After a long hiatus.... I'm back with much on my mind...
It's been a long time since i blogged not because I've lost the interest in penning my thoughts but rather it seems like I hardly have the time at hand to sit down and organise my thoughts. Weekends just seem to past me by before I know it while the long weekdays just seem to drag on with what seems to be forever. I know I'm luckier than most being posted into a vocation that's "fairly slack". But the people that we are forced to work with whether it be the specs and officers, most of which arent exactly the nicest people around. The work enviroment of working on dusty roads just seem extremely depressing and with each morning when one arrives in flight, one yearns nothing more than to get out of this hell hole, dreaming of the 101 things one could do during the weekend and counting down to what's left of ur liability left in the army. For me fortunately or unfortunately, there's another 10 more months to go which really seems neither here nor there. If there's really anything that of comfort to me each weekday evening, it's the chance to find some solace and peace in the dojo being close to seniors of whom never fail to make me smile and burst into a crazy laughing fit when we engage in our "bitch and gossips".
So what exactly do i do that makes the weekend pass before I know it? I guess when you're spending time with someone really special, time just seems to spin foward before u even know it. Spending a good load of my time with my date especially since his mum's away in hongkong in the past one and a half months. During this time, was able to tap into my long untapped culinary passion in whipping up a thing or two in the kitchen. Feels like a realization of dreams of sorts as I've always yearned for an opportunity to cook for a special someone that means the world to me. There's nothing better than having someone who means alot to you appreciate food that you create from raw ingredients. Somehow cooking seems alot similar to my days in wicca.
Cooking does feel very much like spellcasting if you think about it. The five elements of life are present right in the very art of cooking... the cooking reagants holds the essence of earth with poultry walking the earth with life formerly flowing through its veins or vegetables and fruits that have absorbed the essence of soil and rain, wind and the fiery essence of life itself that courses through its veins. The water element present in any form cooking especially in a simmering pot of broth or sauce. Fire pivotal in cooking that's the primary force of creation. And the element of air... the aroma of food prepared that fills the hearth as the kitchen witch weaves her magic with love.
When one hopes to protect a love one, garlic and onions keeps evil at bay. Bay leaves in speghetti are used by priestesses of apollo to scry for visions of the future and beyond. Or the use of saffron, a prized indian spice for a love spell that would bring two lovers together in a powerful union of the body and soul. These are perhaps components to our daily cooking that has always been used but we never quite make ourselves aware of the infinite opportunities where we can tap into the latent power of our reagants. It is through this that reinforces the saying that magic is within and around everything around us.
There's so much I'd like to blog about... so much that has taken place through the past month or so. And of course my take on the heated debate on the repeals of 377A that has caught much attention in the gay community. While I am disappointed in the unsuccessful attempt of the reppeal, like many others it's not like we didnt see this coming. Perhaps one day when the old conservatives kick the bucket and the expose of scandals within the christian faith blows up about the misappropriation of funds to the ironic scandals of child sexual abuse that goes on between priest and parishioners many of which involves paedophilic acts of carnal pleasure by repressed old man who supposedly serve the holy work of god... I pray and long for the day where the church falls and its dark lies be revealed to the world at large. Centuries of bigotism and elitism... it's time for it to fall down on its knees and eat the humble pie.
So what exactly do i do that makes the weekend pass before I know it? I guess when you're spending time with someone really special, time just seems to spin foward before u even know it. Spending a good load of my time with my date especially since his mum's away in hongkong in the past one and a half months. During this time, was able to tap into my long untapped culinary passion in whipping up a thing or two in the kitchen. Feels like a realization of dreams of sorts as I've always yearned for an opportunity to cook for a special someone that means the world to me. There's nothing better than having someone who means alot to you appreciate food that you create from raw ingredients. Somehow cooking seems alot similar to my days in wicca.
Cooking does feel very much like spellcasting if you think about it. The five elements of life are present right in the very art of cooking... the cooking reagants holds the essence of earth with poultry walking the earth with life formerly flowing through its veins or vegetables and fruits that have absorbed the essence of soil and rain, wind and the fiery essence of life itself that courses through its veins. The water element present in any form cooking especially in a simmering pot of broth or sauce. Fire pivotal in cooking that's the primary force of creation. And the element of air... the aroma of food prepared that fills the hearth as the kitchen witch weaves her magic with love.
When one hopes to protect a love one, garlic and onions keeps evil at bay. Bay leaves in speghetti are used by priestesses of apollo to scry for visions of the future and beyond. Or the use of saffron, a prized indian spice for a love spell that would bring two lovers together in a powerful union of the body and soul. These are perhaps components to our daily cooking that has always been used but we never quite make ourselves aware of the infinite opportunities where we can tap into the latent power of our reagants. It is through this that reinforces the saying that magic is within and around everything around us.
There's so much I'd like to blog about... so much that has taken place through the past month or so. And of course my take on the heated debate on the repeals of 377A that has caught much attention in the gay community. While I am disappointed in the unsuccessful attempt of the reppeal, like many others it's not like we didnt see this coming. Perhaps one day when the old conservatives kick the bucket and the expose of scandals within the christian faith blows up about the misappropriation of funds to the ironic scandals of child sexual abuse that goes on between priest and parishioners many of which involves paedophilic acts of carnal pleasure by repressed old man who supposedly serve the holy work of god... I pray and long for the day where the church falls and its dark lies be revealed to the world at large. Centuries of bigotism and elitism... it's time for it to fall down on its knees and eat the humble pie.