Muffins and Cakes

An oven that was gifted to me, sat in our kitchen, unused, for over 3 months.

I said it was because I fractured my hand, that I did not try my hand at baking yet.

Then I said it was because I was too busy to start baking.

Then I said I would first go for baking lessons before trying it at home on my own.

Finally, I decided that I need to do this and just get started, and accept that I was just scared to bake, because I was pretty sure I would fail at it.

But hey, I tried, and it was not such a big deal.
I can bake now.
It tastes just fine. Sometimes even better than that, it tastes really great.

Now I experiment with different kinds of cakes - I have already done a simple chocolate cake, some apple cinnamon muffins, and chocolate banana cakes.

I am still experimenting. Hope to bake way more in the coming days...

Sanskrit Lessons

For the past one year almost I have been learning the basics of Sanskrit, through a distance learning course.

I have finished 11 of the 13 modules for the course.

These are just baby steps in learning this great language, hopefully I will complete this basic course, and enroll for an advanced course at some point of time. 

The Love and The Evil that The Mind is capable of...

Recently watched a few movies that explored the beautiful vulnerabilities of relationships, the strength and the flaws, the sacrifices and the betrayals. You just cannot stop pondering about how amazing relationships are despite the greys, the evil intentions, the passion that destroys and the commitments that constrain.

The art auctioneer who gets smitten by an heiress who apparently suffers from a strange condition where she fears to appear in front of people - The Best Offer.

A Cuban piano player who follows the extremely successful therefore unattainable love of his life right through his life, to finally unite with her in their old age - Chico & Rita.

A happily married Carl Jung breaks the rules of doctor-patient relationships and indulges in an affair with Sabrina Spielrein who moves from patient to lover to pscyhoanalyst finally training under Sigmund Freud, whose ideas are opposed to those of Jung. - A Dangerous Method.

A depressed murders her husband while sleepwalking, which she claims is a side effect of the anti-depressant drug she was prescribed by her psychiatrist, who later realises that she never did take them, but that the whole act was an evil ploy. - Side Effects.

Sinister ploys, some... tales of romance, others... but all that the mind is capable of in the name of or under the pretext of love.