ZPANDA & 3 Es

The other night I lost the game of Scrabble for not being allowed to add a new word to English dictionary 'ZPANDA' :P I already had the word PANDA on the board and needed to use Z (10 points) somewhere in last bit to make more score but ..alas there was nothing but a loud laughter on my innocent attempt to make ZPANDA :P

I also had 3 Es and there was a word that I mead earlier QUIT, had I noticed that and added an E to the end, I could have scored 46 points (tripple word option). But the scrabble champion in my home, SS, had that spotted and me, disappointed on not being allowed to make ZPANDA made some other word in a bid to score maximum and missed QUITE too, losing the game by about 74 points :-(. In the end it was a wonderful game and we had good fun playing after about 6 months.

Later we added ZPANDA in our scrabble dictionary to mark this day in our happy memories

Urdu Language

Urdu hai jis ka naam, hum jantay hain Daagh,

Saray jahan mein dhoom humari zuban ki hai

Its translation in my poor English will go like:

                                               Its known as Urdu, everyone knows that Dagh,
                                               It is a very popular language in the whole world



I just love this shair (poetic verse?) and could not stop myself posting it on my blog as this was on my mind since this morning.

Hope the "likeness" is mutual.

Late Night Pizza

I love Pizza anytime anywhere. Tonight we (me and SS) had dinner; Zeera Rice with Black Chickpeas. It was a delicious meal we had stomach full. Had a nice cup of coffee after that and started watching 3rd and last part (until now) of Ice Age movie. Simply loved it, a nice and funny movie to watch. Suddenly after we finished watching, felt a bit of craving of eating something delicious - this is normal with me actually :P Whenever I'm home my mind always working on what to eat next :D I like to think that this is common disease among men so...

Actually there is one pizza base sitting in our fridge for last 3, 4 days and I just cannot get my 'hungry side' of the mind off it. I know this that as long as it is in the fridge, this greedy mind and gluttonous stomach of mine won't rest. I said greedy mind because for me the appetite for the food is a mental state - it does not have to be actual state of hungry stomach. Pretty awesome haan :P lols.. Anyways, so I decided to do a favor to my "greedy mind" and baked the pizza and lo & behold! it is here. Yayyyyyyyy !!!

Gotta go now - byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :P

(ummmm - its yummmmm - Oh I just realised that I LOVE PIZZA; anytime anywhere !!!)

Christchurch earthquake - Sep 4th

On 4th Sep 2010, Christchurch - the city of gardens was struck with a power series of tremors. The first earthquake was the most powerful and scary with magnitude 7.1 as recorded on the Richter scale. It rocked the city horribly and teared apart the earth many inches wide. The buildings were collapsed, cars parked on the roadside and/or under the buildings were damaged badly enough to be scrapped. However, luckily and thankfully no one died and only few might have got few injuries.

But that is not what I am going to write about here as there are a number of articles, reports and columns that can be found on this topic. I am just writing this post to share a link that shows the series of earthquakes Christchurch was hit with from 4th Sep onwards within 24 hours. The total earthquakes recorded and counted on that day were 1495 as recorded by this website. This webpage show this series on the map with the location of the earthquake, the magnitude and its impact. On one side it is interesting to see this but actually it was a horrible horrible thing - ask someone who has felt all these shocks within 24 hours' time only.

I have few friends there and it was a relief to know that they were all safe and sound. However I felt sad for the city as I have seen its gorgeousness and just can't imagine to see it turned into a pile of rubble over night. However the caring and loving people of Christchurch will bring its attractiveness back and the city of gardens will continue to be one gorgeous city also known as Ōtautahi.

Today: 05 Oct 10

Went to office after a long weekend today, Tuesday the 5th Oct. It was a public holiday on Monday on account of Labor day. The long weekend was kind of boring mostly apart from Friday evening and Monday afternoon. Friday evening my friend with his family came to visit us and stayed for few hours. We had good time chatting about general things over a cup of tea and some snacks - thanks to SS for that. Monday afternoon we went out with friends for brunch and then to beach from there. Later in the afternoon we came home and then again back to our favorite spot in the living area with our favorite lappy :P

Tuesday was 'back to work again' day. As usual it started boring and me literally dragging myself to office. It was not that bad a day, as Sun was out shinning and comparatively I wasn't feeling that sleepy either. But just the usual "don't want to" day after a long weekend finishes. However at work I got an email from my manager that made my day actually. It was about a positive feedback from a client about the support that I provided to them. It was extremely positive feedback and I felt happy and motivated.

Apart from that it was a pretty usual day. However when I came back home, SS was doing Skype with Swedish people and another positive and encouraging feedback that I received from there was about my diet and health related efforts. Seems like maintaining and controlling the intake of calories in my food is paying off. I felt much relieved; phewww. Oh you don't have an idea how much I was worried about the weight gain in past few months. But just for the records, that "worry" does not mean to go on some crash exercise or training courses. That's kinda too much to ask from me :P But I have been trying as much as I could - don't ask "how much" was that - lols.

The day for me ended on a nice movie - Ice Age The Meltdown. It is actually a nice movie. I am starting to like this now. Can't wait to watch the last part and that I will do tomorrow and to do that I need to sleep now so that today ends and tomorrow comes soon.

So goodnight for now!!!

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