"A really sweet person, with a good sense of music and the midas touch when it comes to cooking."

That's how I've been described by someone on one of those social networking sites. Hmmmm.... I'm thinking I desperately need an image makeover. Thumbs up to my sense of music bit (although it should actually be good taste in music...I am practically tone deaf!) but the other two need to change. I hate being known only for my cooking but alas...it's the only impression I ever manage to leave!

It's been a while since I last did this so a few updates are in order:

After months of planning to get out of town just for a change, I finally spent 4 days in Bangalore. The high points of my trip were the cool climate and watching tigers mate at the Bannerghatta Wildlife Park. Also, spending time with some amazing kids. Two-year-olds are seriously the coolest of our species! I envy them their innocence and wide-eyed wonder at everything from fireworks in the sky to a bug crawling up a tree. I want to go back and be a 2-year-old again and this time I want to have fun. The low points are too many useless and irritating things beyond my control so they are better left unsaid.

The dedication and discipline that I managed to wheel into my life a few months back has all gone out of the window! The funny thing is, it's getting harder to get back on track this time around. But I have to, and I will.

Friends, or the lack of, are on my mind more these days. So much so that I feel confused about who really is a friend and who isn't. And I'm not even blaming anyone else, I think I am the one who needs to decide who I can trust and who I cannot. That said, I am mourning the loss of a couple of friends I had gotten really close to. We seem to be standing silently at opposite ends each waiting for the other to make the first move. Something I suck at, so we know how that's going to end!

I think I might get back to working for a living. Just might...

It's almost 2 years since we went on a proper holiday. The kind where you travel to places you've never been before but always dreamed of going to and when you finally do, you don't ever want to get back. I am itching to plan a holiday around my next birthday!