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Excellent food has always been my weakness. Trying out different cuisine helps me stimulate my mind and spirit. My idea of a 7 course meal would be in the order mentioned below:- COURSE 1 - Appetizer COURSE 2 – Soup/Mock tail/Cock tail/Choice of Wines COURSE 3 - Salad COURSE 4 - Pasta/fish/sea food COURSE 5 - Main Entrée (meat, starch, vegetable) COURSE 6 - Fruit & Cheese COURSE 7 - Dessert & Coffee Appetizer is food served before the main courses of a meal. Non-Vegetarian:- Steamed Momos This appetizer from the East Indian state of Sikkim is delicious and easy on the conscience too! You can fill it with any minced meat of your choice. Momos are usually served with fiery Sikkimese tomato chutney and a clear soup called Thukpa. Vegetarian: - Vegetable Manchurian Vegetable Manchurian is another appetizer similar to Gobi Manchurian but made of assorted vegetables. Soup is food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat or vegetables in stock or hot/boiling water, ...

My life requires some cataloging as things have been relatively hectic for the past 2 months. I had left my prior organization in search of greener pastures and the journey since then from the cocoon has been fabulous. My expertise (although 30 months cannot be the judging criteria for understanding a technology) is mainframes and suddenly I find myself in a completely different environment with just COBOL familiarity as my aide. Trainings were given to make this MAINFRAME individual get tailored to UNIX and after a week was left loose to experiment. To top it all, the application is cosmic and complex. The pressure is high; the tasks are demanding and they keep me engaged for the whole day and even invade my dreams to a great extent. However, when I look back, I realize that although I was in my comfort zone with great colleagues and friends in my previous organization but this change was necessary not only for my growth and development but also to remove the monotony in work and my l...