Odds 'n Ends

An anagram which has reverse spelling of a word and itself spells a proper word is called a semordnilap

semordnilap - palindromes, Get it? "If you Get it, you Get it...dhum! Washington post!", sorry that was a random detour on a totally different tangent. ..anyway my mother tongue, the language of Mallu Land, MALAYALAM, is a palindrome

Check this code out from International obfuscated C Code Contest, which is a line-by-line palindrome.

..this quote from the fortune cookie, cast new light and new shadow!
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition"

Moments of freedom in Shades of Joy

Happy Republic Day! Celebrations!!!


: Courtesy Meeta.

Detox Diary - Day Seven - Love for food, most sublime of all loves ?

o5:00 EST, Seven days after Friday, Jan 13th
169.5 pounds, down six and a half pounds from D-day, 5' 11"

Eatables/Drinkables
1 quart of water with 2 spoons of salt in it
8 glasses of lemonade
2 glasses of water
1 laxative tea

My best friend's birthday around the weekend and really really want to participate and help with my munching services. So after seven days of wonderful drive, I am taking a detour from Lemonade Highway to Saag Paneer Highway. If you are not already familiar, Saag Paneer Highway, runs by the best kitchens in the world, by design and is probably the only highway which passes exclusively, by cities named after food and beverages. In the lines of Interstate highway and Information Highway, Saag Paneer Highway is a Food highway. A higway that takes you places where Culinary masterpieces are served. Our normal vehicles will be able, as a matter of fact it is guaranteed, to take us to and through the highway as long as we are wearing this special hat, which by the way is not that easy to get. You will have to prove your love for food, and prove that love is sublime before you could get hold of one such hat. If the hat is not worn, "highway" plays tricks on you. Tricks could vary depending on "highways" mood. If it is in a great mood you are in great shape, served with great food. If it is in a good mood you are in good but not great shape, served with good food. So it is not an issue if the hat is not worn, as long as highway is in a great or good mood. Restorturent trips are in the cards, if highway is in any other mood, other than great or good AND if one is not wearing the hat! So Wear the hat!!! save yourself horrible trips to restorturents with food under par.

My seven day stint on Detox-Lemonade-Diet was unbelievable. My prime aim was to find out what it does to one. When i started I had doubts if i will be able to survive and sustain, but i did.
I had doubts if i will be able to do my job at my office when all i am feeding on is lemonade. I was able to do my job, in fact better than before. I was and am several times more energetic and
focused. The first two days were bad, but since i started on the lemonade diet on a weekend work wasn't affected at all.

It introduced me to the booming, growing, natural and great tasting world of organic food. It also made me realize how much i love food!

I had a spectacular ride! Would like to thank Khyati and Suchi, who introduced me to Detox-Lemonade-Diet.

Peace

It does not mean to be in a place
where there is no noise, trouble or hardwork.
It means to be in the midst of those things and still
be calm in your heart

Detox Diary - Day Six - Rhythmic Expansion

o5:00 EST, Six days after Friday, Jan 13th
170.5 pounds, Gained! a pound from yesterday, down five and a half pounds from D-day, 5' 11"

Eatables/Drinkables
1 quart of water with 2 spoons of salt in it
8 glasses of lemonade
2 mint tea
1 laxative tea

Started of the day with "Shower Shock"! "Shower Shock" on a regular day really wakes me up in the morning, but when I am on a Detox-Lemonade-Diet and am already charged up and energetic, right from the second i opened my eyes this morning, i had concerns that "Shower Shock" would make me hyper.

..i am hyper if instead of walking down one/two steps down the stairs at a time, I fly down one flight at a time. I am hyper if i talk to my parents back in Mallu Land, in Malayalam, while I am on the second phone talking in English with Indian accent to my Boss at work while negotaiting thin patches of ice on the road and looking for Cops, who love giving me tickets.

..i am HYPER, if I am posting to two blogs simultaneously (while restlessly moving my legs, there my mildy shaking my hands and eyes and nose and head and the chair and the table and at times wondering if this mild commosion is caused by a milder earthquake) AND, all, while watching "Inside NFL" on HBO with captions turned on AND listening to NPR podcast of "As it Happens" with my right ear AND listening and jamming to Haddaway with my left. I some how feel and believe, this state of hyper activity is not desirable and it worried me that was what exactly, shower shock was going to do to me.

What is Shower Shock? Yeah, what the hell is it? Undefined in urbandictionary.com yet, but i have made a promise to myself to get this added soon to enrich the already the rich and the already not so rich! "Shower Shock" normally happens on chilly winter mornings. "Shower Shock" is when my shower, showers extreme hot and extreme cold water, intermittently, there by making me cry out 'UuUhh..' when hot water burns me and then cry out 'AHhhh' when cold water slices through me. If this showering sequence, happens 4 times or more in 42 seconds, then one is under "Shower Shock". Essentially it is a protest tactics deployed by intelligent under/over used showers on the showeree and it could potentially lead to hyper activity especially when he or she is on Detox-Lemonade-Diet ( which by in itself increases your level of activity)!!!

..so i kept my fingers crossed with a hyper control attitude in my mind. I had a glorious day. More re-enforcements to Detox-Lemonade Diet.

Detox Diary - Day Five - Going Steady

o5:00 EST, Five days after Friday, Jan 13th
169.5 pounds, down six and a half pounds from D-day, 5' 11"

Eatables/Drinkables
1 quart of water with 2 spoons of salt in it
6 glasses of lemonade
2 mint tea
1 laxative tea

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John's torture tantrums continues. Pulav, Daal, Chicken Tikka and Tandoori Chicken!

Streak Continued. Out of the world experience. I am getting used to this. A detoxified, decongested, leaner but not meaner me is much much better me than the me which existed before Jan 13th. Just in Peace with myself. an extra dimension to the world. Tranquility. I am amazed by the results so far.

Detox Diary - Day Four - Oh What fun, it is to be, on a Detox-Lemonade-Diet

o5:00 EST, Four days after Friday, Jan 13th
170.5 pounds, down five and a half pounds from D-day, 5' 11"

Eatables/Drinkables
1 quart of water with 2 spoons of salt in it
8 glasses of lemonade
2 mint tea
2 glasses of water
1 laxative tea
fed heavily on Oracle Portal

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As much as i could, Stayed away from seeing food that i couldn't eat. This part was not really that fun. It was goddamn torture. To avoid it..

• I meticulously planned my routes at work, taking detours away from cafeteria, especially during lunch hours.
• Immediately flipped channels if any food related ads were playing on TV
  
• Password protected food channel and enabled parental control.
• Took "Simply Recipies" off my google home page

..I fully understand now what Tantalos went through.. I love food.

Apart from that, i had a glorious day. You know, often times I am forced to lie, when asked "How are you doing?". The lie being "good" or "great" or "excellent". But today, every time i said i felt great, i meant it. It just felt great. No exagerration. No G factor! ..my energy levels never had been as high as this. Even late at night, i still have energy may be to last the rest of the week. Simply fan-bloody-tastic!

Master Cleanser/Lemonade Diet, Rocks and Rolls and then Rocks again!

Anablog

Check out the definition, urban dictionary has for anablog

Detox Diary - Day Three - No Pain, No Gain

o5:00 EST, Three days after Friday, Jan 13th
172.5 pounds, down three and a half pounds from D-day, 5' 11", Nope still haven't shrunk.

Eatables/Drinkables
1 quart of water with 2 spoons of salt in it
7 glasses of lemonade
1 mint tea
3 glasses of water
1 laxative tea
fed heavily on Oracle Portal

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Blueberry Jam
Choclates from Leonidas
Cake that Rhonda baked
Cookies at John's Cafeteria
Redskins
mashed potatoes
Salad bar - I can't imagine i drooled over the salad bar
Pictures of Butter Pancakes at Danny's
Organic Eggs
Organic Portabello Mushroom Soup
Organic Crunchy Coconut Chips
Organic B.a.n.a.n.a.s
Dreams about the soup that folks are going to make as soon as i get off the diet
Dreams filled with all the food that i am going to miss for the next week.

..amoung the crispiest of the days i had in the past 10 years. Head ache was long gone when i opened my eyes and for the first time in several several years it for once felt like i had a good sleep. The sunny morning made it even better. I felt leaner, crispier and sharper. Felt like i could slice through anything, even through the hardened roties, at times served in our mess, during my undergrad days. Felt like the that guy on TV ad for some aphrodisiac. It really felt good and you could have bet your money on me, against energizer bunny.

Detox Diary - Day Two - Where there is Will There really is a way

o6:45 EST, Two days after Friday, Jan 13th
173 pounds, down three pounds, 5' 11" still, Nope, i didn't shrunk.

Eatables/Drinkables
1 quart of water with 2 spoons of salt in it
9 glasses of lemonade
1 mint tea
1 laxative tea
fed heavily on Haddayway,Howie Day and Eagles.

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Blueberry Jam
Choclates from Leonidas
Burger King ad on TV looked tempting than ever before
Mixture
Boiled Egg
Daal and Rice

i woke up into a day of head ache. Nagging one. Persistant one. Not severe enough that it prevented me from doing anything, but not mild enough to ignore it. It was there when i opened my eyes, first thing in the morning and it was there last thing at night when i shut my eyes. It was there when i made my lemonades, it was there when I made mint tea, it was there when i watched Steelers win, it was there when i was driving, it was there when i was playing table tennis, it was there when i was serving rice and daal to dillibillies, it was there when i said good bye, it was there when i was talking to PGP, it was there when i was thinking of Kuttu, it was there till the last second of the day i remember. Boy! I haven't had such a dedicated head ache in my whole damn life! Like Herman Melville says, A megalomaniacal incarnation of all the headaches in the world!

As if headache wasn't enough, i was blessed with a "going" problem, aided and abetted willfully by the salt water cleansing, a litre of water with two spoons of salt in it, which i drank first thing in the morning going by "Master Cleanser". A "Going" problem is when you go to the bathroom and spend so much time in there that you feel like going out and the moment you get out you feeling like going back in again. You always want to "go", from or to, the bathroom. Talking about bathroom, there is an excellent podcast @ http://thewordnerds.org under archives called "Euphemisms". ..anyway my "going" problem wasn't as dedicated or persistant as "headache", to my great relief.

..I am concerned, if my head ache continues will i be able to work for the rest of the week? Will i be even able to drive? Will it get worse? Will I die? I am not giving up. Never, Never, Never, Never Give up.

One bites the dust..

As you all know I gave up Detox on third day. Hey I was determined but Tulan, well known as a Detox Buster forced me to do so. But actually this time Mr. Buster was right and I think he did busting for good (BTW, the name 'Detox Buster' is courtesy of Vinod Pillai). Someday when I will become fat like Garfield - The fat cat I will try again. But you know today I am missing lemonade so much!! Everytime I feel thirsty I feel like drinking lemonade. It was tasty :)

So whats up Vinod and Suchi? How are things going with you guys? Good luck and keep drinking lemonade.

Welcome Everyone!!

Alright..so seems like I'm blogging now.

I haven't done any reading on detox diet but this sounds interesting. I might get started in a day or two.

Vinod, hope you're holding up well so far on liquid diet.

Detox Diary - Day One - Being On Lemonade Diet

The day after Friday, 13th Jan 2006, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ..We friends getting started on lemonade diet, inspired by "Master Cleanser" and numerous positive posts on blogs and forums.




Motivation : Curiosity about detoxification, camaraderie

This is day one for me..
06:45 EST
176 pounds, 5' 11"
..googled to figure out how many liters is a quart
1 quart luke warm water + 2 tea spoons of uniodized sea salt. Gulped one full quart down, didn't quite time it, but did down it pretty quick. This was a cleansing aid, as suggested by "Master cleanser" to cleanse the digestive tract and preferably had to be taken first thing in the morning, empty stomach. That 1 quart almost filled me up. I guess i will have to wait a while to have my lemonade.

..Lemonade
2 table spoon of fresh preferably oraganic lime juice ( approx half lemon)
2 table spoon of genuine maple syrup ( Dark Amber Grade)
1/10 tea spoon of cayenne pepper ( red pepper)
8 oz of medium hot or cold purified water

I had been making note of, and at times using, organic food at the local grocery store which has a small but growing section for organic foods. It tastes different and tastes good. I was surprised to find the amount of oraganic food related links that came up on google. Might be a good idea to invest in some upcoming organic IPOs. I am convinced. I decided to go oraganic for the lemonade diet and made my first trip to a total oraganic store.Danny's Organic. Loved it and it was just a bonus that there was a lovely young lady at the counter.

09:26 I am hungry. About time to get cranking on my lemonade..

Welcome Aboard!

Hiya! Welcome folks. Blog your mind out. ..If you post it, it will be read