton with books from the library. The librarian's concern is legitimate. I was going through one of the books and found one on architecture, which surprisingly had a picture with a pile of books in it, which exactly is what my house is filled with right now. This roomate of mine, who also happens to be in a job which includes putting mails in the department slots. She told me that I had mail and it wasn't important as it was from library. Beat this, the library always sends notices with 'IMPORTANT : LIBRARY NOTICE'.
when I checked the mail box today, I found a dozen notices, actually a baker's dozen counting another guy's notice which came into my slot by mistake and I assumed it mine. so no exaggeration there. I was like thank god, my notices dont go to my home address.

Lit blogs

List of Literature blogs

El Bulli

Indulging your taste buds
stonking-- excellent
tempura--A Japanese dish of vegetables and shrimp or other seafood dipped in batter and fried in deep fat.
tapas--Any of various small, savory Spanish dishes, often served as a snack or with other tapas as a meal.
consomme--A clear soup made of strained meat or vegetable stock, served hot or as a cold jelly.
foie gras--a pate made from goose liver (marinated in cognac) and truffles
juniper-- Any of various evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Juniperus, having needlelike or scalelike, often pointed leaves and aromatic, bluish-gray, berrylike, seed-bearing cones.
lozenge--A small, medicated candy intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to lubricate and soothe irritated tissues of the throat.
couscous--A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.

Fat Duck Restaurant Menu

British and Food
ragout- A well-seasoned meat or fish stew, usually with vegetables.
piedmont-A historical region of northwest Italy bordering on France and Switzerland. Occupied by Rome in the 1st century B.C., it passed to Savoy in the 11th century and was the center of the Italian Risorgimento after 1814.
--Tuscan peasant cuisines---
cloying(sauce)--To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit;To be too filling, rich, or sweet.
Marshal Petain
(also glossary of 20th century history)
Johnny Halliday
Coq-a-vin (Chicken with wine..)

Words du jour

If you are wondering why 'banns' is the title of this page.. Then here's the why..
I thought 'words for the day' would be apt.. but that was already taken and so was 'words of the day'..I am just maintaining this blog to have a list of the new words, that I come across while reading books. Today, while searching for the worlds top 50 restaurants.. came across 'du jour' menu.. meaning 'for the day'.. so after all, I should have tried calling my blog.. 'words du jour'

worlds top 50 restaurants

1. The Fat Duck Bray United Kingdom
2. El Bulli Roses Spain
3. French Laundry Yountville, Calif. United States
4. Tetsuya's Sydney Australia
5. Gordon Ramsay London United Kingdom
6. Pierre Gagnaire Paris France
7. Per Se New York United States
8. Tom Aikens London United Kingdom
9. Jean Georges New York United States
10. St John London United Kingdom
11. Michel Bras Laguiole France
12. Louis XV Monte Carlo Monaco
13. Chez Panisse Berkeley United States
14. Charlie Trotter Chicago United States
15. Gramercy Tavern New York United States
16. Guy Savoy Paris France
17. Alain Ducasse Paris France
18. Sketch (Gallery) London United Kingdom
19. The Waterside Inn Bray United Kingdom
20. Nobu London United Kingdom
21. Arzak San Sebastian Spain
22. El Raco de can Fabes San Celoni Spain
23. Checcino dal 1887 Rome Italy
24. Le Meurice Paris France
25. L'Hotel de Ville Crissier Switzerland
26. Arpege Paris France
27. The Connaught London United Kingdom
28. Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons Oxford United Kingdom
29. Le Cinq Paris France
30. Hakkasan London United Kingdom
31. Cal Pep Barcelona Spain
32. Masa New York United States
33. Flower Drum Melbourne Australia
34. WD50 New York United States
35. Le Quartier Francais South Africa South Africa
36. Spice Market New York United States
37. Auberge d'Ill Illhauseern-Alsace France
38. Manresa Los Gatos, Calif. United States
39. Dieter Muller Lerbach Germany
40. Trois Gros Roanne France
41. The Wolseley London United Kingdom
42. Rockpool Sydney Australia
43. Yauatcha London United Kingdom
44. The Ivy Barbados United Kingdom
45. Gambero Rosso San Piero in Bagno Italy
46. The Cliff Barbados Barbados
47. Le Gavroche London United Kingdom
48. Enoteca Pinchiorri Florence Italy
49. Felix Hong Kong China
50. La Tupina Bordeaux France

Oscar and Lucinda..

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