Broken Heart Banana Cake with chocolate topping!
It didn't really come out that good looking..the heart, that is. But it tastes better than intended. Nibble. Gobble. Munch. Devour. *halo appears*. This is the first time I'm posting something AS I eat it! :D
...yes, it seems to have been pierced. I wonder whose arrow it was? lol.
ReplyDeletehear of my heart, were it more,
ReplyDeleteMore would be laid at your feet.
Is it 'hear' or 'heart'? Enlighten me. Curious.
ReplyDelete...oh, forgive me. It's "heart of my heart".
ReplyDelete...btw, when are you planning to watch the latest HP flick?
ReplyDelete..it releases on 15th..will catch it the same day. :)
ReplyDeleteDumbledore's girl through and through :)
...lucky you. I am out till 18th, will catch it the day i return.
ReplyDeleteyou can catch it anywhere, no?
ReplyDelete...tell me, when did you first realize about Snape? That he may be all right. And why?
ReplyDelete...no. Not where i will be on 15th. Sadly.
ReplyDeletedont knw...it seems lyk a mini heart inside the main one...!! :)
ReplyDeleteand btw....u managed to get a lightening shaped crack at d bottom part...nicee :)
I always believed in Dumbledore's judgment..(supra ;)). He wasn't 'the greatest wizard who ever lived' for nothing.
ReplyDeleteAlso, when the magical Doe helped lead Harry to the Sword of Gryffindor..i thought...
What about you?
...bah! i was far more clever about it. But it's too long a story, i will tell you some other day. :P
ReplyDeleteof course you were. ta da.. till some other day!
ReplyDelete...do I see a Parthian shot coming? :)
ReplyDeleteYou wound, like Parthians, while you fly,
ReplyDeleteAnd kill with a retreating eye.
lol. Ta!
@ Harry: thanks! i wish you could taste and then comment! The lightening scar..well.. the cake did suffer an unpardonable curse of the hot hot oven!
ReplyDelete...But it's too long a story, i will tell you some other day.
ReplyDelete...I could see it by the end of book VI, for Snape was beginning to resemble Judas Iscariot. He as you may know was of Christ's thirteen disciples and betrayed him in the Garden of Gethsemane.
...However, there are other - should i say apocryphal? - versions of Judas's story. (See, for instance, Saramago's "Gospel Accroding to Christ"). They say that Christ actually trusted Judas the most, which is why he chose him for the task of betrayal (it being necessary for the completion of his divine mission on Earth - crucifixion). As it would have meant that the betrayer was condemned forever in this world - who else could he have chosen then? For, who else would have agreed?
...it was quite obvious that, with Snape, Rowling too was working towards that. Of course, in his case the abiding factor was his love for Lily, which can be but seen as a substitute for Judas's love for Christ. :)
...heh
ReplyDeletei wish to....bt...still....cn imagine n visualise....
:D
@ Nicrap: hmmm...right.. interesting trajectory from the New Testament to HP. And perhaps that is another reason HPs twist found such resonance among the masses.. people like a hero, a martyr, a cause and a prophecy type larger scheme of things. And in the end, when broken pieces fall into place - the reader feels a personal sense of achievement (even where there is none). It works in mysterious ways.
ReplyDeleteGood thinking.
...even when there is none
ReplyDelete...hear! hear! There is the Parthian shot i was talking about. :P
:P well, but you aren't dead yet, are you?! I must not be that good. :P
ReplyDelete...oh, i can't have a lady blame herself, not by any means - thing is i have a surprisingly thick skin. Also, a thick head. :P
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly - and now that we are being honest - that's what scares me. Thick head is fine.. thick skins make me sad.
ReplyDeleteAnd, you won't have a lady blame herself - so you sometimes blame her yourself? :P ok, kidding
...surely, she can't wish me dead. As I am but a mocking-bird*. Pun unintended. :P
ReplyDelete*The titular mockingbird is a key motif of this theme, which first appears when Atticus, having given his children air-rifles for Christmas, allows their Uncle Jack to teach them to shoot. Atticus warns them that, although they can "shoot all the bluejays they want", they must remember that "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". Confused, Scout approaches her neighbor Miss Maudie, who explains that mockingbirds never harm other living creatures. She points out that mockingbirds simply provide pleasure with their songs, saying, "They don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us."
touché! Harper Lee saved you.
ReplyDelete(Btw do you expect me to also come up with hyperlinks and such?..I could come up with cases and precedents along with literary anecdotes!) :P
...the boy who lived! ;)
ReplyDeletesure you can. But then, you won't be you, right? :P
yea right..i don't even know how to create a hyperlink.. html i have long forgotten.. so I'd rather stick to my old self..
ReplyDeletecongratulations.. we just hit the normal conversation (buffer) zone. :P
...happy felicity. :P
ReplyDelete...of course, it had been sooner reached were i like Tiresias who, having spent seven years as a woman, knew both conditions. Even though it had its own drawbacks:
ReplyDeleteIn a separate episode, Tiresias was drawn into an argument between Hera and her husband Zeus on the theme of who has more pleasure in sex, as he had experienced both conditions: Was it the man, as Hera held firm; or, as Zeus claimed, the woman? Tiresias replied, "Of ten parts a man enjoys one only." Hera instantly struck him blind for his impiety. :P
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ReplyDeleteheyy..why did you delete your birthday comment. :) I'm sorry.. i didn't come online at all yesterday.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday :))
...thanks. Sorry, it was rather embarrassed standing alone there. ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks again. :)
At last!
ReplyDeleteWatched it finally, will go again tomorrow. :D
@ earlier comment: ;) oh yea.. my wishes got stuck up in a traffic jam.. it was raining birthdays on 15th! (was my sister's birthday too)
ReplyDelete@ other comment: oh you did? I could not go at all. :-| Unavoidable circumstances. Am going tomorrow too. B-)
...i should keep an eye out for you, then. :P
ReplyDelete...And, thanks again.
when are you baking one for me? :D
ReplyDelete...when is your b'day?
ReplyDelete@ Navin: the day you are ready for a broken heart, i will ;)
ReplyDelete@ Nicrap: You should. Keep an eye out (and swiveling), mad eye!
ReplyDeleteNov 2.
...re Mad eyes. Knew you wished my death. :P
ReplyDeletehmm. I thought you were asking me when would I bake a cake for you ... didn't see it was someone else's comment. But no matter, now i will bake one on 2nd nov., anyway. :)
P.S. I don't know how to bake, though. ;)
I just wished you birthday, mad eye :)
ReplyDeleteThat would be nice. You have lots of time to learn how to bake. You'll learn. ;) And don't forget to send me a piece.
@ "I just wished you birthday, mad eye"
ReplyDelete..."they give birth astride of a grave" (Beckett) - don't you know? :P
...Why not? Like you sent me. :P
ReplyDelete@ nicrap: Yep, just the way you gave me your address and just the way I know your name :P
ReplyDelete...name starts with N. But do not know if i am all that your blog says i should be. :P
ReplyDeletemy blog talks to you?! :D some potter effect!
ReplyDelete...Yes, it does. Right where it says: Does Your Name Begin With: N
ReplyDelete:P
aah! i see :) we don't indulge in moral policing.. there's no 'should' involved.. i thought it resonates with me.. but who knows..
ReplyDeleteOk, Mr. N.. lets see how long the other alphabets take to show up :P
...six days including the first, and i am complete. ;)
ReplyDeleteRight. And i *totally* got that. :P
ReplyDelete...hat bewakuf. lol.
ReplyDelete:-/ :( B-)
ReplyDelete:D
ReplyDelete...so did you watch it or not?
P.S. btw, your pic here doesn't match the one in your mail... :P
I did. and loved it.
ReplyDeleteBefore i ask what you know i will ask, be kind enough to tell.
...tell what? About the movie you mean?
ReplyDeletewrt pic.. as per what I know you are not on my gmail contacts..
ReplyDelete...the girl forgets what all she has told on her blog, like her mail id. And then, smells "murder". :P
ReplyDeletei know my email id is there.. but its news to me that it makes my mail pic visible to all..hmm.. *smells murder most foul*
ReplyDelete...LOL. Oh, it so happened that on my b'day i first thought i should ask you privately - to wish me, that is. So i began to write a mail to you. But then, i wrote to you here.
ReplyDeleteSo, today, when i was going through my contacts i saw you listed there ... with your pic and all. The mystery solved. :)
hmmmmmm *taps finger tips on the table*
ReplyDeleteokay.. i could buy that. and yet.. some other mystery solved itself too quickly for you.
...lol. which one?
ReplyDelete...hat bewakuf.
ReplyDeletelol.
...hmm, giving me the taste of my own medicine back. lol.
ReplyDeleteThere is a surprise for you, only if you will take it. ;)