Some like it HOT!!

My transfer is now complete in all aspects. As of now, I haven’t been allocated to any project. So, not much of work. But, the past couple of days, including the weekend I have been pretty busy.

At office, we had a group called Employee Social Service Group (ESSG). Recently, this group was converted into a trust under the name Prerana. Under Prerana, this week, we started a new initiative called ‘Sponsor a child’ which helps the children in the neighborhood school. It basically funds the mid-day meal program, and also funds some books etc. So, as a part of this initiative, I wrote a small web-based application, using which the employees could select the kids they would sponsor. Did the design, and wrote the code over the weekend, and yesterday (Monday), we launched the Initiative. So, far, we have got very good response, and more then 3/4th of the kids are already sponsored (out of around 215 kids)!, which is really good. Other than that, yes, finished my mid year appraisal yesterday. Went on well.

Yesterday evening we had arranged for a small party for a small group of friends (Subset..to be precise). For almost the whole day, the weather was kind of pleasant, but right at 7.00 PM, it started to pour!……..So, we started out a bit late. We went to “Madhuvan Village”. This restaurant has a very good ambiance and the food is also pretty good. We had a nice time. After Village, we went to “Cherry Square” for deserts. Its a small joint on the St. Agnes-Balmatta road, which is becoming pretty popular now a days. The specialty there is deserts. Specially a desert called “Some like it hot” !. Its really mouth watering. :)

Here is a brief description of what it is………

They get a brownie with a big ice cream scoop in a sizzler plate, which is really HOT. Then keep it in front of you. Then they pour a glass of HOT chocolate sauce over the ice cream. When the sauce hits the sizzler plate, its start to virtually boil, and make the sizzling sound!. And then over it, they pour lot of cashew nuts! :)………. Now………isn’t that tasty ? :)

So, most of us ate the above specialty! At around 10.30 PM, we wound up!

Oh yes, over the weekend saw the movie “Bunty aur Bubbly”. Nice movie. But the print was really bad, which spoilt the viewing experience. The video shop guy told us that the CD was a original CD and the cover etc looked so. But, when we played it, it was really sick. These people now make pirated CDs which look quite original!.

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