Has anyone in Seattle ever bought a totally brilliant piece of India inspired garment? Apart from Banana Republic, I haven’t found truly great colors or fabrics from India/Asia. Any hidden boutiques I don’t know about?
Check out www.Ritukumar.com or www.valaya.com for some cool clothes.
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Folks at Aditi- a Bellevue/Bangalore IT company sent me this hilarious video on how they welcomed their new recruits in Bangalore recently.
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GpPcMVbmtw
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This link will take you to my interview with Jhumpa Lahiri in today’s PI. I have to say that she truly is a wonderful writer and person. There is this innocence to her that I think is just priceless. Her Pulitzer is very well deserved:
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How early does the preference for same gender playmates begin? My son is 3.5yrs old and he already told me that “Mommy, you can’t love me more than Daddy. Only Daddy can because he’s a boy and all the boys are friends”.
Today I was taking him to the “Grossology” exhibit and he was pretending to be driving his fighter jet, stuck in his car seat. He kept asking dad to fly his jet but dad had his hands on the wheel and couldn’t give into him. So, he goes, “Mommeee, can you fly with me?” I just wanted to enjoy Seattle’s verdant greenery, so I ho-hummed something. He goes, “You can do it mom, just put on your Girly mask, and push your Girly buttons on your Girly jet and YOU CAN DO IT, MOM!” His enthusiasm was so contagious, so innocent! I did just that. Something common is better than nothing, right?!
I think the next thing that’ll put me in his circle of love will include me in a Spiderwoman suit or finger painting with egg yolks on the walls of our living room. Wait for pictures!
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Hilarious Joke via B’lore:
After the shameful defeat of Team India, the team members are not able to show their faces to people. So they choose not to go in public and rather just pack up in hotel rooms.
After a day, Rahul Dravid gets stir crazy and wants to go shopping. So he disguised himself as a Sikh and goes out. He meets a woman at the exit of the hotel who greets him “Hi Dravid!”
Surprised for having been caught he comes back and makes himself up as a muslim woman (in Burkha) and goes out. Yet the same woman greets him “Hi Dravid!”
Dravid comes back determined to give it yet another try with the make up of a Hippie wig and shorts etc. All in vain, the same lady catches him again and greets him “Hi Dravid!”
Bewildered by now, he could not help asking, “How did you recognize me?”
The lady replied - “I am Sachin!”
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Imagination is everything. It is a preview of life’s coming attractions. - Albert Einstein.
Have you heard anything more powerful lately?
Disclaimer: Pls ignore if you’re a professional daydreamer!
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I saw this VW Bug billboard y’day: “Jaded is overrated. Dare to be Happy” and right alongside was this lovely red Bug top down, looking what else but, happy!
This line suits Seattle’s rainy days so well, where people are perpetually lost in their Ipods and coffee jugs, moodily smiling half smiles and then hiding behind their NY Times: the world’s most liberal paper right at home in the world’s most liberal city.
i also feel more young people these days want to convey the impression that everything is beneath them, that nothing’s too cool and hence poor things have no choice but to be jaded. baloney!!!
we’ve got to bring “joy” back into vogue. life’s much fun-ner when you’re having fun and enjoying the ride, instead of feeling all ho-hum about it.
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A friend from Austria sent me this short movie today about one of my favorite musicians. Matt has won a Grammy and has played Bass for this hugely popular Oscar winner Band. What I love about Matt is his humility, honesty and sweetness. He is incapable of saying anything that might hurt someone. He is one of the wisest people I know:
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A Swiss friend emailed me this today. I wonder what unseen connection these two people might’ve had…
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Now it gets really weird…
Lincoln ’s secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy’s Secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Now hang on to your seat.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named ‘Ford.’
Kennedy was shot in a car called ‘ Lincoln’ made by ‘Ford.’
Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here’s the kicker…
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
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This is another topic that a lot of women have shared their frustrations on with me. America is afterall the land of choice and I know a lot of them feel kinda lost navigating this field, coming all the way from India, leaving their Lakme, and God forbid “Fair and Lovelys” behind.
I know many many women are trying to find favorites between Estee Lauder, Dior and Revlon etc etc right now but feel too shy to ask makeup artists, and just get overwhelmed and give up.
So, for the PI, I’m doing a story to make their lives easier, help them look more professional and just in general, take away their hesitancy in playing with color. Afterall, it should be fun, not painful to do this!
So, I’m looking for an Indian model based in the Seattle area. I’ll need their pic to put in the paper. Pls leave your info here and I’ll contact you. My deadline is this weekend.
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