Far east trip

  The year started with me making a resolution to do some international travel.Work related travel was not in the offing.Since my friend Priyanka had moved to Malaysia a couple of months back.She urged us to travel to Malaysia and Singapore.So we started to check up who all are interested ,slowly it was only me and Pavi. Then with much deliberating over the dates we decided that end of Feb will be suiting all of us.
   I booked the tickets with Airasia and then started the "where to go" "what  to buy" stories.We realized that except for TV everything costed same. We finalized to go for Penang, Genting and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia .Singapore we thought to explore by self .
  Me and Pavi were super excited about the trip and reached the airport 3 hours before the flight time.And we did security check and immigration in few mins and were sitting at our gate.We realized that we forgot to take forex and were in big trouble.Since we knew our mobiles wont't work in Malaysia we started panicking.During the flight i bought a water bottle and asked for the change in Ringgits and thankfully the airhostess agreed.Also i exchanged 100 Ringgits from the student sitting next to me.He was a second year medical student studying in Manipal.
  We landed around midnight in KL.It was a very very hot and humid place.But overall we had super fun.Being a veggie in such countries might pose a problem.Singapore was also very fun.Overall i liked Singapore more than KL as KL was like india :).Hoping to cover one more country this year!

Brotherhood~~

   We all say its a man's world out there.In the next minute we gush about women in every field today managing to outdo men.But somehow i feel there is still a gap which might never go away despite our entrance in 21st century.I might be a bit pessimistic in my attitude but hell i know what i am talking about.

I recently came across such depressing scenarios where my whole foundation was rocked into pondering over my life.
    There are always some old timers who yap about having a son to carry forward and reach heaven et all.Its amusing hear their yapping.Not that i argue with them, its a free world and everyone is entitled to their opinion.There were couple of people in course of my career who thought "girls will get married and have kids, so career is time pass" .."You earn and its extra money , we have earn , no choice" .Now this is plain green jealousy or what :P
   Some old ladies look at my dad in village "only girl" oh NO! (With an expression of choking something large).Well i say to you what is wrong with being a girl.Though i must say such incidents are rare , but they do exist.And in office if your manager is chauvinist then you are done.We are yet to come of age in terms of gender equality .My maid who was widowed very young can't remarry as its not done thing .I say a son actually marry twice with both alive and nobody says anything.
  People management is difficult if you are young female manager ,i have seen some friends complaining that they face lot of resentment initially.People turn against you.One friend told me  that she always have to work harder to prove herself .She gets promoted and  after every promotion she is taunted about it .Her beauty is supposed to have gotten that promotion, despite all her hardwork.I don't say such things don't happen.But not always .....Maybe a sisterhood is required to be started for some forward thinking.Maybe segregating gender is not really a good idea.

Being nice is doormat-ism?

   Nowadays its considered cool to be rude and bad mouthed? Since when did this happen? Adults reprimanded children for using words which are considered bad language.But now it seems a norm use F words ,gaali etc in movies and real life.
   I was watching some movie on TV with some local slang's and gaali.It was a major hit .How did we come to this?Oh no, i am not trying to be moral police here.Just that some word's are used anywhere and everywhere irrespective of situation.And nobody's turns a hair.Somehow using it in a polite situation spoils the overall effect.
   Here if someone is very nice and uses good language is considered "the good one" "the uncool one" "seedha saadha" "studious" and what all.I have seen some genuinely nice people getting sidelined in the line of recognition because they used normal language.How uncool is that now.But in the long run nice people come on the top.They might not be  as popular as the baddie ,but they are not doormat's!

PS: Not based on me, purely hypothetical :D