NewYork March 29/30 2008

Sis, Birinder & I hit the Armory shows in New York at the end of March, and my connections to the London Art groups, gave us VIP passes to all the exhibitions we went to, which made the experience even more pleasurable! Birinder was the rich buyer, and Sis was an associate from the Organisation.
So we saved a lot of money and got to see the biggest Art fair in New York.


Later we went to a Mexican restaurant with Mabel who was visiting from London, and what Sis and Mabel were doing under the table is difficult to say but they had the whole restaurant in fits of laughter.

Garibaldi Exhibition reaches Montevideo

Garibaldi Exhibition in Montevideo

TITOLO: "Giuseppe Garibaldi...hombre de la libertad, hombre de la humanidad..."
CURATOR: Enzo Marino
LUOGO: Sala de Ceremonias de la Intendencia Municipal CITTA': Montevideo - URUGUAY
PERIODO: 26.27.28 marzo 2008


Garibaldi Lives On by Arvinder


Memento by Marisol

After the inauguration of the exhibition in Bergamo in Italy, Enzo Marino's exhibition with the participation of the International Free Artists about Garibaldi's 200th anniversary, is now going to show in Montevideo!
Both Marisol and I have one exhibit in this exhibition
And here are the images!

More Information at International Free Artists Garibaldi Exhibition website

Also more about the International Free Artists group here

Here is a ‘shair’ for Garibaldi in the Persian tradition.

From the Canadian mountain to a restaurant in Singapore, I tell you
A tree in Bedford, a whole city and sculptures galore, I tell you
G was a star of his time, Liberator of many, though hated by some
Even buiscuits and a colour! Garibaldi lives on evermore, I tell you.

BHB meets in Frankfurt

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Last weekend 1st March saw a reunion of the three friends who first worked together at Maraven in Venezuela more than 20 years ago. Rafael, Jerry and me! And we had all the ladies - Rosemary, Margarita and Marisol join us. Can you believe we all had a different country of birth and four different continents!!??
Wonderful - and a special thanks to Margarita and Jerry for putting us up at the Hotel Helmick!

India December 2007 - 3 Jan 2008

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Marisol & I spent 3 weeks in Delhi recently during the Xmas and New Year holiday season. As always we ate and shopped a lot. Had a lot of fun in the company of seniors in Delhi, and were well looked after by the facilities at home. Uppinder & Sangeeta happened to be over from Australia and we joined them on a short trip to Amritsar and Jullundhar, where we made some long overdue visits to family (Kaki Aunty) and friends (Gunit & Tara). The end to this short trip resulted in the hair raising taxi ride home at midnight which will be the subject of a forthcoming book! Paramjit and Chanda also played hosts for a short visit from us to Gurgaon and with only about ninety kilos of luggage to be brought back to London, Virgin Atlantic once again gave us a royal treatment.

Barcelona November 07

More photos - Mas fotos
When it was time to visit our Barcelona office again on the 23rd of November, Marisol & I contacted our extended family in the area and they all made a special effort to join us for lunch on the Sunday, (actually Tio Yayo used his seniority to override all other attempts to pay!!) and what a marvellous day we spent together.
I believe everyone is preparing a pilgrimage to India!! ;-)

Cuando surgio otra oportunidad para reunir con la oficina de la empresa en Barcelona la semana pasada, Marisol y yo nos contactamos la familia en la ciudad y todos ellos (Tio Yayo y May, Victor, JoseJuan con las familias) hicieron un esfuerzo especial para reunir el Domingo siguiente para pasar un dia divino incluiendo el almuerzo. (Tio Yayo no dejo pagar a nadie, desde aquella vez que nos peleamos para pagar los taxis, yo siempre recuerdare como Tio sacaba los billetes como pistolas). Marisol leo las manos de todos y espero que disfrutaron.
Creo que todos estan planeando un peregrinaje a la India!! ;-)

Meet Uppinder & The Maglev train - Shanghai October 2007

Here is a video of the Maglev train ride from Shanghai's Pudong Airport to the city centre! Takes all of 7 minutes to go 25 KMs and reaches speeds of 430 KM/Hour.
Hang on to your seats!!


And if thats not enough excitement for one day, Uppinder from Sydney had to be in Shanghai the same week as I.

Seoul, Korea its October 2007

Lucky for me, an extension of the trip to Shanghai to Seoul gave me a weekend to do some sightseeing, and JC from our office volunteered to take me to the Korean Folk Village, that is popular with tourists and the Koreans alike.
MORE PHOTOS : For a full set of photos click here

Below is a video of the Korean Folk Dance known as Hanguk Minsokchon