Google Doodle

Google has been honoring the 2012 London Olympics with a new doodle each day of the games, and while I appreciate the gesture, Ive spent way too much time on the google doodles !!! 

Today -  Wednesday's Google doodle will let users play a basketball game to celebrate the men's quarterfinal basketball game. Here is a look at some of the doodles.. :) Which one did you enjoy playing the best ?? 

London in a Puddle

For the past few weeks photographer Gavin Hammond has been capturing the beauty of my favourite city in the whole wide world after mumbai - London’s architecture and people as reflected in puddles. Isnt he just awesome ?? What do you think !!

Avenue Q

All the world’s a stage even for monsters… A Couple of years ago I experienced the Off Broadway show Avenue Q and got up close and personal with the cast of this hilarious musical! “There is cool shit to do, but it can’t come to you, so come on…. There is life outside your apartment!”

i was hanging out with my dear friend Mitin Dattani. Now he has a sense of humour which only a few of us really understand. Or maybe I wanted to understand, and thus ended up laughing - if you know what I mean ! Anyway... Check out the fun pictures he clicked at the event... which he only recently sent them back to me. Such awesome memories of not only the muppet show but also to sit next to him and see this MAN-GIGGLE !

Spat Gum Art

Have you ever had a gum and then shamelessly spat it on the road when no one was looking ? Did you consider what would happen to this piece of decaying gum for the next few years ? Do you possibly think that your gum will literally become an artist’s canvas ?

Artist Ben Wilson must do – for he seems to represent the epitome of their mantra. Before the beginning of each and every five minutes of animated environmentalism they would sing Making good use of the things that we find, Things that the everyday folks leave behind. That is what Ben Wilson does – with something of a twist.

London, The City of my Dreams

London... For 10 years of my life I was convinced LONDON has to be my home. I even pretended to take the 7 hour flight on a regular basis.. and start preparing myself for jet-lags etc. Each time I would go there, I fell more and more in love with that city.

Being an Indian tourist we predominatly went to London in the summer. I loved that crisp summery breeze, the sun playing hide and seek. I called it the personality dis-order.. Sunshine, Cloudy, Rains, Wind ...all packed in One day. The wide streets of London - Oxford Street, Baker Street, filled with people shopping pulled me towards them. Ducking in and out depending on weather, the people always prepared for everything and yet look so stunning beautiful. Running and making it under the store canopy just in time to not get wet. Enjoying the warm controlled air - sip on a latte on the go from Starbucks. These are my favorite sites and sounds of LONDON. The city of my dreams.

Summers for Londoners also means that they bring out that book that they always wanted to read... And walk through Hyde Park, find their spot and they sit and read for hours together. Children on Play dates, Lovers strolling hand in hand, an old couple enjoying an evening out. Bombay can never have that... This is what I miss about being in London. Having a park and strolling in it leasurily.

Its also a place where the old, the new, the contemporary, the bohemian chic, the punk, the urban, the vintage... everything co-exisits. It is truly a melting pot of genres ! I Love London... And I love the man who showed me his city... I fell in Love with him when I was all but 13... And I cant really tell whether I still love him or not, but I definately Love his CITY... !

I came across this cute little book shop somewhere near BOND Street. It was a rainy day.. Everything was grey and dull, but the brightness of this little bookshop attracted me towards it.