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My wife, Nisha, has become very active on FB off-late ... primarily due to the many contests that run on them and the Dubai market which is at the stage of exploiting FB marketing potential to the max. Here are several FB links where a 'like' will take my wife (and me) one step closer in winning the competition. Do take out a few minutes to access FB and go click-click-click !! ------------------------------------------- Contest 1 Step 1 – Click 'Like' button on this page http://www.facebook.com/dubaimallsguide     Step 2 - Click the 'Like' link below the image http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=162302047181682 Step 3 - Click the 'Like' link below the image http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=163617680383452 ------------------------------------------- Contest 2 Step 1 – Click 'Like' button on this page http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Spaces-Salon-Spa/170772872994624 Step 2 - Click the 'Like' link below my wife's message at...

Several festivals come and go in the second half of the year in India and you see different ways of celebrations in different parts of the country. Celebrations are times when the country turns colorful and there is a lot of joy around. People are generally happy and they talk/meet their friends and relatives on the pretext of wishing them on the occasion. Often, there are people who you talk to only during these occasions wishing over festivals. Festivals in India are times when people buy new clothes and household things including electronic equipment and vehicles (although past 2 decades has begun to shift this culture and the marketers are slowly changing the culture of festival-buying to anytime-buying) Festivals add a lot of sound (read noise), color and light to the general atmosphere and everything seems to be highlighted; even people. Festivals are times when people get a holiday … from work and from educational institutes. These holidays were traditionally utilized f...

  He has been missing from the bollywood scene for quite some time but I am sure he will never leave our memories. For the generation which has grown up watching his movies, he was always a breath of fresh air on the silver screen. He changed the way we perceive and look and feel about Bollywood songs. From the crazy caper "Yahoooo …. Chahe koi mujhe jungle kahein" … to fun filled & romantic "aaj kal tere mere pyaar ke charche har zabaan par" & "yeh Chand sa Roshan chehra" to yet another crazy "Aiy Aiy Aiya Sukooo Sukooo J " to the all-out funny-n-mad "Meri Bhainsh ko danda kyon maara" to the romantic "Aaja Aaja Mein Hoon Pyar Tera" to softer romantic number "Deewana hua baadal, saawan ki ghata chaayee" & "Akele Akele Kahan Ja Rahe Ho" and "Dil ke jharokhe main tujhko bithakar" and "ishaaron ishaaron main dil lene wale"… and the list goes on. I am sure he must have giv...

O! What a day it was ! From the sweltering 45 Degrees to the chilling minus 5 degrees. From the speed boat ride in the open seas to the snow sleigh and tobogganing tyre sliding on snow. From walking on the HOT sand to wading through waist/chest deep COOL water to sliding and slipping on the COLD snow and flying / parasailing over Dubai Seas !!! Rode the Bus, Taxi, Metro, Speed Boat, sleigh and even flew with a parachute thingy !! All in a single day !!!   That is how I celebrated my Wedding Anniversary in May !!! Celebrated on 14 th May instead of 15 th May … since 14 th was a weekend. ( Kept 15 th May much more calm with a walk down the sea side and a dinner at Kamat Restaurant)

So who do you think is the best 'Khan' of bollywood … Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan …. Well … my choice is a bit hatke !! For years … or should I say decades, my favorite Khan of Bollywood has been .... Kader Khan !! Today, while channel surfing, an out-of-the-blue thought struck me and I was reminded of Kader Khan. I realized that it had been a very long time since I had seen him on the silver screen. Decided to google him and find out if he was still around. Googling told me that his last movie was Umar, some 3-4 years ago and since then he has literally quit Bollywood. He has been in Dubai since then and he is now into a non-acting profession. He is a teacher. The profession though is not new to him. He was a professor in Mumbai before Bollywood happened and he is content to be back into his old role. Before Bollywood, he used to teach Civil Engineering students at the Saboo Siddik Polytechnic in Mumbai. But now he is teaching languages to Dubai students...

(Reader Warning: zOke ahead) On a busy Friday afternoon, while the passengers are patiently waiting for their flight to begin, two men dressed in Pilots' uniforms walk up the aisle. Both are wearing dark glasses, one is using a guide dog, and the other is tapping his way along the aisle with a cane. Nervous laughter spreads through the cabin, but the men enter the cockpit, the door closes, and the engines start up. The passengers begin glancing nervously around, searching for some sign that this is just a little practical joke but none is forthcoming. The plane moves faster and faster down the runway and the people sitting in the window seats realize they're headed straight for the water at the end of the runway. As it begins to look as though the plane will plough into the water, panicked screams fill the cabin. At that moment, the plane lifts smoothly into the air. The passengers relax and laugh a little sheepishly, and soon all retreat into their magazines, secure ...

Hmmm ... so there are talks of a "Double-Dip Recession" now ... with US credit rating being downgraded   What Does Double-Dip Recession Mean? When gross domestic product (GDP) growth slides back to negative after a quarter or two of positive growth. A double-dip recession refers to a recession followed by a short-lived recovery, followed by another recession.   Investopedia explains Double-Dip Recession The causes for a double-dip recession vary but often include a slowdown in the demand for goods and services because of layoffs and spending cutbacks from the previous downturn.   A double-dip (or even triple-dip) is a worst-case scenario. Fear that the economy will move back into a deeper and longer recession makes recovery even more difficult. (source: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/doublediprecession.asp ) So now it fack to economic and financials 'experts' to be featured day long on the news channels with their 'expert opinions' o...

  An excellent month for reading it was … the count is 18 stories … which is a mix of the regular 3I, Feluda and Sherlock stories along with 2 novels as well as 6 short stories which are part of a 12-story collection. It was a month of reading of different varieties/genres as well as something that doesn't fit any genre at all. It can be readily assigned to the genre "Have your Head spun around" !!   1. Cheap at Half the Price (from Twelve Red Herrings) by Jeffrey Archer This was a kind of reading test-drive for me. Read the story and decide whether I would read the other 11. The title of the book was interesting. The story turned out to be good and it also gave me a déjà vu feeling as if I had read this story in some form at some other place.   2. Feluda: The Mystery of the Elephant God by Satyajit Ray A very good one wherein Feluda is pitted against an adversary he is delighted to meet; someone who really challenges his intellect and becomes an adversary ...