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Character of the Day

Touched by an Angel

It’s been a long time since I last shared my favorite poems/quotes. I love Maya Angelou’s words of wisdom. Her outlook on life and being, is amazingly captured in her poems or quotes. How do you see the outlook of life around you?

Touched by An Angel by Maya Angelou

We, unaccustomed to courage

exiles from delight

live coiled in shells of loneliness

until love leaves its high holy temple

and comes into our sight

to liberate us into life.

…

Love arrives

and in its train come ecstasies

old memories of pleasure

ancient histories of pain.

Yet if we are bold,

love strikes away the chains of fear

from our souls.

…

We are weaned from our timidity

In the flush of love’s light

we dare be brave

And suddenly we see

that love costs all we are

and will ever be.

Yet it is only love

which sets us free.

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October

… is a very important month for every one. It is the Breast Cancer Awareness month. It’s a constant reminder of the struggles that my mom had to go through losing her mom to this disease at a very young age. I’ve never had a chance to know and love my grandmother. It pains me. It pains my family. This is a disease that is plaguing for a long time. And yet there are many out there ignoring the basic care needed, in order to prevent or detect.

Annually, international health campaign organized by major breast cancer charities every October to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention and cure… by Wikipedia.

With many organizations, media outlets & blogger’s spreading the awareness, are you:

a) encouraged to do everything possible to prevent or detect breast cancer?

b) aware of your responsibility to encourage one another?

c) doing what is needed to prevent or detect, correctly?

There are several ways to subdue this disease. Educate yourself is the first stage. With correct information, discussion with your doctor and regular self-examination, we can confidently lower the risk of breast cancer.

Supporting existing and active charities is also important to further encourage research for cure and treatment of breast cancer.

If you are a blogger, please take some time to go pink, spread the breast cancer awareness, and share your personal experiences. Spread the ribbon of hope and wear it proudly.

Last but not least, LOOT would donate USD 5.00 on each purchase made in the month of October to honor and contribute towards BREAST CANCER AWARENESS. Encourage each other to contribute for cancer treatment and research. Charity details would be shared soon.

Prevention, is always better than cure…

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CotD : Su Yin's Delectables

A while back, I had created a category called “Character of the Day”. I want to create a new embracelet to introduce some of my favorite reads for a long time now. The first blogger that I am keen to introduce is Su Yin Huen. She is a Malaysian, studied Construction Management in Australia and attended Notter School of Pastry in Orlando, USA. I know, she is a multi talented girl. She creates masterpieces that would make one go “oohh and ahhh” or “ga-ga”.

Su started blogging while attending UNSW university in Sydney Australia. With self-taught techniques, attained from cooking & baking for her roommates, she discovers her new found interest in the art of cake decorating.

It all began with a spark of enlightenment from picking up a tiny block of fondant icing and a brochure hidden within. She thought to herself; “WOW! The things I could do with THIS!!” by Su Yin.

Su’s journey by far, has been a fun roller coaster ride. Upon returning from Notter School of Pastry, she begin realizing her dreams of opening her own designer cakes and more shop. Yes, you read it right. She is an awesome cake designer. And if you are in Kuala Lumpur, hop over to her designer cake shop where you would droll over Su’s creatively crafted creations. From cupcakes, to birthday’s and designer wedding cakes – the creative concept begins with themes and design ideas tossed around with her clients towards creating a mega show-stopper. Delectable have featured in many articles, and this is just the beginning 🙂

She believes our precious eyes deserve as much a feast as our noses and tastebuds are so lucky to enjoy. Life’s too short for ugly food *wink* by Su Yin.

To visit, sample and drool over Su’s creations, you can visit her shop or contact her at:

Delectable @ S-213, Level 2, The Gardens Mall, Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Don’t worry, she often rants/blogs @ The Journal of a Girl who Loves To Cook

Embracelet for Su Yin 🙂

Congratulations Su Yin, for all your achievements! Here is your embracelet 🙂 I hope you like it as much as I have, creating it 🙂

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Butterfly, Proximity Award & Character of the Day!

I was browsing my Google Reader subscription and saw an unread feed from a familiar blogger. Marked the feed, read the post and commented a few days ago. I am still at daze! I can’t fathom what I just read. Actually, I read the post a few days ago 😉 — I humbly apologize for the delay in this acceptance speech 😀 You can’t blame me, nor can you sue me, as I am in need to familiarize myself with “speech” audible-blogging !

I don’t think I deserve this awards since I recently made a switch from Blogger into WordPress, and truthfully, I am also fairly new in the blogosphere. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t want to break the heart of a dear friend, Nikhil, who humbly insisted that I accept these awards 🙂 Thank you so much for the honor Nikhil, greatly appreciate it!

I would go ahead and make a copy of each awards — OK, I am back! See, I won’t keep the awards all to myself 😉 The butterfly award is for the coolest blog, whereas the proximity blog award is for the effort in maintaining a quality blog in terms of blog etiquette, response and audiences — in blogosphere, that is. Not some sort of a scandal, I assure you 😀 And please don’t ask where and how did I came up with this information.

Errr.. Let’s get back to the awards please. I would like to pass on the butterfly and proximity awards to some of my favorite blogs: Anshul, Atul, Lemonade, MadMomma, Karen, PW & Su Yin. Check out this awesome blogs and judge why I insist they accept this awards 😀 Wait a sec! Where are you going? I am not done yet 😛 I am extending this honor to each and every blogger that haven’t accepted nor has been given this honor. Please, I humbly request your acceptance and can’t wait to hear read your acceptance speech 🙂

FRIENDSHIP EMBRACELET

I have created a category here on my blog and it’s called, Character of the Day. In the spirit of Christmas, the month of giving, accepting and sharing, I would like to award today’s character of the day — FRIENDSHIP EMBRACELET as above, in honor of all my wonderful blog buddies, including my silent readers, that I have grown to know since my inception into blogosphere! Thank you so much for your support 🙂

– Kiran Tarun Srivastava

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