the best thing.

the start of a new month... already? sometimes i feel like the year has barely kicked off.


i'm back from my 3-day conference at Couran Cove off the Gold Coast. it was lots of fun - i met lots of people (welcome to the world of socializing and networking, baby!), the food & drinks were great (the fact that they were on the tab made it even better), sailing was heaps of fun and we had sunny blue skies all around.

it's funny how some of the more interesting conversations i had were with men twice my age. i like listening to life stories and they like telling them. with our age gap we could have passed off as father & daughter, but as we laughed and drank the night away i found myself wanting to know more about what they knew, and i digested all this information with an earnest thirst to see, to watch, to learn.

iPhones, Blackberries, Burberry polos, trips to Europe and Asia, family sedans with baby car seats securely fastened in the back, spending time with the wives & kids - these were some of the things that made up their lifestyle. not really a far cry from the narcissism and self-absorption of Gen Y, when you think about it... although i suspect they might have managed to weed out the detrimental aspects of living in a technology-dependent, wealth-obsessed, image-conscious era.


reality bites. sometimes it gives gentle nibbles and sometimes, when you're extremely well-behaved, it might even give you a playful lick - but mess with it too much and it might chew your arm right off.