What details of your life could you pay more attention to?
Actually love should be at the centre of all life activities. It boils down to the love of oneself mostly.
. . Love of nature drives your softer being to achieve bigger meaningful moments in life.
BITTER CUCUMBER
I ASKED AI A QUESTON. HERE IS ITS ANSWER.
MY QUESTON:
In my childhood in India, in the 50s and 60s, cucumbers were bitter unless they first have been treated thus: cut the top from the stem end, make with knife indentures in both surfaces thus exposed, rub these surfaces against each other. This causes some froth come out. Then cut the top off and throw it away froth and all. Eat the remaining 95% cucumber. Not bitter now.
These days we do not need to do that. They are all sweet. Why?
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Answered by Meta AI:
What a fascinating childhood memory!
The traditional method you described is called “de-bittering” or “removing the bitterness” from cucumbers. It’s based on the principle of removing the cucurbitacins, a group of compounds responsible for the bitterness.
Cucurbitacins are concentrated in the:
1. Stem end (where the cucumber attaches to the vine)
2. Skin
3. Seeds
The de-bittering process involves:
1. Cutting the top: Removes the most concentrated source of cucurbitacins.
2. Indentures and rubbing: Releases enzymes (e.g., proteases) that break down cucurbitacins.
3. Froth formation: Indicates the release of cucurbitacins and other compounds.
In the 1950s-60s, cucumbers were more bitter due to:
1. Traditional breeding: Focus on disease resistance, yield, and durability, rather than flavor.
2. Varieties: Older cucumber varieties, like ‘Calcutta’ or ‘Indian’, were more bitter.
Nowadays, cucumbers are sweeter due to:
1. Modern breeding: Focus on flavor, texture, and reduced bitterness.
2. Hybrid varieties: Breeding programs have developed sweeter, disease-resistant varieties.
3. Improved farming practices: Better soil management, irrigation, and pest control.
Some popular sweet cucumber varieties include:
1. English or Hothouse
2. Persian
3. Lebanese
4. Kirby
The reduced bitterness is also attributed to:
1. Changes in cultivation practices
2. Increased use of greenhouses
3. Better post-harvest handling
Your childhood experience highlights the resourcefulness and traditional knowledge of Indian households.
What would you do if you lost all your possessions?
To be really rich does not depend upon material belongings only. If all is lost, you are still rich if you have your self esteem and your friends with you. Life could be built slowly but surely again. Happiness could return again.
What is your favorite hobby or pastime?
Ghalib said his pass time is to sit long hours just thinking about you.
Ok, let us once again get defeated
Come, let us start a love affair again
Oh, why, again, I cannot think but about you
Oh, why again, every road leads only to your home.
What was the hardest personal goal you’ve set for yourself
To pass through rain without getting wet is an impossible goal. You have to be mercurial and flexible and quick to dodge the drops.
Here is an account of childhood memory.
It wa a cold and dark night. We were three boys and an adult Laddon. We were lazily lounging on the wooden covered deck of a shop. All the shops were closed. We were passing time in gossiping and in careless talks. Municipality lamp posts created lazy dim yellow light cone that shined the puddles on the road or the falling large rain drops. These drops fell one by one as the rain was extremely slow. There were no people around. We heard the tuk tuk of his staff hitting the road. The end of the staff had worn out and became like a brush due to veins of the bamboo splitting and turning up upto an inch upwards.
He was blind and people called him “Hafiz ji”, (he knew Quran by heart)
He was old and very poor.
With the staff he walked, hitting the staff repeatedly on the road.
The sound of tuk tuk from his staff followed by his two liner call echoed in the still, wet, rainy, cold and dark night. His words pierced the slow rain and reached us:
“If only some one in God’s name would send me a bidi (leaf cigarette).”
He was not completely blind. He sensed us and started calling with new zeal.
Normally he begged for coins of a paisa or two. Now after roaming the town he was on his way back to his hut, he needed bidis to smoke before going to bed.
. . Now Laddon was a mature adult but had a screw or two of his brain loose. He would for hours rant abuse at some one for the flimsiest of reasons. His father did every thing he could, medicine and spritual, but he would not be cured.
. . . Laddon gave an anna coin to one of us and said,” go get a bidi from Hafiz ji”. He went and dropped the coin in a pocket of the beggar and at the same time removed the only bidi he could feel was there.
. . . Hafiz ji started issuing a long series of thanking and blessing phrases while checking his pocket as to what was given. He soon changed his tone and now we heard abuses and curses. He had discovered that he had lost his last bidi. Now an anna would buy a whole bundle of bidis, but the shops were closed. The last bidi for the night was immensely valuable.
. . . Laddon lighted the bidi and took a long pull. He in his dream like walk moved silently away from the shelter of the deck and was walking on the road. The curses of Hafiz ji were getting weaker and weaker as he kept on moving away. Suddenly we heard a sharp shout and saw Laddon in great rage. He started cursing the lone rain drop that had managed to find the tip of his bidi and extinguished it. For the next few hours now this unfortunate drop would be Laddon’s target of abuses. How, it ignored the entire world and the bleeding drop had to land on my bidi ?
. . .
You have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for?
little we know we have only to start, the journey is dying to be finished.
On a lighter note, I would make two impossible wishes first and then as the third wish would ask for three more wishes. And so on, I will never run out of wishes and I would be able to correct all the wrongs of the world.
But seriously, I do not need jinn, even hypothetically, as I cannot ask him, or any one else for that matter, any thing big or small. I have but ONE source where all my wishes are directed. Not limitted to three even. And most are granted!
ارے سنتے ہو منے کے ابا۔ کیا وخت ہوگیا ہے بھلا؟
اف فوہ
یہ بھی کوئی وخت ہے وخت پوچھنے کا؟
تم ہوں ایک ہی ہو
دوئی بجن وارے ہیں۔
سوئی نہیں؟
ارے کاہے کی نییند
او تو سسری گم ہوئی گئی
Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.
Every time I try to imagine life without her I get stuck at what will happen when there will be no dinner on the table?
So yes, today too she did that wonderful positive thing. Cooked delicious dinner. My wife.
Mikail my grand son at 6, wrote as he spoke.
1:
The last line of his short story he wrote in school:
“and the soljor reatund in hiz amy truk.”
2:
When he got a brother he made a card for mom. And wrote
“cngrangraishins muMMy for the baby”
Another card for his teacher
“For mrs jibins
For beaing the most pirfict teacher in the world.
(Drew three roses)”
Now, the old age too brings such cuteness back.
Like this four line poem written by a grandson.
My goodness, I am feeling fine
Said gran ma, waiving her hand
Tomorrow I will be ninety nine
With one year left to a thousand.
PROVE THAT THE CURVE WHICH IS INTERSECTION OF A PLANE AT AN ANGLE WITH A RIGHT CIRCULAR CONE IS ELLIPSE.
Take a right circular cone with base horizontal and height verical.
A plane H at an angle intersects with the cone around curve C.
Prove that the the curve C (conic section) is an ellipse.
Proof.
There is a sphere above the plane touching the plane H at F1 and touching the cone around circle R which is parallel to base.
There is another sphere below Plane H which touches the Plane H at F2 and the cone around circle K which is also parallel to base (due to symmetry)
Construction:
Let P is a point on C
. Joine PF1 and PF2
. draw a line from vertex to the base passing through P.
Let this line cuts the circles R and K at M and N respectively.
Proof:
Now PF1 = PM
And PF2= PN
(Tangents from outer point to sphere are equal)
PF1 + PF2 = PM+PN
RHS is a constant.
Hence the sum of distances of P from F1 and F2 is constant. This is a property of an ellipse.
Hence proved that C is an ellipse with foci at F1 and F2.
