When the lights went out

Do you miss those days in India when the lights went out sometimes. We used to then light a candle and wait for light to come back. Sometime use a newspaper to fan ourselves. If it was not too late, then You would step out of the home and spend …

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California Pizza Kitchen

Finally we visited CPK (California Pizza Kitchen) in Valley Fair Mall. I knew that we had some comments about CPK in KV but could not find them in time to see what was recommended :-). I need to fix the “Search” functionality in KV. Anyway creating this post and copying …

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How the Fight Starts?

My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, ‘What’s on TV?’ I said, ‘Dust.’ And then the fight started… —————————————- My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. . She said, ‘I want something shiny that goes …

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Websites for Stories for Kids

Every night I have to tell 1-2 stories to Kairavi before she goes off to sleep. Now I have exhausted all the well known stories that I grew up with. And Kairavi knows them too well now. I do cook up stories from imagination from time to time but at …

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A Mini Camping for our Summer Visitors

Parul/Aayush/Aarshi and Samir/Amisha/Bhumi/Keya are visiting the Bay Area during months of Apr/May when the kids have vacation back in India. Parul is here from Apr 6th onwards and Samir from Apr 23rd onwards. We all are of course very delighted at having the oppurtunity to spend fun time with them …

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Indian Cooks Available

This post could be useful in future for folks and hence posting it. Just got an internal mail about a Gujarati lady available as a cook. Here is the quote My Cook is available for evening/morning/weekend cookings. She is a wonderful lady and very nice cook. You can find more …

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