decorating a cake with garangan and granada

on the third of May, i celebrated my sixth year here in Finland. it has become a habit to make a cake on that day, so this year, i made yogurt cheesecake. i quite got carried away and i wanted it to look so pretty. i went to the grocery store and found some exotic fruits. well, they 're not really unusual to me because they're common in the Philippines. 

anyway, i've never thought that ¨garangan¨ (in the kinaray-a dialect) would look good on a cake. i was just used to eat it just as it is. i remember when i was in grade school, i used to climb on our neighbor's ¨garangan¨tree and collect its fruits. i was quite good in climbing then. 😉

also, our other neighbor had a pomegranate tree. as a kid, i ate it a lot and for a time, got tired of it that i just ignored it. here in Finland, they're kind of expensive. but to make my cake prettier, i'll spend some extra euros for them. 😊

six years is the longest time that i have lived in one place after i left my hometown 14 years ago. i have adapted to the culture and way of life here. the only thing that i'm embarrassed about is that i haven't fully grasped the language and couldn't speak well to save my life.