Time Ticking...

You dont find great words like these too often...

"The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realize truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in-the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life."
--- Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Prison Diary

"Revolution" does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife - nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on a new and better basis..."

"...by "Revolution" we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change. The peasant who grows corn for all, starves with his family; the weaver who supplies the world market with textile fabrics, has not enough to cover his own and his children's bodies; masons, smiths and carpenters who raise magnificent palaces, live like pariahs in the slums..."

"...the sense in which the word "Revolution" is used in that phrase, is the spirit, the longing for a change for the better. The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit. Otherwise degeneration gains the upper hand and all of humanity is led astray by reactionary forces. Such a state of affairs leads to stagnation and paralysis in human progress..."

--- Excerpts from a letter from Shaheed Bhagat Singh to Shri Ramanand Chaterji, editor of Modern Review

And it was time for another experiment. A technical guy who has never dealt with this technology before. One of those old age technologies that has never fazed out (and is seriously tough to master!!!) So, I decided to take this challenge "once again" (actually, was forced to take it !!!). After failing twice earlier, I was still raring to go. And I told myself - "I will do it, no matter what. I am not afraid of the consequences". Although my friends were!!!

I collected all my energies again, focussed on the problem at hand - and here I went!!!

Here is the algorithm for that - although it does not cater to all scenarios but has been built based on same technology but using new tools:

Phase 1
Step 1: Take two spoons of oil and put it in rice cooker (this is a newer released version).
Step 2: After it is bit warm, add vegetables (for POC (proof of concept) purpose, I used already broken pieces of frozen cabbage and whatever eatable was available).
Step 3: Add two spoons of salt (please dont add any buffer here, you may land into serious trouble).
Step 4: Keep it for some time as it is with lid closed.

Phase 2
Step 1: After your patience runs out standing in front of it, just remove the lid.
Step 2: Add 3.5 cups of rice of 160 ml each (this cup utility wasnt too good actually, check out the market for better ones)
Step 3: Add 7 cups of water using same cup (although, everything was floating - but then knowledge transfer via my friend wasnt too good actually :)
Step 4: Close the lid and wait!!!

Note: Start writing the steps in a diary, uff!!! its tough to remember, right?

And after an hour or so, one of my friends came in and said, "Hey, why your application is still not working?" He checked and then changed the new technology based cooker's switch state from "Warm" to "Cook" !!!

Ok...although, it took another hour to cook that but then this was my first encounter with Pulao. Oops! initial ones were with Paranthas but I ate that, although they were completly looked like part of pan only - complete black in color!!!

But must tell you, the Pulao finally, was ready and everyone ate that. Thank God!!! Atleast, there were no "special comments" after eating that.