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Entries from June 2005

India: Day 3

June 29th, 2005 · No Comments

I finally got some time to write about my travels to India. I landed into Mumbai on Monday night and the last two days have been slammed with work. Getting to India took forever, a total of 36 hours door to door. This was my first time flying into Kuala Lumpur and it was [...]

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Tags: India

New video from Karmacy

June 24th, 2005 · No Comments

The group Karmacy which is under the label Rukus Avenue has released its newest video “Blood Brothers” and it’s friggin’ awesome (could also be their first) (their first video was “Passage to India”) . The video has subtitles for the Gujarati words as the song is a mix of Gujarati and English, full lyrics can [...]

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Tags: General

Lately, its been all about 4H

June 17th, 2005 · No Comments

No, not the 4H program people joined in high school. Instead i’m talking about the 4 H’s that have recently been plastered all over the business publications - hedge funds, healthcare, housing and lastly Hindustan (another word for the entire Indian subcontinent).
Hedge fund have been getting an insane amount of press for several [...]

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Tags: Business · India

PartyGaming to IPO on London Exchange

June 15th, 2005 · No Comments

UPDATE: Party Gaming is finally trading, click for latest quote. Party Poker the flagship gaming site of Party Gaming is the largest online poker brand in terms of number of players and overall revenues. PartyGaming will sell shares to raise close to USD $2 billion. Anurag Dikshit, group operations director, is the biggest shareholder [...]

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Tags: Business

Pepsi Commercial…Indo Style

June 13th, 2005 · No Comments

Funny clip about some indian kid who thinks he has power over animals, along the lines of snake charmers. download clip (1.6mb, windows media format, 1 minute)

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Tags: General

What’s wrong with GM?

June 9th, 2005 · No Comments

On Tuesday, GM CEO Rick Wagoner spoke at the company’s 97th annual shareholders meeting and admitted there were some very deep problems at the company. He gave all sorts of reasons for its current situation including the often cited “rising health care issue.” However, most “car guys” will say the chief problem is lack [...]

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Tags: Business

Peugeot 206 commericial…Indo Style

June 8th, 2005 · No Comments

The Peugeot 206 commercial called ‘Sculptor’, focuses on a car from the 1950s that gets ‘re-designed’, with the help of an elephant sitting on its hood and turned into a 206 look-alike by a young man who dreams of owning one and impressing the girls. It was shot in India and involved a casting [...]

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Tags: General