My dream-life is to be able to travel the world, immerse myself in new cultures and new places, and just keep going! There is so much to experience, so many countries to see, and one life-time is too short. What do I do about it? I see the expenditure in travel as another form of investment, and so am happy to spend on a vacation as much as I am…
mentoring
MasterChefs, winners, what makes them tick?
You can take the hotelier out of the hotel, but I don’t think you can take the hotel out of the hotelier. And so it is with me. My favourite TV shows are therefore all the Master Chefs and the MKRs and even America’s worst cooks! I can watch them endlessly, much to the disgust of my family, they insisted on having multiple TVs in the house so they don’t…
Experience, or images
The highlight of our day, spent roaming from one amazing stall to another at the Dubai Shopping festival, was supposed to be the spectacular fireworks show in the night. We had heard a lot about it, and had seen photographs and videos my friend Charu had painstakingly captured for us to see. She was our host and she had planned our itinerary so meticulously, to ensure that we did not…
Ask and ye shall receive……………
I learnt the art of asking, along with driving and I guess I received my licence for both simultaneously. I am probably better at asking than at driving, as the male chauvinists in my life would like to have me believe. Anyway, let me share the story of how I learnt to ask. In 1995, I used to commute from home to Taj Coromandel and back home in auto-rickshaws. Vexed with…
Curiosity did not kill this cat!
I am not an engineer. I did not learn to write code, learn programming languages, nothing! I do not have any kind of formal education on anything to do with technology. As a matter of fact, my first introduction to computers was when I joined, in 1990, the Hotel Management School, and had to roster my students into the practical sessions. I had to do this, to my horror, on…