Cake Love!

What is there in a cake not to fall in love with it!
So many flavors, so many shapes and sizes!
Frosting, Fondant or chocolate coating - there's one for everyone out there!!

If you know me, you'd know of my love for cakes!
Bake them, eat them, love them - do everything but smear them on the face on birthdays - such a waste of cake!!

Finally, I tried my hand at baking egg less cakes! And boy! did it turn wonderful :)
Had to keep myself away from it so that I do not finish it up! The cake was yummy, chocolaty and the chocolate icing made it more heavenly.. No cake left to share pics though!

As if one cake wasn't enough I baked three teeny tiny cup cakes yesterday.Who said you cannot bake cupcakes if you do not have the muffin mould... do not let it stop ya! When are the microwave safe bowls gonnna be of any use! I wanted to try the surprise cake, where the cake has a heart or some other cake inside.. I did not have a cookie cutter to make that pretty heart shape, so I just ended up cutting circles... cute baby pink vanilla cake circles inserted in dark brown chocolate cup cakes! Dressed up in dark chocolate frosting with some white chocolate for my sweet tooth! Cutting the cake and finding the pink cake inside was sheer bliss!!

Pics coming up soon.. that is if I go home and find the cup cakes :) Hope the naughty elves haven't finished it off already :)

Bbye till then!!

Book Review - The Best Seller She Wrote (Ravi Subramanian)

About the Book

He was a bestseller… She wanted him to make her one.

Paperback king, Aditya Kapoor’s life is straight out of a modern man’s fantasy. His literary stardom is perfectly balanced by a loving wife and a spectacular career. With everything he touches turning to gold, Aditya is on a winning streak.

Shreya Kaushik is a student with a heart full of ambition. Young, beautiful, and reckless, Shreya speaks her mind and obsessively chases after what she wants. And what she wants is to be a bestselling author.

What happens when their worlds collide? Is it possible to love two people at the same time? Can real ambition come in the way of blind passion? Can trust once broken, be regained?

Master storyteller Ravi Subramanian, delves into the glitzy world of bestsellers and uncovers a risky dalliance between a superstar novelist and his alluring protégé.

The Bestseller She Wrote is a combustible cocktail of love, betrayal and redemption.

What I think about the book !

Not many times do I sit with a book and finish it end to end in a go. When I do so, there are two reasons - one, the book is too good and keeps me stuck to itself and the second is when I just need to finish it off. This book is a bit different.

   

Aditya is a famous author and an IIM passout. He has an almost-too-good-to-be-true life. He is a perfect father, a perfect husband, a best seller novel writer and has a great job as a banker. He is loved by all and has a fabulous wife, who stands by him through thick and thin. He is confronted by Shreya when he gives a speech in the college and they disagree over the representation of novels as a product. Shreya makes it up to Aditya by reading his books and meeting him over during a book reading session. And they eventually fall in love. Aditya's conscience mocks him as he had a perfect life otherwise too... but Shreya has all the right moves to keep him hooked on to her. He helps her write a best selling novel when she brings his personal and professional life to a stand still.

The book proceeds to show Shreya in the negative light when she is too selfish to be launched by Aditya and goes on to the extremes of black mailing him to get her job done. In between of no where, Aditya's wife gets Ebola! Now this is too extreme... and when she is on her dying bed Aditya feels bad about falling for Shreya. The climax is entangled , cut out straight from a Bollywood movie... when suddenly the hero's best friend is the one helping the villain, Shreya in this case, to ruin the hero's life. But at the end, the family ends up together - a happy family, after all it's not the end if it's not happy!!

No more spoilers, get your hands on the book to read it. It is a light read, will keep you hooked on, but don't expect too much from it. Short chapters , some well described characters and a good but predictable ending!

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Just good friends!!

They called each other just good friends!
She was his friends's ex. The gentleman code didn't allow him to think of anything more of her but as a friend. After they broke up, she confided in him. They went on to become good friends from friends, but the feelings were same. She was his friend's ex, so no !! She found herself enjoying his company and so did he. Available yet commitment free! They knew they couldn't be a couple, the families wouldn't agree. She wasn't ready for a relationship and he was just having fun! Before they knew, they started sharing a relationship which better not be names. They were the best of friends, comfortable, free, no bindings!
Times changes, she moved on, got into another relations. He started looking for love, though nothing changed the late night calls with each other. He could feel her pain. He knew her time of the month and he knew she'd need to be comforted, and he did! He knew what she liked and made it a point to meet her/ gift things to her. Then he found some one, some one whom he could confide in, spend time with. The long time calls with the good-friend reduced, but every now or then, they found time for each other.
Then one day, he wanted his love to meet his good-friend. She saw what he didn't see! The love, the care was far more for the good-friend. She asked him, but he never agreed. But deep down the good-friends knew that was true! They had fallen for each other, no rules, no code of conduct can stop two hearts from falling in love, can they! But now what?
So they continued being just-good-friends! Hurting their partners!

Questions!

Sitting here
Tears dripping down my eyes
Cheeks wet, eyes red...
Thinking about our times together
And then the time you hurt me!
Unable to draw a reason why?
Why the physical pain, why the emotional disturbance, why the ignorance, why the partial behavior?
No matter how much I try, I cannot forget and forgive.
Don't know what is more painful - the thought of parting and moving ahead without you or the pain of being with you!
Life can be tough at times, nobody ever said it was easy though!
When the world fights for bigger causes, causes which make me feel stupid, I cannot still put this pain out of my heart and soul.
Should I go on and live in the moment?
Should I put my foot down and fly away?
Should I run away from everything on the untrodden road?
Will it affect you?
Will you look for me if I am lost?
Will you feel bad, will you miss me when I am gone?
Will you find it difficult to look in your partner's eyes and not think about the love you never tried seeing in mine?
So many questions and absolutely no answers...
Cannot lean on you as you are the reason of my pain.. cannot lean on anyone else coz its my pain, not to be shared, not to be distributed.. all mine!
Why did you change? and if you say you haven't then was I blind?
Sorry means nothing if the mistakes are repeated?
Did I make a mistake?
Is this karma completing a cycle and getting it all back to me?
Have I committed a sin?
Questions! questions!
How can I with so many doubts in my heart and mind, think of a new beginning then?
How can I bring some one in this world, when I don't know if I want to live here.

The woods are dark, lovely and deep,
But I have miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep!!!

Oh! for that sleep! that peaceful sleep!

Just for laughs!

Get a haircut done, hubby doesn't notice,
Change your hair dresser!
Get a haircut done the second time, hubby doesn't notice,
Change your hair dresser again!
Get a haircut done the third time, hubby doesn't notice,
Change your husband!! :P

Happy Birthday To Me!!

What better than my blog to pen down my feelings on my birthday!
Lately, the family is going through a rough patch. The loss of loved ones is beyond words and cruel. Only time heals, nothing else does. This month came along with two such sad news and gave us a jerk to reality. No amount of planning or thinking can change destiny.
But this post isn't about the darker hues. No matter what might be going with each and every one in the family, every one was considerate to wish me a happy birthday. Nothing lavish, but the hubby, bil, mom and kiddo planned a act-surprised-12-pm-cake-cutting! I had a huge slice of yummy kiwi and death by chocolate cake. It was great to have all of them.. all of them who mattered to me :) Thank you guys :) You mean the world to me!
The hubby went a step ahead and got me a thoughtful card [ask me , why the stress on the card! He doesn't like getting them, doesn't like reading them and finds it difficult to select one] It has one of the most beautiful wordings on a card and I am really happy. He also gifted me a cute huggable soft toy. Pictures coming soon...

Google wished me a happy birthday too! Wish we could contact all those people in the heaven above, maybe tag them in a facebook post or write to them and tell them, how every special day is incomplete without them. How every smile brings along unwept tears! But alas! RIP my loved ones! Miss you a whole lot more today!

A big THANK YOU to everyone who stood by me at my best and at my worst!

And another month passed...

Her tummy ached. She felt the same feeble pain. She crossed her fingers, no this can't be it...Not this month again...

But that wasn't to be. She carried her purse to the washroom, it is still a taboo being seen with a sanitary napkin, isn't it, she thought. Her periods had started. No amounts or prayers and medicines had helped. She pinged him and told that her periods had started and he bravely told her to take care. He knew she'd cry and he had to keep her spirits high.
     Been a while they'd been married now. Family and friends continuously enquired about the family being extended. They were ready to wait, may be another year. But then the unnecessary happened. She was diagnosed with poly cyst ovaries and the doctor said it might be difficult conceiving. All plans of onsite dreams and vacations were dropped and the focus shifted to doctors and medicines and having a baby. The pain that came along was not spoken, it was mutually understood between the two.
And yet another month passed...

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