Category Archives: india

Hatke Jhatke!

I love this commercial so I’d thought I’d share it. Although I’ve never had the product, so I can’t say anything for it. But their advertising is great. Enjoy!
Hatke Jhatke!

Fair

There has been an interesting debate going on lately about skin whitening creams. Skin whitening? Yep, skin whitening. Many people in the States complain that their skin is too white. Hence all the tanning beds (one of the most disgusting inventions ever!), spray on tans, and tanning creams. But here [...]

Indian Commercials

Commercials over here are crazy. Then again, commercials back home are just as crazy. Its just a different brand of crazy here. I thought I would post a few of them here. All the channels I get here are from India, so there are commercials for products or businesses that aren’t [...]

OUTSOURCED

I just finished watching a movie called Outsourced. It was excellent. Its basically a romantic (sort of) comedy about a man who is sent to India to train people at a new call center. The movie does an excellent job of giving you a glimpse of being plunged into a new and [...]

A War-Zone of Red Water

Another holiday and I get a four day weekend! I will not, however, be heading out of doors to enjoy it. Instead I have holed myself up in my house and will enjoy it from the rooftop if I want to go outside. You see Tuesday is Holi, the festival of colors, [...]

Time, Valentine’s Day, and Slumdog

Wow.  Two weeks of class finished.  It flew by faster than the winds of September 14, 2008.  If this keeps up it’ll be the end of June before I can even think about March.
On Valentine’s Day I went over to the Unruh’s for dinner.  We had a good time just hanging out, talking about politics, [...]

Put Me In Coach, I’m Ready To Play Today

Sports are an interesting thing here in Nepal.  Badminton can be seen being played on all the street corners as well as ping-pong.  Soccer (excuse me, football) is very popular as well.  But there is another well known, but little understood (at least in the States) game played here in Nepal: cricket.  India and Sri [...]

13,000 Chickens. Culling 13,000 Chickens. This is Your Final Boarding Call.

Thirteen thousand chickens were culled recently in the eastern part of Nepal. The Bird Flu is here. Chickens are illegally imported from India where the Bird Flu was already confirmed. It was only a matter of time until it made it to Nepal.
So now we are not eating chicken anymore. They [...]

Phul (That’s flower in Nepali)

Not much to say today.  In light of this, I’m just gonna post some pictures of flowers and what not I’ve seen around Nepal and India.  I know most of you are tired of the grey, white landscape of winter, so try to warm yourself with these pics! Enjoy!

Makaibari Tea Factory

The Christmas season seemed to curtail my adventure-telling of India. So I guess I need to finish it…
The Makaibari Tea Factory in Kurseong is one of the most famous tea factories in the world. Never heard of it? Well name me any another tea factory…that’s what I thought. To those in [...]

RSS for Posts RSS for Comments