Wow. “American Shame” according to the IMF
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How to make Chai
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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Aggressive women and their careers
I heard this story the other day on NPR and I feel like I can really relate. Having almost always been in all male industries, learning negotiation tactics from male mentors and family members, I end up always feeling like I’m in a lose-lose scenario. Like if I speak up, I end up being aggressive, [...]
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Boombox
I haven’t seen this video before. Also I only got through half but my favs are day 21 and 23 so far. BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo.
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Ah universal health care
This week’s 30 Rock was full of good Canadian jokes, and Canadian hospital jokes! Meanwhile I just got another bill for the series of diagnostic tests I had last year (3 of them) around my dizzy spells. All of which, as expected, came back completely normal, bringing me back to the original diagnosis – low [...]
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Colonoscopy instructions
Deepa asked me a while ago to give my tips on how to get a colonoscopy. These were tips bestowed on me from my friend years ago who has Chron’s disease and is a colonoscopy veteran. It’s the pre-colonoscopy part that’s the worst. The “emptying” part. This is what the tips are for. I’m also [...]
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Malcolm Gladwell sucks and is now funny!
http://malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com/ I bet everyone’s already seen this, but because of the amount of people that access my blog by searching “malcolm gladwell sucks” I figure I HAVE to include it. Here are some of my favs:
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Diversity in news
I’ve been recently occupying a lot of my brain thinking about diversity in the news – what is it’s purpose and goal, and how do you achieve it? (I’m specifically referring to ethnic diversity) I, of course, think about ethnic diversity all the time. Diversity in London, in Toronto, New York, and now, excitedly, Minnesota. [...]
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Iron Ring Weekend!
This weekend I was back in Toronto to I iron ring my little cousin Preethi (congratulations!!!) The iron ring tradition and secret ceremony is exclusive to Canadian engineers (and a few other places that have tried to adopt it but I think not so successfully…) It’s mainly for students who are graduating from a Canadian [...]
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Upperclasswoman
My non Mac open-Office proposed spelling corrections for my last name, “Balasubramanyam”: #1 – Anagramatically #2 – Antisubmarine #3 – Upperclasswoman
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