Lines for Living – Quotes by Sophia Loren

Sophia loren

Waiting for the perfect time! Tick, Tock! 

How I wasted opportunities of different shapes, one after another, just by waiting for the right hand of clock to strike.

Possible scenario:

  • Waiting for the perfect moment to deliver that punch line
  • Waited too long to start a new project
  • Sitting on an idea, then feeling disheartened on seeing it executed by someone
  • Postponed learning a new tool, new skill, eventually missing that early adopter advantage

Waiting Spills – Time, Money

All of us have some amount of regrets on how we missed the clock to tap that opportunity. That’s natural. We can’t win all the time. But, it the list of misses grows too long, then it’s time to check back on your strategy.

Over the call with a friend from US, he kind of regretted on how he missed buying Bit coin at the right time. And as the valuation surge, he’s growing restless on the opportunity missed. Another friend was saying how he should have bought a property in Bangalore before the big bull run in property market. Everyone has one or two regrets on timing.

Today is the Day to ACT

Sure, today is the time to write a blog, tell a story, call up someone you’ve not called for a long moment, gifted something new to someone you know, shown kindness, etc.

Let this quote from Sophia Loren be a reminder to do, instead of brooding or sitting over a thing in your head.

Knock, knock, Knock
Who’s there?
OPPORTUNITY
Opportunity knocks only once!

( I remember seeing the above joke in the humor magazine Pick of Punch,  which my dad used to bring home. It was the only one which I understood from the entire book. )

Topics here:

Bit Coin
Pick of Punch
Sophia Loren – Sophia Loren Mambo Italiano, Americano

Kerala Mess Indira Nagar

One of the Typical Kerala Mess or Kitchen in Bangalore

One of my introduced me to this kuti Kerala hotel which serves Kerala meals, fish dishes and meat.

Located at the road connecting ESI Hospital junction to the 100 ft road, it’s a place you can easily miss out. However, by noon this place fills up with people who are looking for Kerala meals, fish and other dishes. Most customers are Malayalees who work or stay in the surrounding area.

Today, when I visited this restaurant, I bought Netholi fry. The other day I had bought sardines ( mathi) which was Rs 50 for two pieces.

Are you treating Mathi Well?

What’s there to treat Mathi or Chali ( names for Sardine in Malayalam)? It’s one of the cheapest fish – thought it’s tasty fish, many non-malayalees avoid it as it’s smelly when fried or cleaned and it’s thorny.

Why did I broach on this topic of mathi here? I find this a perennial problem or a problem of bad attitude by small restaurant owners and Kerala mess owners.

When I bought this mathi, it was deep fried to the extend of it almost turning crumbly – close to carbon state. Why are they over frying it? When it’s deep fried, it looses it’s tender flesh – it’s just like eating some fried chips or murukh. Probably, there are people who enjoy fish this way, but what about others who relish the taste of mathi in it’s succulent body. Or can you make two types of four types of fry

1. Mathi fry in chilli, tumeric and sea sat ( Deep fried)

2. Mathi / Chala fry marinated in the above way and shallow fried

3. Sardine marinated in chill and crushed pepper and shallow fried

4. Sardine marinated in chilli and crushed shallots and green chilli and fried

There are many more variations to it, however, these are the four things that came to my mind. The question again is why can’t You make Mathi Remarkable.

Making Insignificant Things SIGNIFICANT or REMARKABLE

Mathi or sardine could be a metaphor for taking extraordinary care to make it a remarkable stuff. Also, in the case of mathi, hoteliers spend the least amount of time to clean and prepare it. Also, they just buy without much scrutiny of its freshness. Why?  Reason is that they find it’s not worthwhile to spend time on the smallest assest on their menu. It’s least priced item and it’s deserves less attention and care. That’s a mistake we all do!

Contact details of this Kerala Mess at ESI Hospital Junction, Domlur

Ph# 8792175265, 9916555849
Location: Next to Jyothi Gas Agency
Half way through the road between ESI Hospital Signal and 100 Ft Road

Common items at this hotel

1. Fish fry ( Anchovy, mathi, Ayala, etc)

2. Chicken and meat

3. Meals, parotta

( Fish varieties depends on the availability. Call them up for the menu of the day)

Other Kerala Mess in Domlur, Indira Nagar, Tippasandra locality

1. Kerala Pavilion Restaurant

Visit to Cemetery at Lalaguda

Wifey at the Chapel

Mark of a Recent Visit

Epitaph – Sorrowful Words

Goodbye to Frolicsome Grandpa

Farewell with a heavy heart

Do not be sad – Be Happy

Just 30 hours in this world

Entrance to Cemetery

20 years on June 30th, my father-in-law passed away. I have not met him – but heard a lot of his stories from his daughter. His grave was tucked in the lonely corner of the cemetery, with few other lease graves behind his plain concrete one.

Every time I visit this cemetry, I stroll around other the path, reading the epitaph, taking pictures. There are few old graves with teary lines which marked the loss. This time too, I went around taking pictures of the epitaphs, and those marble statues chiseled from marble.

  • Do you like reading epitaphs and visiting old unknown graves? 
  • What do you think when you read them? 
  • What and how did they die – old age, or something that took them early?
  • Do you think how this cemetery might have looked some 50 or 60 years ago?
  • Have you thought of epitaph that should go on your grave? 
( I have earlier posted few pictures from this resting place from an earlier visit to Hyderabad. Click this link to view the pictures of erstwhile grave )

Other epitaphs – At St Patrick’s Church Bangalore