“Eighty heads of state and government will grace the Beijing Olympics in August but PM Manmohan Singh will not be among them.” Instead, the Chinese people, being as smart as they are, have invited the real ruler of India. The Madam. They did not invite the prime minister or the president, but the...
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Russell Peters: Mind Blasting
“Russell your show was mind blasting. Mmmind Blaasting. Not mind blowing…anything can blow the mind. You just blasted the mind” Russell Peters, talking about Indians complimenting him after shows. The venue was the Borgata at Atlantic City, where the Amreekandesi family spent their weekend. We were going to to the Vegas of the East...
Newyork From The Top Of The Rock
The Rockefeller Center is one of the tallest buildings in Newyork standing tall at 872 feet. A place where you can gain a real perspective of Manhattan. Here’s some pics taken from the Top of the Rock Central park – The lifeline of Newyork. Fun Facts : Central Park is larger than two of...
The Pope Rikshaw
India finally made itself known to Pope Benedict. Italian automaker Piaggio presented a Pope-d version of the ubiquitous Indian autorikshaw to the Pope in the Vatican recently. From the TOI report “These vehicles were given a complete look and feel of a Popemobile by putting a white coloured hood, white tyres, seat upholstery, and...
Dance – The Global Language
This guy Matt has traveled over the globe dancing in his own cute little style, involving the local people with him. If there ever were a world peace or global harmony campaign made, this is probably what it would look like. Check this out. Watch out for the colorful indian dancers at 2:35. From...
Fear
Fear seems to be the underlying theme of our lives these days. Parents fear their kids not being smart enough to make it to the good colleges. Worse, they fear their kids being too smart to care for them. Teachers fear students filing FIRs if spoken rudely to. Kids fear getting paralyzed because a...
About AmreekanDesi
Now that amreekandesi has a new address, it was just fitting that we had a new symbol. For those who noticed the new header image on the page, here’s more comments/thoughts about it. About the Header We would keep cycling the image to capture new ideas/events as and when they happen. As always, your...
Happy Birthday America
July 4th. The American Independence day. A day for barbeques, picnics, family get-togethers, and fireworks! The Macy’s ‘spectacular‘ has been a Newyork tradition for the past 32 years. This year we decided to watch it from Roosevelt Island, which supposedly offers the best views of the show. The show was nice. I probably...
Sharing Some Love
LinkLove that is… You may notice a new logo on this blog saying ‘u comment i follow’. Essentially, this is a way of giving back to you readers. If you comment on your site, the link to your blogs will credited by way of search engine/technorati indexing. (logo from randa clay’s website) By default,...
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