Pisces:You can make anything happen this year if you banish the fear and use a little elbow grease. The only thing holding you back is your self-perception, so realize your own self worth and get to work achieving your dream! (Elle, January 2008).

It’s almost end of May 2008, and this is my second post. Sad, I know. In my defense I must be honest enough to say I’ve never been good at maintaining journals. The first and last diary I had was when I was 10 – even then I only religiously wrote in it to create fantasies about how my first crush would realize that I was the 5th grader for him…that and it was wonderfully scented - a fusion of rose and baby breath me thinks.

Anyway so much has happened. I’m the same yet I’m not the same person who arrived here 8months ago. I’ve laughed, I’ve cried, I’ve over-indulged in material pleasures and I’ve learn’t to take a time out to seek life’s simple pleasures; I have learn’t to distinguish a problem from a real problem (ongoing process) and more!

Well, I’m getting back on track and I’ve decided that I want to develop this blog as an extension of myself. I want to learn discipline instead of simply watching things happen around me and to me. I need to take back control. Hello Taj, hello Ganges, hello Sarojini, hello mum, family past/current/future friends – hello world!

This is my space. Welcome.

From the the place I was born - the majestic house of stones - where the rumbling of the approaching thunderstorm sends shivers down ur spine and the aftermath leaves you replete with the euphoric smell of...the earth – cleansed and alive; to the years I spent in the land of the Hereros and Namas – Namibia, to my first trip abroad ALONE to set up three years of my life in Australia, to the land of the Vikings, H&M, Absolut Vodka, Volvo and paternal leave (hehe), to the home of flamenco, tapas and Zara, to here...

My first post from this land they call Incredible India. Thus far it has been quite the journey indeed...