Humidifiers : Any experience ?

Winter is here and with it has brought dry skin and cold weather. With the heaters on in the home, the humidity is still lower. I have been doing some R&D on humidifiers and seems like Humidifiers help you feel warmer also since more the humidity the less cold you …

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Apples Apples Apples

[photopress:Apples_3.jpg,thumb,centered] A for apple. B for bada apple. C for chhota apple D for dusra apple. E for ek aur apple. F for fokat ka apple. G for gol apple. H for hazar apple I for itney saarey apple? J for jaao nahi khaana hai apple K for kaise nahi …

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Reva – the electric Car (India)

[photopress:reva.jpg,thumb,centered] We had gone to Bangalore on a short visit and while there we got to ride in a Reva (India’s first electric car). One of our cousins has bought a used one and we rode in that for a day around the city. Now this car is really really …

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Mercury News vs Times of India

Years of Mercury News exposure has left me dumb. 🙁 It was such a pleasure to be reading the Times of India for 6 weeks. The TOI contains so much informative material that it is easy to get lost for 2 hours in the newspaper (Now that they supply the …

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Yeh hai Bombay meri jaan….

Starting this thread to document some of the idiosyncrasies about Mumbai w.r.t shopping and other things to do. 1) Nirmal-Lifestyle Mall in Mulund: They have a huge open space around which there are various shops. The theme in the open space is “Space”. They have huge planets hanging from the …

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HongKong Airport – A nice place to spend time

[photopress:hkairport1.jpg,thumb,centered] We had a 8 hour halt at HK airport on the way to Mumbai and I must say that the HK airport is really beginning to stand out as a airport in terms of the services that it offers. [photopress:hkairport2.jpg,thumb,centered] This time around we noticed an airplane model which …

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Honourable Men

“One day, while a woodcutter was cutting a branch of a tree above a river, his axe fell into the river. When he cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, “Why are you crying?” The woodcutter replied that his axe has fallen into water, and he needed the axe to …

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