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"Sab kuch milega" is a Hindi phrase, which can be roughly translated as “anything is possible”. (Mostly in the context of selling and buying.)  If there is one single thing I learnt during my 7 months in Asia, in both a good sense and a bad sense, it is indeed this: Anything is possible.

So sit back, relax and let me tell you about the many possibilities of life in Asia as a young, single, working girl. 

Two weeks after graduating from university, at some ridiculous hour in the morning, I waved goodbye to my hometown of three years, Birmingham, gave a last kiss to my then-boyfriend and asked the taxi driver to take me to Birmingham International Airport. I was holding my 20kg suitcase, a plane ticket to New Delhi and a 6-month work contract with an IT-enabled services company in Gurgaon, a suburb also known as the "New" New Delhi. The departures area was deserted, and I felt a similar kind of emptiness inside me ...

Eleven hours later, I would be greeted by my new housemates, Ingrid, Paula and Alessandro, amid the craziness of the arrivals hall at Indira Gandhi International Airport. Time to start filling up that emptiness with a new continent, new people and a new job ...