Monthly Archives: February 2009

Delhi-6 Movie Review

Although I had a poor impression of Delhi-6 after seeing all the trailers and interviews that preceded it, when my friends called me up for a movie date, call it peer pressure or whatever, I ended up going for it. Here’s the review… Delhi-6 is a story of a young Indo-American boy Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) [...]

Fun Quiz for the Ladies

One more quiz that analyzes your character based on your responses to questions… I turned out to be a Doris…(but just not sure how accurate this is) Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz… You Are a Doris! You are a Doris — “I [...]

Great new Yoga Site

Since I will not be continuing to attend the awesome Yoga classes at work, I looked through the web searching for some good yoga classes that I can take that are close by to my house. Gold’s Gym (which is right across the road) offers what seems to be a decent Ashtanga yoga class. I [...]

Interesting Article about Food and Money

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/your-money/07money.html?_r=2&em The following para from the article really seems to make a lot of sense to me : Various studies (and common sense) suggest that eating well pays off in a number of ways. If you eat right, you’ll have more energy. That makes you more likely to succeed at work and earn more money. [...]

Valentine’s Special

Is it crazy weird that the best Valentine’s day present I got this weekend…was being able to sleep-in while hubby dearest took care of the snub-nose until I finally rolled out of bed at 9:00 AM ? Hope you all had a fun Valentine’s weekend!

World Without End – Book Review

World without end – a gargantuan novel by Ken Follett can be more appropriately named “Novel without end”. It runs on for 1000 + pages and covers the lives of the protagonists from childhood to middle age. Technically, this is a sequel to his other novel -The Pillars of the Earth. However, you can read [...]

Advance Valentine Wishes from Cisco

Nice one ! Shows good creativity on a shoe-string budget… My Valentine’s wishes will probably be much more conventional

Headline : Shoe Throwing Incidents on the Rise

Headline : Shoe Throwing Incidents on the Rise Yesterday, the snub-nose threw a shoe at me. Why ? Because, I did not let her paint on the sofa… Hmm, surely she cannot equate that with what Bush did to Iraq !! This is the first time in my life, that someone has thrown a shoe [...]

The Happy Hippy

Another quotable quote – this time from an actress ! Drew Barrymore may not always sound like the brightest bulb, but I do like what she says here – I like projecting positivity. I believe that we are all fields of energy and you have the choice whether to be a positive or negative field [...]

70% sale at Sanctuary…

how could I resist ? Ended up buying tons of stuff for the family. Thanks to my in-laws for their patience while we all happily ran all around the store … Stuff I bought for myself Since the prices were rock-bottom, this was a good opportunity to experiment with a couple of new styles. I [...]