My Christmas break

I went somewhere completely new this year... a country which has always been exotic, with colorful landscapes, vastly different people, the very poor, and the super rich; a country with rich history, and many current social problems, and at the verge of economic breakthrough.

Though the trip was only 5 days long, I got to see parts of India that showed me all of the above, and then some.

It was an overdue break, and a good outing with friends... despite getting sick at the end, the trip was well worth the hassle (and believe me, traveling 8 hours by flight and then 3 hours by car is a lot of hassle).

M.

Christmas Cards

On a recent trip to SF, I bought 2 boxes full of Christmas cards, thinking that I would finally hand write some of them to mail to my best buddies and family members. We have 5 days left before Christmas, and I realized that I will never make it for mailing them out on time. And the biggest problem is... it turns out I don't have the mailing addresses of most of my friends. In this information age, our physical location seems rather irrelevant in terms of our actual distance. I mean, sometimes I communicate more with my mother in Los Angeles than my brother who works within a mile from me. Have the hotmails, gmails, yahoos replaced zip codes and street names that defined our physical location? Will there be a time when some of these email addresses take on the prestigious addresses like "The Peak" or "Barker Road" etc.?
Back to where I was going... so, instead of spending money and time mailing out dozens of cards, I resorted to the good old email, and sent out e-cards: they're cheaper, faster, sometimes more reliable, and more environmentally friendly. Yes yes yes, hand-writing makes it more "special," but with my illegible hand-writing, this is probably for the better.
Getting ready for a short trip to a far-off place, and also preparing for the arrival of my parents... quite a hectic week.
BTW, nobody reads this stuff, because I haven't advertised it to my friends yet.

Taken at my former workplace with an old schoolmate of mine, David 

Taken recently in San Francisco 

Preparing for 2006

This blog thing has been around for a while, but I haven't explored what I could do with it. So, since I have always wanted to have my own journal (too lazy or non-commital about actually doing it), I thought this would be a good way to finally put it into reality.

Let's see how long I'll keep this thing updated.

M.