HONEY! OH MY HONEY

When I talk about my honey I must tell you that there has been a lot of changes that took place in me. This is a fact, just take it... Don't ask for proofs.

Now when I am expressing my attachment towards my honey are you by any chance thinking and expecting me to unfold all my personal ups and downs in a relationship?
Are you waiting read how it all started and how far we have come from that one special day?
Are you wondering how much I will strip the reality and narrate what exactly happen with us when we are together?
Are you speculating if or if not I will tell you everything as in EVERYTHING or censor it? HMMM.....

Ha.
Now stop guessing... I will tell you everything... as in EVERYTHING... k?????

Well I am going to talk about my honey, my DABUR HONEY. I bet you were thinking exactly the same.....

It all started when my friend Gayatri suggested green tea with honey. At the start it was all about Green tea, but only as I complete one month of ZERO SUGAR I can tell you.... I AM STILL ALIVE.
For many 2 spoon full sugar is just a must for survival, but I am telling you, you do not want it and if sweetener is what you want, then switch to HONEY and you are on side ADVANTAGE. Now I do not have to prepare a COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS [ CB analysis reminds me of Prof Crystal David John- one bomb in Economics at Stella... I love you ma'm]

We are people in the 21st century living a lifestyle of a corporate world [some pretend and the rest burn their butt] and we need some quick finger tips to keep up in life but not just any dieting and gym. A cup of green tea with 2 spoons of honey can just be too refreshing and rejuvenating for body and mind. I am not denying that even tea and coffee can make us go on and on but the sugar can be soporific [ the CAT effect huh.. Hats off to Bhaskar Iyer Sir] and I m just suggesting some healthy way to go on and on.

Honey can be used for various other purposes and reasons. It could be weight lose and also a weight gain. Now you are back after a hectic work and maybe you have a lot of tan... Honey with lemon juice is the thing. apply it evenly on face..... and some cucumber... its a spa effect...

This is just magical for lazy bums like me. cheers to me... i have just given another reason to get healthy by not moving your butt.... Laziness Rocks!!!!!

I have got my shelf stocked with honey.... When are you going to get your share of good health????

NOTE: Here sugar is refined sugar.

Salt, Milk, White rice and Maida and definitely sugar at its refined states are very dangerous to health. Consume it in moderation.........

ANNA

WOMEN - EPISODE -1

Hey guys…and yeah gals of course. Well I have been reading this blog regularly… and its been great… the owner herself is doing a great job. So something came to my mind. And I think I should put it up to all of you.

This is Tom. Hi to all… This one is going to be interesting because its simply on the most interesting thing god has created…… Women. This would be a long one. So I have requested the blog owner to put it up in Episodes.

Interesting for guys, because they just love to look at them and definitely do more which I don’t want to describe here. But I’m sure they don’t like to carry them along too much. I know it’s a pain guys. I myself have been into this many a times and each one of them unbearable in one or the other way. They are very diverse creatures but with a similar function. For gals… they always want to know what the other one is up to. When god created them he made them beautiful but forgot to give them an operational brain. So to cover it up he created guys, with brains and definitely good looks. So that way Adam was created after Eve.

That’s history. Today these creatures have become more dangerous. Now they have started operating brains. To destroy men… How???

I’m going to tell you how it happened to me.

I will start with a few at my office. That’s one place I would like to avoid women. Office would have been so peaceful without them. When at work it’s really worship for me, and in between this worship the Satan can spoil it all. The nature of my work does not allow a lot of them at my office. For that I just thank god.

This one is a senior of mine. Ms X. She is supposedly an engineer, but when she is on visit to my area of work she becomes an outspoken, irritating critic of my work. Doesn’t she have anything else to do in this world? Man, office is for working, not for screwing up somebody else’s work. She calls it “Time Pass”. So when she gets bored she comes out of her cocoon and breaches the territorial zone to my work place. How selfish? I don’t know when I’m going to manhandle her. Yeah. I know, I know, I’m a gentleman. My gentleness is stretching too much on this. But she is intelligent enough, to stop it just below the threshold I would reach. Then she smiles at me… and she would say, “Now I feel refreshed, time for some work”… and she would happily walk away. All this easily takes an hour out of my schedule, half an hour listening to her nasty comments and the rest to come back to senses.

One would think how can a junior colleague trouble you? Females wherever, whenever and however are troublesome. So I have two under me. Ms Y and Ms Z. Though they are different in many ways, but they have one thing in common; they can talk on and on and on and on. But they don’t talk constructive. It is gossip all the time. They both have such shrieking voices, that eardrums  around can rupture easily. The worst part is they would be doing this at some corner of the office when I would be loaded with files and technical stuff around me. They are never there around as a working hand. And if I get to see them and ask for the reason for their absence from the place, they were supposed to be at, they would just keep their gob shut. If I raise my voice losing my patience, I would virtually see the NCW (National Commission of Women) placards around me.

There is another thing about Ms Z. She is a manipulator. Do guys fight for girls? History speaks for this statement. From the battle of troy to the fight between my senior colleague (a guy) and me, this has always happened. This fight… I would call it argument was not for domination but was cue to manipulation. One day Ms Z was late to office for which there was no record. So I thought I would keep a track of all under me through an attendance register. On this Ms Z walked to my senior and cribbed royally that she was not getting the freedom to work as she wants. He then came to me and blasted me, which continued ahead as an argument and had to stop because we were drained out. A few days later, on booze, we both guys realized that the argument was worthless and manipulated.

Where do I go from here? Back home. Oh my god. How can I forget the most important one in my life, my girlfriend Jerry. I call her Jerry because I’m Tom. She is a 24 hour helpline. If I want an adventure, I just have to dial her number. Even at my office the adventure is available for me through this helpline number. But Jerry is also intelligent like others. She would just give a small pill to me at office because she knows that I would forget it in my work. It would be waiting for me back home. After a tiring day’s work when I would be thinking of some relaxation… yoga or a game of squash… the phone would ring, for which you I never say no to. If I somehow miss it then, even god can’t save me. It would take at least a three hour apology speech to get her back to normal. This speech mostly becomes a debate, one sided, the motion would be against me from Jerry’s side. Ok now what if I wouldn’t have missed the call. Then it would start romantic, but in between I might crack a silly joke, and then that’s it. Further the above mentioned procedure stands. This time the difference is I would have missed my game or yoga. All this is happening when she is around 2500 kms away from me. I just can’t imagine if the distance was to reduce.

Anyways I can go on and on about this special lady in my life. So I would continue in next episode. Now wait for the next one, because girls I think you would like to know more about yourself and guys this would be an eye opener for you.

-TOM

I AM YOU

Hello Round table and other loving followers and readers..... We finally have some who has interest in posting at Zero Gravity under the guest column,.... The name of the Guest column is I AM YOU. The label says that the author is just another person like the reader and is interested in posting once in a while in the blog. The author is writing under the pen name TOM. So lookout for him....

MAKE IT WITH FRAGRANCE AND FLAVOURS

Aphrodisiacs are scientifically defined as substances that increase sexual desire or in simple words stuff that gets you horny! The name was derived from the Greek goddess of love, beauty and sexuality Aphrodite who was supposedly damn beautiful. Her birth sounded a little disturbing though; when Cronus cut off Uranus' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam (aphros) arose Aphrodite (wiki rocks). Enough of gross Greek legends, many of you might be unaware of that fact the chocolates are aphrodisiacs i.e. they work on the part of the brain that increases your sexual desires. 

Ever wondered why girls love chocolate so much? the reason behind this is because when a girl is sexually excited she tends to be happier and horny. So the next time you see a girl munching away on a chocolate bar you know the she is truly enjoying the delight in every way (and girls call us men horny). Did not mean to sound like a sexist but aphrodisiacs work much more in a girls system than guys, thus letting them loose and also giving way to an awry bit of confidence making them more romantic and explorable. 

Ever wondered why all those sleazy commercials have strawberry and cream in them, well you guessed it. Strawberries and raspberries are strong aphrodisiacs that are ideal to hand feed your lover and even have the most sexually stimulant color red which spices up things in bed. The effects of such foods depends greatly on the presentation and eating as well and there is a physiological response that adds to the passion. For example; try it in one of those dim moods where you and your lover share a strawberry lip to lip or maybe enjoy a little spill of chocolate on your lovers body. Many therapist suggest such intuitive methods to spice up a relationship that has lost its heat. Even oysters fall into this category as they pretty strong stimulants that work the magic. Women are generally much more susceptible to aphrodisiacs because of there  lower sexual tolerance, in other words its easier to get them aroused. 

In the case of men, our thoughts generally don't revolve around the moment as there are multiple entries (pun intended) in our cortex about thoughts that are different from the moment that we are in. Men have the tendency to loose interest faster due to complex thoughts that affect him even during intercourse, this unstable behaviour has a lot to do with the events that has taken place during the course of the day. Therefore its always good to bring in a pleasant mood before their is a brute engagement into love making. 

Even though the science is a little hard to fathom but true indeed, and speculations have been brought in from many regarding the use of aphrodisiacs and their impact. But millions tend to differ from that thought as it has indeed helped them in their escapades in bed, so the next time you get busy in your deal just try some of thees kinky appetisers just to kick it up a notch! 

-MAHEEN

PAROXYSM OF MARK'S EGO

Well I’m not a professional at this, but I will certainly try doing justice to what I’m writing on. I’m on, here to give you review on a movie. Please consider me only as a friend by your side giving you gyan. So I would also like some response from you guys on the movie if you have checked it out.

For me this was one of the best movies of 2010.”The Social Network”, it took me to an ocean where my thoughts and emotions were oscillating from crest to trough at a high frequency. But it was a harmonic motion; I mean I felt good about it. I kept guessing where it was going next, completely on my toes. For me the movie had all the ingredients for a full fun ride into a vast saga of creativity, human emotions, human thoughts and a lot more.

The movie starts with a couple breaking up for a very small issue. It was Mark Zuckerberg(founder of Facebook) and his girl friend during his Harvard days. It was certainly Mark’s ego. This was the very initial reason for creation of ‘The social networking site’ “Facebook”. I never could have imagined that so many things have gone behind the creation of this masterpiece. Just a click and today I can socialize with so many of my friends without the feel of any distance with them. It’s a revolution, which has been portrayed beautifully in this movie.

The flow of this movie is very logically thought of, dramatically played, yet gives a very realistic feel, and of course the movie is a real life story. The scenes are so well sequenced that, though a lot of flashbacks gets mixed up with the present, one can see the fog disappearing and would get a clear site of things by the end of the movie. You would stay well connected to the movie throughout as the right background music has been played at the right time at right decibel levels.

Jesse Eisenberg has portrayed the character of Mark Zuckerberg exceedingly well. He has been able to put himself into multiple emotions and expressions at ease. If I get to meet him I would be able to recognize him as Mark and not Jesse. The rest of the cast, also not behind, rather equally leveled his performance.

Overall David Fincher has done a wonderful job, worth watching. So are you still thinking of a movie time out today. Then you must check this link too… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4.

Go grab your tickets right away and have a fun filled movie time. I hope the movie is still running in theatres over there.

-ASHISH

BLOB

Time for food, champagne and girls ( Don't get me wrong, I am for sure straight). Who does not like some good information about food, liquor, their behaviour patterns and their influence on relationships?

Maheen, my dear friend from school is the guru here. Apart from being a B.tech in in C.S.and a business development manager he is an excellent actor, major foodie and a passionate party animal.

I remember, while in school during our skit practice i fell sick and started puking and it was Maheen who got the cure . He said to eat something I like and makes me happy. He prescribed me a biriyani and guess what.... it worked. He is a connoisseur of good food since then and there is no wonder he is writing on it.

He is writing in Zero Gravity under the label BLOB and I am sure he is going to give us enough and more fundas about restaurants and the right picks at different eat out and the do's and dont's towards healthy eating.

He is posting once a month starting from 12th Dec.

Welcome Maheen!!!!

Spice Route

Aan was finally done with her "CAT!". She wants to go and freak out and forget that CAT ever happened to her and maybe not interested to know if it will eclipse, rise, revolve, rotate... whatever, she needs a day out. Now! Nifty is a sure invitee and she too required the break. The word BREAK during the CAT means everyday and most of the time every 2 hours. I am always ready for anything that revolves around food and anything that will make me look very artistic and intellectual.

Three of us set out to FORT KOCHI with a strong pursuit to be 100% tourists from some other country ( now stop guessing which country that would be.... its INDIA.. K?). Knowing that the old saying " Kochi kandavanu Achi venda" was definitely not going to work with us, we made plans and finally met up at the Ernakulam Boat Jetty and board a ferry and left the shores of the mainland. We made it to the island where Nifty became all enlightened and wanted to buy a "BIBLE", huh? Such odd timings these girls have. Ever!!!

KASHI (artistic and definitely intellectual) where lousy food is served at exorbitant rates (muasambi juice-Rs45/- and Aan came to see the spice paradise with 200 bloody bucks, yeah she had the plastic money) was our first destination. The good thing about the place is the ambiance and the art exhibition which makes us feel that anyone can be an artist. One can get a fillip to get back to art if or if not you have artistic roots. We kept bitching (what generally we girls do) about all the white skinned beggars wearing hardly any clothes (it shows-poverty) and talked about Palestine, Jordan, the spices, the merchants and blah! blah! blah!. Don't forget we are the wannabe tourist...... and talking about all these are just about no pain but watching some TLC for the gyaan. 

We din waste much of our valuable little time (hazards of being a gal) and set out to MATTANCHERRY where the famous JEW STREET was. Now a little history, facts and no figures about the place. 

" the JEW STREET in 700 B.C. was at Crangnore now Kodungallor, but due to a conflict regarding the pepper trade with the Muslims of Calicut now Kozhikode, they had to move out and settle themselves at Kochi. Here under the Hindu Raja, the Jews did their spice business with the rest of the world. Jews have a history of spice trade dating back to the age of King Solomon and today they trade cinnamon, pepper, cardamom, cloves and so on....." - its there in their blood....

Here we first visited the Hindu Raja's Dutch palace and bought our Incredible India entry pass worth Ps.500 and moved in to be highly sarcastic about their old photographs (heights of joblessness and ignorance) and moved out. On our foot we moved to the street where the Jew life, their culture and traditions, artifacts existed without much of a metamorphism. Spices, perfumes, curios, antiques gave us all the feeling of being foreigners. It is truly a different world. I was enthralled and tried looking a foreigner by adorning my scarf and shades, but failed pathetically. Ha! Ha! Ha!. Though the spirit was there we were late in being there on time to see the 'Pardesi Synagogue' (it closes between 1-3 at noon), but the Jewish experience was profound. I can even write a poetry.... 'Romanticizing the Jew Street'.... hmmmm..... "The aromatic breeze brushes your skin through your hair....", the rest you write when u visit the Jew Street.


 It was my time, time for food....

Now that we are in Mattancherry and eating the famous Kayees Biriyani was by default in the plan and as always 'BIRIYANI SOLDOUT' (we were just getting luckier--- probably God punished us for being sarcastic about the palace). Now that there was no food we went back to Fort Kochi and got into some shack and ordered some fried rice, FRIED RICE? how original and authentic could we be? Sea Food is all expensive and the rates are for the real tourist and not the wannabes.. A mariner who was on the next table also offered us some fish.... pity on us.... anyways..

We were done with it and made plans to get back to MAINLAND ERNAKULAM. Nifty still wanted to buy a BIBLE and Aan had some small shopping which she is doing all the time we go out and i wanted a hands free. Reaching Menaka it was coffee time and we gave away all our necessities for our desires to have some refreshing beverage from our very old COFFEE BEANZ. My aunt supplies the Passion Fruit Fizz there so i ordered it, Nifty made the best choice of a Cinnamon Coffee and Aan ate something like Chocolate. We quickly had it and made a hurry in getting back home.... family was out watching Pranchiettan..... got my handsfree and din let others make their shopping and let them return empty hand but definitely promised them that next time we will do their shopping. 

Sorry Guys! I know... I am mean.  

Its just a day out... but definitely you guys too went to Fort Kochi.... How was your experience? What did u like there? Tell us too........

ANNA

It’s a Wonderful Life

Well let me start from where I stopped in my comment on this blog where I said… “l... talking of zero gravity... sometimes when it just feels too heavy... I think these two words would be an inspiration to just let go... let go whatever... which sometime gets very difficult...” ‘Zero Gravity’ would sometimes mean to me sliding into ‘being light in life’. ‘Light’, now that would be another interesting thing to go on…

“Being Light in life” one of those phrases that a lot among us desire to experience. One would definitely have felt or experienced it in installments, but here I was in search of a lifetime package. Being light in life forever…  ‘Impossible’… ‘Possible’… I never knew… neither did I dig into ‘would it be’ or ‘not be’… I was adamant ignoring all the difficulties. But the question was “where could I find it?”

My answer came quiet easy. To feel light, was first to reduce my body weight. Yes I mean physical reduction of body weight. Now that does not mean I weigh a quintal or so. But the aim was to feel Light. So where did I go heavy?

All this started from my love for food. I’ll be very frank here. I’m definitely qualified for the tally of a ‘Hogger’… Oh I really am… For those who like it a little decent ‘a Foodie’. To make it more grave, I’m slothful sometimes and it drags for a very long time. I guess there would be hardly anyone who would be able to reach the magnitude of laziness I get into. And hence, I was facing a grave and a deadly combination ‘Hogging + Laziness’. Believe me this led me into heaviness… everywhere… on my body… on my mind… at my work and the list goes on… In total… ‘What a screwed up Life!!!’

But the sun finally did rise… the bulb did glow… and bright enough. My thought of good old days of great physical fitness, being light and a flat stomach inspired me (those were my training days)… To ‘Run’… and I started running. Oh… no… I didn’t do a ‘Tom Hanks-in Forrest Gump’. It was just a daily routine affair. But I did run to reach a little lesser than a state of collapse every day. And it continued… Now for a week. Oh I missed something very important in between. A healthy sugar free diet for that week and definitely ahead. Initially it was difficult. So to make it simpler I attached myself with a partner who was also in search of being light. For him it was just weight reduction. Hence, now if one of the mind or body gets lazy the other one is there to pull up the socks. One week. Running in winters of Delhi, which has just started to spread its wings was and is and will be an amazing experience.

Today, after a week I looked at myself in the mirror. I fell in love with myself and I was not able to get away from the mirror. My body has shaped up so well with a sparkling shine on my face. My tummy though not that flat has reduced drastically, and when I walk none of my flabs rhythm with my feet. The list of add ons goes on… ‘fresh and energetic at work’…’patient with my girlfriend’… ‘more eyes staring at me’… etc… etc.. and a lot of ‘positivity’. This is going to go way ahead with “a healthy mind in a healthy body”. This for me is ‘being light in life’ and why not after all “It’s a wonderful life”.

-ASHISH 

THE WINGMAN

Being a typical Libran, I cannot do anything alone. I always want companionship for me to feel "YES! THIS IS HAPPENING". I am glad that the blog received a great start the very first day hitting a cent visits. That definitely shows the companionship i am going to share with the readers.

Zero Gravity is not my blog, it is our space where there is no gravitational pull of the traditions and cultures and no frictional wear out due to the relationships. Round Table is where the readers can join to be members for the working of our blog. The readers can also mail to zerogravity4all@gmail.com, anything you want to upload in the blog under the guest column (for ppl who wants to write once in a while but do not have the patience to maintain a blog).

Now the news is, here at ZERO GRAVITY we have someone who has shown great interest in writing in it. He is my wingman, very close to heart and a great friend. He will post under the column " THE WINGMAN" twice a month. He is Lt. Ashish Ravindran, who from a very young age has written encapsulating poetries and somehow left all his interest in writing behind his busy schedule during his training period.

Zero Gavity gave him a fillip to write again and definitely with his posts our blog is going to attract more readers. Lt. Ashish Ravindran, it is an honour to have you on board and we look forward to your write up.

The Wingman starts on with its first post on 21st Nov, 2010. Round Table look out.

Inspiration... to start all over......

Thanks to Neeraj... though I know hardly anything about him, all what i know of him started by reading his blog "The Wastepaper Bin". The blog thing have been on my mind since i dunno. I had even started a blog along with my friend while in college and named it "Our Plinth" which referred to the extra flabs and were too excited that it died in a matter of weeks. i generally write and i myself know its really raw and crude. I do not use refined words of poetic stuff but i claim i write them. I write them so i can call it whatever i want.

So coming back to what i was talking is blogging all over again. Zero gravity is not a planned venture but an outburst of nothingness, hahahah. i myself do not understand what that phrase means. Anyways i hope to have a bunch of readers and post weird and ridiculous and insulting comments over my posts. everything is just welcome and i believe thats when i ll strike the reality.

Tchao.