Posted in Commentary, tagged Airplanes, British Airways, Seatguru, Travelling on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I am sitting in the BA lounge waiting for my flight to London so I thought I’d post about a great travel website called Seatguru.com One of our travel managers recommended it and I have been using it ever since to check out my seat before checking in online. On this site, you can look up any seat on [...]
Posted in Entertainment, tagged Bollywood, dance, Entertainment, Film, UCLA, USC on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Bollywood is the largest film industry in the world, producing the most films with the largest audiences. It makes up to 800 films a year - twice as many as Hollywood and about 14 million Indian people go to the cinema each day!
Last Saturday night, we went to see Ayushee perform at the Bollywood dance [...]
Posted in Kids, tagged Birthday, Life on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Annika invited her friends to Scooters Jungle for her birthday party.
Here are some pictures of her friends.
Here is her “homemade chocolate chip brownie cake” since she doesn’t like regular cake with frosting.
Here’s the little princess making another funny face!
Posted in Commentary, tagged Catholic, News, Religion on February 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The other day when we went up to Los Angeles and passed by the Blessed Sacrament Catholic School, we saw just how aggressive their recruitment tactics are.
Here is a picture of the school on Sunset Boulevard. It is a charming old 1930’s era stone building.
But look closer behind the SUV and you’ll see their recruitment [...]
Posted in Events, Life, tagged Birthday, Life on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Anjali took Annika and Emma out to Macaroni Grill for Annika’s birthday. She could not get a smiling face. This was the best of the night!
What a pair of cuties!
Posted in Boy Scouts, Entertainment, tagged Basketball, Globetrotters, Sports on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Last weekend, we went to see the Harlem Globetrotters at the Honda Center in Anaheim with our cub scout den. Anjali and I had seen them 16(?) years ago in Long Beach and they were up to the same old antics - water in the stands, confetti, and playing with the kids and the [...]
Posted in Commentary, Friends, Random, tagged business, CNBC, MEMC Electronics, Nabeel Gareeb, Random, WFR on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I was watching TV this morning and saw my old college roommate Nabeel Gareeb on CNBC. He is now the CEO of MEMC Electronics which is a $2B manufacturer of wafers.
Check out his interview below.
http://www.cnbc.com
When the rest of us were in college partying, he was up studying or working. His only vices were cars [...]
Posted in Entertainment, tagged Culture, Entertainment, LA Natural History Museum, los angeles, Museum on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Last week, Anjali took the kids to the Natural History Museum on their day off.
Here are some pictures from the trip.
Here is Vikram at the rock exhibit learning about one of the excavation machines.
Here they are with their friends Ryan and Brandon.
Here are Nikhil, Annika and Brandon in front of the polar bear exhibit.
Here are [...]
Posted in Entertainment, tagged Football, Griddle Cafe, Super Bowl, Universal Studios on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
We are in the small minority of American families that did not watch the Super Bowl. Instead, we decided to spend the day up in LA.
We started off at the Griddle Cafe in Hollywood - this was rated a top 10 breakfast restaurant by City Guide and City Search and we can see [...]
