Bootstap challenge part 1

Travel challenge: 6 months of couch-surfing (total 166 days in 22 kgs luggage) while building a new company in a new sector (investment advisory) in 2 continents - Europe & America.                            last 20 days left !!!! Root for me. I visualize a Chris Gardner ending! And will write a book on the incredible adventures in these months. 

 Challenge ends dec 16, 2015

    Start of Travel, I select June 13. It's my lucky number, and the flight is 123. My guiding number ! And the movie that I saw on the airplane is called 'wild' - the girl who walks the pacific crest trail (pst) in California: hitch hicking and backpacking. That movie changed my mindset towards my journey and I  set my challenge: I am going to couch surf to build this company. 6 months, 2 continents 

 

 And I am journaling the challenge.

So, part 1 version which you already know. 

 June in Florence, Italy

     My luggage never exceeded 22 to 25 kgs. I let a lot of things with friends And gifted a lot along the way. But magically, i never seema to run out of Clothes or Shoes And had stuff for all occasions. Meetings, cocktails, galas at the Plaza hotel, concerts, sveltering summer at record 45 degrees And freezing Winter. There were pitstops for energy recharging always, as we taureans need our rest periods. The italian riveria offered solace as did east Village And Brooklyn artistic energies. 

    Phase 1: Europe done. Back to india to pick up winter clothes and fly to Wall Street, New York 

Couch-surfing (friends lent me their couch to camp while I did business development meetings and met investment banks. 

 Part 1: First 90 days in Italy. Good ground covered. 

Part 2 posting from America. 

 Hope you are rooting for me in these final 20 days of the Challenge. 

The summit is yet to be climbed.....New York took time to acclimatize, also I lost time as none of my bank credit or debit cards from india or italy worked, so I spent a week fixing that. In addition, coming from the italian summer into this frenetic pace, took time to get in this mega river of energy. One had to be a strong swimmer here because it's swim or sink. 

Will I make it, in New York, the greatest city in the world 'the empire'. 

All I can say is: It's not over until I win ! And let's step up the pedal and push the gas. 

Kaal Ho Na Ho

I am having a kaal Ho Na Ho moment. 

Great way to start the day

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Winter in Colour

Winter looks: although winter is around the corner, I like colour. Vearing towards mustard and teal. The bronze skirt is s find from banana republic. Fascinated with east village and the Ukrainian village. These boots with red lace-ups are lined with fur and keep me warm. Walked from 52nd street to Houston and back. That's over a 104 streets. Woo-hoo New York City. 

Picasso's Muse and Companion: Gilot

Muse number 6, Francoise Gilot was Pablo Picasso's lover for 11 years and had 2 children with him: Claude and Paloma. Now 93 and an artist in her own right, she paints. She was also the only woman not destroyed by Picasso. She left him with her 2 young children and moved to New York where she wrote a best seller book: life with Picasso, which Picasso tried to stop from getting published and dis-inherited his children from her as a result.                      

 So wonderful to meet Gilot in person. I noticed her stunning neckpiece immediately and her sense of style & taste immediately. One Degree of separation from the great master Pablo.  I could imagine and feel the world of the prodigal master, Pablo Picasso and Francoise Gilot. 

Pablo's painting of Francoise Gilot. She left him and was the only woman not destroyed by him. 

Dressed.....

Deep blue shimmer from New York's fashion district, Egyptian hylographic neckpiece from souks in Cairo, musto heels from Milan..........

and blue dangling earrings from my mothers jewellery collection, dice shaped ring from Thai markets in Bangkok.            The hair length has grown and the colour of the hair is lighter and it's all my way: effortless fall style. 

French Elegance

F for France, F for Fashion. Sending all my friends in France, the strength to get through these times. French Leader, Ms Lagarde shows yet again, why she holding such an important seat of responsibility and with a great fashion sense at that.