Creativity, Passion and Teamwork

These three factors, creativity, passion and teamwork resulted in a product of exquisite beauty, a 5-tiered wedding cake. It was also a labor of love by two talented cousins who baked this wedding cakefor their cousin who returned to Kuala Lumpur to celebrate her wedding with friends and relatives.

Without love, creativity, passion and teamwork, I’m sure this first attempt to bake and create a wedding cake would not have succeeded as well as it did.

It goes to show that success comes only with love and passion for what you do. Creativity is needed so that your product will stand out as unique and teamwork is essential as more often than not, a single person may find it very tough to work under constraints and may just stop short of achieving what he has envisaged.

This wedding cake is unique in that every layer of cake is real and different. Hotels usually provide a dummy cake with a small portion which is real so that the bridal couple can cut it. Tiers 1 and 2 are Victoria sponge cake filled with butter cream icing and raspberry preserve. Tier 3 is mocha cake with salted caramel,  tier 4 is rainbow cake with white chocolate ganache while tier 5 is chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache. This is truly one wedding cake of its kind, unique, and the decorations are lavender sprigs and flowers in lavender color, the reason being the bride will become Mrs M L Lavender after taking her marriage vows.

I'm very proud of my two beautiful and talented nieces and their superb wedding cake.

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Age is Just a Number

Age is just a number these days. You are as young as you feel. So if you’re still in your twenties but feel as if you are fifty, then you are old! Similarly if you are in your swinging sixties but still feel that you are sweet sixteen, then you are sixteen at heart.

Time always appears to be at a standstill for those who feel forever young. Such people have an advantage over the rest because they are happy and it shows. There is a spring in their step, a smile on their face and they radiate positive vibes.

However, there are others who emit negative vibes and they can drag you down by depleting you of your energy. For them, life is always a round of complaints.

Whichever group you belong to, time still passes by. Have you noticed that for the young and the old, time appears to be spinning past faster and faster each year? Look at this year. It’s already past the halfway mark. June has stolen in stealthily before we are aware of it.

It wasn’t too long ago that we were on the cusp of a new millennium and I remember that many people were very apprehensive of the YK2. Some wondered if all the computers would crash. What would happen to the banks, the aeroplanes? Thank goodness the new millennium came in without a hitch and here we are, already in 2012.

Life is wonderful. Enjoy each day as it dawns and appreciate the beauty that surrounds us and be thankful for family and friends that make our life what it is for we never know when our number is up. There are so many obituaries in the papers each day. Some lived to a ripe old age while others left in the prime of their lives. More saddening are those who left before they had the chance to bloom and realize their potential.

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