Mission to Clean Sardines S

August 4, 2015 ~ bjcharles ~ 1 Comment

Sardines on Chopping Board

Fresh, fresh Sardines

Blogathon 4/40

I’m a typical Keralite when it comes to sea food. I like my fellow comrades, have an undying love towards fish curry and fry, esp sea fish.

As a low cost, and high taste, and high vitamin value fish, Sardine is one of my favorite sea fish. After getting married, I continued the same trait of buying these smelly fish. At that time we used to live in a one bed room house where the kitchen ventilation was not great. At first my spouse who was not accustomed to its peculiar odor, showed strong resentment towards my habit. Luckily with time, she too became a big time fish fan.

In Bangalore, I remember buying Sardines for Rs 40 bucks a kilo, but now the price has even touched Rs 150. I don’t mind paying so much, but I like it to be as fresh as seen in the above picture. The fresh ones are easy to notice. Whereas the stale ones have their guts falling out, and they look weary.

If you’re looking for some help or know-how on how to clean sardines, you can visit this blog. Here’s the link ( http://mennas-cooking.blogspot.in/2011/03/fish-cleaning-process.html)

Cheers!

Charles

Trivandrum Diaries

August 3, 2015 ~ bjcharles ~ 1 Comment

Fish Stalls

Sleeper Class Gaze

Secretariat View

Another View

Fish Molee – Tasty!

Hot and Fluffy Appam – You’re Invited!

Blogathon 2/45

Another easy post where I got lazy to think of anything weird or crazy to write on this blog. However, these images from Kerala will speak for itself.

Foremost, when I see Trivandrum Secretariat, only one thing comes to my mind. Dusty files, unorganized process, waiting in front of clerks, their crazy attitude, and a fine example of how work process don’t change in a decade.

While, one side of the world is changing fast, these folks are protected by laws, high pays and lifelong social security. But, the wind of change will hit them too. Sooner or later, you’ll find fewer people seeking jobs in such over secured and protected government department. The adventurous and capable men and women will go to create start-ups, try projects which might fail, etc.

The cover or the kind of protection these folks get will soon wear off and I wonder how long it will take for them to get the heat of change.

Earlier, the better for this tribe.

BTW, when you get time, read this book by Seth Godin – The Tribe. In this, his specially mentions the sarkari babus in government offices in India. I wonder who or how he got the whiff of their work and the attitude of people toward government jobs.

Blogathon Diaries Bangalore

August 3, 2015 ~ bjcharles ~ 1 Comment

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Today while brisk walking in the park, I had this thought – Why not start a chain blogging for 45 days on anything and everything. I’ve read somewhere that it takes 21 days of regular practice to cement a new hobby. Based on this thought, I shall commit and promise myself to blog regularly. So, here goes my blog # 1/45.

Smartphone Drones

For sometime, I’ve been thinking of creating a drone ( not the expensive ones). I thought of few plans. One plan was to buy couple of hydrogen filled balloons to lift my smartphone. One end of the line will be in my hand. So, it would be fun to capture an aerial view when the balloon lifts the phone and view high above.

Pros: The project is cheap.

Cons: It’s hard to find hydrogen balloons. Also, not sure how many balloons is required for the liftoff. Another problem is that the view wouldn’t be that great. Just straight up and down. No, big hovering stuff or horizontal flight path.

Next is creating a model plane

I remember building small wooden model planes which fly for a short distance. These used to the summer time craft where I picked the lessons from Jawahar Bal Bavan in Trivandrum. Probably, a bigger model plane can hold the weight of phone and it can fly a short distance with the phone.

So, who will make it. I hope I will tell my nephews to build one. Will they be motivated to make one? Need to find it out.

Labels: How to make smartphones fly, Summer project for kids,

Growing Garbage Problem in Bangalore

August 2, 2015 ~ bjcharles ~ 1 Comment

Garbage problem grew exponentially in Bangalore in the recent years. The root of the problem can be linked to the rising population of Bangalore and the lack of planning by civic authorities. Till few months, our neighborhood never had the problem of waste dumping. Now, there are four active dump zones in Domlur locality, which is forever stinking and causing it to smear the locality.

Sometimes, I wonder how people can ignore such bad and foul smelling dump yards. The irony is that there are expensive apartments which boasts of price above 70 lakhs or so, are so near to these dump sites. I wonder who on earth will buy apartments and live seeing such dump yards.

Question here is, what can do to clear or reduce this mess?

Should I plant a garden to make my locality look good?
Hire someone to clean the mess? At least for few days it will look good?
Make a plan to maintain the dump yards?
Talk to the Corporator of the locality and present a plan, and give financial a
Pay extra money to waste collectors to clean the mess
Talk and form a group in the locality to sort this grabage problem

With our growing consumption, there’s no immediate remedy which I can think of. As of now, I feel I should do something about this to keep my locality a neat and welcoming one.