I'm one of those strange people that keeps in touch with their exes - mainly because although my break-ups are painful and riddled with tears, they are never because I've fallen 'out' of love. So I give myself time to get over the boy in question, and then we become friends again.

My previous relationship was very serious, to the extent that we started thinking of getting married soon. It didn't work out, and the break-up was agonizing. But all that was over a year ago. Now we are GOOD friends.

Akshay came over to Goa for New Year's and I caught up with him yesterday. It was tremendous fun - we walked around Calangute for a while, and then finally had an early dinner at Infantaria.

Then I proceeded to buy an obscene amount of sweets for home, but that's a whole other story.

What I ended up taking away from the experience was that I have become a confident, mature human being and quite capable of handling a number of social 'situations' which would ordinarily have floored me.

I'm growing, I think.