In honor of President’s Day, I decided to explain how to make chai, since a few people have recently asked me. First chai is Hindi for tea (in case you didn’t know..). I was at a tea tasting recently where I learned that chai‘s etymology is Chinese. Basically all languages either call tea some variation [...]
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Meditation and running
My meditation practice has dropped off in the past two months and I’m recharging it in the new year. I’ve been practicing for about 1 1/2 years now. And in all that time the quality of my meditation sit has not changed at all. My mind wanders as much as it ever did (or rather, [...]
Posted by Shubha on January 4, 2011
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Photos from Ecuador
I got back from a week in Ecuador this weekend. Here’s a bunch of photos! It’s all the photos I had to share with my cousins too so there are a lot. I hope you can see the titles with them because that’s the explanations in most cases…but there’s a link to the Flickr set [...]
Posted by Shubha on January 2, 2011
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Converting from Prince to Princess at age 5
Note to my regular readers – this was the previously protected post as I waited to check with my friend that he was ok with it. He said he hopes it helps someone out there. I spent tonight catching up on the past week of news from my American LGBT sources. In Canada, it looks [...]
Posted by Shubha on November 18, 2010
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My cute nephew
He’s especially cute around from the 45 second mark on.
Posted by Shubha on October 28, 2010
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Amazing interactive brain shots!!
With Brock’s help…well actually mostly Brock but I did some…we took 3 sets of MRI photos and made three interactive flipbooks of my brain: Horizontal slices Horizontal slices of just the bottom part of my brain Vertical slices
Posted by Shubha on October 25, 2010
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Superfluous medical procedures
I just found out that I have to pay $500 for my ‘deductible’ for the MRI and EEG I had done. My maximum annual deductible is $500 so that means that I don’t have to pay it anymore. So I HAVE to get a bunch of medical procedures this year since they’ll all be free. [...]
Posted by Shubha on October 21, 2010
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Dalai Lama part 1
I was about 7 feet away from him at the press conference. After, he came to all the journalists and shook peoples’ hands. He shook my hand. Then he looked at me for a second. Then he said “Are you from India??” and I said “Yes.” and he smiled and moved on. It was the [...]
Posted by Shubha on October 18, 2010
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People who search for me
In my web conference that I’m at right now I learned how to take the search terms that people use to find my blog (and how often) and turn them into a word cloud! I think you can click on this, and zoom in on it. At least I hope so. Also I took out [...]
Posted by Shubha on October 5, 2010
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Why do Indians bob their heads?
A Facebook friend shared this photo link (which I recaptured myself) on Google. Now that Google auto-fills in what it thinks you’re searching for, it’s a fun way of seeing what people think of Indians! I think it’s good that people are curious about the head bobbing. But why stop there! I just had to [...]
Posted by Shubha on September 21, 2010
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