Rugs to Riches

Rugs are used to decorate floors, dictate a fashion statement or bring color and aesthetics to a room. Here are some of the extremely creative cool rugs which you can buy.

First one shown here is an exaggerated postage stamp rug. They officially got authorization from queen's office to get this exotic print on a carpet. The wool used is authentic Newzealand wool which is hand crafted in Kathmandu, Nepal. These extremely skilled artists were able to bring 3D effect to the rug which is absolutely awesome. There are various dimensions you can choose from stamprugs.

Here's one more fantastic creation of an icon on a carpet. These are found on modernrugs. They also have a beautiful collection of many floral, figures and icons rugs on their website. Pretty cool site to go through.

Both these companies are in United Kingdom. So you need to get somebody coming from there or pay a handsome shipping and handling charges. 

Gold Biscuit

A French designer Jean Paul Gaultier who was famous for his haute couture is brought into limelight for a totally different reason. He might be famous in the fashion world of Elle, Pierre Cardin likes but was unknown to common man. But this display of unusual talent of putting an amazing design into gold biscuits made him world famous and also into Forbes list of best designers.

Jean never received any formal training in fashion design but used to sent his creations to design houses in his early days. Soon enough was noticed by the best design houses in the world. Although his cross-dressing-type line of clothes weren't made for daily usage, his tailoring skills were acknowledged. He was picked into The House of Pierre Cardin and later to manage their boutique in Manilla.

During this economic turbulence people from different investment firms and hedge funds are considering gold as the only safe bet and gold prices are soaring to new heights. This can be a diverse addition to your investment portfolio. This limited edition design of one-ounce gold biscuits with his sailor flag trade mark on it is available in US through a precious metal dealer ( Dillion Gage Metals - 800-527-7034 ) in New York. 

Mullaperiyar - Kochouseph Way

This is an old story, not a story, a real piece of life. My mom's family is a renowned family from "Guruvayoor" called "Chemmanoor". They are one of the traditional families from that area mostly business oriented. And my mom's eldest sister (Valiyamma) was married at the age of 16 which was common in their generation. She was married to "Chittilappilly" family from "Parappur", a region near "Guruvayoor". They were landlords and stingy rich. They used to have acres of land cultivating paddy and other crops. To irrigate them they used these big motor pump sets.

At times these pump sets used to have some issues and guess who used to come to fix their pump sets those days, Kochouseph. He was in his teens and used to make money through his part time business of fixing pump sets. From there he started a small revolution in kerala manufacturing V-GUARD irrigation motors, Voltage Stabilizers now into garments, resorts ( veega-land , wonderla ) and many of such trades under the brand umbrella V-GUARD.

But the beauty is that he always found an optimized way of doing any business legit and churn profit from that. These characteristics and hard work always led him from success to success. He is a philanthropist, member of kidney foundation and also may be one and only one of its kind who donated his kidney as an example of practicing what he's preaching, which ignited many youths to follow him and help fellow human beings.

That's not the topic here, when Kerala and Tamilnadu State Governments are scrambling for decisions and show who's having control, Kochouseph came up with a master plan which is very much doable and has the support from leading architects. State estimates it would cost 800-1000 crores to fix this dam, Kochouseph is predicting it can be fixed with 55 crores. And as usual he's donating 10% of that cost and technical support to fix the problem which otherwise effect 35 million people.

Wish if he can become the chief minister of Kerala, God's Own Country will be in real. Small video from a press conference.

Indian Designers

Architecture & Design used to be westerner's forte, but time after time Indians are showing their talent here too. These days animation movies, advertisements even the 5 second ballads for these advertisements are given to us. Its not because we are cheaper economically but we are proving that we can be effective in those spaces too. While my short stint in IISc Bangalore, I came to know IISc also have a design school called CPDM. And every year this school hatch 100's of highly talented designers into product designing.

I came to know this very cute design of a shelf by one of the student, Arun Francis. His project on sensational design was small project but got attention from world class designers. Its a single string design, but it will get you looking at it. He is an artist basically and also designed an electric guitar from scratch.

Don't forget to see his other works too here.

Buy or Rent calculator

Jobs being shipped to all across globe and in states its good to know whether its better to buy or rent in US of A. Here's a simple and beautiful calculator which tells you what exactly is good for you.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calculator.html?hp

Bleeding Heart Bakery - Chicago

Its amazing how guys are being creative about even simplest things we could ever imagine. Some friends from Chicago started a small bakery, baking cupcakes and today they have the most creative products which draws people to them in my opinion. They founded this bakery with the name Bleeding Heart Bakery in Chicago and their favorite recipe's have a twist. Most of the items have BOOZE in it. Yeah can you imagine eat a cake and get drunk. But the amazing part is its so colorful and creative it brings most of young generation to explore this new type of eatery in the market. And guess what they are loving it.

They are awarded "Best Bakery of 2011" and its so relieving to see how new generation is finding new pastures. We didn't have a choice to become a baker, nothing but an engineer / doctor. We couldn't become a ROCK STARRR !! Just Kidding

ASUS Zenbook - A winner

A strong competition for Apple AIR, zenbook from ASUS. A killer design, efficient processor, surprisingly thin and feather weight. It perform as good as its benchmark Apple AIR. Worth looking at the specs


A good review below :-
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPxGcoXUWUg

David Grownup

After I came back from India in last July 2011, we had a quick decision to make. Partially was because of David had some starting troubles to speak. We contacted some speech pathologists in New Jersey, but felt they are making it more complicated. And David is so adamant, if he feel he don't want to listen he won't listen at any cost. So I thought it will be easy breeding ground for David and Rocky to grow up in India with Ben's parents. And also if everything works well Ben can work there for sometime, which will also make her feel little better about herself.

But I started missing my kids more than anything and kind of understood why my mom used to be so much worried about us when we moved to different states to work and Robin to priesthood. Its so special about that parent-child relationship in which some magical imaginary ties exists and surely one reason why Indian families are so fast bound even though we are far apart. Today when I got David's picture after so many months I felt so special about it. Felt missing their innocent ages not enjoyed.

Kids are smart too they can sense you more than anything, if any little friction happens between me and Ben, David will come in between and make some funny scouts to make us laugh or goto Ben and hug her and kiss her. Its so surprising how they understand these things and react smartly in their on ways. David seems to be left hander, that's what I'm hearing from Ben. He's using his left hand more than right.

Rocky is here !!

Another precious gift Rocky( Paul ) William arrived with a scream and smile. He got lots of hair and a double chin. Cutie pie in a box.

My Brother is special gift of God !!

Our family is blessed with a God's son. We are 3 boys and rough around corners as we could be. Robin is the middle one. He's so special and unique in all ways. He used to be the naughtiest of all, he used to be the organized of all. He had this clean-o-phobia, wants everything to be clean. If you want to enter his room you need to make sure you are dust free. If you want to jump to his bed you need to wash your feet. Otherwise you are thrown out.

Above all everybody remembered him for his "I dont want no-one to control me" attitude. You need to watch him otherwise he grabs anything which is in his reach.

Once I remember an incident way back in 1984, one of our uncles( Joseph Uncle ) took us to Guruvayoor temple for evening walk. We were small kids may be 5 and 3 years old respectively, holding his each hands and walking through the crowd. Its evening time, lots of people come for prayers and its always crowded. So we were walking very carefully and there were fruit sellers who brings variety of stuff in carts and sell there. And  those used to be stacked very well. We were passing by an orange cart, Robin as naughty he could be grabbed the lowest one in the stack and entire stack of orange fell down to road.

There were oranges running everywhere. And I remember picking oranges from road and the seller couldn't do anything be'cos he was a kid. Today he's preparing for his Ph.d, writing his own thesis. He's a parish priest, he's plays piano, he learns that too. He's very good at studies and always very special. When I saw this pic, everything was a nostalgia.

Today David ( my son ) when he's active he reminds me lots of Robin. Robin is on the right side