recipe for good luck
travel to an ancient city in china
climb up to the highest spot in the mountains
buy a lock and engrave it with your family name
lock it on the chain and toss the key into the abyss..........

picture taken at the top of huangshan mountain in anhui province - china

grande dame of the garden...........

basketball champ..........has been???

ok ...........todays pictures of the day.............lacrosse practise...............



and............the miami heat dancers..................

5 am manila airport...........its amazing how alive asia gets at the oddest hours. all flights to europe and america leave at this time. i mean even bombay- 2 am at the aiport is like a huge party going on.

making money means a lot of sacrifice........for example i travelled 28 hours to manila for 48 hours of business. today i travel 11 hours to china for 72 hours of business. its pretty wild

the other thing about business travel is the tremendous amount of time one spends alone........huge amount of time we can use in many ways.

how do i spend my time??????????

sleeping

praying

blogging

reading

watching a movie

taking photographs

eating or more like trying to control my eating.......( example - at the lounge this morning - a cucumber sandwich has about two teaspoons of butter slathered on it.....so ieat the cucumber and skip the bread.........still hungry but i refuse to swallow fat........gosh its like policing ones mouth constantly.)

shopping- i find something to buy at the oddest of places. last year was delayed by 5 hours in coimbatore and i bought 5 pounds of mithai- and i dont eat a dot.......gave it all awaya......and hopped into a cab to buy sarees.......and i dont even wear them more than once every 5 years.........what can i say -except i do need to kill time- or i will kill the passenger next to me.

and after all that - i still have time to spare.........craaaaaaaaaaazieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

guru nanaks birthday on sunday...............bummer - i would love to be in india to go to the gurdwara..........cant make it..................

prayer for the day.........lord thank you for making me an indian........i have the gift of humanity in my soul and prayer in heart.

on the plane again.........this time another whirlwind trip.....philippines-china-malaysia-india- england and back.......

i am going back- again- with a complete lack of agenda. i will fall asleep - wake up in another time zone- another country and see where that takes me.

it almost feels like i am a vagabond.

if i had any business school professor quiz me about my success - i would be completely at a loss to explain how this strategy has worked for me.

its terrible- i dont even look at my reports till i get to the negotiating table.

i guess i should be greatful that i have a wonderful support staff at the office and great instincts to make it all work.