HELL-O


We always say 'Hello' and it never occurred to me how it sounded 'cause who pays attention to daily words right? Well exception for those who need to but let's just say that people like me is included into the exception list.

Let me unveil the great discovery to you. I was about to send an sms to someone and then suddenly the great enlightenment came to me. Why do we say HELL-O to people? Seriously, this is just from my twisted mind. Its like a warning to people that you will be giving them a HELL-O LOT OF HELL. So I said HEAVEN-O. Ok stop having this images in your mind =_=" I know its lame.

But seriously, have you ever thought? Hello is a greeting to people that you meet even if they are people that you are not interested to know. Its a manners they say. In my mind right now, there is nothing really much left at this wee hour except some twisted cynical thoughts.

Speaking of those, I somehow manage to pull some strings between HELL-O and why it is called HELL-O. The thing is when you greet someone like that, it indicates that you at least know the person though a very shallow relationship. So from that HELL-O you sure do need to expect some hell from that person. This is very pessimistic and not advisable to be applied in real life, just like those useless college/uni text books that is so majestic theoretically but not practical in real life. So once you know or somehow just know the person by saying HELLO... you are surely to somehow create some hell for that person. It doesn't matter how big or small the 'hell' is, maybe there is no 'hell' at all but for theoretical sake, we must assume that there would be 'hell'.

Think about it, maybe that person didn't really want to say anything but had to 'cause you said HELL-O. So it is some kind of 'hell' already. As for me I did create some 'hell' by poking fun at my bestie. In other bigger 'hell', one could possibly make you do something you don't want to but because of that HELL-O, and since you are now friends, you just do it. So would that HELL-O serves as a "I am bringing Hell upon myself" warning or its just a greeting? Its for you to think and definitely serves as a good topic for an over-thinker!

That all I've got from the cynical and twisted mind of mind at the moment.

Hehe :D

Baking Life


Baking has found its way to my brain and suddenly there's a jolt in the merging of my right brain and baking... The yeast has found the main vessel and grew a family there and made that control room of mine into its playground. All of that until they made some sense in the merging, and drove me here... oh well they did say that merging is some hope for good. Some good did happen.

I found the recipe! Rather, I discovered the recipe. Those emails had done a good job in circulating the 'recipe of life', you know those how to be happy kind... you add like 1/4 cup of smile, 2 cups of positive thinking and etc. What I found is not those 'cause measurement can be nasty at times. So I don't want to use this perfect recipe that's always printed on books, penned down and even uploaded. Geez technology... you not only get digital timer and digital scale, you get digital stove, the great microwave.

Whatever happened to the conventional granny's 'follow your heart' recipe? Salutation to those great ancient chefs, they should be awarded Iron Chef instead of those phony T.V. reality show where the Iron Chefs are almost permanent. "Life", that's what they say. Yeah right. Its all about putting the right amount in and not wasting.

Here, in baking too much or too little would spoil the product. I rather have too little than too much. Its really 'life-based', you see those rich brats out there pouring money into sewage? Those are the result of 'too much'. They practically get too much of good things in life to the extend that they don't appreciate or rather in baking terms, do not compliment the dough. Its like putting all the good ingredients in the dough that eventually spoils the dough and ends itself in some waste-land. That is happening in life, you provide all that is good and the best for your kids and in the end of the day they turn out to be a waste.

Reflecting at a 180 degrees, those with too little would also spoil the product. BUT... yeah the cliche. The scoring point here is you get to improve it until it is good enough to go into the oven. You can still improvise it before putting the death sentence on that dough. Just like the child who didn't get enough, one learns to struggle and with some effort to improvise, one won't turn out to be a bad cookie. However, the probability of coming out of the oven in a complete disaster comes in more quickly and at a higher rate than the improvisation. The devil in us is really athletic when it comes to serious business like gathering its empire of minions. All we need here is patience and faith. The need to believe that there can be improvisation and the dough would turn out good is the secret.

Baking has not only been all sugar and flour but also the brain.

Patience


That word rings so badly in my head for the past few days yet I was too occupied with other holiday laziness to write. That is one kind of patience I guess. The lazy kind of patience. Hmm... so this patience thing used to be one of my biggest flaw. I was always flared up and hot headed before this. I believe (still believing) that its purely hormonal.

Patience is some kind of training, it requires constant work out and practices. As far as I know, I didn't develop it in a day or two its over the years in a very odd and cheesy way. Not revealing that one.

Patience is something I'd say as to wait for something without feeling angry or even regret the wait. That was the type of patience that I got after some real training. The waiting is definitely tough and harsh, I'd grumble and get all flustered over it but it subsides gradually and eventually it went on with only a breath or two of those grumbles.

After all these years... I've learned to calm down and try to pit-stop at logic before going over to angry. In this I find myself getting more sense out of it than getting the pressure up over a grain of what seem to be problem before this. In fact, patience reward you not only with lesser pressures it helps you value things in life. The slowing down and being more laid back definitely helps in enjoying life.

Oh great... I've lost my momentum in writing this thanks to the holiday mood at full swing. I've been too involved with baking and getting all excited that I'm totally losing the words in my head. All I know is I better scoot over to the flour and eggs before my brother made me into the waffle topping. Promise to write a better post next time and say no to procrastination.