Bay Area Summer camps 2010

Registration for 2010 summer camps has already started. And since some of us would have to plan for the whole summer for kids, creating this post to capture camp related details. Last year we tried ICC, Camp Galileo, YMCA (mountain view), Sunnyvale Summer Quest and Airborne Gymnastics camp. Came across few …

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Spring Picnic 2010 – date and venue

Since we all like to have well advance notice of events to plan our weekends, now is a good time to start discussing possible dates and venues for Spring Picnic 2010. Choosing a pathshala free Sunday, that would bring us to Sunday Apr 25th or Sunday May 9th. Any objections …

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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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