This takes the cake

Some  fun stuff  i  want  to  share  from  http://www.amuzingplanet.com/
These  are  realistic  cakes  made   by Debbie Goard  of  the San  Fransisco Bay  area.

They  are  just  too  good  to eat  aren 't  they?
I  like  the  burger  and  fries. Which  one   would  you  like  to  order for  your  birthday?

Let Us Create

Aren 't these super duper innovationsI plucked them from from Bhavesh 's blog



My nephews and Sheeba would enjoy and bed like this one

But I would have to number or label the steps

I 'd love this

The necessary room becomes the computer room.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking."
— Walter Lippman

"Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart."
— Mencius (Meng-Tse), 4th century BCE

FREE CANDY

That 's what you can win if you visit

Rosemary and Jana 's blog

ORDER OF THE OPUS GLUIE

Its a very creative and relaxing blog with lots of fun things.

They are having a candy giveaway

Put in your hand into

the candy jar to see see if

you can fish out something.

Found a nice sticky- sweet poem to go with this post.

Candy Wrap
Well I like ice cream and candy barLike Ben and Jerry's, Hersey's and MarsPop rocks, pop-tarts, and pop-cycles tooMarshmallow cereal how about youI'm gonna eat this candy till I get sickI'm gonna give this lollipop another lickA lot of people always tend to give upBut I say you ain't through until you throw-upBut if you're not careful you'll get cavitiesBut all you got to do if brush dem teefethiesI can't help I have a really bad sweet-toothBut I really love candy and that's the sweet-truthAs long as I'm eating lots of candyI'll be one very happy fatty.

by Soupy Pettry

From the Heights of Ambition

Hope I have not insulted the artistic sensitivities of millions of people who view my blog.
And I hope I won 't be blogging from Guantanamo Bay shortly.
I am just trying to laugh at myself .

Advice Heeded

I heeded your advice and ordered my helmet

and safety suit. Now I can play in the traffic.

LOL!

I got a car ride tonight and tomorrow morning also

the Pastor 's family will take me with them

to a day retreat in their car.

I know you guys will be knocked out

if you came face to face

with our Indian traffic

that 's why I find

The World 's Wildest Car Chases

quite tame!

<< Proverbs 17:22 >>
A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

(New American Standard Bible)

Every Dog has His Day

(photo from Cute Overload)

Earlier this week the dog worship festival was celebrated in Nepal.I read about it in my newspaper and thought I must post it here.Sheeba wants to immigrate to Nepal.LOL

Taken from Hindustan Times -
The proverb—Every dog has his day — literally came true on Monday when people in Nepal, the world's last Hindu nation, worshipped their dogs with utmost devotion.
Despite the transformation of Nepal into a “secular nation”, people did not forget to worship their dogs on the day of Kukur Tihar, and protect their families from destruction. The festival is also known as Narak Chaturdashi.
Big red tikas (red dots)— a paste of vermilion, curd and rice — were put on dogs' foreheads and were garlanded.
“It (Kukur Tihar) is a very important festival in our society, and there cannot be any change in the tradition,” says Sunil Shrestha, a young entrepreneur.
Even street dogs are also worshiped and are garlanded on the occasion. After worshiping the dogs, delicious meals were served to them. The Hindus appease their dogs because the canine is also the steed of Bhairab, the god of destruction.
“We Hindus in Nepal worship dog to guard our house from destruction,” Pallavi Sharma, a housewife in Kathmandu said. However, Hindus in India generally do not worship dogs.
Dogs have always been associated with the Hindu mythology and culture. Even in the epic Mahabharat, dogs accompanied Dharmaraj Yudhisthir and his four other brothers during their journey to heaven.
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Today is dog worship day in Nepal. From a description of Nepalese festivals:
Quote:
The second day is called 'Kukur tihar', dogs day. A dog plays many roles in our society. We have dogs in our houses as guardian of the house. As the legend also says that there is a dog at yama's gate guarding the gate to the underworld. The dog is also the steed of the fearful Bhairab, the god of destruction. So on this day a big red tika is put on a dog's forehead and a beautiful garland around the neck. After worshipping the dog, it is given very delicious meal. This day the saying 'every dog has his day' comes true; for even a stray dog is looked upon with respect. We pray to the dog to guard our house as he guards the gate of the underworld and to divert destruction away from our homes. On this day you can see dogs running around with garlands on their neck. Happy kukur tihar!

Dr DoLittle 's Photo Album

Found these funny photos on the web. I wanted to share them you to make you smile.

Nine to bootI am not a pooch as you can see.

I deserve to be included in the

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

I am Puss Without Boots

but I laugh all the way to the Bank

And in opposition to the

anorexic Dow Jones

I am not in the favor of shedding a single pound

My advice to you is

DO NOT SHED ANY EXTRA POUND YOU HAVE GAINED .

Who cares for MacDonald 's now

Please pass me the Ketchup and

Mustard

All hung out to dry.

They should teach us how to use

the washroom

Dogarrangement

I like doing the cartwheel in slow motion

We call it the dogwheel

We are cool

That 's why we 've switched off the fan.
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On a more serious paw, sorry note

I discovered Mark Driscoll 's blog called

RESURGENCE

Check it out for some

rad reading

Soul Giggles

There is all kinds of soul giggles

for the mind and body

Got the mind/heart dose first

Oue church odd-jobs man came around this morning and told my mother that there would be a

"mating"

in Aunt Virginia 's(elderly widow) house and we are invited.Further investigation revealed that it is the cottage prayer

"meeting"

So this evening Mom and I are going to this

"mating" oops "meeting"!!!

I made semolina/molasses pudding or

Gur ka halwa for tea today

Cook the semolina in a syrup of molasses and garnish it with dry fruit.

My Internet connection is very bad today. I 'll post the picture as soon as it improves.

Sunday Blessings - Children of the Day!

For he will command his angels concerning to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.Psalm 91;11,12 (New International Version)

On her way to church my mother again had a fall.

It was not very serious,she just sank down on the steps as she could not negotiate the high,uneven steps.

Our church steps are about 200 years old, built for strong British soldiers who could scamper up and down (it was a Garrison church)

The aging members of our church find it difficult to climb up those steps.

When the Lord will enable us, we will fix them or build a proper ramp.

No bones broken, but pretty shaken up .The angels were there to cushion her fall.Please pray for my mother, she is not eating properly and that is causing her to become weak.

Sometimes the sky looks very dark

This morning before leaving for church I was listening to a Christian Radio Station and there was a song by 'Children of the Day 'called"For Those Tears I Died" I just started crying as I listened to that song.I used to sing it ages ago with my sisters and it really wrapped itself around my heart as I face my daily trials.

Jesus wept so that he may wipe away my tears

He died so that I may live

Everyone who is hurting or facing a difficult situation take courage.
From the mid 70s to the 80s there was hardly any Christian music available in my city. I used to listen to missionary Radio stations.

They were my daily sustanence - food water and air.

FEBC - Manila Philippines

FEBA - Seychelles (Indian Ocean)

Trans World Radio - Shri Lanka

TWR - Agana, Guam

SLBC - Shri Lanka etc

Family Radio (North America)

I learnt all my songs from these broadcasts.

Spent all my free time trying to record songs on a little tape recorder and play the tapes over and over again to transcribe the lyrics.

I spent a major part of my pocket money writing to the radio stations.

Most of the time the reception was not good enough, and I couldn 't decipher the words, but I just kept going.

I learnt this song that way.

It is like a cool drink for my thirsty soul.

As a Post script to this video I must add that a friend told me about Marsha Stevens, the woman who wrote this song and is singing in this presentation.She has fallen away from the Lord and no longer upholds Biblical morality or values. I don 't subscribe to her present music or teaching. But there is a lesson to be learnt from this. If you are faithful to the Word of God God can use you as His instrument, the moment you turn away from Him you can be anything you want.

Sheeba 's Scoop

Mistress Terry wanted a picture of me eating ice-cream

So my Mistress Amrita organized it for me.

Dinner Menu

1st course

Chicken soup with bread

2nd course

chicken with bread

Dessert

Vanilla ice-cream

Kind Miss Terry you can ask my Mistress to

take photos of me eating all

my favourite food.

Thankyou kindly Miss Terry

I am wagging my tail like a windmill for you

Catty Business

Got a Kitty to help me with the job - I named him Michael Angelo.

Terry saw my previous masterpiece and encouraged me to create this.I feel like Michael Angelo 's apprentice. LOL. Poor Sheeba looks cornered, surrounded by feline foes.




Dear Friends, Thank you for your prayers. mama is much better . I popped into my homeopathic shop, described her symptoms and he gave me a digestive syrup which helped her a lot.

Earlier our family Doctor, a very famous physician prescribed pills over the phone from Delhi.He was very kind,usually they don 't do that and charge heavy fees.But since he was out of town, he did us a favor.We were glad we saved his very expensive fees too.

God proves His lovingkindness towards us in such simple things.

Terry go ahead and swipe Sheeba picture.She 's up for grabs.

I used the cookie cutter shape.

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Hey friends can you help our Kitty give captions to picture for example:-

Its Raining Cats and Dog

Catnip

Taming of the Shew

A Thorn Among Roses

and what Robert Orben has said;

"WE HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE WHO TELL IT LIKE IT IS -

NOW WE COULD USE A FEW WHO TELL IT LIKE IT C AN BE".

Doggie Pause

With help from Terry I was able to do this.
Sheeba on a mongoose hunting mission

Rain Dance

The weather cooled off this evening with a dust storm followed by rain.Really refreshed the body and soul.

Here is Abner performing a rocking rain dance. They are leaving early tomorrow morning.

The Lord knows we are in need of water. In the neighbouring villages the wells, ponds and canals have dried up.He sent us this respite.

First Family Politics

The Chinese first couple in Washington

The American first couple in Beijing

Found these really funny pictures . Sino-American Family politics.

Can almost hear the Chinese Premier say,"Don 't touch my girl'.

Last night the Lord reminded me to censor what kind of comedy shows I watch on TV through this verse from the Bible.

"Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral, or impure, or who is covetous, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.Therefore do not associate with them."

(St. Paul 's letter to the Ephesians 5;4-7)

A lot of content on the comedy shows is off color and in poor taste, its pretty disgusting..

Blogaddict

61%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Not bad I should say.Blogging has added a lot to my life.But sometimes I feel like a frog in the cyber world as opposed to a frog in a well.Which has resulted in a huge Internet bill which I really can 't afford.Gotta slow down.

A request to my Indian blog readers. Please can you suggest ways to keep the bill down. I subscribe to a BSNL home connection.Does YouTube increase the bill?

Sunday Confessions

Insecurity and an inferiority complex can lead to a mental bloc paranoia, mistrust and unreasonable behaviour, .I 've also indulged in it , but God has set me free from it and I witnessed others going through the pangs yesterday. I had to be a toe stomper and a peace-maker.

Please pray for a situation in church where people are afraid of sharing our campus with the AG church.On Friday Sept 21st we will have business meeting with both church leaders and our lawyer to draw up a lease contract. Pray for the Holy Spirit to rule over the meeting.

I 'm planning to serve sherbet and cake to give a sweet flavour to the summit. Ha...ha...ha.

Thank you friends for telling that Word Verification is really worth the fuss.I am much more patient with it.

A BIG THANK YOU TO DONETTA who nominated me for the You Make me Smile Award.

Word Verified

Thank You Carol-Ann for supplying the information.You 've taken a load off my mind.I always thought Bill Gates was playing a joke on us.

Making Music

I must share this really funny music story. Years ago when we had our music group and choir, we used to sing in church services and programs.We used to play the guitar, drums, bass,Indian instruments like the tabla, sitar, flute and harmonium.One of our friends (an absent minded psychology student)couldn't sing but just about managed to play the accordion.

S0 for one of our church programmes I asked him to accompany us with his old accordion and I would play the guitar.We practised two or three songs that we had to sing,and I told everybody the sequence we would sing them in.

When our time came we organized ourselves in front and began song number one.After a few seconds I noticed S was playing a completely different tune on his accordion oblivious to what the choir was singing.As discretely as possible I edged up to him and asked him to change to the song we were currently singing. "Oh really" he smiled and nodded his head clearly enjoying the music, but he could not switch to the correct music.He played the wrong song through out much to my chagrin, and nobody could do a thing about it.It seemed the singers drowned out the accordion because the audience appreciated our song.Thank goodness we were not performing on Indian Idol or something!

KitKat

Got this photo from www,happylolday.blogspot.com .

When life puts us in a tight squeeze, we can look at it from the outside and laugh to release the tension.I 'm trying to do that. I suffered from depression for many years and got victory over that, but sometimes the devil tries to throw it back at me and spirit of heaviness creeps in. To counter that I read the Scriptures, biographies, happy books and listen to music.

Are They Watching Hope Floats?

This is called real tubing. A friend emailed me this photo. This could be the aftermath of the rains in Mumbai (Bombay) which flooded many areas.Look at the helpless man standing outside the door.

Maybe they were inspired by the community Roman bath still prevalent in some parts of the world. They have the soap and water just need towels.

Women of substance

My friend Janet wrote on her blog about her Mom 's cook breaking chairs because of her large size.
Yesterday I went went to a salon to have my eyebrows done and this richly endowed, wealthy lady was having her body waxed.Every time the beautician pulled the wax cloth off her arms the poor gal 's chair (adjustable kind) would sink lower. And we all gasped, but the lady had a good sense of humour and she didn 't mind.She was well aware of her magnitude.
I am not making fun of overweight people because I battle with the bulge too, its just that all this makes life more colourful and musical.

My friend Kate tagged me for 8 facts about myself, so here goes...
1.My birthday is on August 1st.
2.During my early teens I liked wearing boys clothes, like jeans and shirts.
3.I like savoury snacks more than sweet ones.
4.When I was born,my Dad 's workmate who was an astrologer predicted that I would learn the English language very well. Well I have a Masters in English Literature, but I 'm not sure if my English is noteworthy.
5.I learnt German in school.Got a prize for pronunciation. A German nun taught us.Sister JoAnna was a very strict lady, still remember her draconian rules.
6.I like international accents. My favourites are Irish, Scottish and German and of course Australian.When I speak to people from other countries I tend to switch on their accents, (not entirely tho).
7.I like fashion jewellery. A whole load of my jewellery was stolen from my apartment when I was teaching in Woodstock school.Now I 'm into hoops, danglers and earrings with crosses.
8.I wear a mix of Indian and western clothes, so my clothes don 't wear out easily. I like cotton fabric. Synthetic clothes make me hot. Silks and synthetics are for cooler weather.