THIS IS AWESOME

http://wikimapia.org/#y=22299281 />

Go to the above link. It shows you the map just like Google. The neat thing is that you can actually highlight a place and define what it is. For example



In Upleta,

I added a descriptionof where Manji thakershi oil mill and Mandeep industry is.



In Rajkot,

I added RKC, Taxashila society etc.



This is awesome. I am in love with it.





Let me know what u folks think?

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12 Days of Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owK5tHjL0aE



Its really funny. Enjoy.

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Rachel Ray hate club

You know Rachel Ray, the 30ish UMMMMMMMish cooking show host. Well I read in the Sunday newspaper that there is an official hate club for her. Now i know she cooks food in 30 minutes and she relies heavily on frozen food but hey who in today's world have time to go to the grocery store everyday to pick fresh products for their dinner, unless u r in France.



My opinion: First of all I like to watch her cook :), she cooks food for today's typical household who comes home tired from work and want to relax. They can follow her recipe and cook food in half and hour, eat it and then relax. I don't see anything wrong with that. I bet you some of us like to do that also once in a while. So why the really hardcore hate club for her?



What is your opinion people?

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Jet got permissionto fly to US

US DOT has given Jet permission to fly to US. Lets see when the service starts. I hope they start from Boston as well as JFK/EWR.

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Ritz-Carlton Boston being bought out by Taj

BOSTON, NOVEMBER 10: Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces said on Thursday it had agreed to buy The Ritz-Carlton Boston hotel, the longest continuously operated Ritz-Carlton hotel in the United States, for $170 million.

The 79-year-old luxury hotel, a fixture in Boston's elegant Back Bay section, overlooks one of the oldest parks in the country. It is being sold by Millennium Partners, a New York- based real estate developer.

The 273-room hotel will be renamed Taj Boston, Indian Hotels Chief Executive Raymond Bickson said in a statement.

Taj Hotels Resorts is a unit of Indian Hotels Co. Ltd., India's biggest hotel operator.

In 1999, Millennium paid USD122 million for the Ritz-Carlton Boston, which opened in 1927 and was built by Edward Wyner.

Financial Express
Nov 10 2006.

YIPPPPEEEEE !!! Rumsfeld is out

This is my own opinion.

Thank god that guy is out. I was watching a show last night on PBS and apparently he was involved with Vietnam war as well.

Do you guys see a connection: Vietnam war = US Failure, Iraq war = US failure.

I think he got fired by Bush since they lost the election.

Tribute to Tej

Well one of our cousin passes away on Friday at a tender age of 24. Just married 4 months ago and the one and only son to the parents that were very close to my family. He died because of Dangu fever. Although i did not know him very well before Tulan's marriage, I got real close to him and his mom during Tulan's marriage. Here are few of the things we did during Tulan's marriage:
- I wanted to get my suite ironed day before Tulan's sagai. Well he took me to this ironman. He was closing the store down and Tej made him open the store and had my suite ironed. While the guy ironed the suite, we ate pan and drink sodas.

- Both of us were going on a bike somewhere. We passed next to the cop. Cop told us to pull over because we were not wearing helmets. I told him to pull over and he says "na no need to" and just kept going. It was very funny.

- He took me, Swaroopa, Nina, Tosal and Vimal out for soda and pan. We had really good time. He would put all7 of us in his car and take us out for a ride. We had such a good time with him.

- He got few tubes of pithi for tulan's weeding so that we can all rang tulan in pithi.

Well he is no more. I had to ask my dad two time to make sure it was Tej. I cannot stop thinking about what his parents and his wife are going through right now. We called his dad last night and he was not able to talk. IT IS A REAL SHOCK TO ALL OF US.

May peace be with you
May god give enough strength to your parents to live their life without you.

Our prayers and our thoughts are with you and your family.

So Long Tej. :(

Here are some of the pictures I took of him during Tulan's weeding in January 2006.



























So long Tej :(

non stop from JFK - Bombay

Delta started a non-stop service from JFK to Bombay on Nov 1st 2006. its about 15 hours flight and the plane is Boeing 772LR. Each seat has PTV that shows hindi and english movies, hindi music and much more.

What do you folks think? Would you take this flight.

My opinion,
I would take this flight. Atleast it assures me that once I am airborne, I will reach bombay for sure and wont have to worry about layovers and plane change etc.

Lets hear whay u all have to say