Hello All,
After yet another crazy week, I had sometime to get back to myself. I am sure many readers would wholeheartedly accept my next statement. "Sometimes you really realize that the best vacation place, the best rejuvenating center and the best place to find peace & harmony can only and only be your home! Right?"
Some people run for chilled beer, some people will slip under their comforter and sleep like a baby and some choose to watch back-to-back Rom-Com or chick-flicks; But I, like many of you out their, like to cook!
Well, let me first introduce myself with regard to cooking; I am a very occasional and unconventional cook; I cook when I am super happy or super stressed; I somehow feel energized when I get into the process of cooking. So call me an experimental cook; I don't often cook the same dish unless I get 5 star ratings (evil smile).
For me- finding a new dish on the internet, discovering its ingredients in the refrigerator and on the unreachable racks of kitchen shelves, adapting the recipe to suit my inventory, giving a running commentary while cooking like in those cooking shows (yes, I do that stupid thing too), serving that exotic dish to the family and awaiting their nodding head in acceptance and appreciation is a beautiful relaxing and rejuvenating process. Only when my family members woo me for that magical dish, I gain the guts to invite my friends, a larger crowd for a nice lunch another day.
This time I prepared the vegetarian Thai yellow curry! I had replaced chicken with Tofu; and mushroom and broccoli were adding so much meaning to that recipe. It tasted tender and sugary spicy.
Hey, but wait a minute! I forgot to tell you something so important in my whole cooking process...! Before I poured the curry into the serving bowl, I did dip my finger and had slurped it to get a quick idea about the overall taste. (now don't contest me over not being hygienic and all...this is what I do but I will make sure that I don't dip it again); I guess all the programmers and engineers out there call this process of dipping and slurping as "alpha testing".
According to Webopedia, Alpha testing is a very early version of a software product that may not contain all of the features that are planned for the final version. Typically, software goes through two stages of testing before it is considered finished. The first stage, called alpha testing, is often performed only by users within the organization developing the software. The second stage, called beta testing , generally involves a limited number of external users.
By the way, why did I have a crazy week? Why was I so stressed in the first place?
Answer: I am going through the alpha testing phase of http://realmimpex.com
I guess alpha testing is that crazy phase when people end up doing dual roles, in fact those roles with strikingly opposite characters. Until the first level of implementation is complete, you will believe every concept that strikes you, every line of code that you write and every specification that you think seems to be apt. But, when it comes to alpha testing, you have to question the specification, question the concept and test the end result of every line of code. Gosh! it is so tiring. The only reason for me to sustain is The Team! Oh boy, the team is so energetic! If you believe in the concept of aura, then I can prove that this team has it! We have diluted the time zones. Thanks to Skype, Google Hangout and Whatsapp; without which we couldn't have achieved this. We still have miles to go though...
We are eagerly waiting to serve this curry to our family members; I mean, we are excited to make a few of our customers take part in our beta testing. And to make it happen I should stop writing blogs and restart questioning the features on the portal.
In the meantime, look up your own experimental dish and don't forget to dip your finger!!
Super magaa
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