Annual Outlet Mall visit

This visit to premium Outlet has turns out to be very fruitful; shopped for various clothings brands on bargain prices. What I liked about the Clinton Crossing Premium Outlet is, shops are organized in the straight rows making it easy to cover everything rather than just tiring your whole body.

You can cover whole outlet area in 3/4 hours on the evening time, rather than spending entire whole day at this vast Woodbury Outlet Mall, which I've been visiting last few years.

R2I keyword !

Did you know that "R2I" keyword stands for "Return to India" ?
May be you don’t until now; unless you are really planning to return to India from living abroad.

In Last few months, I’ve given serious thinking on this topic of returning to India due to many factors and hence stumbled upon this keyword "R2I" after searching on web.

One of the very useful forum that encountered is "r2iclubforums"; where you can find detailed information about various topics from 'sharing a container' to 'school education' for your kids.

Its been sometime now I’ve been reading these posts randomly, whenever I get a chance. Also, Few experienced R2i’er have started blogging about their experiences, which are very interesting to read about and thus the introduction of this new tab on my iGoogle page.

The A.R. Rahman – The Third Dimensional Tour at Nassau Coliseum

The 16th Jun had some special significance in our calendar due to the above event.



Indeed the Concert was true to the expectations; a concert to remember for lifetime. We had special interest due to the Rang De Basanti songs from Pathshala to Roobaroo. All together, It was an awesome experience to enjoy songs from Dil Se, Bombay to Tamil Shivaji and the unique 'Vande Mataram' to conclude with.

As we say in Hindi, "Paisa Vasool ", a Totally Rocking one !

Lunch at Coromandel Cuisine

It was long due to visit Coromandel Cuisine for Indian food. After many failed attempt of finding this place, it was the occasion of team lunch which brought me to this restaurant.

Due to the lunch time, we tried our hands on lunch buffet which had 4 veggie-variety and 2 non-veg ones supplemented with Kabob & vegetable bhajia. Personally, I enjoyed their dessert (Rice Pudding) the most, a nice way to end your meal with the sweet and cold feeling in your mouth.

Overall the food was delicious with reasonable price tag. The atmosphere is warm and casual. Thou I couldn’t understand the logic of giving 15% Tips on lunch buffet.

Project - Visitor Visa.

Finally It has paid off ! All the efforts & stress of going thru Visitor visa process.
Thou it took almost 2 yrs, 3 attempts, 30,000 /-Rs, plenty of paper work and lots of emotions. In the end, the feeling of getting Visitor visa is comforting & uplifting.

So my advise for others who have faced rejections; keep a hope alive at least in Visitor visa case.

Fun at Quassy Amusement Park

A casual visit to Quassy Amusement park turns out to be a family fun for the whole day. This affordable amusement park is Worth a visit, if you've kid under 3 yrs or so.
Most of the rides are quick ones with no waiting and for the grown-ups, they've Water park & Beach . Specially, I had awesome fun on this Tunnel Twister water slides.

A great way to spend your Saturday afternoon with the family !

Playmats on Hardwood floor !

Being a second floor tenant and having a 20 months old toddler isn’t the best combination you can ask for. Specially, If you are living in American Apartments, where everything is made up of wood.
Kids love running & jumping on hardwood floor and more when you ask them not to. This has been really disturbing ground floor neighbors.

Facing this dilemma, I was running out of options. Carpeting or changing the apartment wasn’t feasible option. Hence, the other day I found this alternative option to cover most of hardwood floor by these Play mats. These mats are made of soft foam, which might be used as shock absorbing material. It is easier to assemble and most importantly economical.

For now, I’m hoping that these mats will solve the purpose. So if you are in same situation, this might be the solution you can think of.