Announcing! - Ayurveda Workshop on Health & Healing

Kerala Ayurveda, Wellness naturally, Presents series of talks on Health and Healing.

Be more in a control of your own health. The Kerala team of conventional and holistic Doctors will offer you the tools to empower your health. After all, it is your body, take charge and enjoy the bounty of energy, vigor and vitality!

Every 2nd Monday of the month, for an evening of health education followed by delicious Dinner.

Beauty is more than skin deep - Skin Health - July, 14th 08
Fit mind Fit Body - Mind Health - August, 11th 08
Turn your bad hair day to good hair day - Hair Health - September, 8th 08
Healthy Colon, healthy Body - Colon health - October, 13th 08
No pain Yes gain - Joint health - November, 10th 08
Bone strength for Body strength - Bone Health- January, 12th 09
Have a healthy heart for your valentine - Heart Health - February, 9th 09
Seize the sneeze, prevent allergies - Lung health - March, 9th 09
You are what you digest - Stomach health - April, 13th 09
Men zone, healthy Prostate - Prostate Health - May, 11th 09
Women special, Healthy Breasts - Breast Health - June, 8th 09

Mark your calendar. Bring a friend and double the fun.

Hosted by: Kerala Ayurveda Integrative Clinic (Ayurveda Institute of America)
Location: 561 Pilgrim Dr. Ste B, Foster city, CA 94404
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm 2nd Monday of each month
Donation: $10.00
Contact: Pleases call (650) 341 – 8400 /(888) 3- Kerala (353 – 7252) to reserve your space

The Daily Routine - What's your score?

A leading Ayurvedic Physician Dr Vasant Lad has listed some wonderful everyday routines that one must follow to lead a life of peace, happiness and longevity. In the olden days, as kids, we probably followed some of these. But today, I wonder if anyone practices even half of these routines.

To do a reality check and find out where you stand, play this game. Enter your score in the Comments section of this article. You are welcome to not identify yourself and be anonymous but atleast mention your score and anything else that you want to say.

The Game: There are 22 daily routines below. For each routine, give yourself a score of 1 if you happen to follow or perform as mentioned everyday (exception 2 days a week). If you score 15 points or above you win.

The Reward: You will be blessed with a happy, peaceful and a long and healthy life. As a bonus, you might win a gift certificate from baykon (conditions apply and subject to approval and credit check).

1. Wake Up Early in the Morning - No later than 6:00am.
2. Say a Prayer before Leaving the Bed.
3. Clean the Face, Mouth, and Eyes - Wash youe eyes with cool water and blink 7 times and rotate your eyes in all directions.
4. Drink Water in the Morning - Not coffee or tea.
5. Evacuation (read defecation):
1 bonus point - If you squat on the toilet.
1 bonus point - wash anal orifice with warm water, then the hands with soap.
1 negetive point - If you don't go everyday.
1 negetive point - If you use toilet paper.

6. Scrape your Tongue.
7. Clean your Teeth.
8. Gargling - twice a day with warm sesame oil.
9. Chewing - Chew a handful of sesame seeds,dried dates or coconut. After chewing brush your teeth again.
10. Nasal Drops - 3 to 5 drops of warm ghee or oil into each nostril.
11. Oil Drops in the Ears - Putting 5 drops of warm sesame oil in each ear can help these disorders.
12. Apply Oil to the Head & Body - Rub warm oil over the head and body.
13. Bathing.
14. Dressing - Wearing clean clothes brings beauty and virtue.
15. Use Perfumes - Using natural scents, essential oils, or perfumes.
16. Exercise - 30mins.
17. Pranayama - 10mins.
18. Meditation - 15mins.
19. Breakfast - Between 7:00am - 8:00am.
20. Lunch - Between 11:00am - 1:00pm.
21. Supper - Between 6:00pm - 8:00pm.
22. Sleep - Between 10:00pm - 12:00pm.

Yoga Of Mind .... by Dr Kamath.

www.yogaofmind.com ... by Dr Kamath.
It deals with all aspects of both eastern and western methods of dealing with various life issues.
Please feel free to pass it on to your friends and relatives, and also to participate.

TransUnion Class Action Lawsuit: Upto 9 months of free credit monitoring and cash benefits

As a settlement for a class action lawsuit against TransUnion worth at least $75 Million, you could be entitled to up to 9 months of free credit monitoring plus cash benefits.

Who is Eligible?
Any person residing in USA between January 1, 1987 and May 28, 2008 and opened a credit account (automobile loans, bank credit cards, department store credit cards, other retail store credit cards, finance company loans, mortgage loans, and student loans)

How to Qualify?
Click Here to register by September 24th 2008

Important Links/References

• Legal Notice
• Detailed Notice
• Register for benefits
• listclassaction.com
• CNN: Settlement results in free credit monitoring service

Note : If you have registered to receive credit monitoring, you will have six months after the Court grants final approval of the settlement and all appeals are resolved to activate your credit monitoring benefit.

Make 5% to 10% on your savings with Wachovias Way2Save

Wachovias' Way2Save savings account, seems to be the most profitable savings plan available; better than any Certificate of Deposits being offered by any Bank. Anyone interested in a savings account should definitely go for it.

Some Important Points:
1. Way2Save account offers 5% bonus at the end of the 1 year period on top of the normal variable savings rate that is offered on the savings account. The variable savings rate as of today is 5% apy. Which means, close to 10% returns on your savings.

2. Added to that, "Save Like A Champion Program" gives you 16% interest for the next 3 months for the accounts opened before May 30th 2008.

3. To open a Way2Save account (no cost), you will need to open a free Checking account (no cost) that will be linked to Way2Save and a Check Card (again, no cost)

4. How much you can deposit into Way2Save account? - You can at setup an automatic deposit of (max) 100$ each month from the linked checking account. In addition 1$ will be automatically transferred to your Way2Save account for each Check Card transaction or each electronic bill pay that you make from the linked Checking account. Assuming you will not use the Check Card and not make any electronic Bill pay, the monthly deposit adds up to only 1200$. As per Wachovias' Way2Save calculator, the first years bonus on 1200$ is 59$. That's in addition to the variable savings interest, which per them is 32$ (to make a total of 91$). So you will be making 59$ more than you would have made on most other savings account.

If you say all this trouble of opening a new account is not worth, since you can make only 59$ more than on your currently existing savings account?. Not really ... continue reading to see why.

Making 59$ more was a good enough reason for me to immediately open a Way2Save account (specially since its a free account with no other unreasonable hidden fees and no penalty on early closure of the account). While in the process of opening an account, I thought, can't I open multiple Way2Save accounts? Yes, indeed I could. As per the Way2Save agreement, each customer can open upto 5 Way2Save accounts.

Opening 5 Way2Save accounts, I could make 5% bonus (fixed, guaranteed) + 5% apy (variable rate, can increase or decrease) on 6000$ (1200$ * 5). The bonus alone will be close to 300$.

Now is this not a great deal?. Where can you find a Savings account (or for that matter a CD or any other guranteed safe return on investment vehicle) which will return more than 5% apy in 12 months?.

Herez more .... If you are married, you could open 5 more Way2Save accounts in your spouses name. If I could, that would be equivalent to having a deposit of 12,000$ that earns close to 10% interest (assuming 5% variable rate). Even earning 5% (fixed, guaranteed) bonus on 12,000$ is itself a terrific deal that you cannot find anywhere these days. Note that you need not have 12,000$ in hand right now to open all these multiple accounts. What you are looking at it is 100$ each month into each account for 1 or more year.

Note: Bonus of 5% is only for the 1st year. For the 2nd and 3rd year, the bonus is 2%.

South Indian Restaurants in Bay Area

A compiled list of South Indian Restaurants in bayarea. This would come handy for our konkani folks visiting the Konkani Sammelan 2008 and decide to stay back for a few days after sammelan. Watch out for new additions, updates and ratings soon.

Athidhi - Sunnyvale, CA - Google Map
727 Old Sanfrancisco road, Sunnyvale, CA 94594
Ph.(408)773-8412 and (408)991-2199
Review: Athidhi serves the best Hyderabadi Dum Biryani you can find in the bay area and is included in the buffet too. Food tastes is authentic (not Americanized bland)

Udupi Palace - Sunnyvale, CA - Google Map

Dasaprakash - Santa Clara, CA - Google Map

Tirupathi Bhimas - Milpitas, CA - Google Map

Dosa - San Francisco, CA - Google Map

Mantra - Palo Alto, CA - Google Map

Madras Cafe - Sunnyvale, CA - Google Map

Spice Hut - Sunnyvale, CA - Google Map

Swathi Tiffins - Sunnyvale, CA - Google Map

Annapoorna - San Mateo, CA - Google Map

Saravana Bhavan - Sunnyvale, CA - Google Map

Hyderabad Biriyani House - Fremont, CA - Google Map

Dosa Place - Santa Clara, CA - Google Map

Turmeric - Sunnyvale, CA - Google Map

Mayuri Indian Cuisine - Santa Clara, CA - Google Map

Hyderabad House - Palo Alto, CA - Google Map

Tabla Flavors - Foster City, CA - Google Map

English is a punny language

It's morning time, 8:28AM, in Mumbai. Ive reached office, and now am going through my mail box. Following is the joke someone felt would make me laugh...

A man enters the plane and shouts: HIJACK!!
People all around are really stunned to hear this.
Great panic follows...
People are really scared and nervous...
Then a guy from rare end says: HI JOHN!

Laugh, I did, but for another reason: I found it funny that Jack spoke HI JOHN from his rare end! Amazingly punny, isn't it!