Celebrating with serendipity!

Daughter had her school results out today. Straight As. And that called for a celebration! So how do we do it in these difficult times?

We decide to prepare the Japanese soufflé pancakes!

It turned out absolutely nothing like the picture!! The reasons could be many! We didn’t have baking powder at home to start with and my skills to make meringue are pretty limited, as I realised!!

But!!

No matter how ugly they looked, or the fact that they were more crispy than fluffy, they tasted wonderful!!

So here we are! Celebrating the exam results with our flawed but satisfying cooking skills 😉

To drive the lockdown blues away

Veg-clear soup and crossword puzzles 😊

Earth…Paused

Some days are so slow …

… it takes an eternity to even chart down the to-do list, forget about acting on it!

 

Praying for a better tomorrow

Especially for those among us who are struggling for bare minimum.

For those who are left all alone in this difficult time.

For those who are having their dreams shattered as the economies are going down.

And of course for the more vulnerable ones amongst us.

When you are confined to your house!

Praise the Chinese!

– for containing the ‘situation’ in their country.

And of course, forget about how and where it all started. Forget about the fact that they didn’t let the rest of the world know or prepare when it was still starting. Forget about the inhuman way they treated their citizens.

Instead, just thank God that it didn’t start in India.

Learning along the way

One thing that failed relationships ought to teach us is how not to take what we have for granted.

The monster of greed gnaws at us, urging to look at what is beyond us, leaving us dissatisfied with what we have with us at the moment. And then while we are busy ogling at that, time as well as  our own possessions slip away silently.

The result? We lost what we had. And we don’t always get what we never had.

 

The Coronavirus scare

I am worried by the number of people who casually mention that let this run its course, it would reach its natural maxima and then plateau before dying down. If during the course, some people die, then so be it. They were weak enough anyway.

This application of ‘Darwin’s’ theory wouldn’t make any sense to those who have elderly people or small kids at home. For them, the mere thought of losing them to a painful death is scary enough. Yes, we all would die one day. And yes, the weaker ones would go first. But does that mean we throw them under the bus even before the time comes?

This Virus may or may not have affected as much physically as it is bringing out the worst in all of us.

Social Meetup sites online – For what purpose?!

Facebook – Connect with friends, even those you don’t want to really be friends with. But it is good to know what is happening in other people’s lives, isn’t it? Well.. Not for me.. not any more ;). And so Facebook account has been deleted.

Twitter – Mostly to get to know what is the latest buzzword in the world around. Sometimes somethings overwhelm me enough to post a tweet or two of my own. But never too personal.

Whatsapp – Mostly used for sharing pictures and ‘informative/educating’ forwards 😀

Quora – Only for browsing through its articles.

And the over-hyped LinkedIn – I can never understand its true purpose. I have a good number of contacts there but if you ask me, I can hardly approach anyone for any ‘career advice/assistance’. And by looking at the kind of messages I get, it would soon turn into another facebook/orkut for ‘please friendship me’!

This blog is one space where I get very candid in sharing my thoughts and snippets of my life. It’s been so for many years now. I hope it doesn’t cause me heartache like other platforms do at times and that I continue to let it be.