Resolutions - hahaha

Your New Year's Resolutions

1) Get a pet pit bull 2) Eat less garlic 3) Travel to New Zealand 4) Study Latin 5) Get in shape with capoeira

What Should Your New Year's Resoluton Be?

This is fun!

Have you ever wanted to explore the world upside down?
Type Google backwards on the google search to find out what it would look like..
haha..

Giggly girlie picture

There are some pictures that you see and just want to smile.I was searching through my collection of pictures and came upon this one.
This picture was taken by my ex-colleague and dear friend Adrienne.In the picture is Nayantara Pani and me.

At first glance, it seems like a giggly picture of two girls getting ready for a party. In reality we were going to present a plan to some of the top businessmen in the country for a project worth 1.5cr INR.
The girl at the back of me in the picture with her hair over her face managed to orchestrate some of the biggest media leverage and is 3 months after the project is stil working on the best movie and coffeetable book that will capture the memory of IC2005 forever.
Here's to you Nayantara Pani! My immense respect and love for someone whose selflessnes leads her into some tough situations. I hope you can come home soon.

Tagged !

Damn! Just when I thought that I could safetly hide my blog, people seem to have started discovering it. I've been tagged by Nayantara.
Here goes:

10 years ago:
- I had one eyebrow that stretched accross the length of my forehead.
- Shifted from life on an island country to the one of the most densely populated cities in the world!
- Started studying in a convent school which insisted on oily plaits,socks that covered your knees and rectangular shaped bags.
- Lived in the Holiday Inn,Mumbai for two and a half months.
- Left some of my closest and dearest childhood friends only to meet some make some lifelong lasting friends.

5 years ago:
- I used to study at least 5 hours after school every day
- - Was elected "head girl of my school"
- Began college life in one of the best institutions in the country
- Told someone I really cared about that I didnt want him in my life anymore
- Went almost bald and had an eyebrow piercing ( dont know how I could have done that now!)

Last one year:
- Loved and hated myself and the world in the timespan of a day !!
- Travelled to more than 20 cities accross the country.
- Appeared for my BA degree as the lone candidate after only a month an a half of study and managed to pass with flying colours :)
- Lost a lot of friends and made some new ones that are closer than family.
- Brought 92 countries to India!
- Fell in love with a handsome man who leaves me in awe that such honesty and simplicity can exist in the same world that I live in.
- Left a lot of institutions that I felt defined me, only to find who I really was.

Yesterday:
- Interviewed 8 people as teammates for my own job- most of whom were 7 years older than I
- Was revisited by a one of the dearest friends I have in the world that I havent met in ages
- Decided to live "the look" I always wanted to have only to have the look squashed on the way back in a crowded Mumbai local train!
- Spent too long on the cellphone without thinking about bills!!!

Five Yummy Things:
- Amma's Egg Dosas
- Tandoori crabs at Gajalee
- Prawns thali at this non-descript place on the Alibaug coast
- Chocolate!!- Any kind
- My grandmother's mango pickle

Five Songs I know by heart:
- Truly, Madly,Deeply (Savage Garden)
- You Can call me Al ( Paul Simon)
- My national anthem
- All the songs on the Affirmation album by Savage Garden

Five things I'd do if I had the money:
- Take off with a backpack and travel the world
- Take my parents around the world
- Invest it!
- Hire suparis to kill off all the corrupt politicians in the government
- Open a home for street girls

Five places I escape to:
- Not going to tell you.I dont want to be disturbed!

Things I enjoy doing:
- Having long conversations with good friends
- Coming up with ideas and making them happen
- Reading!
- Lazing around at home with family
- Travelling

Five favourite toys:
- Dont think I have any

I tag:
Aruni! (http://destructivecreativity.blogspot.com/)

What a week!

And what a week it has been!
Got back from a "soul searching" experience at the Vipassana camp in Igatpuri, started a new job with a really cool team, and graduated from St. Xavier's college!
Sneha Menon, BA,first class. Not bad,huh?
Started a job! www.ecosecurities.com.Working with a bunch of ex-AIESECers and young people we're trying to set up shop for this UK based company here in India.Right from setting up the office to creating a niche for this industry in India, this promises to be a challenge to say the least. But after the last couple of months in lethargy, Im sure that this will be as challenging, if not more than my last experience with IC 2005 in India (www.ic2005india.org). Im sure Ill mention more about my new job in subscequent postings.
Vipassana.
10 days in absolute silence can teach you a lot of things.Want to say so much, but I dont want to do injustice to the technique.All I will say though, is that its something you need to do once in a lifetime.
Thats all for now. Will blog more soon