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KIND HOSTS

One of the things that continue to amaze me is the kindness that people show. In today’s world, it’s always wonderful to come across a kind person. I recently visited friends in another city and stayed...

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MUSIC

'Music washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life’  I love this quote and everything that it signifies. A very dear friend of mine who also incidentally re-introduced me to ‘The Beatles’ a...

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THE TRAVEL BUG

I wish I could travel, travel, travel, travel to places near and far and get paid to do it. This is THE ultimate job-for me and about a million other people in the world!!! Seeing that there are so...

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POST-HOLIDAY BLUES

It is funny how life is,about a month ago I was extremely excited about the trip I was going to take in less than a few days time and and now,a few days after I have returned home I am plagued with a...

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JOGGING

This particular word has haunted me for the past four and a half years. I think about it often enough, and try to will myself to start but for some reason, I just have not been able to. The funny part...

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READING

Reading is one of those things I was very passionate about growing up. I could read and read and read and sometimes it used to even annoy people around me since I pretty much did only that. I would go...

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PTF

I am constantly reading travel stories and articles on the web when I have the time and I just chanced upon this article by Eric Weiner, who incidentally is the author of The Geography of Bliss. I have...

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PRAYER FLAGS

My never ending fascination with prayer flags and all things Buddhist. A photo I took at a monastery in Leh. 

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BRO

I took this photo somewhere along the road to Tso Moriri. The Border Roads Organisation(BRO) have some really amusing signs all the way to Leh which had us all cracking up whenever we zipped past one...

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DREAMS AND THE 'FRUGAL' LIFESTYLE

‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in...

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THE BLUES AGAIN

It is always like this after a holiday. I get back home and I am grumpy and irritable and don’t feel the least bit social. I got back from my one week trip to Coorg, Masinagudi, Ooty and Coonoor last...

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AGE-A STATE OF MIND

Age is a funny thing. I have been meaning to write about this for a while now since I end up having a discussion with my friends about the whole ‘age’ thing quite a bit. The thing I find so funny about...

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AMAZING UNDERWATER MUSEUM

I was browsing the web and came across something very, very fascinating- an underwater museum with 400 life size sculptures at the bottom of the sea in Cancun, Mexico. The sculptures have been created...

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UNPLEASANTNESS

You know that feeling in the pit of your stomach, that feeling that you have when something really unpleasant has happened and you don’t want to deal with it. Or you have dealt with it but the feeling...

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MY LIST

I am not a big fan of resolutions- new years or otherwise. I used to make resolutions that I ended up not keeping, so I stopped making resolutions! But something is prompting me to make a list of...

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ROMANTIC VENICE

I finally went to the theatre to watch ‘The Tourist’ yesterday. So much for my big plans of saving money, it just doesn’t seem to be happening. Anyway, I am writing not about my half-hearted attempts...

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COFFEE AND MY STARBUCKS MUG

I love coffee! It is that one thing that I will never say no to, even if I have had ten cups of coffee that day. The funny thing is, I was never much of a coffee person, I drank coffee once in a while...

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POEM BY JOHN O'DONOHUE

I was reading Chris Guillebeau's blog,which I have been following pretty regularly for some time now and he posted the poem below by John O'Donohue which I absolutely love. This poem is such a...

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CROSSING ROADS

If there is one thing I am absolutely terrified of, it is crossing a busy road. Ever since I can remember, I hated crossing the road. Growing up, I couldn’t cross a busy road without having someone...

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HAPPINESS

This topic lodged itself firmly in my mind when I was talking to a friend who refused to do something about her life, even though she and I both knew that after taking that extremely scary plunge, she...

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A YEAR OLDER

It has been a while since I last blogged. Since then, I have turned a year older, returned from a great and refreshing holiday and also come to some conclusions on my life and the general direction...

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'THE BEACH' BY ALEX GARLAND

I spent my whole Sunday, doing one of the best things ever-reading in bed. And I read such an amazing book too, ‘The Beach’ by Alex Garland. I watched the movie adaptation of the book when it first...

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COFFEE BERRIES

I went back home a month ago and the whole estate was full of ripe coffee berries ready to be picked. So beautiful and red. 

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WANDER-THIRST BY GERALD GOULD

Beyond the east the sunrise; Beyond the west the seaAnd East and West the Wander-Thirst that will not let me be;It works in me like madness to bid me say goodbye, For the seas call, and the stars call,...

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SLUMP?

Months have passed since I wrote anything. Procrastination has been my middle name. And lazy is still my first name. Creativity does not exist in my dictionary anymore. Self-doubt is all that occupies...

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