New beginnings

Finally did it. Moved from Delhi to Gurgaon like I'd been meaning to. Just didn't expect it to be the way it happened but what the hell. It's been two weeks now; it's a very nice flat in a cool society and I have two new flatmates. Life is very different from what it used to be when I was living alone. Learning new things everyday. Fresh starts are good.

A Wednesday in Mohali

The World Cup semi-final match at Mohali between India and Pakistan on the 30th of March. The first time I ever watched a live cricket match in a stadium. What a way to start :-)
I love you Dhruv mama for working out the tickets...what a match, what a win. I'll probably be talking about it for like forever....especially now that we have the Cup!!

I did it!

The highlight of this year for me has been a two week solo trip to England and Scotland that I did on my own this summer. After years of waiting for "the right time", for someone to maybe go with, for the requisite "bank balance" and a lot of other things, I finally managed to screw up the courage and go off on my own. My first ever long haul trip, and yes my first solo vacation. It was even better than I had thought it would be, and I came back with lots of pictures and memories as well as a new-found confidence in myself. I wonder now why I didn't do this earlier! Parts of this trip will be coming up on this blog soon. I'm now looking at ideas and options for my next trip, since I've promised myself to do this on a regular basis now. No cure for the travel bug!

To the moon and back...

They've finally done it. Mr Nair and his talented bunch of unassuming men (and women) have fulfilled their promise of landing the Indian tricolour on the Moon with the the first unmanned Lunar mission - the Chandrayaan 1. An entire nation had been following its journey to the moon with their hearts in their mouths and a prayer on their lips. With the success of this mission, India enters an elite club of a handful of nations and hopefully will be able to send a manned mission within the next 10 years.

At a time when the economic downturn and slowdown in growth is affecting so many of us for the worse, the Chandrayaan success also acts as a much-needed ray of hope, a major confidence-booster in our abilities and our future.