Well taking the trend of my 'simple pleasures' series forward where I would write about the books I have been reading or the movies I have been watching or anything that adds to contentment, here is another.
On Tuesdays I usually have sandwiches for lunch because we have the Toastmasters session from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm. So, I get very less time for lunch on Tuesdays and I don't want to waste it standing in a queue for the food in the canteen. Now Toastmasters happens to be an International speech club, which is meant for Leadership and Communications. I never miss those sessions, in fact I look forward to them as they are an escape from my mundane office work. But I am not going to talk about Toastmasters now I will save it for another day. Today I will write about my food trip.
Since I had just sandwiches for lunch I wanted to have something good in the evening snacks. But sometimes you get so held up in your nine hours I.T job that you can not make time for snacks as well. Luckily today was not one such days. I had some free time so I thought of having an early snack. I asked a team member to accompany me and we went on a food spree. It is one such days when you don't care about your strict diet or gaining weight, and you just let yourself loose. We went to try the street food. There are lot of hawkers who put on their stalls outside office and people dawdle around them all the time, right from their morning teas to evening snacks and cigarettes. We too go there when we are bored of the canteen food. Since it was only 3:30 pm we decided to have something light. We started with tea, the roadside tea stall sells very good masala tea in small paper cups and the very smell of it lifts my mood. I took few sips from it, closed my eyes and forgot all worries that were hanging on to my mind for quite sometime. Even in a crowded public place I felt at peace. The next trip was to the sweet corn stall. Now the boy there offers you two ways of having corn, either he boils the bajra for you with spices and you eat it directly or he rips off the corn from the bajra with a knife and hands it to you in a plate with masala and lemon. I prefer the later. So, I took spoons full of sweet corn and relished it, what a break from work! But wait I am not done yet, there is some eternal relationship between a girl and pani puri which we call 'gup chup' in Bhubaneswar. So, how could I miss that. The pani puri stall is a little far on the other side of the road. But you see no street snack is complete for any female without tasting her favourite pani puri. So, we took a small walk and gulped those pani puris one by one till the count reached ten. This is something which I would have called 'the pursuit of happiness' but we decided to end the food spree with some imli candies which I bought from a shop near by.
As I walked back to office I was full of joy. You see a break at times is important and a break from the regular food that you have is a delight. I had seen a board in front of a cafe once which said "We are what we eat". So, I think good food is good mood and we must always start good things when we have had good food. At least I haven't got any good ideas when I was hungry!
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On Tuesdays I usually have sandwiches for lunch because we have the Toastmasters session from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm. So, I get very less time for lunch on Tuesdays and I don't want to waste it standing in a queue for the food in the canteen. Now Toastmasters happens to be an International speech club, which is meant for Leadership and Communications. I never miss those sessions, in fact I look forward to them as they are an escape from my mundane office work. But I am not going to talk about Toastmasters now I will save it for another day. Today I will write about my food trip.
Since I had just sandwiches for lunch I wanted to have something good in the evening snacks. But sometimes you get so held up in your nine hours I.T job that you can not make time for snacks as well. Luckily today was not one such days. I had some free time so I thought of having an early snack. I asked a team member to accompany me and we went on a food spree. It is one such days when you don't care about your strict diet or gaining weight, and you just let yourself loose. We went to try the street food. There are lot of hawkers who put on their stalls outside office and people dawdle around them all the time, right from their morning teas to evening snacks and cigarettes. We too go there when we are bored of the canteen food. Since it was only 3:30 pm we decided to have something light. We started with tea, the roadside tea stall sells very good masala tea in small paper cups and the very smell of it lifts my mood. I took few sips from it, closed my eyes and forgot all worries that were hanging on to my mind for quite sometime. Even in a crowded public place I felt at peace. The next trip was to the sweet corn stall. Now the boy there offers you two ways of having corn, either he boils the bajra for you with spices and you eat it directly or he rips off the corn from the bajra with a knife and hands it to you in a plate with masala and lemon. I prefer the later. So, I took spoons full of sweet corn and relished it, what a break from work! But wait I am not done yet, there is some eternal relationship between a girl and pani puri which we call 'gup chup' in Bhubaneswar. So, how could I miss that. The pani puri stall is a little far on the other side of the road. But you see no street snack is complete for any female without tasting her favourite pani puri. So, we took a small walk and gulped those pani puris one by one till the count reached ten. This is something which I would have called 'the pursuit of happiness' but we decided to end the food spree with some imli candies which I bought from a shop near by.
As I walked back to office I was full of joy. You see a break at times is important and a break from the regular food that you have is a delight. I had seen a board in front of a cafe once which said "We are what we eat". So, I think good food is good mood and we must always start good things when we have had good food. At least I haven't got any good ideas when I was hungry!
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