Thank You

Thank you for removing the unauthorized photographs.  
I do admit that 3 years ago, in the eagerness to publish the post after the party, I did a cut and paste of the recipes but I also credited my source to where I took the recipes from as well as where my source adapted from.  I didn't claim it was mine at all.

After it was brought to my attention by Kitchen Tigress aka KT, on 6 May 2015 on said post.   

First I didn't know which post she was referring to.  So I actually emailed to her.

Upon realizing my mistake, I immediately set the situation straight by rephrasing the methodology to the recipes that I took from.  

You may asked, why don't I obediently followed the Kitchen Tigress' demand?

The reason I can't delete it, is because it forms part of my learning journey and that is my experience with tried and tested recipes.  My blog post will be incomplete without a recipe, isn't it?

In the food blog-sphere, adapting recipes from each other is a common practice, just like Kitchen Tigress, she adapted many recipes from blogs and book, rephrasing them and credit back to its source.  

After the editing, I didn't think that by doing the same practice as others as well as like hers, that is rephrasing, I will be called a thief after.

Just like when you are told that you had done wrong, you set the situation right.   In school, we were trained to do correction when we were marked wrong. I see this as part of my learning journey too.  Correcting what I had done wrong and then you moved on to the next chapter.  

On 7 May 2015 at  , I received a warning email from Kitchen Tigress.  Since I was out the whole day, I didn't get a chance to read it.

On 7 May 2015, I assumed after 5pm, I had my photographs plastered on her blog and calling me thieves even before I can do any explanation on my action because I was out.  

I wasn't even aware of that until around 8 - 9pm when I got home and was informed by my blog followers that such action was taken.  

Subsequent days, I was give more names like pond scum and lowlife.

I did further rephrasing to make sure that it is no longer a cut and paste.  Still my photographs hang on in Kitchen Tigress' blog.

That is the reason why I made that police report on 9 May 2015.

All these years of blogging, I always thought food blogs are about sharing your joy or your failure on your food learning journey.  

Why bloggers set up public food blogs? Am I right to assume that they wanted to share their experiences?  They are hoping that others will attempt it?

We take each others recipe as our kitchen fun.  We didn't mind having our recipes posted in each other's blogs as there is always acknowledgements.  In fact, we love to share.  Eager to know how was the outcome for the others.  We help each other to troubleshoot when recipes didn't work.  We analyse recipes, we do comparison. We formed bake along sessions, theme bakes/cook events, we have bloggers' party.  We inspired each other with gorgeous photography and beautiful blog post.  We shared knowledge on baking/cooking method.  All these are done in the spirit of sharing the same passion.

For me, I am delighted if readers tried my recipes.  I shared the joy if the recipe works for my reader and I tried to find out how to help, if it doesn't.

I felt honored if the tried and tested recipes are tried by bloggers and got posted, be it a good or a bad experiment for the blogger.  If it turn out well, we celebrate.  If it didn't, we encourage each other to try again. 

Never in my wildest imagination that for me taking Kitchen Tigress' recipes (that is 3 years ago), that the whole situation got blown out of proportion to its current state.

I believe between humans we need to be respectful to each other.  No one is more superior than the other.  No human is made 100% perfect.  We each had our fair share of imperfection.    

At the end of our life journey, we will be happier if we join the earth, feeling dignified if we treated others with the same.