Thursday, May 16, 2013

Spot fixing - IPL 6 - What does shock me?


Today, 3 Rajastan Royals players - S. Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankit Chavan were arrested of being involved in spot fixing through various parts of the IPL6 tournament. While the Delhi Police (who have been known this for a long time, almost from the beginning, and following this closely) already got evidence for Sreesanth and Chandila to have involved in this a couple of games before itself, they just held their nerves and waited for the 3rd involved cricketer to commit his crime.

Rightly, after Chavan, the only member of the involved (as per the statement of the Delhi Police) who haven't committed his deed yet and the only one among the three who played yesterday's game,  committed his part of the crime in yesterday night's match, the police arrested all the three players and the bookie today early morning!

While there has been a plenty of fuzz and shock around people in social media and news channels about 'spot-fixing being in IPL', today's spot-fixing scandal was not a shock to me. When huge-huge amounts of money spins in any particular element, corruption is more likely to raise its head there.

But what was shocking for me is that,
(1) 3 "Rajastan-Royals" players were involved in this.
(2) Not a single player but three. That too from a more disciplined and more-spirited RR.
(3) Even more shocked when I think, even with 3 players involved in spot-fixing against the good spirits of winning the game for their team, RR managed to remain in top of the table competing MI and CSK. They would be on the top, had these culprits not played games against their team.

Hmph.. Very hard to believe 3 players lead by a role-model sportsperson like Dravid could be vulnerable to involve in this!! Of course, money can buy vulnerable persons so easily, regardless of how good the characters they are surrounded by..

'Vendaikkai fry-curd' masala dosa - my improvisation.

My mom left me for a couple of weeks day-b4-yest night. Before leaving she made a lot of ladies-finger fry as there was a lot of that in home. Yesterday morning I cooked idly and brinjal sambhar and took curd rice and brinjal sambhar rice for afternoon. I took that ladies-finger-fry as side dish in a big box, as much as i can so that I and my friends can use it.

Even after that, some quantity of the fry remained, as much as I can use for another full meal as side-dish. But yesterday night and today brunch I had went out for my colleague's reception & marriage, and hence dint cook at all.

Now as I came home at night, buying dosa-flour and curd, I was feeling so lazy whether I should cook a chutney (coconut or tomato) for just 1 meal for 1 person. I earlier thought I will cook tomato chutney and use it as side-dish for both today night dosa and tomorrow morning idly. But I was afraid whether it will go bad, courtesy, the heat in Chennai. I dint want to take the dosa with just the idly podi again. ( i have done it twice in past 2 weeks already)

Then came the improvisation out of nowhere :) I heated up the fry. Then mixed it up with curd. Meanwhile I started cooking dosa. And I poured a spoon full of the mixture in the 90% cooked dosa as we do with masala.

And it came excellent! Wow I am turning into an improvising cook! :) :)

I know we are not supposed to mix curd into something that is heater. But who cares when,
(1) when I am so lazy to cook side-dish for 1 meal for 1 person
(2) when it came up really well plus I can eat a healthy dosa-diet (without the redundant idly-podi)
(3) when I am so tired and want to get out of kitchen as early as possible ;)
(4) and I need not take the same old fry tomorrow to office ;)

I feel it is 'Good improvisation' ;) (please bear the self-appreciation) ;)