Snow Trip 2010 – A Great Trip

There was always a desire to do a overnight trip to Tahoe with KV gang. But where to stay was a question. We would not fit in one house anyway and it was a bit expensive getting 2-3 houses next to each other for just 1 night. I am glad to say

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IPL on Youtube

FYI, for cricket fans in KV, IPL is live on youtube but only thing is that its not available in the USA. However if your company has a VPN server outside of the US then you can VPN into that server and watch it. I watch some part of IPL …

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Overparenting

overparenting

The article “The Case against Overparenting” appeared in Time Magazine in Nov 2009. But I got around to reading it only now. A quote from that article appealed to me. Here it is:
“With children they need that space not to be entertained or distracted. What boredom does”

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Chaat in Sugandh, Milpitas

Since several people come to derasar during pathshala sundays, I thought i will mention this that Sugandh in Milpitas (Intersection of Abel and Calaveras) has a chaat booth on weeekend run by Jayshri ben. We have tried her pani puri and it was not bad at all. Maybe not as …

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ishopindian.com

Thanks to Google Ads back on our site, saw this ad for ishopindian.com which calls itself America’s largest online Indian grocery stores. How do the prices compare to the actual brick-mortar store? Can those who are more knowledgeable in these matters check? 🙂 http://www.ishopindian.com

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Desi (Dry) Mithais – Share your secrets

A long list of mithais was captured in a previous post  – http://www.kavita.kutchvalley.com/?p=253.   Even though mithais are easily available in indian grocery stores and tasting fresh mithai from india is not uncommon these days(we have so many folks who keep visiting India that you get a chance to eat those …

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