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Matsuri Festival at Meguro, Tokyo.

John Jacob — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:14:06 +0000

Last weekend(4th Oct 2008), Meguroites celebrated the Matsuri carrying the Mikoshi(a portable shinto shrine) around the street. A japanese friend of mine said this traditional festival, Matsuri is the celebration of the harvest or so.

Onam is everywhere!!!

John Jacob — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:20:01 +0000

Onam is the major festival in Kerala, a small south indian state often mentioned as ‘God’s Own Country’. I ‘am not going to key in anything regarding Onam, may be you can google for it. This is about few things that i observed about Malayalees outside Kerala. They celebrate Onam with great fervour than people back home. Well, they do have ‘Puli kali’ (or ‘Tiger Dance’ as mentioned by my japanese colleague) back home, but more often the kids these days are glued to the TV programs and the ‘BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES’. (Needless to say, all(hit/flop) movies are BLOCKBUSTER Movies when telecasted)

While at Hyderabad, i had been for the Onam Celebrations organized by ‘Mythri’, a hyd based malayali association. Here in Tokyo, for the last 2 years i celebrated onam with my friends and also with ‘Nihon Kairali’, a malayali association. Though away from their state, they manage to get all the things and celebrate in a grand style. I remember, at hyderabad they have even transported ‘irttukuthi vallom’( a small boat used for boat race in Kerala) and arranged a small boat race in Hussain Sagar Lake. The last few days, i could see a truck load of photos of my NRI friends having their ‘sadya’ (a grand luncheon) in Orkut,a socio networking site. Many of them have travelled to distant places to join the celebrations. I did even travel around Tokyo wearing ‘Mundu’(traditional kerala dress).

Click this photo for more pictures

Visual Thesaurus ??

John Jacob — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:52:20 +0000

We do (atleast, i do) use Thesaurus very often and those text based thesaurus would list out a couple of synonyms related to our(my) word. This thesaurus, Visual Thesaurus is one step ahead of those clumsy thesaurus of the older times. Though, both of ‘em give the same synonyms for a word, the synonyms are listed out like the structure of axons in our body.

It does not come free, but Free Trials are there. So,why not use the free trials whenever you want to search something.

Samba at Asakusa!!

John Jacob — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:51:14 +0000

On 30th of Aug there was the yearly Samba Festival at Asakusa, Tokyo. It was the 28th Samba Festival. This samba festival was a smaller version of the one at Rio, Brazil. There were around 20 groups. There are around 7 samba schools in Tokyo. Though the name ‘Samba’, most of the participants were japanese.

I, along with my friend reached Asakusa at around 12:00pm and took our seat [on d floor ] at the road side; with my Nikon D80. The first group came at exact 1:30pm. In a group there were many sub groups. There was a break of around 5 minutes between each group.

I have uploaded my pics at SAMBA 2008 [watch with parental guidance]

South Indian Recipes ???

John Jacob — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:00:43 +0000

Have a look in isouthpotpourri . I bet you will want to try out most of the dishes out there. I have had a couple of them from my mom’s kitchen ). May be, some day i will give it a try on one of those non-veg dishes. Kudos to the ladies out there in the kitchen of isouthpotpourri.

IPL Schedule

John Jacob — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:11:03 +0000

IPL Game Schedule

April 19 : Delhi v Jaipur at Delhi
April 20: Mumbai v Bangalore at Mumbai;Kolkata v Hyderabad at Kolkata
April 21: Jaipur v Mohali at Jaipur
April 22: Hyderabad v Delhi at Hyderabad
April 23: Chennai v Mumbai at Chennai
April 24: Hyderabad v Jaipur at Hyderabad
April 25: Mohali v Mumbai at Mohali
April 26: Bangalore v Jaipur at Bangalore; Chennai v Kolkata at Chennai
April 27: Mumbai v Hyderabad at Mumbai;Mohali v Delhi at Mohali
April 28: Bangalore v Chennai at Bangalore
April 29: Kolkata v Mumbai at Kolkata
April 30: Delhi v Bangalore at Delhi.
May 1: Hyderabad v Mohali at Hyderabad; Jaipur v Kolkata at Jaipur
May 2: Chennai v Delhi at Chennai.
May 3: Hyderabad at Bangalore at Hyderabad; Mohali v Kolkata at Mohali
May 4: Mumbai v Delhi at Mumbai; Jaipur v Chennai at Jaipur
May 5: Bangalore v Mohali at Bangalore
May 6: Chennai v Hyderabad at Chennai
May 7: Mumbai v Jaipur at Mumbai
May 8: Delhi v Chennai at Delhi; Kolkata v Bangalore at Kolkata
May 9: Jaipur v Hyderabad at Jaipur
May 10: Bangalore v Mumbai at Bangalore; Chennai v Mohali at Chennai
May 11: Hyderabad v Kolkata at Hyderabad; Jaipur v Delhi at Jaipur
May 12: Mohali v Bangalore at Mohali
May 13: Kolkata v Delhi at Kolkata
May 14: Mumbai v Chennai at Mumbai;Mohali v Jaipur at Mohali
May 15: Delhi v Hyderabad at Delhi
May 16: Mumbai v Kolkata at Mumbai
May 17: Delhi v Mohali at Delhi; Jaipur v Bangalore at Jaipur
May 18: Hyderabad v Mumbai at Hyderabad; Kolkata v Chenna at Kolkata
May 19: Bangalore v Delhi at Bangalore
May 20: Kolkata v Jaipur at Kolkata
May 21: Mumbai v Mohali at Mumbai; Chennai v Bangalore at Chennai
May 22: Delhi v Kolkata at Delhi
May 23: Mohali v Hyderabad at Mohali.
May 24: Delhi v Mumbai at Delhi; Chennai v Jaipur at Chennai
May 25: Bangalore v Hyderabad at Bangalore; Kolkata v Mohali at Kolkata
May 26: Jaipur v Mumbai at Jaipur
May 27: Hyderabad v Chennai at Hyderabad
May 28 and 29: Rest days
May 30: First semi-final at Mumbai
May 31: Second semi-final at Mumbai
June 1: Final at Mumbai