HIV cannot be contaminated by take away food - Enjoy your Pani Puris.

HIV cannot be contaminated by take away food - Enjoy your Pani Puris.

Please read the entire article in this site .

The site also mentions clearly the following:

There is no known risk of HIV transmission to co-workers, clients, or consumers from contact in industries such as food-service establishments (see information on survival of HIV in the environment). Food-service workers known to be infected with HIV need not be restricted from work unless they have other infections or illnesses (such as diarrhea or hepatitis A) for which any food-service worker, regardless of HIV infection status, should be restricted.

HIV is not an airborne or food-borne virus, and it does not live long outside the body. Even if small amounts of HIV-infected blood were consumed, stomach acid would destroy the virus.

So enjoy those Pani Puris and Vada Pavs.... I love the food of Amchi Mumbai!!

City of lights in Powerpoint was not able to bring it through Google Document

My previous blog posting on the tensions in Pakistan yesterday couldn't be well illustrated without the correct power point slides that I got from Karthikeyan.

I tried to upload the .pps file through google documents, but was unsuccessful. If you really want it though, send me a line and I shall mail it to you.

Peanut Allergy.

Our 18 month old son has peanut allergy and in the quest to understand more about this allergy, I googled and found some of the most awesome links on allergy, prevention and what next? I am going to read everyone of them before I post it here. Here is the first article I read and it comes from the very reputed Mayo Clinic. - http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/peanut-allergy/DS00710

Please let me know your thoughts!

Marketing Geniuses - Nescafe or Britannia

The marketing director of Nescafe manages to arrange a meeting with the Pope at the Vatican.

After receiving the papal blessing, the Nescafe official whispers, 'Your Eminence, I have some business to discuss. We at Nescafe have an offer for you. Nescafe is prepared to donate $100 million to the church . if you change the Lord's Prayer from 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily coffee'."

The Pope looks outraged and thunders, "That is impossible. The Prayer is the word of the Lord, It must not be changed." Well," says the Nescafe man somewhat chastened, "We anticipated your reluctance. For this reason, and the importance of the Lord's prayer to all catholics, we will increase our offer to $300 million. All we require is that you change the Lord's Prayer from 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily coffee'."

Again, even more sternly, the Pope replies, "That, my son, is impossible. For the prayer is the word of the Lord and it must not be changed."

Finally, the Nescafe director says, "Your Holiness, we at Nescafe respect your adherence to your faith, we realise that tradition is essential to your beliefs, we fully understand the importance of the word of the Lord ................but we do have one final offer. Please discuss it with your cardinals. We will donate $500 million to the great Catholic church if you would only change the Lord's Prayer from 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily coffee'. Please, please consider it." And he leaves.

The next day the Pope convenes the College of Cardinals. "There is some Good news," he announces, "and some bad news .....
The good news is, he continues to a hushed assembly, ' that the Church will get $ 500 million."

"And what is the bad news, your Holiness?" asks a Cardinal.

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We would have to lose the Britannia Bread Account.

Pakistan in tough times

Most of you heard about Benazir Bhutto's untimely death and the turmoil in Pakistan. I got this email from one of my friend and clearly depicts the state of Pakistan at this moment. The pic with a blank screen is the scene now in Karachi!

My thoughts are with the Bhutto family and the suffering people have to go through because of the mindless violence that is going on now.

Lights in Vienna

Lights in Singapore

Lights in Paris

Lights in Niagara

Lights in Moscow

Lights in London

Lights in LA

Lights in Denver

Lights in Copenhagen

Lights in Cologne, Cathedral

Lights in Cleveland

Lights in Chicago

Lights in Brazil

Light in Karachi, Pakistan

2008 Wishes

My Wishes in 2oo8
God gives You…
12 Month of Happiness,
52 Weeks of Fun,
365 Days Success,
8760 Hours Good Health,
52600 Minutes Good Luck,
3153600 Seconds of Joy…and that’s all! ”