Chili Cook's Secret
If your next pot of chili tastes better, it probably is because of something left out, rather than added.


Shopping Spree

I went on a huge, HuGe, HUGE shopping spree today, to get some free clothes (in exchange for a lot of money). Some at a good discount, others at none at all....
Mostly restricted to the huge shopping plaza that is the Spencers, and parts of Globus, the amount of stuff I had bought would make any average shopper droop his head in shame. (Myself, I would have rather shaved my head off in shame). A total amount exceeding 10K was spent on about 8 Tees (no, not golfing tees), an equal number semi-formal trousers, a couple of jeans, a single shirt (became a lone wolf probably), a couple of ties as a side order, and some other miscellany.
The amount of time spent - 3 hours at Spencers and an hour at Globus along with my cousin (she begged me to mention her name here. For courtesy sake: Sunitha).
Normally, I go shopping alone: I see a shirt or a pair of jeans, I just check if it fits me and is comfortable and looks good. I care the damn about whether it will match with anything else or whether it looks too out of place. (That seems to be a common stigma associated with all men. Women (correct me if I am wrong), on the other hand, tend to look on the finer aspects of things (another stigma???), how well it looks, on what occasions it can be worn and what else go along with it... blah...blah...blah.... (I am no judge of females in general and women in particular, but this also does seem to be a general conception among everybody - don't you agree?
Enough of that discourse.
I have had enough shopping today - enough to last a month. Thats probably all I need before hopping flights to get to the US of A.