I Promise Myself - Christian D. Larson

I write, whatever I dont say...

I want to..

I see the beauty in the world through everyone's eyes, I want to travel so much.

I read good things, I want to apply so much.

I see the bad in the world, I want to change so much.

I get hurt and I cry, I want to move on and leave back so much.

I hurt the people I love, I want to give so much more love.

I dream and I hope, I want to believe in my dreams and hope so much more.

I take out time to do happy things for myself, I want to give my reasons of happiness so much more happiness.

I make mistakes, I want to learn so much and I want to laugh so much more.

I make friends who care, I want to be there so much more.

I sit in slience, I want so much more peace.

I decide to do so much and I want to do so much more.

Those Things...

The thing about life is , it never stops
The thing about love is , it never fades
The thing about hurt is , it stays with you as long as you carry it.
The thing about rain is , it makes you smile
The thing about smile is ,it has a healing touch
The thing about eyes is , they never lie
The thing about lies is, they have an ant's life
The thing about truth is , its speaks for itself
The thing about tears is, they make you strong
The thing about mistakes is , they teach you lessons
The thing about lessons is ,they never come easy
The thing about forgiveness is, it makes you bigger
The thing about trust is, it comes with time and is destroyed by a lie
The thing about darkness is ,it gives the hope for light
The thing about hope is, its the only best thing
The thing about men is, they will always be boys
The thing about women is, they think too much
The thing about pondering too much is, it drives you crazy
The thing about being crazy is, it makes life simpler
The thing about about simple living is, it never gets to you
The thing about you is, noone can replace you

IF

My favourite poem of all times, so inspiring !

IF- Rudyard Kipling


If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise,




If you can dream and not make dreams your master,
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat these two imposters just the same, 

If you can bear to hear the truth you have spoken,
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn out tools,




If you can make one heap of all your winnings,
And risk it all on one turn of pitch and toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss,
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will, which says to them “Hold On”




If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
Or walk with kings –nor lose the common touch
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And- which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!


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Sweet Things :D

This is not a food blog neither am I a cook, but I recently learnt how to make lemon cheesecake; so this is for my love for this dessert, also i am really excited to share the recipe :)

Preparation Time: 20 mins.

Setting Time: 6 hours.

Serves:12 people  

The ingredients first :D 

1. Tesco Sponge Fingers - Pack of 200gms
2. Jelly - Lemon flavour (Dr. Oetker)
3. Amul Butter 75 gms (Room Temperature)
4. Fresh Cream 500 ml
5. Philadelphia Cream Cheese (Kraft) - 250 gms
6. Castor Sugar 7.5 Tablespoons
7. Water - 1 Cup 

Method: 

The Base - 

• Grind the sponge fingers
• Mix butter with the crushed sponge fingers
• Grease the ring mold with butter
• Place the mold on a nice serving plate
• Layer the mixture on the base. 
• Refrigerate to set (for 15-20 mins)

The Cheesecake -

• Mix jelly with 1 cup cold water and 2.5 tbl spoons of suger in a pan, bring to a boil and let it cool.
• Take a bowl and blend the cheese with 2.5 tbl spoons of sugar till smooth
• Blend cream with another 2.5 tbl spoons of sugar, blend well till the cream starts to form peaks
• Mix the cream and cheese mixture together, add jelly and blend again
• Pour the cheesecake mixture over the base
• Referigerate to set (for 6 hours)
• Take out the mold
• Serve cold ! :D

  
Okay this is not a picture of my cake, but its a googled replica of what the cake turned out to be !  :D

All I really need to know, I learnt in kindergarten :)

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.

These are the things I learned:

• Share everything.
• Play fair.
• Don't hit people.
• Put things back where you found them.
• Clean up your own mess.
• Don't take things that aren't yours.
• Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
• Wash your hands before you eat.
• Flush.
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
• Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
• Take a nap every afternoon.
• When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
• Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
• Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
• And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

-Robert Fulghum

All Good Things - Nelly Furtado

Honestly, what will become of me?
I don't like reality
It's way too clear to me

But really life is dandy
We are what we don't see
We miss everything daydreaming

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end?

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end?

Come to an end, come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?
Come to an end, come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?

Traveling I always stop at exits
Wondering if I'll stay
Young and restless
Living this way I stress less

I want to pull away when the dream dies
The pain sets it and I don't cry
I only feel gravity and I wonder why

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end?

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end?

Come to an end, come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?
Come to an end, come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?

Dogs were whistling a new tune
Barking at the new moon
Hoping it would come soon
So that they could die

Dogs were whistling a new tune
Barking at the new moon
Hoping it would come soon
So that they could die

Die, die, die

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end?

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end?

Come to an end, come to an end
Why do all good things come to an end?
Come to an end, come to an end
Why do all good things come to an end?

Well the dogs were barking at the new moon
Whistling a new tune
Hoping it will come soon

And the sun was wondering if it should
Stay away for a day ?til the feeling went away
And the sky was falling
And the clouds were dropping
And the rain forgot how to bring salvation

The dogs were tune barking at the new moon
Whistling a new tune
Hoping it would come soon
So that they could die.

Tere Bin - Rabbi Shergill

I found this Translation online and it makes me smile everytime i read it :)

tere bin                                               /  besides you

sanu sohnia                                         /  my love

koi hor nahio labhna                             /  i shan't find another

jo dave                                               /  who'll give

ruh nu sakun                                       /  peace to my soul

chukke jo nakhra mera                         /  and indulge me

ve main sare ghumm ke vekhia             /  i have gone and seen it all

amrika , roos, malaysia                        /  america, russia, malaysia

kittey vi koi fark si                               /  there wasn't much difference

har kise di koi shart si                          /  they all had some condition

koi mangda mera si sama                     /  some asked for my time

koi hunda surat te fida                         /  some were fascinated with my face

koi mangda meri si vafa                       /  some demanded my fidelity

na koi mangda merian bala                   /  none wanted my demons

tere bin                                              /  besides you

hor na kise                                          /  no one else

mangni merian bala                             /  wanted my demons

tere bin                                              /  besides you

hor na kise                                          /  no one else

karni dhup vich chhan                          /  shall shade me in the sun

tere bin                                              /  besides you

sanu soneya                                       /  my love

koi hor nahio labhna                            /  i shan't find another

jo dave                                               /  who'll give

ruh nu sakun                                       /  peace to my soul

chukke jo nakhra mera                         /  and indulge me

jiven rukia                                          /  (the) way you paused

si tun zara                                          /  slightly

nahion bhulna                                     /  i shan't forget

main sari umar                                    /  all my life

jiven akhia si akhan chura                    /  you said, looking away

"rovenga sanu yad kar"                       /  "you shall weep in my memory"

hasia si main hasa ajeeb                      /  i laughed a strange laugh

(par) tu nahi si hasia                           /  but you didn't laugh at all

dil vich tera jo raaz si                          /  you had a secret in your heart

mainu tu kyon ni dasia                        /  why didn't you tell me

tere bin                                             /  besides you

sanu eh raz                                       /  none shall tell this

kise hor nahion dasna                        /  secret to me

peerh da ilaaj                                    /  what druid

kis vaid kolon labhna                          /  has the cure to my ills

milia si ajj mainu                                /  i found today

tera ik patra                                       /  a note of yours

likhia si jis 'te                                     /  on which you had scribbled

tun shayr varey shah da                      /  a varis shah couplet

park ke si osnu                                   /  upon reading which

hanjnu ik duliya                                  /  a teardrop fell

akhan 'ch band si                                /  what was locked in the eye

seh raaz ajj khulia                               /  was revealed today

ki tere bin                                          /  that other than you

eh mere hanjnu                                  /  these tears of mine

kise hor                                             /  won't be kissed by

nahio chumna                                    /  none else

eh mere hanjhu                                  /  these tears of mine

mitti vich rulnha                                 /  will wither in the dust