How to bring in 2013.

Have you ever watched someone lose their health? It's the most heartbreaking feeling. My Grandma (Dama) has to be one of the strongest women on this earth to be able to take care of my ageing grandpa the way she does.

 I don't have much more to say in this post. I have been thinking a lot about my grandparents since I spent New Year's with them. It was a short, beautiful, bittersweet trip to Chennai. And it was the first time I bawled my eyes out when I had to leave.

Here are a few moments...



Mahabilpuram. This is an ancient rock formation at the southern tip of Madras and its absolutely gorgeous. Beaches for days!

This is a super old photo of my Grandma's side of the family. My grandmum and dad are the couple in the top left corner of the photo. My dad and his siblings are sitting in the bottom row (Second one from the left is Dad). Hilarious. I know....

 

This is kulfi (ice cream) in a clay pot. The pot has a lot of frost in this photo... the contents are basically creamy crack.

 

These hands were once so strong. They held me up and held me strong. They held me in a warm embrace everytime I saw him.

These hands are those of the only Grandfather I know.


Happy New Year everybody!

Here's to another year trying to make it.

xo

 

How to NOT go to Nepal

What happens when China has a baby with India?

NEPAL!

Easily one of the most gorgeous, breathtaking, blah blah blah, I'm going to stop trying to describe it in words now. Nepal is nepal. You should go before you die. And you should go ready to camp out and climb and really rough it out, unlike the way I did.

"Family" vacays are just not the best in Nepal, in my opinion at least. Well, atleast not with kids. We (My dad, mom and bro) are all fully grown adults and we could handle ourselves through the craziness. By craziness, I mean the constant moving/driving, different place everynight, a jampacked day schedule and the unlimited drinking and smoking. I could just barely handle myself.

Cray family bonding. We saw everything from cremations to monkeys to temples, mountains, marijuana and rhinos. BUT, OMG THE SPIDERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. I died. If you weren't an arachnophobic before, you will be after Nepal.