C for Cargo and Cooking

As I write this blog I am not sure yet of what topic to tackle that is significant to letter C. I was out of the blog circle for quite a long time enough to make me forget the password of my google account. Right now I am in the Emirates lounge in Dubai waiting for my next flight, to Paris. Final destination is Bamako. The mark of the end of my holiday.

I was not able to keep my affirmation to Randomness' call for a common topic on time. My leave is short that I don't have time to sit and tinker the internet. I should say I am not committed to the blogspot that I started. Laziness and procrastination has killed the momentum.

Anyway it's not total abandonment to the craft yet. Whenever I get the time and the fire to write I do write like now. I wont wait for Friday. The idea might be shelved again, as the old adage says "Strike while the iron is hot". But until now I am still thinking of what to write about C.

Aha! now I know--- C is for cargo. For the first time in my life I brought with me a big and heavy cargo that I checked in. Its a big carton, about a meter square and half a meter high and 26 kgs heavy. I'm a light traveller, this box is already too much for me.

In the local flight where only 15 kgs. is allowed I paid for the excess kilos. But in the international flight we can go as heavy as 30 kgs. If already a silver member of Skywards another 12 kgs more of entitlement. So, I'm spared.

Well, what is inside this box and what prompt me to carry it painstakingly? It is a melange of cooking and kitchen ware and other personal things. Ever since I started cooking my own food I got interested of acquiring the basic things needed in a kitchen--- a rice cooker, oven toaster, steamer, pressure cooker, casseroles, utensils, knives, etc. My folks said I'm already bringing the whole kitchen with me...ha-ha, indeed I am.

I started preparing my own food 4 months ago. I eat what is right for me. And as a result I lost 11 kgs. from my former 93 kgs weight (I gained back 2 kgs during my leave, I vow to lose that again). My blood pressure has gone down to normal. The ankle pains in the mornings was also gone. Good for me to initiate the move to cook my own food. I would have not achieve anything if until now I still continue to eat in our canteen.

I should say C is for cooking too.