Goodbye 2012

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Wow! I can’t believe that the year has really gone by so fast. It was like yesterday when we were celebrating 2012’s new year.

This year has been a very special one to me(all years are special in a way) because it has been a time when I have had to look within and bring the best out of myself and I am still on the journey.

It has been a year where i have had to make up my mind and focus on the future and what is best from me

We all have expectations. I had a lot for this year(including the worlds end!) but I have realized that life is unexpectedly expected. I had dreams and goals but most of them never really came true due to unknown circumstances.

What is left behind is left behind. This year is over. We had our chance to it and how I used up mine, I wish I could have done more. Another year is coming. A year of more opportunity and how we choose to use up the new year is entirely up to us… to either make the most of it or sit back and watch it pass us by.

 Remember, everything happens for a reason!

Happy New Year

Sophie

Jack Fruit Scones

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It is jack fruit season around here and I wanted to make something different from it other than the usual fruit salad. I got the basic scone recipe here and I tried it adding chopped jack fruit.  The scones came out very nicely I couldn’t help but share them. They are super flaky and yum  and have an irresistible aroma. I am definitely gonna have to make more! This is my first recipe post so let me know what you think.

What are your creations this holiday?

🙂

Sophie

Friendship

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Today is my gorgeous and beautiful best friend’s birthday! And I’m so excited for her. So instead of writing a birthday message, I decided to write about her in this post.

I and Manda go a long way. We met in 2009 in high school and the memory of our first encounter is still fresh in my mind. This brings me to today’s topic. Friendship.

In this first paced world of cyber hangouts, media and social networks, it is hard to tell who is a real friend and harder to find one. It is hard to find a person who will like you for who you really are and not for what you are, what you have become or what you are yet to become. We are now living in an era where people accumulate ‘friends’ and ‘followers’ on great social networks. It is true that you can be surrounded by a thousand people but still feel alone. What we don’t realize though is that there are real people out there. People who are willing to be friends but we look past them all branding them as people who don’t understand us. Maybe we haven’t taken time to get out there or maybe we have taken those who would have been friends for granted. Whatever the reason, we have to look within ourselves and see where the problem is.  Because when we do, it will be much easier to relate to people and make  real good friends.

My challenge this holiday is to make my friends feel loved and I am gonna have to do that in many different ways because I have realized that if I want a friend, I have to get out there and be one.

Happy Birthday Manda!

Don’t you ever forget that Aku Cinta Kamu!