FIZICALLY FIT!!- Aquatix

Alright my last few articles have been about indulging in food. I also believe in exercising well enough so that you can enjoy your food without any of the guilt of putting on weight laying the smacketh  down on your conscience.

So here is my tip for the day- WHEN TO EXERCISE!!

It would be awesome if you can exercise both in the morning and evening. But if you had to choose one session then it would be better to exercise in ‘ THE EVENING’.  The reason behind this is based on an hormone in the body called Growth Hormone( GH). Growth hormone is a hormone that’s responsible for lean muscle mass. ( I could go into much more detail on how and all but then you would stop reading the article ). So Growth hormone formation in the body is highest from around midnight to early morning, So when you wake up your body is high in GH, and that means your metabolism is at a higher rate. There is no GH formation in the body during the evening and metabolism is very slow then. Exercise stimulates the formation of GH in the body. So when you exercise in the evening you are making more GH in the body. And this will help in the formation of more lean mass and burn more fat.

To  put everything in a Nut shell- morning GH already high so fat burning and lean muscle mass formation taking place. evening no GH, exercise make more GH so increasing fat burning and lean muscle.

There is no doubt that you will burn fat and gain muscle whether you exercise in the morning or evening. This is just optimizing your time .

And remember exercise any time of the day is good!!

Good Old Chocolate Brownie in 10 STEPS – Aquatix

I recently started ‘Restroview’ where i give my opinion on places i’ve eaten at. Well I dont believe in food critiques who dont cook/ bake themselves.they’ve no idea how much effort it takes to make those creations which satiate one’s gastric juices.

here's a brownie recipe i had tried out  . Works out for you vegetarians 
who want to avoid eggs. and you can do it with a microwave oven also.
The Regular Chocolate Brownie   

Requirements-
Maida- 2 cups
Water-1 cup
Demerara ( brown ) sugar- 1 cup.
Granulated sugar (white) - 1 cup. note- white sugar has to be grinded.
                           it's optional for the brown .
Salt- 1 teaspoon
Vanilla essence- 1 teaspoon
Chocolate- preferably finely chopped chocolate about 200g. or 
as a substitute cocoa powder can also be used- 3/4th cup
Oil- 1/2 cup
Baking Powder- 1/2 teaspoon
optional- Nuts/ alcohol/ chocolate chips/ cinnamon

Procedure- Preparation - 15-20mins
1- Boil water.
2- As the water is boiling add 1/2 cup of Maida and start mixing it.
3- After Maida has been mixed, remove the mixture off the boil and 
keep it aside. let it cool.
4- Melt the chocolate if you're using it.
5- To the chocolate add the sugars,the oil and Vanilla essence.
6- Add the first mixture to the chocolate mix.
7- Sift the remaining Maida, Baking Powder and salt.
8- Now add this to the above mixture, and mix it with your hand.
9- If you're using any of the optional items you can add it now.
10- Add it to a pan that's been greased by butter or alternatively you can use a butter paper. 
Heat  at 180 degrees C for 35 mins.
You are ready to go now!! 
Points to be noted- It's very important not to over bake it.
 So it's ok if you pause the oven once around 30 minutes to check on it.
Another important point is in a cake you test if it's ready when the you dip a knife/ toothpick and nothing
 sticks to it when you remove it. That's not true for a brownie.It has to stick over here.
It does not matter which cup you use as long as it's the same cup size for
 all the ingredients  

Barrels super , berries deceptive!

This is about this place i had been to in The Sheraton Galaxy-’ Berries and Barrels’.

Cold coffees over here are amongst the best i’ve had. I would totally recommend the Black Forest Gateux, it’s an awesome blend of Black Forest pastry, with ice cream and cold coffee.  Also the smoothies are decent. When I say the berries are deceptive, I mean it totally, I had this dessert called Star Spiced Chocolate Mousse- one of the most amazing presentations, but the taste was quite not upto the mark, even the mousse consistency was just not right.

Does not live upto the looks!

The other dessert my friend ordered Fennel Panacotta on an ocean of Mango consomme was a much better choice

So if you do go there, it would be preferable to stick to the Cold coffees, which would get a rating of 5 on 5. The desserts would be something in between 2-3 on 5. Again the coffees are reasonably priced, and the desserts are a little too expensive. Nice place to take a date.

Greek And Beyond!

I came across this place in Bhopal, quite to my surprise actually. Did not expect to find it over there ( no offense intended at the Bhopalites ) because  i went to Bhopal a lot of people had told me not to expect to any good food over there. So we ordered a Ratatouille, which is an eggplant dish. I dislike the vegetable totally, but my friend ordered it. And the taste blew me off. The other noteworthy dish i ordered over here was the Death By Chocolate in it’s truest sense. Some of you Bangaloreans out there who thought that the cornerhouse DBC house was something, try this one for size to go by have to check this one out.  I had to pack the dessert halfway through it. overall i would give this place 4 stars out of 5. A must for all of you who visit Bhopal!

Restroview

In the everlasting memory of the great chef Anatole,I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time. I believe that if part of your life is not food, then it’s incomplete ( quite obvious) . So starting from now, we’ll be giving you our frank and hopefully unbiased opinions about restaurants we have eaten at. Of course you already have the restaurants and magazines reviewing a whole lot of food places. So what makes this different, I guess one thing would be that you can interact with us directly, but yeah you can do that on Burrp. You’ll prolly figure out what’s different as you read it. Oh yeah one more thing, you are always welcome to suggest places to eat. We would love to try out recommendations. Now lets see if we can get some Anatole worthy restaurants listed up.

Cheers to the Gastric Buds!

12 cases of christmas

On the twelfth day of Christmas, in the emergency,

Twelve TBs coughing,

Eleven dengues bleeding,

Ten OP poisoning,

Nine fits convulsing ,

Eight snakes a-biting,

Seven di-a-betics,

Six GEs puking,

Five M Is,

Four CVAs,

Three swine flus,

Two ALDs,

And a drunk in the casualty!

Its a long way to the top if you wanna medico! -AC/DC feat Keth

Runnin’ down the pathway
Cases to be shown
Patients every single day
Im a medico
Dogbites?
Gettin’ groans?
Gettin’ fever?
Broken bones?
Gettin’ mad
big fat books
I tell you folks
It’s harder than it looks

It’s a long way to the top
If you wanna medico
It’s a long way to the top
If you wanna medico
If you think it’s easy doin’ duty night stands
Try workin’ in a govt hospital
It’s a long way to the top
If you wanna medico

Interns Duty rooms
Make you wanna cry
MRs do the hard sell
Know the reason why
Gettin’ old
Gettin’ grey
Gettin’ ripped off
Under-paid
Gettin’ scold
Second hand
That’s how it goes
Workin in hospital

It’s a long way to the top
If you wanna medico
It’s a long way to the top
If you wanna medico
If you wanna be a HOD and the dean
Look out it’s rough and mean
It’s a long way to the top
If you wanna medico!

It’s a long way to the top
If you wanna medico!

Hospi-tal victoria- keth

On the Mysore road highway, cool wind in my hair…
Warm smell of fresh rain, rising up through the air…
Up ahead in the distance, i saw a lorry headlight
Broke my leg when i crashed into him, had to be admitted that night!

The ward boy stood in the doorway, gave an evil grin
I was thinking to myself, this cant be heaven, this must be hell
He put me on the stretcher, and showed me the way…
there were screams in the casualty, thought i heard them sayyy

Welcome to the hospi-tal Victoria
such a lovely place (such a lovely place)
such a lovely case!
Plenty of beds at the hospi-tal Victoria
Any time of year, you can find me here!

Ward boys definitely twisted, he threw me on the minor OT beds
He got a lot of lazy lazy nurses, he calls friends
How they sleep in the duty room, only awake interns left
Some sleep to remember, some sleep to forget!

So i wake up a sister, pleease bring me my file
She said ‘asshole no ones woken me up since, nineteen sixty nine!’
And still those screams are coming from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say…

Welcome to the hospi-tal Victoria
such a lovely place (such a lovely place)
such a lovely case!
Barely surviving at the hospi-tal Victoria
What a nice surprise, SDDs alibis!

Blood stains on the ceiling, the cold IV lines
intern said- we are all just prisoners here, we have no choice
In the PGs chambers, they gathered for the feast
Interns ringing them all night, But they just wont press receive!

Last thing i remember, i was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place i was before
Relax said the watch man, ‘you havent given me my fee’
You can DAMA any time you like,
BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE!

(SDD- senior duty doctor)
(DAMA- discharged against medical advice)

DOCTAR- nickethback

I’m through with having free time, no more clubs for me to get in
It’s like im having a life, im always with a grin
This life is no longer going to be the way I want it to be

(Tell me watchya want)

I want a brand new shift in paediatrics
And some kids I can play cricket with
And a king size ward big enough for ten plus me

(Tell me watchya need)

I’ll need a
SBI account that’s got a limit
And an interns room with a bedroom in it
Gonna earn a salary of six thousand rupees

(Been there, done that)

I want a new emergency full of old stretchers
Hope i dont get beaten up by the attenders
Just bark, dont bite cos i bruise real easily

(So how you gonna do it)

I’m gonna trade this life for no fortune or fame
I’m gonna havta cut my hair and wear my name

‘Cause we all just gonna be dig doctars
And living in hospitals working fifteen hours
The patients come easy and the drugs come cheap
We’ll all stay skinny as we just won’t eat
And we’ll
Hang out in the coolest wards
In the OBG with the to be borns

Every pregnant mothers gonna wind up there

Every Obese lady screaming for care,

Hey hey Im gonna be a doctar
Hey hey hey im gonna be a doctar!

wake me up when january ends

Final year has come and passed
College days can never last
wake me up when January ends

like my senior’s come to pass
four years has gone so fast
wake me up when January ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my books again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets BMCRI
wake me up when January ends

wake me up when January ends

wake me up when January ends….