Musings of an Idiot

Anticipation

October can't come soon enough - I am waiting in nervous excitement for the trip to Hong Kong and then India. I don't know if I mentioned it earlier but I had to curtail the Mumbai leg of the journey because the indian film market is feeling the impact of recession as well and the financiers and producers have tightened up their purses. In such a scenario the most sensible thing was to cut the loss and make the best of the remaining time there, so I will be spending a month with my parents in Hyderabad - which would be equivalent to the total time I spent over the past 2 trips to India over a 6 year time frame and needless to say I am excited.

Those who are close to me know that I've been working as many extra days as I can get at work, so I can save up for next year's planned trip. I hate not earning money and worse still taking a holiday when I am not earning anything, so working extra circumnavigates the problem. At this point I am planning on doing an intrepid journey in Borneo and then with air fares permitting do a stop over in Hyderabad before going to visit my sister, Veni in Vegas, since it's been 4 years since I last saw her and I've never met Sandy, her husband, in person yet - which I am pretty ashamed about [I couldn't go to their marriage because of work related issues when I was teaching at South Seas Film School]. If the tickets end up being too expensive then I might have to do a trip to India in the later part of 2010 and just do the Borneo-US trip in early-mid 2010.

When you are in New Zealand, you are pretty insulated from rest of the world because of the distance but it also means travelling anywhere is such a big undertaking and it is pretty expensive. Now I can see why so many young kiwis are so insistent on taking their OE {Overseas Experience} where they travel and work in different countries - I think it is a mixed blessing because we end up with a generation who are more enlightened about the world around them but at the same time I think it creates a disparity of a different kind, which I am not even going to start speaking about in this post.


That's not to say that travel is the only thing I am excited about - I am also excited about 'The Moments In Between' because I think it is a special project and we have a lot of work to do to finish it off but it definitely will be something special. I am excited about my job at TVNZ - with constant job enrichment process taking place with support from my bosses and the hours definitely give me the freedom to carry on my film making pursuits. The only thing I am not really excited about is my personal life because it is non-existent (so much for work-life balance...heheheheeee). But overall more positives than negatives, so I am pretty happy with the way things are progressing.


In anticipation,
Amit

Labels: LX3, New Zealand, Random, Travel, TVNZ

posted by Amit @ 6:48 AM