Life is a puzzle, each piece brings you closer to the big picture..
With every step, with great excitement and joy you uncover the mystery.
With a box of puzzle you have the luxury of shuffling it again to play
But with life you don't. You are offered a piece a day,
A piece once used can't be used again.
Every day is a piece in this game of puzzle called life
So savour the joy that comes along, playing each piece safe,
For once you use up all pieces to solve the puzzle, you are left with none..
Monday, December 21, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thoughts of the Day ~ Life..
Life is a journey, destiny unknown
With past as a shade, take a step towards the future,
The future a mystery, you got but to live to know.
The dawn dawns in, rushes to usher in the dusk.
With the dawn and the dusk competing with each other,
you never know where the days disappeared.
You may wonder if end to your journey, your destiny or destiny the end of you!
All I know, live today as if there is no tomorrow.
Past was there but in your memory, future still in your dreams.
Ponder over the past for the lessons it taught you.
Think of the future for the lessons it will teach you.
Life is but a shower, a blessing for all it can give you,
Life is a bliss, if you know how to see it through.
Life is an adventure, be always ready for it.
Life is a journey, you are but a passenger!
With past as a shade, take a step towards the future,
The future a mystery, you got but to live to know.
The dawn dawns in, rushes to usher in the dusk.
With the dawn and the dusk competing with each other,
you never know where the days disappeared.
You may wonder if end to your journey, your destiny or destiny the end of you!
All I know, live today as if there is no tomorrow.
Past was there but in your memory, future still in your dreams.
Ponder over the past for the lessons it taught you.
Think of the future for the lessons it will teach you.
Life is but a shower, a blessing for all it can give you,
Life is a bliss, if you know how to see it through.
Life is an adventure, be always ready for it.
Life is a journey, you are but a passenger!
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Thoughts of the day
With rain splashing on the face, a passing thought that the visor is doing its job
With soul raising above the self, with the thoughts that sour high
With breeze strong enough to push you off, manage to hold the bike in place
With thoughts that assure you that these are the moments worth living for
With fleeting glances on the hand that can never heal now!
The hand that was meant to heal will never ever do that now
Emotions so strong well up from within, is it the rain drops running down the cheeks?
No, waves of emotions linger round the eye's corner, ready to swallow you any moment
your heart a desert of feeling, ready to desert you any moment it feels fit.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Perceptions ~ in passing moments!
On a speed limit that might sound crazy, I was zooming past the winds across the bridge. I am never reckless, only the cool breeze and the not so early morning, yet a cool one has that effect on me. I live for the moment, with the past hovering its shadows, a future bright with its silver lining. No other reason to think anything else than the moment that lifted my spirits.
I was minutes away from stepping into the office, the future still unknown. The future is always unknown. It is like moments pass away in oblivion and you are just a spectator.
Do I sound melancholic? I think yes, one feels so much light thinking there is always a touch of melancholy and you are trying to be above it. What's fun in all things being fun and cheerful. Where is that feeling of greatness that comes in when you realize you are the warrior fighting your way out in a dark world!
I was minutes away from stepping into the office, the future still unknown. The future is always unknown. It is like moments pass away in oblivion and you are just a spectator.
Do I sound melancholic? I think yes, one feels so much light thinking there is always a touch of melancholy and you are trying to be above it. What's fun in all things being fun and cheerful. Where is that feeling of greatness that comes in when you realize you are the warrior fighting your way out in a dark world!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Announcing My Legume Love Affair, Eighteenth Helping!
Imagine having a love affair again! Yes, I was asked and I couldn't resist again. I started this year with this beautiful event and it's only fitting I end with it. When Susan dropped in a mail, I didn't take more than a second to say yes. After all love affairs are so much fun, especially when it is with legumes. Not a day passes without this being cooked at home.
But hey having said that I hope you will wear creative hat and dish out some interesting stuff.
Ok let me first get into what makes a legume, though many of you know and must have read about it a lot. They may be new folks to be briefed on!
A legume is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or a fruit of these specific plants. Well-known legumes include alfalfa, clover, peas, beans, lentils, lupins, mesquite, carob, and peanuts. Fenugreek, Beans, lentils, peanuts, peas, and soybeans are some of the common legumes consumed by humans. Grain legumes are cultivated for their seeds, and are also called pulses. Grain legumes include beans, lentils, lupins, peas, and peanuts.
Though the French refer to any kind of vegetable when they mean légume, we are concentrating only on the pods.
This is originally posted here
So you have a wide choice to choose!
Then we have some exciting prizes offered by Susan (All prizes are awarded to one winner)
1) Selected and purchased by Susan: The Blogger Aid Cookbook
The Blogger Aid Cookbook is not just any cook book, but one in which the recipes have been contributed by food bloggers all over the world. More specifically, one hundred percent of the proceeds from the cookbook will go to the WFP’s School Meals Programme, which benefits an average of 22 million hungry children each year.
I am proud to have contributed something to the cookbook. And I happy that one of you will be a proud owner of this book.
2) Hurst Bean Box - A case of six bags of the winner's choice of Hurst Bean products, suitable for every diet, sponsored by Hurst Bean. (Due to shipping restrictions, this prize can only be awarded if the winner is a U.S. resident.) Susan does not receive any personal product nor financial compensation for her agreement with Hurst Bean to provide this prize supplement for My Legume Love Affair.
But hey having said that I hope you will wear creative hat and dish out some interesting stuff.
Ok let me first get into what makes a legume, though many of you know and must have read about it a lot. They may be new folks to be briefed on!
A legume is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or a fruit of these specific plants. Well-known legumes include alfalfa, clover, peas, beans, lentils, lupins, mesquite, carob, and peanuts. Fenugreek, Beans, lentils, peanuts, peas, and soybeans are some of the common legumes consumed by humans. Grain legumes are cultivated for their seeds, and are also called pulses. Grain legumes include beans, lentils, lupins, peas, and peanuts.
Though the French refer to any kind of vegetable when they mean légume, we are concentrating only on the pods.
This is originally posted here
So you have a wide choice to choose!
Then we have some exciting prizes offered by Susan (All prizes are awarded to one winner)
1) Selected and purchased by Susan: The Blogger Aid Cookbook
The Blogger Aid Cookbook is not just any cook book, but one in which the recipes have been contributed by food bloggers all over the world. More specifically, one hundred percent of the proceeds from the cookbook will go to the WFP’s School Meals Programme, which benefits an average of 22 million hungry children each year.
I am proud to have contributed something to the cookbook. And I happy that one of you will be a proud owner of this book.
2) Hurst Bean Box - A case of six bags of the winner's choice of Hurst Bean products, suitable for every diet, sponsored by Hurst Bean. (Due to shipping restrictions, this prize can only be awarded if the winner is a U.S. resident.) Susan does not receive any personal product nor financial compensation for her agreement with Hurst Bean to provide this prize supplement for My Legume Love Affair.
Now if I have made you sufficiently excited, lets check out the guidelines for participation!
Prepare any recipe with legumes as the star ingredient. Any cuisine, any course is acceptable as long as it features legumes. Non Vegetarian entries are allowed.
Multiple recipes are permitted (although only one submission will be counted towards the random drawing).
Posts have to be in English.
Post them in your blog between now and 31st Dec ’09. Please provide a link to this announcement as well as a link to Susan's host line-up. Entries without links to both the blogs will not be included in the round up.
Once you are done, send a mail with MLLA in the subject line to cooking4allseasons@gmail.com with the following details.
Your name
Name of the entry
URL of your post
An optional photo
If you don’t have a blog but would like to participate, send an email with the recipe and the above-mentioned details.
Older posts are accepted only if they are re-posted with a link to this announcement.
Please do use the lovely logo created by Susan, in your post.
I hope you will make me overjoyed with the entries that you will send my way! Looking forward to your enthusiastic participation!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Perceptions ~ in the still moments of life!
I knew today that my child doesn't love me as much as I love my mother!
Maybe it is wrong to compare my love with what others can.
But still it hurts!
Maybe a child can only limit the mind to elevate the horizon to its boundaries.
Maybe I haven't given enough reasons to look up on me or put me on a pedestal.
But still it hurts!
For I don't want to be on a pedestal but in her heart, to reach out to me
when she finds herself in distress, to seek my embrace when on flight!
But still it hurts!
Knowing I have fallen short in my own perception of what I was!
Maybe it is wrong to compare my love with what others can.
But still it hurts!
Maybe a child can only limit the mind to elevate the horizon to its boundaries.
Maybe I haven't given enough reasons to look up on me or put me on a pedestal.
But still it hurts!
For I don't want to be on a pedestal but in her heart, to reach out to me
when she finds herself in distress, to seek my embrace when on flight!
But still it hurts!
Knowing I have fallen short in my own perception of what I was!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
White as Snow for the Flower Fest!
Living in flats really curbs of you the pleasure of having your own garden. But that never deterred us from having our own Jasmine and Hibiscus for as long as I can remember.
Infact I remember having the same Jasmine plant for many many years. The flower that bloomed had nearly 7 - 9 petals and was very thick with heavy fragrance. After we lost that plant, we got this one when I came to have my own family. This particular one has been with me for the past five years.
Every year around the season my veranda is scented with this enchanting fragrance from the Jasmine!
The other addition that happened to our little garden was this lily plant that Athamma kept. They give so many flowers in one shot!
Below are the details
Common Name : Jasmine
Botanical name : Jasminum officinale
Common Name : Fairy Lily or White Rain Lily
Botanical name : Zephyranthes candida
Both Jasmine and Lily are my entries to this month's theme "White as Snow" as event that captures flowers in its beauty. Ever since knowing about Flower Fest I had been wanting to paint something based on the theme. Finally was able to send only photos!
Infact I remember having the same Jasmine plant for many many years. The flower that bloomed had nearly 7 - 9 petals and was very thick with heavy fragrance. After we lost that plant, we got this one when I came to have my own family. This particular one has been with me for the past five years.
Every year around the season my veranda is scented with this enchanting fragrance from the Jasmine!
The other addition that happened to our little garden was this lily plant that Athamma kept. They give so many flowers in one shot!
Below are the details
Common Name : Jasmine
Botanical name : Jasminum officinale
Common Name : Fairy Lily or White Rain Lily
Botanical name : Zephyranthes candida
Both Jasmine and Lily are my entries to this month's theme "White as Snow" as event that captures flowers in its beauty. Ever since knowing about Flower Fest I had been wanting to paint something based on the theme. Finally was able to send only photos!
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