A common Chinese proverb says that they can eat everything that has four legs, except tables; everything that flies, except for airplanes; and everything that is found on water, except boats! And that’s 100% true. Here goes few pictures, snapped by my colleague Santo, during his recent trip at Beijing, China. The place is called [...]
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Chinese folks can eat anything…seriously!
Posted in Humor, tagged Asia, Beijing, China, Wangfujing on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Valentines day, an alternative story of origin.
Posted in Humor, India, Muse on February 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“Velan” via Wikipedia Got a mail forward from my sis Anu. Enjoy! In spite of what you have been told by everyone, the truth is that Valentine’s Day originated hundreds of years ago, in India, and to top it all, in Gujarat!! It is a well known fact that Gujarati men, specially the Patels, continually [...]
Art of storytelling
Posted in Humor, Soul on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the center of every culture is a group of people seated around a fire telling of the heroes whose struggles transformed and remade their world. That’s true whether the fire is the burning embers of a cooking fire in the Amazon basin or the flickering pixels of a cathode ray tube in upper Manhattan. [...]
Why did the Chicken cross the road?
Posted in Humor, Muse on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[ Just to break the non-blogging cycle, copy-pasting a chain mail, please pardon my procrastination] BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change! JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with [...]