Diwali is the Festival of Lights. Every essay, every composition, every elocution in school about Diwali started with this line. And why not as the city lights up every year for this week long celebration. Falling in the month of October/November, Diwali brings along with it a certain kind of peace, a sense of hope,… {Read More}
Camping at Palm Beach Teepee Village
The first time I heard about camping in Hong Kong was through a friend who couldn’t stop raving about how much fun it was and how her boys thoroughly enjoyed themselves and that it’s a ‘must-do’ and so on and so forth. It was only later that I found out that she herself had not… {Read More}
The idiot box
Our television is dead. It’s been ten days now since that fatal day and our house has descended into a an eerie kind of silence, a silence that no children screaming, no adult banter and no music, not even the loud Bollywood songs, can fill in. The remote had stopped working weeks ago, probably with… {Read More}
1000 steps to a hidden world
This article was featured on Sassy Mama, a leading family portal in Hong Kong, on May 27, 2013. Visit http://sassymamahk.com/sassy-mama-mehroo-takes-1000-steps-to-a-hidden-world/ Hiking up to the highest mountain in Hong Kong, The Peak, is a joy that I have discovered recently living on the South side of Hong Kong. Whether I do this walk with a friend or… {Read More}
Rock-ing in Macau
Normally speaking we are not the best planners when it comes to holidays and most of our holidays have been planned at the very last minute. This time however going by our disappointment during the Christmas holiday period, we planned our trip to Macau more than a month in advance. But honestly travelling from HK… {Read More}
It’s Merry Christmas eve, Mummy!
“It’s Merry Christmas eve Mummy!” shouted out my elder son in absolute glee as we headed back home from an early dinner tonight (24th December). Both my sons were so excited to get Santa’s gift the next day that they couldn’t wait to get home and go to sleep! A big refreshing change for me… {Read More}
Walking in the Winter Wonderland
Can’t believe we are in December already! This year’s gone by in the blink of an eye. Seems like yesterday when we moved to Hong Kong from London. We have been riding on a roller coaster ever since. Settling down in our service apartment, making new friends, waiting for the school admission, hunting for our… {Read More}
Water fun in Chimelong Paradise
This photograph was taken during a water ride at Chimelong Paradise in Guangzhou, China. While the photograph looks like so much fun as you can make out from our ecstatic faces, I wonder if you can detect an element of shock or surprise as well? It started like this – we were standing in a long… {Read More}
HAPPY DIWALI!
Here’s wishing all my readers and their families a very Happy Diwali and a prosperous New Year! Being here in Hong Kong it’s very difficult to get a feel of India’s biggest and much celebrated festival. Here’s sharing my little bit of my celebration today. 6:00: Woke up early. Did rangoli outside my house and… {Read More}
Holidays….are you having fun?
The other day I was having a conversation about holidays with a friend, who mentioned how her husband loved to visit every tourist spot mentioned in Lonely Planet whenever they travel. While in a way that does make the trip interesting and more worthy of all the money that one spends in going to a… {Read More}
