That glass is half full...

5 things that have gone unbearably wrong in this city/country and ways to beat ‘em -


1. 300% food inflation – Come on people, it’s the right time to hit that diet, maybe we could all adapt to living on air (atleast until we start having to pay for breathing), and have those size zero figures we’ve always wanted!!

2. Increasing real estate prices, additional levies to be passed on to the consumers – Buy a nano, stay in it!! In any case the fuel is too expensive to drive it anywhere.

3. Dug up roads, half constructed metros blocking roads, holes the size of meteor strikes – this is the right time to start your own loss making business venture, and stop travelling to work. Why loss making? Read on….

4. Direct Taxes, hidden taxes, double taxes – See point 3, loss =no tax

5. Increasing petrol prices, increased public transportation costs – see points 2 and 3



Maybe the government should just ask us to handover our savings accounts and assign pocket money by a lottery system, that way they won’t have to bother coming up with innovative taxes...

Bakes and stuff...

Found pics of a cheesecake I made on my mom's bday this year - Thats a layered New York cheesecake....with white chocolate on top. yummm....took a lot of hardwork though!!

Made this today from scratch....home made pizzas taste awesome, but the preparation time is a lot....The pics arent great quality(phone cam)

Images

The Sea -

The Human Sea..at Sea :)

Not so new addition to the blog family!!!

There's a new addition to my list of blogs!!
But it isnt exactly new, because I've just shifted it from wordpress to blogger.

It's still not really aesthetically in place, and I've still not managed to get the comments across...but the content's all there...

Do visit Total Recall !!

My experiments with .....cake!!!

Somebody forgot to tell me that challenges are called challenges....coz that's what they are....
You don't mess with them, and you don't take them if you can help it!!
Well, like I said, nobody told me...though they did hint that it wouldn't be easy, when I said I'd provide the cake for K's b'day party...(she turned 3)

The rest of the story in bullet points(cant help it, it's the MBA in me..)
1. A week to decide on the shape
2. 3 days to decide on the perfect recipe, that would yield the perfect firm cake, with no crust, and that would be easy to shape, but still spongy enough to hold any syrups i subjected it too, and be good enough to eat
3. 45 minutes of crazy whipping of butter and sugar and eggs and all things good and fattening
Before:

4. 15 minutes for the cake to bake!!!(I'm still in shock that it took only 15 minutes!!!!)

5. 3 and a half hrs of frosting to get a passable blue elephant!!!!