A little reiteration

I'm sure the snippet below needs no introduction or source.

'No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.'

In other news, I'm a certified Godparent now!

Sajjige

The title of this post used to evoke such disdain from us growing up. If ever the answer to the question 'What's for breakfast' turned out to be Sajjige then you knew that day already had the worse possible start. The version that we were used to eating was the one that was slightly sweet, with the dry fruits (cashew nuts, raisins). All things considered, it is one of the simplest breakfast items to make in a jiffy. I don't know what it was about, maybe the lumpy, dry look, the not-wanting a sugar-high in the morning (okay, I completely just made that up, I had no clue what sugar-high was when I hated, yes hated sajjige)

So then, I kinda had a history with Sooji, it represented something that was forced on me (us). Everytime someone ordered Upma (fancier version of the sajjige), it baffled my mind how someone could possibly enjoy a lumpy dish like that. It is only quite recently when I decided to try it out from one of the south Indian restuarants here, that I remembered the pack of sooji (Santa Clara had given it me) and I suddenly decided I wanted to make upma today.

So here goes in picture format.

Yes, tossed in a bit of that beautiful orange bell pepper too.

Ever since I've started cooking for myself, I really, truly appreciate all the cooking my mom has done for us. Without complaining, day-in and day-out, no day offs, no I'm tired of my own cooking so will order takeout days and no eat cereal for dinner days either.

Out of this world

Found the first episode online, so nostalgic.

Sloth

Sloth _n.    Laziness, Indolence

                Slow-moving, arboreal, edentate mammals

                A company of bears

The dictionary provides the above three definitions for sloth and my contemplation for this post is certainly not on mammals or bears so we can focus on the first definition . According to the Catholic Church it is one of the seven cardinal sins although I think sloth has got to be one of the most overlooked sins, if at all it is considered a sin by any of us. And yes I say overlooked because it’s just inconsistent to consider laziness wrong (let’s use ‘wrong’ instead of sin for context). Surely there’s no right about sloth, but is there a wrong and does the word only refer to a glorified version of laziness or is there some spiritual meaning too?

I’m not someone to make New Year’s resolutions, but decided to do the bible a day plan this year and I must say it’s not as easy as I thought it would be, every day I hit catch-up and within the first 29 days, I’m already down by 13 days. At this rate my one year bible plan would take 1.5 years, which is acceptable too I guess! So what’s the correlation between the bible reading plan and sloth you may ask? If I had to justify mindlessly watching every single movie/tv show on Netflix, I would and I’d have a simple explanation every time for why I haven’t been able to take the time out to get the gate chain fixed, you get the picture … don’t you, it’s JUST procrastination.

The bug of procrastination is hidden under layers and layers of tangled lifestyles that to wean it out would mean a complete rewriting of the code, a catharsis and yet I believe remnants of the bug will continue to exist. It may pop up ever so often, but you’ve just got to find the workaround every-time and then I don’t know if the church meant to put procrastination in the list of deadly sins, it doesn’t seem right?

And if this thought seems incomplete, you're absolutely right, it is.