Elite Recipe: Fromarge Pasta

Elite Recipe is a carefully selected delictable recipe once every month by The Elite Window. It is an offshoot from Tongue Tinglers.

You will need-

1 cup Salsa (See the previous June 2008 Salsa Recipe by clicking on the link from the right)
200-250 gms (1 serving) Penne Pasta
Oregano
Salt to taste
Soy Sauce
Cheese (3 cubes)
Milk 1 cup
Flour 1 cup

For Pasta-

Boil Penne pasta in slightly salted water. Add a spoon cooking oil before itself to prevent it from sticking. After boiling for 5-8 minutes, remove Penne by straining the water out. Take a Kadai (or a pan) add a spoon of olive/cooking oil and add the salsa mix. Add a sprinkle of Soy sauce (not too much) and saute well. Simmer. Now in a seperate pan, add the milk and slowly boil. Add two tablespoons flour (See to it that you dont add too much- just enough to make the milk viscous). Grate the cubes of cheese into the milk saucepan. Do not neglect the other simmering Kadai/pan. Saute the milk saucepan well and pour the viscous mix onto the kadai/pan containing the salsa mix. Mix well and then add to the bowl containing the penne pasta. Mix again and then pour into serving dish with a sprig of lettuce and serve. If required, one can make the dish more interesting by adding edible, minced bottle mushrooms along with the salsa mix. Sprinkle the Oregano on top of the serving in the end.

This dish is to be taken while hot.

Your Chef,
Aditya C.R
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The Elite Window: The Changed Window!

Ok, now I know this is ridiculous but Elite Window has changed its looks and this time- for good (at least for now).

The new Elite Window features a completely new makeover in terms of Font colours and the logo again! The Elite Window is still green (See the Go Green post) as well as starry with a glittering background and cool header; and new font colours have been added (as I pointed out earlier). What's more, Elite Window has got a classy "PC-made" logo with a superb Blackladder 'E' and 'W' amidst checkered red and white windows giving it a modern look. There are new sections added towards the sides (observe the new left hand banner) too. There is the new ADi Tube for video updates, a slideshow of new photos every month, a flash news section to keep you updated on the latest news, the fav links section remains, there is a poll where you all must vote as it is your right to do so! Also there are the google ads you should click on to keep TEW running!!! Please click as I get 20 cents for every valuable click on each ad! Look out for a brand new season this July for The Window, you and me.

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"Shut up when it comes to shutting up"
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Options: What (How) to Blog?

Hi!

Incidently, I heard that many of you have not created a blog, so, a wonderful opportunity for those of you who have not- The Elite Window will accept your articles confined to the topics I mentioned in the first post, and it will be minimally edited and posted on the blog with your name!!! Send in you articles to aditya.cr@gmail.com and get your voices heard. They say that practice makes it perfect- you can do so here. The first 3 articles recieved will be posted this month on the blog. This process will repeat every month. Consider this for the month of July. Send your entries quick!!!

Aditya C.R
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Gadget Gossip: Hewlett Packard Pavilion Desktop

Hi!

Ok, this time Gadget Gossip has something nice to offer- A HP desktop m9390IN PC review.

We shall take a look at its config.

CONFIGURATION OF M9390IN HP PAVILION DESKTOP

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz Processor
Light Scribe DVD writer with Blu-Ray Disc reader (Max 20x DVD ROM Speed)
4 GB RAM
Intel G33 Express Chipset
W19" TFT Screen
1 Terabyte Hard Drive (1024 GB) @ 7200 rpm
nVidia GeForce 9600GS Graphics card with 512 MB dedicated memory
1 Touch Backup Button
HP Pocket Media Drive
1 Firewall, 2 X USB 2.0 ports
Integrated Bluetooth 2.0
Wireless Internet Wi-Fi inbuilt
Audio and Mike connection (5 channel compatible)
S-Video port
wireless mouse and keyboard
TV Tuner Card
Windows Vista Home Premium
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Norton Internet Security (60 day trial)
3-3-3 Years Warranty
HP 800VA UPS

All for a substantial price of 86750 INR (Inclusive of taxes and levies). What more would one want?

Cool na? I am off to buy it!!!! For more queries contact my email ID.
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Will keep you posted on the Iphone* too- Vodafone and Airtel have started pre-registration online. (I chose Vodafone, its the best). Visit Vodafone IN and Airtel IN for more details or simply send IPHONE to 56789 for Vodafone and IPHONE to 54321 for Airtel. Also visit Apple India for the Technical Specifications.

*Tentative release is July 11th 2008. The release date may be delayed as 3G network is yet to come to India. As reported by Mr. A. Raja, Minister for Telecommunications, the auction of frequencies for 3G will commence in June-July 2008. Establishment of 3G networks will further take time.

Aditya CR
"Patience is a virtue"
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Living in the Present: Guru Gyan #1

Ok hi, (again)

Sorry for the long hold up (from June 16th) I had to do an advanced course in the Ashram- which reminds me if anyone wants to do the YES+ course in Chennai contact me at aditya.cr@gmail.com for more details (I will not reveal mobile nos on blog- go check my orkut profile). I came back by IndiGo Airlines yesterday and tomorrow is my college so will post a crux of the course in here (for now of course). Guruji (Sri Sri) has an answer to whatever question you throw at him- that's the fun part- and his quick and humorous wit is the funny part!! Here is the tidbit of one Satsang session in the evening-

WA (wise answer) #1
Girl: Guruji, I love you!
Guruji: You have no choice!!!

Q #1
Spectator: Guruji, do you believe in aliens?
Guruji: As long as you do not think that I am one myself!!

Q #2
Spectator: Guruji how will you wipe the bad karmas that you have unknowingly accumalated from your previous births?
Guruji: Sudarshan Kriya.

Q #3

Spectator: I have done nothing in my life worthy of smiling, what can I do?
Guruji: Why not? You have come here (ashram) havn't you. That should be enough to bring the smile. See, do not wait to acheive something for the smile to come, keep smiling at first and then you'll acheive something- the smile will remain too.

GG (Guru Gyan)

(Everybody is making noise in the Vishalakshi Mandap during Satsang on Sunday evening (after Guruji had talked in Kannada to the locals- I was there and I understood everything!)

Sssssssssshhhhhh.... said Guruji and the whole Mandap was reverberating with man made echoes of "sssshhhh". Then Guruji started speaking when the jam packed hall was fairly quiet)

See there is a significance behind the sound "ssshhhh", everybody becomes peaceful. Similarly, when we get a surprise or we appreciate a masterpiece, we say the sound "Wah". (The whole hall repeats both the words obediently in random fashion). Then when you join the too sounds you get a commonly uttered name which is Shiva, his essence, signifying the admirable peace and silence which comes by when uttered in a hymn repeatedly for 108 times (by the way 108 because it is the only number which is a product of 27 and 4 as told by Bau) in "Om Namah Shivaya chanting".

See how knowledgeble Guruji is!

Jai Gurudev!
"Do the course with no remorse."
Aditya CR
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The New Elite Window!

The new Elite Window features a completely new makeover in terms of Font colours and the logo itself! This time around, The Elite Window goes green- the web page remaining black (See the Go Green post) and new font colours have been added (as I pointed out earlier). What's more, Elite Window has got a classy "PC-made" logo with a superb Blackladder 'E' and 'W' amidst a splash of citrus colours.

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Go Green: Blackle.com

As posted on Blackle:

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.

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Try and do keep web pages black- you'll save energy in a deficient world. Be conservative! Support Blackle- Blackle Support Link

My blog background stays black.

Aditya CR
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Personal Portfolio: My erratic schedule.

The number of alliterations (Like Simple Software, Personal Portfolio) I use are becoming annoying, yes? Ignore.

Ok, sorry for the 4 day gap, had to do college admissions stuff- Loyola college, Chennai. Nothing else, going to college seems to be the only thing left to do- of course there is AOL (for more info check Living in the Present) advanced course. I am going to Bangalore tomorrow- Ashram. Will blog of course, i have Tata Indicom wireless... laptop too (duh).

Running out of things to say when it comes to me!!!

TC
Aditya CR
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Simple Software: Firefox 3

Hi,

the long gap in posting will be discussed later, first the interesting software that has hit the globe- Mozilla Corporation has really gone overboard in outdoing themselves with the newest version of the second most popular browser in the world- Mozilla Firefox. With the 3rd Generation version coming out with more than 50,000 new corrections, add-ons, features and more, it is going to also create history if you download it on download day June 17th (tomorrow) by pledging to do so on Spread Firefox.com. This will help Mozilla get the title from Guinness for the most software downloads in 24 hours. So you can pledge online at the given link and help the 18.44% of browser market share Mozilla has currently, grow into a better figure.

Aditya CR
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Music to the Ears: The Call by Regina Spektor

Ok, this is an update to the post before the last one, just to show the superb relation between her song and the Narnian Movie. Here is the video of the last five minutes of the movie-

It is such a good movie- you musn't miss it! Check the previous post Silver Screens: A Box Office Clash! by clicking the link on the right hand side of the page to get more details on the same! Also don't hesitate to check out Stars On The Ground: Regina Spektor, for the lyrics.

Also to listen to the whole song click Listen to "The Call". You'll also be able to download from the same link.

Chao,

Aditya C.R

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Maami's Kitchen: Medu Vadai

Ingredients:

916 gms (4 Azha) Urad Dhall (Ulthamparuppu)

3 Chillis

Salt to taste

1/2 litre Oil (preferably corn oil)

Curry Leaves (Karvapillai)

1 cup Coconut bits

Method:

Soak the Urad dhall for 25-30 min in water. Add the soaked dhall along with the water into a mixie grinder (or go to the local miller and get it grinded). (Keep adding exact amounts of water, just enough to keep the batter from getting dry, when you're doing it yourself). When the batter is ready, add the required amount of salt (after taking the required amount of batter seperately, but if you want to use the whole batter, you'll get approx. 20 vadais depending on the size of each vadai). Add the chopped chillies, curry leaves and the coconut bits and mix thorughly. Pre-heat the oil in a kadai. Test the oil's heat by adding a pinch of batter in it and seeing if it gets cooked. If it is hot enough, take a blob of batter on your oil-greased hands and make a hole in the center. Slowly slide the batter on your hand into the oil (avoid getting hurt by crackling oil) and fry till golden brown. Serve hot with sambar, sauce or chutney. (Recipe for homemade sambar will be upcoming shortly).

Your Chef,

Aditya C.R

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Stars On The Ground: Regina Spektor

Regina Spektor is a Russian-born American writer & singer. She is also a pianist and was born on February 18th 1980.

Her age actually is a deceiver as her voice sounds nothing like a 28 year old's but is far younger. Her recent songs include- "The Call" which also is the background music for the movie-The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

The lyrics of the song are beautiful and empathetic. They capture the essence of the movie and its emotions. The song itself can be downloaded through Google. the lyrics are given below-

It started out as a feeling
Which then grew into a hope
Which then turned into a quiet thought
Which then turned into a quiet word

And then that word grew louder and louder
’Til it was a battle cry
I’ll come back
When you call me

No need to say goodbye

Just because everything’s changing
Doesn’t mean it’s never been this way before
All you can do is try to know who your friends are
As you head off to the war

Pick a star on the dark horizon
And follow the light
You’ll come back when it’s over

No need to say goodbye

You’ll come back

when it’s over

No need to say goodbye

Now we’re back to the beginning
It’s just a feeling and no one knows yet
But just because they can’t feel it too
Doesn’t mean that you have to forget

Let your memories grow stronger and stronger
’Til they’re before your eyes
You’ll come back
When they call you

No need to say goodbye

You’ll come back
When they call you

No need to say goodbye

You can download or listen to it at Supload at

http://www.supload.com/listen?s=R437CAY718HG

Aditya C.R

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Silver Screens: Dasavathaaram

Release: 13th June 2008

Status: Post Production. Box Office tickets are completely sold out till net 17th june as of 10th june 2008. Music released by Sony BMG.

Studio: Oscar Ravichandran Films

Budget: 165.5 crores (1.655 billion) INR (largest in Indian cinema)

Director: K.S Ravikumar

Cast: Dr. Kamal Hassan, Mallika Sherawat, Asin Thottumkal, Napolean

Plot: Dasavathaaram as the name it self indicates portrayes Kamal Hasan in 10 different characters starting from 12th century to the current modern civilization. Rangaraja Nambi a brahmin preist,a strong believer of Lord Vishnu in the 12th century stood firm against bad strategies of King Kulo thunga Chola who ruled the country on that time. As a result of that Nambi got a death punishment from Chola. Nambi was tied along with the statue of the Lord Vishnu and was ordered to be immersed in the ocean. The next phase of the story begins in the modern civilization. Kamal is doing 9 different characters in the modern civilization,all with a connected story line.The historical story of Nambi and the statue of Lord Vishnu has a significant importance in this movie.

VERDICT

Considering ticket sales, it is going to be a smash hit in the box office with over 1500 prints releasing in 5D in India alone- one shouldn't miss this movie. Its the first time Kollywood is going super global! Also see Dr. Kamal in 10 avatars as never done before.

ELITE WINDOW PREDICTION: 9.99/10

Aditya C.R

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Just For Laughs

In local Tamil dialect we call PJ's which are very poor as "Mokkai" (pronounced "mok"- as in mock and "kai" as in Cayman) so when you see this word you know its meaning!

WARNING- Mokkai jokes are not to be read in the presence of a Chennaiite. Chennaiites please shut up if you do know the joke.

Mokkai #1

Mother: How was your day it school?

Son: It was outstanding!

Mother: Why what did you do in class to make it so?

Son: I didnt do anything in class mom because i was standiing out of the class the whole day!

Mokkai #2

(Teacher wakes up a student sleeping during class)

Teacher: You cant sleep during my class!

Student: I can sir, if you could keep your voice down a little bit!

Fruit Joke #1

What did the sick banana tell the monkey?

That it wasn't "peeling" well.

Ha Ha He He Ho Ho.....

Aditya C.R

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A Book to Read: The Amulet of Samarkand

Author: Jonathan Stroud

Synopsis: A magician's young apprentice, Nathaniel, summons a 5000 year old djinn (genie) Bartimaeus and gives him the difficult task of stealing the Amulet of Samarkand from a powerful, greedy, rich enchanter Simon Lovelace. As the plot unfolds, Nathaniel and Bartimaeus find out that they enter a phase where the intriguing magic and the chain of events are just too much to cope up with.

VERDICT

This book falls in the "Must Read" category and is an excellent way to kill the idle time you have. This book will take you from pentacles to magicians to djinns and monstrous entities all the way till the last word and is sure to enthrall anyone who comes by and flips through its pages.

The Elite Window Rating: 4.8/5

Happy Reading!

Aditya C.R

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Gadget Gossip: The 3G Iphone is coming to India!

Hi all,

With what the Iphone nearing its 10 million mark in sales, Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, only has to make it more exciting with the 3G version of its sensational super phone. It comes with an additional scientific calculator and A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.o and a multi-touch screen much to the envy of HTC and others in the category. Whats more it comes at half the price of the original phone- 199$ that is approx. 8400 INR - but unfortunately that kind of pricing stays in the USA as prices are expected to be around 10000-20000 INR here. Still it is a fun phone and buying it is definitely worth the money! (As compared to a lower Nokia N 95 8GB priced around the same bracket with no multi-touch and it is quite bulky). I eagerly await the release (globally 11th July- in India it might take more time- September and will be released by Airtel and Vodafone) and I congratulate Apple on its success.

C.R Aditya

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Silver Screens: A Box Office Clash!

Recently, the two most debated movies of this summer box office has been

1) Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Director: Andrew Adamson

Studio: Beuna Vista International, Walden Media

Cast: William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Warwick Davis

Synopsis: As the Pevensie children return for a second time to Narnia after 1300 years (Narnian time), they find out that the human Talmarines have wrecked Narnia and stolen the land from the Narnians. Within the Talmarines is an even more evil plot between a power hungry Lord Miraz and his nephew, the rightful heir to the throne, Prince Caspian X. Watch how the battle and magic unfolds and how Prince Caspian help the Narnians along with the Pevensie children to give Narnia its freedom from the evil rule.

2) Indiana Jones Part IV- Kingdom of Crystal Skull

Director: Steven Speilberg

Studio: Paramount Studios

Cast: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Join Indiana Jones along with his son and wife in an adventure that baffles everyone from start till 10 minutes before it ends- a thriller involving myth, magic and aliens in a spell-binding combination with cool add-ons and stunts that are marvellous and will sure catch your dwindling attentions.

VERDICT

Although both movies where in the top ten and are still there now too in the box office, Narnia has exploded into a super-hit which very obligingly and continuingly supplements the first installment- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Although the magic was equally good, the not so obvious plot of Narnia makes it a clear winner with mind blowing scenery (New Zealand) and superb music to back it all up. No wonder Walt Disney is so happy! Andrew Adamson has waved his magic again and so has Speilberg in two movies which are sure to leave you happy and enthralled.

ELITE WINDOW RATING

1) Narnia - 9.5/10 (Winner)

2) Indiana Jones- 8.5/10 

Aditya C.R

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Tongue Tinglers: SALSA twist!

For homemade Salsa:-

250 gms Capsicum

250 gms Tomato

a few flowers of garlic

Tomato Puree (with flavours if available)

2 tsp Chilli powder 

Jalepeno (A few pieces)

Olive Oil (2 tbsp)

Oregano (a pinch)

Salt and Sugar to taste

Mince the tomatoes and capsicum and crush them in a bowl with your washed fingers or with a pestle. Now add the mix to a pan with pre heated olive oil and minced jalepeno and saute. Add flavoured tomato puree with a dash of oregano and saute again till it becomes less watery and more viscous. Add chilli powder as specified if you really want it and then add the minceed garlic and saute. (Do not let the mixture dry!) Add salt and sugar as per taste and mix well. Remove pan from heat at optimum viscosity and add alongside nachoes or mix with pasta and serve hot!!

Aditya C.R

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Living in the Present: It was an "UTSAV" all the way!

Ok, Hi!

Thought i should first start on a good note... I have been associated to the art of living for almost a month although my first impressions of this wonderful organisation began long back. I have always had an attraction towards enlightened people especially like Guruji who started the foundation and am really fascinated by the stories told about him and his followers (like me),

i like mythology and anything out of the normal and seeing he mind-blowing wonders done by guruji i had no words for him... you'll have to see him to experience him or you simply can visit the blog of two amazing teachers who do seva under the AOLF- Bau and Dinesh bhaiyya.... for more details browse- www.bawandinesh.blogspot.com and youll get a taste of the fun we have while doing good things all the time- a mix of meditation, music and knowledge is all one needs to get his/her mind pumping- I experienced this in one of the mega courses of the AOLF which concluded in Chennai yesterday called Utsav- youll have to register and come to experience its like you can taste a strawberry milkshake and only tell its tasty and not before that....

Contact www.yesplus.org for the schedule...

Jai Gurudev,

Aditya C.R

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Welcome to the Elite Window!!

Hi, my name is Aditya- CR for short, and I live in Chennai. Well I started this personal blog just now (obv) and yes, you can be rest assured that visiting my blog is one superb time pass. "The Elite Window" is just a fundoo name for my blog and in the coming months I will post anything from the latest stupidity to the completely ingenious articles which include

1) Local Loudmouths (Chennai events)

2) News Views (Certain flash news making the headlines)

3) Maami's Kitchen (I am South Indian and this is for special South Indian Recipes)

4) Tongue Tinglers (Other Cuisine)

5) Silver Screens (Movies and the box office)

6) Living in the Present (An Art of Living article and schedule)

7) A Book to Read 

8) Gadget Gossip (The latest cool stuff)

9) Taare Zameen Par (A review on a cinema actor/actress once a month)

10) The Elite Window (Story of the month- every 1st)

as the segregation clearly points out i like orderliness- and leadership, I like taking up responsibility (and almost fulfill them always), I like cool gadgets- mobiles, comps etc, andi like reading books, watching tv, cracking pj's and gj's.... the list is endless... Will all see you in a couple of days... enjoy

oh yes...

WELCOME to The Elite Window!!

Aditya C.R

(Pic will be uploaded shortly)