Thursday 21 May 2009

Message in a bottle



A Message in a bottle
I threw in the sea,
where it'll reach
I know not.
But the tides will take it
wherever they'll go.
Or may be lost in the sea.
It may reach a worthy hand,
who will tell the world,
the story,
about the message in the bottle,
thrown out at sea.

Monday 4 May 2009

The cake that was not to be!


I'm a die hard what u may call a FOODOHOLIC! I love food, good food that is, aesthetically presented... even better. So half of my time goes in the kitchen trying out recipes from the internet, trying to teach myself the TRADITIONAL ones I ought to learn, or just improvising some new stuff of my own... I love being in the kitchen. Recently I've been spending more time than usual thanx to me having no work nowadays. And what better way to diverge AN EMPTY MIND from being a DEVIL'S WORKSHOP. This led me to try out the more difficult of the species. The mighty and hallowed "CAKE". Since I'm an avid follower of improvisation, I try to alter my mum's basic recipe to include a wider variety. A recent experiment of mine made my friend a poet and he composed a few lines in it's honour. It goes as follows:

THE CAKE THAT WAS NOT TO BE !

BUTTER , FLOUR , EGG ALL IT TOOK IN
EVEN THE ICING WERE NOT TOO THIN

EFFORT AND TIME WAS ALWAYS THERE
IMPROVISATION WAS ALSO RATHER FAIR

IT WASN'T TO BE , IT STUCK TO THE BOWL
ALL ADO , FOR THIS FOUL

.... THE CAKE THAT WAS NOT TO BE !

(courtesy Bhaumik dada)

P.S. Since I had no image of the cake in question, the image of a more successful one of my experiments has been posted!