Thursday, 1 November 2012

Passion during Depression




 Baking is  a passion for me,
As well as a depression buster!

The precision, the concentration makes everything  better as you bake.

The past few months, have seen a lot of chocolate cakes and cupcakes at home!

I firmly believe cupcakes have one ingredient more than a regular cake does!
Love!

I don’t bake the fancy cakes with fancy toppings and fancy sugar craftings or fondant coverings!
These are simple, homely, bite into it and feel good cupcakes.

They are like comfort food, grab one and stuff yourself and feel the goodness fill you up!

Love to spread the love!!!

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Ode to friendship



Breezers
Chicken sausages with cheese fillings
Fried prawns which I cooked!

Balcony
Lights out
Stars peeping thru the foliage,
moon light!
Quiet,
The songs I Like!

Am well on my way!!

The road to recovery!

4 days at home, by myself and I know I feel calmer, at peace.
Doing things I like, running, cycling walking, watching movies, popcorn, eating maggi 
Well, I did not bake cupcakes -though  “my immortal”   neighbor requested me to bake some this week!
and I did not do any shoe shopping ( discovering an unused, lovely pair of black sandals while cleaning has nothing to do with this self control)
 No baking therapy, no retail therapy, yeah did some cleaning, which was a requirement from my momJ
 That by itself is a big plus!
Even my kids got bored of my cupcakes every weekend but were kind enough to eat it and  
My parents thought I was competing with Imelda Marcos

This is a big thank you to all my friends who put with my idiosyncrasies,  “psychopath” tendencies :)and need to “get drunk” “ want to go out” and listened to me vent out for the last 5 months .
Some of you listened quietly and never judged me, some of you gave me weird ideas to get what I wanted, some of you yelled at me for being stupid and get over it, some of you kept me company while I had to get drunk to help me forget---You all helped in every way you could!

I am never one to mourn quietly, am vocal, I reach out to people to help me!!!
and thanks for being there!!
 some on phone,some on chat, some on email, some in person:)
Thank you!

Yes, am on my way, I can now look back at the past few months and be thankful for what I had!
The Frays and Rascall flats were all I seemed to be listening to!!!

 Losing a good friend  whom you could call on any time is never good!
Suddenly not being able to talk to someone who heard everything in your head for 1 1/2  years, shatters you!

Don't ever do that to me:) :)

 But when you have done all you could to make amends and it does not work, I needed to realize that I should stop!

I now don’t care what went wrong or what I should have done different!! 
Maybe i did wrong, but that never is reason to put me through what i went through:)
A lesson for all of u: life is too short- to hold a grudge or be angry with someone, forgive:)

I got something good from all that I had earlier!

I learnt some lessons!

I have some absolutely awesome friends!!
Never regret what you had because you don’t have it anymore!!
My kids too did what they could to make me happy during the past few months!!
They love me even when I am sad and upset!!
You can never outrun pain!!I tried--  it catches up-- give in to it--- It will pass!

Thank you!
I will smile with my eyes again!