Ramblings on a rainy night!

It is a pretty dark night. Okay! Nights are dark, I get it!! I am trying hard to scribble something and don't you give me that look now. It has been raining for a while. And as usual, it is making me hungry. And yes.. I crave for it... oh nothing big.. the same ole chayem parippuvadem. For the unenlightened, it is the famous combo of tea and well, how do I describe a parippuvada... lets see... it is a golden fried dumpling made out of lentils. Yeah, I know!! That description is pretty boring, ain't it? But trust me, the flavour is gonna beat you. Right now, I would need nothing more than a hot, steaming cup of tea and parippuvada...

My brother is going to have a tough time stopping his laughter, right after he reads the blog url. He has been making fun of me always and this time is not going to be an exception, I presume. But sadly enough, that thought is not enough to to make me stop this post right here. Well, he has another 49 treats pending and he has to get me nothing but chayem-parippuvadem. Illada, njan nannavilla (Nope my dear brother, I am never going to change for better! ;))

To me, somehow chaya and parippuvada (as it should be pronounced) stands for the simplicity of the life I have had. It reminds me of the childhood days; when it would be pouring down heavily in the evenings and amma (my mother) serve us with parippuvadas and steaming cup of tea. May be it is the nostalgia that makes it tasty. Wait a minute. Nostalgia making it tasty? Do I make sense? No, I know. Parippuvada is tasty 'cos it is tasty, silly!

Ask any fellow keralite, he could tell you that it is one of the best combos in the world, right after beefum porottem (beef with kerala parantha). Now please don't tell me you did not know "beefum porottem" was the national dish of Kerala. We, keralaites are like that. "SimBle" people who can eat anything edible. Most of us are born foodies. How do I know? 'Cos I am one! :-D

Well, talking about "simBle", there were times, when I never used to get the what the whole joke is about. When a unsuspecting-you are at the butt of the joke, it takes time to click. Okie, you can have the pleasure and honour of calling me a tubelight. But don't you think MTv took this way too seriously or was it VTv. Ohmy! on which one was that Lolakutty coming? Come to think of it, I used to like her spring rolls... I mean her hair... it was as if she had a million of springs attached to her head. I don't really remember understanding a lot of her jokes. It is more like the comedy circus that comes on Sony now. I understand it is a joke when Archana PuranSingh laughs or rather roars or whatever she is supposed to be doing.

They have reality comedy shows on television these days. I don't get the jokes of 99.99% of the comedy shows these days. Something wrong with them or has my sense of humour gone completely awry? Ha! Let us not talk about my sense of humour now. I have no more left. It is midnight, I should be sleeping and letting you live in peace. So I shall stop it here.



And yes, I still crave for that hot steaming cup of chayem parippuvadem! :)

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P.S: The only saving grace of this post happens to be the photograph! Yeah, I know! *Shamelessly-grinning*