You Win Some, You Lose Some!

Last week was a memorable one in many ways. I spent a week in my favorite city- Sydney. Like a friend was telling me the other day, the minute you exit the airport, you can feel that Sydney is different. The air is so crisp and fresh, the people all beautiful with well toned bodies and it’s oh-so-clean!

On my last visit, I mostly traveled by cab so didn’t really experience the city except like a tourist would. This time I took the train around, got quite lost in the maze of malls that dot the city center. I love Sydney also for its food. It’s one place where you get really authentic food. A 10-course Chinese meal to Mediterranean fare, I tried everything and loved most of it.

Another reason for it being a memorable week was the overwhelming response to one of my previous blogs-NO, I am not a Maharashtrian! Thanks to the person who forwarded the link to other interested people. A big thank you to everybody who read the post and left encouraging comments. I have started believing that people actually like to read my posts.

Last weekend was also my first Diwali in Singapore. There was a dinner organized for all the Indian families in the condo complex I stay. Crackers, decked up women, sweets, a fancy dinner…the works! The operative word here though was FAMILY. Not really the best place for a single working woman, I learnt again. My hopes of meeting likeminded, fun loving, young people were dashed once more.

And the ‘icing’ on the cake was of course a virus affecting my yahoo account making my account inoperable. It is an account that I have had since the 90s. It has been restored now but for a day I felt like I had been robbed of my identity. Moral of this story- you win some, you lose some!