Awards

One good news and one bad news and one not so bad news! First for the good news, I got 'YUM YUM BLOG' award from my friend Sushma. Thanks a lot Sushma, it means so much to me...It makes me look back, to the days when I was just scribbling as if there was not much to do otherwise and then there is a gradual improvement in terms of writing, my yarn has slightly tightened though I would want to tighten it more after all, prose like poetry is appreciated when it is rather concise. Then the pictures. I blamed my camera for not giving me good pictures, before realizing my own skill-deficiency and last but not the least the HTML thing! Boy! it is so difficult. I find SAS easier with all the number crunching. This HTML after all requires an intuition for designs and colour co-ordination which I lack so much. But these are all areas which needs attention and of course some love. At the end of it all, despite the long journey that it seems, I so much look forward to it. The best part of the journey is the new circle of friends that I have made over the blog-o-sphere... For a person like me who takes ages to get comfortable with people, it is a blessing in disguise that internet offers me the degree of privacy that makes me comfortable and allows me to be open enough to make new friends. Now that is for the good news

Now for the bad news. Recently I discovered that one of my recipes was copied and posted as her own by a fellow blogger. Though there were minor alterations, it was not much more than a copy-paste job. At once i felt so bad, as if being swindled by the hawkers in Majestic, Bangalore....i did try to contact the lady but there was no response. I guess that is the way their psyche works right? If they can copy something that is not their own and claim it to be their own, then there is not much to be offended by a small cribbing-complaining email. Right? I felt like a kinder garden kid complaining about another kid who stole my candy. Any way, it is just the beginning I guess, besides somebody felt my writing was good enough to be copied! that is something to cheer about, after all I can still produce more such writings, and enjoy the run because of the sheer joy of it. But the person who copied it will definitely not know the joy of running. Now I have a feeling that all her recipes are lifted from a variety of sources. I would not be surprised if blogger decides to shut down her blog because of copyright-violation-complaints. So much for the name of blogging! What is the point? I do not get it.

The not-so-bad news is that I have not been cooking much the whole of last week and therefore I have nothing much to post! Just that the cold had taken its toll and I do not feel like cooking much. I wish i had the proverbial 'Huggi-Patre'/ 'Akshya pathre' that could conjure me up food I wish to eat... Would it not be a sci-fi thriller if there were a computer program that could instruct a modern kitchen to cook and produce yummy food with the press of a button?, a modern version of Akshya-pathre! Ah! But now got to get back to the kitchen.. tummy rumbling and I have to forage the fridge...

By the way, my blog will turn one year old this week...
So far, for now..