Saturday, June 07, 2008

My Favourite Pick-me-ups


First time I ever bit into into a thirst-quenching watermelon was when I was part of a college excursion tour travelling all over the country in the middle of summer. June, in fact. Since watermelons don't thrive well in Mizoram soil, for years and years I yearned for those dripping slices of summer fruit. Then a couple of years ago, we had a sudden flood of them in the shape of imports from neighbouring states and especially sweet ones from across the Bangladeshi border. Now we drip sweet, wet and chilled in summer up here in the mountains too. Ah bliss.



Salted cashewnuts. L-o-v-e these. I could eat tons of tins of them but like all good things in life, they're fattening. Sigh.



Salted biscuits. Yep, while some people have a sweet tooth I guess I have a fetish for salt. I remember wolfing down entire packets of these when I was all of 16 and slogging over my college exams. Needless to say, when the results came out and college reopened, I 'd padded up in all the wrong places.



I discovered chicken noodle soup as a university student in Shillong. There was this small, rundown, seedy-looking Chinese eating joint at Police Bazar where they served this lipsmackin', mindblowin' bowl of the skinniest noodles mixed with chicken and veg pieces. Absolute yumsville. My friend and I often bunked classes to slide them down our good-food-starved throats.



Life's not all eats and grub though. A great pick-me-up is a good light read, and Archie comics have been a hot favourite for years. Amazingly, there are people who express amazement that intelligent adults still read and enjoy the Riverdale crowd.


Nothing cheers me up as immediately as sunlight pouring in through the window when I wake up in the morning. Sunshine, blue skies, birds chirruping in the leafy trees....




The ultimate pick-me-up-er. My computor and internet connection. When lines are down or there's no power, I hate to admit it but I go cold turkey.

26 comments:

  1. salty cashew nuts!!!!!!!!! slurrpppp thats my Holy manna! I can just eat and eat and eat all day long... only downside is, its bloody expensive :-(

    When lines are down or there's no power, I hate to admit it but I go cold turkey.

    We all face this. It's a terrible terrible ordeal, like something churning violently deep inside your bottomless stomach that just cannot come out on its own. I grow extremely restless when there is no Net, or worse, when there is no electricity! or even still worse than that: when there is not cellphone signal!

    Arrrgh! We are but victims of our own technology. :-(

    (technocide?)

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  2. Starting from watermelon to cashewnuts, salted biscuits, noodles to archie comics,
    you take me in to your bedroom and show me your computer and say,
    "When lines are down or there's no power, I hate to admit it but I go cold turkey".
    Nice pics, nice descriptions...
    I hate to admit that I have nothing more to say... :)

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  3. Though I like water melon, I would much rather have a juicy golden mango. Anything salted does it for me too - have never liked sweets much - icecreams, chocolates, laddoos, etc. have never really tempted me.

    I would add a few drinks with good friends for company as the ultimate pick-me-up!

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  4. cashew leh melon khi ka ei chak. UPS khi apc 500va ang chi kha, keyboard pahnih a dum zawk khi microsoft multimedia keyboard a ang, pakhat khi chu TVS mechanical keyboard. I monitor pian hi a viewsonic khawp mai :)

    Computer cable vel fel fai deuh a zam kual dan lo ngaihtuah chhuak tel teh, hetia thil ho mai mai i ngaihtuah pah hian :)

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  5. Oh yeah right, Kim, I forgot to add the expensive part. You sound like a cellphone addict too. Tsk tsk poor you.

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  6. samupa, speechless an tih ang hian i awm nimauh? :D

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  7. Plats, I read somewhere that males generally prefer the taste of salt over sweet. Me I don't like the taste of liqour, never have, but the company of good friends yep, nothing beats that.

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  8. amuan, i in la Sherlock Holmes fu na a i risk sual nuaih ang mole. Khi khi ka pc a ni lau...ka u fapa pc nih khi. Hihi a va nuam em thiante han bawl deuh hlak hi!! :D

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  9. I PC ani lo tih chu ka sia a lawm. UPS dum kha ka ti dik anga, monitor kha ka dik bawk anga, keyboard var kha ka tihsual ka ring a, a dum zawk khi Microsoft anih loh chuan frontech a ni tal ang. CPU chiah lei a hmabak tawh a nih hi :P

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  10. CPU chu "not in the picture" an tih ang type hian a awm

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  11. watermelon vairama ka awm chhan ka ti fiamthu ve thin!sunday inkhawmban apiang in ka ei ve ziah in ka hria ka hman rem chan chuan! Mizoram ami khi chu helam aiin a thlum lo deuh in ka hria!

    I pic ho hian ka room thlenna lam ah chuan lunglen a kai tho kan ti anih chu!

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  12. thei a nih chuan a thur tur a ni" tih hi ka ngaihdan a ni thrin...thil thlum re re hi ka ngaina ngai lo...watermelon te hi ka ei vak ngai pawh ka hre lo...tun hnai hian ka ei ve ta deuh...mahse thatchhe ta ngang chuan a mu hi a hnawk ka t i :D

    chhang pawh hi keipawh a al al ka duh :D ... thlum hi chuuu...nahinnn tops...

    Archie Comics rocks big time...plus Asterix, Tintin...

    internet...a tel lo chuan nun hi a buai a nih toh ber mai hi maw :(

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  13. azassk, Bangladesh lam a mi hi a thlum ve fu asin. Tui hi han pai hnem em em ringot mai se a tha ni mai.

    virgo, thei thur lam i sawi tan tihna?? Asterix leh Tintin hi chu ka ngaina em em hran lo mahse ka chhiar kim ve vek toh tho.

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  14. I'd add the significant others who never fail to pick us up-or was the discretion deliberate? Or am i about to commit a faux pas?

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  15. Nah this was supposed to be just a light-hearted post about little everyday stuff. The heavy artillery stays under wraps ;)

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  16. Asterix leh Tintin chu i duh ve chuan ka lo pe ang che, a kim in ka nei thlaps a lawm :. PDF a siam sa vekin

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  17. When lines are down or there's no power, I hate to admit it but I go cold turkey.
    I see 2 keyboard attached to one CPU :D... I need no further explaination
    (Ma`am or Madam<---how do ur students call you .. LOL!.. I've read somewhere that you hate the two words ):P

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  18. Miss - what else, mnowluck!

    amuan, ka ngaina lo ti tia!

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  19. Ka comment hnuhnung zok a in-delete daih a ni maw?

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  20. Angaih, dual keyboard na chhan chu 1 not working a ti kan nau-a hian.

    mesjay, sounds like you're a noodle-head just like me :D

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  21. samupa, ka delete anih kha. Sorry but to be completely honest, I'm not interested in turning my blog into some kind of chatroom or something. Lord knows there are enough chatrooms and IMs on the web already. I don't even particularly like people feeling obligated to write something for every updated post. If you feel strongly enough about a post to write something relevant in response to it, that's wonderful. If not, that's fine by me. I don't always comment on every single updated post in the blogs I read regularly either so I don't see why people shouldn't do likewise.

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  22. Ok, ok, I thu ber miau bok si a...
    I dawnfawh ron show hian mi tiei chak ve tlat a nih chu. Sunday chhuna ei tur ka lei ve tak nghe2 kha... :)

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  23. Oops didnt see that till now. Thank you, dear MIA

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