Cambodia had a Indiana Jones meets India kind of feel to it... creepers hugging the trees... large roots breaking open temple walls.... statutes of gods strewn on the ground with roots covering it....all in all very magicky feel to it...

i upped and left ... and this is what i saw...

Come-board-ya (Cambodia)!

Cambodia was Kerala with a Far East twist... lush and green, hot at the same time... dark skinned people running around... and the absolutely stunning monuments....

Can you ever blindly trust anyone and leave life in their hands? or trust anyone so much that you dont question their intentions? Or believe them so much that you forget to take care of yourself?

Well I am sure many of us have gone through that experience at one point or the other... I have ... and sometimes when I look back i wonder why I trusted those persons blindly... and strangely enough I blame myself entirely for them letting me down... first of all, every human being is engineered to be selfish....so they will mostly look after their interest and not your interest... it is just human nature.. no matter how much you think you matter to that person... so in the process when you believe someone will not be unfair to you they are infact programmed to think only about themselves and consequently unfair to you... and secondly God has given you brains for a reason - to think for yourself! not to let someone else do the thinking for you...

well some lessons are better learned late than never.....

A day at the Races

After the dullness of 2011, 2012 does show some promise... well in my own case I got the opportunity to meet one of the people I admire a lot in India... Mr. Chidabaram.... it so happened that I was invited to a party where Mr. Chidambaram was also a guest... a guest - not the Home Minister - but a normal guest like you and me would be... and he was as normal as anyone else... no security guards, no black cats, no SPG etc... just a normal person having a drink on a lazy sunday...and chatting with his friends....

My mom was ofcourse so scared that I would go up to him and offer my undivided attention to the Congress party that she pleaded with me to not talk to him... she said politics is no place for a woman... they make women disappear... your life is so much better without that complication... why do you need to?? she said this and more... and I was like Mom, he is not going to offer me some plum post in the Congress party just because I shook hands with him at a party...

Well seems like Mom got her wish... I was not offered any plum post in the Congress party and Mr. Chidambaram was not interested in talking shop while at the party... he just wanted to be a normal person... well life never ceases to surprise I must say...

So is this how 2012 is going to behave?? make me meet my idols ?? I heard Oprah is coming to Mumbai... another of my icons.... fingers crossed..... ....

Goodbye 2011

Boys its a welcome relief to bid adieu to 2011.... while it had its ups and downs, 2011 proved to be one of most stressful years of my life... and quite frankly many people's lives...

my life - first there was the very sad return from London.... I was sad beyond belief... and coming back to Mumbai was somehow not feeling that great... I had discovered something there and I knew Mumbai could not give me the same thing.... adjusting to life back in Mumbai proved more difficult than I thot... life was challenging in more ways than one.... Robbery, professional challenges etc etc etc.... and I was ready to give the year a good kick in the backside.... damn it.... it was not meant to be this way...... the year ofcourse brought about a lot of ups... promotion, place of residence etc brought with it enough joy and security...

however overall I feel this year was the year of loss in many ways... I lost friends... I lost old way of life...I lost a little bit of liking for mumbai... i lost respect for parliament, I lost hope for my country... I lost belief in some certainities... I lost the rose tinted glasses...

So yes, THank god that 2011 is out of the door... 2012, please be good.... i give you no choice....