I have a confession to make. I am crazy about cutlery. I am not joking at all. Fancy looking cups and mugs, nicely curved spoons and forks, delicate and cute jars, all shapes and sizes of vessels... I have a hankering that just is. There is no rational explanation. Is there ever for something/someone you love? It's a bit like a malady... if you have got it, you have got it. Just that in this case, there's no cure. I have specific spoons and forks for specific rituals. A spoon that must be, I don't even know how old—perhaps around since when I was a child?—has this rather sharp contour. I got it with me from India 10 years ago. That spoon came free with some condiment or something at that time I think. The handle part of it is quite short and has some pretty etchings too. It's my dessert/pudding spoon. I am pretty sure no other spoon will give me the same experience. There was another special spoon I got from India that got misplaced in one of the shared houses I lived in over here. My second-best dessert spoon. To this day I feel sad thinking about it. Someone will say, 'it's just a spoon'. Of course it is. But it's more than that to me :(

A friend of mine smuggled a solo fork for me from somewhere. Apparently when he looked at that fork, he knew instantly I would love it. Until then if somebody had asked me how well he knows me, I would have said maybe 60%. After looking at that fork, I am inclined to say 70%. It's the most marvellous fork! Has this brassy gold colour. I already have a few golden forks and spoons with dark green handles from China... but they are in-your-face goldy gold. This fork is something else. Its golden is subtle. The edges are sharp, clean, square-ish. Not rounded. The prongs of the fork too—I don't know how to explain it? I am not good at this kind of description... They are not as wide and rounded as regular forks. The whole fork has a rather slimmed down shape, though it's nearly as long as the usual ones (not too long like some nor too heavy). Full marks to this friend... hehe! I am looking forward to my pasta this weekend... what with this gorgeous fork and all ;)