This is a great infographic (it really is an infographic, and it really is great) about Canadian tuition costs by province. Lesson learned, if you’re going to go to med school anyone, go to med school in Newfoundland. Also, I had no idea that dentistry was so expensive! For comparison, in 2011, in the US, [...]
All posts for the month May, 2012
May 2-4
I forgot to post last weekend about the annual Canadian holiday “May 2-4 weekend”. Officially Victoria Day, it annoyingly seems to always occur the weekend before Memorial Day in the US. Since it is officially celebrated on the last Monday before May 25, it always coincides with being approximately around May 24. This is important [...]
Posted by Shubha on May 24, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1897
Madras: changing while staying still
I’ve never noticed Madras change as rapidly as over the last 3 years. Before that was when India’s markets opened and suddenly instead of bringing entire suitcases full solely with Nutella, Tang, and Jell-o, we were buying suitcases in India to bring back cheap clothes. Although still conservative, it’s definitely a new generation. One night [...]
Posted by Shubha on May 23, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1883
Dodging marriage setups
By and large I got through the Indian wedding unscathed, despite being “next in line” (age-wise) to get married. Until the end, when an aunt told me that …well that I was next-in-line, that I need to get married, and finally that it was her personal project to get me married. On the long plane [...]
Posted by Shubha on May 19, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1880
Mindy Kaling’s show
So after critiquing her book, it looks like she’s got a new show. I’m happy that a brown girl has her own show (woohoo!!!!) I’m not sure if I’m going to love it. Here’s the trailer. Thoughts? I like the end though… some good people in it too.
Posted by Shubha on May 16, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1876
Mapping movements in Manhattan
This is just amazing: This is Manhattan in the evening via Twitter GPS traces. He tracks people’s location over 4 hour periods and the lines represent their movements. Movements go from blue to red, so longer trails and more red means people are more on the move. I love the evening picture above. If you [...]
Posted by Shubha on May 6, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1865
Dating in New York
As I’ve often said, the advantage of being in New York over Minneapolis is that many of my girlfriends here are single (and awesome!) Amusing observation about being a girl dating in New York: where in every other city girls start dating someone, and like it or not their imagination sometimes leads to thoughts of [...]
Posted by Shubha on May 3, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1872
Happiness graphs make me sad
http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/25/world-happiness-report-makes-statisticians-unhappy/ There’s a couple of graphs but here’s one: And his quote from Kaiser Fung: I’m really curious how these domains add up to 100% exactly. Since the data came from some kind of survey, you typically would allow each respondent to pick more than one domains in which he or she is happy. If [...]
Posted by Shubha on May 1, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1862