India Trip

Some more photos from our India trip...

India Trip

Vanu's Wedding

Vanu got married on 13th Dec, 2006. Congratulations to both Vanu and Praveen! I wish them great life ahead.

Vanu Wedding

Few things I still remember from wedding:

1. 13th Dec. was very popular date for Indian marriages. In Delhi only there were 36000 weddings that day. Some of my friends took 3 hours to drive 15 miles in Delhi that night. There were 3 weddings in the hotel where Vanu's wedding was held. You can imagine the number of folks who got confused that day and attended wrong wedding. If you are in anniversary planning business mark 13th Dec. on your calender.
2. As I was doing some of the arrangements, realized an interesting thing about Delhi's new generation. Folks have become quite health conscious. Everybody loves (or pretends to love?) non-fatty food, so next time you arrange something keep that in mind.
3. Planning to hire a photographer? Tell him that he would be paid based on the number of quality photos NOT based on the number of photos he takes. Because of digital cameras photographers take thousands of photos and later on you would end up doing the job of selecting quality photos and paying for near-duplicate photos. Worst part is they would ask you to pose in weird forms in front of entire family. This whole industry needs to move to photography 2.0 now.
4. Other interesting part of wedding is during phere (last but main wedding ceremony) panditji (priest) would ask you if you accept few conditions from each other. Now given you have gone through the pain of arranging the whole wedding do you really have a choice? I would suggest making these conditions freely available well in advance, just like home disclosures so that you don't get surprised at the last moment like Vanu was -:)

Singapore

Life has been really hectic lately as you can see that I haven't done any blogging in Q1.

However I am using my 'dead time' during mafia and trying to publish some of the stuff from our India trip. On the way to India we took a break at Singapore and following are pictures from our stay at Singapore:

Singapore Trip

Singapore is really an amazing place. Tiny in land area but huge economy. Among the places we visited a museum at Santosa island which has a presentation about Singapore's history. Singapore was founded by people from India, Chinese, Malaysia and Britain. Its great to see four different cultures blended together and being successful. Kudos to Singaporean governance!