I am a very passive drinker. The only stuff which I drink include Water, Milk(flavored/plain/shakes),Fresh fruit juice, Soft Drinks, and no etc.
I remember having haldi doodh a couple of time in my teens, but it had been a distant memory by now.
Why am I speaking about haldi doodh, I will have to rewind a few days back.
Last Friday it was the first summers rain at Manipal, so me and CNM Gang( Hope u remember them) decided to go to CNM in heavy rain on our bikes. It was an amazing 5 km ride from hostel to CNM. The lightening striking just above your head, Rain making it tough to ride the bike, bad roads,etc. But getting drenched in the first rainfall of the season is quite an experience. After that we go for dinner to an Air conditioning restaurant. And it had to happen, I caught cold the next day.
As with me I do not take any medication or give the doctor a visit for the first two days. Continued drinking chilled lime juice in canteen during lunch and dinner.
The cough becomes terrible by day 3, and so I push myself to give the doc a visit.
The worst thing about seeing a doctor here at Manipal(KMC) is that u have to wait for atleast half an hour for your check up, so I hate going. But then I had to.
The doc does the check up, gives me the prescription for three days, I take all the medicines and precautions, but it does not help. It only gets bad by the day. Yesterday I could not sleep the whole night because of the coughing. My throat, lungs and head are literally blasting off. Many others in the college are down as well. Few are suffering from diarrhea, fever, etc. I know its high time to give the doc another visit. Another important thing- we have the seniors farewell party tomorrow.
So I visit the Doc and guess wat, he repeats the prescription for 5 more days. He says that medicine takes time to work and by end of this dose i should be fine.
I take medicine today and honestly there is no improvement. It has only gone worse by the day.
I call up home and my Mom suggests me to have haldi doodh, many other friends at college suggest the same. An hour back I am just sitting in hostel coughing the hell out of me. I could take it no more. So I decide to make some "haldi doodh".
I take help from friends over gtalk on how to make haldi doodh. I arrange for all the necessary items and prepare the haldi doodh. But with a small mistake. This is not the kind of haldi milk i have had before. There is haldi powder swimming/floating over the milk and it had not mixed with the milk. But i somehow gulp it all down in one shot. My previous experience with haldi milk was very gross as i always end up puking. But not this time. Me and Shivaji smile at each other after the bottoms up and then laugh out loud. Man that was quite a scene.
Anyways I dunno if it helped or not, but it was fun preparing Haldi milk. I am sure my Mom and Gran will be very happy with my effort.
HALDI MILK- Recipe
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Milk - 1 Glass
Haldi - 1 tea spoon
Salt - Swaad anusaar.
Method: Boil the milk to boiling temperature. take a glass or bowl. Put one spoon haldi and a little salt in it. Now pour the hot milk into the glass and stir continuously. Make sure the haldi mixes well with the milk. Drink it hot.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Nice guy..
Recently my class mate forwarded a link to an article named "Ode to the Nice Guys" . I think every man has traits of this "nice guy" in him,if not for all the people around him at least for one special person. I am posting the link of the article following this post. I am sure you guys will love it.
I have been the nice guy to many of my friends. Just waiting for them to realize this. It is not going to make any difference to me our our relationship though.
The link to the article is : An Ode To Nice Guys
I am sure you will all be able to relate to this. And if you are a guy do pass this to all your friends whom you have been nice to, and if you are a girl do thank all your nice friends for being there for you all the time.
Happy reading..
I have been the nice guy to many of my friends. Just waiting for them to realize this. It is not going to make any difference to me our our relationship though.
The link to the article is : An Ode To Nice Guys
I am sure you will all be able to relate to this. And if you are a guy do pass this to all your friends whom you have been nice to, and if you are a girl do thank all your nice friends for being there for you all the time.
Happy reading..
Monday, March 2, 2009
Ankit "Micheal Jordan" Gulechha
TAPMI has given me a chance to do many things for the first time in my life. I have never played sports at competitive level such as school, zone, district, etc. My association with sports is limited to Gully cricket, Carrom board with family, EA Sports on my computer and of course my SQ(Sports Quotient) which I know is very high compared to others. I do follow all the action happening in cricket, football, tennis, F1,etc.
At TAPMI to keep myself fit and in shape, I had made up my mind to play one sport on regular basis in college. I wanted to avoid the gym as it took lot of time out of the rigorous schedule here. Volleyball at 5 PM everyday after college is what I played. In due course of time we started playing basketball early mornings at MIT basketball court. This was my first attempt at playing basketball. I was very bad at it, but was happy to be sweating it out early in the mornings.
We moved to new campus in some time and that was the end of basketball as we do not have a basketball court here yet.
Come SPEED 2009( Annual Sports meet at TAPMI), I give my nomination to class captain to play basketball. Our class has some good basketball players and other prospective players who line themselves up for selection for a team of 8-10. Initially I thought my chances were bleak but I wanted to contribute somewhere for the class in SPEED. So we start practicing everyday in the evening for a couple of hours. In due course only 8-10 players turned up regularly for the practice and We all make it to the team( as if the captain had any choice). As far as I was concerned I thought I was called personally for the practice so that there were enough players at practice to help the good players practice better. But I did not mind this a bit because I loved sweating it out there and secondly I was playing some sports. My captain Vignesh and good friend Tuhin, and others did help me improve my game. I was given a specific role- collecting rebound and converting them during offence, and taking on the man near ring during defense.
On 27th feb at midnight we have a team strategy discussion in hostel TV room and my captain says that there is a chance I might play in game tomorrow as substitute. Though I very much felt this would not happen.
On 28th feb,morning 6.30 the entire team reaches the venue. The court is half surrounded by supporters of both the teams. I do not figure in the starting line up as decided in team meeting. My teams plays great basket ball and we move into third quater with a lead of 8 points. I was hoping that I might get a chance to play in fourth quater, but the team did not want to risk this and thus I stand at side dissapointed not to have played a part in the game. But then, with 10 points lead and 3 minutes to play, out of no where I hear my captain shouting " Gulechha in, Doshi out", and I am like "what!!". And next moment I am on court thinking whats the point of playing in a game which we have already won. I might better not play. But I had to prove a point here. If I play well, I might get a chance in the finals. And more than that I was playing my first competitive basketball game. I get two chances to score which I miss to score from. The game ends in with my team winning by 10 points. Post match hand shakes takes place, and people are like "Congrats, well played" patting on my back. I was on cloud seven that day.
The next day,1st march is the best sporting day of my life. We are in the finals against a team which plays hard basketball. Man-to-man, strategic game, with lots of elbows and wrists flying all over the place. This was one tough team to beat. Unlike the last game this time the support was doubled. Alomst the entire batch comes down to watch the match. I do not figure in the starting 5, and I am sure I would not get a chance to play unless we leading by huge margin during latter part of game, the chances of which looked weak. In the first quater we are 8-0 down, with the other team taking shots after shots at the basket and we virtually not made a single attempt on ours. Their defense was absoulte in place and their offense some how worked. I realised this was end of competitive basketball for me atleast for this year. To make up for the score my team started playing hard and committed far too many fouls especially from the star player. Another foul from him would have resulted in extra free throws each time. With a minute left to first quater I was substituted in for him. We saw the rest of the quater safely. My initial thinking was that I was in so that the other player can take some rest and will soon come back in to replace me at start of second quater. But it was a day of unthinkable, I started the second quater and played the entire quater. I was super excited and wanted to prove a point. I wanted to display my skills and score atleast one basket. Wanted to give back something to my captain who had lot of trust and faith in me. But things never go the way you plan. I did not get a single chance to score. I commit two back court violations and one carry violation. I commit a foul on opponent player.I do not collect the rebounds properly. But I made sure that that the man I am defending does not score. At the end of quater From 8-0 down we go up 9-8, with me providing assists in one of the shots. I do not play any further part in the game. We win by a margin of 5 points(it is much closer than it looks). Almost everyone congrulates me, there is lot of joy, shouting,cheering all over the place. More than that I realise my dream of playing basketball. Thank you Vignesh,Tuhin. Without you guys it would have never been possible.
Stats:
NAME:Ankit R Gulechha
Team: Falcons
Time on court: 14+ minutes (3+11)
Shots attempted: 2
Shots converted: 0
Points scored: 0
Fouls commited: 1
Violations: 3
Match stats: 2 win out of 2
At TAPMI to keep myself fit and in shape, I had made up my mind to play one sport on regular basis in college. I wanted to avoid the gym as it took lot of time out of the rigorous schedule here. Volleyball at 5 PM everyday after college is what I played. In due course of time we started playing basketball early mornings at MIT basketball court. This was my first attempt at playing basketball. I was very bad at it, but was happy to be sweating it out early in the mornings.
We moved to new campus in some time and that was the end of basketball as we do not have a basketball court here yet.
Come SPEED 2009( Annual Sports meet at TAPMI), I give my nomination to class captain to play basketball. Our class has some good basketball players and other prospective players who line themselves up for selection for a team of 8-10. Initially I thought my chances were bleak but I wanted to contribute somewhere for the class in SPEED. So we start practicing everyday in the evening for a couple of hours. In due course only 8-10 players turned up regularly for the practice and We all make it to the team( as if the captain had any choice). As far as I was concerned I thought I was called personally for the practice so that there were enough players at practice to help the good players practice better. But I did not mind this a bit because I loved sweating it out there and secondly I was playing some sports. My captain Vignesh and good friend Tuhin, and others did help me improve my game. I was given a specific role- collecting rebound and converting them during offence, and taking on the man near ring during defense.
On 27th feb at midnight we have a team strategy discussion in hostel TV room and my captain says that there is a chance I might play in game tomorrow as substitute. Though I very much felt this would not happen.
On 28th feb,morning 6.30 the entire team reaches the venue. The court is half surrounded by supporters of both the teams. I do not figure in the starting line up as decided in team meeting. My teams plays great basket ball and we move into third quater with a lead of 8 points. I was hoping that I might get a chance to play in fourth quater, but the team did not want to risk this and thus I stand at side dissapointed not to have played a part in the game. But then, with 10 points lead and 3 minutes to play, out of no where I hear my captain shouting " Gulechha in, Doshi out", and I am like "what!!". And next moment I am on court thinking whats the point of playing in a game which we have already won. I might better not play. But I had to prove a point here. If I play well, I might get a chance in the finals. And more than that I was playing my first competitive basketball game. I get two chances to score which I miss to score from. The game ends in with my team winning by 10 points. Post match hand shakes takes place, and people are like "Congrats, well played" patting on my back. I was on cloud seven that day.
The next day,1st march is the best sporting day of my life. We are in the finals against a team which plays hard basketball. Man-to-man, strategic game, with lots of elbows and wrists flying all over the place. This was one tough team to beat. Unlike the last game this time the support was doubled. Alomst the entire batch comes down to watch the match. I do not figure in the starting 5, and I am sure I would not get a chance to play unless we leading by huge margin during latter part of game, the chances of which looked weak. In the first quater we are 8-0 down, with the other team taking shots after shots at the basket and we virtually not made a single attempt on ours. Their defense was absoulte in place and their offense some how worked. I realised this was end of competitive basketball for me atleast for this year. To make up for the score my team started playing hard and committed far too many fouls especially from the star player. Another foul from him would have resulted in extra free throws each time. With a minute left to first quater I was substituted in for him. We saw the rest of the quater safely. My initial thinking was that I was in so that the other player can take some rest and will soon come back in to replace me at start of second quater. But it was a day of unthinkable, I started the second quater and played the entire quater. I was super excited and wanted to prove a point. I wanted to display my skills and score atleast one basket. Wanted to give back something to my captain who had lot of trust and faith in me. But things never go the way you plan. I did not get a single chance to score. I commit two back court violations and one carry violation. I commit a foul on opponent player.I do not collect the rebounds properly. But I made sure that that the man I am defending does not score. At the end of quater From 8-0 down we go up 9-8, with me providing assists in one of the shots. I do not play any further part in the game. We win by a margin of 5 points(it is much closer than it looks). Almost everyone congrulates me, there is lot of joy, shouting,cheering all over the place. More than that I realise my dream of playing basketball. Thank you Vignesh,Tuhin. Without you guys it would have never been possible.
Stats:
NAME:Ankit R Gulechha
Team: Falcons
Time on court: 14+ minutes (3+11)
Shots attempted: 2
Shots converted: 0
Points scored: 0
Fouls commited: 1
Violations: 3
Match stats: 2 win out of 2
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