CAKEISM - yes, you read that right.

An assortment of pastries - courtesy yourdailychocolate.com 

Tired of your same old boring religion? Need a change? Something new and fresh to believe in? No need to fear. Just pre-heat your oven and read on.

On a regular workday in office, I had a revelation. I was thinking about Life and the Universe (I didn't have time to think about Everything). And One word just passed through my mind. Cake. And I realised how awesome and indispensable cake is. It's there at weddings and parties. Birthdays and some funerals. It's the symbol of celebration (usually) and now it is it's turn to be celebrated and revered.

I introduce to you all - Cakeism. The cult that worships Cake. Our slogan: Sabka Maalik Cake. (You don't own Cake, the Cake owns you) and May the Cake be with you.

To become a Cakeist, the following apply:

1. Worship cake. You have the freedom to make your own ritual. Then eat it.
2. Questions about the composition and recipe of life, the universe and everything? Ask your Cake maker!
3. 22nd Jan will be an International public holiday. Much like a Sabbath. You only eat cake and do nothing. (cos that happens to be my birthday, y'all!)
4. Have Cakely meetings. Meet up with fellow Cakeists where everyone brings cake. Worship the cake, pay your respects to it and then share and eat. Cake is for all.
5. Don't take the Cake's name in vain.
6. Cake needs no cause or reason. But if you have a cause worth protesting for, what can be better than doing so with cake for company? Fasting is for old geezers.
7. Cake by itself can get lonely. Some ice-cream with it won't hurt! Or Potato chips on the side.

Cakeism is about enjoying life and sharing the good times with your near and dear ones. But what if you're going through a rough patch instead? Think about that rich, fluffy, chocolaty (butterscotchy, pineappley, vanillaey or whatever you fancy) cake. You are beginning to feel better already, aren't you? And you know what, we also completely understand if you don't want to share. It's Cake after all! If you do adopt Cakeism (how can you not?), do share some of your cake rituals. I'd be very interested to know.

Bowled over

A new post after months. Work can keep you really busy. Not a good thing. But all this time of not blogging gave me a lot of time to think. About serious issues and not so serious issues. Serious issues like working on weekends (its a big deal for me) and not so serious issues like what do I wear to work tom at my new office? (No wait, that one is serious too!) So one of the serious cum non-serious things I've been thinking about lately is bowls.

Yes, Bowls. They are such beautiful handy works of craft and yet so under-recognised and under-appreciated. The use of bowls in our society is limited to consuming soup, breakfast, or fast food like pop corn, chips or dips. Except for our wise Easterners, who use bowls for regular meals.

Similarly, I want to advocate the use of bowls for regular meals. And here are my reasons for that:

1. Non-messy
2. Comfortable
3. Privacy (just a teeny bit)
4. High on Coolness quotient

Eating in a bowl is the least messy way to eat. Let's take my example. I have Indian food everyday, what with me being Indian and all. So I usually have curry and rice/chapati, sabzi (vegetable) and rice/chapati, pulao etc. Eating these in a relatively flat plate or dish is difficult/impossible with a spoon and fork. Forget the chapati, eating rice is quite the task. Especially when you are down to the last few morsels. No amount of finesse with the fork and spoon will allow you to elegantly clean the rice off your plate. There will always be the elusive grains of rice that refuse to cradle in the curve of your spoon.

Now imagine eating in a bowl - you don have to worry about food falling off; scooping up the last few morsels is a breeze; offers a tad bit of privacy when eating (ppl at a slight distance can only guess wot u're eating); since everyone else eats in a plate, you become cool by being the one who doesn't.

I have started eating in a bowl already and am on the path of converting my close friends and family to adopt this awesome trendition. (Yes, I just coined the word. Trendition (n) - a new long-term practice as opposed to an old tradition.)

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