Month: April 2011

Finger Sandwiches, Monopoly, Royal Wedding, and all things British!

Since moving to Mumbai, I don’t think I’ve missed London as much as I did yesterday.  I have no doubt that if I were there, I would have learned every nitty gritty detail about the epic Royal Wedding…more so than I already managed! How can you not be excited: it’s the ultimate fairytale happy ending- …

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Mango Lassi

Fasting: act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, drink, or both for a period of time.  Some people do it for religious purposes, some for weight loss (ridic *cough* ulous), and others for health/medical reasons. David Blaine did it as a feat of endurance: 44 days in a glass box over the Tower …

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Sprucing up my blog

What can I say: I’m a sucker for organization!  Although my closet may contradict this, I hate things being out of place and I cannot function in a messy space.  For that reason alone, I’ve been meaning to tidy up my blog for ages.  For starters I’ve added a Favorite Posts page, where I’ve categorized my …

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Fat to Phat

Given my passion to eat healthily, work out regularly, maintain my current weight (or even lose a few pounds), it might come as a surprise that I hate weighing scales. I don’t own a scale and am never tempted to hop on the digital scales at my gym.  With the exception of doctors’ offices and …

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Something to celebrate

Since 1950, the World Health Organization (WHO) has celebrated April 7th as National Health Day.  The celebration aims to create awareness of a specific health theme to highlight a priority area of concern.  World Health Day 2011 is focusing on the growing threat antimicrobial resistance.   According to WHO, health is a state of complete physical, mental …

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