Here's a funny ad that always makes me giggle. Its a desi twist on the princess-kisses-a-frog thing. Very creatively mocks south-indian movies and accents . Yes, the prince in southie movies looks like that! The song is utterly catchy (with all the "mmwaaahhh")

I heard Coca-Cola mentioned as a "sponsor" of the Olympic torch-run through tibet and the company wasnt pulling its weight (ethically) to pull out of sponsorship. I didnt think much of it (as this wouldn't be the first large company to put profit before morals and suck-up to China). Yet, that evening I chose to get water with my meal-order instead of coke and its posse of carbonated drinks. We

This site has all the Billboard #1s by month/day/year. http://www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneInHistory/SelectMonth.htm On my Birthday, the #1 song was "Dancing Queen" by ABBA. That explains a lot.

I chanced upon this news link while browsing some stories. http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINBOM13479820080411 Jeera Futures? lol. I feel so amused and enlightened that something like this exists on the Stock Exchange. * Jeera = Cumin seeds ** Futures are contracts that says that the buyer will purchase a specific item for a specific price at a specific time in the future

April 9th, 2008. The day the Olympic torch was supposed to pass through San Francisco. A few minutes before 1:00pm, the scheduled time for the torch run to begin, I boarded a Muni train towards Embarcadero. At Church station, a young man got on. He looked south-east-asian, and was holding an unfinished cardboard sign that read "Shame on China". While the train moved station-by-station towards