Happy to help

Khaleej Times is turning 38 tomorrow, and as the 'parent body' of this magazine settles down into middle-aged rotundity with a flurry of fun things - watch out for the paper tomorrow, folks! - wknd. decided to give you a sneak peek into what lies ahead. Tomorrow and for the long haul. Our agenda is happiness. That all-important, smiley-faced elusive quotient we desperately seek. What gives us happiness is perhaps the most overplayed question to be asked in the history of humankind. For most of us, happiness fixes are like shifting sands - they keep changing. A few greater mortals, however, have found happiness etched in stone. That's because they are happy enough to admit happiness lies in making others happy. Let's meet some of these remarkable men and women who have chosen to put others - with no narrow-minded agenda or straitlaced focus - before themselves. And they're happy. Now, that's serendipity.
Sydney-based Marisa Calo is trying to be happy in her own way, in the face of very daunting odds. She's been diagnosed with cancer, but she's decided to look life straight in the face and do something that will give her baby girl some happiness: letters from mama. Marisa says it's for the time when she's not around; but given medical advances and love and good wishes and prayers, we hope she beats the odds. Catch Marisa as she opens up to wknd. In Travel, we go off the beaten track in the very tried-and-tested Washington DC. Bollywood tackles the role of gender benders in the relationship context.  
All this and much more.
Enjoy reading wknd. and have a great weekend!