sinful delights

My heart was racing ….

I gazed at the outer cover for a little less than 2 minutes.

A peachish background with a dazzling orange outline was visible.. “Chocolat Aprose” the bold logo stated on it.

“Swiss premium chocolate” was added below it with a sense of regality.

Finally the description “white” was neatly visible.

On the top right of the current object of desire was the Swiss flag added perhaps like a hologram for complete trust and on the bottom 200 g-7 OZ .

I admired the cover for some time but didn’t really read the army of information provided behind the cover about nutrition facts n blah blah.

Not today, I thought to myself .Heart beat still not normal racing faster ….

Then I thought to myself –No harm in taking a quick look at what the bar looks like, creamy white or a pure blinding white..

Tore open the cover delicately and lo, another Silver foil came into picture …

Aah, heart beat back to normal, not again..

Silly circular patterns floated around on the silver cover and I went back to debating whether a peek was necessary, Of course the peek would lead to certain obvious things, probably end up in a disastrous episode of me consuming the whole bar.

So, I left it there and took a walk around the house...All previous visits to the dentist haunted me and Dad’s voice boomed loud in my head –“Eat more Chocolates and buy a set of dentures when u r 30” .The Dentist‘s words were much better or should I say soothing -“This one was not really a serious problem but do take care in the future “with me just nodding and looking down at my knees …

Chocolates are my biggest vice. The passionate affair started very early in life, like many kids, I loved chocolate and loved it more when dad refused to buy a bar for me. I was rewarded with chocolates generously by amma whenever I topped or simply when I sat through a grueling session of some insanely slow and dull ragam lessons .My mother pampered me silly –Sad-Dairy Milk, happy-milky Bar, Grumpy-five Star, Cleaned my room-Kit Kat, Cranky-2 bars of milky bar and Achievements –well It would be a big assortment of all my favorite chocolates .And thus I grew up loving every bite of chocolate I ever tasted.

All my near and dear ones know my love for them and gifted them to me at every special occasion or simply for no special reason at all. Though I shyly refuse, they know really well that I would be devouring them happily the next minute.

With a phoren aunt coming down to India every 2 years, a big bag of “Candy” – (American and Canadian term for good old Indian “chaaklate “as we say it )

was guaranteed.

Once dad was furious that I would eat up the entire bag and sent it to my school. When the teachers asked “Is it your birthday” I would meekly say “No, but please take some” and that was the saddest year of my affair with these sweet little delights.

Now family and friends make sure I get to taste all the existing varieties.

While there was Mars, snickers and Bounty that greatly excited me a couple of years ago,

Temptations-Rum n Raisin-Made India was also sinfully good.

Ferrero Rocher and toblerone stood the top on my list until recently.

It was upstaged by Ferrero Garden-Ferrero Rocher in different flavors which tasted exquisite and for which I must thank the guy who went to Germany and froze and is now sweating it out in Dubai.

These were much more unique than anything else I had ever tasted.

Then Came Oreo Wafer Bars, they gave me the immense satisfaction of not feeling guilty since they had only an outer layer of chocolate and were simply wafer inside .I gobbled them up during all my stressed out phases-Read EXAMS and thank you,Mr Melbourne for that one . Still reeling of these instances, I walked into the room.

Entered --- heart racing though not as fast as earlier.

Damn, Let me just see and have a small bite, wouldn’t really hurt I said to myself.

Tore open to reveal 6 neat divisions of the most inviting white chocolate I had ever seen. 1 piece graduated to 4 and I gobbled it up quickly ,It melted in my mouth as I enjoyed the tingling sensation on my taste buds ,Yummy was so cliché here !

Enough for today I decided and neatly put the wrapper back and tucked it into my drawer.

How many times have I broken my vow, I dunno though I would say “never” to my dentist ;-) Well he has got to make a living too,you see :P

Below –My Chocolate wall hang resting in my room

And The Lucky Chocolate bar described with painstaking detail above :P

Quotes on The wall hang read:-

I call them The Chocolate commandments...

All I need to know about life I learned from eating chocolate

• Some people are semi-sweet; others are just plain nutty
• Don’t cry over spilled milk-unless of course, it’s chocolate milk
• There is a fine line between vice and addiction
• Good looking dates are like chocolate; good while they last, but they never last long enough!
• When life presents you a rocky road, just eat your way out of it
• Money can’t buy you love, but it can buy you chocolate-24 hours a day,7 days a week,365 days a year.
• Don’t poke your nose in other people’s chocolate boxes!
• Mothers-in-law are like chocolate syrup: a little goes a long way.
• Flowers and cards may be the standard norm of courtship, but chocolates are sure to work wonders
• A box of Swiss chocolates is worth two boxes of any other chocolate

• Milk Chocolate ….. for all it’s worth
• Even people of tremendous integrity are subject to yielding before chocolate!
• A kiss is just a kiss, but a chocolate kiss is bliss.
• True love will remain long after the chocolate have gone ….Provided there’s another box
• The best things in life are not fat free.
• Nothing is worth getting sick over, except of course, chocolate
• When everything else fails, Choc it !
  
• And remember life is like a box of chocolates; take a bite out of everything.