Today I was taking a little nap in the afternoon, trying to take advantage of my free day when I woke up to look outside one of my windows to a dark meanacing black cloud. the other window it was still bright and blue. I got so excited - the rains are coming! In the past few years I have been waiting for the rain to cool us down, but this year it ( Read more... )

i need help.. my friend from the east coast will be coming to SF for a few days when I'm there and suggested we do a day at the spa. i think it will be fantastic. the only problem, i don't know any spas there!! i never even considered doing stuff like that when I was in the US (here i do often as its much cheaper!). i think since we will have ( Read more... )

this is what was said about me yesterday in a tsunami affected village where i was visiting. i was visiting a muslim girls programme and one of the tiny little things was so freaked out by me.. would scream if i even looked near her! it was sad for me... mostly kids love me. but basically we discovered the reason for her hysterics when she asked ( Read more... )

As many of you know I have become quite obsessed with the Mumbai cat population since living here - taking in 5 (but only keeping 2!), and getting about 7 adopted through other friends. My vet suggested a few months ago that I needed to start a cat organization here since no other group looks after the stray cats. And I did take his advice and ( Read more... )

just returned from our "extravagant" weekend in Dubai. It was great and a much needed break from India. I never realized that "America" was so close! Literally, Dubai is like a little America. Big nice roads, everyone drives everywhere, and malls on every block and malls that take up 10 city blocks! We shopped until we dropped. I didn't get much ( Read more... )

have you ever planned an international trip in less than 12 hours ( Read more... )

did i miss everyone's top music selections of the year ( Read more... )

so yeah i think i will probably be going to pakistan in a few weeks. yeah! at first i was feeling quite nervous, but then i was reading things online from other travellers and people seem to say its fine. so we'll see ( Read more... )

the story of james and kati has been in my mind the last few days and i get up in the morning to look first thing for news. i went to bed last night feeling very upset about it - apparently the same time as you guys were finding out the news. my heart is hurting for all of you in SF.

been a busy few weeks here with work, paul's brother visiting and the approaching holidays ( Read more... )