@Kulfy the good thing about cooking as a study is that even at beginner level we can get very satisfying results haha

@Zanna Unless I'm too hungry and food is overcooked :|

of course there will be many unsatisfying results too XD

Then I would probably go for 2 minute noodles aka instant noodles.

that's what I mean about satisfying results at beginner level, because even two minute noodles are pretty good

of course, it sucks when you ruin some ingredients. That is sad.

I did go and buy the rolling pin btw!

@Zanna I would prefer noodles which come with a packet of mixed spices.

@Zanna best of luck!!

@Kulfy when I was a student I had very little money, and I used to eat those all the time, because they cost only 15p (which I guess is about 12 rupees at today's rates, but adjusted for relative cost of living would be even less)

Another advantage of those noodles in spicy soup is they warm you up

my house didn't have a good heating system

@Kulfy thanks :D

@Zanna That's exactly costs 12 rupees today.

oh haha

Damn!! Gesture typing on phone sometimes interpret wrong words. 'That' became 'That's' :/

I don't think my brain bothered to even process that until you pointed it out

sometimes the touchscreen on my Nexus 7 doesn't work properly and the gesture trail gets broken and I get total junk

Nexus 7

Nostalgic tablet.

I have done this many times.

I mean, not with the PFA acronym, but I've sent emails whose bodies or titles referred to attachments I never actually attached.

@Kulfy so many times that I now write "which hopefully I have attached" etc

@EliahKagan Not exactly acronym but similar text.

@Zanna Makes sense

@Kulfy Yeah, I have often written, "The attached PDF document..." but then not actually attached anything before sending the message.

@Kulfy I guess it qualifies as British humour... an attempt at self-deprecation to avoid losing face. I used to have an answerphone message which said "Hi sorry I'm not picking up! I'm probably fishing around in my bag for my phone so please try once more. If not please text me as I am totally crap at checking my answerphone messages"

@EliahKagan Thank God Gmail has Undo option. 😅

Yes, though only for a short time after clicking Send.

I mean, that's good. It would be bad if it never actually sent emails, just queued them forever until you clicked Undo. :)

what? TIL about this Undo option?!

But this feature of Gmail has not prevented me from sending emails with mistakes that required a second email.

haha I guess it is old

@Zanna I'm not sure if this would be considered as "Unprofessional" here :|

This is a follow up mail. Please find the attached file

dad gave it to me for Christmas but I don't remember what year. I find it very useful - still using for playing videos (the sound quality is not too bad, better than a phone) and video chat

hahaha

@Zanna I guess that's in developer option or Beta option. I don't remember.

I don't think I have either of those enabled, and I do see it.

@Kulfy I would say that a degree of informality is expected. Like, god forbid you would call your boss "sir" or "madam" in UK

But I remember enabling that. May be that's finally released ¯_(ツ)_/¯

@Zanna and here it's common

I'm very inobservant, especially when dealing with something familiar haha

@Kulfy Yeah, I think I recall it was once somehow experimental. I think I saw the option for it and thought, "This is silly. Why would I want this?" I have come around to the idea that it is useful, even though I haven't been helped by it too often.

@Kulfy yes, seems just normal politeness here... I even call my landlord "sir"

the house owner I mean

I have noticed that Gmail allows me to undo deleting messages and I am very grateful for that

Like, deleting them from the trash?

I had not noticed that feature!

idk if it lets you undo deleting them from the trash itself

I will check.

It does not let me undo deleting a message from the trash. It just shows "Conversation deleted forever." There is no option for undoing that.

alas

I did not think that feature was doing anything magical, rather I guess I assumed it retrieved the email from the trash like when we restore files from trash on a desktop system. But I was grateful because finding messages in the trash on mobile is really slow and requires a lot of downloading. OTOH, undoing sending a message strikes me as magical

@Zanna Yeah, that works by not actually sending the message until a couple seconds have elapsed. The message is sent (approximately) when the option to undo sending it disappears.

I think that's why I hadn't originally liked the idea of the feature. Because it made messages take longer to send. But I think I was wrong to think that would often, in practice, be a problem, or even noticeable.

I sort of got that from what you said about it earlier. A pretty simple idea that I would never have come up with XD

going to make lunch

Bon appétit!

@Zanna Apps have become a lot heavy since then

yeah?

@Zanna When I was in school, I used to call lab assistant as bhaiya which literally translates to Brother or elder brother. But when I was in first year of my graduation some lab assistant asked me to call them "Sir". I was like what the heck!! You haven't done something that would make you "Sir" but I kept my thoughts to myself just to avoid arguments.

I mean when nexus 7 was launched games and applications weren't that RAM and storage hungry as they are today.

I think I don't get the most out of mobile devices

You should be addicted to get most out of it. And that's bad. Sometimes I feel it's irony that mobiles were meant for phone calls and sometimes SMS but today we aren't doing that.

I was 16 when I first got a mobile, 27 when I got my first smartphone. I'm non native

I remember the world before haha

I got my first mobile when I was 16.

@Kulfy haha I dislike hierarchies, but I approve of respect

Cooking for one kinda sucks though... I bought a cabbage and I've already made 3 dishes with it, and there's still more. This is getting old in more than one sense

@Zanna But respect should come from inside not forcefully.

Once I had barbeque cauliflower. You can try BBQ cabbage

@Kulfy 100%

no I don't like BBQ

I hate the taste of burnt

even a little bit burnt

especially burnt cabbage

That's not burnt but cooked over coal. I love that smell and taste. Although vegetarians don't have much options for bbq. They can just bbq vegetables :|

haha well I haven't got any means of cooking over coal in any case

Cooking over coal is risky as well. Like the smoke, heat and other risks. I prefer buying from market.

yeah. I'm scared enough of the LPG

LPG ain't scary.