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Hard knock life

November 11, 2011 by Edlyn

I’m home alone for the day until mother comes home so I thought I’d cook some lunch. Especially so since my mama confessed she woke up too late and we were going to have leftovers later on. Bummer? Not if I could help it.

Here’s the meal in it’s entirety. Jeera rice made by mother, dal, turmeric cauliflower, fried peppered potatoes with parmesan and crispy garlic, and a rechado mackeral (also by mommy). The other savoury things I added for decoration, some being leftovers. I love the look of a full plate, I say!

Play by play:

There must be a song I can dance to after eating all of this because it was amazing home-cooking.

Love

Edlyn

(I sort of followed this recipe for the dal. I tried it with a pressure cooker but I have a horrible fear of them so when yellow water started bubbling out of the sides, I thought it would explode and I stopped doing it that way. A regular pot did just fine.)

Another place

November 8, 2011 by Edlyn

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I went to Bangalore on a Sunday.There was a concert to be watched that day and it was gewd. But if I must pick my favourite part, it would be all that zipping through traffic on a two-wheeler, eating the best of some local foods (one of which I named my cat after), seeing Saurabh, talking to Rakshit (who is just an almost silhouette in this picture) and almost missing my flight but not missing it.

It’s a great city with wonderful weather.

I’d like to go back.

A tiny story

November 7, 2011 by Edlyn

I read back on my blog and I realised my first post seemed a little scatterbrained. I feel like I came across and a bit too unsure so I’ll take some time to explain why I’m so awkward and why you can think it’s cool! Not like it’s a rule or anything. Ha. But yes, you must!

1. I love creating things. I know it’s one of my strengths and it’s something I strive to do all the time. I’ve started tons of tiny businesses in my head and I’m sure that one day soon I’ll be bold enough to go with it.

2. I absolutely ADORE people who start their own businesses, especially if they are cute and have nothing to do with writing code in Silicon Valley. If you ever take the smallest step to be the person you want to be, I love you and you have my heart.

3. I think blogs are a little insane. Don’t get me wrong, I blog stalk like it’s a damn life support line. I just think I’m a really shy person when you meet me and it surprises me how open I can be while I’m writing on the internets. See, it’s insane! Flip flop flip flop.

4. Flip flop flip flop.

5. I flip flop a lot. A LOT. Two times and sometimes three.

6. I love MS Paint. Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw and all those other neato software things are very impressive to me. However, I’m truly loyal to MS Paint because I get it so easily. I’m still a Photoshop novice but I really want to learn more.

7. I sometimes wish we had a bunch of singers following us everywhere, singing us songs that we’re thinking of as close to what the song originally sounds like. Does that make sense? What? iPods, I know. But I don’t own an iPod and I steal my sister’s whenever I can, so a singing, following bunch of people would be amazing.

8. I’ve wanted to work for MAD magazine for the longest time. I don’t know if I’d work there if they gave me a job now. Okay I would! I changed my mind. They were the first thing that taught me to question the “truth” and I laughed as I locked myself in my room and read them comicals.

9. I’m not very fashionable so I love when I see people who take the trouble to match this with that etc. Polka dots, yellow oh cheery yellow, tie dye, crinkly shirts, shiny but not too shiny: FAVES. So I admire, that’s not bad, right?

10. Then there was number 10. You can look at the picture I made.

Thursday’s a delight

October 27, 2011 by Edlyn

This was breakfast today.

Big breakfasts are the boss. Big breakfasts on your day off are mothers of the bosseseses.

There was avocado from the tree in my front yard, eggs, mushrooms, tomato, potato all seasoned with some pepper and oregano. The avocado got a little bit of lime juice because I’m always one for some zest. I threw some cheese, almonds and cashew nuts in there too. 10 points if you can spot them.

Then God said, “Let there be green tea”, and so it came to pass that there was in fact, a lot of green tea of the Moroccan mint kind and it was all free freakin radical free.

Just in case you forgot what I ate and I can’t decide which picture is better, here’s a clue!

Happy Thursday the October 27th.

Not too early for a Merry little Christmas

October 21, 2011 by Edlyn

I saw this site today because some kind sould posted it on facebook and I stalk them. Thanks facebook and thanks SJC designs for sharing creative things that just blow my mind. And to the guys that put these websites together, kudos!

I want a kitchen and living room full off this stuff for Christmas! No, this aint no wishlist but maybe if you saw this post and wanted to surprise me, yay. All that would be left to do was buy me a house or a boat — whichever apply to my future living situation.

Enough talk, here are the sites. Look and soak it in and fly away to design paradise.

This is a drawing from the food website, which I saw first.

Pasta=yum! Here you go, hyperlink happiness http://www.theydrawandcook.com/

And this is a drawing from the travel website, also terribly yummy!

Ko-o-o-rea! @http://www.theydrawandtravel.com/

Merry Christmas to me : )

Untitled

October 3, 2011 by Edlyn

I MUST WRITEEEEE!!!

I swear I’m going to strangle myself if I don’t begin this already.

Signage

September 11, 2011 by Edlyn

I’m on a French trip today. I think I might even start learning some more soon. I want to make and learn and do so many many things. Today I made these signs which can be used as table centrepieces. You just need a cylindrical shaped shot glass (you know the one you could also use for tea lights?) and some fish tank gravel in whatever colour you please. Once you have that, you can host these signs in the gravel and pretty much be the boss of it.If only road signs were so pretty!

Actually, I’m glad they aren’t. “STOP! IN THE NAME OF LOVE” would have a whole new gross meaning. With tongue!

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Here are two pictures. I’ll be making more, but in time.

A bientot!

News views

September 9, 2011 by Edlyn

Working at a newspaper, there is a lot of news we don’t get to fit on a page. Either there is not enough space because of ads on the page or the story just has to make way for something that is more “newsier”. I don’t understand why, but we get to play information Gods every evening and clean up all the mess before the deadline hits.

I know you’re wondering that if it’s so important, then why can’t you just drop these other items you call “news”? I do, a lot of times. If I can’t, into the blog it goes.

Hi ho.

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Former M15 head admits for first time ‘illegal’ water boarding technique worked

London: Former M15 head Eliza Manningham-Buller has admitted for a first time that the water boarding technique provided intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks but denounced it as an immoral and illegal technique.

“It’s not the case that torture always produces false information and actually it’s clear that torture can contribute to saving lives, but I don’t think that’s the point. The point is that it is not something that is right, legal and moral to do,” she said.

At BBC Reith lecture in Leeds, she criticized former American officials for making ‘exaggerated’ claims about the technique,The Telegraph reports.

“I don’t agree with all the claims that the American people make, some of the statements are exaggerated but I don’t want to get into specifics,” she added.

Former US president George W Bush had claimed that interrogating senior al-Qaeda operatives like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a 9/11 attack architect, through water boarding technique helped break up plots to attack American diplomatic facilities abroad, Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf in London, and multiple targets in the United States.

Lady Manningham-Buller decried the Central Intelligence Agency’s enhanced interrogation techniques which simulated drowning and were subsequently banned by the Obama administration.

“Torture is illegal in our national law and in international law. It is wrong and never justified. It’s a sadness and worse that a previous government of our greatest ally the United States chose to waterboard detainees,” she said.

The argument that lifesaving intelligence was thereby obtained, and I accept that it was, still does not justify it. Torture should be utterly rejected even when it may offer the prospect of saving lives, she added.

Lady Manningham-Buller said she was proud that MI5 refused to torture the Second World War prisoners when in the early years we stood alone and there was a high risk of us being invaded and becoming a Nazi province.(ANI)

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What. am. I. doing.

September 3, 2011 by Edlyn

Should I push the panic button?

Yes
No
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Not be so dramatic maybe?

Of all the facebooks, twitters, facemyspace and hi5meifyouarecook accounts, this is the one I’m most scared to make. Not so much scared but more like “If someone googles me, this is going to be one of the first things that pops up!” (long shot and long thought, right?)

LinkedIn.

I swear the first time I read that word, I was wondering what in the rat’s backyard is this typo of a word? I thought the “In” was “Ln”. That just sounds like a horrible way to start a career.

BUT.

Today, I’m getting me some of that.

If any of you global domination companies are looking me up, my profile won’t tell you that I really really don’t like meetings, unless there’s food. I love working and I love writing. I love other people writing and I love me writing. I think I’m hilarious and I probably will make your day better just because… I don’t want to take myself too seriously and I won’t even try to do that at a job interview even if it means I don’t get the job.

I’d like to think that this life will bring fame and riches to my doorstep but if it doesn’t, I know I’ll be okay. I have places to see, I have a big big big world to make my own, I have a family, I have a new life they’re going to support me through and one I’m going to fight for. I do have something special — I know better.

I have no expectations except happiness and I probably sound really stupid bloviating about making a silly little online profile. But this is no big deal. I’ll get to where I’m going some way or the other.